Former Georgia receiver Malcolm Mitchell joined me this week on our podcast UGA Football Live with J.C. Shelton to talk about his life after hanging up his football cleats in early 2019.
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The former Patriots wideout went from catching passes and winning Super Bowls with Tom Brady, to full-time author and CEO of his own youth literacy foundation Read With Malcolm.
“I am a full-time author and CEO of my youth literacy foundation and that’s what consumes the majority of my time, Malcolm told me on Wednesday. “It’s a little different that running down the field and catching passes, but I enjoy it.
Mitchell developed an interest with books and reading during his career in Athens and even published his first book “The Magician’s Hat” during his junior year.
“(Georgia) That’s where my curiosity really reached its peak in terms of being exposed of all the different cultures that college exposes you to and then just wanting to learn more, Mitchell continued. I found reading to be a very very useful tool in expanding as a person and it consumed me and I just read as much as I could.”
Mitchell’s foundation hosts its annual READBowl global reading competition beginning in January, something that Mitchell started four years ago.
“It’s really fun, we’ve had every state participate, we’ve had other countries participate and it’s an opportunity for reading to me sport and classmates are able to compete to see who can read the most minutes.”
You can sign up for this years’ READBowl for free here and you can pre-order Mitchell’s new book “My Favorite Book in the Whole Wide World” on Amazon here.