I'm Dave Isay, founder of StoryCore.

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All season, we've been sharing stories of trailblazers, people who rock the boat and

made waves in their careers in science and music and on this episode, people who shook

things up in another arena, sports.

And we're not talking about the Jocks.

It's the StoryCore podcast from NPR.

I'm Camila Kashani.

Our first story is about finally finding where you fit, even if you're almost seven feet

tall.

When Rob Maiden was a kid, he was a little bigger than some of his classmates.

I'll never forget going from the 9th grade to the 10th.

I went from 5'6 to 6'3 over the summer.

So I left school and by the time I came back, all of my friends were all like the same

height and all of a sudden I went past them.

So I got my buddy saying, hey, don't stand next to me.

Rob grew up in Texas, where football is pretty much everything.

And when he came to StoryCore with his friend, Daniel Jacob, he told him that that seemed

like a natural fit for him.

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