Career cut short, ex-UW football player DeCremer succeeds off the field

To say that Kirk DeCremer was intense as a football player would be an understatement.”I?d always been taught that it?s full-go,” he says. “You get on the field and you turn that on.” Until in the blink of an eye, it was over. The former Verona athlete?s promising career was stopped cold heading into his sophomore season in 2008 when he herniated two discs in his back – the same two that had popped out roughly 16 months earlier in his first year at UW, when he redshirted.