Alcorn State, MS—Alcorn State Alum, Donald Driver, has won the Dancing with the Stars Season 14 Mirror Ball along with partner, Peta Murgatroyd.
When asked how he felt by host Tom Bergeron, Driver stated “Amazing”, as the couple was handed the coveted Mirror Ball.
The duo received a score of 30 for their performance of the cha-cha.
Driver, was a two-sport athlete who lettered in track and field and football while pursuing his undergraduate degree in Accounting.
He is currently entering his fourteenth season with the Green Bay Packers. Driver is the Packers receptions all time (735) and the receiving yards all time leader (10,060).
The Houston native has received such accolades as the Packers Walter Payton Man of the Year (2002), Packers MVP (2002), Ed Block Courage Award (2005), four Pro-Bowl Selections (2002, 2006, 2007, and 2011) and an All-Pro Selection (2006).
Driver was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in 1999 in the seventh round as the 213
th pick. He has spent his entire career with the Packers organization where he was a part of the Super Bowl XLV Championship Team.
During his matriculation at Alcorn State, Driver honors include 1996 SWAC champion (indoor and outdoor) in the long jump, triple jump and decathlon, 1997 SWAC champion (indoor and outdoor) in the long jump and triple jump, '97 SWAC (outdoor) champ in the decathlon, 1998 SWAC (indoor) champion in the long jump (25-5), triple jump (50-2) and high jump (7-2) and the 1999 SWAC (indoor) champion in the long jump (25-0) and triple jump (51-3). In 1998, he earned 2
nd team All-SWAC honors in Football. Driver qualified for the 1996 Olympic Field Trials in the high jump with a leap of 7 feet, 6½ inches (ranked No. 1 in the nation that year) and the 1997 NCAA Championships in the long jump with a leap of 25 feet, 5 inches.
