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My dad was going to college for football, but then he was hit by a drunk driver,

and he broke his hip and wasn't able to play again.

In elementary school, I played flag football.

I played with pretty much all the guys. I was a team captain. I was responsible for like making the

playbook and my dad would help me with that. Before one of our big games, he was really excited for me to be able to play in that game and to do well, which I did, and that I came home from the game and found out that he had passed. I was in third grade. I continued

playing that season after he passed and it was something that I played to feel connected to him.

When it came to high school, freshman year I tried to play,

but I didn't get any emails about how I could play,

like the summer workouts, and then I was just afraid sophomore in junior year.

I guess I thought people would think that I'd do it for attention or something like that.

I was just scared of what people would think and it sounds really

silly thinking about it now. Senior year it was so important to me to be able to play football really just get that connection one last time

So it's not like I can go and join a college football team and I knew that if he was still with us you would want me to do it

So when I put the pads on and then I slipped the practice

jersey over them I felt like a football player like that was the first time that I

felt like I could fit in and it was harder for people to pick me out amongst the guys just because we all wore the same uniform, we all looked the same.

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