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Feb. 12—After being hit with a major knee injury before his senior football season began, Pisgah’s Sawyer Belue might have thought his athletic career could be in jeopardy.
But last Tuesday, Belue made his return to sports in the County Clash basketball game. The next day, he was in the Pisgah library signing his letter of intent to play football at Wingate University.
“I’m excited. It’s a big step forward. It’s been my lifelong dream. I’m happy I could fulfill that dream,” Belue said.
That lifelong dream is something his dad, Michael Belue, backed up.
“It’s been his dream since he was in the fourth grade to play at the college level. He never could quite decide if it was basketball or football,” Michael Belue said. “Once he got into high school, he was very successful in basketball but football became more natural. That’s where God took him. He worked his tail off. I’m very happy for him.”
The senior says it was as he was going into eleventh grade that football “took my heart.”
Over this summer, Belue kept himself busy.
Whether he was at a camp, traveling to another camp or trying to get the attention of coaches, the senior was constantly doing something.
“It was pretty tough, honestly,” Belue said. “Summer there was not a lot of free time — always at the camps, on the road, talking to coaches, constantly DMing back and forth, trying to put the best highlight reel together.”
Then, as Belue was preparing for his final year of high school ball, disaster struck. A knee injury kept the senior out all year, aside from coming in for a couple of snaps on senior night as the Bears kneeled out the clock.
And with college recruiting ramping up, that knee injury created additional problems.
“It was a little different,” Belue said. “I probably had to work harder than most kids because I didn’t have that film from senior year.”
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Author : The Mountaineer, Waynesville, N.C.
Publish date : 2025-02-12 23:16:00
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