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Huskies Offer JC All-America Cornerback from Utah

Keionte Scott has watched his recruitment take off, with the UW among several pursuing him.
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Huskies Offer JC All-America Cornerback from Utah
Huskies Offer JC All-America Cornerback from Utah

Keionte Scott, a JC All-America cornerback from Snow College in Utah, has received a scholarship offer from the University of Washington, sparking a flurry of interest on social media.

The well-traveled Scott began his football career at Liberty High School in Henderson, Nevada — a suburban school that has sent multiple players to the UW — and then transferred to Democratic Preparatory Academy at the Agassi Campus, a charter school in Las Vegas established by former tennis great Andres Agassi. 

Scott finished his schoolboy career in San Diego at Helix High School, where he played alongside a cousin. They helped put Helix in a championship game in the Southern California Open Division, where they beat Carlsbad 28-21 with Scott scoring the first touchdown on a 30-year interception return.  

Now at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah, which is second-ranked in the nation, the 6-foot-2, 185-pound defender is a preseason first-team JC All-America as he enters his second season. 

Besides the Huskies, Scott has offers from Arizona, BYU, California, Colorado, Oregon State, San Diego State, UNLV and Washington State, and a host of others, as his recruitment recently really picked up.

News of the Huskies' sudden interest in the defensive back brought him a barrage of tweets from fans imploring him to commit, and from his football connections, including wide receiver Germie Bernard, a Liberty player and like Scott a 2022 recruit.

Wherever Scott chooses to play, he will have three years of eligibility remaining because of pandemic provisions. 

Scott also was a big-play wide receiver when at Helix High, scoring 10 touchdowns as a senior. Yet he much defense.

“It’s hard to beat playing defense," he told the San Diego Union Tribune. "I always get to guard the other team’s best player and I love challenges. I usually win those battles but my teammates are always there to back me up, to allow me to play aggressively. Jumping for the ball, whether on offense or defense, is the most fun."

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DAN RALEY

Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.

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