By best, you could use skill, athleticism, success in the pros or whatever you'd like to quantify it. Hell, it's your school...do what you feel. Two come to mind immediately for me. The first would be Joe Johnson (lol, not him). Joe was a Senior when I was a freshman. He played DE and DT. Up until then, he was the biggest human I had ever seen in person. He got a full ride to Louisville and was selected 13th overall in 1994 by the Saints. In his 10 years there, he made the Pro Bowl twice...one of which came in 2000 when he was also an All-Pro selection and Comeback Player of the Year. After the Saints, he played two seasons in Green Bay. I remember he used to come back up to the school...always in some kind of big ass truck.

The next would be my dude Kelly Thames. Whereas I didn't know Joe very well at all, Kelly and I were tight. We kept hearing about this 8th grader coming over that was already like 6'4 or some shit. His freshman year he came in and the varsity coach was already like "he's mine". I was one grade ahead of him, so we had a couple classes together. He was one of those dudes who could get along with anyone. Never had beef. Just a genuinely good dude. My Senior year he led the team to the State tourney. It was held at Mizzou. We didn't win it all, but I remember him telling me "D, I'm gonna be back here" and sure enough that's where he chose to play his college ball. He proceeded to go to work and was named Big Eight Rookie of the Year. Seemed like the sky was the limit for him until he tore his knee up during practice at the Hearns Center. It was even on the evening news here. Folks were HURT. He had to redshirt his sophomore year. He came back and had a very respectable three years at Mizzou, but he was never the same guy. At his best, he was a 6'7/205 3 who could run, pass, get to the rim at will and rebound his ass off. At his worst, he was slower, less and explosive and being made to play out of position down low because the Mizzou didn't have a true big man at the time. He once told me some things about coach Norm Stewart that I'll leave in the vault. He went on to play a little ball overseas and now he's a High School coach. Crazy, cuz I wonder if he plays the "what if" game in his head as much as I do in mine.

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is the de facto answer

but while i was there prolly Shawne Phillips of the Chargers. He was one year ahead of me, and played TE and De. and was a PF on the Bball squad.

My freshmen year Kareem Mckenize of the Jets and Giants was a senior and was highly recruited to Penn State. It was a big deal when Joe Pa came to his house.

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uconn receiver..think he was on the patriots practice squad and arena football for a minute.

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all time? probably Conrad Mcrae

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we got a whole buncha olympic fencers though.

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Akili Smith but he was a bust
there were a few others (NFL and NBA) but these two got the most accolades on a professional level by far

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Waaaay more than L.A put out

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>Waaaay more than L.A put out

maybe per capita but not overall
LA gots waaaay more stars (mater dei be smashing)
we have success in other sports too tho:
Charde Houston
Jeremy Tyler
Stephen Strasburg

Idrees was a 6'2 bout 207 corner back
he was an absolute beast was an all state hurdler, had hops and ran a 4.4

I seen that dude make more than a few incredible plays on D. I was 2 grades under him but he was amazing to watch.

Drees played for memphis and ended up being drafted by the Colts in the 2nd round. He started as a rook. Played about 6 years in the L.

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Gordon was tail back pretty much the whole time i was in HS. I was fullback. he is easily one of the coldest rbs i ever seen in person pro or otherwise. He was basically like a baby Barry Sanders.
dude was ridiculous but colleges were on that bs cause they claimed he was small so they were all trying to make him a reciever or db. He got kinda played at GT cause they were all on Joe burns plus he had injuries early on so he didnt really get burn until Chan took over. But he ended up beasting his senior year.

http://www.ramblinwreck.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/clinkscale_gordon00.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q4txCXFQ6A
a highlight when GT upset NCST he had game winning td

all time though:

Harris Barton

I think I used to mess with one of Joe Johnson's cousins back on the day, lol

And you are right about Kelly Thames, he was supposed to be that dude, but spill the dirt on Norm Stewart, I never really liked him anyway, he looked like the type of dude that said "nigger" under his breath a lot, lol

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I'd be willing to bet we ran in some of the same spots. Oh, and take what you said about Norm...and expand on it, lol.

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times, some teen club out in north county I think, maybe a couple of other spots but that's about it

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Dashon Goldson and Ebony Hoffman would be up there too...

we have 2 in D-1 football now that have a solid chance on going to the NFL in Tennessee's Byron Moore Jr. and Washington's Sean Parker

We have 4 at the school now though who are going to be contenders in the long run to get up there..

QB- Troy Williams
DT- Paulo Lepua
LB- Keishawn Bierria

and from our girls basketball team G- Latecia Smith... she's only in the 10th grade and is already a dominate player.... She led us to a City Championship as a freshman, and is bout to lead us to another one this year....

Nnamdi went to my HS for a year too I think.

He was there 97-98 for sure, not sure about 96-97. And his sister came 98-99, Udo, so yep that's Bishop too.

Noelle Quinn is still active too, WNBA. The Twins, Errick and Derrick basically ran it when I was there. I graduated 02

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Wayman Tisdale would be the knee-jerk go to, though he had a sort of okay pro career. Etan Thomas was the best all around person/athlete we produced. If you could roll an entire legacy into one, the Lockett family is up there. RW McQuarters and Felix Jones are quickly becoming the most disappointing. And the best I saw that made the wrong decision was Mike Wilson, who could have been a perennial Probowl linebacker but elected to take baseball money and has been stuck in AAA Tacoma for years now, incapable of dealing with major league junk.

we aint pump out athletes like that.

i'll never forget seeing Lebron systematically destroy Reyshawn Terry when SVSM came to town. if you told me it was gonna take him 8+ years to win a title i would've thought you were batshit crazy. i figured he'd be the goddamn GOAT 8 years into the game after seeing him live.

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by far

but Shane Battier is a close 2nd, his brother Jeremy was actually a really good football player...

and Ray McCallum Jr for the UDM Titans is a hell of a point guard with a good shot of being drafted

edit, and my high school would kick the shit out of yours in everything.

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>edit, and my high school would kick the shit out of yours in
>everything.

lol

actually i football camped with jeremy battier twice in high school

dude was kinda slow for a WR but he was big, ran some crisp ass routes, and had top-notch hands

i think he could have been an NFL'r if not for the concussions

and you're right, he had incredible "go up and get it" skills...



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His rookie year at Tennessee he was in that Bo Jackson,
Hershel Walker pantheon type good

He really was

Ask will

He was already that big and that fast. He was always great, but he was unreal before he got hurt.

on certain shit, but he was an absolute MONSTER in college. Fuck.

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Hard to believe that we had him and Peyton Manning and didn't win a National Championship in 1997. With a better coach, we could have had what Alabama has now in the 90s with the talent we had.

I remember his first game, after Fulmer refused to play him the first two games, he absolutely lit it up.

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Jamal was the best player i ever played against
people just dont understand how nasty he was in high school

Yeah fam, it was crazy watching this man child play against the opposing teams. He actually made me quit football and focus on academics. I separated my shoulder tackling him in practice. I didn't love football enough for that shit.

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But she only attended BxSci, and didn't actually graduate, so the right answer is probably Neil deGrasse Tyson. Dude is a baller.

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and she was really good friends with some guy who was on the US Olympic Water Polo team in 96 and 2000, I think. But since his name escapes me, I guess Jeanette Lee wins.

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Oakland Tech

And he was a better athlete than Lynch is (no dis to Lynch)

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When I first read the post, I thought it was asking for athletes that played while we went to school there

Six plate appearances, one MLB hit. A pretty distinguished MiLB and Indy Ball career in the nineties.

Some good runners too. A 3:39 1500 guy. A 1:45 800 guy. A woman who was an All-American like a dozen times due to being really, really versatile. 2:05 800m, 4:10 1500, 9:17 3000m, 15:55 5000m.

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Should've been Oden but he transferred to an Indianapolis school.

i still blame hip-hop.

damn what ever happened to that dude?

...and you know Oden "moving" to Indianapolis is a relative term...Eric Montross also "moved" to the Lawrence North area in 8th grade too...

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Real answer, all-time, probably Tony Gwynn. No one really thinks of us as a baseball school (even though we also had Chase Utley and Milton Bradley), Poly is all football, and our best all-time there was probably Willie McGinest.

Best while I was there, knee jerk answer is Desean Jackson (though he didn't super blow up til the year I left) or Marcedes Lewis (also a beast on the basketball team), but Hershel Dennis was the man on the football team. His knee blew up a couple times in college and that SC backfield was crowded, but I still think he woulda done things in the League if things broke different for him.

but Tony Gwynn is fair too. you could prob do a solid sweet 16

names to add off top;
bryshon nellum;
chris lewis
tyus edney
manuel wright
Winston Justice
Pago Togafau
Omar Stoutmire
darnell bing
marvin simmons
Kareem Kelly
Darrell Rideaux
Kenyon Rambo
Hershel Dennis (hurts to think what he coulda been)
Mark carrier

WHO'S GOT IT BETTER THAN US?!?! NOOOOBODDDDYY!!!!

The fact he played basketball at SDSU in addition to baseball puts him at the top imo.

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You could damn near start of lineup of just Rambos. The Casons (of Antoine Cason on the Chargers and Aveion who used to play for the Lions) are their cousins too. Those late-90s Poly squads with Kenyon Rambo, Sammie Parker, Chris Lewis, Herman Ho Ching, Kareem Kelly, and Rideaux were all my jam.

Joe Corona is on the US soccer team right now too.

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middle and high school

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bruh was INCREDIBLE, and not on some homeboy
shit but on some damn this nigga is the TRUTH

Cal Hi Athlete of the year for 2000-01 (football, basketball and track)

Cali is a big ass state, that should give you an idea

Scored 58 total TDs that year in football
Avg'd 20 and 5 in hoop
And made the finals in track for state every year

I could go on and on but I just remember all the times
we used to run pickup with STELLAR comp, this nigga
never ceased to shine

One particular day I won't forget is when he went
head up with Gilbert Arenas at a college pickup
game (he was playing for the Warriors then) and
was givin him and everybody else hell. Gil prolly
wasn't goin all in but he wasn't pussyfootin either

Bruhs story was similar to many others tho

Full scholly to Nebraska for football
Couldn't get his grades right and had to go the
JUCO route. Went to Hutch in Kansas, then to SFCC
(JUCO football powerhouse). Got an injury, started blowin
tree and grades went down. Nebraska backed off.

He finally got everything right and got a scholly
w/ football and possibly hoop for Temple. Tore his knee up
before getting there and still aint all the way right to this day.

I respect bruh because he doesn't sulk and talk about
what could have been. He just lives his life for
him and his family and is still a real stand up
dude to this day

But we all knew how great he was.
Just a shame things panned out the way they did,
he coulda been awesome.

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We had a handful of others like All-Pac 10 safety Riccardo Stewart and another kid, DeAndre Belin, who was easily the most talented athlete I've ever seen at the HS level. He had a lot of family issues though and also some learning disability. He could have Prop 48'd but decided not to. At one point he was playing D2 ball but came back home, got caught up in various bullshit and wound up getting killed. It was very sad for me, I thought of all the dudes in his family, he had a real shot at making it.

And you will know MY JACKET IS GOLD when I lay my vengeance upon thee.

he played middle linebacker and won state his junior year. started at Texas, and is now a captain on the Cardinals

honorable mentions: Kyle Williams, Paul Konerko. Devonte Neal plays at Notre Dame now, he might make some noise.

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I'd go with Bryan. Dude's nephew was on our hoops team when I was there and he bought the squad new unis.

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and Scottie Reynolds from Herndon.

Barry Johnson, Jon Carman, and Brandon Guyer all got over into professional leagues.

From an achievement standpoint, it's Bill Butler though.

since I'm not too fond of my high school these days, probably Lou Ferrigno.

and while they aren't atheletes, I just found out Vernon Reid graduated from my school. On the negative side, Anthony Weiner also got a degree from my school as well.

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I went to Riverside but fucked up my sophomore year. I did one semester at both schools (Hillside at night) before finishing up at Hillside. Of course at that point it was a completely different school in a different location.

I used to see Rodney around town during the NBA offseason and he always seemed like a really good dude. Loved going to Devine's. There'd be Duke girls around saying shit like, "That guy tried to tell me he's an NBA player!"

He used to do a big BBQ once a year and bought his kegs at my old job. After the accident I helped him set up over the phone since getting around had gotten tough. They ended up returning a couple of kegs completely full. Not as many people showed up. I had a long talk with his wife about it and it completely broke my heart. He was a hero here.

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but:

Mark Messner (2x All-American (86-87), Michigan's all time sack and TFL leader)
Kerry Zavagnin (MLS Best XI 2004, 21 USMNT caps)
Tom LaGarde (1976 Olympian, 1977 9th overall pick to Denver Nuggets, 14/8/3 best season)
Mike Martin (2x All B1G honors, 2x MI state champ in HWT wrestling and shotput)

all have a claim

and Josh Gatt is currently playing for the USMNT and according to JaysonWilliams is really good on FIFA 13

also shout out to Dave Moss, my classmate and current 2 way LW for the Coyotes avg about 17:00 TOI

Stan Heath - HC for the USF mens hoops team

and Terry Malone - TE coach for the New Orleans Saints and 2nd least creative OC in the history of Michigan football after Mike DeBoring