Hard work and dedication have become terms thrown around in today’s sport’s vernacular, but for Central Catholic’s Cooper LeBlanc, it sums up his high school football career.
LeBlanc accepted a preferred walk-on offer to play college football at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He held a signing ceremony Wednesday at Central Catholic to commemorate the occasion.
“Every year, I’ve had some type of injury that threatened not only my football career but my later life,” LeBlanc said. “I only played one complete season, my senior year, and still managed to stay on folks’ radars.”
He said he was “thankful” to still ...