Tennessee offers scholarship to Louisville's Kiyaunta Goodwin

Courier Journal

Kiyaunta Goodwin, 14, has already grown an inch to stand six feet and seven inches since summer started. Through training and adjustments to his diet at Aspirations Fitness Institution, he’s down from 370 to 360 pounds. With offers from top football programs already pouring in, the young man will just be a freshman next year at Holy Cross in Louisville, Kentucky. June 19, 2018

The University of Tennessee on Saturday became the 10th school to offer a scholarship to 14-year-old Kiyaunta Goodwin, an incoming freshman at Louisville's Holy Cross.

Goodwin, a 6-foot-7, 370-pound offensive lineman, received the offer after attending a recruiting camp in Knoxville, Tennessee, according to his trainer, Chris Vaughn, who operates Aspirations Fitness Institution.

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Goodwin has received scholarship offers from Florida State and Alabama last weekend, and also holds offers from Kentucky, Georgia, Louisville, and LSU, among others.

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He attended middle school at Olmsted Academy North and is headed to Holy Cross this fall.

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