• ATH Malik Golden trims list to four

  • By Roger Brown | July 11, 2011 8:37:55 AM PDT
Decision day is drawing near for Class of 2012 athlete Malik Golden (Newington, Conn./Cheshire Academy), who has trimmed his list to four schools and may make his choice before the end of July.Boston College, Connecticut, Iowa and Penn State are the schools Golden is still considering. He's scheduled to attend a camp at Georgia Tech this weekend and said that school could be added to the mix as well."I'm getting a lot of interest from Georgia Tech right now," Golden said. "There's no definite offer, but there's a chance of an offer if I go to camp and do well. I'm trying to focus on the offers I have, but if Georgia Tech offered I'd probably make it a top five."Golden has double-digit verbal offers from a mix of FBS and FCS schools. Central Michigan, Tulane and Villanova are among his other offers."I'm definitely going 1-A," he said.Golden is being recruited to play both defensive back and wide receiver. He said Boston College originally recruited him to play defensive back, but now would like him to play receiver. Connecticut and Iowa also would like him to play receiver. Penn State is recruiting him to be a defensive back. "I don't have a preference about playing [offense or defense]," he said. "The only preference I have is if I play defense it's corner. That's where I feel comfortable at."Golden said his goal is to make a decision in the next 3-4 weeks."The last thing I want to do is talk to the players at each school, then I should have a feel for where I'm headed," he said. "I'd like to have a decision by the first week of August or the last week of July, but if it takes longer that's no problem."

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