In high school, he left his mark as an All-State football, basketball and soccer player and was named the U.S. Army Scholar/Athlete of the Year.
He attended college on a soccer scholarship studying music business at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.
They went on to form a unique son/father duo called Aaron Jeoffrey that achieved great success in the CCM scene.
They garnered 10 #1 Billboard CCM singles and sold over 1,000,000 copies on all three of their EMI released albums combined.
After recovering from his injuries, Benward was able to release his debut album titled Imagine, that had Billboard #1 single called "Captured" in 2000.