Not just for kicks
North Catholic junior Rylee Kumer is a place-kicker for the Trojans football team this season. Submitted Photo8/30/22
North Catholic girls soccer goalkeeper adds football to her talents
CRANBERRY TWP — North Catholic needed a kicker. Rylee Kumer needed a challenge.
So the two found each other.
“Our kicker from last year (Ethan Marsico) graduated,” Trojan football coach Patrick O’Shea said. “Rylee approached us in February about trying out for the team as our kicker. I could tell how serious she was.
“We told her she could give it a shot.”
Then she was around all the time.
Rylee put in the weight room work every day. She worked out with the team during the summer. She practiced kicking a football on her own time.
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