Da’Lyn Allen, or Truck as his teammates call him, is making plays and running while being unable to hear or speak.
Da'Lyn Allen, or Truck as his teammates call him, is making plays and running while being unable to hear or speak.While the Super Bowl is all the talk right now, there’s a football player right here in North Texas is also getting a lot of attention.
He’s excelling on the field even though he can’t hear the game. NBC 5’s Wayne Carter introduces us to a middle school student athlete who dominates on the field while being deaf. Long before sunrise, in the bone-chilling cold, Coach Cedric Clayborn and the Richard Allie Middle School Rams are hard at work. "This is my 10th year coaching, 10th year coaching, and I'm assuming my first ever Deaf student, deaf athlete," said Clayborn. Da'Lyn Allen, or Truck as his teammates call him, is making plays and running while being unable to hear or speak.Cathy Lorenz is Da'Lyn's interpreter. Wherever he goes, so does she as his eyes and ears, whether it's fractions or field goals. "I first heard that there was a new student in football already, and there was a need for an interpreter to interpret football and other classes," said Lorenz.She says she is NOT a football fan. She lives an hour away, but is up in the middle of the night, getting ready to be here in Crowley before dawn for Da'Lyn. "Da'Lyn is a fantastic football player. He's got the Deaf eyes, which allow him to see what's going on," said Lorenz "Early in the morning, she's learning on the fly, like, what's the interception? What's the backup Blitz? Is he going this way? Zone? Coach, what is the truck doing? He's looking for you," said Clayborn."If I'm running around, she's running around if I'm jumping. Open up. She's jumping up because she expresses the excitement or expresses the anger that I have.""I don't have the sugar coat what I want to say to him, I say exactly what I say to everyone else to him, and she translates the message to him. And she doesn't judge when we translate messages," said Clayborn."Because I don't hear, I use my eyes a whole lot more," Da'Lyn told us. "I want to join the NFL someday. And I like defense. I'm really good at that.""They played little league with him, and they were just like, oh, that's truck. They didn't say, Da'Lyn, oh, that's truck. That's truck. He's ready to play. He can play. So they were excited. It wasn't a hard transition," said Clayborn."He's in some really heavy classes, his math class, social studies, the Texas history, those are some pretty dense classes," said Lorenz.Cathy's mom was hard of hearing, she fell in love with a deaf man, and she clearly has devoted herself to making sure this young man gets to do middle school like everyone else. "It's genuine. She does not cry about anything, about it being too hot, about it being too cold, too early, too dark. She comes out and she just amazes us every day, along with Truck," said Clayborn.
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