The Wolfpacker: An Independent Magazine Covering NC State Sports
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36 ■ THE WOLFPACKER W H E R E AR E T H E Y N O W ? BY MATT CARTER F rom his childhood days, Alvis Whitted can remember dreaming that he was going to be something in life. "I didn't know exactly what it would be, but I had a feeling," he recalled. Life was not always easy for Whitted growing up with a single mother in Durham, N.C., and then nearby Hillsborough. After starting at Durham's Hillside High, Whitted's mother moved her son and his two sisters to Hillsborough, enrolling the kids at Orange High. Whitted admitted he was probably not making the best choices at that point in his life. So in the spring of his sopho- more year, he decided he was going to try out for baseball. "The timing was right," Whitted remembered. "I just felt like I wasn't going in the right direction with my life. … It was just time to make some decisions about who I wanted to be and where I wanted to go with my life." Whitted didn't make the baseball team, but he left a huge Whitted's most memorable collegiate play was a 97-yard kickoff return for touchdown that proved to be the difference in a 47-45 win against Maryland and helped secure a trip to the Peach Bowl. PHOTO COURTESY NC STATE MEDIA RELATIONS ALVIS WHITTED