Varsity Football Leader, Aiyden Benford, knew what he was born to accomplish. He’s been putting in the work since he was five and hasn’t let up since.
“I aspire to be like my father, because my father was an amazing athlete in high school, but he didn’t want to go to college, even though he had a lot of offers. He wanted to pursue his dreams to be a pharmacist.”
Aiyden dreams of scholarships to his top pick.
“At my one, I have Ohio State, then University of Miami, next University of Houston.”
He doesn’t mind going to a local college.
“They are a good school, and they also produced one of the best NFL receivers, Tank Dell,” Benford said. “Football has helped me grow because football helps me [learn] leadership skills, and show that there’s always going to be another way of doing things, and never to give up, no matter how hard the situation may be.”
If Aiyden were in a situation where his team is losing, he knows how to pick up his team.
“I would encourage my teammates and tell them that the game isn’t over and to stay in it. Because even if we’re losing by 14 points, that’s two touchdowns we can still get back into the game, we just have to lock in and get it done.”
“I play receiver, but whenever I was in little league, I used to play running back and in seventh grade, whenever I went to try out for running back, I was devastated because my coach told me that I didn’t have the size to play running back, so he moved me to receiver and that was when I first [started that position,]” he said.
He has so much admiration for the sport, it’s almost unbearable.
“I love this sport because it’s like my other 50. My first 50 is family, school, God; but the other 50 is football. It’s the sport I’m the best at, but I also love watching it, studying it, and playing it. I genuinely wouldn’t know what to do if football was taken away from me.”
