Look at him now.

Waubonsie Valley’s Colin Ford didn’t win a summer-long battle for the starting quarterback job last season, but how he handled that news with grace and maturity won over first-year coach Adam Pucylowski .

Josh Siekierski , who was entering his senior year, received the nod over Ford, then a junior. And the Warriors went out and made the playoffs for the first time since 2018.

“Colin wasn’t happy by any means,” Pucylowski said of Ford’s reaction last fall. “Any kid that’s a competitor like he is can go one of two ways.

“Since we are in this age now of the transfer portal at the college level, you can shut down and start asking yourself, ‘Where can I go?’ It’s starting to trickle into high school, which is sad.”

That wasn’t Ford’s way, however.

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