Overlea High School sophomore wrestler Marcus Chase, a novice who began the year on the Falcons' junior varsity team only to be called up to the varsity level in late December and help Overlea beat Eastern Tech for the first time in two decades, was named the U.S. Army Impact Player of the Month for February.
Chase was nominated for the award by Overlea athletic director Bruce Malinowski and head wrestling coach Craig Rollins.
"It warms my heart to be able to show a young man how much an old coach appreciates his dedication, his want-to, his drive," Rollins said. "... There's so much entertainment distractions out there, so to see a young man do things an old-school way and come to practice on time and listen and work hard and … to keep pushing no matter what, and to be able to step up to a challenge and to a task that a coach has asked him to do with no experience, it meant a lot to me."
