Ever watch Pro Players in High School?

[spyboy1]

Phil Housley beat my high school in a playoff game with a goal no one else on the ice that night could have scored.

"No wonder they are talking about this guy." was my reaction.

JeffB

[black_gold_capone]

Seen P.K. Sam play high school football....not a big name but I think he's still with the Pats. Tim Wansley also and Darius Walker who plays for Notre Dame, not pro but will be.

[MDesign]

Pros

Anthony Hargrove - St. Louis Rams

John Hall - Washington Redskins

Tommy Murphy - OF LA Angels of Anaheim

Future Pros

Joe Toth - Michigan State University Football

Jeff Corsaletti - In Red Sox Farm Club

Matt LaPorta - 1st Base University of Florida

Slightly OT: I know Don Davis - LB for New England Patriots - pretty well.

[lilgump]

Nate Robinson, I was in 8th grade so didnt see him but our high school football team played against his, he jumped like 10 ft. to intercept a pass to make us lose.

Reggie Williams (jacksonville) Watched him play in state playoff game.

[skratchmo]

In my freshman year of high school i got my ass KICKED while attempting a trap block in practice against Seattle Seahawks Linebacker Garrett McIntyre. I was on my way in and he was on his way out, he agreed to play in a intra squad scrimmage before heading off to Fresno St. Funny thing was, a few years before that, I got in his way at a party when he was super drunk and he literally beat the crap outta me. Still to this day those were two of the most savage beatings ive ever taken.

You say a few years before your freshman year, you were at a party and he beat the crap out of you. That would make you 10...11...12 maybe?

Don't they child abuse laws where you live? Don't they have age drinking limits or parents who watch their pre-teens? Seriously, nobody pressed charges when you got beat up at that age?

Something sick about all that in some way.

[Moser316]

If Steve Novak gets drafted by the NBA (which is a strong possibility, especially if Travis Freaking Diener can get drafted and stick with an NBA team), that'll be the first. He played at my old high school in Brown Deer after I graduated, but both my brothers went to school at the same time he did. In fact, my youngest brother is good friends with his younger brother (who's now a redshirt freshman at Michigan Tech).

[B-Rich]

Saw Louis Lipps (former Pittsburgh Steeler, NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year in 1984) play for East St. John against East Jefferson High in 1980. I also saw him play for Southern Miss in 1982. Interesting note-- all three of those teams he played for wore black and gold....

Also saw NBA'er Chris Jackson (Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf) play for Gulfport High in a game held right before a CBA game in Biloxi, MS in January 1987. Guy was incredible, and no taller then me.

[andrewharrington]

When I was a sophomore at Avon Lake High School, our school's basketball team played Saint Vincent/Saint Mary High school, and there was some junior on that team called LeBron James. They won by 40, and he was pretty good.

[rmered]

I guess you won't know much about Australian sports, however here's my story.

Colleges are High Schools. What you call College, we call University.

Plus, players are drafted straight out of High School, not from University.

I played on Steven Silvagni from Marcellin College in High School, he ended up playing over 300 games in the AFL. He kicked 5 goals on me in the first quarter and they took me off.

Matthew Hogg played with him in the 1995 Premiership. He was one of my brother's best mates through school. Another in thaqt group of friends was Eric Bana (The Hulk), but he's an actor, so doesn't count in this thread.

I've also played against Gavin Brown, former Collingwood captain, who played in the same Marcellin school team as Silvagni. No wonder they thrashed us.

I was dropped from the team after my dismal effort for the next game, but watched a guy called Bill Brownless from Assumption College destroy us. He later did the same thing to many opponents playing for Geelong.

Dustin Fletcher is one of my favorite Essendon players, his mum was my Year 1 teacher, and she went on maternity leave to have him. I saw him play in High School footy in 1993, and the next week he was playing in the AFL. He went on to play in the premiership team that year.

[skratchmo]

In my freshman year of high school i got my ass KICKED while attempting a trap block in practice against Seattle Seahawks Linebacker Garrett McIntyre. I was on my way in and he was on his way out, he agreed to play in a intra squad scrimmage before heading off to Fresno St. Funny thing was, a few years before that, I got in his way at a party when he was super drunk and he literally beat the crap outta me. Still to this day those were two of the most savage beatings ive ever taken.

You say a few years before your freshman year, you were at a party and he beat the crap out of you. That would make you 10...11...12 maybe?

Don't they child abuse laws where you live? Don't they have age drinking limits or parents who watch their pre-teens? Seriously, nobody pressed charges when you got beat up at that age?

Something sick about all that in some way.

I'd still like to hear this story how you got savaged by this guy while a youngster. If it is too emotionally scarring, I understand. But I think you can still get some type of restitution from him now, much like the Catholic altar boys who carried their burden for years.

[FiddySicks]

In my freshman year of high school i got my ass KICKED while attempting a trap block in practice against Seattle Seahawks Linebacker Garrett McIntyre. I was on my way in and he was on his way out, he agreed to play in a intra squad scrimmage before heading off to Fresno St. Funny thing was, a few years before that, I got in his way at a party when he was super drunk and he literally beat the crap outta me. Still to this day those were two of the most savage beatings ive ever taken.

You say a few years before your freshman year, you were at a party and he beat the crap out of you. That would make you 10...11...12 maybe?

Don't they child abuse laws where you live? Don't they have age drinking limits or parents who watch their pre-teens? Seriously, nobody pressed charges when you got beat up at that age?

Something sick about all that in some way.

I'd still like to hear this story how you got savaged by this guy while a youngster. If it is too emotionally scarring, I understand. But I think you can still get some type of restitution from him now, much like the Catholic altar boys who carried their burden for years.

No, trust me, it didnt emotionally scar me or anything. OK so heres the story. I was in like 6th or 7th grade, he was i think a junior. I was acting like a bad ass and went to a party with a few older buddies of mine. I think it was just after the homecoming game that year and they were murdered by Wooster who are our biggest rivals. The whole football team was there and they were pretty much all trashed. I saw he was pretty pissed but i still found it necessary to tell him what a good game he had and he flipped out. I think he hit me twice, but it was two of the hardest punches ive ever taken. Then my buddy, who was also his friend pulled him off of me. I accually saw him a few weeks later and told him about it. He kinda laughed, said he didnt really remember that night, and apologized. Now Garrett is a HUGE mofo, but his younger brother, who also played ball at my high school and then Fresno State before he quit, is an enormous Mother Fu*ker. He seriously makes Garrett look like a scrawney little guy. And on top of that, hes probably the biggest dick head ive ever met. I played ball with him freshman and sophomore year and hed just tee up on guys. He took so many cheap shots at his own players in practice that the coaches suspended him for the last three games in his junior year.

[DrBear]

Three of them, all in high school basketball:

1. Scott Skiles, who was in his senior year at Plymouth (Ind.) during the one year I covered basketball in that state.

2. Wayne Kreklow of Neenah (Wis) who later played for Drake and the Boston Celtics (briefly)

3. Tony Bennett of Green Bay Preble, who later got UWGB (and his dad, coach Dick Bennett) into the NCAAs and spent a year with the Charlotte Hornets.

[VitaminD]

NBA: Matt Maloney, formerly of the Bulls and Rockets, went to my high school (HMHS '90). There were a couple of other guys who we played, but I don't think they went beyond D-I college. Also got to watch Dajuan Wagner in high school. In a few years, you'll probably be able to include Brian Zoubek (HMHS '06), starting at Duke next fall, to that list - mobile 7'2" centers ought to play at the next level...

MLB: Scott Schoeneweis of the Blue Jays - nearly decapitated me with a line drive my spphomore year (I was pitching... and yeah, I caught it, and doubled the runner off 1st!).

NFL: Bryant McKinney played in our conference in high school. Ron Dayne played just down the road, but in a different conference. Glenn Foley kicked our a** in a game, 56-8, my freshman year. William Green played against my best friend's high school growing up. Steve Israel played for the Cowboys, and went to my high school's archrival. He had two brothers who also made D-I squads - they ran circles around us every Thanksgiving Day game for what seemed like forever (we were a soccer school anyway).

As a sidenote, Carl Lewis ran in a track meet at my high school when he was at a nearby high school one county north of us. I was not there, I was only 4 when it happened, but I did get to run on the same track a few years later, as did another American gold medalist, Dennis Mitchell (another South Jersey product).

[HedleyLamarr]

I played with some future major-leaguers at Georgia Tech, but that was college, and thereby not on topic.

Did some of them matriculate to Red Sox Nation?

I played on the same field as the Reds' Brandon Phillips. That guy would toy with you, then smack line-drive doubles and homeruns in almost every at-bat. He also had a cannon of an arm.....

[JBPerry]

I don't know how many people have heard of him, but I knew Calvin Miles when he went here @ Dallas Skyline High School. I also knew about LaMarcus Aldridge before he went to Texas.

[See Red]

I went to High School with David Pauley, who is currently making his Major League debut for the Red Sox against the Blue Jays. I watched him play a couple of times back then. It's odd watching him pitch in the Majors, now. I was also pretty friendly with him. He hasn't pitched too bad thus far, he's looked more nervous than anything since he's having trouble finding the strike zone while he has a reputation as someone who doesn't walk many batters. He's pitching against one of the best lineups in the league!

[MrAsterisk]

I had a P.E. teacher a year ago who coached Tim Duncan in the Virgin Islands, if that counts for anything.

[TFoA]

When I lived down on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the football-crazy town of Moss Point, we played this team from Brandon, outside of Jackson in the South Mississippi Final. Their star RB was Jerious Norwood, whom the Falcons drafted in the 3rd round. He is SO good. Even though we won kinda easily and we shut down the rest of the team, I'll be damned if that guy wasn't fast and extremely talented, even in high school. I'm glad we drafted him.

[Camden Crazy]

The only one I saw was Ryan Keefer, who is currently in the Orioles organization. He went to high school like 15 minutes away and got drafted in 2000. He was on the original Orioles 40-man roster, but got hurt during Spring Training.

[Fred T. Jane]

Jake Delhomme (he dated my friend's sister when he was at Teurlings Catholic in Lafayette), Kevin Faulk, and Domanick Davis (we have a mutual friend, but I only met him once)