MEET

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Daniel Joseph is a talented athlete and academic achiever, born with a passion for sports and a thirst for knowledge. As a young teenager from Brampton Ontario, Canada with hopes and aspirations of pursuing a career in the NBA, he grew up in the shadows of some of the NBA’s notable stars today. Stars such as Anthony Bennett, Tristan Thomson, Jamal Murray, Andrew Wiggins, and many more participated on the former AAU basketball team CIA Bounce.  At age 15 this trust and passion for competing against the best of the best led him to a small private school in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, the once mecca of basketball stars. Ironically as God would have it, lake forest was located directly behind the practice facility of one of the NFL’s most historic franchises, the Chicago Bears.

Immediately he was attracted to the game as his first year ever putting on the pads,  he was thrust into roles based on sheer love and interest for the game and the newfound freedom he unknowingly yearned for. His freshman year, he found himself flip-flopping between running down on kickoff on the varsity team games on Friday night lights, to returning double house call kicks on the JV football games on Saturday. He barely knew what he was doing more than half the time, but all he did know was that he didn’t want to get off the field, and he desired to win by all means whenever given the chance to play the game.

By his junior year, he had earned the opportunity to really see what he was capable of by becoming the starting defensive end and tight end on a very short-manned team of young warriors that simply had the desire to win and make it to the highest level possible in the sport. By the end of his high school career, he had lettered in almost 4 sports and  Caught 26 passes for 498 yards and eight touchdowns as a tight end, Rated a four-star prospect by ESPN, Ranked by ESPN as the No. 1 player in Illinois, No. 6 regional player and No. 11 defensive end in the country.  His senior year he had converted to linebacker and Tallied 72 tackles, 2.0 sacks, 25 tackles for loss and two interceptions, and had 10 receiving touchdowns as a tight end.