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BYU gets commitments from three-star Hawaiian QB Sol-Jay Maiva, American Fork WR Devin Downing

Provo • For the second straight year, BYU has landed one of the top high school quarterbacks in the country.

Sol-Jay Maiva, a rising senior at St. John’s College High School in the Washington, D.C., area, announced via Twitter on Sunday afternoon that he has committed to BYU coach Kalani Sitake. Maiva, who grew up in Hawaii before moving to the East Coast before his junior season, is the No. 23-ranked dual-threat quarterback, in the country, according to 247sports.com.

Maiva said on Twitter that he chose to commit on Father’s Day to honor his father, Luaao Peters, who came into his life and married his mother, Rosemary Maiva-Peters, when he was 2 years old.