Lone Peak High's Dillon Smith signed to play basketball for Air Force last week, but don't expect the 6-foot-2 shooting guard to play for the Falcons for quite some time.

Smith, who averaged around 10 points a game for the 5A runner-up last season, expects to receive his LDS Church mission call next week and will leave for two years in the middle of the summer.

When he returns, the plan is for him to play a year for the Air Force Academy Prep School, then join the Mountain West Conference's Falcons.

Because of the time frame "the signing was [symbolic]," Smith said. "Just to get a commitment from me on paper, I guess."

Smith said he chose AFA because it is a good fit for him and because he likes the offensive system. Although Northern Arizona offered him a scholarship prior to the season (which he declined), he said he had no other Division I offers.

Some schools that had expressed interest cooled when they learned Smith was leaving on a mission this summer.

He was invited to be a preferred walk-on at several schools, he said.

Surrounded by several other D-I players at Lone Peak, Smith wasn't able to put up impressive numbers.

However, he had a strong summer AAU season in 2008 playing for the Utah Swoosh, averaging more than 28 points per game and shooting 65 percent from the field, according to his club coach, Dave Houle.

In one game he scored 40 points against the Oakland Rebels, shooting 13-for-17 from the field, including 9-for-10 from three-point range.