Cougs’ Byers feels at home

November 5, 2009 in Sports

Pullman High grad finds spot as blocking back

Vince Grippi vinceg@spokesman.com; (509) 459-5436

PULLMAN – There is probably no player on the Washington State University football team who has seen more Cougars games than Jared Byers.

After all, every game in Pullman for the past 18 years has been a home game for him.

From the 2002 Apple Cup double-overtime defeat that crushed his spirit to watching and cheering for former Cougars fullback Jed Collins, WSU football played a big part in the 18-year-old’s life – a life he’s always lived in Pullman.

But being a football player with aspirations to play beyond his stellar Pullman High career that ended last fall, Byers …

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November 5, 2009 in Sports