Jaylen Bazemore '21 Recruiting Profile

I am Jaylen Bazemore. I have experienced through my high school years, I experienced a lot of fake friends problems. I learned that if someone is not my friend for real they would try to change the way I am. First year coming into high school I thought it was just going to be about having fun. I didn't get to play any sport my 9th grade year because I was doing dumb things, hanging with the wrong group of friends. All I wanted to do in 9th grade was to hang with the people who had a lot of clout in the school. So all the girls could know me. 

My first year in high school I was happy and I felt like everybody knew me by the Summer time because I was hanging out with a lot of people and I had a lot of followers on Instagram. My 10th grade year I transferred schools and started going to Dunbar Senior High School. The reason I transferred was because I wanted to play football for Dunbar and my mentor was the coach there. Not only did I play football but I joined the Dunbar Engineering team which was a good thing and bad thing for me. Joining the engineering team made school so hard for me because the engineering classes were so hard. I didn’t even want to go to school anymore because I felt like I wasn’t prepared for the class. I learned trying new things could be difficult. During my 10th grade year I started being a follower. I started following my friends doing what my friends wanted to do, skipping class because my friends were skipping class. 

After my 10th grade year, I realized that I needed to grow up. So I changed schools again. I needed to go to a school where I didn’t know anybody because my friends were distractions. So in my 11th grade year I transferred to Anacostia Senior High School which made me a better person than I was. Anacostia put me in a program named Public Safety. The public safety program is a program that helped me with my leadership skills by allowing me to participate in mock trials and learning about laws. Participating in this helped me start making A’s and B’s in my courses. This made me realize how important school is and life is. I had to make new friends and get along with new teachers I didn’t know. After I joined the Public Safety Program. I joined the varsity football team. It made me a better team player and the coaches introduced me to different colleges. So I learned that being by myself can help me go a long way. Coming into high school you are going to have to do community service hours, and take classes you think you would never have to take. Going into high school I didn't know what AP and honors classes were. I thought all classes were the same. You want to know why I didn't know because I wasn't taking school seriously. I thought school was something we were just doing because we were young. I learned that school was very important. 

 I wasn’t able to play football my senior year at Anacostia. So I would love to get a chance to go to college and play football again. If I were to get in college this would help me attend college which could help be an NFL trainer. I just want to get a chance to go to college and get a scholarship based on my high school performance. I’m a very competitive person so I just want to do everything I could do to get this scholarship.