Australian punter Mitch Wishnowsky will take to the field for the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LIV, completing a journey that started on the other side of the world.
Word and a small video got back to John Smith and Nathan Chapman, who run the phenomenally successful, Melbourne-based Prokick Australia punting academy."It was like watching a horse trying to kick its way out of a horsebox," Smith said.Wishnowsky was fishing and getting over dengue fever from a Bali trip when Smith called and invited him to join them in Melbourne."He told me then he was going to change my life.
Wishnowsky, despite working at a pub to try to eat and pay off a mortgage in Perth, impressed at Prokick in Melbourne.It still was not an easy path to an elite US university. Wishnowsky's early high school exit meant he had to enrol in California's Santa Barbara City junior college for two years to build up his grades.
He punted at the college for a year and sat out the second to ensure he was academically qualified to accept a scholarship at the University of Utah.
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