Running back Tony Van Zant, one of...

Running back Tony Van Zant, one of the nation’s most highly recruited high school football players, was named Parade magazine’s player of the year.

Van Zant, 6-2 and 185 pounds, gained 6,138 yards rushing--more than three miles--and scored 91 touchdowns in his four-year career at Hazelwood Central High School in Florissant, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis.

Van Zant has visited Oklahoma State and will go to Michigan this weekend. He also plans to visit Arizona State, Arkansas and Missouri.