• Follow us on Twitter @buckeyeplanet and @bp_recruiting, like us on Facebook! Enjoy a post or article, recommend it to others! BP is only as strong as its community, and we only promote by word of mouth, so share away!
  • Consider registering! Fewer and higher quality ads, no emails you don't want, access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Even if you just want to lurk, there are a lot of good reasons to register!

'12 OH LB Mason Monheim (Illinois signee)

http://www.chron.com/sports/article/Tale-of-2-Wayne-County-Ohio-football-players-2179788.php

Mason Monheim rushed 17 times for 173 yards and touchdown runs of 82 and 5 yards to lead Orrville (3-1) to a 35-12 victory over Lexington. Monheim's better known perhaps for his defensive prowess - he has offers from Big Ten and Mid-American Conference schools as a linebacker.

He stripped a Minuteman runner on one play and returned it 23 yards for a score. But he might have been even better on offense last week.

"Mason was incredible the way he ran the ball tonight," Orrville coach Doug Davault said. "On one play he must have run over about eight guys."
 
Upvote 0
one of monheim's teammates passed away last night, wanted to send along my thoughts and prayers to the entire Orrville community and to the family....will be very difficult to think about football tonight for these young men....
 
Upvote 0
Mason Monheim, future face of the Illini
Sat, 08/24/2013
Matt Daniels

0825_Monheim_VIDEO_still_CROPPED_RIGHT_0.jpeg


CHAMPAIGN ? No reporters surround Mason Monheim.

Yet.

No microphones or recorders are shoved in his face.

Yet.

No trip to Chicago for Big Ten Media Days.

Yet.

Sitting down at a rectangular table covered in an orange plastic tablecover, in front of plaques of NFL logos indicating where former Illinois players are currently playing, hardly anyone is paying attention to Monheim.

Media Day has just concluded at Memorial Stadium.

All of his teammates are walking down the hallway and into the team?s squadroom for a brief meeting. Monheim is about to join them on one of the padded blue cloth chairs set up like one would expect at a movie theater.

Before he does, though, the 6-foot-1, 235-pound linebacker from Orrville, Ohio, with the long flowing brown locks and freshly trimmed beard touts the advantages of his hometown.

Once more.

And its most well-known product.

Just like former Illinois men?s basketball player Meyers Leonard is connected to Hershey chocolate because his hometown, Robinson, has one of the company?s plants, Monheim is tied to Smuckers.

The company best known for its jelly and jam has its headquarters roughly 1 mile from the Monheim household in the small northeast Ohio town of 8,380.

?My aunts work for Smuckers,? Monheim said. ?My mom worked there when she was younger. When I go to the store, I?m not getting Welch?s. I?m getting Smuckers. I used to be more of a grape jelly guy, but I turned into a strawberry jam kind of guy lately.?

Every college football program has its kind of guy.

The guy fans can relate to when it comes to their favorite teams.

For Texas A&M, it?s Johnny Manziel. Alabama, AJ McCarron. Ohio State, Braxton Miller. South Carolina, Jadeveon Clowney.

Nathan Scheelhaase is perhaps most easily identified with Illinois. In 2013. Start at quarterback four consecutive seasons, like Scheelhaase will do, and the label fits.

But Scheelhaase will throw his final pass at some point this season.

Who fills the role after that? Who?s next?

Meet Monheim.

cont...

http://www.news-gazette.com/sports/...3-08-24/mason-monheim-future-face-illini.html
 
Upvote 0
Back
Top