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Curley's Amari Gardner commits to Holy Cross

Friars' 2024 star selects the Crusaders after receiving 17 D1 offers

Gary Adornato

Archbishop Curley (Maryland) football player Amari Gardner, who holds 17 Division 1 offers, has announced his commitment to Holy Cross University. The 6-foot-1, 167-pound athlete from the Class of 2024 holds runs a 4.47 40 and carries a 3.8 GPA.

Gardner elected to go with the Crusaders from a group of finalists that included Maine, Fordham and Rhode Island.

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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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