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TI Teen Balances the Ball as Terps Kicker.........posted Sep 18, 2006

David May might never get a chance to kick a long-range field goal or even an extra point in a game this fall, but he's stirring up plenty of attention as a full-fledged member of the University of Maryland football team.

David and his family also are members of Tikvat Israel. He is the son of Elie and Marleen May of Rockville.

His story as the fourth-string placekicker for the Division I-A Terps - and one of the few Jews playing at the top level in intercollegiate football - serves as the lead story in the September issue of The Mitzpeh, the independent Jewish student newspaper at University of Maryland.

A sophomore history major, David, 19, is a graduate of the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School.

In the story, which appears with his photo on the front page, David discusses the challenge of balancing his religious observance with academics and big-time collegiate athletics. (He says he'll need to ask his coach about missing a practice on Yom Kippur.) He was a soccer player in high school, and he landed a spot on the Terps team during open tryouts this summer for non-scholarship players, also known as walk-ons.

The complete story in The Mitzpeh can be accessed at http://www.mitzpeh.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/09/12/4508b8ac29c19.