One Coloradan turned down San Diego State and another can’t wait to get there.
Ray Hall had big offers on each coast, but the opportunity to play in the Big East Conference was too much for Mullen’s 7-foot senior center to ignore.
Hall, a four-year starter, committed this week to play basketball at Providence, choosing to join the Friars and one of the country’s top conferences over second choice San Diego State.
“It feels great,” Hall said Wednesday. “It’s like a big, old burden off my back now.”
Hall, named Class 5A all-state the past three seasons by The Denver Post, said the campus in Rhode Island is gorgeous and “a lot like Mullen, only bigger.” He said Providence coach Tim Welsh runs an offense similar to that of Mullen coach Porter Cutrell, which he hopes will ease his transition to Division I play.
Meanwhile, Kelsey Sokoloski, a quarterback at Cherry Creek in Greenwood Village, has orally committed to play football at San Diego State.
“I went over there this summer and felt it was one of my top schools all along,” the 6-2, 180-pound Sokoloski said.
Sokoloski led the Bruins to the 2004 championship game in 5A as a junior. Last season, he paced Cherry Creek to the state preliminaries. He twice was named 5A all-state honorable mention by The Denver Post.
“I think I can go play for those guys,” he said of the Aztecs.
