Having three seniors represent Anne Arundel County as starters for the Navy football program is a phenomenon that has never occurred in the past and may never happen again in the future.
The trials and tribulations of Pasadena resident and Archbishop Spalding graduate Zach Abey, who went from playing quarterback to wide receiver to quarterback again, have been chronicled at length.
However, those of Meade High graduate Jake Hawk and Severn School alum Jarid Ryan are not as well versed.
Hawk and Ryan were both standout high school athletes whose path to Annapolis first stopped at the Naval Academy Prep School in Newport, R.