At the age of 29, James Stefanou decided he wanted to play college football. For the Australian, the time was finally right.
His day job at a real estate development company was no longer challenging him. His professional soccer career had stalled. And as he and his soon-to-be wife, Laura, planned their wedding, he kept thinking he wanted to try something different.
At the same time, he finally listened to two coaches who felt he could blossom into a star—in a sport he knew almost nothing about.
Two years later, Stefanou is a 31-year-old sophomore at Colorado and the football team's starting field-goal kicker.