athletes from your highschool
Marquis Kately. Played for Cal a couple years back him and Leon Powe were tearing it up their first couple years together
Eric Wright. I think he's the #1 corner for the Browns. He went to USC and got kicked out but he's a stud DB
Donald Strickland. Bounced around the NFL last year he was with his hometown niners but now I think he's elsewhere
When I was there, just these few..
Pat Phelps...played football at Boston College
John Robertson...Played football at Kansas St
Andy Eby...Played football at Kansas St...also heard he made the Packers practice squad a few years back
a few crappy JUCO basketballers there too but not much...
guess my name could have made the list if I had not been a fool...
My highschool had Andray Blatch of the Washington Wiz. He was a sophmore when I was a senoir but they won the NY state title in 2002, when he was promoted from JV to varisty.
We also had some football player from my highschool who was the 4th string WR for the Bucs when they won the superbowl. I can't think of his name but he was the biggest name in my highschool at the time being.
Home of the Black Knights.
Todd Licklighter - Played basketball at NC and wound up eventually playing college ball at Butler University. He wasn't a great player, but he eventually ended up coaching at Butler. He was an assistant at Butler under two great coaches (Barry Collier and Thad Matta). He became the head coach in 2001 after Matta left for Xavier. He's now the head coach at Iowa.
Lars Tate - Big time football player (running back) who was named the 1985 Gatorade National High School Offensive Player of the Year. He played for the University of Georgia and was drafted by Buccanneers in the second round of the 1988 draft. He also played for the Bears.
Maicel Malone-Wallace - She was a beast in track in field. She won like 11 state titles while at NC. She was the 1996 Olympic Games gold medalist in the women's 4 x 400 meters relay for the United States. She's currently the head track and field coach at Florida A&M.
Derrick Mayes - Big time football player who went on to play wide receiver at Notre Dame. He played three seasons at Notre Dame and held the school record for touchdown receptions. He was drafted in the second round by the Packers in 1996. He also played for the Seahawks.
Jason Gardner - HUGE high school basketball player. He led NC to the class 4A State Championship and won Mr. Basketball of Indiana during his senior year. He was a McDonald's All-American and went on to play four years at Arizona where he had a very productive career. He wasn't drafted by the NBA, but has had a nice career overseas. I went to middle school and high school with him, so I got to see a lot of his games.
Courtney Roby - FAST/Electric football player who went on to play wide receiver at Indiana. He's actually in my class, so I grew up competing against him in sports. He played four seasons at Indiana where he broke most of the records. He was drafted by the Tennessee Titans in the third round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He's played with the Titans, Bengals, Colts and now is currently playing with the Saints.
Jordan Seabrook - Big time soccer player (one of the fastest dudes I've ever seen) who's now playing proffesionally for Crystal Palace Baltimore. He was the 51st pick in the 2009 MLS SuperDraft by Colorado Rapids.
Eric Gordon - The best basketball player to come out of NC. Now with the Clips.
Other guys from NC:
David Wolf - Astronaut
Babyface - Singer/Songwriter
Jared Fogle - The subway guy
Bryce McNaul: Linebacker for Northwestern or Purdue, I forgot
Blake Sorenson: Starter OLB for Wisconsin
Ryan Orton: OL for Minnesota
Ryan Grant: QB for Minnesota
Carter Bykowski: TE for Iowa State
Willie Mobley: DT for Ohio State
Ethan Wragge: F Will be freshmen for Creigton next year
Jay Foreman: NFL linebacker
Mark Brown (I think): NFL OL
Kris Humphries: NBA F (transferred away from my school as a freshmen)
Next:
Gage Shaeffer: D1 athlete for football
Brett Ervin: D1 G/F but could play D1 WR too
Rumeal Harris: D1 WR
I know there are more but I can only think of those.
Basketball
Chris Whitney- played for the Wizards in the NBA as well as a few other teams
Scotty Hopson- currently starting at SG/SF for Tennessee, look for him to step his game up this season
Tyshawn Edmondson- currently plays for St. Johns
Lamont Barnes- played for Temple in college...spent most of his pro career overseas
Greg Buckner- everybody knows him
Isiah Victor- played college for Tennesse, spent some time in the DLeague & overseas
I remember watching all these guys play in high school except for Whitney who is quite a bit older than me. All these guys of course pretty much dominated in high school. I am probably forgetting somebody.
Football
Artose Pinner- played in the NFL running back for the Lions, also played for a couple other teams, played for Kentucky in college
Curtis Pulley- played QB for Kentucky in college until he transferred to Florida A&M where he currently still is I believe. he was a real good basketball player in high school too
What athletes, if any, have gone the farthest in sports. This could be all-time or when you were there.
Best athlete all time from my highschool was probably the golfer Corey pavin. Best while I was there was probably a football player named Jacob Rogers who was an all american center for the national champions USC Trojans and an eventual 2nd round pick by the Cowboys. Just surious to hear if any of you had some succesful athletes from your school.