Westerville South Senior Brad Robbins signed his Letter of Intent to play football for the University of Michigan on Monday, February 6, after a weekend visit to the university with his family. University of Michigan Coach Jim Harbaugh offered Robbins a scholarship on National Signing Day after one became available. Robbins spent the first three years of his high school career at Worthington Christian where he earned all-conference and all-district honors in soccer, football, and baseball. He served as captain of the baseball team for three years. As a four-sport athlete, he will have earned nine varsity letters by the time he graduates in May. Robbins also received offers to punt for Nevada, Navy, Rutgers, and Illinois as well as preferred walk-on opportunities with multiple schools including South Carolina, North Carolina State, Colorado State, and Ohio State, among others. After participating in competitions at Fort Lauderdale, Phoenix, and Atlanta in January, Robbins received a five-star rating and was ranked nationally as the #1 punter for the Class of 2017 by Kornblue Kicking, owned by Brandon Kornblue, a former punter/kicker on the 1997 University of Michigan National Championship team. In addition to performing well on the field, Robbins earned a 4.6 GPA during his first nine weeks at Westerville South where he takes IB and AP classes. He will be on the Wildcat baseball team this spring as well.
Brad's mother and father, Kristine and Eric, are 1978 graduates of Westerville South High School, as are his older brother, Eric (’08), and sister, Brooke (’10). The Robbins family children have 27 varsity athlete letters among them, and Brooke was inducted in into the Westerville South Athletic Hall of Fame in the fall of 2010. Not wanting to be the only Robbins family member without a diploma from Westerville South High School, Brad transferred to South to be a Wildcat for his senior year.