Grade: 2017 graduate
Age: 18
Sport: Softball
Claim to fame/honors: Four-year varsity player; owns single-season school records for triples (10), homers (13), RBIs (52) and batting average (.697); established career records for hits (178), doubles (37), triples (20), homers (36) and RBIs (166); senior year earned first team GWOC, player of year for GWOC North; second-team all-state and first-team Southwest District. Will attend Gannon University to study criminal justice and play softball.
Bet you didn’t know … I danced for seven years
Words you live by: You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take
Toughest opponent: Myself because I hold myself to high standards that I expect to meet
Biggest influence: My dad because he’s always pushed me to expect nothing but the best of myself
Game-day rituals: I always have to have braid in my hair; I have to jam to ’80s rock before I play.
What’s on your bedroom walls: Rocky poster, softball pictures, Yogi Berra poster, Reds pictures, medals and trophies, home run balls from high school and Ohio Thunder
When I’m bored I like to … take naps
Favorite movie: Rocky II
Person who would play you in a movie: Sandra Bullock
Favorite TV show: Supernatural
Favorite musical artist: AC/DC
I can’t live without: Coffee
I can live without: Mushrooms
Event you’d like to attend: AC/DC concert
Favorite book: Scarlett Letter
Favorite home-cooked meal: My mom’s mac and cheese
Favorite restaurant: El Sombero
Favorite smell: Fresh cut grass
Favorite cereal: Frosted Flakes
Store where you’d like a shopping spree: Dick’s Sporting Goods
Vegetable you won’t eat: Eggplant
I’d love to trade places for a day with … Johnny Bench
Whose mind would you like to read? Sylvester Stallone
Place where you’d love to travel? Alaska
Talent you’d like to have? Drawing
Favorite school subject: Gym
Favorite athlete: Johnny Bench
Favorite team: Chicago Blackhawks
Favorite Olympic sport: Snowboarding
Something in the world I’d like to change: Poverty
Favorite sports moment: When I broke my single-season home run record
Favorite junk food: Doritos
Best thing about softball: It teaches life lessons; if you put hard work in you’ll be able to reap the benefits
In 10 years, I hope to be … a U.S. marshall
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