Dec. 6—NASHVILLE — Friendship Christian’s Tyson Wolcott and Mt. Juliet’s Daniel Echeverria were in a room with the best high school football players in Tennessee during the annual Mr. Football awards ceremony yesterday at Nissan Stadium.
Both finished among the finalists in their respective classes.
Wolcott, who rushed for more than 2,000 yards during the regular season and went over 3,000 in last week’s BlueCross Bowl, saw Jackson Christian’s Jay’Len Mosley take the Mr. Football award in Division II-A.
Echeverria, Mt. Juliet’s punter/kicker, took home a finalist plaque after Knoxville Halls’ Owen Taylor was named Kicker of the Year, an honor which covers both divisions. Also finishing as a kicking finalist was Tullahoma’s Grant Chadwick, whose father, Richie, played soccer for Cumberland University in the 1990s.
“I’m just super grateful I can be named a Mr. Football finalist,” said Wolcott, who finished his Friendship career with 5,369 yards, “It would have been a pleasure to be named Mr. Football. But it’s a blessing to be called Mr. Football finalist.
“There’s a lot of talent everywhere in here today.”
As far as his coach is concerned, Wolcott is the best player in his classification.
“There’s nobody I would pick, and that’s just me and yeah I’m his coach, but I try to be honest in analyzing it, but Tyson’s the best player in our league across the state,” Commander coach John McNeal said. “No question. Not even close. Offense, defense, he’s the best player. He carried our team. And that’s the big thing. It’s not only is he the best offensive and defensive player, it’s also can you carry a team where it needs to go, and he did.
“It’s like anything else, the Heisman, anything else. It’s always something where some people felt the person who didn’t get it, should have got it. And I’m going to feel that way just because…
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Author : The Lebanon Democrat, Tenn.
Publish date : 2023-12-07 04:59:00
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