2 Sport FCS Athletes

[PhoenixMan]

Just wondering if anyone can think of any current or recent 2 sport athletes in FCS. Elon's QB Scott Riddle surprised Phoenix fans this winter when he decided to play baseball as well. Gonna be tough to do, especially for a QB. Is anyone doing it successfully?

[FCS_pwns_FBS]

GSU's JR Revere played both football and baseball...I think the Rockies had a look at him, but I don't think he made it to the big leagues. He also has one IAA/FCS championship ring.

[bodoyle]

Coastal signed a football player who will also play baseball. I believe he chose us over app st for that reason. Might have the wrong school though.

[HoyaMetanoia]

Georgetown has had some players leave the football program for track and lacrosse, and Kenny Mitchell is a Big East Champion sprinter in track as well as a wideout. However, it's very difficult to do at Georgetown because almost all other sports are in the Big East.

[JayJ79]

UNI often has some players that run track in the spring. (sprinters as WRs and whatnot)

And there have been some FB players that also participated with the basketball team (though quite often they ended up giving up on basketball to concentrate on football)

[TSUalum05]

Freshmen WR from Texas Southern is also on the basketball team.

Plus, William Osbourne of Texas Southern (Top 5 KR I Believe) is a conference champion in track.

Last year our TE got significant minutes on the 2007-08 Basketball team.

In 2003-2004, I believe my former baseball teammate at Texas Southern, was an All American Football player in addition to being an FCS All Conference baseball player - Corey Alexander (Couldn't research this because I'm on my phone). Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

[andy7171]

Towson had Tommy Breaux WR and PF on the basketball team.

Couple years ago our starting RB was also a starting midfielder on the Lacrosse team. His name is escaping me right now.

[dgreco]

Anthony Thomas from Bryant. Football and Basketball. DB/PG

[seahawkfan2007]

TJ Ceszki, a current Soph plays Football(DB) and Basketball (G).

[PaladinFan]

Just wondering if anyone can think of any current or recent 2 sport athletes in FCS. Elon's QB Scott Riddle surprised Phoenix fans this winter when he decided to play baseball as well. Gonna be tough to do, especially for a QB. Is anyone doing it successfully?

Suprised Elon's coaching staff is allowing that move. I like Elon, but lose Riddle to an arm injury and your football team takes a massive hit.

[WWII]

Jean Juste is a cornerback and on the track team for UAlbany.

[3rd Coast Tiger]

Freshmen WR from Texas Southern is also on the basketball team.

Plus, William Osbourne of Texas Southern (Top 5 KR I Believe) is a conference champion in track.

Last year our TE got significant minutes on the 2007-08 Basketball team.

In 2003-2004, I believe my former baseball teammate at Texas Southern, was an All American Football player in addition to being an FCS All Conference baseball player - Corey Alexander (Couldn't research this because I'm on my phone). Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

Corey wasn't an All-American but he transferred to Texas Southern from the University of Colorado.


William Osbourne..


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Two-Time SWAC Track & Field Champion
FCS Football All American

[PhoenixMan]

Suprised Elon's coaching staff is allowing that move. I like Elon, but lose Riddle to an arm injury and your football team takes a massive hit.

That was my first thought, although I am just as big an Elon baseball fan as football. The baseball team is loaded, and his impact will probably be small this year. As you said, lose him for football and that's a major problem. Coach Lembo has made it clear in the press that he is OK with him playing baseball, but he will not be allowed to miss a workout, meeting, or one snap in spring football. That will make it kind of difficult to contribute in bball.

[Dane96]

Just wondering if anyone can think of any current or recent 2 sport athletes in FCS. Elon's QB Scott Riddle surprised Phoenix fans this winter when he decided to play baseball as well. Gonna be tough to do, especially for a QB. Is anyone doing it successfully?

Albany seems to have three or four of these kids a year. Baseball, football, and primarily lax and track.

[blueballs]

GSU's JR Revere played both football and baseball...I think the Rockies had a look at him, but I don't think he made it to the big leagues. He also has one IAA/FCS championship ring.

Revere has two rings, in 1999 as Greg Hill's backup and in 2000 as the starter.

Trey Hunter played baseball and football at GSU also.

[Uncle Buck]

Not terribly recent, but back in the late 90's early 2000's, Doug Shanahan played safety for the gridders and also played lax. He earned all-america honors more than once in both sports and was named the Tewarton Award winner for the nation's best lax player, while also being a Buchanan finalist as a senior. The kid was some athlete.

[slostang]

Cal Poly has a few players that are also on the track team this last year.

Sprints: Tredale Tolver, Jared Houston, Ramses Barden, James Noble and maybe a few others.

Throws: Bobby Best and Korben Boaz.

[BEAR]

UCA has somel multisport athletes:

Football and Men's Track has:
Quad Sanders
Eric Ware (broke UCA indoor 60 meter record=6.38 seconds)
Austin Emerson
(may be others unfamiliar to me)

[danefan]

Jean Juste is a cornerback and on the track team for UAlbany.

Dave Nicmoni - Safety - is also a faceoff specialist for lacrosse. The LAX team has had a few kids that were hard nosed football players that came over to do faceoffs only for them.

Track has a few kids as well, Juste being the most notable this year.

[I-AA Fan]

If your linemen do not wrestle (or at least did in prep school), you do not have as good of linemen as you could.

If your corners do not run indoor sprint events, they are not fast enough, or your schools have many more Track & Field scholarships than most small-to-middle size schools.

I think many players would do well in lifting, but the schedule's would conflict too much.

Baseball should not be as much of a conflicting issue as other sports (ie: basketball), and is fairly common. I would be more upset if I were the hardball skipper & my player was injured on the football team. Now if I had saw a football player on the soccer or rugby club, I would have a serious issue with that.

How do you think most good non-scholarship programs (ie: Dayton) field football teams? Scholarships on other sports.

[danefan]

If your linemen do not wrestle (or at least did in prep school), you do not have as good of linemen as you could.

If your corners do not run indoor sprint events, they are not fast enough, or your schools have many more Track & Field scholarships than most small-to-middle size schools.

I think many players would do well in lifting, but the schedule's would conflict too much.

Baseball should not be as much of a conflicting issue as other sports (ie: basketball), and is fairly common. I would be more upset if I were the hardball skipper & my player was injured on the football team. Now if I had saw a football player on the soccer or rugby club, I would have a serious issue with that.

How do you think most good non-scholarship programs (ie: Dayton) field football teams? Scholarships on other sports.

Yup! When Albany was a grant-in-aid program, there were definitely a few guys on baseball and track scholarships. xnodx

[Reign of Terrier]

Doesn't Andre Roberts of the Citadel run track?

[proasu89]

As mentioned last year, Dexter Jackson won the 200 meters at the SoCon Championship in 08. I know we have had other FB players participate in Track and Field over the years. Kellen Brand (Basketball) was recruited also as a QB. Came in the same year as Armanti and decided on Basketball. In fairness to Kellen, I believe he had already chosen Basketball when he got here. Have heard that he might like to play one year of Football post grad.

[UAalum72]

How do you think most good non-scholarship programs (ie: Dayton) field football teams? Scholarships on other sports.

Albany has done it, but I don't think the PFL allows other-sport scholly athletes to play football, or so it was said at one time.

[GridFan]

Gardner-Webb has several from what I know/have read.

Strong Safety Daniel Cooke batted .340 for the baseball team and stole 30+ bases in 2008 and was four-time All-Conference in football. He's been All-Conference in baseball once as well (OF).

Brandon Jackson (RB) plays point guard on the hoops team.

Dobson Collins (WR) was a track and field standout (Freshman of the Year, Conference hurdles champion) as well as a football All-American.

[jstclmet]

Matt Szcur (Sp) plays football & baseball (OF) for Nova.

[crusader11]

Rob Dornfried for Holy Cross plays both Football (Punter/Kicker) and Baseball (SS and 2B).

[clenz]

UNI has multiple kids that do football and track. Our punter also played baseball for UNI, and Baylor before transferring to UNI.

[KAUMASS]

How recent?

UMass had Ron Villone-current MLB pitcher-played football and baseball for 2 years.
Both Comeau brothers (Todd, Drew) played football and baseball @ UMass at high levels in the '80's.
Brian Jordan at Richmond played football and baseball. He ended up playing for the Braves and few other teams as well.

[Maroon&White]

How recent?


How about currently? LS Travis Tripucka also plays on the lacrosse team.

[El_Cid_99]

Kevin Hardy, one of our up and coming young football wide receivers, just won the Southern Conference title in the long jump in the indoor track championships this week.

Off the top of my head, I know that Andre Roberts (WR), Shaquill Smith (DB) and Quintin Turner (DL) all compete on the track team... If memory serves correctly, I believe Roberts anchored a champion relay team, and Smith won an individual high jump title in the past as well.

Probably our most famous two sport guy recently would be the former basketball center-turned-defensive end-turned-NFL offensive lineman, Cliff Washburn.

[PhoenixPhan06]

Has anyone gotten any good looks at Riddle's backups? I know Thomas Wilson was a good pickup last season at QB and Kirby has gotten some garbage time in the past. Maybe Lembo is rolling the dice because he knows something about the backups, something along the lines of Matt Cassell perhaps?

[PhoenixMan]

I went to all the spring practices and watched the back up QB's. Wilson is a good player (great HS stats and 6'4" tall) and Kirby is solid. Unfortunately, neither of them throw the ball or make decisions on the move like Riddle can. Not even close as far as velocity on the football. I think part of the deal when Riddle signed was that he could play baseball if he chose to. I think Lembo is allowing it, but not without making Riddle put up with some hardship.

[fuEMO]

Rising RS Sophomore Ryan Lee of Furman was a two-sport star in HS. As a freshman for the Furman Baseball team batted .280 as a switch hitter with five home runs and 35 RBI in 52 games (48 starts), mostly at first base...hit grand slams against both Presbyterian (10-7 win) and UNC-Asheville...delivered a game winning two-run home run in a 4-2 victory at Charleston Southern. Ryan is not playing baseball this season to concentrate on football…Ryan should start in Joel Bell's spot.

Incoming freshman center Ryan Storms ropes calves and steers, and has competed in professional rodeos in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Florida.

[achrist70]

Austin Howard was a better basketball player than Jordan Egleseder.

[clenz]

Austin Howard was a better basketball player than Jordan Egleseder.Wrong. I get people don't like Jordan, but wrong. He may have been more aggressive, but overall wrong.

[achrist70]

No, they have went at it many times are the WRC and Egleseder is no match for Austin.

[Husky Alum]

How recent?

UMass had Ron Villone-current MLB pitcher-played football and baseball for 2 years.
Both Comeau brothers (Todd, Drew) played football and baseball @ UMass at high levels in the '80's.
Brian Jordan at Richmond played football and baseball. He ended up playing for the Braves and few other teams as well.


I played against the Comeau brothers in HS - one of them (I think it was Todd) went for a tryout with the Yankees in the 1980s and allegedly hit a bunch of shots out of the park when they threw him fastballs - the second they threw him off speed stuff, he made the decision to play at UMass.

NU has a bunch of football players who run track. Ron Conway (our punter) comes to mind.

Jim Murphy (QB in the late 1990s) played basketball for the Huskies for a couple of seasons, as did Clarzell Pearl (transfer from Boston College).

Mark Washington was on a basketball scholarship (was the captain of our team in 2008) and played on special teams for NU this year - and blocked a key extra point in our game against GSU down there.

Lamont Hough was another hoops player who played a season of football after his hoops eligibility was up.

[ngineer]

In my time at Lehigh, we had a guy play THREE sports: football, basketball and baseball. Norm Liedtke. Not a very big guy either.