Woolfolk picks baseball over football
Fred Jeter | 7/20/2023, 6 p.m.
Jay Woolfolk has decided to move forward with baseball and leave football in his rearview mirror.
The University of Virginia junior and former Benedictine star will continue to pitch for the Cavaliers but will no longer compete for the quarterback spot.
Used mostly as late-game relief, Woolfolk posted a 2.91 earned run average with a team-best nine saves this past season, helping U.Va. to the College World Series.
Following the college season, he came up big for Team USA in games against China and Japan.
He will not play in a college league this summer.
“No, I’m going to take some time off and just throw some live BP (batting practice) to friends in the cage,” he said during a workout at American Family Fitness-Swift Creek.
Had he decided to stick with football, he would have contended for the starting QB job this fall. He had backed up Brennan Armstrong the past two seasons.
Woolfolk will be eligible for the Major League Baseball draft at the end of the 2024 season.
In related family new, his sister Mia – rising senior at Manchester High – has been named Class 6 All-State in softball for a second straight season. Mia was also first team All-State in basketball this past winter.
