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Friday, August 23, 2019

THE HIGH SCHOOL HIGHLIGHT: THROWBACK STYLE

Today is the start of the football season for a lot of High School football team in Arizona.  As always The Az Sports Guru will profile a different player athlete each week.  There is no criteria to be profiled, other than playing high school football.  This segment was created 5 years ago in hopes of showing people the different kind of athletes that play football and how it brings them together.  In honor of another year here is the first ever edition of "The High School Highlight", called 'The Friday Highlight" back then.  Enjoy!



Our First edition of The Friday Highlight takes us to the San Tan Valley.  There you will find a school called Combs High school.  The Comb’s Coyotes traveled to Globe last week and won 17 – 0.  The thing that impressed me the most wasn’t the score.  It was 15 year old Skylar Johnson reaching out to me and letting me know that his team had won their season opener.  He didn’t mention that it was his first varsity football game.  He didn’t even mention his stats.  I was overly impressed so much that I decided to look a little closer at the quarterback from Combs High School.  I was even more impressed to find out that he is an active member of the LDS Church and holds a 2.8 GPA.     When asked about his long term goals Johnson said he will improve his GPA and attend college where he hopes to be able to continue his athletic career.  Johnson also has a short term goal.  It’s to become the starting quarterback for the varsity team.  Johnson split reps last week at QB and had a solid outing.  With his families support Johnson keeps working harder and harder each day to be the best QB he can be for his team.   Johnson has played Pop Warner and was on both the freshman and JV teams last year.  Johnson is a prime example of a student athlete.  He gives a 100% on and off the field.  “The brotherhood of a football team is almost as import than the sport itself” said Johnson.  Johnson is an impressive young man who you will hear good things about in the future.  He seems to be a very humble athlete who is waiting to hear the public address announcer at Combs High say “And now the starting quarterback for your Combs Coyotes #5 Skylar Johnson”.  

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