BY MATT ORGAN | BALL STATE SPORTS LINK

Ball State senior linebacker Payton Stonefield, a former walk on, serves as a unique role model in that he’s both a college football player, and someone who has recently graduated from intense military training with the United States Marines.

In this #SLFeatured story, Stonefield expands on what his unique experience taught him — as both a person and a player — and shares the leadership skills he learned as part of the whole experience.

Stonefield calls the military training that he went through “the hardest thing he’s ever done in his life.”