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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 09-04-2015, 08:56 PM:

You can't help but pull for Regie and hope he ends up his career in the NFL.

The only speed that Regie Meant knows on the football field is full steam ahead.

Off the field, it's the gear he has needed his entire life.

A first-generation American who spent his early years in another country, Meant didn't speak English until he started his schooling in the United States and didn't play the sport he loves until an older-than-usual age.

He had to beat the odds time and again to even make it to the University of Kentucky.

Now that he's here, he's not about to let up.

To hear those who know him best tell it, he wouldn't even know how.

Meant was born in Boston to Haitian immigrants and spent his first couple of months there with his mother, who then moved to Florida to try to make a better living while Meant was sent to Haiti to live with his grandmother.

He stayed there until he was ready to begin school, returning to the United States and his mother in Florida. He spoke no English — he'd spent his whole life to that point speaking Creole, and it remained the only language that was used in his new home.

Meant eventually adjusted to the change and started to fit in with his new surroundings.

He wanted to start his football career then, too, but the junior leagues in Florida had weight limits, and Meant — who UK lists at 6-foot-4 and 302 pounds — has always been big for his age.

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