Tyler Goodman, a quarterback from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, chose to play his college football at Division-III Nichols College just outside of Boston after bonding with two coaches who were with him during the February shooting at the Parkland, Fla. high school.
QB commits to D-III program after school’s coaches ‘went into father mode’ during Parkland shooting
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Paul Brower is the assistant dean of enrollment and the head tennis coach at Nichols College, which is located in Dudley, Massachusetts. He and assistant football coach St. Clair Ryan were at Stoneman Douglas High on Feb. 14 to recruit Goodman and some other players when a gunman opened fire and killed 17 students.
Goodman hid in a room with several football teammates, his coach and Brower and Ryan during the shooting, per the Associated Press.
“Coach Brower and Coach Ryan kind of went into father mode,” Goodman told WFXT television in Boston on Wednesday. “Being stuck with two recruiting coaches in such a tragic moment, we kind of formed that bond.”
Goodman announced his commitment to the school on Feb. 23, tweeting “This one’s for all 17 people I lost from my home.”
Goodman said on Wednesday that he hopes to wear No. 17 in college to honor the 17 slain students from Parkland.
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