Larkin Wilson (Soccer, University of South Alabama) grew up in Bentonville. HelloNation asks student athletes one question about the place that raised them and records the answer on camera. This is Larkin Wilson’s, in full.
The question
Tell a story about a moment when your hometown came together or achieved something that made you proud.
The answer, as recorded
Transcript. What follows is a transcript of the video above, in Larkin Wilson’s own words. It has not been rewritten, and no part of it was drafted for them.
Hi, my name is Larkin Wilson. I'm from Bentonville, Arkansas, and one moment when my hometown just came together was kind of a sad moment. It was back in 2024. We had just been hit by a tornado. It hit Rogers in Bentonville. My house was affected. We lost a bunch of trees. We had some windows broken, but overall we were okay, and so were our neighbors. But we all just kind of came together. There was this moment specifically where me and my family went to our neighbors. Their house had been hit pretty bad. There was a massive hole in their roof. Their fence was down, and we went to go help find their dogs because they had four of them, and two of them had like escaped out somehow, and we eventually did find them and returned them home, and they were very happy about that. But our entire community just came together. There was meals being made. There was people just sharing stories, helping each other clean up. A house down the street from us got very damaged. It got shifted off the foundation, and they did lose that house, but we all came together to really support and help them.
Recorded by HelloNation as part of its athlete voices program and published by Hello Newswire, HelloNation’s good news newswire. The words are the speaker’s own.
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