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CHILLICOTHE — Keep an eye on Cartae Ligon.
He is going places.
Ligon, 16, a freshman, at Chillicothe High School, is the All-Gazette Breakout Football Player of the Year.
“I started playing flag football in second grade, then after that from third grade to now, I’ve been playing tackle football,” Ligon said.
By fifth or sixth grade, he knew he loved the games.
“It was just a lot of fun, and we won a lot of games. We won the Super Bowl like every year, and in middle school, we went undefeated,” Ligon said. “It’s fun to be playing with guys I have been playing with for a long time.”
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Chillicothe’s Cartae Ligon (18) gains yards on the field against the Bloom-Carroll defense in varsity football action as the Cavaliers hosted the Bulldogs on August 23, 2024, in Chillicothe, Ohio.
Ligon, the son of Tashia Mickey, started the season playing wide receiver, but due to injury, he became the starting running back for the Cavaliers in Week 3. He rushed for 1,104 yards and 10 touchdowns overall.
In the Frontier Athletic Conference, his lowest total was 136 yards rushing in a game. In league play, he had 820 yards and eight touchdowns. In addition, he also had 220 yards on 22 catches.
In nominating him for the All-Gazette football team, his former coach Scott Bartholomew said, “as a freshman, he was our best football player.”
When the injury happened to a senior player in the second game of the season, Ligon was tapped in because he had played running back while in middle school.
From there, he made the position his own.
And it wasn’t easy doing it for a team that didn’t win its first game until Week 8.
When asked about his mindset going into games when they weren’t…
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Author : Chillicothe Gazette
Publish date : 2024-11-25 09:09:00
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