I’m one of the coaches at the BYU Tennis Sports camps. We get close to 120 kids every week, which is pretty awesome.

This last week, we had a little 12 year old who was beating up on a lot of the older kids.
At the end of the week, we match up kids with their level of skill and they play a tournament against other kids of their skill level.
This 12 year old kid ended up winning his tournament. When you win the tourbament, you get to come up in front of the camp at the end and accept a trophy.

Anyways, I noticed this kid had U of U socks on. I told him that if he wanted to come up and get his trophy, he would have to remove his socks.
He thought I was joking, which I was, but kept teasing him saying that if I was at a Ute camp they wouldn’t let me wear my BYU gear up to the front.

Fast forward to the end of the story, the kid came up to accept his trophy and new BYU tennis champion shirt, sock less. Only had on his tennis shoes. Glad he was able to feel a little of the light. Hopefully he comes back to the good side by the time he’s older.

PSA (no children’s feelings were hurt during this story, nor were any families torn apart with scars of hatred towards BYU and the awfulness that goes on at a BYU tennis camp)