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UrbScotty

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Tue May 27, 2014, 11:39 PM May 2014

Blind player makes college football team

Aaron Golub is living proof that you don't need sight to have vision.

The 17-year-old Newton, Mass., high schooler has been blind since birth, unable to see out of his right eye and has only a small amount of vision in his left. Despite this, Golub just achieved a lifelong dream: He has been offered a preferred walk-on spot to play football at Tulane University, a Division 1 program.

As you'd expect, the journey hasn't always been an easy one for Golub, who has become an ace long snapper, a position which requires a high degree of speed and accuracy. In the last several years, his private coach, Chris Rubio, says he's come a long way, thanks to countless hours of hard work.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/25/blind-college-football-player-tulane_n_5375467.html?&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000026
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