Dwight Morrow will be having guest speaker Cecil Martin in the Dizzy Gillespie Auditorium on May 27th @ 7:00pm. Cecil is a former NFL player. He will share pertinent information that every coach, student athlete, guidance counselor & parent should be aware of.
In high school Cecel played 3 sports all four years, helped start a community service club, and earned a high school national community service award. He earned a full scholarship to play football at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and also competed in track and field. Cecil was a starter for 4 years in football, earned 2 national community service awards in college, was a captain during his senior year as they won the Big Ten and Rose Bowl Championship, and he graduated! He was drafted into the NFL and was the starting fullback for the Philadelphia Eagles for 4 years, and ended his career playing for the Oakland Raiders and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Cecil earned both the NFL Unsung Hero twice and NFL Ed Block Courage Awards for community service while in the NFL.
Here are some of his featured topics:
- The benefits of playing collegiate sports
- Understanding whether your student athlete is really being recruited
- Strategies on how to maximize an athlete’s recruiting potential
- Is Division 1 the only option?
- Timelines for college recruiting
- The importance of character and maintain good grades
- The 5 things every student athlete must do in order to be recruited
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