Mike Vukovcan When Hopewell senior Logan Triscila walked off the football field following the Vikings quarterfinal playoff loss to Imani Christian in November, it was potentially the last organized football game of his career.
Fortunately, that wasn’t the case as Triscila will be suiting up again this coming Fall.
After having a number of different opportunities at various levels, Triscila has made the decision to stay home and play for the Geneva Golden Tornadoes. Aside from Geneva, Triscila also made visits to places such as Robert Morris, Duquesne,
Vikings Sports Now had the chance this afternoon to talk with him about this decision, what went into it, along with other things.
“It’s definitely some weight off my shoulders,” said Triscila. “It feels like I can finally relax a little now that I’ve made this decision and now, I can start to ease into the college aspect of this because it’s going to be a lot different than high school. I’m very excited but also a little nervous. I’ve talked to some people that have played college football, also at the D III level. It’s a lot more demanding than it is in high school but I feel like it’s going to both a challenge and also fun so I’m excited for what it brings.”
Hopewell Wide Receiver Logan Triscila
“It was a hard decision but after talking with the coaches at Geneva, I felt that they really wanted me, and I believe I’ll have the opportunity to play pretty early there. I’m both excited and confident with the decision I made.”
Where he would be attending next year is something that Triscila has been thinking about since the beginning of the football season in August. Fortunately, Logan had plenty of people to lean on during this process, namely his parents Rachel and Tony.
“My parents were a big help for me. I was focusing on financials so my mom helped me with what my financial aid would be at different colleges and my dad was looking into each team’s rosters,” said Triscila.
“The biggest things that I was thinking about were, I wanted to stay somewhat close to home and maybe save some money on room and board. Money was a really big consideration so that kind of narrowed down some of the schools that were interested in me. I talked to a lot of coaches and heard a lot of good things about Geneva. They have a new offensive playbook, they’re a program on the rise and it’s a place that I believe fit my best.”
Hopewell’s Logan Triscila
Plenty of seniors at Hopewell High School are in the same boat as Logan was, as far as figuring out where they’ll be attending next fall. The obvious difference is that Triscila was also examining options from an athletic perspective.
“It was pretty neat getting the opportunity to school some of these schools and seeing their athletic facilities. Some really shocked me at how nice they were. Despite being a smaller school, some of them had really nice facilities.”
As we transitioned to talking football, Geneva had plenty of pluses with their program that got Triscila interested, including two very important ones.
“Last year they turned into a pass heavy offense after previously being a run heavy offense,” said Triscila. “They have a stud quarterback; they had success passing the ball last year and three of their top receivers are graduating so there’s some vacancy in the wide receivers’ room. A point that Coach Contenta and Coach DeMarco pushed in my recruitment. Both feel that I can get on the field early.”
Could a pipeline between Hopewell and Geneva be developing? It’s too early to say that however, Triscila will have two of his Hopewell teammates playing with him next year in defensive back Julian Baldwin and offensive lineman Jeorge Desko.
“I told them and they seemed very excited with the news. It’s going to be fun to keep playing with them. That’s one of the biggest things about leaving high school and high school sports is leaving all of your friends behind. So being able to still play with those two in college is definitely a huge perk.”
Before Logan goes into full blown football mode, he has one more thing at Hopewell that he is working to accomplish and that’s to end his baseball career on a high note.
After a down season last year, Triscila and his teammates are currently putting in the work to change things around.
“I’m excited,” said Triscila. “I feel as though this team is really coming together and getting close with each other and forming a brotherhood. Everyone is hyping each other up at practice, practices have been fun. I think our team can be pretty good this season and can shock some people.”
