He was highly recruited and selected Miami University on a full athletic scholarship to play football.

He is now an author, humorist and motivational speaker spending much of his time as a professional communicator, with teenagers about drugs, alcohol, and right choices.

He travels around the nation and abroad as a guest speaker for a variety of venues including schools, colleges professional athletic teams, corporations, and penal institutions.

Fitzhugh partnered with Ricky Bolden and Lon Solomon in co-founding The House, DC, three former crack houses transformed into an after-school youth center which services the under served population of Anacostia, Southeast Washington, DC.

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