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Meet Milwaukee Lutheran athlete Adam Walker Jr. (6-3, 205). He could very well be the state of Wisconsin's modern day version of the old Nike "Bo Knows" commercials.







The classic advertising campaign which ran from 1989-1990 and featuredformer NFL and MLB star Bo Jackson participating in various sportsranging from football and baseball to more exotic sports like cricketand surfing showed Jackson's extraordinary ability to perform at a highlevel of play in numerous sports.



Walker may not be Bo Jackson, but he has certainly shown the ability to excel in multiple sports at the high school level.



Baseball – His No. 1 sport and the sport where he has the brightestfuture, Walker batted .569 with eight home runs and 29 RBI's as ajunior earning all-state, all-conference and team MVP honors atcatcher. He also participated in Major League Baseball's BreakthroughSeries Showcase in Compton, California and has had tryouts with theMinnesota Twins and Milwaukee Brewers. UW-Milwaukee, Indiana Universityand the University of Minnesota have also expressed interest.



Basketball – Walker earned honorable-mention all-conference honors inbasketball as a junior and is listed on WisHoops.net's Other TopSeniors List.



Football – While he plays quarterback, defensive back and punter forMilwaukee Lutheran's football team, Walker recently garnered his firstfootball scholarship offer at a different position thanks to DivisionII Minnesota-Moorhead.



"I was at some football combine in (Milwaukee) that the(Minnesota-Moorhead) coach was working," Walker said. "I was playingquarterback, but then I went to play some wide receiver. He liked me atwide receiver and after the combine he talked to me and said, 'you area big target and athletic and would love to have you on our team, so Iam going to offer you a scholarship at wide receiver.'"



Minnesota-Moorhead isn't the only school showing interest in Walkerthough. Mail has also come from Indiana, Pennsylvania and WisconsinLutheran.



Walker was named a second-team all-conference punter as a junior.



Where does all the athletic ability come from?



Look no further than the person he is named after, his father AdamWalker, who is the defensive coordinator for football and head coachfor track and field at Division III Concordia University.



So for the record, Adam Walker Jr. knows baseball, basketball and football. Next up, cricket and surfing.



Known Verbal Commitments in the class of 2009 as of 08/08/08



OL/DL Travis Frederick (6-4, 310), Big Foot – Wisconsin

OL Ryan Groy (6-5, 285), Middleton – Wisconsin

DE Shelby Harris (6-3, 235), Homestead – Wisconsin

LB A.J. Klein (6-1, 210), Kimberly – Iowa State

DL Jordan Kohout (6-4, 265), Waupun – Wisconsin

LB Paul Swan (6-1, 212), Oconomowoc - Bowling Green



Known Scholarship Offers to the class of 2009 as of 08/08/08



DL Zach Anderson (6-2, 285), Ladysmith - South Dakota, Northern Illinois, Ball State, Western Michigan

K Jeff Budzien (5-11, 151), Arrowhead – Army

LB Tyler Dippel (6-4, 241), Hartford – Western Michigan, Illinois State, Central Michigan, Stanford

LB Ross Elliott (6-1, 215), Madison La Follette - Western Michigan

LB Cordero Finley (6-2, 210), Kenosha Bradford – South Dakota

DE Ben Gardner (6-4, 225), Homestead - South Dakota State

RB Ryan Givens (5-10, 175), Milwaukee Riverside – Illinois State, North Dakota

DE Clay Gosse (6-4, 235), Appleton North – South Dakota, Western Michigan

OL Hank Jacobs (6-5, 276), Beaver Dam – Western Michigan

TE/DE Justin Juckem (6-5, 245), Chilton – Army, Washington State, North Dakota State, North Dakota

LB Brian Otto (6-1, 210), West Allis Hale – North Dakota

OL Greg Peterson (6-5, 255), Waukesha West – Western Michigan

OL Jared Volk (6-4, 286), Arrowhead – Illinois State, Northern Illinois

QB/WR Adam Walker Jr. (6-3, 205), Milwaukee Lutheran - Minnesota-Moorhead

DB Jayme Wells (5-10, 183), Kimberly – Northern Illinois