Brooks Talented Sophomores

There's a lot optimism at Brooks College Prep. Brooks is set to get some new state of the art athletic facilities which includes a new football field (with turf), swimming pool (excuse me a Natatorium), field house etc. article

The new facilities are bringing up a lot of excitement at Brooks. Their basketball program is on the rise and with new coach Bobby Locke (Whitney Young grad) via Evanston, Brooks is expected to be a top 20 state ranked team every year. Brooks was one of the few teams to have beaten city champion Morgan Park last year.

Below are just some of Brooks rising stars from the class of 2013 (currently sophomores)

Daquan Sain(6-7, 386lbs) - The biggest one of them all (literally) at 6-7, 386lbs. Sain could have went to Simeon, Morgan Park, or Hubbard to play football as he was scouted by all those teams in elementary school. "I liked the feel at Brooks and the direction that Brooks was going, so that's why I picked Brooks," said Smith, "I'm already getting invitations to attend high profile football camps and I plan to go to them junior year." Smith also played on the frosh-soph basketball team. "There's a lot of excitement in this sophomore class. We play multiple sports," added Sain.


Byron Kelly -freshman 400 meter city champion in Spring 2010. Varsity player on the Brooks football team since freshman year.


Ahmad Bradshaw - up and coming freshman sprinter in track (all-city 100 meters), frosh-soph basketball team, starting quarterback on the varsity team since freshman year. "My idol is Peyton Manning," said Bradshaw.



Daniel Medrano - city 800 meter freshman champion, 110 meter hurdles runner-up freshman,  300 IH hurdles runner-up. Also plays on the Brooks volleyball team. Medrano runs club track and is expected to be a major player in the CPS this coming track season.

Comments

[daquan sain]

excuse me but my name is daquan SAIN not smith. could you please correct it. thank you

[daquan sain]

and im 6"7 386

[glow worm]

Sain, work hard, eat well, keep motivated, set a good example to teammates and good things will happen.

[Tony Jones]

Good looking group of athletes. Can't wait to see them develop...if you know what i mean ;)

[fattie]

hey neil stop being such a pussi and leave my comments up.

[heinrich]

he's doin it for your protection. No tellin what a 6'7 400lb sasquatch can do to someone.

[2:00 in track]

Word is Medrano is taking track really serious. He did club track in the summer and refused to play football or any other sport int eh fall to concentrate on track.

I wouldn't be surprised if he ran close to 2 minutes in the 800 this year in track. Remember he's a soph.

[Bim Akabi]

Little Medrano is great when it comes to track...I call him little because his older brother Joshua has been a huge part of Brooks defense for 3 years now. Both are great athletes

[Brooks compared to Simeon]

Brooks kids are nice, get good grades, and are generally good people.

What they need is some more mean spirit in them. They need to bring their rougher and more competitive side out there when it comes to other sports besides basketball.

Brooks kids are the ones who were in the top of the class in elementary school. While future Brooks kids were studying, the future Simeon athletes were playin ball all day and improving their game.

[dont think so]

Brooks kids are tough enough right now, the schools best athletes are young. Toughness will come in time, but you can never be too smart, being smart only comes with work.

Malik Lee could have made this list, he's a standout too, last leg of the city 4x4 champ and top ten in fr cross country 4th or 6th

[i]

brooks is weak ass hell

[Mkshire]

Does dequan sain have any quickness ?

[Sain scout]

he's 6'7 386.

he's got work on both strength and quickness

good thing is Sain plays on the basketball team so that will help his quickness

because of his size he will get looked at.

he has from now until football camps to get himself in good shape.

Brooks has some facilities problems right now because construction of facilities.
So he has to do lift weight in the cafeteria.

He's gotta keep working hard, layoff of cheesburgers, girls, and other things that distracts every boy and he'll be OK.

[Scout]

Yeah he should lose a good 30 pounds he will still be the biggest guy on the field.

[good sopohmores]

daquain sain is weak he's just really big. i know some talented sopohmores at harlan like demarco gilmore destry cross claude owens samuel anum

[look at George Muresan]

dem Harlan sophs are small, not lot's of size. quick but a dime a dozen. Sain get's attention because he's big and a project.

Much like finding a 7'3" player. No matter where he's from Iowa, Nigeria, or Bulgaria, he will get attention to see if a team can work on him to get him in basketball form.

If you are that big, no matter your skills or where you are from everyone will look at you to see of they can develop you.

[size]

destry cross and claude owens are pretty big kids from what i have seen

[daquan sain]

ok so yes i have very big size and i need to work on my quickness but i proved at the morgan park camp and in the simeon game that i can play with anyone in the city and next year the state. and thats a guarantee hard work is my goal this entire off season. so will see next year whos the best.

[#42 mister]

Our team is working hard this off-season we will all prove were not only some smart kids! Brooks football on the rise