Kudos to 21 Chapel Hill Tiger athletes who will keep playing in college.

Two of those varsity athletes from Chapel Hill High who will go onto play are staying home to attend UNC — track & field’s Harrison Young and volleyball’s Katherine Easterly.

Five other athletes are staying in state to play their sports; football’s Connor Stough at UNC-Pembroke and Albert Nyamayaro at Fayetteville State; women basketball’s Autumn West to Johnson C. Smith; soccer’s John Walden to Elon; and track and field’s Quianiece Fish to North Carolina Central. One will be playing in the ACC, swimmer Claire DeSelm at Notre Dame.

Of the other 13, a pair is going to Case Western Reserve – swimmers Sarah Taekman and Eli Rose; to Denison University – football’s Brian Jones and Conner Korfas.

Cross Country’s Max Blackburn is off to Colorado College; soccer’s Morgan Brandewie to Emory University; Track’s Marija Crook to Oberlin College; swimmer C.J. Eron to University of Tampa; Lacrosse players Paige Haskins is going to Mary Washington and Kyle Hornik to Queens University; Dillon Kopec will be running track at field at Roanoke College, as will Anna Passannante at Williams College;

And George McBurney will wrestle at the Coast Guard Academy.

The names of these 21 outstanding student-athletes were provided by Chapel Hill High School athletic director Tim Bennett, who is a constant email messenger about everything Tiger sports, as was his predecessor Todd Morgan.