David Kawada – Content Editor
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The initial Top 150 rankings of the top high school seniors for next season were released by Scout.com. Digital Sports Hawaii Top 25 player Manti Te’o out of Punahou ranked #2 in the West Region overall (Cal, Utah, Oreg, Idaho, Nev, Hawaii, Wash) and also ranked as the #1 linebacker.
A Northwest Region (all states in West excluding California) was also published and Stan Hasiak (Kapolei OT), Dalton Hilliard (Punahou RB), and Billy Ray Stutzman (St Louis WR) are ranked #1 for their respective positions.
All seniors to be are considered part of the 2009 recruiting class. Of the players listed, only J’Ray Galeai (Kahuku S) has committed verbally to a college (BYU) according to Scout.com.
Mahalo to Bill Stutzman for contributing information
NAME | SCHOOL | HT | WT | POS | WEST: OVERALL RANKING | WEST: POSITION RANKING | NORTHWEST:POSITION RANK |
MANTI TEO | PUNAHOU | 6-1 | 210 | LB | 2 | 1 | 1 |
STAN HASIAK | KAPOLEI | 6-6 | 300 | OT | 26 | 5 | 1 |
DALTON HILLIARD | PUNAHOU | 5-10 | 175 | RB | 29 | 3 | 1 |
BILLY RAY STUTZMAN | ST LOUIS | 6-0 | 160 | WR | 71 | 10 | 1 |
J’RAY GALEAI | KAHUKU | 6-0 | 170 | S | 72 | 11 | |
KAPUA SAI | ST LOUIS | 6-4 | 305 | OG | 86 | 5 | |
SHAWN REED | KALAHEO | 6-1 | 200 | MBL | 95 | 18 | |
JORDAN PU’U ROBINSON | KAMEHAMEHA | 6-4 | 235 | DE | 135 | 9 |