Tyrone Crawford: Where a Summer Job Took Him

[TITLE: Tyrone Crawford: Ontario's next Football Star - Toronto, Ontario]

[Televised coverage of Tyrone Crawford making a winning play from a college football game. Voice of the announcer can be heard. Cuts to Tyrone Crawford being interviewed on a football field in Windsor, showing some photographs of him playing football during his school days.]

TYRONE CRAWFORD >> I'm from Windsor, Ontario. I grew up here, got to Boise State University, had a good four years of football with that and now I entered the NFL Draft this year. This could mean playing in the NFL.

[Televised coverage of Tyrone Crawford playing a college football game. Cuts back to Tyrone showing some older photographs of himself.]

TYRONE CRAWFORD >>  This here is our freshman boys football team and I'm right here. [points at himself in a group photograph.]

[Tyrone and his girlfriend walk down a street in Windsor. They are walking to the Border City Boxing Club.]

[TITLE: Summer Jobs for Youth helps young people aged 15 to 18 who live in priority communities to gain workplace skills through summer employment.]

TYRONE CRAWFORD >> We had to provide for ourselves for the little things that we wanted so me and my brother joined the youth program and that struggle turned into where I am now.

TYRONE CRAWFORD >> [in front of boxing club] This is the Border City Boxing Club. This is where I worked and this where it all went down.

[Tyrone Crawford hugging some of the staff on have inside the boxing club.]

TYRONE CRAWFORD >> I got the vacuum out, cleaned the lockers out, put the bag on sometimes and let them take body shots. Seeing what they could do was an eye opener and it made me work a lot harder when it came to football.

[Tyrone speaks with Josh Canty ringside in the boxing club.]

JOSH CANTY - Border City Boxing Club >> Tyrone's one of those kids that a lot of the kids in the neighbourhood look up to.

[Shots of Tyrone playing football from his youth/High School days.]

JOSH CANTY >> He comes from a background that's similar to the kids around here. The summer jobs program allowed them an opportunity to develop their organizational skills, their team work and dedication, being on time and all the life skills involved in running a program.

[Tyrone poses for photographs with some of the people involved in the Boxing Club.]

TYRONE CRAWFORD >> When I went there, just the environment - athletes that really work hard - boxers - I found out they work out really hard. It taught me a lot about working hard, giving back to your community.

[Tyrone tosses around a football with his girlfriend in the park.]

TYRONE CRAWFORD >> I mean that's just something I really take pride it and I carry it on. [about his girlfriend, who just through the ball at him]: She's got a nice little spiral going there. [to camera]: And now I'm in the draft and the rest is history.

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