Joe Kubofcik '21 Recruiting Profile

Dear Coach,

I’m a 6’ 3” 276 lb. National Honor Society scholar-athlete with a 4.092 GPA in Honors and AP classes.  Also, I've been elected as class president all four years of high school. Mother Teresa once said, “you have never really lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.” During the holidays and periodic weekends, my family and I drive through various communities to give food to homeless people on the streets. I've been selected to serve as a board member on The Junior Board at Chilton Medical Center which is part of a non-profit foundation that has raised over $53.5 million dollars to support community-based programs for the Cancer Center, Adult & Pediatric Clinics, Mother-Baby Center, Total Joint Center, the Emergency Department and various other clinical and community outreach programs. I've volunteered at local soup kitchens and at St. Joseph’s Sunshine Foundation which supports children in the pediatric oncology department and those with Prader-Willi syndrome. During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, as facemasks were the scarcest, my two younger brothers and I donated masks and food gift cards to essential workers at a local elderly nursing home and to Chilton hospital emergency department. To show further moral support, we drew posters and gave them to the elderly patients at the nursing home and the essential workers in the emergency department. Lastly, I enjoy helping my teammates by tutoring our football team in math, history, biology, and English. I love playing football, basketball, golf, and chess. I’m pursuing either an athletic or academic scholarship at a university to achieve my career objective as a neurosurgeon. With the anticipated high school graduation date of June 2021, I’m searching for a university which will compliment my passion to serve my community as a volunteer and medical practitioner.

From a very early age, I was fascinated by the relationship between cause and effect. My parents taught my two younger brothers and me that our choices and actions have either positive or negative consequences. Coach Vince Lombardi once said, “Watch your thoughts, they become your beliefs. Watch your beliefs, they become your words.  Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.” Our Mom and Dad taught us the importance of deferred gratification by making sacrifices now to get what you want in the future. For example, I’ve set up an Interactive Brokers brokerage account and a FundRise real estate investment account to save and invest my money now by leveraging the power of compound interest in stocks, bonds, and real estate to make my money work for me rather than me working for my money.

I believe that playing sports is a privilege and not a right. I’ve learned to focus less on results and more on what it takes to get the result. I’m reminded of the late great basketball coach John Wooden when he said, “discipline yourself, and others won’t need to.” To set the foundation for my future as a medical professional, I give equal priority to my academic and athletic pursuits. As the Marines' motto goes, “when you fail to plan, you’re planning to fail.” I plan and execute on the daily disciplines of studying and honing my skills as a football player to be the best I can be. My father has always told me the following truisms: “If it’s important to you, you’ll find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse”, “Success is never owned. It’s rented. And the rent is due every day” and “The reflection in the mirror is your only competition. The rest is just noise.”  

As an avid chess player, I’ve learned that each piece on the chess board contributes equally to the success and outcome of the match. As a lineman, I equate my role to that of the pawn. The pawn serves as the front line to protect the king. As an offensive lineman, our duty is to protect our quarterback and create holes for our skill players to get the ball into the end zone. The touchdown is not the result of the ball crossing the plane, it is the direct result of each member of the team doing their job to execute their part of the play perfectly. Coach John Wooden once said, “if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, you need a team. Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better.” By serving as the student council president since the 8th grade to now, I have learned how to be a leader and team player on and off the field.

In summary, I’m looking for an institution which values academics, athletics, and community service. I’d like to leverage either an academic or athletic scholarship to achieve my dream of becoming a neurosurgeon. I want to make a difference and save lives. I hold myself accountable to high standards. I live by the philosophy that “being great at something is the starting point-not an end point." I value a work ethic of relentlessly executing on the daily disciplines needed for success by tirelessly studying and honing my athletic skills in practice. Coach Vince Lombardi once said, “the only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” Executing on these daily disciplines sets the foundation and habits needed to be a productive and contributing member of society.

Thank you for your time and consideration of me in becoming a productive and positive team member of your prestigious institution.

Best wishes,

Joe

Josef  Kubofcik  

Cell: 862-228-1531

P.S. To learn more about me, please feel free to contact my high school football coach at:

Wayne Hills High School

Coach Wayne Demikoff  cell: 973-931-1657

[email protected]