Tairen Owens and Kevon Seymour have known each other since around the time they were 5 years old.
Owens became interested in sports first, splitting time between football and baseball. Seymour took a little longer to decide which sport he wanted to pursue. But with the encouragement of Owens’ father, Seymour’s mother allowed her son to join the younger Owens on the Pasadena Ponies, the local youth football team.
More than a decade later, both of them sat by their locker stalls earlier this month at Muir High when football Coach Ken Howard came by with another recruitment letter for Owens.
Seymour, also heavily recruited, turned to him and smiled.
“I was like, ‘Remember when we were young and we were just starting off playing football,’” Seymour recalled. “I never expected it to be like this. He was like, ‘I didn’t, either.’”
