Maci Bookout McKinney and Ryan Edwards’ son, Bentley, is turning 16 later this year. Now, he’s starting to think about what he wants to do after he graduates high school.
During an interview with In Touch, Maci and her husband, Taylor McKinney, opened up about Bentley’s goals for the future. It turns out, he’s already been making tentative plans to continue his education.
Bentley is on his school’s wrestling, baseball, and golf teams, so, unsurprisingly, he’s hoping to play sports after high school. Maci explained he plans to “get an athletic scholarship and possibly an academic scholarship” to cover the costs of college.
She also revealed that Bentley is keeping an open mind about many aspects of college. However, there is one thing he definitely doesn’t want to do. Even though he’s enjoyed being on his high school wrestling team, he apparently has no interest in continuing the sport after graduation.
Maci admitted that Bentley doesn’t want to wrestle in college, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t like the sport anymore. She said that being in wrestling has helped him make improvements in other sports. It has made him better at “being a human being too.”
The University of Tennessee is a Possibility for Bentley
Maci added that the sport Bentley would want to play most after high school is baseball, although “golf would be a very close second.” When it comes to the specific college he hopes to attend, those details are still up in the air.
Taylor mentioned that Bentley has shown a lot of interest in going to the University of Tennessee. Regardless of which campus he would attend, it wouldn’t be too far from Maci and Taylor’s home in Chattanooga. However, Bentley has also been floating around the idea of applying to colleges in different states.
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Maci said that while Bentley has a couple of colleges in mind that “would be a dream” of his to go to, nothing is “set in stone just yet.” She explained that right now, he just wants to go to college and play for one of the school’s sports teams. He’s determined to make it happen, and it sounds like he’s taken high school pretty seriously.
Fortunately, Bentley has proven that he’s a very talented athlete and, so far, he’s done really well in school. Once he decides which colleges to apply to, hopefully, he’ll be accepted into all of them so he can have his pick.
It’s hard to believe that Bentley is already in high school and thinking about his plans for the future. But in just a few years, he’ll be graduating and getting ready to leave for college. We’ll just have to wait and see if he’ll go to a school close to home in Tennessee, or end up leaving the state to follow his college dreams.
