UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Natalie Cabinda didn’t want to miss any part of her children’s lives and her youngest, Penn State sophomore linebacker Jason Cabinda, literally kept her running in circles.
Needing to take Jason from practice to practice while Natalie worked two jobs and took care of three children as a single parent, she would jog around the track outside of New Jersey’s Hunterdon Central High School, mixing exercise with keeping an eye on her son’s football practice.
“I still don’t understand how I am here talking to you,” Natalie says with a laugh. “I used to get so exhausted I thought I was going to die.