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With 2 St. John Bosco Commits in Hand, Huskies Offer Yet Another

Linebacker Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa is recovering from a 2021 knee injury.
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With 2 St. John Bosco Commits in Hand, Huskies Offer Yet Another
With 2 St. John Bosco Commits in Hand, Huskies Offer Yet Another

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A St. John Bosco teammate and a coach gingerly help linebacker Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa off the football field, unable to walk on his own power. It was not an image anyone wanted to see.

This was April 2021, during the sixth and final game of a pandemic-delayed spring season, and the sensational freshman had torn the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. 

Viliamu-Asa has not played since, missing all of last season, but he's getting closer to coming back.

Meantime, the 6-foot-2, 230-pound junior-to-be received a scholarship offer on Monday from Kalen DeBoer's tireless University of Washington staff.

Like everyone, the Huskies expect the 4-star defender to be as good as new as some point.

They've received 2023 commitments from two of his St. John Bosco teammates in fellow linebacker Deven Bryant and defensive tackle Sua Lefotu, so there's no reason to think the UW isn't a candidate for him.

In fact, in recent months, he told one of the recruiting websites that he he had hoped to receive offers from Alabama, Georgia, Stanford and Washington.

Viliamu-Asa now holds 18 scholarship offers, with others coming from Auburn, Boston College, LSU, Michigan, Michigan State, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M, UCLA and USC. 

On his Twitter profile, he offers this thought instead of a background photo: "One day the pain will make sense."

For now, he continues to rehab his repaired hinge in order to play two more seasons of high school football. 

In his introductory season for the Braves that spring, he came up with 28 tackles, including a tackle for loss and 1.5 sacks.

Four of those tackles came in the game he was injured, a 34-17 loss to Mater Dei on an April Saturday. 

"I want to come back stronger than ever," Viliamu-Asa said in a Youtube video interview. "I want to be a three-down linebacker."

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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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