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VC's Jonathan Dartez (1) would love to take his football skills to the next level after he graduates from VC.

VC's Dartez gets two football offers on Saturday

One is 894 miles away, while the other is 111 miles away

VC quarterback Jonathan “Jon Jon” Dartez received two football scholarship offers within 12 hours after previously having none.
After VC blanked Kentwood 33-0 in the semifinal game on Friday, Dartez said no college or university offered him anything to play football.  The 5-foot-9 senior quarterback  said that motivated him all season.
He will finish high school as the state’s overall touchdown leader in all classifications with 173 touchdowns. That big record-breaking performance may have caught the eye of at least two football programs, as two NAIA football programs reached out to Dartez on Saturday morning.
According to Dartez’s Twitter Account, he received the first offer from Graceland University in Iowa. The school has 900 students.
Graceland posted a 7-4 record in 2024.
"Blessed to receive my first offer from Graceland," Dartez posted on Twitter.
Not long after Dartez announced his first football offer on Twitter, another offer came his way. 
Louisiana Christian University in Pineville, Louisiana, also offered Dartez a football scholarship.
LCU has an enrollment of 1,100 students, and in the last 10 years, a handful of Vermilion Parish athletes have played sports at LCU.
Two Vermilion Parish young men played football for LCU within the last eight years.
Gueydan High’s Spencer Broussard played from 2018 to 2021. Also, Kaplan’s Julius Johnson had a stellar career at LCU.
Today, Abbeville High graduate Brian Gordon is a freshman wide receiver on the LCU roster.
Graceland University is 894 miles (14 hour drive) from Abbeville, while LCU is 111 miles or two hours away from Abbeville.

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