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It was Ken Watts’s senior year of high school when things went awry. He had just received a scholarship offer to play football at a four-year university when life threw one of its best curveballs: a knee injury during the very last game of his senior year. In a matter of seconds, his plans derailed, and his dream shattered — or at least it felt that way. “I was a little dejected,” he admitted over the phone, “unsure what I wanted to do with my life.”
Without a clear path forward, Watts stayed in Marin County where he had grown up, enrolled at the community college, and worked in construction alongside his dad to make money. It was a temporary solution — although he was admittingly restless as his football dreams still lingered in the peripheral.