North Torrance's Ryan McDaniel may have had his season cut short by a knee injury, but it didn't cut short his aspirations of getting a scholarship with a major college football program.
McDaniel, who played both RB and LB at North, officially signed his Letter of Intent with Washington on Wednesday morning.
The recruiting process was a hectic one for longtime USC commit Darreus Rogers, who officially chose USC on Wednesday after being courted heavily by Arizona State.
Earlier in the day, Rogers spoke exclusively to The Daily Breeze about why he chose to remain with the USC Trojans.
Three players who went a long way to bolstering a Serra defense that helped capture the Mission League title made their college choices official on Wednesday by signing their LOI's in a ceremony in the Serra High gym.
Thomas Brown decided to trade in his red and blue Serra colors for a Blackshirt, electing to sign with the Nebraska Cornhuskers. He talked to us about the decision after Serra's signing ceremony:
Meanwhile, DE/TE Kache Palacio sounds ready to get on a plane to Pullman and suit up for Mike Leach's Washington State defense tomorrow if he could:
DT/OL Kris Cooper made his decision to head to Montana State official, where he said he hopes to get on the field and play right away as a freshman.
Darien Barrett played defensive end at Inglewood, but he'll have a new role on the Boise State defense and this morning after his school's signing ceremony at Inglewood High, he told us that he can't wait to get started.
In this short clip Barrett talks about playing the "stud" position in Boise State defense and how excited he is to play on the blue turf.
Inglewood star did a little bit of everything for Inglewood High, but he knows exactly what he wants to do at Oklahoma - catch passes.
Woods gave a verbal commitment Oklahoma in December and made it official this morning by signing his Letter of Intent at a special ceremony with his teammates at Inglewood High.
Woods talked to The Daily Breeze about his decision to become a Sooner:
This morning at Inglewood High's National Signing Day ceremony, Devian Shelton ripped off his jacket to reveal that he will attend USC.
Check out the fun moment:
Afterward, the Pure Preps Blog caught up with Shelton for a short but sweet chat about his decision. Shelton says USC is getting the "greatest underrated player" in the country.
Check back later for more video of Inglewood's other signees like Derrick Woods (Inglewood), as well as video with Carson's Darreus Rogers after he makes his big decision and Serra's four football stars are making their decisions this afternoon.
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Tony Ciniglio
Tony Ciniglio has been covering sports at the Daily Breeze since 1997 and is the Prep-JC Editor. Ciniglio graduated from Malibu High (home of the mighty Sharks) in 1997 as part of the school's second graduating class before attending powerhouse Pepperdine (Class of 2001), thus shattering any reader's preconceived notion that he has any personal bias when it comes to South Bay Preps.
Dave Thorpe was a self-proclaimed, slightly above average baseball player back in the day at Torrance's West High, who went on and had an unspectacular, injury-riddled stint as a third baseman at El Camino College. Trading bat for pen, Thorpe wrote sports for the Long Beach Union newspaper at Long Beach State University, then worked as the sports editor for the Palos Verdes Peninsula News for seven years before climbing down the Hill to the Daily Breeze, where he has been a sports writer covering local sports since 2007.
