football season to remember for NC State kicker Brayden Narveson on October 14th, Narveson hit a 57 yard field goal. The longest in Wolfpack football history, plus through ten games. He's a perfect 29 for 29 when it comes to hitting an extra point, Narveson makes kicking football look easy. But that's not the only thing he spends his days kicking diabetes makes playing sports a little bit more difficult. But at the end of the day, you know, the cliche phrase, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Like it really does. During his junior year of high school, Braden Narveson learned that he was a Type one diabetic. So we went to the doctors. So they checked my blood sugar and I was like 700, which just a normal person. Your normal blood sugar is supposed to be about 80 to 120. The first years of navigating T1D were extremely tough. It still is tough. You know, I battled through the you know, quite literally the highs and lows of diabetes having a routine off the field has been key for Narveson success on it. The Wolfpack win it at the horn you know sometimes it's really easy when I get in a routine of eating healthy and doing everything I need to. It gets really easy. But then any moment when I kind of teeter off of it, it gets a little bit more difficult. Narveson wears an omnipod insulin pump daily. NC State's nutrition staff will track his blood sugar levels using a Dexcom reader. This routine allows number 44 to step on the field with no fear of what his blood sugar levels might be. When I'm when I'm between the white lines, there's honestly nothing going through my head except for ball snap balls through the uprights and then celebrate and get off the field. Being a type one diabetic has become a part of the college kicker's identity. I think it's given me a platform I think, you know, college football in itself gives all of us athletes a really, really cool platform to tell our story and to use that story to help other people. And to anybody out there fighting T1D just like Braden, this is his message to you. Doesn't take anything away from you athletically or in the workplace or wherever it may be. It just makes it a little bit more difficult. But, you know, like, like I think about it like that little bit more difficult gives me one an edge to work harder and by me working harder, it gives me an edge on my competition. It's something that you just have to embrace. So really cool for Braden to share his perspective and his story with Type one diabetes and some of the symptoms, he realized he was super healthy, right? He was a high school athlete, always competing, always running around. But he was going to the bathroom a lot. He was losing weight and he kept eating, but he was always hungry. So just little things like that obviously noted that something was wrong. So when he got tested and that happened, it was like, Oh my gosh, yeah. A junior in high school, though. He went his whole life as a type one. That's a long time. So he still learning how obviously to control it and deal with it. But the progress he's made and the support he receives at NC State