Shaun Crump. Jon C. Lakey photo.

By Mike London

Salisbury Post

NEWNAN, Ga. — Pound for pound, Ervin Vanshaun Crump may have been as strong as anyone who’s ever worn a Catawba football uniform.

Crump, known as ‘Shaun,” became a professional body builder and trainer after college.

He died on Dec. 1 at age 47.

As a running back who made an unselfish conversion from tailback to fullback, Crump was part of Catawba College’s rise to national prominence in Division II in the late 1990s.

Crump was a power-lifting phenom even when he was a student-athlete at Lee County High School in Sanford. Crump was 5-foot-8, 185 pounds as a high school senior, but he was super-strong.

Lee County competed in the 4A Cap-7 against the Raleigh schools. The Raleigh News and Observer conducted testing of 900

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