The University of Wyoming football program sent its coaching staff all around the country last year to attend satellite camps and it has helped the program to unearth gems like Xazavian Valladay, who was found at the a camp in Chicagoland.
Valladay is just five games into the 2016 season with his Brother Rice team but has already accounted for 12 touchdowns in just 63 carries. Valladay features 4.5 time in the 40-yard dash and plenty of strength as illustrated by a 445-pound squat max. Thus far he has scholarship offers from Western Illinois and the University of Wyoming in addition to interest from Southeast Missouri and Central Michigan.
“I think as far as being a running back I can read the defense really well, hit the hole and I am a versatile back. I am capable of inside or outside zone too,” he said.
This weekend Valladay will be in Laramie to check out the Wyoming football program and the school. The future major in mechanical engineering said he has been in contact with Wyoming and defensive backs coach Curt Mallory since the Lake Forest satellite camp in June.
“I performed very well at the camp and they told me they will be keeping in contact with me,” Valladay said. “They said I needed to send me my test scores and as soon as I got the grades sent in we started talking about athletics and the scholarship came through.”
Valladay said he is very interested in Wyoming football and very familiar with the Cowboys as well, thanks in part to a living legend who wears Brown and Gold.
“Brian Hill coming out of Illinois and I have paid attention to I'm since he was younger and then again when he committed to Wyoming,” Valladay said. “I look up to him, I like the way he carries himself and I think he is a great guy. I am very interested in Wyoming.”
Valladay said he is going to focus on his senior season of high school football and is likely to make a decision in November, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have some ideas about his future.
“I did talk to my parents and they said take it easy this weekend,” Valladay said. “I may have made up my mind already but my parents said to wait until the end of the season to make a decision.
“I am very excited to go out there and I am looking forward to this Saturday. I can’t wait.”
https://wyoming.rivals.com/news/chicago-running-back-ready-for-visit-to-laramie
Valladay is just five games into the 2016 season with his Brother Rice team but has already accounted for 12 touchdowns in just 63 carries. Valladay features 4.5 time in the 40-yard dash and plenty of strength as illustrated by a 445-pound squat max. Thus far he has scholarship offers from Western Illinois and the University of Wyoming in addition to interest from Southeast Missouri and Central Michigan.
“I think as far as being a running back I can read the defense really well, hit the hole and I am a versatile back. I am capable of inside or outside zone too,” he said.
This weekend Valladay will be in Laramie to check out the Wyoming football program and the school. The future major in mechanical engineering said he has been in contact with Wyoming and defensive backs coach Curt Mallory since the Lake Forest satellite camp in June.
“I performed very well at the camp and they told me they will be keeping in contact with me,” Valladay said. “They said I needed to send me my test scores and as soon as I got the grades sent in we started talking about athletics and the scholarship came through.”
Valladay said he is very interested in Wyoming football and very familiar with the Cowboys as well, thanks in part to a living legend who wears Brown and Gold.
“Brian Hill coming out of Illinois and I have paid attention to I'm since he was younger and then again when he committed to Wyoming,” Valladay said. “I look up to him, I like the way he carries himself and I think he is a great guy. I am very interested in Wyoming.”
Valladay said he is going to focus on his senior season of high school football and is likely to make a decision in November, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have some ideas about his future.
“I did talk to my parents and they said take it easy this weekend,” Valladay said. “I may have made up my mind already but my parents said to wait until the end of the season to make a decision.
“I am very excited to go out there and I am looking forward to this Saturday. I can’t wait.”
https://wyoming.rivals.com/news/chicago-running-back-ready-for-visit-to-laramie
