Antelope Valley’s Holt to Kick for SDSU

Peter Holt, a kicker from Antelope Valley High, has committed to San Diego State in part because of the opportunity to play immediately.

Holt, who visited San Diego State the first weekend in January, had planned to take trips to UCLA and Hawaii. He said his decision also was affected by UCLA’s apparent lack of interest in him.

“With UCLA, it was only a call-a-month-type thing,” he said Tuesday. “Right now, I’ve got a pretty good chance to start as a freshman at San Diego. The football team is young and on its way up. I couldn’t pass it up.”

Holt averaged 39.2 yards as a punter and converted eight of 17 field-goal attempts and 15 of 18 point-after kicks in 1991. A solid student who scored 1,000 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test, Holt plans to become an athletic trainer.

Holt visited San Diego State with teammate Freddie Edwards, who lives with the Holt family. Edwards, who excelled as both a running back and defensive back, has visited Utah and plans trips in the next three weekends to Washington, Hawaii and USC.

Edwards is one of the area’s most sought-after players and recently satisfied NCAA eligibility requirements with a 710 score on the SAT.