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Two Sport Star?: Could Huber Heights Wayne's L'Christian Smith Play Basketball, Football in College?

WESTERVILLE, Ohio — L’Christian Smith is a high school sophomore who already has scholarship offers to play football from the likes of Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State and many more. But it was a recent opportunity that came about which intrigued the talented 2018 prospect from Wayne High School in Huber Heights, Ohio, and forced him to do some thinking.

Kentucky recently offered Smith the chance to play both football and basketball in college.

“I think it kind of intrigued him because he’s like a lot of high school guys who are really good at both,” Wayne football coach Jay Minton told Eleven Warriors.