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TJ Session, OL: TJ Session's summer may not have changed on the first day of Montana State's football workouts in June, but its meaning did. After starter Connor Wood's transfer andJacob Kettels suffered an injury on the first day of summer workouts, Session – who has also battled injuries during his two years at Montana State – became the most likely candidate to compete for a starting spot at tackle, opposite Lewis Kidd. At the bottom is a quick story on TJ from msubobcats.com on Veteran's Day 2020.
Spotlight – Mike Person: There are your average, run-of-the-mill days. There are good days. And then there are days like the one Mike Person enjoyed on April 30, 2011. Late that afternoon, with his father Jim, the unassuming Glendive product watched the San Francisco 49ers select him in the seventh round of the NFL Draft. A few hours later, he became the first Bobcat in nearly a decade to win the Montana AAU Little Sullivan Award as the state's top amateur male athlete. For the next seven seasons Person lived his dream by playing in the NFL, and he enters 2018 back with the team that drafted him. All of this comes on the heels of one of the finest playing careers in Bobcat football history. Person started his last 40 games as a Bobcat, earning First Team All-Big Sky honors twice and becoming a consensus All-America as a senior. A team captain his senior season, Person's unrelenting intensity and passion helped spur the team to that 2010 conference championship.
Chronology: Arjay Godston (1956), Bob Ernst (1957), Kenneth Young (1959), Ken Young (1960-61), Bob Hampton (1964), Dave Simpson (1965-66), Alan Wilson (1969), Dan Archer (1970), Pat Boyd (1971), Dan Finley (1973), Erik Sirs (1974-75), Chris Jensen (1976), Bob Balzer (1977-79), Steve Cornellier (1980-84), Greg Gammon (1985), Bill Wemple (1986), Travis Annette (1987-91), Monty Wilson (1992-96), Paul Diercks (1997-2001), Garin Brewton (2002-04), Mike Person (2006-10), Stephen Memory (2011), Charles Lee (2012-13), Colin Hammock (2015-18), TJ Session (2019-).
Every Day is Veteran's Day for MSU Offensive Lineman TJ Session
BOZEMAN, Montana – Jeff Choate noticed it right away.
During one of the Montana State football team's Wednesday morning sessions with Phil Kornachuk's Lead 406 at the Hyalite Reservoir just south of Bozeman, Bobcat players were tasked with different activities. One involved entering the water, and TJ Session caught Choate's eye immediately because he stripped off his outer clothing layers so they wouldn't weigh him down, even in the frigid early-morning water.
"I can tell you're a military kid," Choate (MSU's head coach at the time) told Session later, a nod from one person raised in a military family to another.
Both Choate's mother and father, along with his stepfather, served in the military, so Montana State's fifth-year head football coach has a keen eye for military-bred discipline and savvy. It was easy for him to spot in Session. "It's easy to see he was raised to be respectful and disciplined," Choate said.
Session's father Anthony retired as a Marine drill sergeant, while his mother Tina was a Naval officer. Both served for 20-plus years. He also has two older sisters currently serving, one in the Navy and one in the Air Force.
"My parents really taught me respect, yes sir no sir, yes ma'am no ma'am," he said. "My house is organized at home, everything is to the spot. With my parents being in the military everything has to be nice, tidy and fit."
While Session said there wasn't a lot of yelling or overt discipline in his father's parenting style – "He's a 6-7, buffed version of me," TJ says with a laugh – there was structure and an emphasis on remaining organized. "Having to stay on a schedule, following the script, waking up at six in the morning and we're going to do this, then when you get home from school and you're going to do your homework and then we'll do something else."
Choate's takeaway from being raised in a military family is similar. "There was discipline that was present," he said, "but it really centered on doing what needed to be done. The routine was the routine."
The Session family's day starts early. "I feel like they helped me to be organized and respectful, and on the physical side they have me up at a certain time every single morning working out with them. My dad is about to turn 60 and he works out every morning, and my mom, too."
Session said the structure of a Division I football program was not much of an adjustment at all, given his upbringing. "They have a plan, I'd say a military-type plan," Session said, indicating that his mother once earned a track and field scholarship from Oregon. "I wouldn't say they're very strict, but they have a plan and morals for me to fulfill."
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