TOUCHD OWN COVID-19 changed everything. In the wake of the pandemic, Clemson quarterback, Trevor Lawrence, and fiance, Marissa Mowry, charged into overtime to provide hunger relief to struggling families in Bartow County and Upstate South Carolina.
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n March, as the world slowed down and people across the globe began to experience the fallout resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, Trevor Lawrence and then-girlfriend, Marissa Mowry, felt compelled to do something. They setup a GoFundMe page to raise money for families in need, but the NCAA asked the couple to end their campaign citing a rule prohibiting student-athletes from using their name, image or likeness for crowd funding efforts. Both are student-athletes who grew up in Cartersville. Lawrence is the superstar Clemson quarterback with a million-dollar smile and a heart of pure gold. Mowry, a gifted soccer player at Anderson University who is in her Junior year, sows seeds of kindness and is open about her strong faith and how her beliefs lead her to be of service to others. With great disapointment, the couple took their GoFundMe page down, but the NCAA soon made 10
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an exception during the coronavirus outbreak and allowed the page to return. “Shoutout to the NCAA,” Lawrence posted to his Instagram account soon after the decision. “Thank y’all so much for granting a waiver.” Then he addressed his Instagram followers. “They’re allowing us to continue to raise money for what we were doing originally. So we’re gonna take some time and kind of think about how we’re going to restart it back up. We’re going to take the night and maybe some of tomorrow or whatever to figure out exactly how we want to do it to be as efficient and to help as many people as possible.” The following day, David Aft, president of the Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia, received a phone call from board member Jennifer Wiggins-Mathews. “Jennifer told me that she is a friend of the Lawrence family, and Trevor wanted to learn more about how
