Lion to play college ball

On Tuesday, Seth Smith signed his letter of intent to play football at Texas A&M Commerce.

Tye Chandler, spo...@ennisdailynews.com

Seth Smith had never played varsity football at this point a year ago, but on Tuesday the Lion senior signed his National Letter of Intent to play for the Texas A&M-Commerce Lions.

Smith returned to the sport after three years away and became Ennis’ top offensive player in 2010, earning second team all-district honors at receiver. He had several large statistical games and it eventually led to a four-year scholarship offer with A&M-Commerce. A couple of months before his senior season, Seth began to believe he could do something special.

“During 7-on-7 football last summer, I really felt like I was doing good and that I really wanted to go to college for this,” Smith said. “I also felt like this could actually happen at that point because I was working hard.”

While Smith recognizes his path to college football was unconventional, he only cared that there was a path.

“This was my first-and-only season on varsity, so I felt like I really had to perform the best I could,” Smith said. “I didn’t have a junior season to back me up and I had a short amount of time to get a lot of work done.”

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Posted by publisher on Feb 11 2011. Filed under Ennis High Football, News, School news, Sports, Youth Sports. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.