[papagrit]

Great story! Congrats to Connor and good wishes to him on his future! People love to talk about how a great it is for a kid to get a free education while playing sports during college. That is true...free is the best price. But, I've heard so much from parents and kids that are actually on athletic scholarships talk about how they have to earn that "free" education when their collegiate athletic careers become more like a job than playing for the love of the sport. It's refreshing to hear of a kid having success in a sport that he plays simply for the love of the sport. A caliber one degree coming from a top tier educational institution doesn't hurt a thing for the kid's future as well. A 27 on an ACT probably wouldn't have gotten Connor into Harvard, but, because he was good at football he was allowed to enroll. THAT is the benefit of playing sports in Ivy League level schools. Sports get you past the application committees.... and that's it. The kid proved he could do it in the classroom as well as on the field the past four years. That is what I call being a TRUE student athlete.

Here is a link to a recently posted story regarding Ryle graduate Conner Hempel, senior QB at Harvard.

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/c.../19660873/

and a story from the Boston Globe regarding the Harvard victory over Yale and more on Conner

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2014/1...story.html

I'd say a great game to end a college and possibly ones football career. Congrats to Conner.