Gunslinger one of the best in the west
One of the best drop back quarterbacks on the west coast is Karsten Sween (6-3, 205, 4.7) from Ridgecrest (Calif.) Burroughs. The talented signal caller was selected all-state underclass, all-CIF, all-county, all-area and all-league as a junior.
Sween hit on 244 passes out of 401 attempts while hitting on 61%. He had a better than four-to-one touchdown to interception ratio. He had 40 touchdowns against nine interceptions.
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Sween’s passing yardage was good enough for second in the state.
“Karsten is a coach’s dream as a quarterback,” Burroughs head coach Jeff Steinberg said. “He is one of the hardest workers you will ever find.”
“Karsten is always trying to find a way to improve,” Steinberg said. “He doesn’t hang his hat on his stats.”
“Karsten sets his standards high and once he reached them, he sets them higher,” Steinberg said. “It’s not the stats that he’s thinking about, it is the overall play and the stats are just a by product that his aims are achieved.”
“Karsten can make all the throws,” Steinberg said. “He can make the out throw to the wide side of the field.”
“I think the greatest thing Karsten has developed is timing,” Steinberg said. “He throws the ball on the break and on time.”
According to Steinberg Arizona, Oregon, Oregon State, USC, UCLA, Purdue and Colorado State are Sween’s early leaders.
Colorado State inked Sween’s main target for the season of 2003 in record breaking wide receiver Anthony Celestine.