![]() “Track, even though I only started running in high school, it’s been a driving force in my life, and to not run in college would be detrimental to me so I took the initiative and I started emailing coaches and finding their phone numbers and hitting them up, everywhere I could.” I knew that could help out (financially),” Brannon said. “I didn’t have many offers, so I reached out to coaches myself and got offers that way.”īrannon said it was important for him to not give up on himself because running is such an important part of his life. ![]() “The recruiting process, especially going DI is very hard,” Brannon explained. “He came in at the right time, right before COVID which was some tough times and I wouldn’t have any other leader besides him helping run our program.” “Culture is everything and “Cool” has always been part of that culture,” Ford said. Meanwhile, Ford said Brannon’s experience as a leader on and off the track, with be invaluable to Alabama A&M University’s track and field program. “I saw how much she grew from it, how much she learned, all the relationships she built with people and I wanted to be a part of that.” “Seeing (my sister’s) experience (at Langston University in Oklahoma), I wanted to get that same experience,” Brannon continued. #HBCU #AAMU /QOZ6RURFxwīrannon, a California native whose nickname is “Cool”, credits his older sister for exposing him to Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Long Beach Poly cross country & track coach Cameron Ford said he’s extremely proud of Eric Brannon for earning a scholarship to run D1 track at Alabama A&M University. “We trusted him right away from the start and we’re very proud of him… he’s a very special athlete, anybody would be happy to have him.” “He’s a great kid and right away I could tell the kind of leadership that he brought to the team,” said Long Beach Poly distance coach Cameron Ford. (Photo by Tracey Roman, Contributing Photographer) I love football and I love running, so I wanted to do both through my whole high school career and that’s what I did.” Long Beach Poly’s Eric Brannon stops Leuzinger’s Jacob Lewis as the two teams battle it out in Long Beach, CA, on Thursday, September 9, 2021. “I even had a lot of people telling me ‘you can’t do this, it’s hard you should just pick one sport’ but I couldn’t let that get to me. “It was really an experience, trying to juggle my practices and everything,” Brannon said. Meanwhile, Brannon, who has a 4.33 weighted GPA, was also Long Beach Poly’s cross country captain in the fall, while also playing defensive back on the school’s varsity football team that won a 2021 CIF-SS championship. “As a black man in society today, I want to be able to learn more about myself and my heritage.” – Beach Poly senior track runner Eric Brannon explains why he signed to run Division 1 track at Alabama A&M University.
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