{"id":3084,"date":"2010-12-27T18:02:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T23:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=3084"},"modified":"2010-12-28T08:15:37","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T13:15:37","slug":"jefferson%e2%80%99s-quarterback-humbled-by-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=3084","title":{"rendered":"Jefferson QB Humbled By Exper ience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY LEON B. CREWS<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sentinel Staff Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When the season started for the Jefferson  High School football team, senior quarterback <strong>Quentin Williams<\/strong> said he felt right away they had a chance to win a state title.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did the Jefferson Dragons win the school\u2019s first state title in football, but their star quarterback was named Mr. Football, the highest honor any high school athlete can get in Florida.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Williams<\/strong> said he\u2019s been playing football since he was 5, starting off with the West Tampa Spartans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always played quarterback. My idols are <strong>Drew Brees, Michael Vick<\/strong>, and <strong>Vince Young<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as the individual awards are concerned, winning the state title is the most important thing to me. I credit my success with staying injury free and just playing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On being named Mr. Football, <strong>Williams<\/strong> said the award is great, especially being honored with so many great players from the past, including <strong>Tim Tebow<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nikita Williams<\/strong>, <strong>Quentin\u2019s<\/strong> mother, has been supportive of her son\u2019s career since he first picked up a football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve committed myself to attend Bethune  Cookman University and I will major in education. I think I\u2019d really love to be a teacher one day. The educational experience has been great for me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d also love to play professional football[private], but right now I\u2019m just concentrating on finishing school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During their contest against Miami Norland, <strong>Williams<\/strong> said he knew they had the game won in the fourth quarter when his offensive line coach told them they were state champions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think next year\u2019s team stands a good chance of repeating. My advice for them to just work hard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had some really great coaches and I\u2019m proud to be a part of such a great honor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Williams<\/strong> said the entire team dedicated the win to <strong>C.J. Mills<\/strong>, who was murdered in 2008. His brother, <strong>Rodney<\/strong>, plays on the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all knew him, and we wish he could have been a part of this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Williams<\/strong> said right now, he\u2019s enjoying the holiday season with his family, and just waiting for school to start up again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the student body will be celebrating forever, and they deserve it. I\u2019m proud to have been a part of something so historic.\u201d[\/private]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY LEON B. CREWS Sentinel Staff Writer When the season started for the Jefferson High School football team, senior quarterback Quentin Williams said he felt right away they had a chance to win a state title. Not only did the Jefferson Dragons win the school\u2019s first state title in football, but their star quarterback was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}