As most know Sherwood is a traditional football power within Oregon. The Bowmen will make the jump from 5A to 6A next season and graduate a phenomenal senior class. That said, one of the top sophomores in Oregon is Jakob Eisenbeiss (6-2 195 RB/LB). You will see the young talent as the future of the Bowmen program, and someone that has the potential to be dominant on…
Click for Tyler Gedney Highlights One of the bigger surprises in 1A football last season were the Rochester Warriors of the Evergreen Conference. While they finished 6-4, it was the school’s best finish in ten years, including the past two years in which they went 2-7 and 1-8. A big reason for their improved play was senior QB Tyler Gedney (6’2″ 210). While RB Tyler Yarber saw most of the…
Click for Trent Green Highlights Recruiting is not easy in general, but it can be extra tough below the 2A level in the State of Washington. One player that has emerged as a college prospect from the 2B level (State’s second smallest) is Trent Green (5’10” 170) of Darrington High School. Darrington is a small town about a half hour east of Arlington, into the Cascade Mountains,…
Click for Derek Parnell Highlights One of the top athletes in the 2015 class from the State of Oregon is Derek Parnell (5-9.5 178 ATH/CB) out of Southridge High School. He earned 2nd team all league honors at corner this past season, and has proven himself against the top kids in the Northwest at our elite events. Parnell is one of the region’s true dual threat prospects…
On December 26th, it was announced that Central Washington University had hired Ian Shoemaker as head coach of its football team. Shoemaker spent the last six seasons and the co-Offensive Coordinator and QB coach at St. Cloud State in Minnesota, but grew up in Washington, and graduated from Orting High School. With a short time to assemble a recruiting class, Shoemaker and his staff clearly focused on the snagging as many top…
It had been 14 years since the Sehome Mariners had made it to the state football tournament. For head coach coach Bob Norvell, a former Washington State offensive lineman, this fact left a sour taste in his mouth. However, in 2013, Sehome returned to the promised land for the first time since 1999 and although they fell to eventual state runner-up Tumwater 52-22 in the first round, it was a big deal for the team out of Bellingham to advance that far
It’s been a hectic month of February for West Valley (Yakima, Wa.) OL Shane Lemieux. He recently added two new offers and the promise of a third to the three offers he already had and can now, rightfully, be considered a national recruit. “Got an offer from the (South Carolina) Gamecocks,” Lemieux said in a message. “I also got an offer from the Idaho Vandals tonight and…
Click here Korye Trejo Highlights One of the top unsigned lineman in Washington is Korye Trejo (6’1″ 260) of Tumwater High School. Trejo is a four-year varsity letter winner, and saw time on the 2010 State Championship team. He was a first team All-Evergreen Conference player the past two seasons, as the Thunderbirds finished as the state runner-up both years. All in all, Trejo finished his high school career with a 48-6 record. …
Skyline (Sammamish, Wa.) LB Cameron Saffle has patiently waited for his first offer and that was rewarded on Wednesday when Idaho became the first school to extend an offer his way. “Just got offered by Idaho,” was the text message Saffle sent to Northwest Elite Index. The offer from the Vandals is Saffle’s first and could be joined soon by some bigger schools like Washington, Washington…
As we head out to Vegas in less than a month, a majority of the top athletes from Oregon and Washington will be in attendance. Two of OR and WA’s top ranked receivers will lead the way for Team Oregon/SW Washington and get a chance to show what they can do against some of the top DB’s in the country. In the coming weeks we will provide you with…