Two-sport star fielding offers: Brandon Avalos...

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For top high school athletes, the period from spring of their junior year all the way through senior season can be more than hectic. Each day new letters arrive from schools all over the country, hoping to make an impact with the phone ringing non-stop. Simply narrowing the list can overwhelm many youngsters. And for the special athletes, good enough to star in two sports, it can be doubly tough.

Consider the case of Brandon Avalos--the pride of Tuscaloosa’s Hillcrest High School who describes a recent conversation with Tide football coach Dennis Franchione. “He asked me whether I was a quarterback playing baseball or the other way around,” Avalos related. “I just told him, ‘Coach, I’ll put it this way. When it’s football season, I’m a quarterback. And when it’s baseball season, I play centerfield.’”
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