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SOU football – Dylan Young and Austin Dodge lift the NAIA Championship trophy while Heston Altenbach looks on
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P.S. Matt Sayre isn’t fat. Here is a non-distorted version…
Athletic Director Matt Sayre looks on in Daytona Beach, Florida as the Raiders win the NAIA national championship
Austin Dodge
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… this happened.
David Weider, Kolby Koberstein, Gannon Schroder, Dylan Bratlie, Keegan Lawrence, and Nathaniel Timoteo
Daniel Breaux
Dylan Young
JJ Latu
Melvin Mason
Bubba Rylance, Max Proudfit, and Austin Dodge
Ben Bachman will be a sophomore, Jeremy Scottow will be a senior, and Sean McShane will be a senior in 2015.
Grant Torgerson will be a senior in 2015.
Melvin Mason will be a junior in 2015.
Thomas Giddens will be a senior in 2015.
Nathaniel Timoteo will be a senior in 2015.
Gannon Schroder and Tylor King will be seniors in 2015.
Aldrick Rosas, whose string or 116 consecutive PATs was broken this year but he has started another string of 15 to be continued next year, will be a junior in 2015.
Matt Retzlaff will be a junior in 2015.
I’m still getting lots of requests for prints of these photos of the football team in the NAIA Championship game. Instructions are in this earlier post.
2014 SOU football team @ Daytona International Speedway finish line
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2014 Rawlings NAIA Coach of the Year – Coach Howard
Aldrick Rosas had eight kickoffs that went for touchbacks in addition to being a perfect 7-7 in PATS and 2-2 in field goals including a 48 yarder
Walking on sunshine after another Melvin Mason touchdown
Alex Stork and Heston Altenbach
JJ Latu
Austin Dodge celebrates his final collegiate game
2014 NAIA Championship Game scoreboard and trophy
Coach Ken Fasnacht enjoys bus ride after the victory
SOU football practice in Daytona with Smith, Dodge, and Singler
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With the graduation of the 2014 NAIA Player of the Year, Austin Dodge, the biggest question with regard to the future of the Raider football team is “Who will be the quarterback in 2015 (and beyond)?”
Teran Togia, Larry Bowen, Jeremy Scottow, and QB Jack Singler on the sidelines in Chicago
Kamerun Smith taking a snap in Chicago when Austin Dodge’s helmet came off
All-American Daniel Breaux has graduated
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The SOU football team will be losing many of their seniors from the championship team for next season.
Dustin Fretwell has used up his eligibility and will be graduating with a degree in business
However, the national championship should help with recruiting top student athletes in future years.
Austin Dodge will of course be gone, but Melvin Mason (over 1,000 yards and 17 TDs in 2014) will be a junior in 2015.
In addition, all three of the running backs have at least two years remaining.
Sean Tow averaged 5.6 yards per carry in 2014 and will be a junior in 2015.
Keegan Lawrence averaged over 7 yards per carry and will be a sophomore in 2015.
Julius Rucker will be a junior in 2015.
#92 David Weider will be a senior, #26 Daniel Abernethy will be a sophomore, and #42 Isaiah Carter will also be a sophomore in 2015.
#10 Tevin Lake on Marian rushed for over 5,400 yards in his career, but the Raiders allowed only 68 of those yards on 18 carries.
Jaylenn Hart had 57 tackles this year and 3 interceptions against Marian. He will be a senior in 2015.
The future looks bright. More photos of next year’s returning players coming…
Coach Craig Howard on phone with Stan Smith “Mr. Raider” just prior to taking the field in Daytona
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Coach Howard had a quick conversation with Stan Smith a few minutes before the game began in which the Raiders won the NAIA National Championship. I’m not sure if Stan answered Coach Howard’s question and gave him his ring size then, but he better tell him now.
P.S. I still have many more photos from the game that I will be posting here. They are now spilling over onto additional pages. To see all of the photos I have posted so far click here, here, and here. For photos from Florida not necessarily directly tied to the game (but sometimes containing SOU football players) click here and here.
2014 SOU football team in Daytona Beach, Florida
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Municipal Stadium locker room (Daytona Beach, Florida)
I had never been in the SOU locker room prior to or during a game before. I don’t want to disturb anything, anybody, or be any sort of obstacle to the players or coaches. I was told I could go in for photos of the pre-game speech during this epic, championship game though. To see what it would be like, where I should stand, and to get my camera settings correct for the speech, I went in while everyone was on the field a half hour or so before game time. The above photo is the result.
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After the bus ride back to the hotel, the post-game recap took place in the Hilton rather than the normal location of on the field.
Max Proudfit and Coach Howard
SOU football post game in Hilton Daytona with Sean McShane, Sean Tow, and Grant Torgerson
Before the game, Coach Howard came out to the tailgate to give the fans a speech. ESPNU later aired his words in the first half of the game. Part of what he said included, “Let’s all jump in that ocean together after this game.” He kept his promise.
Coach Howard coming out of the Atlantic Ocean after claiming the 2014 NAIA Championship
Coach Howard shakes hands with Athletic Director Matt Sayre as President Roy Saigo looks on with friends, fans, and family – Sloppy Joe’s Daytona Beach
125+ more photos from the 2014 NAIA Championship can be found here.
offensive line
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2014 NAIA Player of the Year Austin Dodge
defensive line
Kelii Padello
Coach Greg Stewart and the running backs
Alex Stork, Mylz Blake, and Tyler Rogers
Coach Nathan Chin and the defensive backs
Senior Bubba Rylance and Coach Howard
shout out to Mr. Raider Stan Smith
outside linebackers