Last Friday marked the University of Georgia’s original spring 2020 graduation date, although the momentous occasion will not be celebrated until commencement in October because of COVID-19.
Amongst the thousands of newest Bulldog graduates, a half dozen football players received their degrees. For one of those players named Shedrick Wynn, a 39-year-old native of Lincolnton, Ga., the journey to officially become his family’s first college graduate and a UGA alumnus began in 1999.
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