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Diabetes Didn\u2019t Stop Grayden Reynolds From Fulfilling His Potential; It\u2019s What Got Him There<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the surface, Grayden Reynolds<\/strong>, a junior on USC\u2019s perennial national championship-contending water polo team, is an enigma. His role on the team is a cross between Tim Riggins<\/strong> and the Dos Equis man. Even before he could legally buy alcohol just one month ago, at 6-3, 250 pounds, with a thick, dark beard and unruly hair, he had an easier time passing for 28 than he did for his true age.<\/p>\n

From Bakersfield, Calif., built more for the defensive line than anything remotely aquatic, living with diabetes and having faced more hardship than the average USC athlete, or USC student in general, Reynolds is an unlikely character to turn out as one of the best water polo players in the nation.<\/p>\n

\"Drive-In\"

Photo Courtesy: Jill Burke<\/p><\/div>\n

Bakersfield is a big, small town. The kind of place that people may leave but often come back to. Think: Pickup trucks, oil rigs and roadside eateries with names like \u201cCountry Boy Drive-In\u201d that sell $3 burgers. Aside from the palm trees sprinkled in, if you were dropped there and told you were in Oklahoma, you\u2019d believe it.<\/p>\n

Bakersfield is often referred to as \u201cNashville West.\u201d It makes sense. It\u2019s the kind of All-American town they write songs about. Reynolds’ favorite spot in town? A semi-abandoned air strip, a slab of pavement that he and his friends frequent for bonfires and dancing after dark. There\u2019s a Jordan Davis song about something just like it.<\/p>\n

The point is that while there are plenty of places in the United States just like Bakersfield, it\u2019s not exactly water polo country.<\/p>\n

Reynolds and his dad joke that the other USC boys played three sports growing up: They surfed, they swam, they played water polo.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not hard to spot the juxtaposition between the teammates who grew up in California\u2019s beach cities, and Reynolds, who grew up in the desert and never had formal swimming training. Other USC water polo players<\/a> drive 4Runners and hand-me-down Land Rovers with surf board tails hanging out the back window. Reynolds drives a little white sedan with two cowboy hats displayed on the back dash.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m from a town where I\u2019m hardly ever in the water,\u201d Reynolds said. \u201cThese guys are in the water 364 days a year because they took a one-day rest to praise the Lord on Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n

He wears cowboy boots unironically to Rock & Reilly\u2019s, a popular USC watering hole across the street from campus in Los Angeles. He has a slight drawl that\u2019s especially noticeable when he speaks of his \u201cdawg,\u201d Indy, named after Indian Motorcycle Company. He served as the TA for USC\u2019s ballroom dancing course. He takes his water polo teammates hunting and has helped many of them purchase their first guns. He sits on the porch of his house near campus in a cowboy hat with a pheasant feather on the brim. Many of his most amusing antics cannot be put in print.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s the friendly giant of the neighborhood, greeting anyone and everyone who walks by. He\u2019s one of those people who is so comfortable being himself that he makes everyone around him feel comfortable enough to be themselves.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s the one his neighbors call when their faucet breaks. He may not know how to fix it or how to build it, but he\u2019ll figure it out. As past coaches have put it, he\u2019s from a white collar family with a blue collar work ethic.<\/p>\n

A self-proclaimed redneck, he certainly seems like one in Los Angeles. But put him in Bakersfield for an afternoon, and there\u2019s something city about him. Not in a tangible way, in a larger-than-life kind of way.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s somewhat of a hometown hero. He teaches dancing lessons, often taking his students out for a night of practice at Buck Owens\u2019 Crystal Palace, a live country music bar. There, a sweet older woman named Rosa swoons over him as Reynolds twirls her around the dance floor. It\u2019s where he met Ty, a 16-year-old who he\u2019s taken under his wing, teaching him things like how to get by in school and to hold the door for his sister.<\/p>\n

Walking through Hodel\u2019s Country Dining, a buffet in Bakersfield that serves fried steak, jello squares, and mayo based salads (\u201cbig people food,\u201d he calls it), all eyes are subtly on him. He walks with a type of confidence that most 21-year-olds don\u2019t have, because most 21-year olds haven\u2019t been through what he\u2019s been through.<\/p>\n

Before he even reached double digits in age, he\u2019d had nose surgery, sustained pneumonia too many times to count and slept on an air mattress in his grandparents\u2019 house for five months following the 2008 recession. Still in elementary school, Reynolds had a benign tumor that covered a quarter of his back. After it was removed in fourth grade, he had a drainage tube attached to his back for four months. Year after year growing up, Reynolds braced himself for the next inevitable health issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone has their thing,\u201d Jill Reynolds<\/strong>, Grayden\u2019s mother said. \u201cHe just has a few things.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Grayden

Photo Courtesy: Jill Reynolds<\/p><\/div>\n

The granddaddy of his extensive list of health complications came just one week before starting fifth grade. On a family backpacking trip, Reynolds could hardly walk after the two mile mark, even after handing off his pack to his dad. After passing out while wakeboarding on the lake the following day, his parents took him to the nearest urgent care, where he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and airlifted to Valley Children’s Hospital in Modera County.<\/p>\n

There, doctors wouldn\u2019t let him sleep for nearly 48 hours. If he\u2019d gone to bed, he likely would have never woken up.<\/p>\n

From then on, Reynolds\u2019 life was never the same. He was in and out of doctors\u2019 offices and had no choice but to overcome his fear of needles to shoot himself with insulin several times per day.<\/p>\n

When asked if growing up in hospitals and doctors\u2019 offices made him sad, Reynolds responded that he was just sad when he couldn\u2019t make it into school for the class Christmas party.<\/p>\n

Rather than feeling sorry for himself, he took his diagnosis in stride, even doing a science fair project on the effects of video games on blood sugar, using himself as his own lab rat. Reynolds laughs as he recalls how in middle school he\u2019d sometimes use \u201cblood sugar issues\u201d as an excuse to get out of class.<\/p>\n

Surprisingly, it wasn\u2019t until after he became diabetic that Reynolds really got into sports, he said. One doctor was particularly inspiring and after telling her that he was interested in sports, she came back to him with about 40 articles about diabetics who play sports collegiately or professionally.<\/p>\n

That lit a fire under him. What many might perceive as a grave disadvantage was actually a huge motivator. Without a diabetes diagnosis, Reynolds would not have been so hell bent on beating the odds. He set his sights on playing water polo at USC, a perennially national championship-contending team.<\/p>\n

Although his high school in Bakersfield didn\u2019t even have a water polo team, Reynolds played on the one club team in the area. He credits making it onto the USC team to his dad, who drove him to every single USC home game, plus plenty of away games, his junior year of high school to get face time with the coaches. Ultimately, USC had room for him in their 2018 recruiting class but not 2019, so Reynolds graduated high school early and came to L.A.<\/p>\n

At practice freshman year, Reynolds\u2019 teammates (some of whom are Olympians) would talk strategy in the pool. When they asked Reynolds what his coaches had taught him growing up, he responded that he\u2019d simply been told \u201cGrayden, put the ball in the f*cking net.\u201d It wasn\u2019t until he got to USC that he learned the technical side of the game. Imagine that. Making it onto one of the best water polo teams in the world, and then learning how to truly play.<\/p>\n

\"Grayden

Photo Courtesy: John McGillen\/USC Athletics<\/p><\/div>\n

But that\u2019s precisely what makes Reynolds great. He is a prime example that you can be successful at something without making it your entire life. In a world that preaches consistency as the driver of all things good, it’s actually inconsistency that has brought him to where he is today. Playing multiple sports, having multiple interests, having multiple interruptions to his playing career due to illness. It makes him unpredictable. Water polo players aren\u2019t used to encountering the force of a football player in the water, nor the brashness and fearlessness of a guy who has been in multiple motorcycle wrecks. He is inconsistent, but intentional in how he goes about life. A delicate balance.<\/p>\n

Last year, Reynolds was sidelined due to concerns from the athletic department surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and his pre-existing medical condition. This summer, Reynolds is back in the practice pool for the first time in over a year. Ready to win his spot back.<\/p>\n

Once again, diabetes held him back, but not for long. And also once again, proving himself not easily defeated will be his biggest motivator.<\/p>\n

The chip on his shoulder that is diabetes has actually propelled Reynolds to where he is now. To anyone who has been diagnosed with diabetes like he was 11 years ago, Reynolds shows that while the disease is a disability, it doesn\u2019t have to be a disadvantage. In fact, quite the opposite.<\/p>\n

Jill Burke is a multimedia journalist who covers sports, travel and lifestyle. She enjoys \u201ctaking the helmet off\u201d of athletes and showing who they are beyond their sport.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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