Q: Do football and bowling have any similarities?
A: In football, I’m competing on an individual basis against a defensive lineman . . . but all 11 players on the field have to do their job on the field to be successful. The same thing is true with bowling. If one individual is bowling well, that’s great, but you need the whole team. They’re both an individual and a team sport.
Q: How did it feel to win the Prep Bowl, especially with all the adversity with coach [John] Hoerster’s death?
A: It was a great way to end the season. This was Coach Hoerster’s last team, and his last team was a championship team.
Q: What convinced you to become a bowler?
A: I started in seventh grade. I was just doing it for fun, and eventually I started bowling on Saturday mornings, joined a couple of travel leagues. Me and four of my buddies signed up.
Q: How about not being able to contribute to the bowling team until the football season was completed?
A: It was hard because I wanted to be at both places at once. I’m out there trying to help win the Prep Bowl and then I’m thinking I have to get into the swing of things right away when I start bowling. I didn’t have weeks to prepare for bowling.
Q: How’s the bowling team faring?
A: This year we’re bowling better as a team, where in years past we’ve had great individual bowling at certain times. We’re starting to bowl well in the heat of the Catholic League season. We’re in second place behind St. Laurence.
Q: You’re an honors student, a member of the jazz band and hold down a part-time job in addition to bowling and football. How do you organize your time?
A: Just good time management. There will be nights when I’m at school until 9 at night, and then go home and do my homework. I have to take advantage of every free second of my time. I’m doing a lot of catch-up on the weekends.
Q: Do you have any guilty pleasures?
A: I love watching football. I can sit there all day and watch NFL Sunday Ticket. I also like to watch a lot of movies.
