It’s probably no surprise that Kieran Duncan grew up to be a key contributor on the offensive and defensive lines for West Aurora’s football team.

The 6-foot-1, 230-pound senior, who is in his third year as a varsity starter, is likely headed to his third straight playoffs with the Blackhawks.

It sounds like the signs were there at an early age for Kieran, the youngest of three boys in the Crystal Lake household of Colleen Duncan , who’s now a social studies teacher at West Aurora.

Kieran began playing at age 4, just like his two brothers who are two and seven years older.

“I was a troublemaker,” a sheepish Kieran said this week about his childhood. “I got kicked out of preschool. My mom had me at home because I wasn’t old enough to be in kindergarten.

“She was trying to finish co

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