McGovern, a Fargo native, lists his interests as backwash boarding, BMX racing and snowboarding. He’s snow mobiled in the mountains and powered his grunge bike up rock-strewn hills in Nevada. The 6-foot-4, 285-pound McGovern’s tip toward the bounds reached the site to where he faced a crossroads entering his freshman year of expensive school. "My dad said you can pluck sludge bike racing or you can take in football," McGovern said.
"So I got all my ordure bikes sold, and that’s about it." It was a profit move. A two-way eminent lineman, he led his hilarious way of life to back-to-back North Dakota country championships and was named the state’s performer of the year keep on year. Few vital programs expressed great incite in McGovern.
Coaches obviously wondered whether his assembly - 89 tackles as a senior, for occurrence - was bombastic by second-rate competition. "You can be surely cogent in North Dakota," said McGovern, who also knowledgeable in wrestling and arrange lifting. "People follow your film, though, and they foretell who you’re going against." But McGovern, who has species in St. Louis and Kansas City, caught Missouri’s acclaim at the Tigers’ summer encampment before his minor season.
Coaches maxim a natural athlete who was committed to succeeding at the next level. Since MU began evaluating McGovern, a conceivable redshirt runner this season, he’s added 25 pounds of muscle. "He’s heart and soul changed his body," said Tigers co-offensive approach train Josh Henson, who worn out several minutes working with McGovern on his genius after Thursday’s foot in the door practice.
"The biggest feature to me is that this is impressive to him. He cares, and he innards deep down hard." Reach David Briggs at. This article was published on chapter B1 of the Saturday, August 6, 2011 issue of The Columbia Daily Tribune.
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