OL Corey Linsley (official thread)

[Redhawk]

Corey Linsley comes through in finals to win Div. I discus - Sports, Local Sports - Vindy.com, The Vindicator

AUSTINTOWN ? Sometimes, it?s better to be lucky than good. But in the case of Boardman High?s Corey Linsley, it?s nice to be both.

Entering the finals of the regional discus competition, the senior was in the unenviable position of fourth place, clinging to a state meet berth.

?I was on the fence, so I knew in the finals I just had to get it done,? said Linsley.

Thanks to a renewed focus ? and his pair of lucky dress socks ? he unleashed a throw of 188 feet, 7 inches, on the first throw of the finals. The toss not only won him a regional championship, but also broke the Boardman school record.

?I guess I was just nervous in the prelims, but I guess there was just something about the finals that lit a fire under me,? he said. ?You always have to go for the regional record [204 feet], so I shot for the stars today, but landed on the moon, which is a pretty good place to be right now.?

Linsley will look to add a berth in the shot put on Friday, an event that he finished third in at the 2008 state meet. He?s hoping that experience will give him an advantage this time around.

?Any time you come up short, it motivates you,? he explained. ?It all comes down to preparation and discipline. I think it takes experience to know how to prepare.?

[Buckskin86]

Right on track: Linsley, Brode win state field titles
Published: Sun, June 7, 2009
By Joe Scalzo

COLUMBUS ? Over his 39-year career as a track and field coach, Boardman High?s Ed Lewis has mentored dozens of state qualifiers, but with just hours remaining until retirement, it looked like he?d end his career without a state champion.

His top student, senior Corey Linsley, had already narrowly lost the Division I state shot put title to Canfield junior Dustin Brode earlier Saturday and Linsley entered the finals of the discus in a mental funk.

?It was combination of that [loss], the sun beating down on me and having to go back-to-back in my events,? he said. ?I felt like a lot of things were going against me.

?Then Coach [Dave] Pavlansky gave me my inspiration. He told me I had to win it for Coach Lewis.?

Anyone who?s watched a sports movie can probably guess what happened next.

On one of the last throws of his ? and Lewis? ? career, Linsley uncorked the discus 191 feet, 2 inches to win the state title by ? get this ? 1 inch.

?I?ll tell you what ? it was a great ending,? said Lewis.

The title helped cap a terrific weekend for the Mahoning Valley, which piled up 12 state titles in the three divisions, including four in Div. I ? the area?s best performance in years.

Linsley, an Ohio State football recruit, didn?t even throw the discus last year due to a back problem and still considers himself a shot putter.

His only solace came in losing to Brode.

?That?s the up-part of losing,? said Linsley, who placed third in the shot at last year?s state meet. ?Dustin is a guy who I knew could do it all along.

?He?s not someone who just popped one out.?

Right on track: Linsley, Brode win state field titles - Sports, Local Sports - Vindy.com, The Vindicator

[BB73]

Congrats to Corey for the state title in the discus, well done.

[BB73]

Corey talks about the lucky socks he wore for the state track finals.

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Better Know a Buckeye feature on Corey by Vico at OHD.

Like most Ohio kids, Corey only appeared on Ohio State?s list of outgoing offers after registering a few MAC offers. The first two such offers came from in-state schools Akron and Bowling Green by the end of his junior year. However, like many Ohio HS football players, that doesn?t mean that the coaching staff hadn?t heard of him or talked to him before. In 2007, Corey took two visits to Ohio State. One was introductory visit to Ohio State, along with teammates Pat McFall, future Buckeye JT Moore, and several members of the Boardman Spartans coaching staff. An earlier visit came in the Spring of that same year. While recruiting wasn?t necessarily on the docket for these visits (consider them more community-building exercises that the coaching staff does), it may have been the 800lb gorilla in the room. Corey, naturally, asked questions about the recruiting process and, specifically, Ohio State recruiting and, more specifically, Ohio State possibly recruiting him. The coaching staff obliged with the questions, informing him of how they handle the process and what he should expect everywhere else. Corey left impressed with how thorough the coaching staff was and how amazing the facilities were. Corey, a lifelong Buckeye fan with family in Columbus, was more than interested in Ohio State as long as the coaching staff was interested in him. He started to wonder if they were.

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[Buckskin86]

Boardmans Corey Linsley has excelled in track and football
Published: Mon, June 22, 2009
By JOE SCALZO
Vindicator sports staff


The Vindicator's Athletes of the Year: Corey Linsley and Amy Scullion


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The Vindicator's boys field athlete of the year and Athlete of the Year: Corey Linsley of Boardman

Boardmans Corey Linsley has excelled in track and football, and his efforts paid off.


Ed Lewis was coaching freshman football when he first laid eyes on a big, strong kid named Corey Linsley.

?He was a good-sized boy,? said Lewis. ?We were doing some kind of scrimmage and we put him in at defensive tackle.

?So I?m standing back there watching another coach run his offense and it was not going anywhere. He shut everything down. I thought, ?This boy is good.??

Linsley has made a name for himself with his Ohio State football scholarship and for winning state track titles ? both in the indoor and outdoor seasons.

But back then, he was just another kid with potential.

Linsley didn?t grow up in an athletic family, but he did grow up in a big family.

?I think the only thing my parents gave me was size,? the 6-foot-4 Linsley said, chuckling. ?I think the Linsley family?s average height is 6-8.?

Linsley?s father played intramural basketball at Cardinal Mooney and his parents both encouraged him to play sports, although more for character development than his athletic development.

?Both my parents are very educated people,? said Linsley. ?They were more into school than athletics.?

Linsley?s love of sports blossomed that freshman year, when he discovered his love for contact and good friend Alex Lipinsky got him into weightlifting and track and field.

Linsley showed flashes of his football talent that freshman season, but a serious concussion cut his season short a few games.

He hit the gym in the offseason, then started throwing the shot and discus in the spring ? with Lewis as his coach.

?From when I first met him in ninth grade, you could just see a talent there,? said Lewis. ?All I had to do was provide him with the means to be successful at it.?

Linsley is also a good student ? he?s a member of National Honor Society ? which allowed him to excel in the classroom and on the field, where he quickly picked up schemes.

?Coach Tressel doesn?t make too many mistakes,? said Ogilvie. ?He looks for good character kids who are smart with a good demeanor. That?s Corey.?

What impresses Lewis most is Linsley?s ability to ?flip the switch,? transforming from friendly to ferocious when competition starts.

?He does that all by himself,? Lewis said. ?He brings that tenacity to anything he does.?

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Video: Corey Linsley enters Ohio State off a win, still stunned he's a Buckeye
by Doug Lesmerises
Tuesday June 23, 2009

Corey Linsley would have run from Hershey, Pa., to Columbus after Saturday night's Big 33 Classic if he had to.

"I've been waiting my whole, actually the last four years, to be a Buckeye," Linsley said. "I never thought this would happen. If you told me my freshman year I'd be an Ohio State Buckeye, I'd have said you were crazy. But I worked my butt off, and when I'm from, it's all about being tough and working hard."

The offensive line prospect from Youngstown Boardman looks like he might end up redshirting, as about half of all freshman do. Doing so on the offensive line makes even more sense. But as Ohio State continues to bring in a few more out-of-state prospects, especially from Florida, it's always important to bring in kids who would do anything to be part of your program, kids who dream in scarlet and gray.

Linsley certainly fills that role, and while he brings the power, he know he needs some polish.

"The one thing I want to be better at is my technique. I have a lot of power, but my technique isn't really that great," Linsley said on the field after Ohio's 38-31 win over Pennsylvania. "I got away with it in high school, being as strong as I am, but guys in college are just as good as I am and some are a lot better. I'm going in there trying to perfect my technique.

"But the main ting I want to do my freshman year is make an impact somewhere, somehow. Whether it's starting, to being a third-string backup pushing the second guy to push the first guy.

"Whether I redshirt or not, my goal is to work hard.

Video: Corey Linsley enters Ohio State off a win, still stunned he's a Buckeye - Ohio State Buckeyes Football & Basketball Blog (OSU) - cleveland.com

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Ohio State incoming freshman Corey Linsley Video - cleveland.com

[TS10HTW]

Sounds like a great recruit who has a good head on his shoulders. The more I read about this in-coming class (Mewhort and Klein especially) and how proud/anxious they are to don the SnG it makes me realize how lucky we are to have Tress (and his staff) bringing these quality student-athletes into the Ohio State football program. What a wonderful story about the state meet...congrats Corey on the discus title!

[RB07OSU]

While I think Marcus Hall might have more raw ability, I could easily see Linsley being the shining star of this OL class. He is so big and athletic, plus he just seems to be a natural on the interior OL, where we need young talent to compliment Brew. Anyone else think he lands in the two deep at guard?