Between being an excellent student, captain of the football team, a leader at Youth Group, and playing FIFA like a normal 18 year old, Bill Ferrari seems to always be busy.

For many high school seniors the end of a sports season means you play your last game of that sport forever.  But for Bill this will not be true; he is lucky enough to have four more years of football to look forward to at the prestigious Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Bill has always taken a lot of time to focus on football. He has an immense support system in his family, especially his twin brother Frank. According to Bill “everything we do, we do together. We don’t really see it or think about it anymore but we are always there for each other.” Whether it be running through some football plays or just hanging around the house, you can usually find the two of them together.

Bill’s supportive family is also very religious. Bill spends a lot of his time at Our Lady of the Lake’s Youth Group, for he is a group leader there.

His leadership skills were also put to good use during football. The football team has advanced each of his four years, and with the leadership of Bill and Frank, along with Matt Intili, and Mike Cifaretto the team completed a dream season this year.

Bill explains that their freshman year the football team did not even make it to the playoffs. Their sophomore year, they made it in, but lost in the first round and their junior year, the team lost in the second round. But as seniors, they pushed their team to VHS’s first ever undefeated season and a state sectional championship.

Football is a very big aspect in Bill’s life. He has been playing since third grade with the same players that were all part of the big win at MetLife on December 5, 2014.

These players all experienced a major victory when they won their eighth grade “Super Bowl.”  Little did they know that four years later they would be playing, and winning, on the same field the Giants and Jets use.

Bill says this win “felt awesome. It was just a dream that [the team] all had.” He talks highly of the football players in the grades below him and says he believes they can make it all the way again next year.

As Bill accurately describes himself as humble and respectful, he says that his favorite quote, “If we die, it won’t be for the gold, it will be for the glory.” He says the quote, which comes from Beowulf, continues to inspire him every day.