Feb 23, 2021
After an unfathomable delay, California will resume high school football and other outside sports this week because COVID-19 rates have declined statewide, which couldn t be more uplifting news to signees in the University of Washington s latest recruiting class.
Maurice Heims, a 6-foot-6, 242-pound outside linebacker for Santa Margarita Catholic High School south of Los Angeles and orginally from Germany, put it all in perspective. We ve been waiting over 400 days to play football again, Heims said.
He s one of five Californians headed who will join the UW in the fall and begin their college football careers. At least they get a warm-up season now before they graduate.
Having the condition herself, the Chino Hills resident has experienced living in fear of having a seizure.
âI never knew how much a part anxiety played in my life,â Ms. Garcia said. âI had to recognize that overthinking can take over your entire life.â
Ms. Garcia, who is attending the University of Arizona in Tucson, established âThe Brooklyn Foundationâ in honor of a fellow student who was a member of the Zeta Beta Chi Omega sorority.
Ms. Mengarelli died in April from an epileptic seizure while sitting in a hot tub.
The two had never met.
âShe was amazing and a beautiful young woman. She had her life together,â Ms. Garcia said, who belongs to a sister sorority on campus, Alpha Chi Omega.