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Personal Statement
There is something about one-on-one battles that excites those who live and breathe on intensity - the personal challenge of face-to-face tests of agility, strength, and cunning is intoxicating.
Sean Perry has always played football with that edge; creating success on the field for his teammates from his position of middle linebacker with a wrathful intensity that says only one thing to the unlucky souls attempting to cross scrimmage: Danger – do not enter!
“I needed the contact of football,” says the 15-year-old sophomore from Southern Ontario, who began his career in peewee playing with the Niagara Region Minor Football Association. “It has that intense aspect of sport unlike other games I’ve played. I just got bored playing baseball and soccer as a kid. I like hitting people – looking across the line and seeing that person attempting to come into my world and then driving all my emotions and strengths into a hit.”
At one point in his young life, those pent-up feelings of normal youthful angst had no positive outlet.
“But football teaches you how to keep your cool, even while your mind is telling you to seek and destroy. You have to channel those feelings and execute, but not hang on them. I’ve learned a lot of discipline from this sport. When I was young, I didn’t have a lot of things to control my emotions. Now I do. Football is my drug.”
Always a sturdy young man, even in early childhood, Perry has focused mainly the defensive end of the ball but has played both sides, finding a rhythm as a running back as well. At five foot eight and 165 pounds and growing, his football IQ, acceleration, and lateral movement give him a field awareness that any coach would love to exploit.
“I found I had the speed to keep that outside containment. Then once I got to know the game better, I moved to inside linebacker. I love it. When I am on the field I am living in the moment and reading the other team as the game progresses. The game becomes a lot easier when you fully understand your position, your opponent, and how your game needs to constantly adjust.”
During a championship game in bantam his team found itself with only 18 players forcing Perry into playing the entire game at both defensive and offensive positions.
“That game taught me a lot about how to save and use my energy,” he says, adding that he now spends about 10 hours a week in the gym working on his strength and conditioning.
His team won the championship and proved to him that he had the tools to make something out of this sport. Within a few months, he was playing for Niagara Spears, a youth varsity club program with the goal of providing an elite experience within the Niagara Region by developing the skills needed to continue football careers at the next level.
This is where others also noticed his commitment to team, self, and future.
In 2017 he was invited to the Canadian Football League’s Hamilton Tiger Cats annual youth summer camp.
“It was at this massive facility with McMaster University coaches and players as instructors. It made a big impression on me. That really gave me hope that there could be a future for me. It’s not just a sport that I am playing now; it’s part of my life. Football, school, family – everything else is after that.”
So, what’s next for Perry? Well, he’s committed to the success of his high school team, the Centennial Cougars of Welland, Ontario, and to his career with Spears.
He understands that if playing at the next level is to be achieved it will take nothing less than complete focus and determination.
“My dream is to play college or university football in the U.S. I am going to the gym regularly and nutrition is big for me so I am eating healthy. I am committed to always getting better. I know nothing will happen if I think I am the best already. I am always looking to get better, to be stronger, to be smarter - down to the tiniest detail.”
