Charlie Crowell, 2024 tight end prospect, is following Jordan Paopao to Washington
The three-star prospect from Bend, Ore., discusses his flip from Arizona to UW.
Summit High School’s boys basketball team owns a 20-4 record and tore through Oregon’s 5A-4 Intermountain Conference unbeaten. The Bend, Ore., power is ranked No. 1 in the state. On Friday, the Storm will face Canby in the first round of the state playoffs.
Charlie Crowell, a 6-foot-5 and ½, 240-pound forward, will participate free of any concern about his sporting future, such that any existed in the first place. Once committed to play tight end for Arizona, Crowell became the seventh member of the Wildcats’ 2024 recruiting class to instead follow coach Jedd Fisch and staff to Washington.
The three-star prospect announced his commitment to UW on Tuesday, but made up his mind almost immediately after getting in touch with tight ends coach Jordan Paopao, who recruited him to UA before joining Fisch in Seattle.
Crowell’s addition is important not only for the future, but potentially for the 2024 season, as he gives UW a fourth scholarship tight end to compete with sixth-year senior Quentin Moore, third-year sophomore Ryan Otton and 2024 signee Decker DeGraaf. John Frazier, a walk-on, makes it five tight ends, total.
That’s not why Crowell chose to follow Paopao to UW; he said he likely would have made that decision regardless. But it does occur to Crowell that a different opportunity might await him in his first college season.