== Eric Perkins ==was born in 1992 and is the ranked 15th in the world in sporting clays. He grew up in a town called whitesboro in Northern Texas, then moved to a town called Graham in 2005. He played Football, Basketball, baseball, Track, and golf in his 8th grade year. As he went into his freshman year he still played football under head coach Brad Mccoy, Perkins was the starting Defensive End for the freshman team, along side his good friend Jordan Dies, he didnt play much offense until his sophmore year. As Basketball season came around he didnt get to play much because the coach already had his heart set on who he would play and no matter how hard he worked the coach wouldnt let him play. So Perkins road the bench the entire basketball season and might have played 7 minutes his whole freshman basketball carrer. As Track Season came Perkins was triple Jumping 38 feet but had gotten hurt in a relay and had a horrible hip flexor wich took him out of the entire track season. Perkins was never able to regain the 38 feet he jumped as a freshman but someday he will.

Perkins started to realize how to work hard in the weight room and get stronger and faster as a sophmore. As Perkins' sophmore year was coming up he had been working out all summer long and put on 15 pounds of muscle and became the Starting Left Wide Reciever for Graham's Juniour Varsity. Perkins started everygame that season and graham's Junior Varsity only lost 1 game. That same football season Graham's Varsity went to the playoffs and Perkins along with some of the other junior varsity players got moved up to play on varsity. Graham was beaten in the Second round by Argyle.

Perkins decided not to play basketball his sophmore year because of how the coaches played their players, so instead perkins hit the weight room the entire basketball season.

SPORTING CLAYS: Perkins had been shooting sporting clays for a good 4 years and decided to attend, along with his father, The Sporting Clays World Championship. Eric's Father Rick previously attended the world championship and had became the 7th best shooter in the world, but this year Eric was ready to compete in the championship. Eric had an unbelievable first day and was sitting in 5th at the end of day 1. As day 2 came around he had gotten really nervous and a big head and thought it would be easy and choked. But Perkins did end up finishing 15th in the world. Perkins had previously attended The Texas State Shoot and was in 1st place after day 1 and then on day 2 shot the worst round of his life and dropped all the way down close to last place, because of his big head. He should have learned from this previous mistake.

Perkins then moved back to Whitesboro in April of 2008 and then went to florida with his good friend Spencer Sims from graham, They stayed in Florida for a week and messed around. When Perkins returned to whitesboro he attended every summer workout and played in a 7 on 7 football league. Perkins is playing football for whitesboro and is currently in 2-A-days. His Junior Year is coming up and he really needs to focus on his grades so he can get into a good college, Perkins would love to go to Texas A+M University.