BERKELEY — A Cal scholar stole the highlight throughout Cal’s first look on ESPN’s School Gameday.
Rocking black and grey checkered vans sneakers, Daniel Villasenor – a Livermore Excessive alum – received the School GameDay Kicking Contest, knocking in a 33-yard area objective to win the $100,000 prize whereas elevating $600,000 for Hurricane Helene aid.
“It was wonderful,” Villasenor instructed the Bay Space Information Group. “It was simply an unimaginable second. As quickly as I noticed it had an opportunity of going via, I went loopy.”
Villasenor missed his first try for a $75,000 prize, however present host Pat McAfee, a former kicker himself, gave the civil engineering main a second probability for an excellent massive payout.
The previous highschool soccer participant mentioned he had not kicked footballs from that distance earlier than.
Instantly after Villasenor’s kick went via the uprights, he was mobbed by McAfee and GameDay’s co-host Kirk Herbstreit. The second went viral on social media with Herbstreit’s X submit garnering 1.2 million views as of 11 a.m. Saturday morning.
Daniel Villasenor attended Livermore Excessive College. Previous to this kick, Daniel, a soccer participant, had solely tried a handful of area objectives in his life — by no means from that far.
He’d been on the Glade since 11 PM and was working off no sleep. His solely sustenance was a donut. https://t.co/x4A6xR5zbT
— Justice delos Santos (@justdelossantos) October 5, 2024
