Walker’s website also at one point boasted that he graduated valedictorian of his high school. He made the same claim in his 2008 book Breaking Free: My Life with Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Herschel Walker says he's a proponent of school choice. The Donald Trump-backed candidate visited a Georgia school to gather information to find the best way to achieve equity in education.

A special guest surprised students at Veterans High School on Tuesday afternoon. Pro athlete Herschel Walker made a surprise visit to the high school from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. RELATED: How ...

Senate hopeful Herschel Walker said he was a University of Georgia graduate, but that wasn’t true. The Georgia Republican said he was his high school’s valedictorian, but that wasn’t true .

Former college football star and Senate candidate Herschel Walker speaks at a rally, as former U.S. President Donald Trump applauds, in Perry, Georgia, on Sept. 25, 2021. (Reuters/Dustin Chambers) ...

Herschel Walker, the former football star who is now the Republican nominee for a US Senate seat in Georgia, ... There is no evidence that Walker was high school valedictorian, either.

By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN For years, Herschel Walker has told the same inspiring story: that he graduated in the top 1% of his class at the University of Georgia. He’s told the story ...

But, Walker wrote: “If I’m proud of anything I did in my high school career, it’s what I did in the classroom that I reflect on and relish the most.

Herschel Walker: From football ... Now he is leveraging his still-remarkable popularity in his home state of Georgia, where he was a high school and college star, into a run for the U.S. Senate.

Jemele Hill: Herschel Walker’s candidacy is just insulting I watched the film version of Friday Night Lights almost obsessively during my senior year of high school. My father had just died.

George Jackson, who grew up in Mr. Walker’s hometown, Wrightsville, Ga., and went to high school with the candidate’s older brother, reassured his friends after the speech, “Herschel is not ...