First Chinese-American NFL Rookie, Ed Wang
Okay, so a TON of press recently has been about Jeremy Lin, but let’s not forget about another Chinese-American athlete breaking barriers: Ed Wang. Chinese-American. Let’s hear the stereotypical guesses: “he must be a punter”, “he must be a kicker”, “he must be a small position”…um…NO!
Ed Wang out of Virginia Tech was taken by the Bills as an OFFENSIVE LINEMAN as the 140th pick overall.
If you look at both Jeremy and Ed though, there is one thing you will see in common: parental support. In Ed’s case, you also have some amazingly athletic parents as well. Both of them were track and field athletes for China in the 1984 Olympics and his younger brother David is at Virginia Tech as a guard. A quote from Ed: “It was cool, but they also pushed me really hard. They expected me to work hard and they wanted me to excel in sports.”
Let’s keep breaking barriers and making progress.
Article here: August 2nd, 2010 admin Posted in Sports | Comments Off
