Piscataway New Jersey is a decent sized town in Central Jersey. Right in the backyard of Rutgers University, it is the home of very competitive football. Over the years It has been claimed Sports Illustrated Sportstown, home to many Pop Warner championships and High School football championships. From 2002 to 2006 Piscataway brought the championship trophy back to Piscataway.
Here is a clip of highlights from P-way high school football
In Piscataway's years of dominance came dominant players including Kyle Wilson, Malcolm Jenkins and Anthony Davis
Kyle Wilson recieved a scholarship to attend Boise State in Idaho for football. At Boise he was a three year starter and achieved success with the team during his career. He was the favored to go the farthest back ever since pop warner football days.
Here is his Boise State foorball clips
Whereas Malcolm Jenkins, who was a 4 year starter at ohio state, did not even get recruited by Ohio State's Jim Tressel He was the overlooked player in high school and worked twice as hard to end up recieving a scholarship from Ohio State.
Here is Malcolm's Ohio State highlights
Lastly Anthony Davis another hometown native, ended up staying in his hometown to enjoy a great 3 year career at Rutgers University under coach Greg Schiano.
Here is a clip of Anthony at Rutgers. He wears number 75
These three guys have been apart of success since high school. now all of them are in the NFL. Kyle Wilson a rookie playing for the New York Jets, Anthony Davis also a rookie for the San Francisco 49ers and Malcolm Jenkins a second year veteran for the New Orleans Saints.
In his first year in the NFL Malcolm became a Super Bowl Champion. Here is his interview after the win.
Do you think that the other two players mentioned in this blog will achieve the same success? Or do you know of any people in a similar situation or sport that is on a road to success from your town?
I believe that the other two players have as much of a chance of acheiving the same success as Malcom Jenkins. It all depends on how hard they work and how hard their teams work along with them. I cannot think of anyone from my town that is in a situation like Malcom Jenkins was in.
ReplyDeleteI also believe they will acheive the success that Malcom Jenkins had in his first year. after watching those clips (and man, can that first guy move), there is no doubt in my mind they will all have successful careers.
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