{"id":5845,"date":"2010-02-28T17:23:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T00:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=5845"},"modified":"2010-02-28T17:28:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T00:28:32","slug":"amats-gonzalez-has-plenty-of-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=5845","title":{"rendered":"Amat’s Gonzalez has Plenty of Options"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wallace Gonzalez of Bishop Amat is a two sport star <\/p><\/div>\n

Usually as a sophomore in high school you\u2019re still trying to fit in with your peers. If you\u2019re an athlete you\u2019re trying to get the approval of your teammates and looking to the juniors and seniors for guidance. Although Wallace Gonzalez might have been going through these same exact things, he was also drawing the attention from another group of people- college recruiters.<\/p>\n

After his sophomore season Gonzalez was offered a baseball scholarship by the University of San Diego. He verbally accepted and is looking forward to suiting up and playing centerfield for USD in 2011. But will it happen?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gonzalez, a two sport star, was attending Glendora High school at the time and also playing football in the fall. Since then he has transferred to Bishop Amat and will play both sports for Amat beginning this September.<\/p>\n

Gonzalez was not allowed to play either sport by CIF for one year following his transfer last September but is looking forward to getting back on the field.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been tough but I worked out with the team and was always on the sidelines during games. I would let them know what I could see from my view,\u201d Gonzalez said on the Mid Valley Sports Show last Tuesday. \u201cI felt very much a part of the team. When they won, I won. I felt really good about my decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gonzalez put all the rumors to rest about his transfer from Glendora to Bishop Amat.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people don\u2019t know this but my sister is a freshman at Amat. That was a big part of it. It wasn\u2019t all about sports,\u201d Gonzalez said. \u201cAthletics was second. It was more about my family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gonzalez, who is 6\u20195\u2019\u2019, 235, could face an even tougher decision before his senior year is finished. A big play receiver for a high profile program will no doubt attract college football recruiters this fall.<\/p>\n

\u201cSan Diego is a beautiful area and I\u2019m loyal to SD. But I\u2019m open to any school that would come in and offer me a partial to both. I love both sports and I\u2019m thinking about both all year long,\u201d said Gonzalez. \u201cOn weekends on Saturdays I\u2019m working on football and Sundays it\u2019s baseball. I love both.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gonzalez is currently participating in the \u201cLegends of Character\u201d camp being run by local coaches including Zeke Prado, formerly of Temple City, and Jude Oliva, offensive coordinator at San Gabriel.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s definitely next level stuff. It\u2019s not just for football. It will help you with whatever sport you\u2019re involved in. It helps with endurance, footwork, things like that,\u201d Gonzalez said.<\/p>\n

And it will help Gonzalez in whatever sport he chooses on the next level after June of 2011. Baseball? Football? Both? Stay tuned\u2026<\/p>\n

Tim can be reached at tspeterson32@yahoo.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Usually as a sophomore in high school you\u2019re still trying to fit in with your peers. If you\u2019re an athlete you\u2019re trying to get the approval of your teammates and looking to the juniors and seniors for guidance. Although Wallace Gonzalez might have been going through these same exact things, he was also drawing the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[49,23,513,2229,668,2228,36,55,2227,378],"class_list":["post-5845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-bishop-amat","tag-glendora","tag-jude-oliva","tag-legends-of-character","tag-mid-valley-sports-show","tag-san-diego","tag-san-gabriel","tag-temple-city","tag-wallace-gonzalez","tag-zeke-prado"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5845"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5848,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845\/revisions\/5848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}