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Athletic victories are great, but the friendship of many is even greater. That is what Davanté Thomas experienced growing up as a Carver kid, and that is the kind of life he leads today.
Since graduating from college about a year and a half ago, Davanté has been working as a Performance Specialist at BlueStreak Sports Training in Stamford. Using scientifically designed methods and sophisticated equipment, Davanté is one of the highly credentialed trainers there helping athletes ranging from elementary school students to professional level adults achieve their maximum athletic potential.
Davanté brought great credit to the Carver community through the years. For example, in this news article, Carver’s late and much beloved basketball coach, Mike McElveen, praised Davanté for playing a “…strong defense down the stretch to help Carver prevail.” The Carver 7th grade boys basketball team stopped Stamford, 67-63, to win the 2010 Fairfield County Basketball League tournament, finishing the season 12-0.
In the class of 2015 at Norwalk High School, Davanté played basketball; competed in the FCIAC Championship games in the Long Jump, Triple Jump and Relay; but mostly he played varsity cornerback for his school football team.
“I was always a student first and an athlete second.” Davanté went on to graduate from Curry College in Massachusetts, with an undergraduate business management degree, with a concentration in sports management. “I believe that the traits I've gained from being a Business Management major at Curry College will truly help me succeed in any position and become a stronger person each day.”
Davanté played varsity football for Curry College each of the four years he studied there. He achieved many feats on the gridiron, such as his impressive number of tackles and his leading the conference in interception yards and interceptions returned for a touchdown.
Davanté continues to run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head, and he offers hard-earned and life-affirming advice to Carver kids today, as well as to his clients at BlueStreak, to strive for excellence.
In business, sport, entertainment and beyond an idea is worth only so much. The energy, effort, passion, talent, tenacity, strategy, resilience and resourcefulness to see it all through and make something of it is worth everything.