When Lee County High School running back Jahmir Smith received his first Ivy League offer, he immediately called his mom.
Monique McLean, a nurse at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, was driving to work when she got the call from her second eldest son.
Princeton wanted Smith to attend school and play college football there.
“I almost wrecked my truck, I was that excited,” McLean said.
But while she was excited, she knew it was only a matter of time before he’d receive offers from the seven other Ivy League schools. Smith, a junior who has a 4.