General | 3/5/2016 3:07:00 PM
The scene unfolding before
Joe Golding ('99) looked like a cross between Norman Rockwell and one of those cheesy, straight-to-Christian-bookstore feature films. In his first year as the men's basketball head coach at Abilene Christian University, Golding had gone to Trinity Christian High School in Lubbock to recruit diminutive sharp-shooting point guard and straight A student Parker Wentz.
"He had his gym bag in one hand," Golding recalls, "and a Bible in the other with his backpack over his shoulder. I thought, 'You gotta be kidding me. This is too good to be true.' "
Wentz wasn't. In fact, if he has been anything in his four years at ACU, Wentz has been good and true.
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