Friday, May 08, 2009

Familiar Name Heading To Hanover

If lineage means anything, Dartmouth football is adding a good one in Joe Marek, a 6-foot-4, 245-pound lineman from Cretin-Derham Hall in St. Paul, Minn. Marek is the son of former Buddy Teevens teammate Tom Marek '81, a three-year letterwinner at offensive guard and winner of the school's 1980 Manners Makyth Man Award.

As a Cretin-Derham Hall product, the younger Marek follows in the footsteps of 2000 Heisman Trophy winner Chris Weinke, former NFL quarterback Steve Walsh, Harvard grad and All-Pro center Matt Birk, and Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer.

Mauer, by the way, was the 2000 Rivals.com football prospect of the year as a Cretin-Derham quarterback and he's not the only Raiders player to be so-recognized. Marek's teammate, 6-8, 315 center Seantrel Henderson is recognized as the No. 1 prospect in the high school class of 2010 according to Rivals.com.

Henderson's head shot and bio are on this page, where if you skip down one player you'll find a bio and headshot of incoming Dartmouth offensive lineman Rob Bathe of Wayzata.

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