Dkari Rodrigues '22 Recruiting Profile

The most inspiring event that happened to me during my football career was back in 7th grade. What during 7th grade was that my football pop Warner team won the regional state championship to go to Florida. This was very inspirational as I got to play on ESPN in front of family and friends. What made me a student-athlete was in 8th grade when my team lost to the Dorchester eagles in the playoffs to go to Florida ever since then it made me as a football player to become persistent and determined on and off the field.  What I learned from this sport was to never give up and keep working hard because life will never get easy that its never about how you fell it was about how you bounce back from it. 

When I was young growing up I always watched the patriots play when I was with my dad at times. When I use to watch those games it made me realize that loved the game of football. Since I was a kid I would get in trouble a lot in the classroom for misbehaving because I had to much energy for the teachers. Once I started to play football the sport helped me in the classroom to stay clam and become very focus and less impulsive.Football was so helpful that my teachers started to notice that during the fall was very calm. I set very high/good goals academically in high school and for the future in college, it was for me to have A's and B's not C's. I had to overcome some pretty big obstacles like peers said that I would never be good and I will never start in a high school sport ever but I proved everyone wrong by being a hard worker and to ignore the haters. These events that make me unique is that I am committed to things, persevered, and full of determination.