HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK)– Stratford Elderly Foard Polley attracts attention anywhere he goes and whatever he does.
” I like being me, and I like allowing. I stand out, however I’m utilized to protruding,” he claimed.
He initially captured ABC13’s Joe Gleason’s eye as a 13-year-old exercising at BME, after that at summertime camps, where he remained to enhance his craft.
” This is simply a tipping rock to aid me enhance my video game,” Polley claimed.
All that function has actually led the 6′ 5″ offending deal with to gain All-District honors the last 2 years.
” If I’m having a negative video game, we can not have a great video game,” Polley claimed. “Yet if I have a great video game, after that I trust my individuals, and it’s all as much as them to obtain us down there and rating.”
He additionally attracts attention in the class with a 6.3 grade point average on a 6.5 range. He’s devoted to enhancing his sports and scholastic profession at the College of Pennsylvania following year.
” One point I could not miss regarding Penn was their service institution, which is where I mean to significant in service. It is the leading service institution in the nation,” he claimed.
In the springtime, when football period mores than, he attracts attention on a various phase– doing institution, cinema, and choir.
” I like fracturing individuals on a football area, however the cinema is simply it’s a various point,” Polley claimed. “I was constantly in choirs, since my papa compelled me to, and after that in intermediate school, I was ‘half compelled’, ‘half advised’ to audition for the musical. We did 47th Road in my student year. I obtained knotted right into it, and I resembled, ‘Wow.’ In 2015, we did The Little Mermaid, which I was King Triton, which is Ariel’s dad, which was a blast. I have actually constantly fit with that I remain in my very own footwear, despite where I am, if it gets on the phase or if it gets on the football area.”
Congratulations to Foard Polley– student-athlete, vocalist, and thespian. And we can include another point: our ABC13 Professional Athlete of the Week.
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