Five questions with Silas Kelly, South Carroll defensive back & UMD commit

How does your team look this year?

 

Our team is looking solid this year. We’ve got a lot of key guys coming back and some rising juniors that have been doing a lot of good work over the summer. The whole team has been in the weight room throughout the summer. We lost our leading rusher (Chris Gavin), and quarterback, but we have a very capable back in Steven Baca who will fill in Gavin’s shoes and a promising quarterback in junior A.J. Linn. We also have a solid line and a strong defense that will make it very tough for opposing defenses to score.

 

What are expectations team wise?

 

Team wise our expectations are the same as always. We expect to be playing in the state championship. That’s always the goal in mind and the reason we put in so many hours in the weight room and out on the field. We are all hungry for a state championship and we expect nothing less.

 

For yourself?

 

My personal goals are very simple. Anything and everything I can do to help my team achieve our goal of winning a state championship. I strive so hard to be accountable to my teammates and do everything in my power to contribute to a state championship.

 

What do you bring to the table?

 

Personally I’m a guy that will do anything to help my team win. I don’t think about myself before the team. I don’t care if I have the best game of my life as long as at the end of the day I can look back and say I did everything I could for my brothers and can see the scoreboard lighting up in our favor.

 

What does it mean to you on committing to play football at University of Maryland?

 

It’s such a blessing. I just need to thank everyone who has helped me get to where I am today because I wouldn’t have this opportunity without my folks, friends, girlfriend, and all of the coaches who have helped me become the competitive athlete and man I am today. I can’t think of a better school to play for than UMD. My dream school in my home state. It doesn’t get much better than that. I just want to go out there and do my best to thank all of my teammates, my family, friends and coaches for helping me grow along the way.

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Kyle McFadden is a graduate from Linganore High's Class of 2014 and is a sports enthusiast. He got his start as a sports writer in January 2014 for LHS's student newspaper The Lance where he wrote 13 articles. McFadden then launched his own blog in October 2014 called The Beltway Dispatch covering collegiate, local high school, and professional sports. Formally known as The Beltway Dispatch, McFadden and Evan Engelhard merged each other's respective platforms in June 2015 to make what is now Maryland Sports Access. He brings plenty of sports knowledge to the helm of MSA as he has baseball, basketball and golf experience. McFadden covers a wide variety of sports in football, baseball, basketball, golf, hockey, lacrosse, soccer and specializes in the collegiate and high school level's. McFadden is volunteers his time at Damascus Road Community Church -- serving as a mentor to the youth, basketball coach at the varsity and junior varsity levels, and leads a small group of high school sophomores every Wednesday night. Although he has only been around journalism since January 2014, his work has appeared in Maryland newspapers such as The Daily Times (Delmarva Now), The Hometown Observer, Germantown Pulse, and regularly in the The Frederick News-Post. He's also won two Frederick News-Post Mike Powell Excellence in Journalism awards and has appeared on The Best of SNO, which showcases top student work of high school and college journalists. McFadden also holds positions at The Frederick News-Post as a freelance sports journalist, DMVelite as a high school basketball writer and analyst, MocoFootball.com as a Maryland high school football analyst, and as a staff writer for Maryland's Yahoo! Rivals. McFadden currently studies at Frederick Community College and plans to transfer to the University of Maryland in the fall of 2017 to work on a bachelor's degree in business and journalism as he has aspirations to be a columnist for ESPN.
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