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Why Oklahoma running back Trey Sermon never had to look far to see how to persevere

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NORMAN — Trey Sermon has a very clear recollection of the day his mom brought home a computer.

He has an even clearer memory of what she did with it.

When the Oklahoma running back was in elementary school, his mom went back to college to work on her bachelor's degree. She could only go one day a week because of work and kids and life, but when the rest of her day was done, she always had all sorts of studying and writing to do.

She worked on that computer late into the night.

“That was kind of a big thing for me,” Sermon said, “just to see her handle multiple things and still take care of us, have a roof over our heads, just doing all that.