The Proven Athlete
18 Years of Proof

The Hall of Fame.

Every athlete on this list started the same way yours can — with block one.

13 athletes shown

Dyson Parker — Football, Weber State
D1

Signed with Weber State

Dyson is the newest name on this wall, and his story is still being written. At Weber High he did everything: 3,234 career rushing yards, 37 rushing touchdowns, over 1,000 receiving yards, and on defense he added 85 tackles and 5 interceptions, one returned for a score. He was named 6A First Team All-State and took running back MVP honors at the Under Armour camp in Utah.

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Dyson Parker

Football · Athlete · Class of 2026

Weber HighWeber State

Signed with Weber State

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Tradon Bessinger — Football, Iowa
D1

2025 Utah Player of the Year

Tradon rewrote Utah’s record book without ever leaving Kaysville. A three-year starter at Davis, he threw for 10,908 career yards and 127 touchdowns — eighth all-time in state history for yards, fourth for touchdowns — and saved his best for last: 4,313 yards and 53 scores as a senior at 76 percent completion, plus a state-record 333 completions in a single season. In one September stretch he threw for 400-plus yards in three straight games, including a 504-yard, five-touchdown night against Syracuse. In 2025 they named him Utah’s Player of the Year.

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Tradon Bessinger

Football · Quarterback · Class of 2026

Davis HighIowa

2025 Utah Player of the Year

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Kash Gates — Football, Weber State
D1

Catching passes at Weber State

Kash finished his Davis career the way every kid draws it up in the backyard. As a senior he caught 78 passes for 933 yards and 15 touchdowns in twelve games — and when the Darts needed a surprise, he threw it: two career attempts, two completions, 69 yards and a touchdown. He wasn’t only an offense guy, either. He took snaps at safety, returned an interception, and spent his springs playing defense for Davis lacrosse. Ball skills on both sides, all year long.

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Kash Gates

Football · Wide Receiver · Class of 2024

Davis HighWeber State

Catching passes at Weber State

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Braylon Parker — Football, Weber State
D1

Cornerback at Weber State

Braylon played high school football at 5-foot-9 and 160 pounds, which means nothing on his college roster page was handed to him. At Weber he wore number 2 and rarely left the field — receiver on one side, free safety on the other, punt returns in between. His junior season was the breakout: 22 catches for 339 yards, better than 15 a catch, three touchdowns, and a 74-yarder in there. Senior year, with defenses paying him real attention, he still found the end zone twice and carried the both-ways workload every week.

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Braylon Parker

Football · Cornerback · Class of 2024

Weber HighWeber State

Cornerback at Weber State

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Rex Sunderland — Basketball, New Hampshire → Stonehill → Utah Tech
D1

Signed with Utah Tech Basketball

Rex stacked a résumé at Davis that few Utah guards can match: back-to-back 6A All-State first team, three region championships, the 2021 6A state title, and Davis Male Athlete of the Year as a senior. The title run tells you who he is — as a seventh seed in the state semifinal, he poured in a game-high 25 points, went 13-of-17 from the foul line, and dragged the Darts past Corner Canyon in overtime. Biggest stage, biggest moments.

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Rex Sunderland

Basketball · Guard · Class of 2022

Davis HighNew Hampshire → Stonehill → Utah Tech

Signed with Utah Tech Basketball

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Brayden Wilson — Football, Weber State → Wyoming
D1

Two-time All-Big Sky Defensive End

Brayden is what it looks like when motor meets frame. At Farmington he was first-team all-state and the All-Area Defensive MVP — 108 tackles, 27 sacks, 24 tackles for loss — while also playing rugby well enough to be nationally ranked and wear a Team USA jersey. Twenty minutes up I-15, Weber State turned all of that into one of the best defensive-line runs in program memory: a Big Sky title as a freshman, an FCS playoff season, and then the 2023 breakout — 16.5 tackles for loss, most in the Big Sky and 11th in the entire nation, one of the ten best seasons in Weber State history.

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Brayden Wilson

Football · Defensive End · Class of 2020

Farmington HighWeber State → Wyoming

Two-time All-Big Sky Defensive End

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Kendell Petersen — Soccer, BYU
D1

Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week

When a new academy team came recruiting before her senior year, Kendell stayed at Northridge. Her words: “I wanted to finish everything that I started.” She finished it with two state championships, three straight team MVP awards, and first-team all-state honors.

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Kendell Petersen

Soccer · Defender · Class of 2018

Northridge HighBYU

Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week

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Ben Rigby — Baseball, BYU
D1

Signed with BYU Baseball

Ben is a 6-foot-6 left-hander who threw a no-hitter for Davis in the spring of 2017. Perfect through four innings, eight strikeouts, and the Darts moved to 9-0. He had baseball offers from Hawai’i and Liberty and a basketball offer from Weber State, and he passed on all of them for the school he grew up wanting to play for. He committed to BYU, then left for a two-year mission in Santiago, Chile before ever throwing a college pitch.

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Ben Rigby

Baseball · Pitcher · Class of 2017

Davis HighBYU

Signed with BYU Baseball

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Wyatt Koelling — Wrestling, Missouri
D1

Won the U.S. Open, made Team USA

Wyatt had been chasing this since the seventh grade. At Davis he was the varsity captain, a three-time Fargo finalist — high school wrestling’s biggest national stage — and the 2015 Fargo Greco-Roman national champion. His own words tell you how: “Sometimes I am in the wrestling room or gym working out for three to four hours at a time.” His coach put it even plainer — he does not burn out, he does not get tired. Missouri, one of the best wrestling programs in the country, signed him for exactly that.

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Wyatt Koelling

Wrestling · Captain · Class of 2016

Davis HighMissouri

Won the U.S. Open, made Team USA

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Olivia Wade — Soccer, BYU
D1

Drafted by the Portland Thorns (NWSL)

Olivia led Davis in goals three seasons straight and helped stack three consecutive 5A state championships. In 2016 she swept just about every award Utah hands out: Gatorade Player of the Year, Salt Lake Tribune Player of the Year, Deseret News 5A MVP. She played for the U.S. U-17 national team, served an 18-month Spanish-speaking mission in Houston, then took her game to BYU.

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Olivia Wade

Soccer · Midfielder · Class of 2016

Davis HighBYU

Drafted by the Portland Thorns (NWSL)

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Jesse Wade — Basketball, Gonzaga → BYU
D1

2015 Utah Mr. Basketball

Jesse got cut from Utah’s state competition team as a sophomore. Most kids let that end the story. He went the other way with it. By his senior year at Davis he was the top-ranked recruit in the state and Utah’s Mr. Basketball, averaging 26.8 points a game with a 46-point night against Fremont along the way.

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Jesse Wade

Basketball · Guard · Class of 2015

Davis HighGonzaga → BYU

2015 Utah Mr. Basketball

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Bronson Larsen — Baseball, BYU
D1

WCC Tournament MVP

Bronson hit a walk-off grand slam to win a championship at 14, so big moments never scared him. At Davis he hit .429 as a senior, made first-team all-state twice, and his coach called him one of the most complete catchers he had ever seen at the high school level.

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Bronson Larsen

Baseball · Catcher · Class of 2013

Davis HighBYU

WCC Tournament MVP

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Paisa Savea — Football, Snow College → Oregon State
D1

Started for Oregon State in the Pac-12

Paisa’s road to the Pac-12 is the longest one on this wall. Born in American Samoa, one of sixteen kids — eight brothers and seven sisters — he grew into the anchor of the defensive line at Northridge in Layton: 35 tackles as a senior, rugby every offseason, Honor Roll and National Honor Society in the classroom. Then he stepped away from the game for two years to serve a mission in California. When he came back, he earned his spot at Snow College and helped drive a 10-1 season — a league title, a bowl championship, and a No. 2 national finish that made him a three-star recruit and one of Utah’s top junior-college prospects.

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Paisa Savea

Football · Defensive Tackle · Class of 2011

Northridge HighSnow College → Oregon State

Started for Oregon State in the Pac-12

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