Elijah David Dukes, Jr. (born June 26, 1984 in
Homestead, Florida) is an outfielder in Major League
Baseball, who plays for the Washington Nationals.
Dukes attended Hillsborough High School his junior
and senior years, after spending his first two years
of high school at Jefferson High School, King High
School, and Chamberlain High School. He was a
letterman in football, baseball, basketball, and
track lettering four years in the former two sports
and two years in the latter two sports. In football,
as a junior, he started at both tailback and middle
linebacker, was named a Class 3A All-State selection
as a linebacker, and rushed for over a thousand
yards on offense. He helped his Hillsborough
terriers make the state regional football semifinals
during his junior year, and the quarterfinals his
senior year. After finishing his High school career,
he signed a national letter of intent to play
football for North Carolina State University.
