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Blind long snapper Jake Olson officially joins the USC football team

/ STAFF WRITER

Jake Olson, the blind long snapper from Orange Lutheran High, practiced with the USC football team for the first time Tuesday morning.

His knees bent, his back parallel to the soggy grass, Jake Olson hunched over the football, squeezed it and fired it back to holder Reid Budrovich.

Olson, the blind long snapper from Orange Lutheran High, participated in his first practice as a member of the USC football team Tuesday morning.

Wearing a No. 17 yellow no-contact jersey, Olson worked on snaps and hung out with his fellow specialists while USC began preparations for Saturday’s game at Stanford.