GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) – O’maurie Phillips grew up loving football from the age of nine, but by 9th grade he was done with it and did not play. It took the recruitment of some friends on the team for him to give it another shot, and it paid off.
Coach Ron Cook had no idea who he was that freshman year, but learned fast…
“During the spring of his freshman year, a couple of guys were like he’s playing next year, Maurie is going to play, and I was like who’s Maurie, oh he’s doing basketball he’s in the gym oh ok, he’s tall that’s good, very 1st play of that scrimmage you could tell he was different.”…