Sidelines: spotlight athlete - Tim DeCant

4/12/2007

• School: Lake

• Year: Junior

• Sports: Baseball/football

• Notes: Baseball leadsFlyers with .478 batting average, 14 RBIs and 2 home runs; All-SLL last year with .351 batting average; football All-SLL and all-district first team; set school records with 52 catches for 806 yards

FAVORITES

• School subject: Worldhistory

• Hobby: Playing poker

• Car: Ford Mustang

• Store: Dick s Sporting Goods

• CD: Phobia, by Breaking Benjamin

• Song: Until the End, by Breaking Benjamin

• Band/artist: Breaking Benjamin

• Movie: Varsity Blues

• Actor: Will Smith

• Actress: Jessica Alba

• TV show: SportsCenter

• Animal: Dog (Jack Russell Terrier)

• Magazine: SportsIllustrated

• Book: Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen

• Radio station: 92.5 FM

• Food: Pepperoni pizza (Pizza Hut)

• Dessert: Strawberrycheesecake

• Fast food: McDonald s

• Beverage: Mountain Dew

• Sport: Baseball

• Athlete: LaDainian Tomlinson

• Baseball team: Tigers

• Basketball team: Pistons

• Football team: Chargers

• Person(s) most admired: Parents, Cathy and Wayne, and grandmother, Jean

• Would like to meet:LaDainian Tomlinson

• Superstitions: Wears old left cleat with new right one

• Top sports moment: Hitting three-run home run in district final against Fairview last year

• Ohio State or Michigan? Michigan