Iggy Reynoso

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The dazzling cuts and ankle breaker moves Wilson’s Iggy Reynoso displays under those Friday night lights might simply look like natural ability coming to the surface, but there's more to it than that. Sure, the 5-11, 200-pounder has loads of strength and agility, he is as strong as a lion. His success does not come without the sweat equity that's generally required for success at any level. Months before he began running over and scooting past outmatched defenders from Central York to Cumberland Valley, and the team winning the district championship. He was literally training from sunup to sundown. All his worked payed when he ran for 288 yards and 6 touchdowns in a playoff game. "Any hour of the day, any day of the week in the summer, he will be working on getting better for football. I asked him “Why do you like this sport so much?” and he said, “because I like the thought of running through kids until they don't feel like tackling me anymore. Sports helped him become a better person, they have helped him become more organized and on time with things. Through sports, he built many close friendships with his teammates.” His idol since he was a little kid was Adrian Peterson a running back who plays for the Vikings.

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He tried to stay away from the violence little by little. Iggy joined sports and Decided that football was going to be his way out the hood. Sports have a huge impact in his life because sometimes football was all he had and he always relied on football when he was angry. When his father passed away he decided that football was going to be his way of taking my anger out. “The ghetto streets made me want to play sports”. “I was a bad kid growing up but then I decided to change so I started playing football and wrestling”. “I became the person I knew I could

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