BEAU ELLIS. THE NAME SOUNDS LIKE FOOTBALL, RIGHT?
The Woodlands Christian Academy captain can do just about anything on a football field, hence his position... athlete.
The 6-foot-1 senior lives, breathes and bleeds the sport.
“Football just teaches you so many life-lessons,” he said. “It’s about the brotherhood that it creates when you go to battle against other teams. It’s also about discipline. After a hard day of school or not feeling 100-percent, still throwing on the pads and going out in the hot Texas weather is what it’s about. It’s those habits that I can apply outside of football throughout my future.”
It goes even deeper than that. It’s about the people and their influence.
“Coach (Steven) Svendson has played a huge role in my life,” he said. “He’s been my football and track coach and is always there to lift me up when I’mdown. He also baptized me last year.
“I’ve also loved watching videos of Troy Polamalu (former Pittsburgh Steeler). His Christ-like attitude on and off the field is something I really inspire to be. Football is a very intense and heated sport, and his ability to be such a great leader and encourage his teammates is something I look up to.”
Beau Ellis. Sounds like an outdoorsman, right?
“My dream?” he thinks about. “I want live in a quiet place with a family in the mountains, where I can start a business that makes the world a better place.
“I just have to be outdoors. I can be doing anything... paddle boarding,hiking, skiing, something. That’s justt he way I’m built.”
For now, Ellis will be an integral part of the Warriors’ playoffs goals, while pursuing any opportunity to play the game that has molded him for over a decade.
The mountains are just going to have to wait.