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Article: SWIFT STUDY PACES WHITTIER HEREDIA PILES UP YARDS AS TAILBACK
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 26, 2002
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HAVERHILL - Learning how to be a running back is a difficult task.
Add 230-pound linebackers to the mix, and, well, learning on the job
can be intimidating.
But to Angel Heredia, his first season as a tailback was a cinch.
A senior standout at Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High
School, Heredia proved last season that running backs do not have to
be sculpted over a long period of time - it took him about one month
to learn the position.
After transferring from Haverhill High in 2000, Heredia played in
one game that fall, on a special teams unit.
"I was really nervous and intimidated by the older kids," he said
about playing as a 14-year-old sophomore.
But he spent the season learning ...