{"id":8493,"date":"2019-02-14T00:33:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T00:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=8493"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:30:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:30:01","slug":"liberty-record-holder-signs-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/liberty-record-holder-signs-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty record holder signs letter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Following in his brother\u2019s footsteps wasn\u2019t quite enough for Liberty Hawks senior Wyatt Roth. Blowing past him was.<\/p>

In a record breaking season for the Hawks football team, Roth signed his National Letter of Intent to attend and play football at Western Colorado University, a year after brother Kaleb signed his letter to South Dakota School of Mines.<\/p>

Now the focus will be on Week 2 of the football season when Wyatt\u2019s Mountaineers faces Kaleb\u2019s Rockers in Gunnison, Colorado on Sept. 14.<\/p>

\u201cThat will be a good game,\u201d Wyatt said.<\/p>

Roth signed his letter at a signing ceremony at Liberty on Feb. 6, continuing a tradition of Liberty football players singing letters.<\/p>

\u201cThe amount of pride you feel when your players have a chance to move on is a special thing,\u201d Liberty football coach and athletic director Mike Nolte said. \u201cWyatt has worked hard. He deserves every bit of this. It\u2019s a special thing to watch you players move on.\u201d<\/p>

However, for Wyatt, it was watching Kaleb\u2019s signing day that motivated him for his senior season.<\/p>

\u201cKaleb and I have always compared stats and competed that way,\u201d Wyatt said. \u201cSeeing him set lots of records and high standards just made me want to get past that. It\u2019s all in good fun.\u201d<\/p>

For Nolte, it was gratification watching two players, who were the hardest workers on the team and one of the best players, receive something they\u2019ve been working hard at.<\/p>

\u201cThe kind of work ethic the Roth boys put in, coupled with the skills they have make a good combination,\u201d Nolte said. \u201cI say it all the time when your best players are you hardest workers, you\u2019re going to do something good. They epitomize that, for sure.<\/p>

\u201cHopefully the kids in the program see Wyatt signing and use it as a motivating factor and we can continue to have more of these signing parties. It\u2019s important for the kids to be here and see it to continue the tradition.\u201d<\/p>

Instead of Western Colorado recruiting Wyatt, he found them and it went from there.<\/p>

\u201cI really like Colorado,\u201d he said. \u201cI thought it would be a great place to live so I thought of what are some schools in Colorado. I did some research and found this school. I got in contact with them and talked to their coach. He\u2019s a great guy. We\u2019ve been in contact ever since. He offered after the season and I went on a visit and loved it. It\u2019s in a great city, it\u2019s a great college, a great atmosphere in both athletics and academics and the campus culture is great. I reached out first. They responded and it went from there.\u201d<\/p>

Roth hopes to be able to play right away, unlike his brother, who was redshirted.<\/p>

\u201cThey said if you can play right away, we\u2019re going to play you,\u201d he said. \u201cBut, they also said they aren\u2019t going to waste my freshman year and I could redshirt. From what I understand, running back is going to be a wide open competition. I\u2019m looking forward to competing for a starting spot. We\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<\/p>

Roth recounted the days as a middle schooler watching Liberty football and looking up to the players and success the program had.<\/p>

\u201cI remember going to Liberty football games in middle school,\u201d he said. \u201cI remember Wade Wallace, Chad Wallace, Richie Brandt, Kendall Malone, Christian Baker and just the fact that I have better stats than them is mind blowing. You grow up watching these athletes play football at the school you\u2019re going to go to, you get this image they are a superstar. Then, you realize, you\u2019re senior year comes around and you\u2019re in the same position. A great thank you to the fans, the community and an even bigger thank you to my teammates and coaches for putting me in position to have success.\u201d<\/p>

After he looked up to players, he became one of those players and understands the responsibility he holds by being a varsity football player.<\/p>

\u201cIt\u2019s a little weird to have kids look up to me,\u201d he said. \u201cI never really thought of myself in that position. Now that I am, it\u2019s humbling and I\u2019m very thankful for it and it\u2019s a lot of fun. It\u2019s neat to get autographs. I feel like a superstar. I\u2019m just a kid that plays football on Fridays.\u201d<\/p>

Now that Roth is signed, he is thankful to get the worry out of his mind and will enjoy the final four months of the school year.<\/p>

\u201cThis has been something I\u2019ve been working towards and worrying about since my freshman year,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s all come to fulfillment at a great college that I really like. It\u2019s very rewarding. I\u2019m very thankful for it.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following in his brother\u2019s footsteps wasn\u2019t quite enough for Liberty Hawks senior Wyatt Roth. Blowing past him was. In a record breaking season for the Hawks football team, Roth signed his National Letter of Intent to attend and play football at Western Colorado University, a year after brother Kaleb signed his letter to South Dakota […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":27870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-8493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-schools"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}