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Alter’s Roark walks on at Ohio State
Add Alter’s Chris Roark to the list of area players walking on to Ohio State’s football team.
That list also includes Tom Ingham, a junior defensive end from Centerville who was noted several times last season in coach Jim Tressel’s weekly news conference for his work on the scout team.
Roark is listed as a wide receiver, but he was primarily a running back at Alter, part of the powerful backfield that, at one point, contained Michael Shaw. He’s not on the roaster posted at the Ohio State athletics website, but he is on the roster posted on Tressel’s site.
As far as the treatment of walk-ons, Ryan Lukens praises Tressel:
“With coach Tressel, if you are on the team you are on the team,” Ryan Lukens said. “He knows everyone, whether you are a walk-on or a starter. I remember that first year being amazed that he knew every kid, their hometown, their high school, their high school coach, everything. He’s just amazing with that stuff.”
And what can Roark do to get himself noticed by the coaches? This advice from former successful walk-on Drew Norman:
I’d say probably my work ethic. You hear all the time about the guy who wears his hard hat and just brings his lunch pail to work every day. I’d like to think I was that way. I always spent extra time in the weight room and I always did well on the conditioning test. If they ever needed volunteers for anything, I was willing to help.
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