{"id":22709,"date":"2019-01-17T12:05:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T17:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=22709"},"modified":"2019-01-17T12:05:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T17:05:07","slug":"saints-well-represented-on-team-ontario-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/saints-well-represented-on-team-ontario-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints well represented on Team Ontario football"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n

It may not have been the final score he was looking for, but Nathan Falconi can now say he scored a touchdown at AT&T Stadium.
\nThe St. Andrew\u2019s College student joined Team Ontario last week at the 2019 International Bowl against Team USA at the home of the NFL\u2019s Dallas Cowboys in Arlington, Texas.
\nThe only major for the Canadian squad in a 61 \u2013 7 defeat, the up-and-coming recruit in the class of 2020 still said he had \u201can absolutely amazing experience.\u201d
\nThe highly-touted receiver\/quarterback told canadafootballchat.com late last year he has been working hard to put his name in the mouth of scouts.
\n\u201cI have been training to make myself stronger and faster and have been working with a QB coach to improve my football and throwing.\u201d
\nStarting as a running back in his first season of football at the age of eight, Falconi switched to quarterback in his second season\u2026a move that has paid off in dividends, winning the first of seven Most Valuable Player awards that have come his way.
\n\u201cIf I had a chance to speak to all the scouts out there right now, I would describe my playing type as dual-threat QB, that works hard on and off the field and by being a leader to my teammates. No matter where I am on the field or position, I give nothing less than one-hundred percent and work just as hard to improve mentally and physically.\u201d
\nHis long resume, including a pair of MVP nods while on the Saints Jr. Varsity squad in 2017 and the Varsity squad in 2018, was instrumental in Falconi being chosen as a team captain for the Bowl.
\nJoining Falconi on the Arlington, Texas field was SAC teammate Brendan Dilworth, a centre\/defensive back for the Saints for the past three seasons.
\nThe six-foot-two, 265-lb. Dilworth said it is his physicality that gives him the edge to earn such prestigious opportunities.
\n\u201cThe thing I love about playing centre and defensive tackle is\u2026just the aggression and drive required to win one battle at a time using both physicality, mental strength, and technique.\u201d
\nDilworth will also join Falconi in the class of 2020.
\nSAC Varsity coach Len Gurr tweeted out that he was \u201cextremely proud\u201d of both Falconi and Dilworth, adding \u201cthe future is extremely bright\u201d for the players.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It may not have been the final score he was looking for, but Nathan Falconi can now say he scored a touchdown at AT&T Stadium.
\nThe St. Andrew\u2019s College student joined Team Ontario last week at the 2019 International Bowl against Team USA at the home of the NFL\u2019s Dallas Cowboys in Arlington, Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-5Uh","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 17:07:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}