When it seems like you can‘t make all your dreams come true, sometimes you just need to tweak them a bit.

As a boy spending his formative years in Oregon, Jeff Stolzenburg dreamed of playing on a national championship football team at the University of Oregon. After graduating from St. Charles North, he enrolled at Oregon with the goal of walking on to the squad as a wide receiver. Considering that the Ducks have become a perennial national power and are the trendsetters for “cool” among major college football programs, making the team was not going to be easy.

“When I wasn’t given a chance to play football again, I decided to come back home to the place I played all my high school years,” Stolzenburg says.