Some Call Him Welsh....

"Hardwork beats talent when, talent doesn't work hard." This is the slogan Stefan Welsh has decided to live by in his young life.

Since Welsh can remember he has always been an athlete. He started his career as a football player playing for the Yorktown Patriots, his home town little league team. It was then that his own city realized a talent was among them and was about to break loose.





And breaking loose is exactly what he did. Welsh was born and raised in Newport News, Virginia, he was born to Yolanda Welsh and Troy Swinton.

Under any other circumstance Stefan wouldn't mention his dad, but in a story about your life and a ticket to stardom one must visit their past in order to appreciate their presence.

When asked sports fans often differ whether they believe Welsh was better at football or basketball. Some would say Welsh's chances at stardom are better on the football field as quarter back, others say his point guard skills and jump shot are his key to success. However Welsh took his skills to the basketball court in high school winning back to back State Championships in 2004 and 20005.

He was being heavily recruited and decided to choose Arkansas Razorbacks as his choice to make a career. After the recruiting coach decided to leave Coach John Palfrey came in and single-handily changed basketball at the University of Arkansas. Stefan Welsh stuck it out as long as possible and made some major decisions in his life.

With that said college coaches recurit players and promise them the dream of a lifetime to play Division 1 college basketball and finally land a career in the NBA. What happens when that dream is slightly changed, when the hardworks no longer matters, when popularity beats talents. when true talent and hardwork doesn't even matter.

What happen in the 2010 NBA draft, who were those guys? Can real talent be over looked due to politics? Standing in the mist of the game, I myself can say that some talent does go over looked, but thats the motivation to keep pushing to work that much more harder.

Stefan Welsh has a dream and the only way to wake up is to make that dream a reality. Welsh says, "I won't stop here and nothing will ever stop me from working hard to beat a "talent."

This isn't the last of a hardworking talent, he will prevail... This blog is just the beggining of following true talent on a road only few will ever travel.