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“Perfection is impossible. There are so many things you can do [with golf] and so many different ways to play it,” said Gilman’s Bennett Espenshade, a top junior golfer. “That has always just really intrigued me.”
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2023 marks PressBox’s seventh annual Best Of edition celebrating the top people, performances and moments of the year.
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For Gilman’s Dejuan Lane, moving from cornerback to safety changed everything. And now he is one of the most dynamic high school football players in the state and following in his brother’s footsteps.
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Gavin Sheets is off to a solid start in his second full year in the majors, and the Gilman grad is enjoying MLB’s new rules. “It’s nice coming up and not seeing a guy in shallow right field and a third baseman at second base and a shortstop across,” Sheets said. “It frees you up to use the whole field.”
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Gilman grad Brandon Copeland, who was elevated to the Ravens’ active roster against the Patriots and Bills, says it’s extra special to play for his hometown team. “I’m soaking in all the little details and just enjoying it all,” Copeland said. “Hopefully it leads to the best season of my career.”
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Tony La Russa has caught a lot of flak from baseball fans since he stepped back into the dugout last year, but Gilman grad and White Sox OF Gavin Sheets doesn’t want to hear it. “I enjoy playing for him,” Sheets said. “He’s been tremendous to me. We’ve got a great relationship.”
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Rayuan Lane III is a sophomore on the Navy football team — only four years removed from being a basketball-first high school athlete — and entered his second preseason camp atop the free safety depth chart. It all started at Gilman.
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Marty and Maxwell Costes were multi-sport athletes in high school, Marty at Archbishop Curley and Maxwell at Gilman, but baseball worked out best for both. Now Marty is chasing big league aspirations, while Maxwell is looking to lead Maryland to its best season in program history.
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As he awaits the NFL Draft, Stanford DE Thomas Booker credits his time at Gilman for helping him develop his versatility. “My parents sent me to Gilman so I could become everything,” Booker said. “I could become the scholar, the athlete, the person in the community.”
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Jackson Merrill and Peter Heubeck, two Baltimore-area high school baseball standouts, were picked early in the 2021 MLB Draft. Both chose to forego college in favor of pro ball — and now the long trek to the majors begins.
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