USA Today has a story about Walton High School in Marietta, Ga., producing four football players who will head to Ivy League schools next fall including Ryan Roegge, a 6-foot-2, 205-pound safety headed to Hanover. Find an earlier mention of his commitment and a few junior highlights HERE.
From the story:
School officials could not recall an Ivy League student coming from Walton’s football team, let alone four in a single class.How soon they forget ;-). Malcolm Freberg '09 was a Dartmouth defensive end from Walton who went on to be a much-discussed competitor on the TV show Survivor. (LINK)
The USA Today story mentions that Walton turning out that many Ivy League football players in one year is unusual. From the story:
The most recent example of the rarity of this feat for any high school might be St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), as five members of its Class of 2012 finished up their Ivy League football careers this season. Two players are from Princeton and one each at Dartmouth, Penn and Yale.The player from Dartmouth? Corner Vernon Harris, who became the first Big Green standout to start all 40 games in his college career.
