Kevin Cassio '18 Recruiting Profile

My collegiate goals and aspirations are to continue working hard each day and learn the discipline the sport teaches me. The importance of team work and effort teaches me a lot about life. I am a team player who gives his all each play. I have positive attitude on and off the field and I excel both on the field and in the classroom. I put full effort in school. I aspire to continue to play four more years of football and receive a good education as well. Strong academic results are my first priority. I am focused in the classroom to take care of my schoolwork first and I am a team oriented person who values the team goals most versus personal individual accolades in sports.  I had the good fortune to be part of 1 championship football team (and 2 second place championship runner up team) in youth football starting in second grade.  I have been taught how to prepare properly to succeed. Our teams went 63-5 in youth football (making the play offs or championship through out all my years) and developed a culture of winning the right way. Continued in high school Freshman year having a undefeated season going 9-0.  We talk with our pads and the scoreboard and show sportsmanship to our opponents and respect to the referees.  Our high school team for my class has gone 18-9 the past 3 seasons now and won league champs my sophomore year (2015). As starting varsity sophomore year I realized the fine line between becoming a champion and coming in 2nd place.  You need to be willing to do things other people are not willing to do to become a champion.  I work out with our football trainer/coach all year around starting my 8th grade year doing weight lifting along with speed and agility work outs Mon-Friday to become better in my strength, speed, agility, footwork, and explosiveness. My personal production in 2016 as a TE/WR/OLB improved dramatically versus 2014 due to the extra work that my close friends/teammates put into the off season and on the week ends. However, none of those personal accolades are even close to our Edsel Ford High School freshman football team having its first undefeated season (9-0) since 1987. I plan on being one of the key leaders the next and final year for our team and lead our younger players by installing the same work ethic, discipline, and values in them that led us to go undefeated our freshman year and have the brotherhood bond we have today.