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UW Gets Early Start on Local LB, Offers the Eighth-Grader

Liufau Loumoli hasn't played high school football yet.
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UW Gets Early Start on Local LB, Offers the Eighth-Grader
UW Gets Early Start on Local LB, Offers the Eighth-Grader

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Catching one practically climbing out of the cradle, Kalen DeBoer's University of Washington football recruiters this week offered a scholarship to linebacker Liufau Loumoli.

He's an eighth-grader.

Call it the J.T. Tuimoloau factor.

As the Huskies learned with the other guy, you just get started too early in beginning the sales pitch to land the elite football talent in your backyard.

According to his 247Sports recruiting profile, the 6-foot-1, 210-pound Loumoli from Federal Way, Washington, will play for Eastside Catholic High School, which is where Tuimoloau prepped before signing as an edge rusher with Ohio State, where's he flourished over a pair of seasons.

Loumoli, who also holds an offer from Louisville, seemed moved by the UW scholarship proposal.

"Growing up watching the Dawgs and the former FSP athletes play at Husky Stadium, this one means a lot!" he tweeted.

FSP, of course, is Bellevue-based Ford Sports Performance, where the region's top teenaged football prospects train when they're out of season with their high schools.

Tracy Ford, the owner and a former college football player, noted how Loumoli is one of just three eighth-graders who has been invited to participate in upcoming FSP spring workouts. 

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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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