Hargrave Military Academy held its annual Winter Workout – an event for its football players to show off their skills in front of college coaches – yesterday, but prior to the event TechSideline.com caught up with 6-5, 255-pound defensive end recruit Leon Mackey for the latest on his recruitment.

Mackey signed with the Hokies in February of 2008, but after failing to gain admission to Tech this summer he decided to head to Hargrave for a postgraduate semester (he had attended HMA for his senior year) and subsequently reopened his recruitment. The talented prospect plans to enroll somewhere in January of 2009 and Virginia Tech remains a possibility.

So far, Mackey has taken official visits to Arkansas and N.C. State and he had planned to go to Tech this coming weekend.

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