Following the Super Bowl between 3-4pm on 1116am SEN Radio, GV President Dan Levin and former GV player and current University of the Incarnate Word lineman Rory Dew appeared on the air talking about GV, the Super Bowl, and all sorts of related Gridiron stuff.
You can download and listen to the clip from SEN on Super Bowl Monday (6MB – mp3 file)
TGI Fridays Jam Factory will host Gridiron Victoria’s official Super Bowl party this Monday, February 7th from 10:00am until the end of the game.
GV will be auctioning off a number of items signed by Ben Graham as a fundraiser for our Junior State team.
Check back for more details about the day as we get them!
UIW Cardinals sign Monash Warriors Offensive Lineman Rory Dew!
www.cardinalathletics.com/news/2011/2/2/FB_0202112020.aspx
From Dalhart to Brownsville. From Beaumont to Australia? Incarnate Word’s football signing class of 2011 numbers 29 and they come from all over the state, and yes, one player is from Melbourne, Australia.
Coach Mike Santiago announced the class at a media function on Wednesday, the first official day high school players could sign letters-of-intent with colleges. This is the fourth class for Incarnate Word and it is the largest in terms of numbers.
“One more class,” Coach Santiago said, “and we will have a full roster. You don’t get a full roster until the fifth year. Our staff did a great job of canvassing the state and then going outside the box. I am proud of this staff. This is a lot of hard work.”
Also, in terms of size, 10 of the 29 new Cardinals go 250 pounds or more in physical size. And the Aussie is the largest of them all. Rory Dew played at St. Kevins High School in Melbourne. He is an offensive lineman and he goes 6-8, 315. “This guy is all Coach (offensive line coach Tony) Marciano,” Santiago said. “Rory was in a football camp in Florida for the past month when we heard about him. We are now looking at international players.”
For local Cardinals fans, the San Antonio area is highly represented. Eight signees are from Alamo City schools. “We are seeing more recruiters than ever before in San Antonio,” Santiago said. “But our recruiting always begins at home.”
Another aspect of what Santiago calls a “UIW guy” is how each player does in the classroom and how each is projected to perform in UIW classrooms. “The average grade point average of this group,” Santiago said, “is 3.71. And their average SAT score is 1,040. And we think when a player does well in the classroom there is a high probability of him bringing good character to us.”
UIW’s coaches covered thousands of miles just inside Texas in assembling this class. From Beaumont’s Ozen High School and running back Melvin Adderton to up north and Dalhart tight end Harper Scofield then back to the Gulf Coast and Corpus Christi area’s Kyle Fishbeck and Nick Ginn. The list even includes a quarterback from Tucson, Ariz., Jordan Scelfo.
Santiago talked about what the fourth year was like. “After four years the high school coaches know our staff when they come through the door. We get places quicker because we don’t have to explain who we are.”
Incarnate Word has now played two full seasons of Division II football, the second of which, 2010, as a member of the Lone Star Conference. The original class of 2008, in most part, will be juniors this coming season.
2011 signing class (pdf)
Tune into 1116am SEN on Monday 31 Jan from 3-4pm to hear Ed Wyatt interview Adam Gotsis and Rory Dew on their experience with the World team!
Victorians Rory Dew (OT) & Adam Gotsis (DE) (both of the Warriors club), plus Hugh Tompkins and Jean Prill from NSW have been selected for the World Team train on squad in preparation for the game against Team USA, which will be on Feb 2. All of the four mentioned players have both previously represented Australia. If any are selected for the game, it will be the first time an Australian has represented a “world” side without having played a season in America (Jesse Williams was a player at Arizona Western prior to his selection).
Rory deserves special mention, as he becomes the first Victorian to earn a scholarship offer as a position player (non-punter), recently being offered a chance to play for the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. Congrats Rory!
