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38 | October 11, 2018 | The wilmette beacon sports
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Northshore Trevians experience program first
Michael Wojtychiw
Sports Editor
As the number of kids
playing tackle football
drops in the United States,
one thing that is actually
on the rise is the number
of girls playing youth
football.
According to the Sports
and Fitness Industry Association,
while girls make
up less than 10 percent of
all youth football players
across the United States,
more girls are playing
than ever before.
Included in that number
are two girls, Maeve
Kelly and Madeline Tarr,
who are members of the
Northshore Trevians
football program. Kelly,
a Wilmette Junior High
student, is a member of
the Varsity White squad,
the program’s team for
players who are in junior
high, while Tarr, a thirdgrader
at Harper Elementary
School in Wilmette,
is on the Bantam team, a
squad made up of second
to fourth graders.
The 2018 football season
marks Tarr’s first year
in the program, while
Kelly has played since
fourth grade. While she’s
been in the program for
four years, the Northshore
Trevians program is a new
relatively new, one that
is a combination of the
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Maeve Kelly runs with the ball during a Northshore
Trevians game.
Northshore Griffins and
Junior Trevians programs.
“I always liked hitting,
like, tackling people and
stuff, and my brothers always
played,” Kelly said.
“So I always wanted to try
it.”
Tarr, coincidentally, had
Maddie Tarr (right middle), blocks an opponent during a game for the Northshore
Trevians this season. Photos submitted
a similar response.
“My brother played
and I thought it would
be really cool if I played,
too,” she added. “Plus, I
just like tackling people
because it’s better to get
your anger out on the
field.”
Dominating the
competition
Kelly, who dreams of
playing for New Trier
next season, is one of the
best players on the varsity
squad. And it hasn’t been
just this year that Kelly
has been successful on the
gridiron; she’s been one of
the best players since she
started the game.
Kelly, who plays on
both the offensive and
defensive lines and in the
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