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Texas DB Jarmarquis Durst is a Big 12 Champion For Life after overcoming adversity

Surely, Texas Longhorns senior defensive back Jarmarquis Durst never really expected to be here, but he did believe it was possible. And, sometimes, for certain special people, that matters so much more than the odds.

As the second youngest of 11 siblings growing up in Conroe, Durst saw and heard too much, too early, but the desire to keep the circumstances of his childhood from defining who he was and what he could become spurred him to overcome.