Harmony lineman Alex Perez inks letter of intent to Maryville College

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Harmony lineman Alex Perez inks letter of intent to Maryville College

Sports

Saturday, 29 May 2010 12:21

By Rick Pedone
Sports Editor
Alex Perez already has the size, at 6-3, 260 pounds, to play college football.
The coaches at Maryville College in Maryville, Tenn. must agree since they issued him a grant recently as Perez prepared for graduation.
“They said I should expect to come in and start as a freshman,” Perez, who played guard for Harmony Coach Dayne Brown, said.
Perez, as they say, is all in.
“I’m planning to get a little bigger,” he said. “They do mostly zone blocking, so it shouldn’t be a hard adjustment. It’s pretty much take the guy across from you left or right.”
Perez, who also competed for the Longhorns track team this spring, attended a recruiting fair in Haines City after the football season and the Maryville coaching staff liked what it saw from his highlight video.
“I talked to the recruiting director (Shaun Hayes) first, then I got to know the offensive line coach (Jim Elliott) and it went pretty well,” Perez said.
Perez said playing for a successful program at Harmony prepared him for college football.
“Coach Brown is definitely a great coach. The first two years I was there, I played for Coach (Tyler) Anderson, and then Coach Brown came in. There was a little adjustment, but it was an easy transition,” Perez said.
Perez said he learned more than football at Harmony.
“When you play here, you learn discipline and that helps us,” he said. “They teach just as much about being a good person as they do about being a good football player.”
Maryville is a NCAA Division III school that competes in the seven-team USA South Atlantic Conference. The Flying Scots are coached by Tony Ierulli, who led the squad to a 4-6 record in 2009.
Perez is one of several Harmony football players who have signed letters of intent since the open signing period began in April.