Commitment Dylan Admire to play in all-star game

Blue Valley West offensive lineman Dylan Admire, second from right, occupies a defender and clears the way for a teammate to rumble down the field. Admire led the Jaguars with 67 pancake blocks in 2010 and will arrive at Kansas University early after graduating in late December.

Kansas University commitment Dylan Admire will put his skills on the national stage tonight in South Carolina.

Admire, an offensive lineman from Blue Valley West High in Kansas City, will take part in the NUC All-World Game at The Citadel in Charleston, S.C. The all-star game features 114 of the top high school players from the United States, Canada, Mexico and parts of Europe, and will be televised on Fox College Sports at 5 p.m.

A member of Team NUC, Admire, 6-foot-2, 264 pounds, is the only player on either roster from Kansas.

Admire graduated from BVW on Dec. 21 and will begin taking classes at KU in January. Doing so makes him eligible to participate in spring practices. Admire plans to move to Lawrence on Jan. 15 — he’ll room with fellow-early graduate Darrian Miller of Blue Springs (Mo.) High — and will begin classes on Jan. 21.

Unlike other all-star games in which players are nominated and then assigned to a roster, the NUC All-World Game’s rosters are decided by a draft, with each head coach picking players.

The game caps an exciting few days of events including local outings, combine-style skills challenges, a red-carpet awards banquet and interviews with the national media.

Admire said he and his family have a vacation planned for the days following the all-star game and that he would begin packing for Lawrence when they return.

Berglund expected to arrive early

Rivals.com’s Jon Kirby reported Thursday that prep quarterback Brock Berglund, a senior at Valor Christian High in Highlands Ranch, Colo., will graduate early and arrive at KU for the start of the second semester on Jan. 21.

The three-star QB who originally committed to Colorado but switched his commitment to Kansas on Dec. 20, guided his high school team to a state title earlier this month and passed for 2,174 yards and ran for 945 more during his senior season.

Rivals ranks Berglund, 6-4, 205, as the 13th best dual-threat QB in the Class of 2011. He chose Kansas over Boise State, Colorado, Colorado State, Duke, Kansas State, San Diego State, Tulsa, Utah, Washington State and Wyoming.

Indiana tight end to visit in January

Three-star tight end Steven Scheu, of Reitz Memorial High in Evansville, Ind., has scheduled an official visit to KU for the weekend of Jan. 29.

KU is one of four schools to offer Scheu so far and the 6-6, 240-pound senior recently told Rivals.com that the Jayhawks were his first choice.

“Right now, Kansas is at the top of my list,” Scheu said. “I can definitely see myself playing at Kansas next year.”

Scheu lived in Kansas City from third grade on before moving to Evansville after his freshman year of high school. As a freshman, Scheu lived in Overland Park and attended Rockhurst High.

Scheu’s other offers have come from Ball State, Miami (Ohio) and Western Michigan.