28 | December 27, 2018 | THE WINNETKA CURRENT SPORTS winnetkacurrent.com Dixon’s life experiences help lead way to Tulane MICHAEL WOJTYCHIW Sports Editor Starting at a new school can be a scary experience for any teenager, but Armoni Dixon had more to overcome The Loyola Academy senior football player joined the Boys Hope Girls Hope program when he enrolled to the Wilmette school, but there was a catch: He had to leave his parents at the age of 14 Boys Hope Girls Hope helps academically capable, motivated children in need meet their full potential by providing value-centered, family-like homes during a time when many struggle in their first year away from home For the Dixon family, who live in Chicago, the program helped the family offset the cost of attending Loyola “Looking for scholarships, we saw Girls Hope Boys Hope and we saw that it’ll guarantee the kid back and forward to school, I’ll be fed and we say that opportunity to build my skills to go away for college so we just took our pledge, we applied, and I’ve been here ever since,” Dixon said Being away from home was hard for the lineback- THIS WEEK IN TREVIAN VARSITY ATHLETICS %2