UW Aims Big, Offers Gigantic Virginia Offensive Tackle

Fletcher Westphal already performs soccer for a staff referred to as the Huskies, which describes Tuscarora Excessive Faculty in Leesburg, Virginia.

Whereas his hometown is 33 miles from the nation’s capital, Westphal resembles one other Washington Monument when he stands up.

He is 6-foot-8 and 330 kilos, and about as lean as you could be at these dimensions.

He has an 84-inch wingspan. 

Ten-inch arms.

Dimension 18 shoe.

Hand-timed 4.72-second sprint over 40 yards.

Westphal, a 4-star recruit, simply completed his sophomore yr at Tuscarora.

One of many fascinating issues about faculty soccer recruiting is the entire uncommon and virtually inhuman bodily specimens who all of a sudden emerge from the shadows annually and current themselves.

Huge Fletch is one in all them.

He is essential participant, prepared made for the faculty recreation and seemingly the NFL as he beneficial properties power, expertise and extra measurement.

On Saturday, the College of Washington and offensive-line coach Scott Huff formally stepped to the again of the lengthy line forming for this this man mountain’s soccer companies by providing him a scholarship, his twenty first general. 

A Class of 2024, Westphal counts defending national-champion Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Miami, Stanford, Penn State, Michigan State, Northwestern, Wisconsin, Illinois, Virginia, Virginia Tech and West Virginia amongst his different suitors, to call a number of.

With 5 extremely respected redshirt freshmen offensive lineman at the moment on their roster, the Huskies have not felt compelled to signal many made for trench warfare over the previous two recruiting cycles. 

A participant comparable to Westphal adjustments that line of pondering. Regardless of what number of guys you have obtained within the fold, a 6-foot-8, 330-pound man like this who can run nicely and carries his weight as simply as he does will get your consideration, a suggestion and an everyday dialogue till he is off the market.  

Get him to Seattle for a four-year keep, and he turns into a West Coast Washington Monument, definitely a school soccer vacationer attraction.

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