HawkeyeHypnosis
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http://m.siouxcityjournal.com/mobil...86698bce#66b8e7da-2175-5500-baf2-3c0286698bce
This was a good read. Hope he wins the gold. First part of article:
The dream all through childhood was to don the black and gold uniform of the Iowa Hawkeyes and strut his football stuff inside venerable Kinnick Stadium.
A.G. Kruger probably could have pulled it off, too, even if neither of his two best offers coming out of Sheldon High School involved an athletic scholarship.
The dream all through childhood was to don the black and gold uniform of the Iowa Hawkeyes and strut his football stuff inside venerable Kinnick Stadium.
A.G. Kruger probably could have pulled it off, too, even if neither of his two best offers coming out of Sheldon High School involved an athletic scholarship.
Al and Linda Kruger thought their son, the tail-ender after two daughters, should have given it a whirl as a recruited walk-on with the Hawks.
Still, tough as times had been for this farm family and so many others, they left the decision in his hands. And, even though he would also be a walk-on at Morningside, the small college in Sioux City had a few distinct advantages.
First, as a student with dyslexia, a common reading disorder, he liked the idea of smaller classes and more personal instruction.
Secondly, he had this desire to continue with track and field in addition to football, an interest to which Dave Elliott, the head football coach in those final years of NCAA Division II athletics at Morningside, had no objections.
“Now, in the end, it hasn’t worked out too bad,’’ said Kruger, who was rewarded with a football scholarship for his final three years even as he began to blossom in yet another sport: The hammer throw.
Little might he have imagined how this, alone, would change his life forever.
Indeed, Friday morning, when the men’s hammer throw qualifying round unfolds at the London Games, Kruger will be appearing in the Olympics for a third time. At age 33, having been a late-comer to an event less prevalent on the U.S. track and field agenda than in so many other nations, there’s a strong possibility he’ll be trying for No. 4 in 2016.
This was a good read. Hope he wins the gold. First part of article:
The dream all through childhood was to don the black and gold uniform of the Iowa Hawkeyes and strut his football stuff inside venerable Kinnick Stadium.
A.G. Kruger probably could have pulled it off, too, even if neither of his two best offers coming out of Sheldon High School involved an athletic scholarship.
The dream all through childhood was to don the black and gold uniform of the Iowa Hawkeyes and strut his football stuff inside venerable Kinnick Stadium.
A.G. Kruger probably could have pulled it off, too, even if neither of his two best offers coming out of Sheldon High School involved an athletic scholarship.
Al and Linda Kruger thought their son, the tail-ender after two daughters, should have given it a whirl as a recruited walk-on with the Hawks.
Still, tough as times had been for this farm family and so many others, they left the decision in his hands. And, even though he would also be a walk-on at Morningside, the small college in Sioux City had a few distinct advantages.
First, as a student with dyslexia, a common reading disorder, he liked the idea of smaller classes and more personal instruction.
Secondly, he had this desire to continue with track and field in addition to football, an interest to which Dave Elliott, the head football coach in those final years of NCAA Division II athletics at Morningside, had no objections.
“Now, in the end, it hasn’t worked out too bad,’’ said Kruger, who was rewarded with a football scholarship for his final three years even as he began to blossom in yet another sport: The hammer throw.
Little might he have imagined how this, alone, would change his life forever.
Indeed, Friday morning, when the men’s hammer throw qualifying round unfolds at the London Games, Kruger will be appearing in the Olympics for a third time. At age 33, having been a late-comer to an event less prevalent on the U.S. track and field agenda than in so many other nations, there’s a strong possibility he’ll be trying for No. 4 in 2016.
