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PROVO — While quarterback Joe Critchlow was passing his way to a record-setting career at Franklin High in Tennessee a few years ago, he was also attracting attention from several football programs, including Southeastern Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference schools.
But interest in Critchlow waned when he informed those schools about his intentions of serving a two-year LDS Church mission.
The tall, athletic, red-headed QB instead ended up signing with Southern Utah University in February 2015, before departing for the (French-speaking) Montreal Canada Mission.
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