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SALT LAKE CITY — Jazey Drecksel has only one regret about his high school football career.
“I wish I would have started earlier,” said the 6-foot-6 270-pound offensive lineman, who is one of nearly 800 Utah high school students whose athletic skill will help earn them a college education. “(Cyprus football coaches) pulled me aside (before my junior year), and said, ‘Hey, just come try out, play for a year, and if you don’t like it, you don’t have to come back.'”
Drecksel said he’d played Little League sports but wasn’t enamored.
“I just felt like it wasn’t my thing,” said the Cyprus graduate who will play for Snow College on a football scholarship this fall. “But once I saw the changes they made with our team, it was a whole different atmosphere.”
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