Fighting Sioux receive 24 commitments for 2010 season

Courtesy of North Dakota Athletics

GRAND FORKS, N.D. – University of North Dakota head football coach Chris Mussman announced today that 24 student-athletes have committed to play the 2010 Fighting Sioux football season and to further their education at UND. The announcement was made during the first official day of the 2010 NCAA Football National Letter of Intent signing period.

“We have some very talented players in this group,” Mussman said. “Main goal for this recruiting season was to create more depth for our football team. We have a significant gap between our older players and our younger players so we’ll have close to 45-50 kids coming into fall camp this year that will be freshman or true freshman.

“The key this year, we were looking at running backs, but overall we wanted to strengthen the depth of our football team. Eight states are represented by this year’s class with the largest number – eight – coming from Minnesota. Five commitments were received from North Dakota and three each from California and Wisconsin. Two were signed from Arizona and one apiece from Colorado, Nebraska, and Texas.

“There is a possibility for a couple of those players to step on the field this fall, but we’ll have to wait and see what they can handle during fall camp. If anyone, it will be the skill kids. But we aren’t done. We’ll look to sign a couple more players here in the future.”

Fighting Sioux Football Class of 2010 (by name)

      Name             Pos. Ht/Wt    High School                    Hometown
      Ekenna Anya-Gafu DE   6-2/240  Christian Brothers High School Sacramento, Calif.
      Devin Barton     OL   6-6/270  Carrington High School         Carrington, N.D.
      Daryl Brown      CB   5-10/160 Wayzata High School            Plymouth, Minn.
      Breon Butler     RB   5-11/180 Pittsburg High School          Pittsburg, Calif.
      Baylee Carr      DB   5-9/175  Hazen High School              Hazen, N.D.
      Chris Comes      QB   6-4/215  San Ramon Valley High School   Danville, Calif.
      Spencer Cummings DE   6-4/240  White Bear Lake High School    Hugo, Minn.
      Trey Demler      QB   6-0/195  Oshkosh West High School       Oshkosh, Wis.
      Derrick Dulaney  OLB  6-1/200  Oak Creek High School          Oak Creek, Wis.
      Taylor Grant     TE   6-5/230  Eden Prairie High School       Eden Prairie, Minn.
      Ben Henson       DL   6-1/290  Buffalo Senior High School     Buffalo, Minn.
      Alex Hickel      LB   6-1/190  Red River High School          Grand Forks, N.D.
      Tyrhe Ivery      WR   6-1/175  Garland High School            Garland, Texas
      Myles Jablonski  OLB  6-2/200  Skutt Catholic High School     Omaha, Neb.
      Tyler Jenson     TE   6-5/235  Waupaca High School            Waupaca, Wis.
      Craig Lindegard  K/P  6-1/200  Kittson Co. Cent. High School  Hallock, Minn.
      R.J. McGill      WR   5-10/165 Phoenix St. Mary’s High School Phoenix, Ariz.
      Jake Miller      RB   5-11/165 Bismarck High School           Bismarck, N.D.
      Dwayne Pecosky   OL   6-2/275  J.K. Mullen High School        Commerce City, Colo.
      Ben Peters       LB   6-2/224  Hamilton High School           Chandler, Ariz.
      Darren Peterson  OL   6-6/305  Maple Grove High School        Maple Grove, Minn.
      Garret Reineke   DB   6-1/185  Thompson High School           Thompson, N.D.
      Adam Shaugabay   RB   6-1/190  Warroad High School            Warroad, Minn.
      Shea Walker      OL   6-2/285  Cretin-Derham Hall High School St. Paul, Minn.