Gazette: Gilson advances from walk-on to projected starter at wideout

By John Sinnett on August 11, 2011 7:52 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

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Matt Vautour of the Daily Hampshire Gazette also had a great feature on Tom Gilson today featuring the redshirt senior's perseverance in going from walk-on to starter over the course of his career.

About 20 minutes after the rest of his University of Massachusetts football teammates were showering, changing or enjoying their post-practice Gatorade and popsicles, Tom Gilson was still working out near the visitors sideline in the noon heat that approached 90 degrees at McGuirk Stadium.

A manager fed ball after ball into the Juggs machine firing rapid-fire passes at him.

Gilson, a Mansfield native, caught one high, one low, extending and contorting his arms to secure each ball before tossing it aside to prepare for the next.

"I had a couple drops. I was really upset with myself," Gilson said.

As he caught his breath, sweat made his shirt stick to the new praying-hands tattoo on his left arm with the words "Blessed is he who perseveres through the trial."

Photo: From walk-on to projected starter in 4 years

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