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46 n o r t h w e s t e r n f o o t b a l l • 2 0 1 8 h o l i d a y b o w l d i g i t a l p r o g r a m ADETOMIWA "TOMMY" ADEBAWORE Defensive End 6-2 / 251 Kansas City, Mo. North Kansas City Verbally committed to Northwestern on April 17, 2018 … Rated a three-star prospect and the 23rd-ranked player in Missouri according to 247sports … Earned Missouri Class 5 First-Team All-State honors as a senior … Named All- Suburban White League Defensive Player of the Year, First-Team All-District, First-Team All-Conference and Academic All-State … Nominee for the Buch Buchanan Memorial Award, presented annually to the most outstanding lineman or linebacker in the big class (Missouri classes 5-6 and Kansas Classes 5A-6A) category … … Chose Northwestern over offers from Air Force, Army, Navy and Washington State. COCO AZEMA Defensive Back 5-11 / 180 Cypress Creek, Texas Langham Creek Verbally committed to Northwestern on May 29, 2018 … Rated a three-start prospect and the 108th-ranked player in Texas by 247sports … Three-year letterwinner … Two-time Team Captain … Finished senior season with 60 tackles and three interceptions on defense … Added 309 rushing yards and 10 touchdowns on offense … Also had an interception return for a touchdown and two punt return touchdowns … Registered a prep career-high 94 tackles and four interceptions as a junior … Finished prep career with 220 tackles, 11 interceptions, seven forced fumbles and 15 total touchdowns … Earned First- Team All-District honors three times … All-Houston First Team … Also earned Houston Defensive Back of the Year … A/B Honor Roll Student … Chose Northwestern over offers from Arkansas, Duke, Houston, Indiana, Iowa State, Memphis, Michigan State, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Stanford, Utah and Vanderbilt. Dan and Susan Jones Family Head Football Coach Pat Fitzgerald on Wednesday announced the signing of 18 student-athletes to National Letters of Intent during the early signing period. The #NULevel19 class features Adetomiwa "Tommy" Adebawore (Kansas City, Mo./North Kansas City), Coco Azema (Cypress, Texas/ Langham Creek), Dominick D'Antonio (Woodstock, Ga./Etowah), Wayne Dennis, Jr. (Tampa, Fla./Armwood), Connor Foster (Milford, Ohio/Milford), Zachary Franks (Baltimore, Md./The Gilman School), Bryce Gallagher (Raynham, Mass./St. Sebastian's), Jason Gold, Jr. (League City, Texas/Clear Springs), Thomas Gordon (Houston, Texas/Strake Jesuit College Prep), Rod Heard (Farmington, Mich./ Farmington Hills Harrison), Genson Hooper Price (Houston, Texas/St. John's), Michael Jansey, Jr. (Batavia, Ill./Batavia), Brandon Joseph (College Station, Texas/College Station), Bryce Kirtz (Brownsburg, Ind./Brownsburg), Cameron Mitchell (Bolingbrook, Ill./ Bolingbrook), Duke Olges (Winnetka, Ill./New Trier), Conrad Rowley (Independence, Mo./Blue Springs) and Malik Washington (Law- renceville, Ga./Parkview). "Our staff did an incredible job to find a class of young men who will continue to uphold our standard on and off the field, and help us take that next step as a championship program," Fitzgerald said. "We are excited to officially welcome the newest members of our football family. Each and every one of these young men has tremendous ability, and they all love the game of football and want to improve. We aim to be the best player development staff in college football, so our mission now is to make them even better than they thought possible." The 18 students will arrive in Evanston from across the nation, led by five from Texas, three from Illinois, two from Georgia and Missouri and one each from Florida, Ohio, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan and Indiana. The group includes nine signees on offense and nine on defense, including four wide receivers, defensive backs and offensive linemen, three defensive linemen, two linebackers and a superback.