What higher option to announce a soccer scholarship than with the assistance of well-known Texas Longhorns fan Glen Powell? By some means, head coach Steve Sarkisian made it occur.
Marshall Landwehr, a fifth-year senior linebacker, not too long ago acquired a scholarship throughout a group assembly. Sarkisian received the Twisters star (and Texas alum) Powell to ship the information by way of a video.
“What’s up, Longhorns?” Powell started. “It is Glen Powell, fellow Texas alum. I’ve newfound respect for what it takes to affix a soccer group. It takes grit, it takes grind, and most significantly, it takes coronary heart.
“Marshall, your exhausting work has not gone unnoticed. That is why Texas is providing you with a scholarship,” he mentioned, revealing the massive information, inflicting the assembly to erupt.
The video ended with Sarkisian’s message to Landwehr. “Once we discuss all people on this room has a job within the group, that is the epitome of that, dude,” Sarkisian praised. “I could not be extra fired up for you, man. Congratulations!”
“Y’all are a part of the largest purpose why I present up day-after-day,” Landwehr mentioned of his teammates. “[I’ve] been doing this for 5 years, it would not get previous. Preserve working — that is the dream, man.”
Texas Longhorns soccer fan Glen Powell
Regardless of his rising stardom, Powell has by no means forgotten his roots. He stays an enormous fan of Texas, attending Longhorns video games when he can. He’s up there with Matthew McConaughey as essentially the most outstanding fan of the soccer group. Powell grew up in Texas, and he attended the College of Texas at Austin earlier than leaving earlier than ending his diploma.
His appearing profession started in 2003. He appeared in Spy Children 3-D: Sport Over and an episode of Endurance that yr. Over the subsequent few years, Powell would work steadily, showing in The Wendell Baker Story, Quick Meals Nation, The Darkish Knight Rises, The Expendables 3, Journey Alongside 2, and Hidden Figures.
Powell’s breakthrough got here in 2022 when he starred in Prime Gun: Maverick, which grossed almost $1.5 billion on the field workplace. Earlier that yr, he additionally reunited with Richard Linklater, who directed him in Quick Meals Nation, when he starred in Apollo 10 1/2: A House Age Childhood.
Following his breakthrough, Powell would star in Devotion, Hit Man (which he co-wrote with Linklater), Anybody however You, and Twisters. Anybody however You was successful rom-com with Sydney Sweeney that grossed over $220 million.