{"id":53225,"date":"2016-05-19T20:22:01","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T03:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=53225"},"modified":"2016-05-20T07:56:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T14:56:55","slug":"san-marinos-crowley-wicke-accept-appointments-to-united-states-coast-guard-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=53225","title":{"rendered":"San Marino&#8217;s Crowley, Wicke Accept Appointments to United States Coast Guard Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_53226\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=53226\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53226\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53226\" class=\"wp-image-53226 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/wicke-crowley--e1463714144238-1007x768.jpg\" alt=\"wicke- crowley\" width=\"520\" height=\"397\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrick Crowley (left) and Mark Wicke of San Marino High School have accepted appointments to the USCGA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n<p>(San Marino) &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Seniors Patrick Crowley\u00a0and Mark Wicke\u00a0of San Marino High School have accepted their 2016 appointments to the United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA).<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Wicke and Crowley will continue their collegiate football careers at the USCGA, a Division III school in New London, Connecticut.\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Both young men were 2015 All-Rio Hondo League football selections:\u00a0 Wicke was first team All-RHL at LB;\u00a0 Crowley was first team All-RHL at DB and PK.\u00a0 Both players were also selected to the All-CIF SS Central Division team.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wicke\u2019s twin brother, Arthur, has also accepted his 2016 appointment to the USCGA and will play tennis.\u00a0 Crowley\u2019s older brother, Chip, will return as a 3c (sophomore) cadet on the USCGA football team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Following graduation, USCGA cadets serve a five year service commitment as commissioned officers in the United States Coast Guard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_50812\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tangent-Dreams-School-Football-Novel-ebook\/dp\/B01ABCBLH2\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1461875543&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=tangent+dreams\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50812\" class=\"wp-image-50812 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tangentdreams_jpg-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;A page turner...I'm sorry it's over! Is a sequel in the works?&quot; &quot;Torosian does for high school football what Hemingway did for the Spanish Civil War...compelling look beyond the scoreboard and into the lives of players...&quot; &quot;A truly great story unfolds in the pages of Joe Torosian's first novel. With high school football at its core, the story of Dale Andrade shows how a young man grows in all aspects of his life thanks to being a part of a team and a football community.&quot; \u201cThis is a great read for everyone: from those who love high school football to those who have no idea about the game.\u201d &quot;This book brings you onto the field and into the locker room...&quot; Joe Torosian's high school football novel is available through Amazon.com --click pic-- (Cover by Pat Cherry www.blackheartart.com)\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>&#8220;A page turner&#8230;I&#8217;m sorry it&#8217;s over! Is a sequel in the works?&#8221;<\/strong><br \/> <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>&#8220;Torosian does for high school football what Hemingway did for the Spanish Civil War&#8230;compelling look beyond the scoreboard and into the lives of players&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><br \/> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>&#8220;A truly great story unfolds in the pages of Joe Torosian&#8217;s first novel. With high school football at its core, the story of Dale Andrade shows how a young man grows in all aspects of his life thanks to being a part of a team and a football community.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><br \/> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>\u201cThis is a great read for everyone: from those who love high school football to those who have no idea about the game.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><br \/> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>&#8220;This book brings you onto the field and into the locker room&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><br \/> <strong>Joe Torosian&#8217;s high school football novel is available through Amazon.com &#8211;click pic&#8211;<\/strong><br \/> <strong>(Cover by Pat Cherry www.blackheartart.com)<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (San Marino) &#8211;\u00a0Seniors Patrick Crowley\u00a0and Mark Wicke\u00a0of San Marino High School have accepted their 2016 appointments to the United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[871],"tags":[2416,11798,3542,365,10644,11882,6344,7903,11755,11883,11884],"class_list":["post-53225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","tag-cif","tag-high-school-football-novel","tag-joe-t","tag-joe-torosian","tag-mark-wicke","tag-patrick-crowley","tag-rio-hondo-league","tag-san-marino-football","tag-tangent-dreams","tag-united-states-coast-guard-academy","tag-uscga"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53225"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53248,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53225\/revisions\/53248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}