Dowling begins Vanderbilt football career with spring practice

Sean Dowling isn’t an athlete who lost interest in school after he closed out his high school football career. The reason he hasn’t been at Fallbrook High School since December is that he enrolled at Vanderbilt University a semester early.

Dowling has a football scholarship at Vanderbilt, which he has been attending since January. The Commodores began spring football practice on March 15, and Dowling has been participating with the team.

“It’s going pretty well,” Dowling said.

“As excited as we were when he enrolled here at the beginning of January, we’re even more excited now,” said Vanderbil...