Youngs, a running back who led Section II with 1,991 rushing yards this season, signed a national letter of intent Wednesday to attend the Brookville (Long Island) school, in a ceremony at Lansingburgh’s high school/middle school Media Center.
Post, which plays on the Division II level, is in the midst of a move from the non-scholarship Northeast-10 Conference to the scholarship Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference.
Youngs becomes one of the first players in Post’s history to be awarded a full scholarship for football.
“Kenny is the running back of the future at C.W. Post,” said that school’s head coach Bryan Collins, in comments made on Post’s athletic website about incoming players to his program.
Youngs, the New York State Class A Player of the Year for the 2007 season, finished his Lansingburgh career with 5,404 total rushing yards. That places him second in Section II history for career yards behind another former Lansingburgh standout Kareem Jones, who played this past season at Delaware State.
“It was a team effort being able to get Kenny to move on to the next level,” said Lansingburgh varsity coach Pete Porcelli, in a story published in The Troy Record.
“He’s made the community proud. He’s made me proud. He’s made his parents proud, and the administration.”
Porcelli, coincidentally, is a C.W. Post graduate and played in the school’s football program.
“Now I have a reason to go back there and watch a game,” he said.
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