Lost in all of the melodrama and artificial angst of college football's National Letter of Intent signing day was the fact that February 4 also was the initial signing date for other NCAA sports. Like their football classmates, many high school athletes from the sports of field hockey, soccer, track and field, cross country, and men's water polo gathered friends and family around them, committed to a college, and fired off their Letters of Intent (LOI).
Dyestat broke down the track and field and cross country signings on a school-by-school basis. Oregon's signing of track phenom Jordan Hasay, who delighted crowds at Hayward Field when she ran in last summer's Olympic Trials, seems to have been the coup of the day.
Increasingly, private clubs are playing a role in the development of high school athletes. Nowhere was this more evident than in the list of incoming men's college soccer players.
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