UVA gets football committment from Sherando quarterback Ross Metheny

Media General News Service
Published: March 31, 2008

A week after landing one of Central Virginia’s best in Orange County’s Quintin Hunter, Virginia added another verbal commitment from an in-state recruit.

Sherando quarterback Ross Metheny (6-foot-3, 190 pounds) pledged to become a Cavalier Sunday after a week of visits to other schools on his final list.

“All last weeek, my family and I, we went to Georgia, we went to BC, we went to UConn, and I have been to Maryland and these other schools, and I never really felt as comfortable at their schools as I did at UVa,” Metheny said. “It feels comfortable being there and I kinda figured that I was putting off the inevitable if I waited any longer so I just went ahead and committed [Sunday].”

Metheny committed after Virginia’s practice Sunday. The commitment is Virginia’s fifth overall and fourth in-state for the class of 2009. The early in-state haul comes just a year after the Cavaliers inked just three in-state recruits.

Virginia offered the signal caller last week. Metheny threw for 2,207 yards and 24 touchdowns with just seven picks. He threw for over 1,700 yards as both a freshman and sophomore.

During the AA state championship in Lynchburg, in the contest that followed Monticello High’s state title victory, Metheny left in the first half with an ankle injury and Sherando got shut down by Amherst from there, losing 56-10.

Metheny joins a class that currently consists of Hunter, Alex Owah (Harrisonburg), Dominique Wallace (Fredericksburg) and Maryland athlete Caleb Porzel.