COLUMBUS — Lima Senior graduate William White will be one of six athletes to be honored in the Ohio High School Athletic Association Circle of Champhions during the finals of the 2018 Boys State Basketball Tournament on Saturday.
Others being recognized in the OHSAA’s Circle of Champions recognition program are Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee former Cincinnati Bengal Anthony Munoz, along with his daughter, Michelle (Munoz) Trenz, a standout volleyball and basketball player at Mason High School, and his son, Michael Munoz, a standout football player at Archbishop Moeller High School in Cincinnati. Also to be recognized will be former Toledo Bowsher High School and Ohio State basketball player in Dennis Hopson and former Columbus East High School hoops player Dwight “Bo” Lamar.
White, along with Hopson and Lamar, will be honored during halftime of the Division IV championship game that tips off at 10:45 a.m. The Munoz’s will be recognized at halftime of the Division II championship game that begins at 5:15 p.m. The Circle of Champions program recognizes individuals who had prominent roles in the history of Ohio athletics.
White grew up in Lima and was a standout football and basketball player at Lima Senior High School. He then became a four-year starting cornerback at Ohio State, where he helped the Buckeyes win two Big Ten championships. He was a team captain his senior year in 1987, when he earned first team All-Big Ten honors and was an Academic All-Big Ten selection. A fourth-round pick of the Detroit Lions in the 1988 NFL draft, White spent 11 seasons in the NFL, including six years with the Lions. He started 132 games in his career, had 20 career interceptions and started for the Falcons in Super Bowl XXXIII against Denver. A 1987 graduate of Ohio State with a bachelor’s degree in metallurgical engineering, White has been involved in several businesses since his playing days, including a concussion assessment company, and he has just begun the William White Family Foundation, where funds generated will go towards ALS research. White was diagnosed with the disease in 2016. William and his wife reside in Powell, and have two children, including son Brendon, a sophomore at Ohio State where he is a member of the Buckeye football team.
For more on the recognition program this year’s honorees go to OHSAA.org.
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