High School
The Best Days Ahead: Tren'Davian Dickson and Life After the Spotlight
Once one of Texas high school football's brightest stars, Tren'Davian Dickson's gridiron career didn't turn out the way he'd hoped. A decade later, he's found purpose, peace, and a future bigger than football.

It’s difficult to decipher Tren’Davian Dickson’s East Texas drawl over the phone.
For how loud his play on the field was, he was never one to raise his voice. But add his nine and seven-year-old kids to the mix, roughhousing with each other somewhere on the other end of the line, and not even a professional codebreaker could catch every word.
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