Personal Statement
To Prospect Coach: My name is Antonio Swedenburg, but I go by AJ. This coming year I will be a senior at Wagener-Salley High School. I started playing football at a young age. You see my dad is the Athletic Director of a community football, and basketball program called the Wolfpack, so sports was always around me. Every chance I get I volunteer to help coach or run drills with the kids, or just be out there to see them enjoy the game at that age the same way I did. I was seven years old when I first touch a football and haven’t stopped. I played community ball, middle school ball, and high school ball. I won my first championship game when I was nine years old with the community league. I won my second championship game when I played in middle school at AL Corbett Middle. In both championship game I was the quarterback. I played a little bit of wide receiver in middle school, but not much because our quarterback got hurt the second game of the season, and I had to take his place. I didn’t play my freshman year in high school, because my mom was afraid to let me play, she said I was a child playing against grown men, and she don’t want to see me get hurt. When I started playing in high school, I played both side of the ball, wide receiver, and corner back. I excel in the wide receiver position in my sophomore year. My first year of playing I was nominated player of the game by Aiken Standard, and received All-Region, and coaches All-State. My Junior year of playing wider receiver I was nominated player of the game by Aiken Standard, nominated for Chik-fil-A player of the game, received All-Region and SCHSL (South Carolina High School League) All-State. For my senior year I am working hard on my game and my body to receive the same accolades, and more, but also a football offer to have an opportunity to play at the next level. One of the thing I am doing to work on my game is getting advice and knowledge from different wide receiver coaches that I meet in camps, on how to improve my quick release and explosiveness in my route, and field awareness and the ability to read coverage. As for academic’s improvement I meet with a tutor twice a week for Spanish and Chemistry, because I struggled in these classes in my Junior year and I want to do better and be better. Not only am I working on my game, and academics, but also my faith because I know “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”.
