For a video interview with Furey from a year ago, click here.
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It's a good indication of the caliber of player you are recruiting when a rising high school senior's three football camps so far are two Big Ten schools and Dartmouth. A Chicago Sun publication includes a note about a linebacker who has camped at Illinois, Indiana and Dartmouth. (LINK)
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A Vancouver Sun story under the headline, Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson and the business of football references his upbringing and how it helped get him where he is today. (LINK) From the story:His dad, Harrison Wilson III, played two sports at Dartmouth, went to law school at the University of Virginia and was nicknamed The Professor by the San Diego Chargers when he tried out for the NFL team.
When Wilson’s dad died from complications of diabetes, his uncle, Benjamin Wilson, became more important in his sprawling familial support system. Ben Wilson, who attended Harvard Law School after Dartmouth, is a prominent environmental lawyer, managing principal of Beveridge & Diamond in Washington, D.C.And then this from Art Thiel, a Seattle sportswriter writing a book on Wilson:
“He comes from a very bright family … very polished and sophisticated public figures. It was easy for Russell to pick up role models because he’s been around successful people all his life.”The Vancouver Sun story mentions that one of the Seahawk players who will be working Wilson's camp is Cornell grad Bryan Walters.
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Speaking of quarterbacks, the Long Island Exchange has a blurb about former Dartmouth and Miami Dolphins quarterback Jay Fiedler making an appearance at a middle school. (LINK)Fiedler is a full-time director of the The Sports Academy at Brookwood Camps, a family business. Check out his Brookwood bio here. Jay is briefly featured in a Brookwood Camp video starting here.
