College is expensive — like, mortgage-your-tree-house-expensive — and scholarships are few and far between. Luckily, they grow ’em strong at Friendship Collegiate Academy, where 14 seniors signed full college football scholarships.
The college prep charter school is sending kids to toss the pigskin to Columbia and Pitt as well as several historically black colleges. Chairman Donald Hense said: “After years of decline, Friendship Collegiate Academy is striving to once again make Washington a leader in developing scholar athletes.”
Yeah, because with a 95 percent graduation rate, it’s the picture of D.C. decline…
Full list below:
DECIDED
Percee Goings – Columbia
Malcolm Crockett – Pitt
Larenzo Fisher – Ohio
Denzel Stanback – Morgan State
Charles Bailey – North Carolina Central
Deandre Price – Central Connecticut State
Jordan Kittrell – Central Connecticut State
Darian Cleckly – Glenville State
Marcelus Riley – Glenville State
Saed Mack – Glenville State
STILL DECIDING
Marquise Anderson – Shippensburg, Morgan State, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Bowie State
Donavan Wallace – Cheyney, Pace, West Virginia Wesleyan
Marquise Walton – Glenville State, West Virginia Wesleyan
Richard Sloan – Cheyney, Glennville State
