Grade: 2016 graduate
Age: 19
Sports: Football, track
Claim to fame/honors: Second-team GWOC as running back; team captain in track; second at indoor state in 60 hurdles; all-state as a junior and senior in 110 hurdles; regional champion and all-state in 300 hurdles; seventh in 110 hurdles at New Balance Nationals in North Carolina this summer to earn second-team All-America honors; academic all-Ohio for three years; will run track and major in computer science at Taylor University
Bet you didn’t know … I am a computer genius
Words you live by: Don’t worry about it
Toughest opponent: Malik Beverly from Cincinnati Northwest
Biggest influence: Jermaine Bailey, running backs coach at Centerville
Meet-day rituals: Ate chicken kale Caesar salad at Panera before postseason meets
On your bedroom walls: A plaque from Miami Dolphins football camp
When I’m bored I like to … play video games
Favorite movie: Interstellar
Person who would play you in a movie: Caleb Castille
Favorite TV show: I don’t watch TV anymore
Favorite musical artists: Stevie Wonder and Lecrae
I can’t live without: Solitude
I can live without: Politics
Favorite book: I appreciate the Circle series by Ted Decker
Favorite home-cooked meal: My mom’s macaroni and my dad’s steak
Favorite restaurant: BJ’s
Favorite smell: Football field early in the morning just before practice
Favorite cereal: Honey Bunches of Oats
Store where you’d like a shopping spree: Best Buy
Vegetable you won’t eat: Lima beans
I’d love to trade places for a day with … my brother, Khari
Whose mind would you like to read? Coach (Matt) Somerlot
Place where you’d love to travel? France
Talent you’d like to have? I’d love to be able to skateboard
Favorite school subject: Science
Favorite athlete: Peyton Manning
Favorite team: Centerville
Favorite Olympic sport: Track and field
Something in the world I’d like to change: Reduce the anger and fear
Favorite sports moment: When we beat a team in Florida my sophomore year in football; it was the most intense double-overtime win I’ve been part of
Favorite junk food: When I’m not in track season, Five Guys burgers
Best thing about track: The community, the people and the great things you learn and take from a meet
In 10 years, I hope to be … working on a project for NASA
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