WAYLAND – Max Dresens stands 6-foot-1 and tips the scales at 210 pounds. He looks like a football player, and a big-time one at that.
Yet when the Wayland senior went about choosing a college, playing football and the level of that football weighed less than the school side. Dresens wants to study mechanical engineering and needed that program to fit before the football one.
“I was looking more at the educational side of it,” he said. “Gotta make mom happy.”
His mother, Gretchen, has so far gotten it all with her sons’ college decisions. Max’s oldest brother Zack played soccer at Tufts, while another brother Nick is a senior linebacker on the Jumbos football team, following in their father Paul’s footsteps. Jackson Dresens is a sophomore forward on the Saint Anselm soccer team after he took a postgrad year at Bridgton Academy.
Max’s recruitment took off this summer after his breakout junior season. He missed his sophomore year with a shoulder injury then burst onto the scene with a single-season school record with 1,762 rushing yards and 24 total touchdowns last year. Dresens considered high academic programs at all levels before finding his place at Bucknell.
Wayland senior Max Dresens celebrates his touchdown with Wayland junior Michael Caulfield after putting the Warriors up 13-0, during the game in Wayland, Sept. 13, 2024. The Warriors shut out the Hillers, 30-0, and head coach Scott Parseghian picked up his 150th victory.
“The education took No. 1 priority,” he said. “It wasn’t a D1 thing. The fact that I was able to play at a school that was that good academically with also being a Division 1 football program, I’m very lucky to land that.”
Obviously it took more than luck. Dresens spent much of the spring and summer crisscrossing the Northeast at football camps. He was the Dual County League MVP a season ago but…
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Author : The Metrowest Daily News
Publish date : 2024-09-27 08:04:50
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