First year playing football. Facing the adversity of losing his grandpa while learning to live in two households can be tough on a kid!
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Learn MoreAccording to Dawson, he loves that playing sports get him stronger physically and mentally. He loves building new brotherhoods with peers. Making his Mom,Dad and his grandparents proud of him
According to Dawson Jesus and his papa watching him from heaven makes him feel safe and his dad Paris Williams whom plays semi professional football! Seeing his dad work with a moving company, working with his dad sometimes at the moving company or doing deliveries for extra cash and seeing his dad balance a hard life with still making a way to provide for him and his sister pushes Dawson to be the great young man he’s becoming.
According to Dawson, it was his first day of football practice in 99 degree weather, coming in 2 weeks into the season out of shape, and just being a 7year old kid is hard as is he states. However to continue and not give up and want to continue football he says that first day is what made him love the game more.
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