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28 | July 11, 2019 | The glencoe anchor sports<br />
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Going Places<br />
Collins overcomes odds to play at next level<br />
Michael Wojtychiw<br />
Sports Editor<br />
Artie Collins never really<br />
thought he was going<br />
to play football in college.<br />
After playing on the<br />
Freshman B team, playing<br />
at the next level is something<br />
that didn’t look to be<br />
in the cards.<br />
“During that time, I<br />
definitely didn’t think I<br />
was playing, because ...<br />
there’s few [players] every<br />
year that start on varsity<br />
that were on B team, but<br />
I didn’t know about being<br />
one of them,” Collins said.<br />
“But then by junior year, I<br />
played somewhat, and then<br />
I started getting some looks<br />
going into senior year that<br />
summer, so that started<br />
probably going into senior<br />
year that summer, that I really<br />
started thinking I could<br />
play in college.”<br />
Collins will get that opportunity<br />
now after signing<br />
with Johns Hopkins<br />
University during the<br />
spring signing period.<br />
The Glenview resident<br />
will head to Baltimore<br />
after having a successful<br />
senior season that saw him<br />
earn a spot on the Team 22<br />
Second Team and an All-<br />
Chicago Catholic League<br />
Blue honor this past fall.<br />
One of the likely reasons<br />
for that is that he became<br />
one of quarterback Jack<br />
Fallon’s favorite targets<br />
down the final stretch of<br />
the season.<br />
“It was really nice, because<br />
Jack, when he came<br />
back, his shoulder was still<br />
hurting a little bit, so he<br />
was just trying to get in<br />
a groove with things, but<br />
then once we started clicking<br />
a lot, they were always<br />
looking at Rory (Boos), so<br />
I had to step my game up,”<br />
he said. “He was looking<br />
at me a lot, because<br />
they’d often do a safety<br />
over Rory, or something<br />
like that, so we were trying<br />
to be multidimensional,<br />
Loyola alumnus Artie Collins will be playing college football at Johns Hopkins<br />
University next season. 22nd Century Media File Photo<br />
just have me on one side,<br />
Rory on the other, and just<br />
give both sides ... because<br />
the defense was giving me<br />
more of the opportunity<br />
and we were just making<br />
the most of them.”<br />
Collins, Fallon and Boos<br />
actually have quite the history<br />
as they are three of<br />
over 10 players on this<br />
past year’s Loyola varsity<br />
squad that all played<br />
at Our Lady of Perpetual<br />
Help together since the<br />
fifth grade.<br />
In fact, even when Fallon<br />
was out with his injury<br />
at the beginning of<br />
the year, Collins and Boos<br />
were being fed the ball by<br />
another one of their grade<br />
school teammates, Matthew<br />
Schiltz.<br />
Having that history and<br />
that comfort with each<br />
other is something Collins<br />
feels helped not only him,<br />
but the entire squad this<br />
season.<br />
“So it did help a lot, especially<br />
with me personally,<br />
because Jack Fallon<br />
and Matt Schiltz, who<br />
were our two quarterbacks<br />
this year, were both<br />
from OLPH, so I knew<br />
them since I was like six,<br />
and then Rory Boos is the<br />
other receiver going to college.<br />
I’ve known him since<br />
I was like three,” Collins<br />
said. “It’s really cool just<br />
chemistry-wise, while<br />
playing football, but also<br />
I could hold them accountable,<br />
and we could correct<br />
each other, and do all that,<br />
without getting mad. We<br />
knew we had each other’s<br />
Please see collins, 27<br />
New Trier crews shine at U.S. Rowing Youth National Championships Regatta<br />
Submitted by New Trier<br />
Rowing<br />
New Trier rowers made<br />
their mark on the national<br />
stage at the 2019 US<br />
Rowing Youth National<br />
Championships June 6-9<br />
at Nathan Benderson Park<br />
in Sarasota-Bradenton,<br />
Florida.<br />
The New Trier Women’s<br />
Lightweight 4+ crew took<br />
a third-place medal in their<br />
A final event, while New<br />
Trier’s Men’s Varsity 8+<br />
finished first place in the B<br />
final. It was the third year<br />
in a row a New Trier women’s<br />
lightweight boat competed<br />
in the A final, the<br />
Men’s Varsity 8+ wins first place in B-Final. Photos submitted<br />
fourth year it placed in the<br />
top four crews in the nation,<br />
and New Trier’s third<br />
women’s lightweight crew<br />
to medal. The men’s varsity<br />
boat finished seventh<br />
overall, the highest in New<br />
Trier history in this event.<br />
It also had the distinction<br />
of being the top finishing<br />
high school crew; all other<br />
top-ten finishers were<br />
crews from club programs.<br />
The championship is<br />
the premiere youth rowing<br />
event in the U.S., with<br />
Please see rowing, 27<br />
The New Trier Women’s Lightweight Varsity 4+ wins a<br />
bronze medal at the 2019 US Rowing Youth National<br />
Championships June 6-9 in Sarasota, Florida.
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