Jordan Culbreath
| Princeton Tigers | |
|---|---|
| Position | Running back |
| Career history | |
| College | Princeton |
Jordan Culbreath is a former running back for the Princeton Tigers, a college American football team. Culbreath was diagnosed his junior year with aplastic anemia, and gained recognition for not only surviving the disease, but coming back to play his senior year.
College achievements
[edit]Culbreath's major at Princeton was mechanical and aerospace engineering, and he and a classmate invented a cold-water filtration system that the Princeton athletic department now uses, saving thousands of dollars in ice costs.[1]
His junior year, before his diagnosis, Culbreath rushed for 1206 yards and was unanimously selected to the all-Ivy League first team.[1]
Illness
[edit]During a game, Culbreath suffered an injury to his ankle, which led to further investigation and the diagnosis of two separate diseases. Treatment for aplastic anemia, an often-fatal disease, requires donor tissue; this was complicated by Culbreath's ethnicity, which includes African ancestry on his father's side and European and Japanese ancestry on his mother's side.[2] Yet remarkably, he successfully battled the disease and was able to return for his senior year.
In acknowledging Culbreath's achievements, Uplifting Athletes honored him with their Uplifting Athletes Rare Disease Champion award for 2011,[3] and Director A.D Pearson filmed Running Through: The Jordan Culbreath Story, a documentary telling Culbreath's story.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Schonbrun, Zach (October 14, 2010). "Princeton's Jordan Culbreath Regains Health and Form (Published 2010)" – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ Forde, Pat (November 16, 2009). "Forde: Princeton's Culbreath deserves Senior Day praise". ESPN.com. Retrieved November 14, 2023.
- ^ "Seeking Nominations for the 2012 Uplifting Athletes Rare Disease Champion | Uplifting Athletes". Archived from the original on February 9, 2012. Retrieved December 11, 2011.
- ^ "Running Through: The Jordan Culbreath Story" – via IMDb.
 | This biographical article relating to an American football running back is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |