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Who is Jake Young?

by frdbtr · 3/11/2014

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I was wondering if one of you recruiting guru's could let me know who this kid is. The tweet shows a text screen shot with a recruiting note that BYU wants him as their only QB recruit for 2014.
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From October 2012:

http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfrecruiting/west/post/_/id/5049/trips-on-tap-for-2014-qb-jake-young" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
When looking for high school football prospects in California, the quarterback position is usually a good place to start. Six signal-callers are ESPN Watch List members, with several more looking to play their way into the discussion. One of those quarterbacks is Jake Young, a 6-foot, 192-pound athlete at Hanford (Calif.) High School.



It has been a tough season for the Bullpups -- 1-8 on the season with one game remaining -- but the dual-threat Young is catching the eyes of college coaches. He has been to several Fresno State home games and made the trip to UCLA's early home win against Nebraska. Boise State, Michigan, Oregon and Utah are several programs that have expressed early interest as well. Young said Boise State, Fresno State and UCLA have been favorites of his for some time.



"Those are schools I've had interest in since I was a little kid," Young said. "Fresno is just 30 minutes north and I love the Boise program. I have a couple of cousins and uncles who went to UCLA. I love the atmosphere of their games..."
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In January 2014, we read this:

http://www.hanfordsentinel.com/sports/local/lemoore-s-doctor-hanford-s-young-tops-in-county/article_a911c2ee-734f-11e3-865b-0019bb2963f4.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
One led his team through the air; The other led his on the ground. But both were the best in Kings County at what they did.



With Lemoore running back Richard Doctor and Hanford quarterback Jake Young both standing out for different reasons, they are the Sentinel’s 2013 football Co-Players of the Year.



Doctor and Young went down similar roads, not just because they lived down the street from one another.



The pair were always at the same camps over the summer. They were always in the same recruiting circles. And they both put up record-setting statistics.



“We saw each other everywhere,” Young said. “We’ve seen each other at every camp since sophomore year. We’ve been going through the recruiting process together.”



But it was more than just being at the same place at the same time.



“We talk a lot on the phone,” Doctor said. “If there was a coach recruiting the other, he’d put a good word in for me and I’d do the same for him. When we were at camps, we tried to pair up with each other so we’d be throwing to each other.”



When the season started, both went to work.



Young led the Bullpups, completing 179 of 278 passes for 2,643 yards and 17 touchdowns. On the ground, he added another 377 yards and 13 rushing touchdowns.



And Doctor was Lemoore’s main threat. He rushed for 2,504 yards, scoring 35 touchdowns (32 rushing, 2 receiving, 1 kick return). His regular season rushing total ended up being more than any Lemoore running back had ever ran for. Young’s 6,991 yards passing set a Hanford school record that also put him in the top 10 in the history of the Central Section in career passing yards.



“I think we both knew we had something to prove,” Young said.



So when the two tangled in the Milk Can game, both players’ teams focused on the other.



“We had this thing,” Young said. “All week long, it was ‘stop Doctor, stop Doctor’ and we will win the game.



“We held him to 150 yards and that was stopping him. Luckily we did just enough. When we scored that last touchdown, it was the best feeling.”



Lemoore also tried to dial in on the pass.



“We knew they’d have a good pass game,” Doctor said. “Unfortunately, we made a few too many mistakes.”



While neither was able to claim a Central Section or West Yosemite League title - like they did as underclassmen - both had plenty of reasons to be proud of their respective seasons.



“People thought we were going to be down since we lost a lot of seniors,” Doctor said. “Even though we lost that Clovis game, I think that was when people were able to see that we were going to have a good team. I’m the most proud of how our team played through a lot of adversity.”



Despite a 1-6 start, Hanford and Young rallied back to win its final three regular season games and make the Central Section Division III playoffs, where Young threw for 380 yards in a first round loss.



“Our team never gave up,” Young said. “Last year, when we started to lose, we kind of stopped trying, but we didn’t do it this year. The playoffs didn’t go like we’d wanted them to, but we ended the year winning the Milk Can. That made all the hard work feel like it paid off.”



Said Doctor: “I think we accomplished a lot this season.”


Then this is from today:

2 hours ago:
Lorenzo J. Reyna @LJ_Reyna Hanford QB Jacob Young receives walk on offer from BYU and is visiting the campus today.


Sorry for a couple of edits--there was another player in PA with the same name that I mistakenly got crossed up with for a minute.
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