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Issue date: 4/15/09 Section: Sports
Future Beavers take on world
Kevin Cummings of Encino, Calif., and Jordan Poyer of Astoria, both incoming freshmen at Oregon State University, have 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. Cummings, a 6-foot-2-inch, 180-pound receiver from Culver City's Crespi High School in California, and Poyer, a 6-foot, 172-pound cornerback from Astoria High School, are among 36 graduating high school seniors soon to enter 27 college football programs and who will play on America's first national team in the sport comprised of players age 19 and under. USA Football's Junior National Team roster will ultimately consist of 45 student-athletes.
USA Football, an independent nonprofit 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 through 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).
- Sports Information
Kevin Cummings of Encino, Calif., and Jordan Poyer of Astoria, both incoming freshmen at Oregon State University, have 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. Cummings, a 6-foot-2-inch, 180-pound receiver from Culver City's Crespi High School in California, and Poyer, a 6-foot, 172-pound cornerback from Astoria High School, are among 36 graduating high school seniors soon to enter 27 college football programs and who will play on America's first national team in the sport comprised of players age 19 and under. USA Football's Junior National Team roster will ultimately consist of 45 student-athletes.
USA Football, an independent nonprofit 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 through 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).
- Sports Information
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