Premier MHSAA football recruit trades lacrosse for track
Novi Detroit Catholic Central junior Gideon Gash traded lacrosse for track to help focus on his football recruitment.
Gideon Gash misses the lacrosse field, but he's enjoying his first season as a member of the Novi Detroit Catholic Central track and field team, where he's making an immediate impact. Gash, a junior, switched from lacrosse to track to accommodate his schedule, which has quickly filled with recruiting trips that are a byproduct of being one of Michigan's top football players. "It's tough," Gash said at the Catholic League Bishop Division championship meet on Saturday, May 9 .
"I love lacrosse. I love the sport, been playing it my whole life. But I would have to miss a ton of games.
I'm traveling all the time for lacrosse because we are playing the best competition in the Midwest. Track gives me a lot more time to travel. "So, that's really what it was for.
Football and recruiting and camps. " RELATED: New U-D Jesuit relay team sets records in league meet He traded in his All-State long stick on the lacrosse field for a pair of track spikes, and he has already put himself in the school's record book. Gash set the school record in the long jump in his second time doing the event in high school – he previously did long jump in middle school – and set a new personal best on Saturday with a leap of 22 feet, 8 inches to take first place in the league meet.