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Booker Pickett Jr. commits to Miami

Wharton (Florida) 4-Star edge rusher chooses the Hurricanes over Florida State and Ohio State
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Booker Pickett Jr. commits to Miami
Booker Pickett Jr. commits to Miami

According to a Twitter post by On3’s Hayes Fawcett, Thursday evening,

Wharton High (Florida) 4-star edge rusher Booker Pickett, Jr. has committed to the University of Miami.

A 6-foot-4, 210-pound defensive dynamo, Pickett selected the Hurricanes over Florida State and Ohio State, among his finalists.

According to Hayes, Pickett simply said, “I’m home.”

Cover image by Hayes Fawcett.

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Gary Adornato
GARY ADORNATO

Gary Adornato began covering high school sports with the Baltimore Sun in 1982, while still a mass communications major at Towson University, and in 2003 became one of the first journalists to cover high school sports online while operating MIAASports.com, the official website of the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association. Later, Adornato pioneered market-wide coverage of high school sports with DigitalSports.com, introducing video highlights and player interviews while assembling an award-winning editorial staff. In 2010, he launched VarsitySportsNetwork.com which became the premier source of high school media coverage in the state of Maryland. In 2022, he sold VSN to The Baltimore Banner and joined SBLive Sports as the company's East Coast Managing Editor.

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