{"id":33316,"date":"2013-07-17T18:49:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T01:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=33316"},"modified":"2017-06-10T10:46:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T17:46:29","slug":"mid-spotlight-marqus-valenzuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=33316","title":{"rendered":"Mid Spotlight: Marqus Valenzuela"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Keppel<\/a>

Keppel Quarterback Marqus Valenzuela<\/p><\/div>\n

Marqus Valenzuela: Keppel- Quarterback, # 12, Sr. <\/strong><\/p>\n

2012 Stats (with San Gabriel) – 213-335-3190 Yards, 21 TD, 10 Int.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some people are wondering why a quarterback with the ability and\u00a0stature of Marqus Valenzuela would go to\u00a0Keppel.\u00a0I say why not? It would have been easy to go to Monrovia or Bishop Amat or another school high on everybody’s radar.\u00a0Valenzuela wasn’t necessarily looking for easy. If nothing else, it proves that Valenzuela’s transfer was\u00a0not athletically\u00a0motivated. No, that wasn’t a factor here.\u00a0Valenzuela\u00a0carries a 3.8 GPA and for him it was a matter of things working out in the classroom. It wasn’t a coaching problem, it was\u00a0a teacher problem\u00a0and as a senior Valenzuela didn’t need problems there.\u00a0On the field he’s pretty darn good too. He threw for over 3000 yards and 21 touchdowns last year in Jude Oliva’s high powered offense at San Gabriel.\u00a0He brings a spark and a motivation to Keppel that hasn’t been there in the past.<\/p>\n

“We need to start learning about what it’s like to win. We need to go out there and expect to win,” Valenzuela said last week at the SGV Shootout. “That will come eventually. We’ve been working hard in the summer to get better.”<\/p>\n

Will Valenzuela\u00a0suddenly lead the Aztecs to a league title and beyond? Probably not. But there already is a buzz around Keppel that was missing previously. As I was walking from\u00a0one field to another Saturday a local coach stopped\u00a0me. “Hey do you know where Keppel is playing?”<\/p>\n

“Yeah over there,”\u00a0I replied pointing to a back field.<\/p>\n

“Ok great.\u00a0Thanks.\u00a0They got that new quarterback. I got to go check it out,” he said as he rushed off to see the Aztecs.<\/p>\n

I’m trying to remember the last time somebody…anybody…asked me where Keppel was playing. Um, how about never.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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