2016 Greene County High School graduate Daric Whipple has been used to running the Rams offense as the starting varsity quarterback the last three seasons. On occasion, he would play on the defensive side of the ball, but he told Raccoon Valley Radio following Saturday’s Shrine Bowl it was different not being involved in the offense. The North team defeated Whipple’s South squad 49-35 on Saturday inside the air conditioned UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls in the highest scoring affair in the 44 year history of the event, which raises money for The Shriners Hospitals for Children.

Whipple started at left corner for the South and was in on quite a bit of the action. Neither squad was afraid to put the ball in the air. On playing corner he said, “It was fun. It was different being on the sidelines during offense and not touching the ball, but I liked it. It was fun.” Among other highlights of the week in Cedar Falls was a Friday football camp involving children who have received or are receiving services from The Shriners Hospitals, to which Whipple commented, “That was real humbling to know that we are helping out kids that can’t do what we were doing, so that made us feel good.”

The week preparing for the Shrine Bowl was somewhat like a week off for Whipple, who along with another former Greene County football player, Noah Juergensen of rural Churdan, has been training since June 12 with the Iowa State University football team in Ames. Both are invited, or preferred, walk-on players, hoping to earn scholarships down the road. Whipple said he’s been working at corner at ISU and described the training there as “intense.”