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From Marines to Gamecocks Dream Grooms Pursues Football
After enlisting in the Marine Corps and surviving perilous duty in Kuwait and Iraq era, Grooms returns home to pursue college football at South Carolina. He faces setbacks including a failed transfer, a brutal tryout, a near blackout, dehydration, and a second chance as a snapper with coach Ray Rychleski guiding a grueling, months long build to shape. The saga spans Parris Island Camp Lejeune Midlands Tech and finally the Gamecocks program with persistence.
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Grooms
Marine Corps
Parris Island
Camp Lejeune
North Carolina
Kuwait
Desert
South Carolina
Midlands Tech
Columbia
Midlands
Gamecocks
Burr-Sawr
Ray Rychleski
Rychleski
Mark Smith
Stadium
Smith
Ray
C.D. Turner
USC
Eric
Norwood
Turner
Iraq