I believe one of the turning points in my career came in high school. I had always been the kid who spent all his time outside throwing, kicking or hitting balls but I was always rather small. I played soccer, baseball and football in high school and although football was always my favorite nobody ever thought I could make a career out of it because I was just not tall enough. I don‘t even know why, my parents gave me enough vegetables and I ate most of them, only giving about halt of them to our dog who thankfully ate basically anything. But I digress.
I‘m not sure why it happened but in my senior year of high school I finally got tall enough for my coach to take me seriously. In fact I became so big that I not only got my first scholarship offers from colleges but they wanted me to play tight end because of my height alone. I was still very thin and very untalented but it didn‘t matter to them. Thankfully I ended up as a wide receiver in college – although that‘s a story for another time and some might say I‘m not that much better at wide receiver than I was at tight end. Anyway, if the hormones hadn‘t kicked in in that last year of high school I never would have gotten any scholarship offers from colleges. And that probably means I never would have ended up in the NSFL.
I‘m not sure why it happened but in my senior year of high school I finally got tall enough for my coach to take me seriously. In fact I became so big that I not only got my first scholarship offers from colleges but they wanted me to play tight end because of my height alone. I was still very thin and very untalented but it didn‘t matter to them. Thankfully I ended up as a wide receiver in college – although that‘s a story for another time and some might say I‘m not that much better at wide receiver than I was at tight end. Anyway, if the hormones hadn‘t kicked in in that last year of high school I never would have gotten any scholarship offers from colleges. And that probably means I never would have ended up in the NSFL.