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UW-L defensive end Immel has healthy goals
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StoryDiscussionBy JOEL BADZINSKI / [email protected] | Posted: Friday, April 9, 2010 11:46 pm | No Comments Posted
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UW-La Crosse defensive end Ryan Immel works through an agility drill Friday during a spring practice session. PETER THOMSON photo .
..One healthy season. Is that too much to ask? UW-La Crosse defensive end Ryan Immel doesn't think so. The big junior from Lomira, Wis., has been bursting with potential since he joined the Eagles program two years ago.
Unfortunately for Immel, he's also been injury-prone.
As a freshman in 2008, he played in seven games and was starting to assert himself on the defensive line when he suffered a dislocated left shoulder at UW-Oshkosh.
Rehab, reload, get ready for '09. Immel earned a starting defensive end job but it took just two games for another season to come to a halt. Immel suffered a broken right wrist against Azusa Pacific.
More frustration, more rehab. But as
La Crosse held its first full-team spring practice Friday at Veterans Memorial Field, Immel was near 100 percent and ready to try again.
"I just want to give it a good year," Immel said. "I just want to see what I can do."
Immel, at 6-foot-4 and 250 pounds, could give the Eagles a much-needed edge rusher. La Crosse tied for sixth in the WIAC in sacks (14) last season.
"We're cautiously optimistic," Eagles defensive coordinator Jeff Conway said. "He hasn't made it a full season the last two years, but when he's played, he's shown some great ability, a special kind of ability. He's got great explosiveness that we haven't had in the last couple years. We're definitely looking to get more pressure than we have
in the past, and I think he can add an awful lot to that."
Immel said last year's injury was especially tough, since he'd gone through an injury the year before and had been playing well in the Eagles' first two games.
"It's just real frustrating to have to stand on the sideline for the rest of the year knowing you could potentially help them and you're just not able to," Immel said.
Not going 100 percent in rehab and offseason workouts was not an option for Immel. He wanted to give his teammates, and himself, a full season to show what he can do.
"I definitely love football, I love being out with these guys," Immel said. "I'm pretty healthy right now; working out and getting stronger. I'm pretty much where I was coming into the fall last year. I'm definitely going to have to take precautions on my wrist. Other than that, I should be normal, ready to go."
SCOUT SIGHTINGS: Scouts from the Baltimore Ravens and Green Bay Packers conducted "pro day" workouts with former Eagles players Matt Winney and Reid Oldenburg recently at Mitchell Hall, Terry said.
Winney, an All-WIAC first-team cornerback, and Oldenburg, a second-team tailback, were seniors in 2009.
"It was a good experience if that's all that happens," Winney said. "It's kind of a wait-and-see thing."
The NFL Draft starts April 22. Winney and Oldenburg could join a number of former Eagles players, most recently Matt Pagel in 2004, to earn NFL training camp invitations as free agents.
Cornerback Derek Dreher went through a workout with a scout from the New York Jets last week. Since Dreher is a junior, the session was for early information gathering. Winney was worked out by the same scout last spring.
EBNER RESIGNS: Running backs coach Tim Ebner resigned from the Eagles' staff prior to spring practices.
Ebner is the boys hockey coach at Onalaska High School and this spring was named the Team Wisconsin boys hockey coach.
"I've just got so many different things going on, pulling me in so many different directions," Ebner said. "I had to step back and take a look at it and focus on doing a few things well. It's tough; it's a great staff and the players have been phenomenal to me. I can't thank coach (Larry) Terry enough
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efault font sizeLarger font size UW-La Crosse defensive end Ryan Immel works through an agility drill Friday during a spring practice session. PETER THOMSON photo .
..One healthy season. Is that too much to ask? UW-La Crosse defensive end Ryan Immel doesn't think so. The big junior from Lomira, Wis., has been bursting with potential since he joined the Eagles program two years ago.
Unfortunately for Immel, he's also been injury-prone.
As a freshman in 2008, he played in seven games and was starting to assert himself on the defensive line when he suffered a dislocated left shoulder at UW-Oshkosh.
Rehab, reload, get ready for '09. Immel earned a starting defensive end job but it took just two games for another season to come to a halt. Immel suffered a broken right wrist against Azusa Pacific.
More frustration, more rehab. But as
La Crosse held its first full-team spring practice Friday at Veterans Memorial Field, Immel was near 100 percent and ready to try again.
"I just want to give it a good year," Immel said. "I just want to see what I can do."
Immel, at 6-foot-4 and 250 pounds, could give the Eagles a much-needed edge rusher. La Crosse tied for sixth in the WIAC in sacks (14) last season.
"We're cautiously optimistic," Eagles defensive coordinator Jeff Conway said. "He hasn't made it a full season the last two years, but when he's played, he's shown some great ability, a special kind of ability. He's got great explosiveness that we haven't had in the last couple years. We're definitely looking to get more pressure than we have
in the past, and I think he can add an awful lot to that."
Immel said last year's injury was especially tough, since he'd gone through an injury the year before and had been playing well in the Eagles' first two games.
"It's just real frustrating to have to stand on the sideline for the rest of the year knowing you could potentially help them and you're just not able to," Immel said.
Not going 100 percent in rehab and offseason workouts was not an option for Immel. He wanted to give his teammates, and himself, a full season to show what he can do.
"I definitely love football, I love being out with these guys," Immel said. "I'm pretty healthy right now; working out and getting stronger. I'm pretty much where I was coming into the fall last year. I'm definitely going to have to take precautions on my wrist. Other than that, I should be normal, ready to go."
SCOUT SIGHTINGS: Scouts from the Baltimore Ravens and Green Bay Packers conducted "pro day" workouts with former Eagles players Matt Winney and Reid Oldenburg recently at Mitchell Hall, Terry said.
Winney, an All-WIAC first-team cornerback, and Oldenburg, a second-team tailback, were seniors in 2009.
"It was a good experience if that's all that happens," Winney said. "It's kind of a wait-and-see thing."
The NFL Draft starts April 22. Winney and Oldenburg could join a number of former Eagles players, most recently Matt Pagel in 2004, to earn NFL training camp invitations as free agents.
Cornerback Derek Dreher went through a workout with a scout from the New York Jets last week. Since Dreher is a junior, the session was for early information gathering. Winney was worked out by the same scout last spring.
EBNER RESIGNS: Running backs coach Tim Ebner resigned from the Eagles' staff prior to spring practices.
Ebner is the boys hockey coach at Onalaska High School and this spring was named the Team Wisconsin boys hockey coach.
"I've just got so many different things going on, pulling me in so many different directions," Ebner said. "I had to step back and take a look at it and focus on doing a few things well. It's tough; it's a great staff and the players have been phenomenal to me. I can't thank coach (Larry) Terry enough
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