Mike Vukovcan With the Hopewell High School baseball season now complete, quarterback James Armstrong’s focus now is 100% on his upcoming junior season.
Despite being active with baseball six days a week, Armstrong has still found time to do individual football workouts as well as take part in 7-on-7 team competitions that the Vikings program is participating in.
Over the upcoming months, when Armstrong isn’t working out or at a football practice, there’s a good chance he’ll be making a recruiting visit.
The 2028 4-star recruit is one of the top quarterback prospects in the country and is entering a serious part of his recruitment.
At this stage of his recruitment, Armstrong holds 18 Power 4 offers but would like to start narrowing things down and determining which programs he’s truly serious about and who could be one of his finalists.
In order to do that, on-campus visits need to be made and that’s what he plans on doing during the month of June.
Starting tomorrow and likely running through the end of the month, Armstrong and his father will be making unofficial visits to various schools.
Because some of the dates and visits haven’t been confirmed, we won’t report on a few but here are the ones that are locked in for the upcoming week.
Things will get underway tomorrow when Armstrong makes the quick drive to Pitt and spends time with Pat Narduzzi, Kade Bell and the Pitt staff.
Hopewell quarterback James Armstrong
Although it’s only June and he’s only entering his junior season, IMO, this will be an important time for the Pitt staff. Armstrong already has a tremendous relationship with Narduzzi, but it’ll take more than that to land him. Showing off the university, their facilities, their connections and showing him how much of a priority he truly is to them will all be important.
After Pitt on Monday, Armstrong will travel across the state and make a visit to Matt Campbell and Penn State on June 10th. Like with Pitt, he is a big target for Campbell, Terry Smith and the Nittany Lions program.
The next day, Armstrong will then be in Columbus, Ohio on June 11th to spend the day and visit Ohio State. At this point, Armstrong does not hold an offer from the Buckeyes.
The week will wrap up with Armstrong returning to Pitt on June 14th to take part in a Pitt prospects camp. This will give him the opportunity to display his arm talent to the Pitt coaches.
Three and possibly a fourth visit is planned for the following week, but we’ll wait to report on those until that fourth one gets locked in.
