In one hand, Cristina Garcia clutches her phone. In the other, her rosary.
And as she sits behind her desk at a law firm in Ft. Lauderdale, waiting to hear if her son Cristian has made the University of Florida football team, all she can do is pray.
Cristian is a journeyman, having attended three universities in three semesters before landing at UF in Fall 2015.
Upon arriving, he immediately enrolled in the team’s walk-on tryout with more than 20 other hopefuls.
UF took only two players from that group. Garcia, a 6-foot-1, 231-pound linebacker, was one of them.