Ohio State 2012-2015 SAF - Tyvis Powell (National Champion)

Scout $ - Scout.com: Powell Shines In First Scrimmage

 

Rivals $ - Powell checks out jersey scrimmage

8/23

Was watching the secondary and mentions Travis Howard, Devin Smith and Braxton Miller...talked with Coach Fickell and Coach Johnson and says he and Josh Perry are enrolling early.

http://ohiostate.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1255137

 

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Week 3 - Season Recap
by Tyvis Powell

First off I'd like to thank the people who support me and take the time out of their day to read my thoughts each week. That really means a lot to me. The Buckeye Nation requested a recap of my season and I am a firm believer in giving the fans what they want, so here we go...



If you know football then you know the football season never ends. A season is truly won in or lost in the off-season and this year we had great off-season work outs. Everyone was dedicated and came to lifting which helped us not only get better physically but it helped us become closer as a team.

We eventually became a family with one heart beat. We had our first scrimmage against Westlake, who was 6-4 last year and they went to the playoffs. They were our first opportunity to show the community that we have become a better team than last year. We went out and played really well against them and our defense was phenomenal. It seemed as if they had a hard time moving the ball up the field. Good start.

Our season opener was against Olmsted Falls. They were an excellent team last year, I believe making it to the second round of the playoffs (made it to the third round of the playoffs two years ago). We knew we had to win that game...it was HUGE for us...and we did.

Game 2 we played St. Ignatius, who I don’t think I have to give you any background information on! We had a great week of practice that week and we were really looking forward to playing them. I knew I had to go up against my future teammate Blake Thomas and I had him man-to-man the entire game. Although we lost 51-13 to St. Ignatius on the scoreboard, we learn a lot about ourselves.

Game 3 we went up against Benedictine. They're a really good program and are having a great season thus far. They were 2-0 when we played them and they use our field for their home games. It quickly became, “The Battle of the Field’. We wanted to prove to them that, although they may use our field, it still has “Bedford Bearcats†written all over it. That week I had another big physical receiver I had to go up against in Mike Roberts , who I also had man-to-man all game. We lost that game 27-19, unfortunately, but what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger.

Game 4 we had Shaker Heights. I’ve lost to Shaker every time I’ve played them in football, so it was personal for me. Plus if you follow me on “Twitter†you would have seen that one of their players was talking trash to me so that week I had extra motivation to work even harder. We beat the “Red Raiders†32-14 but it was a tough game. They're a very good team.

Game 5 we played Warren Harding, which is a great program because they had some great players come out of that program and do some great things on the field for Ohio State. That week we lost our starting Quarterback due to family issues. I really wanted to win that game for him. It was Warren Harding’s Homecoming, and so we felt we had to ruin it! To me that was the best game of the season for us. We had to battle adversity the whole game. We were down 7-6 the entire game, our punter wasn’t punting that well, the offense wasn’t really moving the ball that well, and on top of all that my foot was hurting. But I really wanted to win the game for my teammate so I chose to stay in the game and fight the pain in my foot because I know he would’ve done the same thing for me. We end up scoring with 13 seconds left in the game and eventually winning 12-7. That probably will be the most memorable game of the season.

Game 6 we played Warrensville who is a very athletic program. Again it was their “Homecoming†and again the players on the team was talking trash online. I was hurt that week due to my foot so I couldn’t play. But I did stand on the sideline and cheer my team on as they played in the “Mud Bowl†beating Warrensville 20-6.

Game 7 we played Lorain who is also a very good program. They have the coach from Twinsburg who’s team went to the playoffs for many seasons. Lorain was a “Must Win†game for us if we wanted to keep our spot in the playoffs. I knew I had to play. At first my team was telling me “Its okay Tyvis, we got it. We just want you to be 100%â€, but I couldn’t just sit out of the most important game of the season. So I sucked up the pain again and played. We were down 21-0 at halftime, I was so upset because I knew we were so much better than that. I gave my team a speech at halftime and we came out and score 20 points straight. We were back in the game. Unfortunately we couldn’t find another way to score and we came up short, 23-20.

Game 8 was homecoming for us. We had Shaw who has always been a great team. They always have some great athletes. We knew that they were here to ruin our homecoming. We haven’t beaten Shaw in like 5 years and we wanted to end that streak. That game was huge because we had some little kids from the elementary school come and we walked on the field with them and we wanted to win the game for them. We fought hard but Shaw defeated us 27-13.

This week we have our rivals and defending DII state champions Maple Heights. They are having a great season at 8-0 and they're full of confidence.

Although we've lost some games on the scoreboard, we won because we were able to learn from our mistakes which has made us better players. I truly believe you learn a lot more from losing than you do winning. As long as you learn from your mistakes and try to never repeat the same mistake twice then, in my eyes, you are a WINNER.


Until next week BUCKEYE NATION! GO BUCKS!

-Tyvis

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Bedford's Tyvis Powell finds football success through the value of hard practice work
Published: Monday, October 24, 2011
By Tom Reed, The Plain Dealer


Scott Shaw, The Plain Dealer

BEDFORD, Ohio -- Up before the sun, Tyvis Powell wiped the sleep from his eyes and walked several blocks to Bedford's football field, where starting in March he flipped tractor tires like they were sausage patties at a breakfast diner.

He turned over 250 pounds of steel-belted rubber, hopped inside the hollowed-out core to spell T-Y with his arms before running around the tire. He repeated the agonizing exercise for 100 yards while most fellow students were still in dreamland. Powell was placing his faith in a coach he had met only a year earlier, a man who was either going to drive him to quit the game or transform him into a mentally tough college recruit.

The Karate Kid had Mr. Miyagi, Rocky Balboa had Mickey and Tyvis Powell had Sean Williams.

"Some of the stuff Coach wanted me to do I thought was craaaa-zy," Powell said. "I can remember him telling me when we started, 'I'm gonna make you quit within two weeks,' He just kept pushing."

Williams has helped turn a defensive back who hadn't received a letter from any colleges at this time a year ago into an Ohio State recruit who he says "is the antidote for 6-foot-4 wide receivers."

The kid without a father and the coach without a child have made for a compelling duo.

"It was an eight-month process of the hardest work a kid could put in," said Williams, the second-year Bearcats coach. "Tyvis' body was shot and his mind was warped, but I wanted to see if he could handle it."

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