QUINCY \u2014 Coming off the best season in Great Lakes Valley Conference play in program history, the Quincy University football team is expected to maintain its rising trajectory.<\/p>\n
The Hawks were picked fourth in the nine-team GLVC, according to a preseason poll of the league\u2019s coaches that was released Friday during the GLVC Kickoff event.<\/p>\n
This is the highest the Hawks have been picked in the preseason poll since the league made football a championship sport in 2012. Quincy was picked to finish fifth in the 2015 preseason poll and never higher than sixth any other year.<\/p>\n
Jason Killday is entering his second season as head coach after engineering a 6-4 record last fall in which the Hawks went 5-3 in the GLVC.<\/p>\n
The defense will be buoyed by the return of first-team All-GLVC linebacker Brock Inman and honorable mention all-conference linebacker Brock Wiley, while second-team All-GLVC offensive lineman Nathan Smith anchors the front line.<\/p>\n
The Hawks also have a talented incoming freshman class that features stout area products in Quincy High School quarterback Bradyn Little, Camp Point Central tight end\/linebacker Elijah Genenbacher and Quincy Notre Dame linebacker Taylin Scott.<\/p>\n
Quincy begins fall camp Tuesday with the season opener at 6:30 p.m. August 28 at QU Stadium against Concordia-St. Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUINCY \u2014 Coming off the best season in Great Lakes Valley Conference play in program history, the Quincy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[331,7,15621,50658],"class_list":{"0":"post-256066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-college-football","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-great-lakes-valley-conference","11":"tag-quincy-university"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114959529125234856","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}