Grade: Junior
Age: 16
Sports: Cross country, track
Claim to fame/honors: Qualified for regional championships; ran personal best 17:46 at Troy Regionals; ran 17:44 in Versailles in preseason;
Bet you didn’t know … I can’t swim
Words you live by: To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
Toughest opponent: Waynesville
Biggest influence: Steve Prefontaine
Meet-day rituals: Usually I don’t anything for breakfast, then drink caffeine, then I run
What’s on your bedroom walls: Some of the cross country bibs, abstract art
When I’m bored I like to … run
Favorite movie: Prefontaine
Person who would play you in a movie: Tom Holland
Favorite TV show: Stranger Things
Favorite musical artist: Kane Brown
I can’t live without: Chocolate milk
I can live without: TV
Event you’d like to attend: 2020 Olympics in Tokyo
Favorite book: Ready Player One
Favorite home-cooked meal: Homemade pizza
Favorite restaurant: Olive Garden
Favorite smell: Spring morning
Favorite cereal: Frosted Flakes
Store where you’d like a shopping spree: Dick’s Sporting Goods
Vegetable you won’t eat: Asparagus
I’d love to trade places for a day with … Mo Farrah
Whose mind would you like to read? Coach Bill Bowerman
Place where you’d love to travel? Hawaii
Talent you’d like to have? Fly
Favorite school subject: Math
Favorite athlete: Steve Prefontaine
Favorite team: Ft. Loramie cross country and track
Favorite Olympic sport: 5,000-meter run
Something in the world I’d like to change: Get more people running
Favorite sports moment: League meet from sophomore year I ran almost a minute and half faster than my PR
Favorite junk food: Doritos Nacho Cheese
Best thing about cross country: Going to meets and seeing everyone else
In 10 years, I hope to be … in a well paying job and running, but maybe not professionally
About the Author