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2021 Football team captains

Football Announces Team Captains for 2021 Season

Four seniors will lead IWU in 2021

6/7/2021 3:22:00 PM

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - Illinois Wesleyan University's football team announced its team captains for the 2021 season. Providing leadership for the squad will be seniors Jake Buhe (Frankfort, Ill.-Lincoln-Way East), Nicholas DeGregorio (Mokena, Ill.-Lincoln-Way Central), AJ Lust (Springfield, Ill.-Sacred Heart-Griffin), and Bo Neidballa (Winfield, Ill.-Wheaton North). Additionally, the Titans also unveiled their 21-member football council for the upcoming 2021-22 academic year.

The captains are voted by the team. A tradition that typically takes place near the end of "Spring Ball," was held following the completion of IWU's four-game spring season.

Buhe will serve as team captain for the second straight season, while it will be the first year as captain for DeGregorio, Lust, and Neidballa.

Illinois Wesleyan's football council consists of six seniors, six juniors, and nine sophomores. Joining the four senior captains on the council are seniors Jacob Finfer (Highland Park, Ill.-Highland Park) and Jack Dawson (Peoria, Ill.-Peoria Notre Dame), juniors Connor Murphy (Aurora, Ill.-Metea Valley), Matthew Milan (Lemont, Ill.-Lemont Township), Fernando Chavez (Plainfield, Ill.-Joliet Catholic), Zach Bozarth (Worden, Ill.-Metro-East Lutheran), Anthony Wachal Jr. (Elk Grove Village, Ill.-Conant), and Charlie Hamilton (Springfield, Ill.-Sacred Heart-Griffin), along with sophomores Sage Shindler (Chicago, Ill.-Walter Payton), Seth Albin (Midlothian, Ill.-Oak Forest), Eli Lamb (Farmington, Mo.-Farmington), Maddox Swanstrom (Lemont, Ill.-Lemont), Arthur Chatt (LaGrange, Ill.-Lyons Township), Kevin Kuchta (Frankfort, Ill.-Lincoln-Way East), Maguire Pallissard (Frankfort, Ill.-Lincoln-Way East), Joel Baer (Eureka, Ill.-Eureka), and Joshua Klein (Glen Carbon, Ill.-Edwardsville). 

The Titans open the 2021 campaign under verteran head coach Norm Eash in September. Illinois Wesleyan will be led by 49 letterwinners from 2020 squad.


 
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