Drew Benjamin, Player Spotlight

Diego Delgado, Sports Journalist

Drew Benjamin is a 2-sport athlete at Arlington High School and is also a part of the School’s DECA club. He plays football during the fall season and helps support his team by being an outstanding player. During the spring Season, he plays baseball and helps support his team as well. Drew starts on varsity for both sports and is liked among his teammates .“Drew throws a long pass to his teammate at practice .”“ The best part of playing football and baseball is the relationships you get to make with all your teammates because if I didn’t play football or baseball, I wouldn’t have the friends I have right now,” said Drew Benjamin. Drew Has No plans on playing Football or Baseball in College because he wants to focus on his academics and he currently has outstanding grades in all his classes. “Drew throws a short pass to his teammate .”Drew states that, “Over the years , balancing sports and school was easy at first , but then over the years the work started getting harder and harder which made it difficult, but you have to learn to just suck it up and get the work done.” Drew Benjamin learned to push through long 3-hour practices as well as dealing Baseball and his academic.