When he walked in as a freshman, had football Coach David Younger been told Cody Shipp would earn first-team all-league honors on both sides of the football, Younger would have said no way.
“(Shipp was) another guy I probably underestimated coming in, although I knew how athletic he was,” Younger said. Shipp’s senior class was known for its skill on the basketball court not the football field. Shipp himself weighed in at only 120 pounds.