Academic All-American Sewall Helps Sycamores Football from Zero to Winning
The Western Springs resident and former Lyons Township star has shone with the Indiana State football team, which climbed from winless to two straight plus-.500 seasons.
Alex Sewall had faith in Trent Miles and in Indiana State football. The Lyons Township football team’s 2007 MVP and a prize graduate of the Western Springs Junior Football Association put his faith in a program mired in a terrible losing streak and all but abandoned by its university. He put his faith in Miles, the newly-hired coach with a vision to somehow turn around the suffering Sycamores. Today, Sewall graduates the Indiana State program with not only the individual honors of being a CoSIDA 1st Team Academic All-American safety (an All-American dream team quarterbacked by surefire no. 1 NFL draft pick Andrew Luck,) but with the reward for that faith: two winning seasons under his team’s collective belt. The rise of the Sycamores has …
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Michael Sewall
10:08 pm on Friday, February 10, 2012
Way to go, Alex! You make our family proud. We all have a great work ethic (thanks to Mom and Dad) but this accomplishment is the greatest proof of that. An Athletic All-American and an Academic All-American...all I can say is well done. Thanks, Darren, for the article! more ›