Dan - born 1970 ...sorry, I'm sure you spent a few hours tracking that down, but he was not in high school in 1995.
High school beat does not mean the author of the article was in high school. The same way the local reporter who does the crime beat is not a criminal. Have any of you ever read a newspaper? Christ.
What's more noteworthy about Fat Dan at that time is he wasn't even a boxing fan yet! Yet a couple years later managed to be the main boxing writer for a national newspaper.