As a teenager, Trevante Rhodes looked destined to be a formidable athlete.
While he was born and initially raised in Louisiana, Rhodes moved to Little Elm when he was around 6 and soon established himself as one of the finest runners and football players at Little Elm High School. Not only did he play alongside the current Buffalo Bills wide receiver Cole Beasley, he won a gold medal at the 2009 Pan American Junior Athletics Championship.
But then, disaster struck. “I tore my ACL in the first football game of the senior season in high school,” Rhodes said. “Then everything dropped.” While he had hoped to get a football scholarship at the University of Texas at Austin, he secured a track scholarship instead.
