📝 First and 17 - documentary on recruitment of Da'Shawn Hand

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I remember seeing a couple of these on the Washington Post website in the form of episodes. Don't think I watched them all.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/firstand17/2013/08/30/episode-1-a-tough-start/

Looks like they've put them all into a single documentary and entered it into the AFI DOCS.

http://www.afi.com/afidocs/features.aspx#first-and-17

In 2013 Da’Shawn Hand, a star defensive lineman at his Woodbridge, Virginia high school, was the top-ranked football recruit in America. Aggressively pursued by every top football college in the country, Hand must navigate the intricacies of pressures, emotions and drama facing him as a high school senior trying to graduate while making one of the most important decisions of his life. With scholarship offers from more than 90 schools, Hand faces the prospects of his future as Decision Day looms.

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