Local kid chooses local school. No matter how many times you rinse and repeat, that story never gets old and always feels good. Now we get to hear it in regards to Notre Dame’s latest 2020 commitment, a local quarterback who is chasing big dreams with the Fighting Irish.
New Prairie High School’s Chase Ketterer announced Thursday night that he’ll attend college at Notre Dame as a walk-on prospect in the 2020 class.
The most interesting piece of conversation in this story isn’t so much a walk-on taking a chance at a big time school, but one doing so instead of taking Valparaiso up on their scholarship offer.
Extremely excited to say I will be taking a PWO offer to continue my education and football career at the University of Notre Dame!☘️ Thank you to @dpeloqu1 @T_Rees11 and @NDFootball for the opportunity! #GoIrish pic.twitter.com/3D8Ma0aVuf
— Chase Ketterer (@ChaseKetterer5) February 28, 2020
As a prospect Ketterer isn’t some incredible get. He’s a run first quarterback, going for 5464 rush yards over the last three seasons and scoring 98 touchdowns. He added 1494 pass yards and 17 passing touchdowns in that time.
Ketterer was a 2019 Indiana High School Athletic Association, Northern Indiana Conference (North) MVP and named a member of the Indiana class 4A All-State team this past fall.