Silverdale’s Spencer Mossburg.
South Pittsburg’s Jake Stone.By the end of next month, South Pittsburg’s Jake Stone and Silverdale Baptist’s Spencer Mossburg will have accumulated 12 varsity sports letters.
Quarterbacks for successful football teams and point guards in basketball, the two enter baseball’s postseason as a middle infielder (Stone) and a pitcher/center fielder (Mossburg). Each also has maintained a 3.5 grade point average, paying the extra-hours price and severely curtailing the “me time” most teenagers enjoy.
They’re in smaller schools, where logic would dictate numerous such athletes with similar accomplishments, yet Stone is the only three-sport senior at South Pittsburg and Mossburg is one of just two such athletes for the Seahawks.
“It’s a lot harder than most people think,” Stone said.
His dad, Wes Stone, who’s also his baseball coach, nodded when asked if the age of specialization had hurt.