LOOKS BRIGHT: Boudoin follows instructions to succeed on field, in classroom
Published 11:45 pm Friday, September 19, 2014
By Monique Roth
L’Observateur
EDGARD — Football running back Lamore Boudoin, a junior at West St. John High School, ran for a 51-yard run to set up a touchdown against rival St. James High School in a Sept. 4 game.
In a Sept. 12 game against Bogalusa, he opened WSJHS’s scoring on a 85-yard kickoff return. His football prowess isn’t questionable, and neither are his grades — he has all A’s.
Boudoin, the son of Mary Boudoin and Ferdinand Gordon, has lived in Edgard his entire life, where he attended West St. John Elementary School before WSJ.
He has played football since he was 4 and has made good grades his entire academic career. This year, he is tackling dual enrollment courses in psychology, pre-calculus and chemistry. During his senior year he said he hopes to take two additional college-credit courses in English and trigonometry.
The balance between the classroom and the ball field isn’t always an easy one, Boudoin said, but he makes it work with the support of his family and friends.
A typical school day starts at 6 a.m., when he wakes up and gets ready to go to school from 7:20 a.m. to 2:20 p.m. He said football practice normally starts around 2:30 p.m., and when he gets home from it at 6 p.m. he takes a shower, eats and does homework until he goes to bed at 10 p.m.
“I like the rush you get when you score, the crowds … everything,” Boudoin said with a smile about game nights, adding having his parents in the stands “makes me feel comfortable. If I make a mistake or I’m down, they cheer me up and tell me it’s OK.”
He said his parents have always told him school comes first, and then sports.
They “encourage me to do well” in everything, Boudoin said. “I feel like I need to perform to the best of my ability and to do what’s right. I like working to the best of my ability, doing my best and giving my all.”
He said school is important to him, because he knows he needs to make good grades in order to be successful in life.
After his high school years are over, Boudoin said he hopes to “go out of state to a good college with a good engineering program and continue to play football.”
He said he can’t wait to buy his parents “everything they never had and give them everything they ever wanted” once he’s working and successful in his career.
Boudoin likes the idea of studying engineering because math is his favorite subject, something he “always looks forward to.”
Besides football, Boudoin runs track and plays basketball. He said this year he will also try out for the baseball team. He is a member of the Beta Club and the Gentlemen’s Club at WSJ and attends St. John the Baptist Catholic Church.
He said his role model is his sister Lanear Boudoin, who graduated from Xavier University and then received her master’s degree from the University of Western Georgia. She works with disabled children and lives near Atlanta.
Boudoin said football has taught him many life lessons, such as working within a team and that anything is possible.
When asked about his motto, he confidently answered “live with no regrets.”