Towne Athlete Meet

TOWNE ATHLETE

Myles Fulton

Old Mill High School Football, Baseball

By Tom Worgo

Old Mill senior Myles Fulton looks like the ideal quarterback. Fulton is 6-foot-5 and 200 pounds with an extremely strong arm and excellent mobility. However, he didn’t get much of a chance to showcase his skills during his first two years as a starter for the Patriots. Old Mill employed an I-formation offense, which emphasized running the ball—over and over again.

Fulton threw only 10 touchdowns combined during his sophomore and junior seasons. “My highest TD game was two touchdown passes during my sophomore year against Annapolis,” Fulton says. “We always had really good running backs and a really good offensive line. We would just dominate teams on

HE IS REALLY ABLE TO SHOW OFF HIS STRENGTHS. YOU CAN SEE IT WHEN HE PLAYS THAT HE HAS A LOT OF CONFIDENCE.”

the ground. I don’t have a problem with it because we would just keep winning.”

Things changed when Mike Pfisterer took over as head coach in the offseason. Pfisterer runs a spread offense, which features multiple wide receivers. This has Fulton throwing the ball a lot every game. He’s dying for the chance.

“I have been working on my passing for so long,” says Fulton, a Severn resident who also plays baseball for Old Mill. “I never really got the chance to throw the ball as often as I wanted to. Now, we are opening up the offense.”

Indeed. Fulton and the Patriots are thriving using the spread. At the time of this writing, he’s thrown 17 touchdowns and only two interceptions as Old Mill got to an impressive 5-1 start.

“He knows he is able to really show off his strengths this year,” Pfisterer says. “He has a really strong arm. He can throw the deep ball accurately as well as intermediate throws. He can run if he needs to. He has the whole package.”

The 17-year-old Fulton says being able to showcase his skills has put him in a position to play college football. It’s always been a huge goal. He has been recruited by Saint Francis, Towson, and Bowie State. “I think it has put me in a major position to get a scholarship to go play football in college,” says Fulton, who carries a 3.4 grade-point average. “All these college coaches are texting me now. That wasn’t the deal before.”

Pfisterer adds, “He definitely has piqued the interest of a lot of college coaches. His arm strength is the best I have seen in 18 years of coaching.”

Fulton was determined to put himself in a position to get noticed this past summer by attending football camps. He attended camps at Fordham, James Madison, Towson, Stoneybrook, Maryland, and Frostburg. The previous two summers, he went to two camps each year.

“I had no colleges looking at me, so I just wanted to get my name out there,” Fulton says. “Going to these camps helped me in a lot of ways. I am a much better quarterback. I have become a smarter quarterback. I really improved my footwork. I have never worked on football as much as I did this summer.”

Clearly, Fulton has elevated his play in 2021. He threw five touchdowns passes and for 293 yards in a romp over Meade in early October. In a mid-September game, he completed 14 of 20 passes for four touchdowns and 248 yards.

“He is like a coach on the field,” Pfisterer says. “He is really able to show off his strengths. You can see it when he plays that he has a lot of confidence.”

Fulton’s skills can’t be overlooked on the baseball field, either. He plays center field and batted .407 last year with a .484 on-base percentage. “He is every bit as gifted in baseball as he is in football,” Old Mill Baseball Coach Charlie Chaffin says. “Everybody who sees him who is deeply into baseball, their eyes just open at his talent. He has everything you want in a baseball player: size, speed, good instincts, and a great arm. He could absolutely play college baseball.”

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