Houston Chronicle: Young athletes from Houston on fast track to stardom

The little running back who helped topple mighty USC. The female boxer with Olympic aspirations. Two baseball players drafted in Round 1. What do they have in common? All hail from the Houston area and are among a group of young athletes on the fast track

Recreation has become vocation for Kelsey Bone. Bone, a former Dulles High School basketball standout, is heading to South Carolina this fall on an athletic scholarship. She has traveled the world with national teams, played in the McDonald’s All-American Game and made a name for herself in the Houston area. She also missed out on many high school activities, including her senior prom — it was that or the Team USA trials in Colorado Springs, Colo.