Lot: at only 16 years old, Sami returned to the University of Toulouse
Sami Damoizet-El Hamli has just returned to STAPS in Toulouse, at Paul-Sabatier University. At only 16 years old, the Lotois was detected as a student with very high potential.
At 16, his classmates are still in high school, trying to take the early exams for the baccalaureate. Sami Damoizet-El Hamli, he has just joined the benches of the university. However, nothing predestined the Lotois from Caillac, near Cahors, to return to college so early. Because on his school reports, the marks are correct, but not excellent. ” So I didn’t have very good grades, in reality, what helped me above all was that I was gifted. Gifted because I was doing the minimum, I’m not going to lie, I didn’t never trodden and I was doing pretty well”, admits the student. In CE1, his institute detects the potential and offers his parents to make him skip a class. “At that time, I did not understand what it implied but my mother, she pushed me to move forward, she explained to me that I had capacities to exploit and that I risked otherwise to be bored in class”, says the Lotois. Do not act. Psychiatrists speak of a child with very high potential.
Whether his parents and his teachers like it, Sami averages around 16 at the Saint-Etienne college in Cahors, without forcing it. “What was planned for me was to have time aside to invest myself in arbitration”, underlines Sami. Because in his spare time, the youngster is a football league referee. Decidedly precocious, he even obtained his first referee license in 2013 as a “very young trainee Lot District referee”.
No more room and board with mom and dad
At Clément-Marot high school, always with the same method, he posted an average of 14 and ended up getting his baccalaureate with honors last June. “From the start of high school, I knew that I wanted to work in the world of sport, on Parcousup, I made two wishes: the STAPS (Sciences and techniques of physical and sports activities) of Toulouse and Brive”, he explains. Sami is taken in both universities, he prefers Paul-Sabatier University in Toulouse.
This is how he finds himself since Monday on the benches of the university at 16 years old. “I was born in November and I’ve always had an age difference with my friends who are between 18 and 21,” he notes. No more room and board with mom and dad. The Lotois discovers the Rangueil university studio and the art of “doing it yourself”: “I change my life, I prepare my meals, I do the cleaning, the shopping…”. A few days before the start of the school year, Sami worries: “I imagined that the university would be very big, I was afraid of getting lost”. And then, on Monday, the university was very big but he didn’t get lost. “I felt in my place,” he slips. Sami is sure of it: he wants to become a referee. And the least we can say is that he is on the right track.