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Skyline's Heaps would fit well in BYU system
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A couple week ago, a friend jokingly suggested to me that, given the woeful state of football (Huskies, Cougars, Seahawks), the best team in the state might be Sammamish's Skyline High School. There is a slice of truth to that.
The Spartans (10-0), the defending state champions, have a 23-game win streak, are ranked No. 1 in the state and as high as No. 7 in the country, according to the USA Today poll. One of the reasons they are so highly regarded is because they have perhaps the best college quarterback prospect in the country, junior Jake Heaps. He has been listed as the No. 1 prospect in the nation for the class of 2010.
My youngest daughter went to Skyline. I live about a mile away from the school so I decide to check out this phenon tonight as Skyline hosted Graham in the Class 4A playoffs. Skyline won 30-7 as Heaps passed for a couple touchdowns and ran for another. This guy is impressive.
He's about 6-foot-2, 190 pounds with room to put on plenty of muscle. He looks like he is, a high school kid, kind of geekish. But he's in total control on the field. He has a powerful arm. He threw a 51-yard touchdown pass to WSU-bound Gino Simone in the first quarter that traveled more than 40 yards in the air. It was an graceful, arcing aerial that Simone smoothly ran under down the left sideline.
I understand that Heaps regularly attends a quarterback camp in Portland to perfect his mechanics. It shows. He holds the ball high and actually his arm cock and release are usually high, above his right ear. He's quite accurate with a lot of zip on the ball. I'm told he's not much of a runner but he had a couple nice romps during the game.
It helps that he has a couple enormously talented receivers, senior Simone and sophomore Kasen Williams, who is going to have his share of big-time college offers by the time he's ready. He already has offers from Washington, UCLA and Boise State.
Those same schools, plus dozens of others, have offered scholarships to Heaps. Notre Dame's Charlie Weis was a interested fan at the Skyline game two weeks ago. The Irish have offered him a scholarship.
But they all may be wasting their time. Heaps, a Mormon, is all but committed to play for Brigham Young. That would be a perfect fit because of its quarterback-factory reputation. The tradeoff is the Cougars don't often seriously contend for the BSC bowl games. Maybe Heaps can change that.
But from my perspective, Heaps is the real deal. He can wing it and he's about to take off.
The Seattle High School Sports Examiner
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