Three more Victor student athletes have committed to colleges for the fall. The school held a signing ceremony for seniors Tommy Wagner, Cash Bleier and Pat Donohoe on Feb. 12.
Wagner is going to play baseball at Cornell University, Bleier will play football at Monmouth University, and Donohoe will play football at Lehigh University.
Wagner, the son of Dan and Kathleen Wagner, is entering his fifth year of varsity baseball this spring. He decided to commit to the Big Red in July after visiting the school in February.
“I met the team, and it seemed like a group of kids I could see myself being with for the next four years of my life,” Wagner said. “I love the campus, and it has the academics I want to pursue for interests later in my life. Everything just seemed right for me.”
He plans to study biological science and complete the pre-med requirements.
Wagner has played second base, third base and pitcher for Victor. He has a .445 career batting average with 45 doubles, 10 triples and 6 home runs. Blue Devils coach Sean Rucker believes Wagner could set some Section 5 and state records this season.
“Ever since he was an eighth grader and I brought him up, he’s been a very consistent player both in on the field production and his emotion, consistency and work ethic. It’s always been a perfect mix. He has the drive to succeed, but he never gets too high or too low and takes things in stride.”
The baseball star said the highlight of his high school career was the Blue Devils’ run to the 2011 state championship. Victor came back and made the state finals in 2012.
“We were playing Greece Athena in the first round of playoffs when we won the state championship and I think we were down 5-0 in the seventh inning,” Wagner said. “We put it together, tied it up and came back and won that game. It looked like the whole season was over. After that, the whole team got on a roll.”
Bleier, the son of Bob and Diane Bleier, played three years of varsity football at Victor. He committed to Monmouth during his official visit in December and signed his letter of intent on Feb. 6. Bleier said he loved the campus, coaches and players on the team.
“It was crazy, it has been something I’ve been working on for three years ever since I played varsity football,” the tight end said. “It seemed like the day would never come, but signing day came in the blink of an eye. It was a really good feeling that three years of hard work paid off.”
Three more Victor student athletes have committed to colleges for the fall. The school held a signing ceremony for seniors Tommy Wagner, Cash Bleier and Pat Donohoe on Feb. 12.
Wagner is going to play baseball at Cornell University, Bleier will play football at Monmouth University, and Donohoe will play football at Lehigh University.
Wagner, the son of Dan and Kathleen Wagner, is entering his fifth year of varsity baseball this spring. He decided to commit to the Big Red in July after visiting the school in February.
“I met the team, and it seemed like a group of kids I could see myself being with for the next four years of my life,” Wagner said. “I love the campus, and it has the academics I want to pursue for interests later in my life. Everything just seemed right for me.”
He plans to study biological science and complete the pre-med requirements.
Wagner has played second base, third base and pitcher for Victor. He has a .445 career batting average with 45 doubles, 10 triples and 6 home runs. Blue Devils coach Sean Rucker believes Wagner could set some Section 5 and state records this season.
“Ever since he was an eighth grader and I brought him up, he’s been a very consistent player both in on the field production and his emotion, consistency and work ethic. It’s always been a perfect mix. He has the drive to succeed, but he never gets too high or too low and takes things in stride.”
The baseball star said the highlight of his high school career was the Blue Devils’ run to the 2011 state championship. Victor came back and made the state finals in 2012.
“We were playing Greece Athena in the first round of playoffs when we won the state championship and I think we were down 5-0 in the seventh inning,” Wagner said. “We put it together, tied it up and came back and won that game. It looked like the whole season was over. After that, the whole team got on a roll.”
Bleier, the son of Bob and Diane Bleier, played three years of varsity football at Victor. He committed to Monmouth during his official visit in December and signed his letter of intent on Feb. 6. Bleier said he loved the campus, coaches and players on the team.
“It was crazy, it has been something I’ve been working on for three years ever since I played varsity football,” the tight end said. “It seemed like the day would never come, but signing day came in the blink of an eye. It was a really good feeling that three years of hard work paid off.”
Bleier said he’s going in undecided as to a major, but is considering biology.
The 6-foot-5, 227-pound tight end led the Blue Devils in receptions and receiving yards last season, as he caught 23 passes for 363 yards.
“Especially in high school you don’t get a lot of dominant tight ends, and he was just that for us,” Victor coach Geoff Mandile said. “He is just a beast in the pass game and his blocking really improved.”
Bleier’s highlight of his football career was going to the team’s mini-camp at Alfred University each summer.
“We got to bond with the team before the season even started,” he said. “Plus you’re with the kids you’ve been playing football with since you were 8 years old. It’s a great time to go out and play football with all your best friends.”
Donohoe, the son of Sean and Lori Donohoe, played two years of varsity football for Victor. He visited Lehigh a week before signing day and left knowing it was the place for him.
“I’m going to be going for engineering, and they’re one of the greatest engineering schools around,” Donohoe said. “I’ll be able to balance my curriculum and football very well there. That made up my mind and my parents’. There’s a bunch of engineers on the team, so it’s not impossible to play at that level and be an engineer.”
Donohoe is undecided about what type of engineering he wants to study.
The 6-foot-5, 281-pound left tackle paved the way for Victor’s 1,984 rushing yards and protected the quarterbacks for 1,097 passing yards. Coach Mandile loved to run his backs behind Donohoe.
“He provided stability at the left tackle spot,” Mandile said. “He was a man among boys there at his size. If he got his hands on you, you were done. He played left guard for us the year before, and once we put him in we never took him out.”
Donohoe said the highlight of his football career was playing against rival Canandaigua.
He said signing the letter of intent was both exciting and relieving.
“I’ve been looking at colleges for a while now,” Donohoe said. “It’s a relief to know where I’ll be going and a relief to know I truly want to be there.”
