Issue date: 10/26/07 Section: Sports

The coaches had seen most of the players all summer and Daughton had to come out hard if he wanted to get on the coaches' radar.
"From the beginning I had to prove a point because I was so late," Daughton said of joining the team. "Told coach I would work really hard and he gave me the opportunity."
The drive Daughton brought to those first practices put him on the coaches' radar. His all out attitude during practices showed the coaches he was ready to play and could handle a starting job and that is just what he got.
"He's given the coaches everything we want from him," coach Lawrence Aguiar said. "Game time, practice time and in the class room for film analysis. He gives us what we want."
Daughton wasn't born with that all out attitude in his soccer career.
In his early years Daughton didn't want to be on the field, refusing to run around the field if his parents weren't there with him. Now, no parents are needed from Daughton to take the ball to the net.
"I remember when I was three-years-old and my parents took me to some kind of soccer team with a Nerf ball soccer ball," Daughton said. "I remember the only way I would run on the field was if my parents would run along the sidelines with me and I'd cry if they weren't there. Now my parents make fun of me because I am running up the field running people over."
Daughton started his career off refusing to run up and down the field without his parents besides him.
Now, with no parents in sight, Daughton will push his opponents around hoping to get the wins he got so accustomed to in his high school days. Hawk's soccer wasn't part of Daughton's plans, but it's giving him a way to forget about those plans that didn't work out.

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