A good read on Olu Ashaolu

It seems like a stern look from Olu Ashaolu could cause an aluminum can to crush itself so imagine what opponents think when he matches up with them. Here's the New Orleans newspaper with LT-written a feature on the Canadian:

Olu Ashaolu had decisions growing up as a kid in Toronto, Canada. One decision, led him to a life on the basketball court and it was tougher than one might think.

In the seventh grade, Ashaolu tried out for the football team and made it. All that was needed to put his name on the roster was a signature on a permission slip by his mother, Christianah. As much as he hoped that she wouldn’t look over the form carefully, as soon as she saw the words “football,” she said there is no way her son was going to get hurt playing that game.

Ashaolu, whose full first name is Oluseyi, claims that as a child he was better at baseball than basketball. He played pitcher, first base and center field and then at 12 years old, he began to grow. In fact, one year, he grew about four inches and that got the attention of AAU coaches. But they turned away, thinking that he was such a fine baseball player, he wouldn’t want to spend time with the game of basketball...

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