Eduardo Saucedo '21 Recruiting Profile

My name is Eduardo Saucedo and this is who I am,

When I was young, I was a kid in Mexico that had trouble fitting into social life, I was bullied as a little kid and I had to change schools many times.  My life in Mexico was very hard not because I didn’t like it, but because I was ashamed of who I was due to all the bulling I had to deal with when I was a little kid. One day, I told my parents that I wanted to go study in San Antonio because my family and I had a vacation house there and every time I would go to San Antonio, I would tell my parents that I didn’t want to go back to Mexico because I felt like a different person here.  My parents thought I was kidding when I told them that I didn’t want to live in Mexico anymore because they thought that I just wanted to live because of all the good shopping there is in San Antonio. One time, we just had landed in San Antonio and we took a taxi cab to drive us home, my mom had told the taxi driver that I wanted to live in San Antonio and if he knew any schools around here that would be a good fit for me. The taxi driver then told us about this school calles TMI Episcopal, we had no idea what this school was all about so we went to visit the school and I loved it. When I took the admission test, I failed the first time and I was just disappointed in myself, I thought that my chance of living in San Antonio was over but it wasn’t like that. The admissions office then let me take the test a second time and I passed, The moment when I heard that I had passed the test, my heart just completely dropped because I knew that this was a big chapter in my life. I started to recall all the bullying, and the things I went through and how I overcame them by doing the unthinkable. I realized that I became a better person than the people that did terrible things to me and tried to let myself down. As I started living in the dorms and my 8th grade year had just started I joined the football team, and lets just say that it didn’t go too well. When I first started playing football in 8th grade I didn’t know how to catch, run routes, learn the plays, and much more. When they ended up doing is they put me as defensive end and I had no idea of how to play that position or even any position at all. On our first game of the season, as I put on those pads and walked on the field for the first ever football play of my life, everything changed. I fell in love with the sport,  I kept playing football though grades 9 and 10,  and it made me want to play more and more until everything changed this year(my junior season). I broke my collarbone on the second game and I missed many entire junior season. What made me love this sport is remembering all the things that happened to me when I was little and then using football to raise my self esteem and work hard like I never have. Now that I’m a current Junior at TMI Episcopal class of 2021, I know for sure that I want to play football at the next level because it helped me overcome so many obstacles in my young life. What I’ve learned from football is that it’s a sport that assembles a second family for you and that family will always have your back because football is both a brotherhood and a family. My academic goals for the remaining of my junior year and next year are to get better grades and to be the best student I can be. My goals for college are to play football at the next level, use college to help me succeeded in life, and to get a sense of taste of what life has for me in the future. Some of the unique characteristics I posses are  that from now on, I always try to find a way to overcome the obstacles that are presented in front of me and use them to get better and also that I am more than motivated to do what I have to do in order to play at the next level.