Two Football Warriors Fighting Opponents, Diabetes During Senior Year
High School Sports
October 30, 2026
Two Football Warriors Fighting Opponents, Diabetes During Senior Year
At Oconee County High School, the football team starts practice at 6 a.m. That’s hard enough for any teenager, but it’s an extra challenge for two: Darius Darden and Hatcher Hogan are playing with type 1 diabetes. Darden, now a senior linebacker, was diagnosed in the fourth grade. “I was…