Originally Posted by CNC
I ran in the state finals (track) of the 200M against a RB from Montevallo named Shontua Ray that ended up playing for Bama. We were lined up side by side in lanes 4 &5. He broke the state record that race and beat the whole field by a good bit for a race that short. That dude could flat out fly!

He wasn’t a RB but I played against a guy for North Jackson that was rated the #1 player in the state that year. His name was Kenny (???) forgot his last name…..but he played DE and TE…..He was 6’7” 265 lbs and ran either a 4.6 or a 4.8….He was about like running into the side a brick wall. I remember the B’ham paper or one the big ones had him on the cover of the sports section that year with the title “Man Mountain”. I don’t know if he ever actually went anywhere. Seems like his grades may have been too bad or something. I could be wrong about that.


shontaua was a beast. He played for montavallo which was in our area. I was a fullback so lucky for me i didn't have to chase him. He stayed in dubose's dog house all the time never played much. we had a bunch of good backs in our areas during that time. gelenkisi Smith from sylacaga , deonta tantehill from Thomson as well as Tim Castile from briarwood. Tim was just a freshman when I graduated but by far the best player on the field . briarwood still had grant and ogeltree that had won a pair of championships for them so Tim didn't start.

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