Wednesday, Mason Alexander conducted his first interview in front of the media as a university football player. Bearing a chain with a “m” in gold around his neck, Alexander spoke with Smile during a six -minute interview when he explained why he chose Pitt from the school, his experience until an early registration in January and his close link with the coaches.
Towards the end of the interview, Alexander was questioned about the cornerback, a position where only the most confident players can prosper.
“At this corner location … (they) say that we are (just) paid to cover. I don’t believe that, “said Alexander.” I am paid to strike, cover, locate yourself, make sure you don’t have a socket on the ground. I don’t care if you are the best receiver or the worst receiver.
Alexander was a young man at dawn to live his dream as a prospect of four -star football from Hamilton Southeastern. But three days after his first interview as an university art, this dream was tragically shortened.
Alexander, 18, was killed in a car accident on Saturday evening at Fishers. According to the Bureau of the County of Hamilton Sherriff, Alexander was a passenger in a BMW Blanche 2016 which deployed south on Florida Road almost 113th Street in Fishers. The car entered the track north and started to pass a car in southern direction, then pulled to the right to avoid a vehicle coming in the opposite direction.
The BMW has overflowed, sliding through the grass and impacting a tree, which makes the vehicle set fire. The passenger, Alexander, was declared dead on the scene around 9 p.m.
The case is actively inquiry by the planting team of the Hamilton County Sheriff.
Alexander was one of the best recruits in the country as a cornerback. It was a selection twice of all states and had offers from several high -level programs before choosing Pitt Sur Purdue, Wisconsin and others. He also anchored the Relais team of the State Champion of Hamilton Southeastern 4×100 meters last spring.
“Mason is a special young man who is going to be very missed,” said Hamilton Southeastern football coach Michael Kelly on Sunday morning. “To be honest, I don’t know if I’m still in shock, but the most difficult thing to think is how things can happen to people, especially someone like him. He had a presence and a positivity about him which was unique. He didn’t think he was bigger than life in any way, and he had a higher level talent. »»
The road to athletic celebrity was not easy for Alexander, who lost his father, Johnny Alexander, on June 14, 2015, at the age of 8. His father, only 43, suffered a heart attack.
“It was the most heartbreaking thing,” said his mother, Kelly Harris in 2023. “He had a really tight link with his father. While he adopted this news, you could see the light in him weak.”
Alexander stopped playing football after the death of his father. Her father intended for the NFL after watching her play his first Little League match in the Little League of Lawrence Township.
“These are supposed to be your years when you don’t worry about school and just have fun”, ” Mason said in 2023. “But after (my father died), I didn’t care about anything. It is something that a man of 8, 9, 10 years should not have to do. I was depressed all the time.
Alexander resumed football in seventh pupil in Riverside after being convinced by his mother and brother, Jordan, who took Mason under his wing after the death of their father.
“Mason was his favorite,” said Jordan in his father in 2023. “(My father) always said that he saw himself in Mason. It was his guy. They were always together, so when it happened, it wreaked havoc on Mason. I wanted to assure myself that I was there for him. Not too many people knew my father better than me, so I wanted to make sure that mason was held right.
It was apparently gone to the races after Alexander started playing football again. During his second year, he accumulated the list of national recruitment sites and received his first offer – from Pitt – while he was on spring vacation. Several other schools have followed offers, intrigued by its speed and its desire to make plated. Alexander was selected as a player of all states as a junior and senior.
He wore jersey n ° 15 and a n ° 15 on his channel to remind him of the date – June 15, 2015 – when he discovered that his father had left. Alexander had a close relationship with his mother, which attributes to him the maintenance afloat – and his family – during these turbulent years after the death of his father.
“I am mainly proud of my mother,” said Mason in 2023. “She is so strong on everything. Any average person would have broken down and did not know what to do. She first put us before anything, then she fought all this. It was her birthday a few days ago and she just broke down, crying tears of joy. It was as if she was doing in 10 years.
South-eastern Hamilton Superintendent Pat Mapes said the school would have a statement later Sunday morning.
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This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: Mason Alexander, Hamilton Southeastern football star, dies in a car accident
