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PRIOR TO WESTERN: Also a quarterback for the Catamount football team, redshirting his true freshman season in 2005 ... Named first team Group A All-State in football by the Associated Press ... Bristol Herald Courier's Southwest Virginia offensive player of the year in football as a senior ... Led Powell Valley HS to the football state championship game ... Selected to play in the Virginia High School League (VHSL) East-West All-Star game, earning Co-MVP honors after throwing a pair of touchdowns in the game ... Passed for 3,008 yards and 37 touchdowns as a senior, running for 10 more scores ... Threw for 6,076 yards and 69 touchdowns in his career ... During his senior season, had a game which he threw for 556 yards, the second highest total in VHSL history ... Also named All-State as a kicker ... Earned all-district and all-region honors as both a quarterback and kicker as a senior ... Also named his area's player of the year in football and basketball as a senior ... Led the Viking basketball team in scoring and was the Lonesome Pine District Player of the Year ... Selected all-state in baseball as a sophomore, junior and senior ... Struck out 17 batters in a playoff game and posted a 10-1 record as a senior with 10 complete games ... For his senior season, struck out 161 batters and posted an ERA of 1.50 ... Led his AAU 17 and under baseball team to a third-place national finish ... Played for his father, Phil, a well-respected coach in Virginia.
