{"id":15564,"date":"2011-08-24T01:36:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T06:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=15564"},"modified":"2011-08-24T02:27:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T07:27:11","slug":"tsds-dalton-etkie-hopes-for-another-record-setting-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2011\/08\/24\/tsds-dalton-etkie-hopes-for-another-record-setting-season\/","title":{"rendered":"TSD’s Dalton Etkie hopes for another record-setting season"},"content":{"rendered":"

TSD’s Dalton Etkie hopes for another record-setting season<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Danny Davis<\/p>\n

AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF<\/p>\n

Published: August 21, 2011<\/p>\n

Dalton Etkie is not that different from the other high school quarterbacks
\nin Central Texas .<\/p>\n

Like Hutto’s Ryan Higgins, Etkie, a junior at the Texas School for the Deaf
\n, set single-season passing records for his school last season. Like Zed
\nWoerner at Marble Falls and Tanner Rogers at Blanco, Etkie plays for a head
\ncoach who also is his father. Like Copperas Cove’s Orlando Thomas, Etkie
\ndreams of one day playing for the University of Texas.<\/p>\n

“Deaf or hearing, it’s really the same, we just can’t hear,” Etkie said
\nrecently, speaking through an interpreter .<\/p>\n

Etkie, who was born deaf, is coming off a sophomore season in which he set
\nschool records for passing yards and touchdown passes in a season. He also
\nset a single-game mark by throwing for 412 yards against St. Dominic Savio.
\nA backup as a freshman , Etkie led the Rangers to a 3-9 record and an
\nappearance in the TAPPS Division III playoffs in 2010.<\/p>\n

When the Rangers open the 2011 season on Friday with a home game against
\nPrince of Peace Christian, they will be led by a quarterback who threw for
\n2,392 yards and 21 scores last year.<\/p>\n

“He’s a little raw with his skills, but he’s a competitor,” Regents coach
\nBeck Brydon said of the 6-foot-1-inch, 175-pound Etkie. “They’ve got a good
\nathlete at the quarterback position.”<\/p>\n

This season, TSD will play in a district that includes Bryan St. Joseph ,
\nthe Giddings State School and Regents, which won the Division III state
\nchampionship in 2010 . The Rangers will start the season with varsity and
\njunior varsity teams, and varsity head coach Kelvin Etkie estimated that he
\nhas about 40 athletes in his program.<\/p>\n

On the field, the Rangers wear wristbands they consult for plays. (Last
\nseason, the playbook listed more than 50.) Etkie receives signals from the
\nsideline, and he relays them to his teammates. “He explains it to us clearly
\nso that we can understand it and so we know what the plays are,” senior wide
\nreceiver Jonathan Ford said.<\/p>\n

A communication barrier typically limits the Rangers’ interactions with
\ntheir opponents to facial expressions and fist pumps, although Ford admitted
\nthat the team does exchange smack talk when it plays another state school
\nfor the deaf. The Rangers also don’t talk much with the referees, and
\nalthough the team had a trainer last year who spoke and signed, she was used
\nas a last resort to question calls.<\/p>\n

“If it’s a bad call, we can live with it and move on,” Kelvin Etkie said.<\/p>\n

Kelvin \u2014 who is deaf along with his wife, Marlene, and each of their four
\nchildren \u2014 has been associated with TSD since 1993, coaching various sports
\nat the school since 1998. Marlene teaches second grade at the school. Kylene
\n, the oldest of the three Etkie daughters, set school records for aces and
\ndigs in a volleyball season last year, when she was a freshman .<\/p>\n

Kelvin Etkie began coaching his son in football when Dalton played in a
\nyouth league with children who weren’t deaf. Kelvin stepped in to serve as
\nan interpreter and coach. Etkie, who has a 4-17 record after two football
\nseasons as TSD, then began to assist his son with baseball, basketball,
\nsoccer and wrestling.<\/p>\n

Now, the duo is trying to lead the Rangers’ football team to back-to-back
\nplayoff berths. This season, Dalton hopes to cut down on his 23
\ninterceptions of a year ago, when he completed 50.6 percent of his passes.<\/p>\n

“It’s kind of odd, my dad being my coach,” Etkie said. “But when I play
\nfootball, I look at him as a coach, not as my father. When we’re done, he
\ngoes back to being my dad.”<\/p>\n

Etkie said he is comfortable at TSD, and “I’ve always just wanted to stay
\nhere until I graduate.” However, he occasionally wonders what it would be
\nlike to attend a bigger school. Etkie lives in Bowie’s attendance zone , and
\nhe sometimes sees the Bulldogs out on the practice field.<\/p>\n

“I drive by and I see them out there on the field and I feel like I want to
\njoin them, but,” Dalton Etkie said.<\/p>\n

“You want to join them? Do you think you’d be the quarterback? ” his father
\ninterrupted.<\/p>\n

“No, I’d be at a different position.”<\/p>\n

“Like what?”<\/p>\n

“Something on defense or tight end,” Etkie said, before pausing. “Or I could
\nplay quarterback.”<\/p>\n

danieldavis@statesman.com; 445-3952<\/p>\n

Source:<\/p>\n

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TSD’s Dalton Etkie hopes for another record-setting season By Danny Davis AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Published: August 21, 2011 Dalton Etkie is not that different from the other high school quarterbacks in Central Texas . Like Hutto’s Ryan Higgins, Etkie, a junior…<\/p>\n

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