Pair of Windermere football players commit to FCS programs

Windermere Quarterback Jack Reilly and offensive lineman Noah Elkhander announce their commitments to play against one another in the Pioneer League.


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Noah Elkhander and Jack Reilly, members of the undefeated 2024 Windermere High football team, have announced their commitments to play college football. 

Reilly, the team’s senior quarterback, will be continuing his football career in Kentucky at Morehead State — an FCS team in the Pioneer League. In his lone season for the Wolverines, the transfer QB was lights out, throwing for 2,219 yards with 25 touchdowns and just three interceptions.

"We don't go 10-0 without Jack,” Windermere coach Riki Smith wrote in an Instagram post. “He deserves this, and I am extremely proud of him. Morehead State got themselves a good one.”

Elkhander, one of the offensive linemen who helped protect Reilly this season, will be playing his college ball in the Pioneer League. But instead of heading out of state, he’ll do it right down the road in DeLand for the Stetson Hatters. Despite missing time this season because of an injury, the 6-foot-6 senior received 20 total offers. 

"Noah faced a lot of adversity this past season but never wavered,” Smith said. “A wise man once said, ‘What’s for you is for you.’ Congrats Noah, and go be great at Stetson."

 

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A native of João Pessoa, Brazil, Sam Albuquerque moved in 1997 to Central Florida as a kid. After earning a communications degree in 2016 from the University of Central Florida, he started his career covering sports as a producer for a local radio station, ESPN 580 Orlando. He went on to earn a master’s degree in editorial journalism from Northwestern University, before moving to South Carolina to cover local sports for the USA Today Network’s Spartanburg Herald-Journal. When he’s not working, you can find him spending time with his lovely wife, Sarah, newborn son, Noah, and dog named Skulí.

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