The laundry list of sports that Bubba Chandler excels at is lengthy.
Whether he’s on the diamond, the gridiron, the field, the court, the green—the consensus is that he will excel.
Committed to Clemson to play both baseball and football, Chandler is a two-way draft prospect with high upside on the mound who transforms into a switch-hitting shortstop anytime he’s not on the hill. Minor football injuries brought the quarterback’s high school basketball career to a premature end before his junior year. But he can still dunk, and there’s little doubt that he could stretch the imagination in any sporting venue.
“He’s a competitor, so you can put him on a basketball court and he’s going to be really good; take him out to the golf course and he’s really good at that, too,” said Tyler Aurandt, Chandler’s football coach at North Oconee High in Bogart, Ga. “He’s the kind of naturally gifted athlete you don’t see very often.”
“Bubba was probably the best basketball player in our school,” said Jay Lasley, the Titans’ baseball coach. “I would imagine if you gave him a soccer ball, he could probably go out on a high school soccer field and compete and do something to help a team win.
“The crazy thing about Bubba is Bubba can throw a football over 50 yards lefthanded. He actually pitched one inning this season lefthanded.”
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