Fellas,
I have come across some very good info.
I work in finance and my company does alot of work with Sam Days old man. I never knew it was his dad until this morning. However apparently they don't want him going to GC because they want family around him and if GC are going to draft him he will go and play baseball, but football is his number 1 choice. This could mean we get him.
Interesting stuff...
You are on the money
GOLD Coast target Sam Day may turn his back on the AFL to chase a professional basketball or baseball career in the United States.
The 17-year-old Prince Alfred College student looms a top-10 draft pick this year but may join the American college system.
His uncle, Tim, played baseball for Australia and now works at the University of Florida.
"Definitely soon (I'll have to decide). Professional anything would be amazing. All three sports I'm not quite sure yet," he said.
"It changes between the sports but at the moment I'm enjoying all three of them.
"I'll take everything as it comes and have a fair crack at everything."
At 196cm and 94kg, Day is a key position player on the football field and equally at home in the ruck.
Last year he was the SA under-18 centre-half-back as a 16-year-old, and next month will tour South Africa with the AIS AFL Academy.
Day produced stunning results at AIS-AFL testing in January, recording a vertical leap of 81cm - 3cm higher than Eagle sensation Nic Naitanui's draft-camp best, second best 20m sprint and second in the agility test.
New AFL franchise the Gold Coast has four of the first five draft picks this year, and the club's media manager Greg Price yesterday confirmed its interest in Day.
He said recruiting manager Scott Clayton was "in the process" of organising a meeting.
"My understanding is we haven't had an opportunity to speak to Sam (yet)," Price said. "We think we've got a pretty exciting offer to make around the Gold Coast."
Day is fresh from a season of A Grade baseball with Sturt and will captain PAC's basketball and football teams this winter.
PAC basketball coach, retired Adelaide 36ers legend Mark Davis, said he had no doubt Day could play NBL if he wanted.
"I truly believe if he constantly stays on the uphill slide and keeps his head right, he's a future NBL player and all the rest of it," Davis said.
"I have a lot of respect for him and what he brings to the table - to be able to listen to what he's learned, then go out and execute it."
Day missed two weeks with a punctured liver last year but has impressed for SANFL club Sturt in its reserves trial games. Sturt football manager Duane Massey said Day would have been drafted last year if he was eligible and would have played league footy in the next few weeks if it wasn't for college commitments.
"If he stays injury free he's a certainty to go (in the draft) . . . how high depends on how he performs," Massey said.
Day is the grandson of SANFL Hall of Famer, Ian and is now training every night for either basketball or football.
PAC sport director Gary Jenkinson said Day was easily "the best ruckman" in the college competition.
"Because he played basketball in the morning, then footy in the afternoon last year, we played him as a key forward," Jenkinson said.
Jenkinson said Day's body had "changed dramatically" in the past year and he was in "extremely good condition".
If the youngster chooses football and is snapped up early by the Gold Coast, he would become PAC's second first-round draft pick in as many years after Jack Trengove was drafted at No. 2 to Melbourne last year.