“Football kinda chose me.”
That is what UNM Alumni and former New Mexico football running back DonTrell Moore said, stating his favorite sport wasn’t football, but basketball and then soccer. Moore said it was his mother who encouraged him to play football.
A native of Roswell, New Mexico, Moore was able to efficiently balance playing a sport while achieving in the classroom as well. According to Wikipedia, he had 6,000 rushes during his junior and senior high school years, all while maintaining a 4.0 grade point average.
Moore played for the Lobos from 2002 to 2005 and was named Mountain West Conference Freshman of the Year—the first Lobo rookie ever voted first team all-conference, according to the team’s website.