A senior quarterback and team captain, Cummings is set to join Dartmouth College. His decorated career includes honors such as 3× All-Region, 2× All-Lowcountry, 2× SCFCA All-State, Region 8-5A Player of the Year, and The Post and Courier Player of the Year. He was also selected for the Touchstone Energy Cooperatives North-South All-Star Game. Cummings excels in the classroom with a 4.85 GPA in AP and Honors courses and gives back by mentoring youth athletes and reading to elementary school students.
Per the release, "football excellence" is 40 percent of the criteria in choosing the winner, academic achievement is 30 percent and "character, citizenship and leadership," is also 30 percent. The winner will be announced Thursday.
A dual-threat quarterback, Cummings threw for 2,362 yards while completing 64.7 percent of his attempts last year. He finished with 31 TD passes. He also ran for 528 yards and 14 touchdowns.
Summerville finished 13-1, falling in the 5A-1 state championship game to Dutch Fork, 35-21, after a knee injury forced Cummings out of the game in the first quarter.
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Seth Tow, a former Dartmouth beat writer for the local Valley News, includes this in a story about Indiana University's approach to tackling during the spring (LINK):
Former Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens, who passed away in 2023, pioneered the movement to eliminate tackling in practices. Others around the country took a while to come around, but many programs have followed suit in some degree.
Count Curt Cignetti’s Indiana Hoosiers among those followers. Throughout spring practice, IU is simulating tackling in various ways, without actually tackling each other to the ground. That’s what the team did all throughout last season as well.
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It's behind a paywall, but a story about new Boston Celtics majority owner Bill Chisholm explains how his time playing soccer at Dartmouth under coaching legend Bobby Clark helped shape the kind of team owner he can be expected to be. Find the story HERE.
Green Alert Take: That was a fun story for me because when I worked at Dartmouth the men's soccer program was one of "my" teams, giving me the chance to travel and document their successes while getting to know players mentioned in the story like actor/entrepreneur Andrew Shue, Richie Graham, whose generosity helped bring about Dartmouth's indoor practice facility, and Dr. Tommy Clark, founder of Grassroot Soccer.
