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At 6 foot 5 inches tall and 265 pounds, P.J. Carey hopes to lead the St. Anthony's Friars to a Catholic League championship.

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Well the ST. Anthony's football team has produced a lot of great players through the years and now they have one that doesn't have a lot of years on them. But it's getting a lot of attention from some of the country's best college teams. He's 12's Kevin Maher has the story. The ST Anthony's friars want to be one of the biggest baddest football teams on the island this year. Their big dreams include a catholic league championship. Keep working. And P. J. Carey is one of the big guys hoping to lead the way. How tall are you? 65. What's your wingspan? Wingspan 67. What's your hand? Size 10.5. What's your shoe? Size 15? How much do you weigh? £265 as of this morning. All of those numbers may sound common for a varsity football player being recruited by colleges until you hear PJ's other number, let everyone know. How old are you? I just turned 15. You heard him? He's 15. A freshman that doesn't look like one playing his first season of varsity high school football ever since I was little. I was like, God, let me be 66. Like, let me be big. Bless me. Well. God and genetics delivered as a Northport Peewee player, P. J. Wasn't so pint sized and when he joined the Long island elite travel team? As a six ft 12 year old. His size and strength forced head coach. Gerald fill, arty to answer a lot of questions. They'll they'll question and say how old is that kid or what grade is he in and where you come from, he's not, he's not the same age as our kids when you do go against smaller guys, you could tell like kids joke around, they'll be like, they'll be like chill out bro and I'm like I'm sorry I can't. And since he's only 15 PJ is not done growing, he could end up being six ft eight and so college teams are calling it started the summer when he attended a camp at Louisiana State. You know, I was just in the zone locked in not thinking about anything else other than like how I'm going to perform today. PJ performed so well. Head coach brian kelly offered him a scholarship right then and there it was just a great feeling, you know, it's like a dream coming true but you're in it and that dream is only getting better because after L. S. U. P. J. Also got a scholarship offer from texas A and M and temple and Rutgers and Michigan and Penn state, the freshman has nine scholarship offers in all and that list like P. J. Is only going to get bigger. This is like the starting point like from here on out like this is business, this is serious, this is what I want to do and it's why in his bedroom along with his trophies and accolades. PJ wrote out his goals to become a great player in high school and he said he was gonna have Division one offers before high school and like you see it for the first time, he's like, oh that's cool, my son's working hard, he's goal oriented and afterwards you're like, wow, this kid is manifesting stuff. He deserves it. He deserves to get those looks and the interest that he's getting and he's not going to stop, um, he's not going to settle for anything less. And so P. J will keep playing, keep working out and keep growing in more ways than one. I definitely want to get 100 hundreds of hundreds of times better in East Northport, kevin Maher News 12. I wonder what the grocery bill is in that family PJ and the friars play their next game friday night against Monsignor Farrell in Staten Island.

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