Cedar Rapids Prairie senior Sam Manternach has committed to play football at Valparaiso University in northwest Indiana.

Manternach, 6-foot-4, 230, was a second-team choice on the all-Metro and all-Mississippi Valley Conference teams last season for the Hawks as an offensive lineman.

Valparaiso finished 1-10 overall and 1-7 in the Pioneer Football League for Coach Dale Carlson last season. The Pioneer League is an NCAA Division I non-scholarship league whose members include Drake University.