Baltimore Sun reporters and columnists each pick one athlete who they feel bears watching in the coming year. Each person’s choice heading into last year is also mentioned, so you can tell whether the prediction was a good one or not.
Cuban outfielder Dariel Alvarez has to be considered one of the top athletes to watch in 2015 because you¿re probably not going to have any choice.
An offensive guard for the Towson Tigers, Gavin Class hopes to become the first athlete ever to compete in a contact sport after receiving a liver transplant.
It isn¿t easy standing out in lacrosse or soccer in the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference, where some of the country¿s top talent can be regularly found in both sports. Ryan Conrad has shined in both.
There¿s no Oriole who will scrutinized more closely in 2015 than slugger Chris Davis. It¿s really not a stretch to think his performance will go a long way into determining the direction of the 2015 Orioles.
For parts of the past two seasons, Orioles fans have seen flashes of how great right-hander Kevin Gausman can be.
Although his success as a rookie didn¿t come as a surprise based on his decorated career at Alabama, Ravens inside linebacker C.J. Mosley is worth keeping a close eye on in 2015.
For the past 9 years, he has been one of the anchors of the Ravens¿ vaunted defense and one of the league¿s best defensive tackles. But as he enters 2015, Haloti Ngata has plenty to prove to an organization that he let down.
Before a Lisfranc sprain in his foot ended Ravens cornerback Jimmy Smith¿s season in Week 8 against the Cincinnati Bengals, he was playing like one of the league¿s best cornerbacks.
I¿m going to cheat and offer two players to watch in college lacrosse: Lyle Thompson and Matt Kavanagh.
Having been around the Maryland men¿s basketball program for nearly three decades, I have seen only a couple players make as swift an impact as freshman point guard Melo Trimble.
As the top high school girls lacrosse player in the country last spring, McDonogh attacker Megan Whittle excelled at finding ways to score amid intense defensive pressure. Everyone knew she would get the ball in the clutch and she still pumped in 88 goals.
