When the season is on, his job as a safety is to stymie any opposing success in his secondary, and when given the chance, to hit people hard enough to separate the ball from their body. It's football and he's good at it, but it's a far cry from what Raider Damuni did this summer to prepare for his last blast at BYU.
"We just got back," the senior told the "Y's Guys" livestream show this week about a trip to Tonga with a few of his teammates and head coach Kalani Sitake. While there, in addition to staging a football camp and a fireside, they advanced the mission of BYU-Pathway Worldwide throughout the island nation.
"When we play, we represent not just the people in Provo and Utah, but we represent the church and our faith and our faith is worldwide," Damuni said. "So being able to have that impact on people with the platform that we have as football players at BYU, that is why we want to go out and reach out to people, not just in the United States, but worldwide."
In partnership with the We Are One Foundation, headed by former Cougars Isaiah Kaufusi and Connor Pay with BYU head coach Kalani Sitake as chair of the board, Tonga has a new employment center to ****** ist BYU-Pathway Worldwide graduates find work.
"I've seen it firsthand with my own family," Damuni said. "I've had family members who went through the BYU-Pathway program who didn't go to college out of high school, but they were able to do that and now they are thriving in their lives. They have jobs. I think that is the vision."

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