Grade: Senior
Age: 18
Sport: Football
Claim to fame/honors: Named second-team All-Ohio Division I at wide receiver; first team All-Southwest Ohio; first receiver in Centerville history with a 1,000-yard season (1,009); committed to play football at Air Force; Sonny Unger Award Winner
Bet you didn’t know … I ran cross-country in middle school.
Words you live by: The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand and the determination that whether we win or lose we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand — Vince Lombardi
Toughest opponent: Tyler Potts, Pickerington North defensive back
Biggest influence: My father
Game-day rituals: Before I walk out of the locker room I hit each one of the signs twice
What’s on your bedroom walls? Previous Centerville football posters, my framed jersey from senior year, Notre Dame football poster
When I’m bored I like to … go to the weight room
Favorite movie: Step Brothers
Person who would play you in a movie: Will Ferrell
Favorite TV show: Stranger Things
Favorite musical artist: Drake
I can’t live without: My phone
I can live without: Drama
Event you’d like to attend: The Olympics
Favorite book: Toughness by Jay Bilas
Favorite home-cooked meal: Steak and potatoes
Favorite restaurant: Chili
Favorite smell: Locker room after a win
Favorite cereal: Cap’n Crunch
Store where you’d like a shopping spree: Foot Locker
Vegetable you won’t eat: Tomatoes
I’d love to trade places for a day with … Odell Beckham Jr.
Whose mind would you like to read? Easily it would be Coach Ullery
Place where you’d love to travel? Bahamas
Talent you’d like to have? Dancing
Favorite school subject: Math
Favorite athlete: Odell Beckham Jr.
Favorite team: Notre Dame
Favorite Olympic sport: Hockey
Something in the world I’d like to change: The shortage of jobs
Favorite sports moment: Beating Wayne this year
Favorite junk food: Skittles
Best thing about football: The brotherhood you build with all your teammates
In 10 years, I hope to be … serving in the Air Force
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