James Gates '25 Recruiting Profile

My goals in college are to make good progress in football and get playing time on the field. My goal is to make myself and everyone who stands with me and everyone that believes in me and my potential proud. My goals in college academic wise are to make sure that my grades are god, make sure that all of my teachers and peers know that I am a great student-athlete and let them all know that I am very serious about completing all of my goals that will get me steps closer to chasing my dream and finishing it. I will make a great candidate on your team because I come to practice and I put in work. I leave all unnecessary stuff that has nothing to do with football off the field and I focus on nothing but football while I am playing football and at practice. I am also very coachable as soon as a coach tells me to do something I do it without any words thrown back towards him and I show no disrespect whatsoever.  I am a very "no sir" and "yes sir" person so I take respecting each other and my coaches seriously. What makes me different from other recruits in character is that I come and have a totally different background from my teammates. I come from a whole different home and school from my teammates and some may not be able to understand why I act differently from them. I am very energetic and I will get competitive when it comes to playing sports and I try not to let my ego and my confidence annoy my teammates while I am playing with and/or against them. In the classroom, I let nothing distract me while I am doing my work and I get my work done on time and answer all of the questions that the teacher asks as soon as he/she asks them. I also hate bad grades, so I stay on top of that as well and will not focus on anything else until I have the correct grades to not worry about not playing in a football game. Good grades means playing time and I get to practice.