Malik Golden Commits to Penn State

Before a crowd of his teammates, coaches and parents, Cheshire Academy athlete Malik Golden announced he was choosing Penn State over Iowa, Boston College and hometown favorite, UConn finally ending the recruitment of one of the more highly touted recruits to emerge from the Constitution State. Though Malik Golden had originally intended to make a decision as early as last Wednesday when Cheshire Academy would begin practicing for the upcoming season, he decided he just wasn’t ready yet. It eventually came down to a neck-in-neck, four-way tie til the very end. Iowa was the first D-1 program to offer the 3-star recruit and he felt a sense of gratitude to the Hawkeyes. In-state UConn had been in contact with him the longest; former UConn coach Randy Edsall kicked things off as early as his freshman season, and current coach Paul Pasqualoni continued to stay with the in-state recruit, but it wasn’t until he took his final unofficial visits this past weekend when he knew whe...