Student of the Week Shawnee High School

Name: Tyler Tucker

School: Shawnee High School

Grade: 12

Age: 18

Extra-curricular: Football, Basketball, Baseball, National Honor Society

Claim to fame/honors: Straight A's senior year while getting 34 college credit hours and playing three sports.

Words you live by: "You're going to be in your own skin your whole life. You might as well get comfortable in it."

Toughest challenge: Breaking my foot during the first football game my senior season.

Biggest influence: My grandpa, Myron Smith

School-day rituals: I wake up early, eat breakfast, then go back to bed.

What's on your bedroom walls: Ohio State memorabilia

When I'm bored I like to … Take plenty of naps

Favorite movie: Interstellar

Person who would play you in a movie: Matt Damon

Favorite TV show: SportsCenter

Favorite musical artist: Brooks and Dunn

Favorite book: Above the Line by Urban Meyer

Favorite home-cooked meal: Spaghetti

Favorite restaurant: Raising Cane's

Whose mind would you like to read: Donald Trump's

Place where you'd love to travel: Alaska

Talent you'd like to have: Be able to whistle

Favorite school subject: Science

Favorite athlete: Jordan Spieth

Favorite team: Ohio State

Something in the world I'd like to change: The number of empty houses and the amount of homeless people

Favorite high school moment: Running out on the field for Friday night football games

Favorite junk food: Kit Kat

Best thing about high school: All of the teachers at Shawnee really care about their students

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