Lucas Caparelli

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Here is a kid causing quite a stir in the recruiting scene on the East Coast. He rushed for nearly 2000 yds as a junior and led his team to the Virginia high school championship game. He already has scholarship offers from 8 Div 1 colleges. He is such a good athlete that they can't decide if he should play RB or CB. I hope he wows the colleges by his senior yr performance. Here is a little info on him.

http://virginia.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=421367
 

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Cool link SteveB, let us know about any future developments on him.
 

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Caparelli is really tearing it up his senior year. His team is 5-0 and check out his stats:

5'-11" tall, 190 lbs, 4.4 40 time.
Rushing: 65 rushes, 621 yds, 9.6 yds/rush, 10 TD
Receiving: 6 catches, 287 yds, 47.8 yds/catch, 4 TD
Punt Returns: 3 returns, 121 yds, 40.3 yds/ret

He also starts at cornerback and has 2 int. He has scholarship offers from Va. Tech, U of Va., Wake Forest, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan St., Ohio St. and Pitt.

 

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Lucas is having a great senior year with 26 TDs for the year. Here is an article describing how he dominated his last game.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11 /05/AR2005110502335.html

In a desperate attempt to stop Robinson running back Lucas Caparelli, Lake Braddock tried just about everything last night. The Bruins stacked extra men on the line of scrimmage when Caparelli played running back; they flanked him with their best cornerbacks when he lined up as receiver; they sometimes punted out of bounds to keep him from returning the ball.

But in a 48-0 Robinson win, about the only thing that stopped Caparelli were the boundaries at each end of the field.

The senior running back scored six touchdowns, including five in the first half, to help propel No. 9 Robinson (8-1) to its fifth consecutive victory over visiting Lake Braddock (6-3). With the win, Robinson maintained its hold on the fourth and final seed in the Virginia AAA Northern Region Division 6 playoffs.

The Rams play undefeated Westfield next week.

"What can I say? Lucas does this every week," Robinson Coach Mark Bendorf said. "He is just a great football player. He doesn't take a lazy step, no matter where you put him. He makes big plays."

He made them persistently last night, creating a highlight seemingly every time he touched the ball. He took a sweep left for 51 yards to give Robinson its first score, then doubled the lead with a 64-yard catch from Matt Goff six minutes later. Before the half ended, he would score three more times (two runs, one catch).

Caparelli came into the game with 1,034 rushing yards, 390 receiving yards and 20 touchdowns. But even in a season marked by big games, last night's performance stood out. He finished with 141 yards rushing and 96 receiving. In the first 24 minutes against Lake Braddock, Caparelli accounted for 185 total yards.

"My teammates hooked me up," Caparelli said. "We were preparing all week for this game, so we were ready. We wanted to get our offense going every time we touched the ball."

Said Goff, the quarterback: "We were clicking on all cylinders. Everything worked."

Including the Robinson defense. A week after Lake Braddock running back Jordan Russell ran for 306 yards and three touchdowns, the Robinson defense held him to 74 yards on 22 carries. The Rams often stuffed eight players near the line of scrimmage and dared the Bruins to throw -- something they tried only four times.

The loss ended a five-game win streak for Lake Braddock, and players walked off the field already talking about how to regroup.

"They scored fast, and it just got out of our hands," Lake Braddock Coach Jim Poythress said. "We just got whipped in basically every part of the game. I don't know. Maybe they're just that good."

No. 9 Robinson 48, Lake Braddock 0 Run Down: Robinson running back Lucas Caparelli single-handedly overtook the Lake Braddock defense, scoring six touchdowns to up his season total to 26. Streaking: The Rams have defeated Lake Braddock five years in a row, outscoring the Bruins 202 to 27 in those games
 
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Any info on why he chose Wakfe Forest? Wasnt he being recruited by some big time programs in the big 10? Hopefully he will be the starting RB at WF. I wish him the best of luck.
 

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I don't know why he chose Wake Forest, but it could have been because he would probably get more playing time. I know he had offers from Maryland, Michigan St, Pittsburgh, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Michigan, Ohio St, and Central Mich.Edited by: SteveB
 

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Woulda been nice to see him be the starting HB at Ohio St. one day, but hopefully he'll be able to be a good HB at Wake Forest.. good luck to Lucas Caparelli!
 

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Wake Forest started a white tailback a few years back didn't they? It seems they had a black QB at the same time. Missouri had that kind of combo one year also.
 

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well, he won't be next Craig James, he got kicked out of school for putting stupid sh*t on his facebook page.
 

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Here's the article for those who haven't yet read it.


From msn.com
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) - A Wake Forest reserve running back has been dismissed from the team after writing on his Facebook page that he would "blow up campus."





Campus police said 19-year-old Luke Caparelli posted the note on the social-networking page on Jan. 13. The note was written in third person and included a threat that Caparelli would have an Uzi submachine gun "locked and loaded in his bag."


A detective's affidavit made public Thursday said police apparently didn't find any weapons when they searched Caparelli's bags and dorm room on Jan. 14.


The affidavit said Caparelli acknowledged writing the statements but said he wouldn't do anything to harm anyone on campus or hurt the school.


District Attorney Tom Keith said his office is awaiting reports from campus police before deciding whether to file any charges.


Caparelli hasn't responded to requests for comment.
 
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