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Lifelong Frog
He left football, then walked on. Now TCU lineman is making the most of his chance.
BY DREW DAVISON
Blake Hickey didn’t realize how much he missed football until being away from the game.
As a three-star prospect coming out of Godley in 2016, Hickey signed a national letter of intent to play at Kansas State. But, less than a week after arriving in Manhattan, Kansas, Hickey realized he made the wrong decision.
He returned home with plans to join TCU’s football program as a walk-on. But his passion for playing wasn’t there and he decided to just become a college student. Hickey didn’t play in 2016-17, going to school and also working at his family’s company, the Fort Worth-based A&C Cabinet Shop, for two years.
Read more at https://www.star-telegram.com/sports/college/big-12/texas-christian-university/article248025245.html
BY DREW DAVISON
Blake Hickey didn’t realize how much he missed football until being away from the game.
As a three-star prospect coming out of Godley in 2016, Hickey signed a national letter of intent to play at Kansas State. But, less than a week after arriving in Manhattan, Kansas, Hickey realized he made the wrong decision.
He returned home with plans to join TCU’s football program as a walk-on. But his passion for playing wasn’t there and he decided to just become a college student. Hickey didn’t play in 2016-17, going to school and also working at his family’s company, the Fort Worth-based A&C Cabinet Shop, for two years.
Read more at https://www.star-telegram.com/sports/college/big-12/texas-christian-university/article248025245.html