Feel good story of the day: Caylin Moore, TCU

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Growing up in Southern California, Moore's family struggled financially. Dinner often came from the Dollar Menu at McDonald's or Carl's Jr. There were times when Moore's mother didn't have enough money to feed all three of her kids. "She would say, 'Cay, You can only get one item,'" Moore recalled. "So I would just do pushups to take the pain from my stomach to the pain in my arms."

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Life isn't linear or logical, and Moore's experiences only add up because they all actually happened to him. He's the son of a convicted murderer and a sexual assault victim. He spent most of his childhood sharing a bed with his mother and two siblings, living in a house without hot water on the crime-ridden border of Compton and Carson, south of Los Angeles. He collected cans and bottles to buy football cleats, blossomed in Snoop Dogg's youth league and went on to play in high school and college. He has been a Fulbright Scholar and, yes, a campus custodian. At TCU, he majors in economics, minors in math and sociology, and carries a GPA of 3.934.

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Last month, he was among the 32 men and women awarded the 2017 Rhodes scholarship, and next year, Moore will study at Oxford University in England.

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