A total of 94 students from Baltimore City and the five-county surrounding area—Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford, and Howard—are listed on the football rosters for Division I colleges this year, the Baltimore Sun reports—and lists, unless they missed somebody.
Of the high schools with the highest representation of area students on D-I rosters, the biggest contributors are private schools:
- 10 from Gilman, including 3 redshirt freshmen and 4 freshmen
- 7 from Calvert Hall, including 1 redshirt freshman and 2 freshmen
- 7 from Good Counsel, including 2 freshmen
The number is up from last season, when Division I rosters listed 89 players from the Baltimore area, and from 2011, when rosters listed 79. The list include 43 high schools that graduated students from the area, plus one in Nebraska, which graduated a student who was technically a “Baltimore native.”
Although Our Lady of Good Counsel High School isn’t in the Baltimore area, the residency of the seven students was identified. Good Counsel, ranked No. 1 in Maryland’s preseason press poll and No. 19 in USA Today’s Super 25, opened their season yesterday at Johnny Unitas Stadium at Towson University against Gilman, a game televised on ESPN.
“We have had a number of awesome football players,” the Sun quoted Gilman coach Biff Poggi as saying after the game. “We have replaced as many great football players over the last four years as any school in the country. We have had guys play at Alabama, Michigan, Penn State. You name it.”
The best-represented area public school is Paul Laurence Dunbar High School for Health Professionals in Baltimore City, with five players on D-I rosters this season, including two freshmen on defense.
This is very impressive reporting, as tracking high school kids through a four- or five-year collegiate term isn’t easy. Does anybody have the list for the entire state of Maryland or for Illinois or Chicago?
