ROCKY POINT, North Carolina -- Going into his junior year of high school, Desmond Jordan got the chance to become a pioneer in a sport he loved: football.Now, he's charting a new path in life with a different sport: rugby.
With Trask High School about to open in his hometown of Rocky Point, Jordan transferred there from Pender High, where his parents and older brother went to school, and although he was a member of Trask’s second graduating class, he was involved in plenty of firsts on the football field.
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“I was the first football carrier. I was the first 300-yard guy at Trask. I was the first 1,500-plus-yard guy at Trask,” Jordan said. “There not too many times you can look in the yearbooks and say ‘I was on the first team here.'”
After high school, Jordan played football for Guilford College in Greensboro. Before his junior season, coach Mike Ketchum left for Winston-Salem State University, and Jordan decided to follow him, playing at Winston-Salem State for two years while the school was transitioning to the MEAC conference.
Coming out of college Jordan searched for opportunities to ...
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