Although he graduated from Will C. Wood High School on Friday, DeShawn Seymour Jr. will still be wearing blue and gold for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n
On Monday, the track phenom announced his commitment to San Jose State University. The standout sprinter held multiple Division I offers, but is now slated to compete for the Spartans.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis long journey wouldn\u2019t have been possible without my village of support, which I am grateful to have had in my corner,\u201d Seymour said on X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n
Seymour holds school records in the boys 100-meter dash (10.22 seconds) and 200-meter dash (20.88). His blistering mark of 10.22 was the fourth fastest time in California this year.<\/p>\n
He capped off his high school career with a third-place finish in the 100 (10.29) at the CIF State Track and Field Championships in Clovis on May 30. He also placed eighth in the 200 (21.21).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although he graduated from Will C. Wood High School on Friday, DeShawn Seymour Jr. will still be wearing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7,2044,11041,180,993,266,88,90,89,2720,127,6799],"class_list":["post-352567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-california","tag-high-school-sports","tag-local-sports","tag-newsletter","tag-north-bay","tag-northern-california","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-solano-county","tag-sports","tag-vacaville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}