Aiden Bulloch, senior at Gardendale High School, is a regional winner in this year’s Bryant-Jordan Foundation Award Scholarship Program’s Achievement category. This award honors senior athletes who have overcome personal adversity to excel.
It was like any ordinary day for a kid in middle school looking forward to the Christmas and New Year holidays. Aiden Bulloch and his classmates needed to make it through the next few days of final exams at the end of the semester before their winter break began.
“That just stopped me; I didn’t talk for the rest of the car ride,” Bulloch said. As with most kids, their father is their rock. Their vision of strength. Bulloch was no different. “I knew heart attacks could be bad,” he said. “But I thought he’ll be all right because he’s a superhero in my eyes.” Bulloch was play-fighting with his dad just the night before he suffered the heart attack. He remembers telling him, “I’m going to get bigger than you one day, and I’m going to win one.” His father responded by telling his son, “Keep dreaming.” He also remembers playing football for his father.
“He pushed through every trial that came his way, and no matter how difficult it was, he would always take away something from it to better him for the next trial,” Brandi Bulloch said. “He learned early on that life is not always fair, and things can change in a second.”“Mom was really big on it. She didn’t want me to quit,” Aiden said. “She told me he would’ve wanted me to keep playing. Even if you don’t want to play, play for him. I was playing for him, but I was mainly playing for my mom.
“I always wanted him to see me play high school football because that was a big thing for us,” Bulloch said. “He always wanted to see me play in high school.”“My mom was one of my biggest fans,” he said. “My mom had the cardboard cutouts of my head. My sister had these buttons she’d wear all the time. They would sit in the same spot every game. I would always look for them in the stands.
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