State Champion 1987

State Champion 1988

Paul graduated from CCH in 1989. He played football for all four years, was a member of the CCH Pep Band, was a member of the National Honors Society and was the Student Senate Secretary for his senior year. As a quarterback, he was a part of CCH’s first two state championship teams in 1987 and 1988. During his senior season (’88), Paul was ranked by Street & Smith’s College Football yearbook as one of the Top 60 high school quarterbacks in the country, and he was named one of USA Today’s Top National High School Performers. He was selected as a finalist for the Mr. Kentucky Football Award, named KY Second-Team All-State and was voted Class AAA-AAAA Player of the Year by The Kentucky Post and Player of the Year by the NKAC. Paul was the recipient of the That’s My Boy Award, given annually to the top NKY high school football student-athlete. He finished CCH’s 14-1 AAA State Championship 1988 season with 2448 passing yards, 23 TD passes, 182 pass completions, and averaged 163 passing yards per game. Paul still holds the school football single-game record of 27 pass completions vs. Paducah Tilghman in the 1988 AAA State Championship game. After graduating from CCH in 1989, Paul attended Princeton University, where he played football for two years and completed a bachelor’s degree in history in 1993. Thereafter, he went to Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, earning his M.D. degree in 1997. Paul finished residency training in family medicine at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Los Angeles and attained board-certification in 2000. From 2000 to 2004, he served in the military at U.S. Naval Hospital Yokosuka, Japan, which included temporary duty at several Navy bases in Japan, Korea and the Indian Ocean. In 2005, he completed a fellowship in tropical diseases at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand. Upon returning from overseas, Paul worked in emergency medicine, sports medicine and surgical urgent care at hospitals in Arizona and several Kaiser Permanente facilities in Los Angeles from 2006 to 2018. After a 22-year career, Paul retired from medicine in 2019 and plans to continue his education by returning to graduate school in Los Angeles in 2022 using the Post-911 GI Bill.