Local QB who put up 7,700 yards in high school to walk on with Gamecocks as receiver
After a year away from the game, Reed Charpia is going to give football another try.
The former Brookland-Cayce High standout quarterback is walking on to the South Carolina football program. Charpia is enrolled in school and on campus with the other USC early enrollees.
Classes for USC students begin Monday.
Charpia committed to play baseball at USC Sumter but didn’t attend there in the fall. He spent that time training and getting ready for college.
Charpia will play receiver for the Gamecocks but was a standout signal caller for the Bearcats and was known his ability to improvise and make big plays. He put up 7,748 total yards and 74 touchdowns during his high school career and helped B-C to deep runs in the playoffs.
Charpia also was selected to play in the Touchstone Energy Cooperatives Bowl his senior season.
Charpia comes from a football family. His father, Rusty, is head coach at Brookland-Cayce and his grandfather Reed was just inducted to S.C. Football Coaches Hall of Fame.
“I have coached a lot of good players, and he is the best that I have coached for being able to escape trouble and make plays,” said Rusty Charpia said of his son in 2018. “His improvising, or whatever you want to call it, he continues to make plays. Occasionally, it doesn’t turn out well, but 90 percent of the time, he either runs it for a first down or throws it for a big play.”
