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Luverne's Kenterius Womack Take The Road Less Traveled to Syracuse University (troymessenger.com)
Just one week ago, Kenterius Womack figured his football career had come to an end.
A senior quarterback for Luverne, Womack had just finished an illustrious career with the Tigers, but as National Signing Day came and went, he found himself without any offers to play college football. Recruiters just didn’t seem interested.
“Its just a small town,” Luverne head football coach Ethan Carroll said on Womack not receiving offers. “I think its just kind of a small town syndrome, and you fly under the radar. Not many people come through Luverne looking for football prospects.”
That all changed, though, last Monday.
Having not done so yet, coaches from Luverne decided to send a highlight video to recruiting website PrepsNation to bolster some interest in Womack from schools around the country.
What happened next was a whirlwind four days for Womack and the coaches at Luverne.
Within the next few days, Womack and his coaches were hit with a barrage of phone calls. Somehow, some way, the video had spread to just about every school in the country.
Womack found himself receiving interest and even offers from big-time schools like Michigan, Syracuse, Arizona, Nevada and Connecticut, just to name a few.
“It (the video) spread like wildfire,” Carroll said. “It’s a really shocking story.”
By 9 a.m. Monday morning, Carroll and his coaches were holed up in a classroom, fielding phone calls from upwards of 50-60 colleges.
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Luverne's Kenterius Womack Take The Road Less Traveled to Syracuse University (troymessenger.com)
Just one week ago, Kenterius Womack figured his football career had come to an end.
A senior quarterback for Luverne, Womack had just finished an illustrious career with the Tigers, but as National Signing Day came and went, he found himself without any offers to play college football. Recruiters just didn’t seem interested.
“Its just a small town,” Luverne head football coach Ethan Carroll said on Womack not receiving offers. “I think its just kind of a small town syndrome, and you fly under the radar. Not many people come through Luverne looking for football prospects.”
That all changed, though, last Monday.
Having not done so yet, coaches from Luverne decided to send a highlight video to recruiting website PrepsNation to bolster some interest in Womack from schools around the country.
What happened next was a whirlwind four days for Womack and the coaches at Luverne.
Within the next few days, Womack and his coaches were hit with a barrage of phone calls. Somehow, some way, the video had spread to just about every school in the country.
Womack found himself receiving interest and even offers from big-time schools like Michigan, Syracuse, Arizona, Nevada and Connecticut, just to name a few.
“It (the video) spread like wildfire,” Carroll said. “It’s a really shocking story.”
By 9 a.m. Monday morning, Carroll and his coaches were holed up in a classroom, fielding phone calls from upwards of 50-60 colleges.
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