When you read Chris McLaurin’s background, he looks like Superman.  Chris was a member of the University Of Michigan’s football team before sustaining an a shoulder injury that required surgery.  He reached a cross-roads; further risk potentially life changing shoulder injuries and continue playing football, or refocus on his studies.  He choose the latter and has not stopped since.

 

After graduating from Michigan (with honors, no big deal), Chris was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship and spent time in Johannesburg, South Africa where he worked with new college students (many of them orphaned and/or from impoverished areas).  While in Johannesburg, Chris conducted a study by the United Nations and Harvard Law School investigating the protest of community protestors against a prepaid water meter system that failed to meet the needs of poor families.

 

After South Africa, Chris earned a master’s degree in Social Policy and Planning at the London School of Economics.  After he returned to the good old USA after London (this is 2010 now), Chris had an internship with the White House Domestic Policy Council we he addressed issues of work force development, poverty, child nutrition, and civil rights. 

 

Which finally brings us to the present: Chris moved to Chongqing, China as part of an American-Asian exchange program.  Of course, since working full-time and learning Mandarin wasn’t enough, Chris met some local Chinese guys who wanted to learn how to play football and started an American football league.  The American Football League of China has a country wide playoff last year with a crowned champion, no surprise, the Chongqing Dockers. 

 

Chris has since moved back to China and will continue to develop the American Football League of China

 

Awesome Article: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117246/chinese-football-my-season-chongqing-dockers

 

Website: http://amflchina.com/