 Young attended Highland Park High School, where he played basketball and baseball. He lettered three times in basketball, in a career in which he scored over 1,000 points, and accumulated 500 rebounds and 200 blocks. He was a two-year letterman in baseball, compiling a 14 – 3 record with 180 strikeouts. In basketball he averaged 16 points, 12 rebounds, and 3 blocked shots a game, and in baseball he had an 8 – 3 record with a 1.70 ERA and 95 strikeouts in 80 innings pitched.
