PrepStar All-Region offensive lineman Chris Garner, from Augusta, Wis., has decided to play for Wisconsin.  Garner considered a number of area schools, but wanted to stay close to his home, and particularly to his little brother and sister.

Garner is gigantic.  He is 6-6 and weighs 335 pounds.  Better still, he ran the 40-yard dash at 5.3 seconds on the slow McClain floor at the Wisconsin camp.   Since then, he has, reportedly, been timed at 5.1 seconds.

An exceptionally hard worker in the weight room, Chris bench-presses over three hundred pound and squats upwards 450 pounds.  All of this is even more impressive when the fact that he plays football, basketball, baseball, and has participated in track and field events.

Garner first attracted the attention of Wisconsin coaches last summer by destroying several of the finest All-American prep defensive ends in the country at the Badger Camp.  Prep coaches participating in the camp came away astonished by what they saw.

Garner has a huge body, but is very athletic.  Instead of running like a typical huge lineman, he "runs like a very athletic linebacker or tight end, you would never believe that he is a three hundred pound athlete."

As a lineman, Garner has long arms with huge hands that he uses exceptionally well, bends well, has great balance, sees and reads the field well, makes good decisions.  Perhaps above all else, Garner has exceptional feet.

Coaches who have seen Chris play basketball are astonished by his ability.  He is a very rare commodity, a huge offensive lineman who runs the floor.  He has the playing ability of much smaller forwards.  He has caught the interest of Division Two basketball teams.   

The universal comment from everyone who has seen him play is that he will play on Sundays if he takes care of business on the field and in the classroom at Wisconsin and doesn't pick up any injuries.

Garner has an important element going for him.  The faculty at August High School, and particularly his coach, former All-American lineman Mike Bestul, who prepped at  Chippewa Falls, are doing everything that they can to make certain that he overcomes his initial years in Florida and Alabama school systems to succeed at Augusta and at the University of Wisconsin.