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UW receiver Owen Coutts talked about his friendship with corner Antonio Hill.
Transcript
00:00 Tell me about your spring football touchdown catch. What happened? Tell me run the playback. Um
00:04 Yeah, it was uh, was that a cross or vert concept and I was running up the seam and
00:10 Yeah, I'm glad my boy Alex threw me the ball. He knows I was gonna catch it
00:15 We have that that chemistry going back a long time. I've been that's a cool story right there
00:19 We've been training for a really long time before either of us were anywhere close to playing football at UW
00:24 So, you know just him having him out there to throw me that was was really special for me
00:29 and just kind of represented that you know when you put in the work things things really work out and come full circle and
00:35 Yeah, I mean I catch the ball
00:38 So I wasn't gonna let that one hit the ground and I just went up in and went up and got it
00:41 And you took it away from one of your good friends Antonio Hill. Yeah
00:45 Yeah, I mean I wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for Antonio. I mean that's
00:51 Really like one of my best friends he when I was kind of ready to give up on myself
00:56 He told me to just to keep pushing and to just not give up and I feel like you know without
01:01 Without hearing that I feel like he was like one of the kind of the few people that really wanted to see me pursue
01:08 My dream so I love I love Tony. Oh and be out it. I'll catch on any DB doesn't matter
01:15 I'm catching that
01:21 Yes, we didn't go to the same high school, but we we had a mutual kind of like athletic trainer
01:26 Oh, and I told him I think this was my junior year high school. I said I need I need a quarterback
01:31 I want to go out run around some catch passes because I knew I wanted to play football
01:34 At UW I knew I had to get ready and he knew Alex
01:38 So he he hit up Alex for me got got me his number and then we've just been just been grinding ever since
01:43 - Thanks.