Monday, June 27, 2011

NC State's David Horning Calls It Quits

Senior NC State athletic administrator David Horning plans to retire in July. But this announcements deviates from the normal retirement. Horning, 52, is a real testament that you REALLY only live once.

Horning, who has spent 30 years working at NC State and played linebacker for the Pack, developed a brain aneurysm in 2009 and people wondered if he would live. Horning was in a coma for 11 days. His recovery begged the word miraculous.

So forgive the guy if he cherishes life more than many. He feels blessed to be thinking, breathing and simply living.

He will now trade in 80-hour work weeks for full-time status as a husband and father. Horning can now run errands for his wife and participate more fully in his son’s activities.

Horning is one of the good guys in college athletes and he will obviously be missed. But the home welcoming mat will be quite sweet one day at a time.

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