Getting to know the Storm: Sedrick Robinson
10 things to know about Sedrick Robinson, a kick returner/wide receiver for the Storm:
-Robinson played college football at Kentucky Wesleyan and left school as the program's all-time leader in receptions, receiving yards, touchdowns and all-purpose yards.
-Before this season, he always wore No. 25 as an AFL player to honor AFL Hall-of-Famer George LaFrance. He's now wearing No. 18 because the Storm retired LaFrance's number.
-At Kentucky Wesleyan, Robinson once was named the Division II National Offensive Player of the Year.
-Former U.S. Supreme Court justice Stanley Forman Reed also attended Robinson's college alma mater.
-Robinson once played in the Cleveland Indians minor league system.
-Robinson was born in Franklin, Georgia, a small town that sits not far from the state's border with Alabama.
-After leaving baseball, he began his professional football career with the Peoria Pirates of the Indoor Football League. In two seasons there, the team went 29-1 and played in back-to-back championship games.
-His record for catches in an AFL game is 14.
-When he played with the New Jersey Gladiators, Robinson once scored six touchdowns in a game.
-Robinson was born March 1, 1975. Ron Howard, Harry Belafonte, Pete Rozelle and Harry Caray also have March 1 birthdays.
-- KEITH NIEBUHR


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