Redlands' Dan Selway: Best College Athlete in California?
It's rare these days to see a kid play two "major" sports in the same year. That is, football, basketball and baseball.
But Dan Selway of the University of Redlands is doing it -- at the NCAA level.
Selway played quarterback for Redlands in the fall and was player of the year in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
And now, he is scoring 9.2 points per game for the Redlands basketball team, which is fighting for one of the SCIAC's four postseason tourney berths.
Selway joined the basketball team late, apparently because of the injury he suffered to his shoulder during the football season -- which ended in the NCAA playoffs after the Bulldogs won the conference title.,
Selway, a 6-3 forward on the hardwood, scored 26 points and made six steals for the basketball team last week, key contributions in a 97-88 overtime victory over Caltech.
Caltech came in with a 267-game SCIAC losing streak that goes back to 1985. Losing to those guys would not have been something this or any SCIAC team would like to be known for.
Selway had 21 more in a near-upset of conference-leading Occidental on Wednesday. Oxy won that game 83-80 in overtime.
Selway is a junior out of Northwood High School and Villa Park. In football, he passed for 2,429 yards on 171-for-303 (56.4 percent) accuracy, with 22 touchdowns against 11 interceptions.
So he's not just hanging around in one sport or the other. He is a serious contributor in both. (Will he play baseball? Stay tuned.)
We can think of one kid who is playing football and basketball on the JC level. That would be San Bernardino Valley College's Sylvester Burel, formerly of Redlands East Valley College. Burel started in football and is one of the first players off the bench in basketball.
The sports world has become so specialized ... it takes a remarkable athlete (and a pretty serious student, too) to play two major sports and stay eligible, too.
Comments
That Dan Selway kid is something eh? And he has like zero ego too, pretty amazing. If you asked him what he thought, he would just say he's whatever he can to help the team, completely selfless. This kids a stud.
Posted by: Josh Cervisi | February 19, 2008 2:48 PM