It wasn’t until his sophomore year of high school in Hawaii that Psalm Wooching started playing football. A standout rugby player, Wooching before then considered football “a girly sport.”
But he grew to love football, too, earning a scholarship to the University Washington — initially as a running back — and then blossoming this past season as a senior outside linebacker on the Pac-12’s top-ranked defense.
On Thursday, Wooching announced he won’t pursue the NFL but will instead return to rugby, his “first love.” His goal, he says, is to play in the Olympics.
“It is time for me to follow my heart,” he wrote on Twitter.