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Thursday, February 02, 2012 by AMU Athletics Staff |
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Ave Maria University has announced the signing of its first football recruit for the 2012 season.
Frank Kelly, a 5'10", 175 lb two-way starter at Mount Carmel, will be the first student to attend Ave Maria from his high school. Frank started at both wide receiver and defensive back for Mount Carmel. In the 28 years that Coach Frank Lenti has been coaching at Mount Carmel, the football team has been to 14 state championships and won 10 state titles. In that time less than a dozen players have started both ways for the Illinois powerhouse program. Additionally Frank Kelly will be playing baseball for the Gyrenes next spring. He is the son of proud parents, Frank Sr. And Tina and loving brother to sister Jackie, a sophomore at Marist High School in Chicago.
Frank said it was the family atmosphere that he felt on his visit to the Ave Maria campus and his desire to continue to be a student athlete in two sports at a Catholic University that made him choose Ave Maria over a dozen other schools that recruited him.
Ave Maria head coach Kevin Joyce speaks of Frank Kelly; "Frank is a high character young man that comes from a great family. He has had great teachers and coaches, first at St. John Fisher Catholic Grammar School and then at Mount Carmel High School. Coach Frank Lenti is a legendary, hall of fame coach recognized throughout the country over the last quarter of a century. His past student-athletes include longtime NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb and other NFL players that you never hear about or read about having off the field problems. I know Frank Kelly will be a great addition to the Ave Maria University Family. He understands that athletics is a bonus to getting a phenomenal education deeply rooted in truth and faith."
