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He was undersized and largely unrecruited out of Davis High in Yakima, Wash., where basketball was traditionally a bigger deal.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2025

As a teenage football star, he went unrecruited from his Dothan, Ala., high school.

From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2023

He went to Tuscaloosa in 1989 unrecruited but determined.

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2020

“It was a combination of things,” Dumas says now, when asked to explain why Kupp went so unrecruited out of high school.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2016

The Chinese garrison, ill-paid and unrecruited, gradually lost the semblance of a military force, and was not to be distinguished from the rest of the civil population.

From China by Boulger, Demetrius Charles