“I put sport on a pedestal,” admits Hunter Hall. “Pole vaulting was everything to me. It was where I gained success from, where I gained approval from, where I looked for love, respect, adoration. It was what provided all those things for me.” Temporarily, the All-American vaulter from Virginia Tech University found those things. But he soon figured out it wouldn’t last long. Fortunately, Hall found a place to gain the acceptance he sought more permanently: in a relationship with Jesus Christ. “It didn’t matter whether I was an All American or whether I was nothing, I was accepted as I am because God loves me and sent His Son to die for me,” says Hall, a native of Fort Wayne, Ind. Hall, who graduated from VTU in March 2011, is in graduate school finishing out his last semester of eligibility with the track and field team. He is currently serving with Athletes in Action in a part-time capacity with campus director Tom Williams and seeing the opportunity to pour his life into other students who need to learn the same lessons Hall once learned  more