Sorry, it's from NJ.com, but Sargeant did a nice job on this article, which discusses his early start in football and his parents.
http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/index.ssf/2018/03/rutgers_quarterback_artur_sitkowski.html
Growing up in Poland, Rafal Sitkowski knew little about football. Not long after emigrating to New York at age 19, he met his future wife, Boguslawa, and they gave birth to Artur in 2000.
Rafal didn't speak English when he first arrived in America, but after working various odd jobs to support the family he's now a successful software engineer for J.P. Morgan Chase.
Boguslawa is a math teacher in the Piscataway school district. Together, they instilled in their son a work ethic and a passion for learning at an early age.
"I grew up in Poland and soccer was religion at the time,'' Rafal said. "When Artur was little, we put him in soccer but the one challenge he had was he was always a little too big, too physical for soccer. We looked at other options, and the closest to football was rugby. I remember playing rugby as a kid and I liked it.
"But because there really wasn't any rugby here, we exposed him to football instead. The only thing I understood about (football) was it was similar to rugby.''
"The best part of it,'' Cardaci said, "was his parents were open to everything. He wasn't like a dad who knows everything. That was important in Art's development. His father trusted the process, and it worked. He wasn't a kid who went to a lot of (recruiting) camps. They just encouraged him to work hard, and Art would always give 150 percent. He has great parents. You'll never meet a more level-headed kid than him.''
http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/index.ssf/2018/03/rutgers_quarterback_artur_sitkowski.html
Growing up in Poland, Rafal Sitkowski knew little about football. Not long after emigrating to New York at age 19, he met his future wife, Boguslawa, and they gave birth to Artur in 2000.
Rafal didn't speak English when he first arrived in America, but after working various odd jobs to support the family he's now a successful software engineer for J.P. Morgan Chase.
Boguslawa is a math teacher in the Piscataway school district. Together, they instilled in their son a work ethic and a passion for learning at an early age.
"I grew up in Poland and soccer was religion at the time,'' Rafal said. "When Artur was little, we put him in soccer but the one challenge he had was he was always a little too big, too physical for soccer. We looked at other options, and the closest to football was rugby. I remember playing rugby as a kid and I liked it.
"But because there really wasn't any rugby here, we exposed him to football instead. The only thing I understood about (football) was it was similar to rugby.''
"The best part of it,'' Cardaci said, "was his parents were open to everything. He wasn't like a dad who knows everything. That was important in Art's development. His father trusted the process, and it worked. He wasn't a kid who went to a lot of (recruiting) camps. They just encouraged him to work hard, and Art would always give 150 percent. He has great parents. You'll never meet a more level-headed kid than him.''
