Football: Utahns preparing for national prep all-star games
Some of the top high school football players in the country -- including Cottonwood's John Martinez and Timpview's Xavier Su'a-Filo -- are in Orlando, Fla., this week preparing to play in Sunday's Under Armour All-America Football Game.
Martinez and Su'a-Filo will play for the "black" team, along with Manti Te'o, the highly recruited linebacker from Punahou High in Hawaii who has BYU among his list of favorites.
Su'a-Filo, the Tribune all-stater, has been fairly reclusive lately, causing some to wonder if he's changed his own list of favorites. But Wednesday, he told several recruiting Web sites that his top five includes LSU, USC, Utah, BYU and UCLA.
He has already visited the first three schools, he said, and plans visits to BYU on Jan. 10 and UCLA on Jan. 17 before he makes his final decision.
Asked specifically about BYU, Su'a-Filo told Scout.com that "there's no place like it" and that it is "my hometown school."
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The Under Armour game is the last of three high school football all-star games scheduled for this weekend.
On Friday, the Offense-Defense All-American Bowl will be played in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Bountiful High linemen Darren Denucci, who is being recruited by Weber State, Southern Utah and others, is the only Utahn in that game, which will be televised by Fox College Sports at 4 p.m.
The U.S. Army All-American Bowl will be played on Saturday at noon at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, and will be televised by NBC. However, no Utahns are in the game.
Martinez and Su'a-Filo will play for the "black" team, along with Manti Te'o, the highly recruited linebacker from Punahou High in Hawaii who has BYU among his list of favorites.
Su'a-Filo, the Tribune all-stater, has been fairly reclusive lately, causing some to wonder if he's changed his own list of favorites. But Wednesday, he told several recruiting Web sites that his top five includes LSU, USC, Utah, BYU and UCLA.
He has already visited the first three schools, he said, and plans visits to BYU on Jan. 10 and UCLA on Jan. 17 before he makes his final decision.
Asked specifically about BYU, Su'a-Filo told Scout.com that "there's no place like it" and that it is "my hometown school."
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The Under Armour game is the last of three high school football all-star games scheduled for this weekend.
On Friday, the Offense-Defense All-American Bowl will be played in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Bountiful High linemen Darren Denucci, who is being recruited by Weber State, Southern Utah and others, is the only Utahn in that game, which will be televised by Fox College Sports at 4 p.m.
The U.S. Army All-American Bowl will be played on Saturday at noon at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, and will be televised by NBC. However, no Utahns are in the game.
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