When Ryan Hollingshead’s name was called out on January 17 in Indianapolis — the No. 20 overall pick by FC Dallas at the 2013 SuperDraft — he was not in the Indiana Convention Center to give his draft speech.
He wasn’t even in the country.
The reigning Pac-12 Player of the Year with UCLA was in Haiti with his fiancee on a previously scheduled, month-long mission trip to work at a Port-au-Prince Christian orphanage called Child Hope International.