O’Neil Blake lettered in three sports as a high school student, and
was good enough to win a football scholarship to Glenville State
College, where he was one of the team’s cornerbacks.
“I spent two years at Glenville State College,” he recalls. “I was red-shirted my first year wile attending Glenville...however that same year I was awarded Scout Team Defensive Player of the Year.” Being red-shirted means he was a member of the team but did not play in any games, thus protecting his eligibility status as a freshman.
After two years
he transferred to Lenoir-Rhyne University in North Carolina because he
felt it offered superior academics. But he also played football, and was
an NCAA Division II All-American in 2014. He graduated Magna Cum Laude
with a degree in Sociology and today is in the school’s MBA program as a
graduate student. But he keeps in touch with football as the team’s
Cornerbacks Coach.
As he knows from first-hand experience, playing cornerback is one of the most demanding positions in football. It requires a player to be fast, and possess the ability to anticipate what the offense is going to do. Football teams need skilled pass defenders, but what makes it so hard is that wide receivers know where their pass routes are going to take them, while the cornerback does not. A good cornerback loves the challenge of covering a receiver, one-on-one.
O’Neil Blake Football is on track to complete the MBA program in May of 2016, and so is looking ahead to life after football. He is concentrating on Health Care Administration.
Sources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/o-neil-blake-1600388a?trk=hp-identity-photo
http://www.livestrong.com/article/82402-better-cornerback/
“I spent two years at Glenville State College,” he recalls. “I was red-shirted my first year wile attending Glenville...however that same year I was awarded Scout Team Defensive Player of the Year.” Being red-shirted means he was a member of the team but did not play in any games, thus protecting his eligibility status as a freshman.
After two years
he transferred to Lenoir-Rhyne University in North Carolina because he
felt it offered superior academics. But he also played football, and was
an NCAA Division II All-American in 2014. He graduated Magna Cum Laude
with a degree in Sociology and today is in the school’s MBA program as a
graduate student. But he keeps in touch with football as the team’s
Cornerbacks Coach.As he knows from first-hand experience, playing cornerback is one of the most demanding positions in football. It requires a player to be fast, and possess the ability to anticipate what the offense is going to do. Football teams need skilled pass defenders, but what makes it so hard is that wide receivers know where their pass routes are going to take them, while the cornerback does not. A good cornerback loves the challenge of covering a receiver, one-on-one.
O’Neil Blake Football is on track to complete the MBA program in May of 2016, and so is looking ahead to life after football. He is concentrating on Health Care Administration.
Sources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/o-neil-blake-1600388a?trk=hp-identity-photo
http://www.livestrong.com/article/82402-better-cornerback/
