Kendall Powell
9100 St. Charles Rock Road
St. Louis, MO 63114
(314) 493-6100 powellk765@ritenourschools.org Not Your Average Redemption Story by Kendall Powell 17 years. One of Compton’s most legendary high school athletes. Julius “ Mook “ Chandler has been released from prison. He was known as one of the fastest and strongest running backs ever coming out of high school into college. When he decided to stay home and go UCLA the whole city celebrated, but maybe he should have left his roots and his hometown some say. This is actually the most common thought process because in his sophomore year at UCLA he was arrested and convicted…show more content… I need you to save him from the streets , I want him to be as successful as you should have been. “ Through the years being in jail all he ever thought about was how his life would have been if he had just left the city. The money and success that would have came his way, he felt that he had let his mother down, Leslie down, his son down, and his whole city down. He spent his time drowning in the waves of his own current sadness. With this constant reminder he realized that he had to get his son on the right path before he ended up like his father. All week he was thinking about what he was going to say. “ Friday night, home game against Inglewood High School, one of the rival schools in the area and star running back Christian Chandler prepares to do battle with the Warriors. “ Reads Julius’ mother out loud as Julius is driving them to the game. “ Huh… Would you look at that, is he really that good ma? “ He says with a smile. “ Yes baby, he is so good Julius. He reminds me so much of you when I used to go to your games. He could go to any college he wants to if he got his life together.
