IDA – Owen Snyder’s first pass attempt for Ida’s varsity football team is seared into his memory.

“It was a playoff game against Clinton,” he recalled. “I rolled to my right and threw it, I think to Kirby Carsten, and the Clinton guy picked it off.”

It was an inauspicious start.

But, to be fair to Snyder, he never was supposed appear in the playoff game.

He was a freshman summoned to the varsity for the playoffs. He was forced into action when starter Nathan Miller went down with an injury.

“He got beat up in that game,” Snyder said of Miller. “He was also playing defense and had like 20 tackles.”

The interception was crucial in Snyder’s development.

“It motivated me to go out and do better,” he said. “It made me hungry.”

Snyder took over as Ida’s starting QB the next fall and has

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