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The University of Mississippi Athletics
Rebel Signee Named To USA Football Junior National Team
4/15/2009 | Football
OXFORD, Miss. -- Ole Miss football signee Evan Swindall of LaFayette, Ga., has been selected to play for USA Football's 2009 Junior National Team which will compete in the sport's first junior world championship this summer.
The 6-foot-3, 290-pound center is one of 36 graduating high school seniors soon to enter 27 college football programs who will play on America's first national team in the sport comprised of players aged 19 and under. USA Football's Junior National Team roster will ultimately consist of 45 student-athletes.
Swindall earned first-team Class 3A All-State honors from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution this season and is rated as the No. 19 center in the nation by Rivals.com.
"Evan is a coach's son, and I've always been partial to a coach's son," said Ole Miss head coach Houston Nutt. "He is a bright, tough, talented football player. He is very deserving of this honor and will do a great job representing his country."
USA Football, an independent non-profit and the sport's national governing body on youth and amateur levels, has built America's first Junior National Team in the sport to compete in the eight-nation, four-continent 2009 International Federation of American Football (IFAF) Junior World Championship in Canton, Ohio, from June 27-July 5. National football teams from Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand and Sweden have qualified to join the United States to pursue the sport's first world championship on the international junior level (19 and under).
USA Football's Junior National Team is led by Chuck Kyle, head coach of Cleveland St. Ignatius High School, who has led his Wildcats to 10 of Ohio's past 21 state titles, including two USA Today national championships.
