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'11 NY DE Ishaq Williams (Notre Dame signee)

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Williams changes the game, stays 'calm, collected'
The Associated Press
Wednesday, September 1, 2010

BROOKLYN, N.Y. ? Abraham Lincoln High School has always been known as a basketball school, turning out NBA players like Stephon Marbury and Sebastian Telfair.

Ishaq Williams is changing that.

The 6-foot-5, 225-pound defensive end-tight end has taken Railsplitters football to an entirely new level. He's attracted 30 written scholarship offers from the likes of national champion Alabama as well as Notre Dame, Penn State, Miami, Florida, Oklahoma, Nebraska, USC, and UCLA.
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Free Rivals - Williams shows character through tragedy

Jason King
Rivals.com Football Recruiting

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - When Ishaq Williams visits Syracuse, Notre Dame and a handful of other schools in the next few months, the nation's fourth-ranked weakside defensive end will make sure to pack a jersey.

Not his own, but the one his younger brother wore at Abraham Lincoln High School.

Emmanuel Williams was 15 when he was shot and killed on April 23. Nearly seven months later, Ishaq still feels his sibling's presence.

"The jersey is symbolic," he says. "It makes it seem like he's right there with me. We always said we were going to get to the next level together. Now I'll have to do it by myself."

At this point, it'd be foolish to doubt Williams, whose character off the field is even more impressive than his accomplishments on it.

Williams, for instance, recently asked Lincoln coach Shawn O'Connor to give him his recruiting letters in private instead of making a scene in front of the entire team.

"He was embarrassed by the attention," O'Connor says.

During an unofficial visit to Penn State two weeks ago, Williams noticed an elderly lady struggling to carry a carton of bottled water to a tailgate. Shaun Williams says his son darted across the parking lot, took the water from the woman's arms and walked with her to her destination.

Academically, Williams is a B student who did enough coursework to graduate after this semester and enroll at a university. He earned a 990 on the SAT, which is amazing considering he took the test the morning after his brother's funeral. "In my mind, I didn't have any choice," Williams says. "It was something I had to do."

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