Bobby Okereke

Doug Case was the varsity football coach.

And for me as a young kid, I didn't watch too much football growing up, didn't have too much exposure.

They really kind of submerged me into the game from a psychological standpoint, from a love of the game, understanding scheme.

That's definitely where my passion grew.

Yeah, it was really a whole other world for me.

You know, I have three sisters.

So growing up in a household with three sisters, playing soccer, playing baseball, it wasn't, you know, the most like aggressive kind of physical upbringing.

But, you know, once I started playing football, it was this whole other outlet that I really just fell in love with.

Yeah, it was instinctual, for sure.

Obviously, that competition, there's nothing like one-on-one, just physical competition with another person.

But I feel like for me, my upbringing has always been so structured, and football was the first time that I was able to be as creative, as violent, as sporadic as I wanted to be, and I was...

really celebrated for it.

So I leaned into that.

We did all right.

We went to the semi-championship of our league.

But I was the first person to get a D1 scholarship from my school in the past 30, 20, 20, 30 years.

Wow.

Yeah, Washington, USC, UCLA.

Wow.

Northwestern, Vanderbilt.