Back in high school, Antoine Delacour was a promising track athlete. The Lafayette native had run the 100 metre, 200 metre and 110 metre hurdle events in middle school, before focusing on football. At high school, he also made the track team in his freshman year, posting a 100m personal best at the time of eleven seconds flat. Despite his promise, he focused on his dream of playing wide receiver, like his favourite player, Chad Johnson. At the behest of his coach, Phillipe Hugo, Delacour left the track team to focus on converting position to cornerback at the end of his freshman year.
"I was fast," Delacour recalls. "I've always been fast. But track sprinting is a different discipline. It's completely different to the speed you train for in football." Looking at Delacour's 40 yard times these days, it's clear he is a phenomenal sprinter, and it's hard not to wonder what heights he may have reached in athletics, if not for that decision he made to focus on shutting down receivers instead. "Well, I'd still lose to Usain Bolt," Delacour jokes. "But I don't have much confidence in him covering Josh Garden or Bradley Westfield, so I guess it evens out."
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"I was fast," Delacour recalls. "I've always been fast. But track sprinting is a different discipline. It's completely different to the speed you train for in football." Looking at Delacour's 40 yard times these days, it's clear he is a phenomenal sprinter, and it's hard not to wonder what heights he may have reached in athletics, if not for that decision he made to focus on shutting down receivers instead. "Well, I'd still lose to Usain Bolt," Delacour jokes. "But I don't have much confidence in him covering Josh Garden or Bradley Westfield, so I guess it evens out."
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