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Tennessee QB Joshua Dobbs Is the Ultimate Volunteer | Bleacher Report
A Life of Stewardship
Stephanie Dobbs
Josh Dobbs participating in Habitat for Humanity.
If you're going to hang around with Dobbs, you'd better stand in line. He has precious little time to spare, and everybody wants a piece of it. But he's more than willing to give.
It's well-documented that Dobbs is a unique student-athlete. He routinely takes a slate of difficult classes and wants to build airplanes, all while balancing duties as UT's starting quarterback for parts of each of the past four seasons. He also worked out for the Vols baseball team in the offseason.
With as much as he juggles, you'd think he'd have a difficult time. He doesn't. Because it's always been that way.
"We put him in a position to have lots of responsibilities early," Stephanie Dobbs said. "We had him involved in so many things, and it wasn't for the sake of saying, 'Let's just add something else,' but to help him establish an identity of, 'What are your interests? What do you want to pursue in life?'
"The goal was to have him develop as a person and to teach him to compartmentalize those responsibilities, so when I look back at him going through those early years and now being a college student in his senior year, I can see the benefits of how those early experiences helped to meld him into the person he is."
It's a long but an amazing read that I can't recommend enough. The kid is winning in the game of life and I'm proud to have him representing our university.
Go Vols
A Life of Stewardship
Josh Dobbs participating in Habitat for Humanity.
If you're going to hang around with Dobbs, you'd better stand in line. He has precious little time to spare, and everybody wants a piece of it. But he's more than willing to give.
It's well-documented that Dobbs is a unique student-athlete. He routinely takes a slate of difficult classes and wants to build airplanes, all while balancing duties as UT's starting quarterback for parts of each of the past four seasons. He also worked out for the Vols baseball team in the offseason.
With as much as he juggles, you'd think he'd have a difficult time. He doesn't. Because it's always been that way.
"We put him in a position to have lots of responsibilities early," Stephanie Dobbs said. "We had him involved in so many things, and it wasn't for the sake of saying, 'Let's just add something else,' but to help him establish an identity of, 'What are your interests? What do you want to pursue in life?'
"The goal was to have him develop as a person and to teach him to compartmentalize those responsibilities, so when I look back at him going through those early years and now being a college student in his senior year, I can see the benefits of how those early experiences helped to meld him into the person he is."
It's a long but an amazing read that I can't recommend enough. The kid is winning in the game of life and I'm proud to have him representing our university.
Go Vols
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