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Max Dancer Returns...
Posted: 08.03.2012 at 6:32 PM
Chris Duerr

Chris Duerr is KHQA's Sports Director.

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Former QND star and current Western Illinois Guard looks to bounce back after season long suspension in 2011.

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KHQA BARNSTORM TOUR: WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY

MAX DANCER RETURNS....

[He is one of the biggest, strongest men Tri State High School Football has ever produced.

And yet Max Dancer could not have been rendered more powerless in the Fall of 2011.

NCAA Off-Season Testing revealed some level of a banned substance in the Western Illinois Offensive Lineman's system, leading to a year long football suspension. A particularly frustrating turn of events for a young man who has steadfastly maintained his innocence all along.

More galling still, Max was sequestered to the sidelines as the Leathernecks season spiraled downward.

It was just a perfect storm of adverse circumstances...but one the former QND star weathered with uncommon perseverance.  

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