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A proposal with teeth

attended a reception for the Sylvania Schools Athletic Foundation on Aug. 16, and my interactions there confirmed the impressions left by our Aug. 14 cover story, “Roaring in Sylvania” — these cougars and wildcats have teeth behind their roars. The Foundation is on a cutting-edge quest for $6.5 million to remake (and considerably raise the bar at) athletic facilities at Sylvania Northview and Sylvania Southview high schools and Arbor Hills, McCord and Timberstone junior high schools. The Foundation has seemingly made every right move in its drive for new facilities for the 8,000 Sylvania students. Most importantly, it is seeking private money, not taxpayer funds. Superintendant Brad Rieger has assembled an outstanding team, including but not limited to board Chairman John Ross, business leaders Jim Findlay and Rick Stansley and Executive Director Jeanette Hrovatich. It has connected with community leaders such as Mud Hens GenThomas F. POUNDS eral Manager Joe Napoli, Keith Walker of Walker Funeral Homes and Doug Kearns, group general manager at Yark Automotive Group. The plan, as reported by Toledo Free Press Staff Writer Zach Davis: “Northview will add new field turf (for football and soccer), bleachers (for baseball, football and soccer) and field lights (for baseball and football). The school will also add an eight-lane, all-weather track-and-field events area, a ticket booth and a facility for concessions and restrooms. “Southview will add new field turf, bleachers, home stands and a press box for the football field, as well as portable stands for the band and a facility for concessions and restrooms. Southview also will add new bleachers for baseball and softball and additional soccer seating. “Northview and Southview will also add 32-foot scoreboards, which include a 10-foot-by-17-foot video screen and five different spaces to sell advertisements. “Arbor Hills and McCord will have their football fields upgraded to include irrigation and drainage as well as lights, an electronic scoreboard, a press box and an eight-lane track. Timberstone will receive mounding and screening for wind protection and fencing.” The board’s foresight to assemble an advancement council, its attention to women’s sports with the “Girls with Goal” program and its plan to open the facilities to other local institutions all speak to a wellplanned, tremendously organized effort. An upcoming promotion with Sylvania auto dealers demonstrates support in the community. Toledo Free Press commends the organizers for their efforts and will cover the campaign as it progresses. Visit www.SupportSylvaniaAthletics.com for more information. ✯ Thomas F. Pounds is president and publisher of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star. Contact him at tpounds@toledofreepress.com.

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cartoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down. In a late season two episode, “Brain Drain,” the series hit a Animation is a tremendous vehicle for subversion, social satire peak that culminated in a hip-hop song, “There’s as anyone familiar with the work of the Warner Bros a Platypus Controlling Me,” that takes teen angst, mistrust of The Establishment and alienation and jams them into the “Looney Tunes” series can confirm. Social satire concerning class disparity, politicians and catchiest rap song this side of a Jay-Z single. After a typically convoluted battle, Agent P the platypus the government, race and all facets of society are fair game and Doofenshmirtz tumble down a junkyard in the land of big-eyed, exaggerated carhill. Doofenshmirtz’s hands land in a barrel of toons. It’s true in forums as wildly disparate discarded glue and he somersaults to a twoas newspaper editorial cartoons and televiturntable DJ stand, where his hands stick sion series such as “Family Guy.” to the records (YouTube it at www.youtube. “The Simpsons” are the modern origin com/watch?v=nDtzUymj3Ic). The junkyard point for such commentary; Homer, Marge happens to be hosting a rave, and Doofenshand company have explored issues such as almirtz’s emo daughter is in the crowd (Giving coholism, care for the elderly and American the hapless Doofenshmirtz an ex-wife and consumerism in ways that never would have teen daughter is one of the series’ genius passed network TV censors on live-action touches). The ravers begin to boo and throw shows. “South Park” and its ilk have pushed satire to the edge of its ability to shock, but Michael S. MILLER things at Doofenshmirtz, until Agent P takes the format still has the power to surprise, especially when a pity on him and uses a mind-control helmet (don’t ask) to push Doofenshmirtz into a rap about being controlled by a message pops up in an unexpected place. The Disney Channel series “Phineas and Ferb” is un- platypus (“I got records on my fingers! I got records on my apologetically surreal and one of the more entertaining fingers and I just can’t stop!”) The puzzled kids begin to animated shows an adult can sit through with its intended move to the music, listening to Doofenshmirtz rant about the audience of 5 to 14 year olds. It doesn’t often offer any deep hidden platypus, when one of the crowd stops and says, “I get particular social messages outside of its characters’ racial it! ‘Platypus’ is a metaphor for whatever is keeping you down.” The teens then chant a litany of what they believe is harmony, but an episode that recently aired jammed in keeping them down, and while the show’s writers are having enough commentary for a whole season. The titular characters, Phineas and his stepbrother Ferb, fun, the delivery and performances are smart enough to are — I’m guessing — about 10 years old. The entire series create a real moment of anti-authority protest: revolves around their efforts to make the most of summer “Corporations are a platypus/The government’s a platypus vacations by embarking on outlandish backyard adventures Your teacher is a platypus/Society’s a platypus that include impossible feats of engineering and physics. In My parents are a platypus/The media’s a platypus one episode, the boys build a full-scale roller coaster that It’s all just propaganda/We all got a platypus controlling us!” Eventually, Agent P slips away, Doofenshmirtz sees he would shame Cedar Point’s best efforts. In another, they travel to the moon with cows because they believe zero- is gone, and his triumphant cries of “There’s no platypus gravity milk will make the best ice cream. During each epi- controlling me!” inspire the crowd and even win over sode (there are two per half-hour), the boys’ mid-teen sister his estranged daughter. It’s a scene only animation could Candace attempts to bust them by dragging their mom to properly convey with a mix of tongue-in-cheek humor and the backyard, but invariably, the boys’ schemes and inven- heart-attack-serious subversion. It’s not Pete Seeger or Bob Dylan-level protest, but on a tions have disappeared before they can get in trouble. Phineas and Ferb have a cadre of friends who aid their show (and network) not known for subversive social satire, plans, including Isabella Garcia-Shapiro, a neighbor from it’s a great moment that is being absorbed by 4 million young a “Mexican Jewish” family who leads the Girl Scoutesque viewers each time it plays. That the moment is generic, Fireside Girls and harbors a crush on Phineas. Isabella, who broadstroke and silly fits the mood of a nation that lacks the is rumored to be the subject of a possible spin-off show, is interest in making an effort to pursue real hope and change. But substitute the intensification of “platypus” with sweetly voiced by Toledo native Alyson Stoner. Oh, and the boys’ pet, Perry the platypus, is a se- “lemming,” and you strike closer to the truth of modern cret agent who battles an evil scientist named Dr. Heinz American life than even the minds behind “Phineas and Ferb” intentionally could achieve. 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here are days I wake up and think, “What next?” That sinking feeling that you are swimming upstream, forever fighting the currents of modern times is not new. Whether it is the latest news report of acts of terrorism abroad, or the efforts of some to fundamentally change that which you know to be true and honorable, the resulting feeling is familiar. The prophet Jeremiah wrote the Old Testament book of Lamentations while witnessing the conquest of the Jewish people and his home city of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. The original Hebrew lists the title of this book as “Ah, how” or “Alas,” indicating Jeremiah’s resignation to this fundamental change. In the translation to Greek the title changes to “Wailings.” Whatever the language, the meaning is the same — the fear of loss. Lost freedom. Lost heritage. Lost principles. Jeremiah clearly was “wailing” at the loss of his city, his people, his heritage, but he sought and found comfort in his faith. He clearly identified the suffering as a direct result of the faults of himself and his people, “My sins have been bound into a yoke ... they have been hung on my neck.” Yet he turned to the Lord as his source of strength and endurance. “The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him ... ” This belief and thought is not limited to biblical times or lands. During the founding years of our country, many leaders valued these same lamentations. In 1774, as the first Continental Congress gathered, they called for an opening prayer. “O Lord our Heavenly Father ... we beseech Thee, on these our American States, who have fled to Thee from the rod of our oppressor ... desiring to be henceforth dependent only on Thee. Be Thou present ... and direct the councils of this honorable assembly ... ” Fast-forward a few years, after a bloody war with the world’s most formidable army, and our own Declaration of Independence concludes “With firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence.” Thomas Jefferson, to whom some attribute atheist beliefs, said, “I tremble for my country when I reflect that

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God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever.” Jefferson further echoed the thoughts of Jeremiah when he noted “The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. The hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.” Jefferson saw in the efforts of a British tyrant an attempt to separate us from our freedom by separating us from God. He was not alone. Patrick Henry in a passionate speech to his fellow Virginians said, “It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.” Benjamin Franklin in Pennsylvania warned, “Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.” John Adams stated, “It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation’s humble acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.” Abraham Lincoln during the depths of the American Civil War turned not to his party, his generals or his constituents, but to God. “I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord’s side.” Lin-

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C.S. Lewis noted, “You don’t have a soul, you are a soul. You have a body.” We must again find that soul within us and return to the innate principles hardwired into our very being, and turn not to a state made of fallen people, but return to that which has blessed us for so long.” coln continued, directly attributing the scars of war to a loss of faith, “But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which pre-

served us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all those blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.” Early in the 20th century, President Calvin Coolidge and the country faced a continuing recession such as we do today. Coolidge not only worked to limit the size and scope of government, but he also sought to return America to that which made her great, her spiritual core. “We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.” In the news of today, British Prime Minister David Cameron commented on the London riots. “Do we have the determination to confront the slowmotion moral collapse that has taken place in parts of our country these past few generations? In this risk-free ground of moral neutrality, there are no bad choices, just different lifestyles. ‘Live and let live’ becomes ‘Do what

you please.’” While the excuses of financial depression are soffered on the streets, Cameron points to the true cause, his countrymen’s loss of soul. Noted author and theologian C.S. Lewis noted, “You don’t have a soul, you are a soul. You have a body.” We must again find that soul within us and return to the innate principles hardwired into our very being, and turn not to a state made of fallen people, but return to that which has blessed us for so long. The final book of the Christian Bible is Revelation. The Prophet Jeremiah was witnessing the revelation of the actions of man in his lamentations. Where Jeremiah provided a hope, Revelation provides a warning. “Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove the lamp from its place.” Without our lamp to guide the way, we will fail to be that shining city upon the hill, and instead tumble into darkness.✯ Email Robert Densic at letters@toledo freepress.com.

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Lourdes College will transition to Lourdes University on Aug. 19, three days prior to the beginning of the 2011 academic year. The change is part of a seven-year plan that began in 2008 to improve the Lourdes experience. “With graduate programs and athletics, when you think of a university you expect to see those things,” Lourdes President Robert Helmer said Aug. 17. “Since Lourdes has those I think it’s important that our name reflects accurately who we are. University is the right name for us.” Among the additions Lourdes has developed to more precisely fit its university designation are graduate programs, athletics and residence halls. Lourdes University will offer eight graduate programs including business, liberal arts and nurse anesthesia. The school has 300 students enrolled in 2011 to get master’s degrees and received seven federal grants totaling $2 million this summer for its nursing program.

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Athletics In athletics, Lourdes added men’s basketball along with women’s volleyball and golf last year. They brought in baseball, men’s volleyball and women’s basketball this year and are planning to add softball in 2012. “We have brought in intercollegiate athletics to campus,” Helmer said. “Athletics just bring spirit and pride that is hard to replicate elsewhere.” Lourdes is also planning a new athletic facility which will break ground at some point in 2012. It will house the school’s basketball and volleyball teams and include a workout and training facility and athletic offices. The first two residence halls appeared last year for students of Lourdes and more are following. The school now has five buildings housing about 200 residents from around the U.S., including Alaska, California, Connecticut, Florida and Puerto Rico. Growth at Lourdes has led to record enrollment for the past seven years, which has helped plans to expand more quickly. In fact, the residence halls were originally scheduled to be built in 2012 but the process

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began last year with the school being “1-2 years ahead of schedule.”

Competing Despite now being labeled as a university, Lourdes still differs greatly from its neighboring institutions in Toledo and Bowling Green. “I think we compete very well,” Helmer said. “We each have a niche to play. A student who is going to thrive at UT might not do so well at Lourdes and a student who thrives at Lourdes might feel lost at UT.” Among the differences is the student population where Lourdes has installed a self-imposed cap of 3,000 students enrolled at the university. There are no classrooms with occupancies greater than 40 on campus and lecture halls are nonexistent. This creates a more personal environment for students to learn.

“The student that is going to do really well at Lourdes University is the student that wants to belong to a caring community,” Helmer said. “If you want to be anonymous and be able to skip class and have your professor not notice then we are probably not the place for you. Here, the faculty member will notice and might call you at home and say ‘Is everything okay?’ That’s the niche we play.” As for the self-imposed cap of 3,000 students, Helmer said that there are no plans to expand it “in the forseeable future.” “As we have grown and become more comprehensive the one thing I have always heard from faculty and staff is that we can’t grow so big that we lose the personal touch,” Helmer said. “The niche that Lourdes has is that we are an incredibly caring envi-

ronment where a student’s particular needs are met. We have said 3,000 is a good size and that’s our number.” Helmer also prides Lourdes on its tuition, claiming the school’s average of around $16,000 a year is among “the bottom few in the state of Ohio.” “That’s far below the state average,” Helmer said. “We have done our part to be affordable and I think that shows in the number of students that we are recruiting and attracting.” Another recent addition at Lourdes is a new dining hall which features a ‘Grab and Go’ station as well as a dining room with a station for sandwiches, a salad bar, traditional American food, ethnic cuisine, a wood-burning pizza oven and ice cream.

Good neighbors With the recent announcement by the Sylvania Schools Athletic

Foundation that they are planning on raising $6.5 million for new athletic facilities, Lourdes is open to a future partnership that would provide the university with a home for its athletics. Helmer said both sides have a meeting in the coming weeks to discuss the possibility. “We are good neighbors with Sylvania Schools,” Helmer said. “We both have a commitment that if there are any opportunities we will partner. We are open to it as we both continue to grow.” Among the sports Lourdes would have interest in playing at Sylvania’s facilities would include new sports soccer and possibly even football. “If we were ever going to have football then Northview could use the stadium on Fridays and we could use the stadium on Saturdays,” Helmer said. “It would make sense.” ✯

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Lourdes University is scheduled to open its new dining facility before school resumes Aug. 22. The $3.8 million project includes a 9,500-square-foot addition to McAlear Hall seating 175 in the dining hall, a full-service gourmet kitchen, a food court with various cuisines, a la carte stations, an outdoor dining patio and a lounge with a wide-screen television. The facility will serve the 2,600 undergraduate and graduate students and 250 faculty and staff members on the campus in Sylvania. “Our goal was to have a food service center to serve the needs of our growing number of students living in

dorms, along with our other students, faculty and staff as the primary dining facility on campus,” said Mike Killian, vice president for finance and administration at Lourdes. The number of students living on the university’s campus this fall will double from 100 to 200 with the opening of a new residence hall, Killian said. Helmer was personally involved in the selection of two features — a wood-burning pizza oven and a softserve ice cream machine. The dining center will be open for a la carte service from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. with breakfast, lunch and dinner menus served during those hours. Rudolph/Libbe of Walbridge served as the general contractor for the construction for the dining facility. ✯

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Christine Kovacs can realize her dream of becoming a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist without having to spend too much time away from her husband and three children thanks to the recent accreditation of the Master of Science in Nursing: Nurse Anesthesia Program (MSN: NAP) at Lourdes University. “It means I get to see my children every day,” Kovacs said. “It means I get to put them to bed at night, have dinner with them and tuck them in. It means I can still be part of the family while I take this challenge of going through this program.” Kovacs’ time with her family will be limited since students put in 60-80 hours per week into the program. “My mother is driving three hours every week to stay with us for three days to keep the homefront secure because my husband will be taking care of business,” she said. “We can’t work [while in the program], so it’s some additional stress. There will be a lot of sacrifice on everybody’s part in the family.” Kovacs and 11 other students are starting the program Aug. 22. The financial sacrifice will be lessened as she is one of four students receiving a scholarship. “When we got the phone call, I didn’t think it was real,” she said. “Just getting into the program is a tremendous honor. To have people seeking you out to help you is phenomenal. It’s going to make a huge difference.” ProMedica Flower Hospital, through the McKesson Memorial Fund, is donating $1 million to

Lourdes University during a 10-year period for the MSN: NAP. “We could not do what we do without the support of the hospital systems here in Northwest Ohio, ProMedica being the main one,” said Robert Helmer, president of Lourdes University. “We place our students in clinical settings, they are trained by the nurses and doctors of ProMedica, and at the end of the program when they graduate with a Lourdes degree, they are prepared to enter the work force.” Approximately 80 percent of the funding will go to students who demonstrate need and academic merit. The other 20 percent will go toward the creation of a lecture series, continuing education in the field of anesthesia, staff development and direct support for the training program. “One of the things we felt strongly about in our partnership with Lourdes is we wanted to make sure we could help students, not just today but future students,” said Alan Sattler, president of Flower Hospital. “That’s why 80 percent of our gift is going to go to the endowed scholarship fund.” Another student receiving the scholarship is Sheri Myers, who works at Blanchard Valley Hospital and has been a registered nurse for five years. Myers will commute from Carey, Ohio for the program. “I’m very excited and honored to be in this program, let alone chosen as a scholarship recipient,” Myers said. “It is an immense help. It will be a very big financial struggle, so any type of assistance is greatly appreciated.” Myers jumped at the opportunity to apply to a program so close to home. The MSN: NAP at Lourdes University is the only program of its

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Amy Radecki, 23, and her mother Lynne Carroll, of Toledo, are extremely grateful to Dr. Bernardo Martinez and others at St. Luke’s Hospital for their help during Amy’s recent medical emergency. After school ended in May, Radecki and a group of her friends embarked on a cross-country road trip that took them to the Northwest, down to California, through Texas to Florida and home. Upon arriving home in late June, Radecki was experiencing pain in her neck and shoulder. Her mother noticed her left arm was swollen. Thinking her daughter may have been bitten by a spider, Carroll took her to see their family doctor, Dr. Rex Figy at St. Luke’s. “Dr. Figy took one look at Amy’s arm and ran out of the room, ordered a Doppler and found blood clots in her left arm,” Carroll said. “Amy was admitted to ICU on blood-thinning medication.”

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Martinez said. At age 52, he went to Stanford University in 1997 to study the use of robotics for noninvasive surgeries. He began using robotics in surgery during his one year of study there. He came back to Toledo to serve as director of minimal invasive surgery at Mercy St. Vincent Hospital from 1998 to 2008. He said they created a unique center for robotic surgery after bring robotics there in November 2002. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My idea or design was to use a Circon micro video camera with the endoscope for the endovascular surgery which Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve used on 60 patients during the first two years,â&#x20AC;? he said. Martinez made a presentation about the endovascular surgery with robotics to the residents and staff at the Arbors at Sylvania Subacute & Rehabilitation Center, where Carroll works, Aug. 17. He will perform the surgery on Radeckiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right arm Aug. 22 at The Toledo Hospital. â&#x153;Ż

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In Tim Beckman’s third year at Toledo, the Rockets Head Coach has already put Toledo back on top the Mid-American Conference — at least in the preseason, anyway. After three straight losing seasons under former UT Head Coach Tom Amstutz, including a 3-9 record in 2008, Beckman led Toledo to a near bowl berth in 2009 at 5-7. Last season, the Rockets finished 8-5, including a 7-1 record in conference play, on their way to the school’s first bowl game since 2005, which it lost 34-32 to FIU. With the steady improvement and the league’s top-rated recruiting class by Rivals. com over the past two years, expectations have risen so much that UT was chosen as the conference’s pick to win BECKMAN the MAC Championship over both teams that played in the game in 2010. Voted on by members of the league’s media contingent, the Rockets (five votes) edged out last year’s champion Miami (Ohio) and runner-up Northern Illinois, which each had three votes. “I don’t know if the MAC looked at our schedule,” Beckman said. “It’s got to be one of the hardest schedules in the conference. In the MAC, our home schedule is probably very beneficial having people at our place but to me this conference is very balanced. Week in and week out it’s going to be up to anybody. It’s going to be the way you play and the way you take care of your business.” The expectations also earned Beckman a contract extension through 2015. Expectations, however, are often challenging to meet and this season Toledo will be tested right from the beginning. The Rockets open with New Hampshire, which was ranked as the preseason No. 10 team in the FCS on Aug. 15, even getting one first-place vote. Then they travel to Columbus, attempting to be the first team to beat No. 16 Ohio State at home since 1921 (Oberlin won 7-6). They follow up the Buckeyes, last year’s Sugar Bowl Champions, with a home game against No. 7 Boise State. The Broncos finished 12-1 last year, including a 57-14 win over UT in Idaho, and were

winners of the Las Vegas Bowl. Toledo then travels to yet another bowl winner in the fourth week of the season with 2010’s reigning Pinstripe Bowl Champion Syracuse. “We are excited to have that opportunity and I think it speaks highly for Toledo football,” Beckman said. “When you come and decide to be a Toledo Rocket, you are going to play against the best of the best.”

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Rockets expectations soaring in 2011 Offense Just as in the 2010 season, the competition for the top spot at quarterback remains. Junior Austin Dantin started the first nine games before he broke his collarbone and sternum while also separating his shoulder against Eastern Michigan, ending his season. As for 2011, it is still Dantin’s job to lose. Beckman told Toledo Free Press that Dantin holds a ‘slight edge’ over sophomore Terrance Owens. Dantin led the MAC in completion percentage (66.1 percent) passing for 1,254 yards with seven touchdowns. He also finished second on the team with 103 carries for 442 yards and tied for the team-high with eight rushing touchdowns. Dantin, however, did at times struggle to test opponents deep and turned the ball over too often, throwing eight interceptions. Owens played in seven games in 2010 passing for 1,244 yards with 13 touchdowns and five interceptions. He was 2-2 as a starter with wins over Bowling Green and Central Michigan and losses to Northern Illinois and FIU in the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl. The southpaw has a much stronger arm than Dantin but still needs to improve his reads and accuracy. With most of the attention still on the signal callers, Toledo has one of the deepest stable of running backs in the conference. Senior Adonis Thomas leads the group and is the league’s top returning rusher. Thomas started slow in 2010, averaging just 62 all-purpose yards per game in the first six games with just one score. In the last seven games, however, Thomas more than doubled his output, racking up more than 156 all-purpose yards per game with nine touchdowns. UT also returns sophomore David Fluellen, who before his knee injury had moments where he looked like the best back on the team, and senior Morgan Williams, who has a 1,000-yard season on his résumé in 2008. ■ ROCKETS CONTINUES ON A14

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A14 â&#x2013; TOLEDO FREE PRESS â&#x2013; ROCKETS CONTINUED FROM A13 At receiver the story remains the same as the search for Eric Pageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sidekick continues. Page, who caught 99 passes last season and is now just 49 short of the school record owned by Stephen Williams, had 81 more catches than the next highest receiver (Kenny Stafford). In fact, the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second and third leading receivers were running backs (Thomas, Williams). Stafford returns for his senior season and must make more of an impact in the passing game and cut down on dropped balls. Former four-star prospect James Green enters his sophomore campaign after catching just nine passes in 2010. Starting wideout Julian Bellinger, who played in 12 games last year, caught just six passes. Senior tight end Danny Noble also has the size and speed to be a threat in the passing game. True freshman Justin Olack has impressed in camp and could see playing time as well. Illinois transfer Cordale Scott is among the favorites to start alongside Page. At 6-foot-4, 220 pounds, Scott is the biggest receiver in the lineup and was projected by Stafford in March to finish the season earning All-MAC honors. Among the biggest standouts in camp this year has been Bernard Reedy, who may very well be on his way to starting. The speedy sophomore is similar to Pageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s skill set and showed flashes last season. The offensive line lost center Kevin Kowalski and Nate Cole to graduation but should still be solid up front. All-MAC senior Mike VanDerMeulen and classmate John Morookian have started 37 and 35 games at the tackle spots, respectively. Senior Phillipkeith Manley returns at guard after starting all 13 games last season. Sophomore Zac Kerin, who played in 12 games last season spelling Cole, will fit in at guard while redshirt-freshman Greg

Mancz is the preseason favorite to anchor the middle of the line at center.

Defense Typically when a team loses two quality starters in the mold of defensive ends Alex Johnson and Doug Westbrook, that unit is bound to struggle. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a testament to the depth of UT that most in the program view the defensive line as a strength this season despite their loss. The line is bolstered by defensive end T.J. Fatinikun, who in two short years has made a name for himself in the conference. Earning Third-Team All-MAC honors in his sophomore season, Fatinikun looks poised to take the next step in 2011. Joining him at the other end spot is former defensive tackle Malcolm Riley. The 6-foot-3, 281 pound senior was quietly one of the best players on last seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s roster and is sliding over to make room for the plethora of talent at the tackle spot, including Johnie Roberts, Johnathan Lamb, Elijah Jones and Danny Farr. Another tackle who is expected to make a run at the starting job is Andre â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Tankâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Sturdivant, a 6-foot-3, 265 pound true freshman from Cleveland Glenville High School. According to Rivals, Sturdivant was the lone fourstar recruit to join a MAC program. He chose the Rockets over Penn State and Michigan State and had offers from Illinois, Indiana and Ohio State. Linebacker may be the most uncertain position on the Toledo defense as UT is looking for a replacement for Archie Donald, who led the team in tackles the past three seasons. The battle is down to junior Robert Bell and redshirt-freshmen Ray Bush and James Gordon. The other linebacker spot is far from uncertain after the sophomore season Dan Molls had in 2010. Molls finished with 143 tackles, the 10th highest total in the nation. He was

2011 UT Rockets Football schedule â&#x153;Ż Sept. 1 New Hampshire â&#x153;Ż Sept. 10 Ohio State at Columbus â&#x153;Ż Sept. 16 Boise State â&#x153;Ż Sept. 24 Syracuse at Syracuse â&#x153;Ż Oct. 1 Temple at Philadelphia â&#x153;Ż Oct. 8 Eastern Michigan â&#x153;Ż Oct. 15 Bowling Green at BGSU â&#x153;Ż Oct. 22 Miami â&#x153;Ż Nov. 1 Northern Illinois â&#x153;Ż Nov. 8 Western Michigan â&#x153;Ż Nov. 18 Central Michigan at CMU â&#x153;Ż Nov. 25 Ball State at Muncie named Third-Team All-MAC and should be a strong candidate to earn even higher honors this season. At the â&#x20AC;&#x153;starâ&#x20AC;? position (a hybrid between linebacker and safety) senior Charles â&#x20AC;&#x153;Boboâ&#x20AC;? Rancifer will be taking over for his first season in the wake of Isaiah Ballardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dismissal. Michigan transfer Vladimir Emilien would have been a candidate for the spot but his waiver to play this season was denied by the NCAA. Instead, former cornerback Byron Best will be backing up Rancifer at the spot. In the secondary, Desmond Marrow enters his sixth season at cornerback after receiving two medical redshirts during his career. Marrow returned last season after missing 17 games during a two-year span from a torn ACL and meniscus. He had a successful 2010 season and helped shore up a secondary which struggled in the two years without him. Senior Taikwon Paige will be manning the other corner spot for

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the second straight season. Behind Marrow and Paige, however, is more uncertain with Best moving to the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;star.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Among his most impressive freshmen through spring, Beckman named a trio of corners including Kishon Wilcher, Keith Suggs and John James. He also said that Toledo native Cheatham Norrils will play in his freshman season. Freshman Chris Dukes and senior Anthony Washington also have a shot at playing time. At the safety spots, the Rockets have four solid contributors. Junior Jermaine Robinson and senior Diauntae Morrow split time at strong safety while senior Mark Singer and sophomore Ross Madison are at free safety.

At punter, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no secret that Beckman is looking for more consistency. Toledo finished 117 out of 120 teams in net punting average last year (31.72 yards per punt) with Vince Penza and Claus sharing the duties. Surprisingly enough, that was actually an improvement from 2009, when UT finished last in the nation with 28.68 yards per punt with Claus as the main punter. As of now, Penza is leading the race for the job, competing with freshmen James Datz from Granville and Iowa native Jake Dunbar, who can punt with both legs. At long snapper, sophomore Matt Wall is leading the race against senior Colin McHugh.

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Special teams is really an area of highs and lows for the Rockets. Page will return at kick and punt returner where he was named an All-American in 2010. However, Ballardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dismissal opens up the other returner spot where Reedy will be the favorite. Fluellen, Thomas and Williams also are candidates for the second returner spots. At kicker, Ryan Casano has returned and is â&#x20AC;&#x153;100 percentâ&#x20AC;? after suffering a season-ending ACL tear last year. He and freshman Jeremiah Detmer are in the lead for the starting job. Detmer was rated as the No. 4 kicking recruit by Rivals. Also competing will be Bill Claus, who replaced Casano last year, as well as redshirtfreshman Clay Simpkins. Detmer also is an early favorite to take the kickoff job after kicking a ball out of the endzone in a scrimmage Aug. 13, the first time Beckman has seen that happen in three years at UT.

For the first time in a long time, Toledo has all the pieces to rightfully be named favorites for the conference. This team has as good of individual talent as any team in the league but the challenge will be playing as a unit, which was a problem last season, particularly on defense. The Rockets have as tough of an early schedule as anyone in the country and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important that regardless of the outcome they do not get too high or low from those games. Beating Ohio State or Boise State is attentiongrabbing, but in the grand scheme has no impact on MAC play. If Toledo can put it together, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no reason to think it canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t head to the MAC Championship game, especially with three of its toughest opponents (Miami, Northern Illinois, Western Michigan) traveling to the Glass Bowl. If it can, UT may be hoisting its first league title since 2004. â&#x153;Ż

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Dantin has ‘slight edge’ in Rockets QB battle By Zach Davis TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER zdavis@toledofreepress.com

In 2010, Austin Dantin beat all competitors on his way to winning the starting quarterback job for Toledo. This season, he’s on pace to do it again. UT Head Coach Tim Beckman told Toledo Free Press that Dantin has a “slight edge” over sophomore Terrance Owens in the battle to be named the Rockets signal caller. “They both can play,” Beckman said. “I think they are both playing extremely well but I would give a slight edge at this time to Austin.” Beckman also said that his policy is a player cannot lose his spot due to injury and that Owens would have to outperform Dantin in camp for the starting role. “It’s a good feeling but at the same time I know that I have to come out here and prove myself regardless, year in and year out,” Dantin said. “That’s why we practice.” “It would motivate me but at the same time I would be a little bit frustrated,” said Owens of the possibility

of backing up Dantin. “At the same time though we have one goal and that’s to win, so I know that whatever the coach’s decision is I know it will be a good decision.” While the question of who will start the Sept. 1 opener against No. 10 FCS-ranked New Hampshire remains in doubt, it is likely that both players will receive playing time with a chance to prove themselves on the field. The Rockets took a similar strategy into last season’s Boise State game. “We have got two very good quarterbacks that deserve to play so I want to see how they respond,” Beckman said. “We are facing some pretty good opponents so they will get thrown into the fire and we will see how they respond.” Dantin started the first nine games of the season in 2010 before his season ended after suffering a broken collarbone and sternum as well as a separated shoulder against Eastern Michigan. The injury occurred just one week prior to the matchup of league unbeatens when UT traveled to Northern Illinois. The Huskies won 65-30 and represented the Mid-American Confer-

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We have got two very good quarterbacks that deserve to play so I want to see how they respond. We are facing some pretty good opponents so they will get thrown into the fire and we will see how they respond.” — Tim Beckman ence West Division in the league championship game. “It was really tough, especially with it being the week before we had Northern Illinois in that big game,” Dantin said. “It’s hard to describe what

it was like not being able to finish the season out after everything we had been through.” Dantin tried to make it back for the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl against FIU, roughly two months after his injury. He was cleared by doctors but ultimately was held out of competition to prevent any damage to his future. “I tried my best to get back for it but really just with how everything felt there was just no way,” Dantin said. “I could throw but as for taking a hit that would have been a completely different story. I was happy to be there but it was unfortunate with how everything turned out.” Dantin threw for 1,254 yards with seven touchdowns and eight interceptions in 2010. He finished second on the team with 442 rushing yards and tied for a team-best with eight rushing touchdowns. He also led the MAC with a 66.1 completion percentage before his season was cut short. Owens began pushing for playing time last season while Dantin was at the helm, appearing in games against Wyoming and Boise State. After Dantin’s injury on just the fifth offensive play against EMU,

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Owens capitalized, completing 10of-15 passes for 234 yards and four touchdowns against the Eagles, including a 74-yard strike to tight end Danny Noble on his first play. Owens finished the season passing for 1,244 yards with 13 touchdowns and five interceptions. He won two of the last four games with losses to Northern Illinois and FIU. “When my number was called I just stepped up and tried to win,” Owens said. “Our main goal is to win so I’m just trying to help the team out.” In addition to the fierce competition from Owens, redshirt-freshman Dwight Macon has improved dramatically and has put himself in position to grab the third spot on the depth chart. Macon impressed in the UT Spring Game completing 6-of-9 passes for 107 yards and a touchdown and has been “throwing the ball extremely well” in camp, according to Beckman. Just another competitor for Dantin to hold off to keep his spot. “It’s a lot of fun competing against the best, that’s why I’m here,” Dantin said. “It’s really just another offseason to get better and we will see what happens.” ✯

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For sixth-year Toledo senior cornerback Desmond Marrow, giving up was never an option. Growing up on Glenaven Avenue on Youngstown’s south side, perseverance was a way to survive in a rough environment. “Youngstown’s a real small city,” Marrow said. “It’s actually a tough city to grow up in. It’s real. I guess you could say we have a violent reputation or whatever. It was hard times growing up, but I was fortunate enough to have great parents. My dad Duane and my mom Pam,

they kept me out of the inner city and trouble and things like that.” Sometimes that literally meant keeping his son out of harm’s way, as Duane Marrow had to do one Sunday morning as the family was getting ready for church when Marrow was between 5 and 6 years old. “All of a sudden, out of nowhere we hear gunshots,” Duane Marrow said. “And there’s a drive-by taking place early Sunday morning about 8 or 9 o’clock at a house across the street from us, and I’m actually in my son’s room and we’re hitting the ground. The bullets are going the other way, but obviously at the time I don’t know it.” That would not be Marrow’s last brush with gun violence as a boy. The youngest of Duane’s four sons, Marrow liked to hang out with his older brothers when they were around. ■ MARROW CONTINUES ON A19

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At about 10 years old, Marrow was with his brother Duaine and cousins Kevin and Terrance at Cleveland Park when an argument broke out between some guys during a pickup game. “One of them said, ‘I’ll be back,’” Marrow said. “You know, you don’t think nothing of it, so he comes back and aggressively just comes out his car and just starts shooting at this park with little kids and little babies. Everybody’s just running. Then, I just realized that street life just isn’t something you want to be a part of if you want to live your life. “The guy came back and just started shooting at the park in broad daylight. It was wild. Some people live for that life, but it’s something I didn’t want to be a part of.” Even if Marrow did think of straying down the wrong path, his family was there to guide him. In addition to his position as a senior correctional officer at Federal Correctional Institution Elkton in Lisbon, Ohio, Duane is also a minister and has traveled as far as Singapore to do mission work. Pam Marrow works as an enrollment specialist for MYCAP Head Start in Youngstown, having been with the program for the past 16 years. “It was definitely our faith in God first,” Duane said. “Early on with the help of his mom and his family, we were able to keep Des on track and try to model good living — having good, practical morals and so forth. And so those were the things that kept him on track, and I think he also knew that his mother would kill him.” Pam deals with kids on a daily basis at her job, but said her son did not give her much trouble going up. “He was a very good kid,” Pam said. “He really was.”

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there because everyone was, ‘Oh, your dad used to be this, your uncle used to be this, blah, blah, blah,’ so I played just because I was an athlete,” Marrow said. “I could do it, but other than that, I didn’t really like football.” Marrow’s first love was basketball, but Duane always knew football would be his path. “I knew early MARROW AND HIS FATHER DUANE on that his ticket would be by way of football, and that’s something that honestly I told my wife for years,” Duane Marrow said. “Even when Desmond was little, I knew. I told her, ‘Honey, we will not pay for Des to go to school.’ I wasn’t being presumptuous or anything like that. I just knew what was in my son.” Marrow said he really started to take football seriously during his first season playing varsity at Cardinal Mooney as a sophomore. “I just started coming around, like, I just started getting bigger, started making plays,” Marrow said. “The more you do something, the better confidence you’ll get, so I started getting more confident in football.” By the time he was a senior in 2005, Marrow had grown to 6-foot-3, 196 pounds, making him quite the mismatch as a defensive back. He had 10 interceptions for the Cardinals that season, earning First-Team All-Steel Valley Conference, First-Team All-Northeast Ohio-Inland, NEO-Inland Defensive Player of the Year, First-Team Division IV AllOhio and Ohio Division IV Co-Defensive Player of the Year honors as Cardinal Mooney won the SVC and reached the Division IV state title game. ■ MARROW CONTINUES ON A20

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Rocky times with Rockets In February of his senior year at Cardinal Mooney, Marrow committed to Toledo, eager to join a program that had both family ties with his Uncle Vince and a winning

SPECIAL REPORT: ROCKET FOOTBALL PREVIEW tradition. The Rockets won two Mid-American Conference Championships and two bowl games in five seasons prior to Marrow’s arrival in the fall of 2006, and Marrow was confident he would have a chance to get on the field during his freshman year. Marrow saw action in nine games as a true freshman, starting one, but Toledo finished with a 5-7 record in 2006 after going 9-3 and winning the GMAC Bowl the previous year. In 2007, Marrow tore his hamstring, forcing him to take a medical redshirt and sit out the entire season. Marrow returned to the field in 2008 as one of the Rockets starting cornerbacks, recording 30 total tackles, three pass breakups and one forced fumble through the first six games of the year. However, one week after he helped Toledo defeat Michigan 13-10 at the Big House, Marrow tore his ACL and meniscus on the opening kickoff at Northern Illinois, ending his season. “I’ve got to tell you, going into that locker room and seeing Des, that was tough,” Duane said. Duane and Pam, who try to make it to all of Marrow’s games, had yet to sit down in their seats and were still standing for the opening kickoff when Marrow got hurt. “It was a tough moment for me being hurt because I was previously

hurt before that and I had to sit out a season, but I think the best part about that whole experience was my parents,” Marrow said. Both Duane and Pam leaned on their faith and projected hope to Marrow, who listened to their advice and persevered. “We just encouraged him and just let him know that he can get through this,” Pam said. “He had that in him,

that drive to just overcome anything, so we knew he would.” Marrow misssd a second full season due to injury, sitting out all of 2009 while the Rockets played under new coach Tim Beckman. Despite installing both a new staff and a new philosophy at his new job, Beckman did not quit on Marrow. “He knew that this coaching staff was behind him,” Beckman

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Back on track In 2010, Marrow made his return to the field and had his best season to date with Toledo. He tied for the

team-lead with three interceptions, led the Rockets with nine pass deflections and six pass breakups and was fifth on the squad with 72 tackles. Toledo finished 8-5 (7-1 MAC) and

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out a year,” Beckman said. “It’s tough to leave this game and come back.” In January, Marrow got the news that his application to receive a sixth-year extension waiver from the NCAA after missing two full seasons from injuries had been granted, giving him one final opportunity to win the MAC Championship and bowl victory he has been seeking since arriving on the UT campus five years ago. The Rockets were picked to win both the MAC West Division and the MAC Championship in the conference’s preseason poll last month. “We have so much built-up anticipation on this team,” Marrow said. “Everyone has good thoughts for the season. Everyone’s upbeat, positive. People expect stuff out of us this year. It’s a weird position for me. I know being here for six years, there’s not much really expected out of us. We just expect to win a

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couple games here and there, beat BG and we’re content, but not with coach Beckman. “The feeling around here is we want to win. We want to win big. We want rings, all that. Even in the classroom, we want to get the highest grades, so we just want to win.” And while the path Marrow has taken to this point was not as he envisioned it, he is happy with how things turned out, even though it means taking another season of old man jokes from his teammates. After all, quitting was not an option. Not for someone who has persevered since childhood. “Most people are like, ‘Why didn’t you give it up and quit and find something else?’” Marrow said. “I was like, ‘I didn’t want to quit because this is my dream. I never wanted to give up on it.’ Faith was all I had, but really, that’s all I needed. I’m here now.” ✯

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“He said, ‘I cannot believe that you called it back then,’” Weemes said. “He said, ‘This kid is phenomenal. He’s crazy.

He’s insane.’ Yeah, he was little, but he, like, ran 10 times faster and was much more with it, and realized things, and

saw things and understood things — I mean, even at 4 and 5 years old.” ■ PAGE CONTINUES ON A23

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Even when Page was a child, Weemes knew her son had a natural talent superior to the other kids he played soccer and flag football with at the YMCA, as well as an energy level that was hard to contain. “He was extremely energetic and very hyperactive and never slowed down, but you can probably see that already,” Weemes said. Weemes joked with her friend Dave Connelly, who later became Page’s head coach at Springfield, that her son was going to be special despite his size.

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Springfield graduate and Toledo junior wide receiver Eric Page is quiet —“very, very quiet and shy” if you ask his mother, Amy Weemes. However, the same cannot be said about Page’s game. In just two seasons with the Rockets, the 2010 First-Team Walter Camp All-American and AllMid-American Conference performer has already positioned himself to become Toledo’s all-time receptions and reception yardage leader this year. “I try to lead by example,” Page said. “I’m not the most vocal guy. I mean, I think people follow your actions more than they’ll follow your words, so I try to lead by that.” Listed at 5-foot-10, 180 pounds, the Toledo native is usually one of the smallest players when he steps onto the football field, but size has not been a problem for the shifty, crafty playmaker thus far, as the Rockets regular season finale last year against Central Michigan proved. Page accounted for five touchdowns in Toledo’s 42-31 victory over

the Chippewas at the Glass Bowl that day: two on receptions, two on kickoff returns and one on a 28-yard pass to sophomore quarterback Terrance Owens. “Even at UT, I spend most of my time just going, ‘Really? He did that? How did he do that? What just happened?’” Weemes said. “Every single time that I see him create something out of nothing, it’s just phenomenal. There’s no way to explain it because you’re looking at him and you’re going, ‘That’s my kid.’ It doesn’t sink in. It’s just surreal.”

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AUGUST 21, 2011 ■ PAGE CONTINUED FROM A22 Page went on to compile 8,800 yards of total offense with the Blue Devils. In his senior year alone, he accumulated 2,381 yards rushing on 256 carries for 34 touchdowns, 1,102 passing yards for 11 touchdowns and kicked 47 extra points, earning Northern Lakes League Most Valuable Player, First-Team All-State and Ohio

Division II Co-Offensive Player of the Year honors. “It’s a big thing for the school and a big thing for the kids coming through the school just to know that they can go out and do something and just not [be] somewhere you’re just passing through,” Page said. Despite the personal achievements, Page said he did not let the attention get to him.

“I really didn’t have to worry about it,” Page said. “I’m a humble person as it comes, and I just don’t focus on the outside. I try to stay inside my head and just focus on what I have to do and stay motivated.”

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Page and his younger brother Darnell, nicknamed ‘DJ.’ Weemes said she would take the boys outside the trailer park where they lived to do activities, as both Page and DJ played multiple sports growing up. “When we were growing up, there was always competition between us,” Page said. Nineteen months apart in age, the pair became closer once DJ began high school at Springfield. “They were kind of the ‘Terrible Twosome,’ I called them, for quite a while because they were just out of control,” Weemes said. “You couldn’t slow them down.” Though her sons are still close, Weemes said you would never know Page and DJ were brothers based on their personalities. “DJ was a soccer player,” Weemes said. “He’s also a baseball player, but he is all about chasing the girls and having a good time, and Eric is very subdued, laid-back and serious.” An accounting and human resources major at Toledo, Weemes is

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now in her fifth year as a part-time student. In May, Mom’s House of Toledo, an organization which helps low income, single mothers graduate from college, technical school and high school, honored Weemes as its Mom’s House Champion this year at the organization’s 18th anniversary dinner and auction at The Pinnacle in Maumee. “It was great,” Page said. “It was just great seeing her happy and just seeing her rewarded for all the time she put in. I mean, an award’s not going to be able to say how much she’s done for us, but it was a good honor.” Rockets head coach Tim Beckman was also in attendance at the event. “That’s what the whole thing’s all about: getting to know your players,” Beckman said. “Getting to know their families started when we first got here, when we first met Amy when we went out to eat on the official visit that first Friday night. That’s what it’s all about. That’s what you try to build, and that’s why there’s so much more to coaching than X’s and O’s.” ■ PAGE CONTINUES ON A24

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Homegrown star

Page kicked off his career at UT in 2009 by hauling in 12 catches for 128 yards and one touchdown in the season opener at Purdue, a Toledo freshman record. He went on to lead all freshmen wide receivers in the country with 82 catches for 1,159 yards.

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In 25 career games at Toledo, Page has registered 181 receptions for 2,264 yards and 15 touchdowns, impressive considering he always wanted to be a running back and played quarterback in high school. With two years remaining at UT — barring any injuries or unforeseen circumstances — Page needs just 49 receptions and 838 receiving

yards to pass Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Stephen Williams as Toledo’s all-time receptions leader and all-time leader in pass reception yardage, who holds the records for both categories. “I’m just taking it day by day,” Page said. “I’m not really feeling the pressure. I’ve got a lot of things to focus on right now with school and family. It’s just a great honor.” ✯

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AAA offering special membership for students AAA Northwest Ohio introduced a new student membership and website Aug. 15 exclusively for students ages 17 to 23. Students can take advantage of all that AAA memberships offer plus additional relevant benefits not offered with its other levels of membership. The student membership is available at a discounted price starting at $35.50 per year and guaranteed for four years. “The Student Membership offers peace of mind for parents and students, no matter where they are,” April Cochran, marketing operations manager for AAA Northwest Ohio based in Toledo, stated in a press release. Cochran said that AAA has students covered with bike assistance, safe ride and safe tow features to address the many uncertainties of life. With safe ride, AAA will reimburse the cost of a cab ride as an alternative option to one of its service calls if student members finds themselves stranded or otherwise unable to get home. As part of roadside assistance, the safe tow option will help the stu-

dent member if they are unable to drive home safely medical treatment, physical injury or even consumption of alcohol. Bicycle assistance is another addition to the benefits of AAA student membership. If a rider experiences a flat tire, broken chain or worse, AAA will transport the member and his or her bicycle to a point of safety within 25 miles. These new benefits are exclusive to the AAA Student Membership, Cochran reported. Student members can also take advantage of all other member discounts in addition to exclusive e-coupons. That includes discounts on insurance, travel, car maintenance and repair at any of the Car Care Plus facilities in the Toledo area. AAA Northwest Ohio offered the student membership as a way to provide younger members with an additional value to their AAA membership. Current AAA members who are eligible may switch to the student membership at their next renewal if they wish. Cochran reported that they already have had some students

sign up for it. “With AAA’s student membership, I can ride my bike to school and know I am covered. And I don’t have to fight for a parking spot ... bonus!” said Brandi Conners, a UT student and new AAA student member. “And it covers you if I’m stuck at a party and can’t drive home,” said Kyle Ostrander, another student member from BGSU. Cochran said AAA will promote the campaign at local colleges and universities during student events such as football games this fall. “Students can plan their spring break trips knowing they are covered and receive member discounts,” Cochran stated in the release. “With member discounts, AAA Insurance and Car Care Plus can help keep more money in the parents’ and college students’ wallets.” AAA also introduced AAACampus.com, a new customized website where students can select from a list of local schools and view interactive pages designed to emphasize all the benefits of AAA. For more information about the

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