Conway, SC (WBTW) – Former CCU baseball standout and Big South player of the year in 2016 Connor Owings underwent a successful kidney transplant surgery on Wednesday in Charleston. The donor of all people was his mother who was approved back in 2015. Owings was born with just one kidney and suffers from a condition called focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, which affects more than 5,000 people in the United States each year. So when his kidney function dipped below 15% working capacity, he needed the life changing and saving surgery. The surgery was a success and he is recovering in Charleston in the hospital for the next 2 weeks or so.
Just days before that, former CCU baseball player and Hall of Famer Mark Clemons who played ball in the 1980’s just underwent a successful liver transplant.
