Basketball: Lone Peak's Payne bound for Dixie State
Another member of Lone Peak High's nationally ranked state championship basketball team has signed to play for a four-year college.
Point guard Kimball Payne will play for Dixie State College.
Payne took a trip to St. George last week and met with coach Jon Judkins and his staff. He apparently liked what he saw, because he committed to the Rebels and told the other school that he was close to going to, Western Wyoming CC, that he is headed to Dixie State.
Three of Payne's fellow seniors at Lone Peak are also college-bound. Josh Sharp signed with Utah, Justin Hamilton signed with Iowa State and Bracken Funk signed with Fresno State.
Next year, the Knights will have two more Division I recruits as guard Tyler Haws and center Nate Austin are also seeing heavy recruitment.
Payne could have chosen Utah as a preferred walk-on, but opted for a scholarship from Dixie State instead.
The Rebels have also signed Snow Canyon's 6-foot-6 Dalton Groskreutz.
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Former Pleasant Grove High volleyball star Tela Burnett has signed with Cal State Northridge. Burnett, a 6-0 middle blocker, played for Salt Lake Community College in 2006 and 2007 after an all-state career at Pleasant Grove.
Matadors coach Jeff Stork said Burnett was attractive to his program because SLCC runs a similar defensive system to his.
Point guard Kimball Payne will play for Dixie State College.
Payne took a trip to St. George last week and met with coach Jon Judkins and his staff. He apparently liked what he saw, because he committed to the Rebels and told the other school that he was close to going to, Western Wyoming CC, that he is headed to Dixie State.
Three of Payne's fellow seniors at Lone Peak are also college-bound. Josh Sharp signed with Utah, Justin Hamilton signed with Iowa State and Bracken Funk signed with Fresno State.
Next year, the Knights will have two more Division I recruits as guard Tyler Haws and center Nate Austin are also seeing heavy recruitment.
Payne could have chosen Utah as a preferred walk-on, but opted for a scholarship from Dixie State instead.
The Rebels have also signed Snow Canyon's 6-foot-6 Dalton Groskreutz.
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Former Pleasant Grove High volleyball star Tela Burnett has signed with Cal State Northridge. Burnett, a 6-0 middle blocker, played for Salt Lake Community College in 2006 and 2007 after an all-state career at Pleasant Grove.
Matadors coach Jeff Stork said Burnett was attractive to his program because SLCC runs a similar defensive system to his.
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Jay, your recruiting blog is doing a great job of covering what is a very broad high school and college sports scene served by the Tribune. Sports junkies like me are lucky.
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