Park View all-state running

back Deric Dudinski has narrowed his future football options to three

choices. The senior, who has fielded offers from many Division II football

programs, has decided to either walk on to the James Madison University football

program, accept an offer from D-I AA La Salle University, or attend a prep

school for a post-graduate year.

"It is going to be one of

those three," said Dudinski, who will visit JMU this Friday before heading up

to Pennsylvania to check out La Salle on Saturday.

While La Salle does not

enter a scholarship conference until 2008, Dudinski said that the financial aid

that La Salle can offer makes the school an affordable choice.

The third option would keep

Dudinski in high school for one more year at a military prep school such as Fork

Union, Hargrave or Mercersburg.

This would give Dudinski an

extra year to build his football experience, as well as raise his GPA and SAT

scores, which would improve his standing with the Ivy League programs.

"It will give me a chance

to put on 20 more pounds and get my speed down," said Dudinski.

The prep school football

programs play against D-III college programs, as well as D-I junior varsity

teams, but the season does not count as an NCAA year for its players.

"A couple of the higher

schools said that if I had a year at [a prep school] and I get that experience,

then next year, when I come around, [they will give me a look]," said Dudinski.

The 5-foot-9, 185-pound

back ran for 2,057 yards and 25 touchdowns this year, ending his four-year

career with 5,692 rushing yards, a school record. Dudinski also recorded 94

tackles and seven interceptions as a starting defensive back for the Patriots.

Dudinski's size and Park

View's AA status has made D-I coaches wary of the Patriots' back.

"If people would look at

an athlete, a return man, a defensive back, they would be much more willing to

grab him," said Hill. "He has always had to prove himself and he is going to

have to do it again. He is up for the challenge, that is for sure."

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