Talented freshman makes big first impression on school

Chad Reed
October 19, 2009
Filed under Student Life

For most high schoolers, making a varsity sport as a freshman is a dream.  David Marvin, however, has made two, and is hoping for a third.

Marvin, a graduate of Randolph Middle School, is currently starting center defender for the varsity soccer team, and first string place-kicker for varsity football.  He also plays for a Region III Premier League club soccer team, and is in the final stages of the tryout process for the 16u USA Baseball national team.  And baseball season hasn’t even started yet.

Four extracurricular activities mean that Marvin has at least two practices to attend every non-game day.  This, combined with the homework he has to do to maintain his 4.0 GPA, give Marvin an after-school schedule that would strike fear into even the busiest of type A’s.

“It’s hard.  I’ve been up until 1:30 doing homework a few times already,” said Marvin of his hectic schedule.

Being the only freshman on both the soccer and the football team, Marvin does, unsurprisingly, deal with some hounding by his upperclassman teammates.

“The upperclassmen tell me what to do a lot, so it can be tough being the youngest on the team,” Marvin said. 

Not that tough, evidently.  Marvin is a key player for the soccer team, playing the entire game and providing the team with dangerous long throw-ins.  He is also a reliable source of points for the football team.

Despite the gap in age, Marvin has bonded well with his peers on both the football and soccer teams.

“He connected with everyone really fast,” said Samuel Shisso, a sophomore on the football team. 

Marvin hopes to make the varsity baseball team in the spring.  If he does, he will become one of very few athletes who can call playing one varsity sport “taking a break.”