Another O'Dea Player Is Outbound -- Schwerzel Picks UCLA

Just four miles separate Husky Stadium from O'Dea High School, but sometimes it seems more like 400 for the University of Washington while in pursuit of elite athletes from there. It can be hard to close that gap.

Case in point was all-everything safety Taylor May, now the Huskies safeties coach, who two decades ago emerged from O'Dea only to choose USC over the UW, even though his dad played in town.

There was also all-worldly O'Dea basketball big man Pablo Banchero, who four years ago picked Duke over the Huskies, even though his mother and father played in Montlake.

More recently former O'Dea offensive linemen in 6-foot-4, 330-pound Mark Nabou Jr. and 6-foot-4, 310-pound Isendre Ahfua, a sophomore and a redshirt freshman, respectively, have ended up at Texas A&M rather than with the Huskies.

On Thursday, 6-foot-4, 250-pound edge rusher David Schewerzel became another Fighting Irish standout who got away, picking UCLA over Stanford and Washington. He didn't have any relatives to influence the situation. He just went with Westwood.