When Victor Konopka graduated from Don Bosco Prep this past spring, his plan was to enroll at Army West Point where he was committed to play Division I basketball.
But after contemplating his athletic career, the former JSZ All-Zone basketball player decided to leap and make a change. A big one.
Konopka, a 6-7, 245-pound defensive line prospect, has joined the football team at Blair Academy and looks to follow in the footsteps of Jayson Oweh (Penn State) and David Ojabo (Michigan) as basketball-turned-football players who greatly benefitted from stellar coaching at Blair.
JSZ’s Jay Cook has the story from Blairstown:
