12th Man Nana Boadi-Owusu inspired his mom on football field way before his fellow Aggies

No one is more surprised that NaNa Boadi-Owusu was recently voted to the honor of 12th Man at Texas A&M than his mom, Akua Owusu. 

She remembers walking through Boles Middle School in Arlington, Texas, ahead of her oldest son’s seventh grade year to pick up his schedule when they bumped into a table labeled “Athletics.” When the coaches at the table asked the mom what sport her son planned to play, Akua instinctually answered “soccer.” After all, that was the national sport in Ghana, where she was from, and it was the sport that NaNa and his younger brother, PK, played growing up, first in Virginia and now in Arlington.