Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Football Walk on Tryouts


I recently tried out for the ECU football team as a walk on, on March 17th.  I played football in high school and my dream was to always play at the next level in college.  It turned out I did not receive a scholarship to play football in college.  This made me want to challenge myself and try to walk on for ECU.  I was as nervous as can be the day of the tryouts.  I wanted to make the team really bad because I missed being a student athlete.  Seeing the football games at the beginning of the year, increased my desire to play football again.  To my surprise, I was informed with great news that I made the spring team at ECU.  This meant that I made the first tryout and that I would get to practice with the real team during the spring until it was time for the second and final cuts.  I have been blessed to practice with the team during the spring as I got to experience what playing football at the next level was like.  Spring practice is now over and to my surprise I have not been cut yet.  Lots of walk-ons have been cut but I am still remaining.  My position coach told me to keep doing what I am doing and to keep my grades up.  Hopefully this is a good sign that the coaches will keep me on the real team.  I am still praying!

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