Wali is the first member of Bishop Hendricken’s backcourt from last season to make his college decision. Azmar Abdullah should be next — the left-handed shooter is prepping at Vermont Academy.

WALI Program Manager Larissa McKenzie, a senior studying aerospace engineering, attributes a lot of this growth and retention to the extensive onboarding process they established in 2022.

CARLINVILLE — Miriam (Mim) Wali-Uddin, a senior Justice Administration major from Jacksonville, is the recipient of Blackburn College’s 2023 Martin Luther King (MLK) Student Leadership Award.