A CHANGE OF SPORT MADE RECEIVER MORE THE WISER OAKS CHRISTIAN SENIOR LEFT SOCCER FOR FOOTBALL.Byline: MATTHEW Matthew one of the twelve disciples. [N.T.: Matthew] See : Evangelism KREDELL Staff Writer Sean Wiser's father thought his son's new interest in football would be a fad. Before his freshman year at Oaks Christian Christian flees the City of Destruction. [Br. Lit.: Pilgrim’s Progress] See : Escape Christian travels to Celestial City with cumbrous burden on back. [Br. Lit. of Westlake Village, Wiser had never played tackle football. He would take that first hit from a 200- pound strong safety coming over the middle, and that would be it. Back to soccer and basketball, the sports he grew up playing. Kevin Wiser attended the first preseason scrimmage figuring his son wouldn't get in the game. ``Fourth play, they put him in, and he runs for about 25 yards, breaking two or three tackles,'' Kevin Wiser said. ``I looked at my wife and said, `I can't believe that's my kid. How did he do that?' I knew then that he was a football player, just a natural.'' That's something Jimmy Clausen James Richard "Jimmy" Clausen (born September 21, 1987, in Thousand Oaks, California[3]) is an American football player. He is a quarterback at the University of Notre Dame. already knew. Clausen, who has committed to playing quarterback at Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame , first spotted Wiser's football talent at Chaminade Middle School in Chatsworth. They became friends in sixth grade. When Clausen needed someone to throw the ball to in after-school flag football, Wiser was his guy. Wiser planned to go to Crespi of Encino, where his brother had gone, but Clausen chose Oaks Christian and urged his buddy to come along. The Wiser family visited the school and liked what they saw. Clausen then tried to convince Wiser to come out for football. But the football season overlapped with club soccer. Wiser was a premier-level soccer player with the chance at a college scholarship in the sport. Clausen told Wiser to attend some summer practices and see what happened. ``I had fun, and it made me want to try it,'' Wiser said. ``I made my mind up before school started that I was going to come out. I fell in love with football immediately.'' His club coach said to take the year off and get football out of his system. Wiser never returned to soccer. He played two years of basketball, starting on the varsity team In the United States and Canada and UK, varsity sports teams are the principal athletic teams representing a college, university, or high school or other secondary school. Such teams compete against the principal athletic teams at other colleges/universities, or in the case of as a guard, but realized that, at 6-foot-2, he wasn't going to grow big enough to follow in his dad's footsteps. Kevin Wiser played basketball at UC Davis and professionally in Europe. Sean played varsity football as a freshman and became a starter as a sophomore. It helped that he had chemistry with Clausen from their flag-football days. Last season, he made 42 catches for 910 yards and 13 touchdowns. It can be tough to receive theproper credit when catching passes from the best prep quarterback in the nation. It took a while for Wiser to demonstrate his abilities weren't all about Clausen. ``He deserves a lot of credit,'' Clausen said. ``He's got to get off the ball, get off press coverage, run good routes and catch the ball. He's pretty much my go-to guy. He's been my go-to guy since sophomore year. It's helped me a lot to have him.'' College recruiters aren't overlooking o·ver·look tr.v. o·ver·looked, o·ver·look·ing, o·ver·looks 1. a. To look over or at from a higher place. b. Wiser. Many saw him on the receiving end on Clausen's highlight tapes, and the offers started pouring in soon after last season. He's up to 14 scholarship offers and is considering Stanford, Oregon Oregon, city, United States Oregon, city (1990 pop. 18,334), Lucas co., NW Ohio, a suburb adjacent to Toledo, on Lake Erie; inc. 1958. It is a port with railroad-owned and -operated docks. The city has industries producing oil, chemicals, and metal products. , Virginia Virginia, state, United States Virginia, state of the south-central United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), North Carolina and Tennessee (S), Kentucky and West Virginia (W), and Maryland and the District of Columbia (N and NE). and Duke. Stanford seems a perfect fit -- his parents are from Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern , and he still has family there. Wiser has a grade-point average above 4.0, with advanced placement and honors courses, and impressive scores on the SAT and ACT. He doesn't have an offer from Notre Dame, so Wiser is going to have to learn to catch balls from someone other than Clausen. ``The joke is,'' Wiser said, ``that when I go to college, I'll be downgrading downgrading A reduction in the quality rating of a security issue, generally a bond. A downgrading may occur for various reasons including a period of losses, or increased debt service required by restructuring a firm's capital to include more debt and less the level of quarterback.'' matthew.kredell@dailynews.com (818) 713-3607 CAPTION(S): photo, 2 boxes Photo: (color) WISER Box: (1) AREA'S BEST RECEIVERS/TIGHT ENDS (2) HONORABLE MENTION - Erik Boal |
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