Three Cosumnes Oaks High School athletes - two football and one soccer - signed their letters of intent during a signing day event held in the Culinary Arts Building on campus Wednesday morning. (Left to right): Kameron Schroeder, Collin Bettencourt and Alex Van Dyke Jr.
Photo by Todd Shurtleff
If
Cosumnes Oaks (Elk Grove, Calif.) seniors
Alex Van Dyke Jr. and
Kameron Schroeder were impressive on the gridiron — and each signed letters of intents to UCLA and Duke, respectively — you should have seen them Wednesday on National Signing Day.
The impressive pair of young men signed their letters of intent — along with soccer player Collin Bettencourt (University of Pacific) — during a morning ceremony at school. The football duo then made an afternoon trip East to MaxPreps headquarters in Cameron Park.
Van Dyke, a 6-foot-4, 210-pound receiver and three-sport athlete, had 98 career catches, for 1,906 yards and 25 touchdowns in his two-year career. Schroeder had 65 tackles and 6.5 sacks last season for the 7-4 Wolfpack.
Cosumnes Oaks coach Ryan Gomes said Van Dyke and Schroeder will be "dearly missed because of all the good things they represent. They value education first and are humble and grateful for all they have."
Schroeder was greeted at the event with a giant bowl of Lucky Charms and a gallon of milk, a present promised and made by his Culinary Arts teacher Kerri Hock.
"For one of my breakfast projects as a sophomore I brought a box of Lucky Charms," Schroeder said. "She told me if I ever earned a college football scholarship, she would bring me back a giant bowl of them at my signing ceremony. She kept her promise."
Both Van Dyke and Schroeder promise to be top players, students and representatives at two standout programs on the rise, Gomes said.
"We can't wait to see what they'll do," he said.
