Virginia Lands Florida TE Justin Zames Following Latest Visit

Familiarity and resonation are sometimes objectives for school soccer coaches to attempt to current to high recruits, and typically it simply clicks.

It is a part of the rationale reigning state champion and sophistication of 2025 Tampa (Fla.) Berkeley Prep tight finish Justin Zames got here off the board with a dedication to Virginia on Friday.

“On my go to to UVA I felt like I used to be surrounded by coaches and gamers like I’ve at Berkeley Prep,” Zames informed Rivals. “Everybody was targeted on being nice teammates and making this system nice.

“I like how dialed within the coaches and gamers had been and the way excessive the expectations had been for the way forward for this system.”

Armed with scholarship presents all through the Ivy League and the FBS, the balanced tight finish prospect will play his school soccer within the ACC. After all Virginia can also be high-academic, so the call-backs to Berkeley Prep continued with the extra time he spent in Charlottesville.

“Coach (Des) Kitchings and I’ve been speaking and texting on a regular basis over the previous six months and I really feel like we’ve a tremendous relationship and I can’t wait to play for him!” Zames stated. “And Coach (Tony) Elliot jogs my memory a lot of (Berkeley Prep) Coach (Dominick) Ciao as a result of he focuses on making his gamers higher folks and having this system do issues the appropriate method.”

The tight finish projection, who Ciao calls “powerful and bodily” amongst excessive compliments on character, turns into the sixth pledge for Elliot within the class of 2025. 5 of the present Virginia commitments, like Zames, are projected to play on offense on the subsequent stage.

As a junior in 2023, Zames helped Brekeley Prep take house its first state championship as a two-way participant up entrance.