re: Who was the best athlete in high school?

John David Crow

I don't believe Waskom HS ever turned out any professional athletes.

other than me, too many to mention, lived in a hotbed of great athletes, we thought that was how it was everywhere, within a one mile radius of my house, just in my "era," there were 4 NFL qbs, one in the NFL HoF, one guy, a white guy , in the college basketball HoF, six D1 baseball players, a couple of those had brief pro careers, scale out a mile or two and you could have fielded a couple of pretty good college or semi-pro teams in several sports

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The best athletes at my school never stepped foot on the field, hardwood or diamond.

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knew a few of those too, in some cases in wasn't the pursuit of thug life though, it was a case of the need to help with the family income, the best athlete I ever saw in my area stopped playing sports as soon as he was old enough to get a job, the best natural athlete I've ever seen

Yeah unfortunately thats true for many places. My husband and his friends would go play some pick up games in multiple locations, and said he would play against some people that would put alot of NBA players to shame.

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Johnny Booty,

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Woodlawn Knight eh?

ETA: I thought David Holland was a better qb though

Think David backed up Joe Ferguson..

I was there the same time as Rondell Mealey and graduated the same year as Ed Reed

Jimmy Williams