by Andy Hilton, recruit757 In its 29th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with USA TODAY High School Sports, today announced Andrew Brown of Oscar Smith High School as its 2013-14 Gatorade Virginia Football Player of the Year. Brown is the second Gatorade Virginia Football Player of…
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by Andy Hilton, recruit757 For some players, college attention starts early. For others, it takes a little time. Hampton wide receiver Umar Muhammad has been a go to receiver for the Hampton Crabbers for two seasons now. Finally, after the season has ended, attention from college coaches is coming his way. The 6-1 200 pound…
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by Andy Hilton, recruit757 Parents and players, this might come as a cold slap of reality, but it’s not your football coach’s job to get your recruited. He wants to see you succeed, and nothing makes a coach prouder than to see his players go off to achieve bigger and better things. High school is…
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by Andy Hilton, recruit757 The Class of 2014 is loaded in The 757. Depending on the list you read, you can say that we have six prospects in the Top 150 in the nation, four prospects in the top 100, and two in the top 10. We now have two of those six that have…
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by Andy Hilton, recruit757 Monty Fenner and the Oscar Smith Tigers are playing in December once again. The college football regular season is now over and many college coaches are back on the recruiting trail. That makes for a busy time for high school seniors still working out their recruitment. For a player like Fenner,…
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by Andy Hilton, recruit757 All-American Quin Blanding picked up another honor. At Sunday night’s 9th Annual Student Athlete Achievement Awards Banquet, Blanding was among five nominees for Boy’s High School Student Athlete of the Year in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Students from across Virginia in grades 6th through 12th were eligible. Virginia Sports Hall of…
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by Andy Hilton, recruit757 Congratulations to this week’s Buffalo Wild Wings Player of the Week, Malik Butts of Salem High School in Virginia Beach. He becomes the first player in the history of the award to win it in back-to-back weeks. Butts carried the ball a 39 times for 223 yards and two touchdowns…
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by Andy Hilton, recruit757 It looks like Jim Grobe will leave Wake Forest tied for the school record in wins. National news outlets are reporting that the coach will step down after 13 years as head coach at the school. He has a 77-82 win-loss record as a head coach there and is tied in…
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by Andy Hilton, recruit757 The recruit757 Scholarship Workshop is back again! We’ll close out the year with our next big event on Tuesday, December 10 in Virginia Beach. You won’t want to miss this one. If you’re a high school football player who’s serious about getting recruited to play football in college, you’ll want to…
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by Andy Hilton, recruit757 The playoffs are advancing, and there are fewer and fewer teams still alive in the postseason. This week, we’re down to three teams and six great candidates for the recruit757/Buffalo Wild Wings Player of the Week. VOTE NOW! – Quarterback Shon Mitchell of Oscar Smith threw for 238 yards and two…
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