When I was a freshmen in High school and I was playing football for the very first time, now let’s not get in confused I didn’t play soccer, I did before I enter high school. It was football for me, but I do consider myself lucky I guess, never thought I was good enough but Coach Sheridan saw something in me.

My Freshmen year man was a big guy I mean running a lap with pads was the worse thing ever, at the time we had triple sessions was the last week of August, Know has hell week why because of the extreme heat, August with bad wow talk about shredding weight, but I never made Varsity my freshmen year but I for to play for the freshmen team and some JV football. I will say I had some great teammates my freshmen year and we had a lot of playing against people and played hard for the win, I don’t we lost a game there. Freshmen year was awesome

Now Its my Sophomore year, I really wasn’t feeling football and the school at this point in my life, a lot of my friends were at Rutherford High which was a public school. So I really wasn’t liking to play football and pretty much I felt like a waste a space, I wasn’t playing besides JV football, but the season ends and as summer comes around I get a call to head to the Dean of Students office, who was also the head coach of the football team too, Well he was showing me what the team looks like, with me as a starter and pretty laid down a challenge.

Junior year wow I made a transformation to me and my attitude and dedication to the team and the sport I love, I went in that summer trusting Coach Sheridan and he worked me after lifting we were in the gym running laps, and I notice little by little some of my teammates were coming up stairs to run with me and push me harder has the season was getting closer, I noticed we as a team are coming together I mean All State Kicker and a great quarterback, one the best running backs in the league ( Also Broke School Record for rushing yards )two tight ends that Are like the twin towers, a true gifted Middle linebacker, one of the best Defenses in the League and the Offensive Line the Hogs, I think we were the best in the league that year. We had a lot of fun and do some crazy things as a team. Made to the State Championship and man was the hard a pill to swallow when we lost.

My Senior another great team, we all work hard as a team, I mean another great season to make the playoffs to the same team again that we lost in the champion my Junior year, but the difference was we scored on the touchdowns, We all work hard and challenge each other !! One thing I took at this was how hard we all work being player and student, I never got to play college ball, But something happens for a reason because a coach at St. Mary and best time ever I finally got my ring in 2006 when we beat Paterson Catholic.

After I graduated I hurt myself and the fact I became a coach and this again was the best thing for me too teaching kids and I will say it was an honor and pleasure I have met some great kids and adults through this times, but I will always go back and see my teammates friends and family, Because at St Mary is more then teammates and friends its a family a program that means the world to some people !! I have to thank a lot of people. Thank You too all my Coaches, Teammates, and Friends.