Gary Larson '18 Recruiting Profile

It has always been a dream of mine to play college football. I have grown up in a family where football is a religion when I was small i thought Auburn was a bad word due to my Alabama loving family. My family has a history of college football players my great grandfather Olon Belcher played at the University of Alabama where he started at tackle and became best friends with Bear Bryant, my grand father William Scroggins also played at the University of Alabama playing for coach Bear Bryant, and my father Gary Larson was voted best all round linemen in the state while he was in high school and was being recruited by Alabama but unfortunately they had a coaching change and the coach that was recruiting him Left the University of Alabama and he was not able to play football there. I feel and have been told that I simply know how to football and have the natural instincts for the game. I have been very successful in the sports I have participated in EX: 3rd place in the state of Georgia for wrestling, 1st place in my region throwing the discuss with a throw of 133, and have never not been a starter in my whole career of football.  I was born in Tuscaloosa AL when i was 6 my family moved to south Georgia to a small town called Colquitt County just before I began my freshman year we moved back to Alabama and I started going to Hoover Highschool. And it is funny because i moved from one state champion program to another with two great coaches- Josh Niblett and Rush Propst. I played freshman football for Hoover where my D-line coach considered me the most valuable defensive lineman but for personal reasons i was not able to play sophomore and junior year I was still training during this time and missing football I am playing my senior year for the Hoover high school Buccaneers  and this year I am wrestling as well as doing track. But talking has never won me anything  give me a chance to show you what I got!