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Oregon RB Jonathan "Snoop" Stewart (official thread)

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2002043939_prepstewart23.html

Stewart nears yardstick

By Sandy Ringer
Seattle Times staff reporter

Jonathan Stewart has 6,033 career yards.

Jonathan Stewart won't slip into the record book quietly, although that's the way the Timberline running back would prefer it.

Like it or not, Stewart will be the center of attention tomorrow night at Yelm Stadium if he rushes for 96 yards or more against the Tornadoes to become the state's all-time career rushing leader. Jerod Moore of Wahkiakum of Cathlamet set the record of 6,128 yards from 1996-99. Stewart (5 feet 10, 220 pounds), who has 11 Division I college scholarship offers and is considered by some the No. 1 high-school running back in the country, has 6,033 yards, including 579 in three games this season.

Earlier this week, Stewart said he wasn't aware of how many yards he needs for the record and hasn't been focusing on it.

"I just go out and try to do whatever I have to do to help the team win," he said.

He has to be prodded to even talk about the subject.

"If I break the record, I guess it would be something special," Stewart said. After more prodding, he added, "It's a pretty big deal. Yeah, it's pretty cool. I don't know what to say about it. I'm just blessed to get this far in my running-back career in high school."

Chances are good that the record will fall tomorrow. The last time Stewart didn't rush for more than 100 yards was in the sixth game of his sophomore year, when he suffered a season-ending foot injury early in the second quarter of a nonleague game against Clover Park. He left with 71 yards after averaging an eye-popping 307.6 yards in five games. If not for that setback, Stewart likely would have had the state record last season.

The only other two times he has been held to fewer than 100 yards was the first two games of his freshman year, when he came off the bench.

Yelm is 1-2 this season, but played the Blazers from Lacey tough last year, losing 28-24 after leading by two touchdowns. Timberline (3-0) is ranked No. 2 in the state in Class 3A behind Bellevue, the three-time defending state champion and the team the Blazers lost to in the quarterfinals last year.

The Tornadoes hope Stewart doesn't make history against them.

"Our motto this week is, '94 and no more,' " Yelm coach Del Enders said, noting that 95 yards would tie the record. "That's a little motivation for us."

But Enders is quick to give Stewart his due.

"He's a very gifted athlete," he said.

And Stewart won't be snubbed if he does break the record.

"If it happens, we're going to take care of Jonathan," Enders said.

Ron Barnard, the Yelm athletic director, said he has a game ball to give to Stewart in the event the record is broken. He said the presentation would be made at the first available break in game action.

That's more than Timberline coach Kevin Young had anticipated. He originally said he likely would present a ball to Stewart in front of Timberline fans after the game.

"Hopefully, we'll be celebrating a win," he said. "If we lose, it might not happen at all."

Young, in his fifth year as head coach, has spent many hours the past few weeks reviewing more than two dozen of Stewart's games to verify his rushing totals. He actually subtracted 26 yards from last year's original final tally, giving him 2,566.

"We want to be as close to perfect as possible," he said.

The review gave Young an even greater appreciation of Stewart's abilities.

"Over the course of four years there have been a lot of highlights," he said, "but you're in awe every now and then at some of the things he's done."

Note

• Stewart said he recently received scholarship offers from Tennessee and Florida, adding to previous offers from Washington, Washington State, Oregon, Oregon State, Arizona, Arizona State, Stanford, California and Duke. He said he has no official visits lined up and likely will not take any until late in the season or after it is over.
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http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20040924/sportssection/152090.shtml

Stewart goes to Yelm in search of record
Blazer needs 96 yards to become state's all-time leading rusher

History is only 96 yards away for Jonathan Stewart.
The Timberline senior will take his shot at the Washington state rushing record tonight as Timberline travels to play Yelm.

Stewart enters the contest with 579 yards rushing this season, giving him 6,033 for his career. The state record is 6,128, held by Wahkiakum's Jerod Moore, who set the mark in 1999.

Given Stewart's history of 100-yard performances -- he hasn't rushed for less than 100 yards since 2002 against Clover Park, the game in which he was hurt -- the record figures to fall fairly quickly.

Even though Stewart would break the record in enemy territory, Yelm athletic director Ronald Bernard said that the school will recognize the acheivement.

"(Timberline athletic director) Paul Dean and I, at the next dead ball, would stop play and present him with a game ball," Bernard said. "We'd meet at the center of the field and have the announcer to a script on some of the successes that he's had."

Bernard added that the record was important enough to ignore the fact that Stewart plays for Timberline.

"It's not very often that you find somebody that has that much success to break a state record," Bernard said. "We want to have him enjoy it."

Dean said that Stewart's humility has helped mute some of the celebration.

"Jonathan's not a 'me' guy," Dean said. "But obviously it's a huge deal and he gets that it's a huge deal. He's a pretty humble kid, though."

While Stewart will ascend to the top of the Washington record book, he still has a long way to go to make a dent on the national level.

The 48th spot on the all-time rushing records -- as far as the list goes -- belongs to Rick Thompson of Madrid, Iowa, who rushed for 7,037 yards.

The leader is Ken Hall of Sugar Land, Texas, who rushed for an astounding 11,232 yards from 1950-53.
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he even looks like he'll be hell to run into... he's retaking the SAT very soon.. so hopefully the fire gets turned up and an offer lands in his mailbox...


statistically the January SAT is the easiest SAT of the year... and the May SAT is the hardest... most athletes take the January one... all academic awards are based on the May one...
 
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Stewart rushes for State record

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2002046121_sandy25.html

Stewart is No. 1. The Timberline senior rushed for 242 yards on just 12 carries last night against Yelm to become the state's all-time career rushing leader with 6,275 yards.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/preps/192489_stewart25.html

By the end of the night -- which for him was halftime -- Stewart had collected 242 yards on 12 carries (over 20 yards per carry) and two touchdowns.
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http://www.tribnet.com/sports/story/5595855p-5527637c.html
 
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wdg01 said:
I dont know how long its been, but rivals now has a video of him..tho its not the best quality. Seemed pretty quick to me..hit the holes hard. Has good balance too.
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The insider vidio is flat out sick. It is the single best of film on a RB that I have sceen. Fast, hits the hole, can make the corner and runs over people. Other than that he sucks.
 
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Noel Devine Vids are out of this world

I have seen lots of video footage of lots of players, but the most exciting, explosive, hard to tackle, and one of the most spectacualr runners I've ever seen is Noel Devine. Those vids were so sick that they were bombarded by people looking for them and they shut that site down until they were removed. They caused quite a stir around the net and in message boards. I think the fact that the kid was only a somphmore (or was it freshman) was what made those videos so completely unbelievable to me. Those stick out as some of the best collection of runs I have ever seen--- though MoC had some great highlights too, but not at that age.
 
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