Grade: Senior
Age: 18
Sports: Basketball, football
Claim to fame/honors: Basketball co-captain; will play football and major in business at Brown University; cornerback received first-team all-district honors in football; earned Academic All-Ohio honors for football; member of National Honor Society
Bet you didn’t know … I have lived in Texas and Oregon
Words you live by: Sleep when you’re dead
Toughest opponent: Franklin in football or basketball
Biggest influence: My dad because he’s always there at all of my athletic events
Game-day rituals: Get lunch with teammates on game days
What’s on your bedroom walls? Football jersey mounted, some action photos from youth up to senior year compiled
When I’m bored I like to … socialize with friends; I don’t like sitting around very much
Favorite movie: White Chicks
Person who would play you in a movie: Jake Gyllenhaal
Favorite TV show: How I Met Your Mother
Favorite musical artist: Post Malone
I can’t live without: Food
I can live without: Electronics
Event you’d like to attend: Super Bowl
Favorite book: The Stranger
Favorite home-cooked meal: Steak and mashed potatoes
Favorite restaurant: Chipotle
Favorite smell: Fall atmosphere
Favorite cereal: Cap’n Crunch
Store where you’d like a shopping spree: Brooks Brothers
Vegetable you won’t eat: Asparagus
I’d love to trade places for a day with … Elon Musk
Whose mind would you like to read? Albert Einstein
Place where you’d love to travel? Italy
Talent you’d like to have? Be ambidextrous
Favorite school subject: Math
Favorite athlete: LaDainian Tomlinson
Favorite team: The Cavs
Favorite Olympic sport: Half-pipe
Something in the world I’d like to change: Racial tension
Favorite sports moment: Beating Mariemont in week one this year
Favorite junk food: Root beer float
Best thing about football and basketball: Relationships you make through the sport itself
In 10 years, I hope to be … happy and have a family
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