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DEL.ICIO.USRecruiting Profile Q&A: GAC’s Colton Chapple
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Greater Atlanta Christian quarterback Colton Chapple, who was selected to the AJC’s The Georgia 150 list, is being recruited by Vanderbilt, Duke and Princeton, among others. Chapple, who wants to become a doctor, talked with staff writer Jay Stone about football, recruiting and college.
— On making official visits: “Me and my parents decided we were going to focus on me and my team right now, and we’ll worry about recruiting after the season is over.”
— On which school he’s always been a fan of: “I’ve been a fan of Wake Forest ever since Ben Wooster signed with them, and Micah Andrews from [GAC] went there. I watched them when I was a little kid at GAC. I’ve always been a fan of [Georgia], but that kind of stopped when my brother signed with Georgia Southern.”
— On his nickname: “Taylor Boone [a lineman at GAC] was watching ‘Friday Night Lights’ and picked up QB 1 and started calling me that, and they call me QB 18 sometimes.”
— On the most doctor-like thing he’s done: “Last year I was top 10 in my anatomy class, and the top 10 in that class got to go sit in on an autopsy. Some of us got to help with the autopsy, and I actually got to remove some of the organs. When we first got to the place I was gagging a little bit myself. The first 10 minutes just blew me away. The whole class was shocked. Our eyes and mouths were just wide open, and those people were just acting like it was nothing.”
— On how much time the recruiting process is consuming: “I’m sending out my film. I’m talking to a couple of schools right now that are calling me. I can’t really take visits during the season, because football is seven days a week for us. My main focus is GAC right now.”
— On what he’d be if not for football: “A full-time baseball player.”
— On what he’s looking for in a college program: “There are a couple things. I like a good balance of strong academics and a winning tradition on the field. Another thing I really look for is how the position coach coaches the kids. I saw how the QB coach at the camps I’ve been to coach their kids, and that helped me prioritize the schools.”
— On the first school to make contact: “The first personal contact I had with a school was Liberty or Wofford.”
— On interacting with fans: “I know a couple of little kids and they like for me to throw footballs to them and say hi to them. We don’t really do much in the way of autographs.”
— On going to college games as a fan: “I’ve probably been to Georgia the most because of our connections there. I’ve probably been to 15 overall.”
— On how big a factor a schools’ current depth chart is: “It is a factor. If a school’s got five QBs on scholarship and two of them freshman, I might be less inclined to go there than to a school that has four and three of them are sophomores or juniors.”
— On Princeton and the Ivy League: “My brother’s senior year we had a cornerback [Meko McCray] go to Princeton, and when they first started talking to me I called him and he had nothing but good things about the school and the staff. I do want to have a life after football. Football ends at some point, and I want to have something to fall back on.”
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