Bryn Tucker watches on during a 2018 preseason scrimmage at Alcoa High School. (Photo by Danny Parker)
BY JESSE SMITHEY
Lately, Bryn Tucker has had to make some tough choices, ones that often leave him out of some summertime fun.
You see, the Catholic High School offensive lineman plans to graduate high school early and be a mid-term enrollee at Clemson for the 2020 spring semester.
Oftentimes, that means he’s having to put schoolwork and his future plans ahead of his friends’ texts or calls.
“I have to be like, ‘I can’t. I got class today,” Tucker says. “They’ll be like, ‘You got class?!’
“And I’ll say, ‘Yep. I’m trying to early enroll.’ People think I’m doing summer school. People think, ‘Oh, you failed a class?’ I’m like, ‘Nah, nah. This is for college.’
Tucker and a few other area prospects have already chosen this path. Here’s more on what all that decision entails, the work involved and the benefits of it …
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