Lots of the nation’s prime school soccer applications are courting Jake Kreul.
The Bradenton (Fla.) IMG Academy cross rusher, who broke out for 17 sacks as a sophomore final fall at Bishop Moore Excessive Faculty out of Orlando, has picked up the place he left off early in his junior marketing campaign.
It means the nationwide supply listing has solely grown, although one of many unique suitors for Kruel bought him on campus over the weekend. It was a return to Oklahoma for the Floridian, together with his dad and mom alongside.
“It was an incredible journey,” he instructed Rivals. “Coach (Miguel) Chavis has been recruiting me the longest so it’s all the time nice to see him individual.
“I took my mother to see OU, which this was the primary time taking her with me on a recruiting journey. It was simply an total nice time. Me, my mother and pop cherished it and had an incredible expertise.”
The time in Norman, with Chavis and different assistant coaches, reemphasized the standing Kruel has on the Sooner recruiting board.
“(They stated) I’m a precedence recruit and (Chavis) loves what he has been seeing with me at IMG,” he stated.
The workers and the household have additionally lengthy established contact. Kruel was in Norman twice in 2023 alone.
“We’ve been on a bunch textual content with them and my household for some time so she (mother) was excited to lastly meet them (in individual),” he stated. “The sport day vibe was nice. It was a offered out stadium they usually undoubtedly deliver the juice by means of the coaches and locker room.
“On the protection it was superior to see R Mason Thomas get three sacks as a result of that’s somebody with a really related bodily construct and sport as me.”
The subsequent deliberate journey for the cross rusher, will probably be to Texas A&M for the Aggies November 16 tilt towards New Mexico State.
Kruel has no timeline to make a verbal dedication.
