Chargers Star Darren Sproles
Breaks Records On and Off the Field

National Stuttering Awareness Week is May 11-17

Darren Sproles, the Stuttering Foundation’s spokesman for National Stuttering Awareness Week, posted the second-best yard gain in Chargers post-season history in a January 3 game against the Colts. He also became the player with the third most yards of any player in a single post-season game in NFL history.

Off the field, he’s reached a record-breaking number of kids and adults who stutter with a message of help. In fact, the Foundation’s Web site, www.stutteringhelp.org, has recorded more than 2 million hits in the four weeks leading up to the May 11th awareness week.

“We’ve been inundated with requests for the new poster featuring Darren “jumping off the page,” said Pat Hamm at the SFA Memphis office. “We’ve never seen this kind of response before.”

Newspaper editor Akwasi Evans requested a copy of the new poster for his office in Austin, Texas. He relates, “I have been working on my stuttering for 54 years and still haven't conquered it, although I control it well enough to host a weekly radio talk show, conduct television interviews and accept regular public speaking engagements.”

For him, as for so many others, Darren Sproles stands out as an outstanding role model.