DALTON, Ga. — Tre Beck may have lost most of his senior season to a leg injury, but the Dalton senior running back may have found a career.
Beck returned to action last week in Dalton’s 21-14 win at Cartersville, breaking off an 80-yard touchdown run to help the Catamounts earn a berth in the Class AAA playoffs. During his eight-week absence from the backfield, Beck learned. Then he taught.
Though he still has a bit of playing to do, beginning tonight at Region 8 champion Gainesville (9-1), at least one person believes a future coach was born.
“No one can even really conceive how hard he’s worked off the field to get back with his team,” Dalton coach Matt Land said. “While he was out, he was helping our backs and learning the other positions. It was almost like having a graduate assistant. Tre one day will be a coach, there’s no doubt in my mind.”
One of his first pupils is good friend Tre Bonds, who began the season as a receiver, then moved to tailback when Beck broke a leg bone. All the speedy Bonds has done since is rush for 1,400 yards, production that didn’t surprise Beck.