Former Texas A&M Walk-on WR makes the Winter Olympic Team

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The Aggies will have their first athlete to ever appear in the Winter Olympics — Boone Niederhofer, who is also the lone representative of the SEC.

Niederhofer is a former walk-on wide receiver who played at Texas A&M from 2012–2016. Coming from San Antonio, Niederhofer attended Churchill High School, where he graduated in 2012.

He was a multi-sport athlete and a captain for the football team, earning first-team all-district honors and All-Area Super Team honors from the San Antonio Express-News. While at Texas A&M, his success was about more than football — he was named to the SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll four times.

“Football is a blue-collar sport, and bobsled is very much that exact same way,” Niederhofer said to Brown. “There’s a lot of work that goes into it. We go fast. We can crash occasionally. So, you have to be pretty tough to be in this sport to begin with.”

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