Lone Peak's Hamilton In Eye of Cyclones
We will have the news of a fairly major Utah prep commitment in the printed edition of The Salt Lake Tribune tomorrow (Saturday), but before then some interesting news out of Lone Peak High has caught our attention.
Justin Hamilton, the 6-foot-10 center from Lone Peak who counts Weber State among the schools that have submitted written scholarship offers to the late-blooming star, will take an official recruiting visit to Iowa State this weekend.
Hamilton has yet to receive an offer from the Cyclones, but the fact that they are dropping some serious cash to have him visit Ames (they are hosting archrival Iowa in a football game) this week must mean they like Hamilton.
The senior played on Lone Peak's junior varsity last year, and hardly got a meaningful minute of varsity time. However, he had a sensational spring and summer on the club and super-league circuit.
Hamilton has also visited Weber State, Pepperdine and St. Mary's and has offers from those schools, along with UC Davis. Iowa State is the biggest program yet to show interest; Utah liked him until it signed a center out of Michigan and BYU likes him but doesn't believe it will have enough scholarships for big men and has more pressing needs at other positions.
Hamilton is an excellent student and a decent rebounder and defender, scouts say, but lacks offensive skills.
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Timo is Real Deal
I was a guest on Patrick Kinahan and David James' radio show this morning on KFAN and James asked about Adam Timo, a junior at Snow Canyon High who has verbally committed to play football for BYU. I haven't seen Timo play since last year's state 3-A semifinals at Rice-Eccles Stadium, when he was just a sophomore, so I did some checking today about the running back.
Folks in the know say the kid is the real deal.
Timo, 6-foot-1 and 170 pounds, rushed for 156 yards on just 14 carries in Snow Canyon's 59-3 win over one of the bigger schools in Nevada last week, El Dorado. Timo scored six touchdowns and probably could have rushed for more than 200 yards and scored more, but sat the bench for most of the second half.
He has scored 13 touchdowns in the first four games and has rushed for 449 yards on just 62 carries, a 7.2 average, against some pretty good competition.
Snow Canyon is idle tonight because its game against Carbon was canceled.
Two other running back-types who will join the Cougars next year, Timpview's Michael Alisa and West's Garrett Nicholson, are also having fine seasons, although both are projected to play defense for BYU.
Alisa ran for touchdowns of 17 and 50 yards in Timpview's 49-0 win over Payson, and Nicholson had a 16-yard TD run in West's 28-0 win over Granger last week.
Justin Hamilton, the 6-foot-10 center from Lone Peak who counts Weber State among the schools that have submitted written scholarship offers to the late-blooming star, will take an official recruiting visit to Iowa State this weekend.
Hamilton has yet to receive an offer from the Cyclones, but the fact that they are dropping some serious cash to have him visit Ames (they are hosting archrival Iowa in a football game) this week must mean they like Hamilton.
The senior played on Lone Peak's junior varsity last year, and hardly got a meaningful minute of varsity time. However, he had a sensational spring and summer on the club and super-league circuit.
Hamilton has also visited Weber State, Pepperdine and St. Mary's and has offers from those schools, along with UC Davis. Iowa State is the biggest program yet to show interest; Utah liked him until it signed a center out of Michigan and BYU likes him but doesn't believe it will have enough scholarships for big men and has more pressing needs at other positions.
Hamilton is an excellent student and a decent rebounder and defender, scouts say, but lacks offensive skills.
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Timo is Real Deal
I was a guest on Patrick Kinahan and David James' radio show this morning on KFAN and James asked about Adam Timo, a junior at Snow Canyon High who has verbally committed to play football for BYU. I haven't seen Timo play since last year's state 3-A semifinals at Rice-Eccles Stadium, when he was just a sophomore, so I did some checking today about the running back.
Folks in the know say the kid is the real deal.
Timo, 6-foot-1 and 170 pounds, rushed for 156 yards on just 14 carries in Snow Canyon's 59-3 win over one of the bigger schools in Nevada last week, El Dorado. Timo scored six touchdowns and probably could have rushed for more than 200 yards and scored more, but sat the bench for most of the second half.
He has scored 13 touchdowns in the first four games and has rushed for 449 yards on just 62 carries, a 7.2 average, against some pretty good competition.
Snow Canyon is idle tonight because its game against Carbon was canceled.
Two other running back-types who will join the Cougars next year, Timpview's Michael Alisa and West's Garrett Nicholson, are also having fine seasons, although both are projected to play defense for BYU.
Alisa ran for touchdowns of 17 and 50 yards in Timpview's 49-0 win over Payson, and Nicholson had a 16-yard TD run in West's 28-0 win over Granger last week.
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