Mayde Creek High School student Tobi Haastrup tells his incredible journey from track to top football recruit in 1 year

Houston, Texas (KTRK) – Tobi Haastrup, the chief Maye Creek team, is in the final term of its upper Sunnah, and what the year is.

“It was a blessing,” said Haastrup. “I was definitely very feverish, I would like to say,” he added.

His rise from an unknown athlete with the lack of university offers for one of the most popular football is something that you might only be seen in movies, but Toby lived it. He got it.

He grew up outside London, where he often played football until he was 9 years old.

He and his family moved to California before settling in Katie when he was in the seventh grade. At that time, he tried to football at West Memorial Junior Hi in Katie, but he resigned to focus on the right track.

He was runner and threw the shot. He continued running and throwing up to his novice year when a coach called him, he asked him to try football.

“The coach was like a man, just giving him a snapshot. You know, you have the size, you have the speed, and you know that you also have intelligence,” said Hastrop.

His background was translated into the path well into football.

“Enter this situation and the explosion, it is somewhat similar to its operation by 100 %,” he added.

He gave her a shot and turned out that he was good.

“Speed ​​and strength in sport. You know, it raises what I love,” he said.

After his first high school match at all, his whole world changed. “It is still crazy that, as you know, I still think about it is a brilliant success!” He said. He finished five bags in the first game and went from a star of no star to a three -star recruiter with nearly 20 shows before his second match for this season.

“It has just come out of anywhere,” Hastrop said. “It is definitely a blessing to see how, you know, listen to people and see where you can get you and see what God can do for me.”

He will take his talents to Oregon to play football, and opens a new chapter in life studying to be a surgeon of orthopedic surgery with a lot of victory on and out of the stadium forward. “You know, sometimes when things do not go on your way, you want to surrender, but I definitely stay through your thick and gentle.”

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