first 15 catches this season. Amigos Jerry Judy, a senior, and
juniors Devonta Smith and Henry Riggs III are all considered
first round draft choices with Judy a probable top 10 pick
in the 2020 NFL draft. Waddle joined Juedy and Riggs on
the Biletnikoff Award Watch List, which is the annual award
given to the player selected the best wide receiver in college
football. Last month, in his first game back in Texas since
joining the Crimson Tide two years ago, Waddle scored Ala-bama’s
first touchdown in a win over Texas A&M in College
Station. Waddle took a short 3-yard pass and turned it into a
31-yard touchdown.
In West University, it’s a question as impactful as the spec-ulation
over who would replace Vince Lombardi or John
Wooden when they retired: Who will be replacing Clint
Sauls as the next manager of the incredibly successful West
University 15-16 Senior League All-Stars?
Succeeding a legend is always daunting, but now someone has
to fill the big shoes and try to follow in the hallowed footsteps
of Sauls, who has officially retired as manager of the interna-tionally-
known West University Senior Leaguers. His 10-year
tenure saw the Seniors qualify for the World Series tournament
in Maine and South Carolina nine times and win two World
Championship banners along the way.
“We were sad to see Clint retire, but we understand —he’s been
doing it for a decade now,” West University Little League pres-ident
Michael Dellinger said. “He’s done an amazing job repre-senting
the league during his time with the Seniors. He taken
different teams with different skill sets every year — some had
great hitting and some of them had great pitching — about
as far as you can take them every year. Now we have the very
challenging task of making sure we find the right replacement.”
Trey Cornelius was the Senior League All-Stars’ first manager.
and he was the guy who guided them to their first world title
in 2009, but Cornelius stepped aside in 2010, and Sauls has
been the Senior skipper ever since. And what Cornelius started,
Sauls built on while he was in charge.
Dellinger says the league does “have a strong list of candi-dates,”
to take the volunteer position, but wouldn’t divulge
who those candidates may be or if there might someone with
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Sauls leaves behind a legacy of his West U seniors teams
dominating the U.S. and world stage during his decade in
charge.
THE TALES OF TWO LOCAL
COACHING LEGENDS
Clint Sauls leaves big shoes
to fill with West U
Little League’s seniors
By Mike Tenney
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