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Goebel, Short making adjustment to new lives
By Dave Oberhelman | Daily Herald Columnist
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 Garrett Goebel
The final Sidelines column of the academic year traditionally catches up with the DuPage sports staff's selections as male and female senior athletes of the prior term. The choices for 2007-08 were Garrett Goebel of Montini and Casey Short of Naperville Central.
Reached Tuesday at his new off-campus apartment near The Ohio State University, where he enters the summer as a redshirt freshman defensive tackle for the Buckeyes, Goebel had one final test on Thursday, for a class in theater.
"You have to learn about the directors, the designing process, the actor's role, stuff like that," said the 2007 Suburban Catholic Conference lineman of the year and two-time state heavyweight wrestling champion. "I wished I wouldn't have taken it. I thought it would be an easy A."
Such are college life's harsh realities. Goebel, however, wasn't handcuffed by his classes as a freshman, earning an honors-worthy 3.59 grade-point average going into a final quarter in which he carried 17 credit hours. Nearly as important, the newly independent young man felt compelled to clean up his room without his mother, Judi, hounding him.
"It's been different," Goebel said of his post-Villa Park experience.
Heading perhaps to a degree in construction systems management or business - his father, Greg, is in construction - Goebel said most of this year was spent either practicing football, training or studying. Occasionally he'd get a kick out of playing video football with new friends like dorm roommate Zach Domicone, a redshirt safety from Xenia, Ohio.
The 6-foot-5, 280-pound Goebel said he's a second-team defensive tackle on Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel's depth chart. Goebel felt good about spring football, he said, and likes defensive line coach Jim Heacock, also Ohio State's defensive coordinator.
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