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Despite a modeling career that has him working once a month, give or take, and untold hours spent training and traveling for fights, Domizo managestomaintaingoodgradesin school, and he says academics are more important to him than any of the other stuff.

“I want to go professional, but I want a backup plan. I am going to go to college and do something bigger with my life, he says.

“If my grades start to go down, I just take a little time off fighting.”

Domizooftenworksoutduringthe weekattheDallasJiu-JitsuTexas Gladiators gym in Lake Highlands, where he can be found sparing with owner/ coach Felipe Espinoza, a fellow neighborhood resident who shares Domizo’s loveofMMA.Theformerparamedic fought professionally before buying his own gym, where he helps not just fighters, but also marathoners, cyclists and bodybuilders get in shape.

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Dropkick King

Justin Boyd is not a guy you’d want to fight, or go up against in any sport, for that matter. His hair is a wild shock of dreadlocks; his muscular thighs are as big as watermelons; and his eyes say, “I am here to play, but I will destroy you if necessary.”

The 2003 LHHS grad played football during high school. It wasn’t until his senior year that he discovered rugby. A friend had joined a league and invited him to play.

“It started as almost a joke, like, ‘Aw, rugby, ha, ha’,” Boyd says.

But it didn’t take long for him to become serious about the sport. He played throughout college at Texas A&M and rather quickly gained a reputation and garnered invites to United States national camps. Today he plays for Team USA, where he competes in the world’s biggest rugby tournaments. The required training is tough, Boyd says, noting that in addition to his 9-to-5 job with a company that sells aircraft parts, he works out and/or scrimmages at least twice a day.

“You are playing the best of the best from every country, so you are going to need to do some pretty intense work,” he says. “I used to watch these teams, these athletes, on television, now I’m playing against them. There’s no feeling like putting on that USA jersey and being one of the select 12 to represent your country.”

The rough-and-tumble sport has gained in popularity in the past few years, Boyd says. In fact, last year rugby was approved for a 2016 Olympic sport. Boyd, who will be in his 30s then, says he’ll probably be “to old” to play in the Olympics, but that doesn’t lessen the satisfaction he feels about the decision.

“I am just happy to have been part of the push to get rugby to the Olympics,” says Boyd, whose passion is making the sport bigger and opening it up to new players.

“I want to be able to give back to young people, grow the sport, see kids get college scholarships. This is a great team sport. All the friends I have today are associated with rugby. There’s just nothing like it.”