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athlete of the week
10 Questions
with Artie Collins
The Loyola graduate will
play college football next
season at Johns Hopkins
University.
When did you first
start playing football?
So my first game of
tackle football was in fifth
grade, but I started playing
football, like flag, all
the way back in I would
say kindergarten. My dad
is a huge football guy, he
grew up in Florida, so he
lives and breathes football,
so he just passed that along
to me, and I loved it ever
since.
What’s one thing
people don’t know
about you?
I’m the fourth of my
name, so I’m the fourth
Artie Collins, the fourth
generation Artie Collins.
If you could travel
anywhere in the
world, where would
it be?
I would say Africa on a
safari, because I’ve always
interested in exotic animals,
and I feel like that’d
be the coolest thing.
If you cold have one
meal for the rest of
your life, what would
it be, and where
would it be from?
I would say the Portillo’s
Italian beef.
Do you have any
superstitions before,
during, or after a
game?
Yeah. So me, Rory
Boos, Nolan West, and
Jack Fallon, so three of
my teammates, we have a
team dinner every Friday,
and we had this whole routine
in our car about where
we sat, and what music we
played before going to every
team dinner, and it was
a huge deal, and that was
our superstition. We had to
do it right every time.
What’s the hardest
part about playing
football?
The summer grind. Just
to practice everyday in the
heat.
If you could play
another sport, what
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would it be?
I would play baseball,
because I quit baseball going
into junior year to focus
on football, but I love
playing it still.
What’s one song
that’s on your
playlist?
Our song for the car ride
was “Swag Surfin.”
If you had five dollars
at Walgreens, what
would you buy?
I’d buy some Sour Patch
Kids and a Gatorade.
What was your
favorite memory at
Loyola?
Definitely winning the
state championship.
Interview by Sports Editor
Michael Wojtychiw
The Varsity: North Shore Podcast
Guys start talk of bracket for best current player
Staff Report
In this week’s episode
of The Varsity: North
Shore, the only podcast
focused on North Shore
sports, hosts Michal
Dwojak, Michael Wojtychiw
and Nick Frazier do
something different. With
the summer taking its full
effect in July, the guys
decide to make a bracket
of the best current North
Shore athletes competing
at the professional level.
The guys spend this episode
talking about talking
about who should
enter the 16-team field
and which seeding they
should receive.
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more than 1,800 athletes
and 417 entries representing
151 teams from around
the country. Rowers competed
in bright sunshine
and temperatures in the
high 80s.
New Trier had five boats
competing, qualifying by
winning gold medals at
their regional qualifier, the
Midwest Scholastic Rowing
Championships.
Lightweight girls coach
Sandy Culver knew her
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First Quarter
The three start off the
episode talking about who
will enter as the teams
overall No. 1 seed and
who barely makes it into
the dance.
Second Quarter
The guys move on to
the second quarter of the
bracket, where they argue
who should be considered
backs. So all that, just from
knowing each other, and
playing with each other for
so long.”
Collins played on the
varsity squad the last two
years and was moved up
to the varsity for the playoffs
his sophomore season,
so he’s been a member of
three consecutive statechampionship
appearances,
including this past
fall’s state title team.
After starting the season
3-3, the Ramblers rattled
off eight wins in a row to
end the season as champions,
knocking off Maine
South and Lincoln-Way
East, the two teams who
had beaten the Ramblers
in the previous two state
titles games, as well as
Brother Rice, who had
crew had a shot at a medal
when the rowers posted the
fastest time in the time trials
on the first day of racing.
Culver called the result,
achieved by four sophomore
rowers and one junior, “a remarkable
accomplishment
for such a young crew.”
The sole junior in the
boat, Diana Paduraru-
Iovaanescu, said, “Every
single girl in my boat had
the same priorities: to go
fast and be the absolute
best we could be. I have
never been part of a crew
that has been so serious
the second-best.
Third Quarter
They move on to the
third quarter of the bracket,
where they’ll find the hardest
matchups will show up.
Fourth Quarter
The Varsity’s hosts finish
the bracket off with
the last portion and decide
who the last No. 1 seed
should be.
beat the Ramblers in the
regular season, in the last
three playoff rounds.
Being able to defeat
those three teams consecutively
made the title win
even sweeter.
“It was just a dream
come true,” he said. “Completing
with all my best
friends, and just having a
storybook ending like that
was just ... I couldn’t explain
it in words.”
and mature but also has
such fun-loving energy.”
She praised Coach Sandy
Culver “for believing in us
and guiding us every day.”
Boys coach Nate Kelp-
Lenane praised his varsity
and lightweight crews, noting
that the Varsity 8+ boat
missed qualifying for the
Grand Finals by a mere 0.2
seconds over 2,000 meters.
“I was happy to see them
winning the B finals ahead
of Cincinnati Juniors and
Newport, two power house
clubs that we have never
beat in the spring.”