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UW Offers Defender Who's Transferred to St. John Bosco Powerhouse

Ashtin Kekahuna-Lopes is either a linebacker or a safety with his long 6-foot-4, 215-pound frame.
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UW Offers Defender Who's Transferred to St. John Bosco Powerhouse
UW Offers Defender Who's Transferred to St. John Bosco Powerhouse

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The recruiting services suggest Ashtin Kekahuna-Lopes checks off the boxes with his long frame, mobility and versatility that enables him to play either linebacker or safety.

What he needs next, they say, is exposure.

Kekahuna-Lopes apparently was listening because once the football season ended this 6-foot-4, 215-pound defender transferred from fairly visible Liberty High School in Henderson, Nevada, to the much more widely elevated St. John  Bosco High School in Bellflower, California.

Either way, it appears the University of Washington football program, which deals extensively with both schools, would have found this 3-star recruit for the Class of 2024.

On Saturday, Kalen DeBoer's recruiters offered Kekahuna-Lopes a scholarship, his fourth, added to Hawaii, Utah State and Weber State.

Kekahuna-Lopes played two seasons for Liberty High, a school in the Las Vegas suburbs that has supplied the UW with proven talent in current starting offensive tackle Troy Fautanu and newly added wide receiver Germie Bernard. 

For an 8-4 Patriots team last fall, Kekahuan-Lopes finished with 50 tackles, 4 pass break-ups and a forced fumble in eight games. He posted a season-high 11 tackles in an early-season 30-2 loss at home to Pittsburg (Calif.) and now incoming UW wide receiver Rashid Williams.

At St. John Bosco, Kekehuna-Lopes will join a powerhouse program that has supplied the Huskies with NFL-bound cornerback Trent McDuffie, freshman linebacker Deven Bryant and USC transfer linebacker Ralen Goforth.

Kekehuna-Lopes might want to play his St. John Bosco season next fall to maximize his offers before deciding on a school, though the top college programs tend to have most of their commitments in hand before then. He'll have to be strategic.

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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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