Westminster star signs with Prairie View A&M



Westminster Christian Academy graduate James Fontenot has received an athletic scholarship to Prairie View A&M.

The son of Tellin and C. James Fontenot, he has played baseball, basketball and football for the school, but it was his skill at baseball that attracted the attention of more than one university.

Southern University and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff have expressed interest in the former Westminster shortstop, but Prairie View appealed to him more than the other two schools.

"I wanted to be someplace I felt comfortable," he said.

After meeting with Prairie View's baseball coach, he decided the Texas university was that place.

A good student, as well as a good athlete, Fontenot attended LSU E and took online courses from South Louisiana Community College, said his mother, Tellin Fontenot, a native of Ville Platte. His mother and father, C. James Fontenot, were with him Thursday at Westminster as he signed the papers that made his future association with Prairie View official.

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