Dartmouth-bound Macklin Ayers has been presented with the M&T Bank John Travers Award with the winner selected from among 33 central Pennsylvania high schools for athletic, academic and community achievements. Read the story on the PennLive website HERE.
Here's the bio I've worked up on Ayers for BGA Premium this fall. He is slated to play linebacker in Hanover:
Here's the bio I've worked up on Ayers for BGA Premium this fall. He is slated to play linebacker in Hanover:
Chose Dartmouth over a Preferred Walk-On offer at Penn State. Helped UD to the District 3 Class 2A football title and state quarterfinals as a senior. Broke school’s career records for rushing touchdowns (58), total yards (5,299) and completion percentage (56 percent). Chosen the Tri-Valley League MVP and awarded All-State honors by Pennsylvania sportswriters and Pennsylvania Football News. Posted 56 tackles with six tackles for loss, two sacks and an interception as a junior. Threw for 1,028 yards and nine touchdowns while running for 1,042 yards and 15 scores. Grandfather Mike Botts was a center at Penn State in the early ’70s. Broke 1,000-point mark on basketball court, earning four letters in football, four in basketball and one each in baseball and track and field. Winner of the M&T Bank John Travers Award as one of the top seniors in Central Pennsylvania with regard to excelling as “athletes, students and voices in their community.”
Coach Teevens: He had multiple Ivy offers. JMU, William & Mary. Mom and dad were both athletes, dad a wrestler and mom a 1,000-point basketball player in high school. He’s a hunter who loves the outdoors. He hunts with a musket. He’s a hoop player as well on a good outfit so he’s a two-sport guy. He’s quick and reactive with good size and strength. He has explosive power. We are very excited about him and see him as a leader, a take-charge guy inside."Here's his part of the awards ceremony:
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The Stripe Hype, Fansided's Cincinnati Bengals website, has a story under the headline A dive into the Cincinnati Bengals’ undrafted free agent class that includes a look at Dartmouth's Isiah Swann. Part of what it says about the former Big Green corner (LINK):
It’s difficult to tell just how athletic Swann is because he wasn’t invited to the combine and he didn’t get the opportunity for a pro day. Without those numbers, any guess on his likelihood of making it in the Queen City is largely speculation.
Still, he’s an extremely smart football player and has incredible production, albeit at the FCS level. He’s a dark horse and someone Bengals fans should keep an eye on.
Green Alert Take: I don't know about you, but I'm so, so tired of reading about Ivy League players being "extremely smart" with athleticism that is unknown.
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In his bi-weekly presser on Tuesday Delaware governor John Carney '78 spoke about the possibility of NASCAR returning to his state in August and about potentially serving as a training camp site for the Philadelphia Eagles and 76ers. A story out of the press conference on the WDEL radio station website (LINK) also included this:
Carney earned All-Ivy League honors at Dartmouth and coached freshman football at the University of Delaware, but openly wondered how the traditional fall Saturday in Newark could be accomplished safely.
"The idea that somehow as governor because of something that I ordered we wouldn't have a Blue Hen football season makes me unhappy, but it is difficult to imagine how that might take place in a 20,000 seat stadium a couple months from now."
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EXTRA POINT
Maybe it was a clear, blue skies and near 80-degree temperature the past couple of days but I've noticed something I had rarely seen in the past couple of months: contrails. Perhaps I just hadn't paid attention before, but there was something reassuring at looking up in the sky and seeing jets passing over.
Speaking of which, the Vermont Air National Guard is doing an F-35 flyover here today to honor healthcare and essential workers. If you are in Hanover at 12:41 look to the sky over the Connecticut River as the jets fly over the VA hospital in White River Junction.
