Alcorn alum Donald Driver ’98 needs your votes on “Dancing With The Stars” !

Alcorn alum Donald Driver ’98 needs your votes on “Dancing With The Stars” !

Alcorn alum Donald Driver ’98 needs your votes on “Dancing With The Stars” !

Super Bowl 45 Champion and Green Bay Packers All-Time Leading Wide Receiver #80, Donald J. “Quickie” Driver ’99 will be a celebrity contestant on ABC’s new season of “Dancing With The Stars” set for a live two-hour premiere on Monday, March 19, 2012, at 8 p.m./7 p.m. Central. Support your fellow Alcornite and vote for him on “Dancing With The Stars”! For more information, visit https://www.dancingwiththestars2012.org/ .

Driver was a two-sport athlete at Alcorn who lettered in track and field, and football while pursuing his undergraduate degree in accounting.
He is currently entering his fourteenth season with the Green Bay Packers. Driver is the Packers receptions all time (735) and the receiving yards all time leader (10,060).

The Houston native has received such accolades as the Packers Walter Payton Man of the Year (2002), Packers MVP (2002), Ed Block Courage Award (2005), four Pro-Bowl Selections (2002, 2006, 2007, and 2011) and an All-Pro Selection (2006).

Driver was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in 1999 in the seventh round as the 213th pick. He has spent his entire career with the Packers organization where he was a part of the Super Bowl XLV Championship Team.

During his matriculation at Alcorn State, Driver’s honors include 1996 SWAC champion (indoor and outdoor) in the long jump, triple jump and decathlon, 1997 SWAC champion (indoor and outdoor) in the long jump and triple jump, ’97 SWAC (outdoor) champ in the decathlon, 1998 SWAC (indoor) champion in the long jump (25-5), triple jump (50-2) and high jump (7-2) and the 1999 SWAC (indoor) champion in the long jump (25-0) and triple jump (51-3). In 1998, he earned 2nd team All-SWAC honors in Football. Driver qualified for the 1996 Olympic Field Trials in the high jump with a leap of 7 feet, 6½ inches (ranked No. 1 in the nation that year) and the 1997 NCAA Championships in the long jump with a leap of 25 feet, 5 inches.