By: S Dean: Bulls linebacker Ben Moffitt is known as a work horse of the Bulls’ defense, with interceptions becoming his specialty. At 6-foot-2, 230 pounds this junior is anything but typical both off and on the field. Through high school and college football, Moffitt has always excelled athletically, academically and personally, in large part to his strong work ethic.
Moffitt has cultivated his muscular frame over many years, not all of it on the football field. Since the age of 7, he’s helped his father take down trees for his father’s tree service.
In high school, Moffitt broke the state weightlifting record for his weight class in the clean-and jerk category when he lifted 330 pounds. He also managed to make all-state as a high school junior even though he missed the season’s initial two games as he considered a commitment to the ministry.
Although Moffitt was courted by N.C. State, South Carolina and Florida, he couldn’t bring himself to move far away from his home - rural Sumter - and his beloved family. Moffitt is a married father of two who commutes 110 daily miles to campus, maintains a full course load and a 2.5 grade point average. Moffitt and his wife of three years, Shauna, met when he was a freshman in high school and married when he was a senior. They are the parents of 5 year old Trevor and 3 year old Rylan.
Moffitt’s schedule sometimes requires that he leave his family prior to 6 a.m.. He typically arrives home after practice around 7 p.m. During winter workouts, he leaves as early as 3:30 a.m. and arrives home as late as 7 a.m. after a road game.
But Moffitt will tell anyone the schedule and the hard work are all worth it, as football and family are the two great loves of his life and he clearly excels at both.
