Sayreville War Memorial High School’s football captain will no longer be joining Penn State’s Nittany Lions, a recruiting Web site connected with the university confirms. The university revoked Myles Hartsfield’s scholarship Monday, just two days after New Jersey police took seven juveniles into custody in connection with ugly hazing allegations, NJ Advance Media reports.
It is unknown whether Hartsfield, 17, who had committed to Penn State in June, was among those taken into custody in connection with four separate incidents of hazing. It is known, however, that just minutes before Sayreville police made their announcement about the seven minors, officers were seen at Hartsfield’s house, according to NJ Advance Media.
“Three of the juvenile defendants are charged with aggravated sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual contact, conspiracy to commit aggravated criminal sexual contact, criminal restraint, and hazing for engaging in an act of sexual penetration upon one of the juvenile victims,” Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey and Chief John Zebrowski of the Sayreville Police Department said in a joint statement.
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“One of those juvenile defendants and the remaining four juvenile defendants were charged with various counts including aggravated assault, conspiracy, aggravated criminal sexual contact, hazing and riot by participating in the attack of the remaining victims,” the statement added.
Hartsfield, who plays both running back and defensive back for the Bombers, was ranked as the No. 28 athlete in the country and No. 13 for New Jersey by recruiting Web site Rivals.com. “As a junior in 2013, [Hartsfield] rushed for 1,586 yards and 24 touchdowns, earning Third Team All-State, First Team All-Group 5 and First Team All-Middlesex County honors,” NJ.com reports.
Rutgers reportedly also went after Hartsfield before he committed to Penn State. However, according to New York Daily News, that university now is hesitant to go after the senior standout.
“That’s one you have to be careful with,” a source close to Rutgers told NYDN.
Meanwhile, the football program at Sayreville remains shuttered after the superintendent shut it down last week when the hazing allegations came to light.
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