Getting Them Early
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Cougars get 'em early
The way BYU's football program is gathering oral committments, the Cougars just might have their scholarship quota filled before they play their first game Sept. 1 against the Arizona Wildcats.
The latest prep football star to say he will join BYU is Spencer Hadley, a linebacker from Connell High in Washington. The riising senior should give hope to hundreds of small-school stars around the state, because in Washington he plays at the lowest (1-A) level.
Hadley is 6-foot-1 and 210 pounds and was first team all-state at both receiver and safety last year. He caught 60 passes for 1,166 yards and 20 touchdowns his junior year, and was also the state discus champion.
Hadley's cousin is BYU freshman linebacker Austen Jorgensen. Sources familiar to Hadley's recruitment said he plans on serving an LDS Church mission before joining the program in 2010.
The Cougars now have 20 commitments for the February, 2008, signing day.
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Reaching the summit
One of those small-school stars the college scouts have reportedly found is Drew Robinson, a 6-foot-6, 225-pound tight end and defensive end from North Summit High in Coalville. The Braves play at the 2-A level in Utah.
A reader took advantage of our opening-blog invitation and informed us that Robinson has been offered a scholarship from Snow College and has drawn the interest of the University of Utah.
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Blue meshing with purple
BYU women's golf coach Sue Nyhus had to recruit Juli Wightman-Erekson once. She's glad she doesn't have to do it again.
Wightman-Erekson, the Women's State Amateur runner-up, will be a senior on the Cougar women's golf team this fall. Her husband, former Springville star Zac Erekson, is transferring from BYU's football team to Weber State's, causing Nyhus to briefly worry that she might lose her star player from Chicopee, Mass. to the Wildcats, too.
"Nope, I am staying at BYU," Wightman-Erekson said in Park City last week when asked if Nyhus needed to worry. "We will be a two-school household."
The couple has found an apartment in Draper, which the golfer said was "sort of in between" the two schools.
She emphasized "sort of."
Cougars get 'em early
The way BYU's football program is gathering oral committments, the Cougars just might have their scholarship quota filled before they play their first game Sept. 1 against the Arizona Wildcats.
The latest prep football star to say he will join BYU is Spencer Hadley, a linebacker from Connell High in Washington. The riising senior should give hope to hundreds of small-school stars around the state, because in Washington he plays at the lowest (1-A) level.
Hadley is 6-foot-1 and 210 pounds and was first team all-state at both receiver and safety last year. He caught 60 passes for 1,166 yards and 20 touchdowns his junior year, and was also the state discus champion.
Hadley's cousin is BYU freshman linebacker Austen Jorgensen. Sources familiar to Hadley's recruitment said he plans on serving an LDS Church mission before joining the program in 2010.
The Cougars now have 20 commitments for the February, 2008, signing day.
-----
Reaching the summit
One of those small-school stars the college scouts have reportedly found is Drew Robinson, a 6-foot-6, 225-pound tight end and defensive end from North Summit High in Coalville. The Braves play at the 2-A level in Utah.
A reader took advantage of our opening-blog invitation and informed us that Robinson has been offered a scholarship from Snow College and has drawn the interest of the University of Utah.
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Blue meshing with purple
BYU women's golf coach Sue Nyhus had to recruit Juli Wightman-Erekson once. She's glad she doesn't have to do it again.
Wightman-Erekson, the Women's State Amateur runner-up, will be a senior on the Cougar women's golf team this fall. Her husband, former Springville star Zac Erekson, is transferring from BYU's football team to Weber State's, causing Nyhus to briefly worry that she might lose her star player from Chicopee, Mass. to the Wildcats, too.
"Nope, I am staying at BYU," Wightman-Erekson said in Park City last week when asked if Nyhus needed to worry. "We will be a two-school household."
The couple has found an apartment in Draper, which the golfer said was "sort of in between" the two schools.
She emphasized "sort of."
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