Da’Marrion White '22 Recruiting Profile

I was in the fifth grade when it was my first time touching an actual football field, playing around with my brother and our cousins a coach saw and asked us to practice with his team for the day just to see if we liked it. We all agreed and before we knew it, we were a part of the "Chicago Chargers" practicing regularly throughout the summer. I remember working hard to condition my body and practicing harder than anyone else on that team, but despite that, I never was a starter on the team. I actually sat on the bench for the entire duration of all of the games.  Fast forward to seventh grade, I was invited to join another community junior league team. The Milwaukee Tigers. They hazed and harassed little 5'3" me off of the team.  At that point, I gave up on the team, but not on football. I spent the rest of that summer working out, doing pushups, eating healthy until eventually, I came back to the team for my eighth-grade year and absolutely dominated winning team MVP.  I told all of my coaches that they could look forward to me playing football in high school next year but it turns out that that wasn't the case at all. 

When I got to high school I quickly realized that it was much different from middle school. My grades were too low for me to even think about getting involved in any sports, I suffered from depression and became antisocial putting me in a lonely position. By my junior year of high school, I did a complete 180 making straight A's and stepping out of my comfort zone, attempting to become more socially active. This created the opportunity for me to get reinvolved in football, and that I did. I became the starting running back and middle linebacker for my high school varsity team. After the season had ended I just knew that my football career couldn't end in high school. 

I am now planning to play football at a collegiate level while also having a pre-medicine major. this season I have learned that it's not always about an individual's physical components that make them a great student-athlete. It's all about the mentality. Grit. Heart. While playing football on a collegiate level I will make it my personal responsibility to push past my limits and encourage my teammates to do the same so that we will come out on top. I don't only want to better myself as a student-athlete, I want to better the entire team, including staff and admin members. If I ever have the opportunity to play on a collegiate level, I have no doubt that whatever school I attend will mold me to become a well-rounded individual on and off of the field and it's definitely something that I'm looking forward to.