Student of the Week Urbana High School

Otto Johnson is the student of the week from Urbana High School.

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Otto Johnson is the student of the week from Urbana High School.

Name: Otto Johnson

School: Urbana High School

Grade: 11th

Age: 17

Extra-curricular: Soccer, Basketball, Musical

Claim to fame/honors: All Year Honor Roll (Freshman and Sophomore year), Student of the Month (Freshman Year), Most Outstanding Choir Member (Freshman Year), 1st Team all CBC in Soccer (Freshman Year), Triple Athlete (Freshman Year)

Words you live by: “Nothing is going to be given to you in this world, you have to put your head down and work for it”

Biggest influence: My friends

School-day rituals: Get ready for school, eat buttered toast that my Mom makes me for breakfast, say Hi to Mrs. Simpson before first period

What’s on your bedroom walls: A mirror, a whiteboard, a small framed picture of my girlfriend and I

When I’m bored I like to … play soccer, game on my computer, ball at the YMCA, watch YouTube, hangout with my girlfriend or the boys

Favorite movie: Forrest Gump

Person who would play you in a movie: Tom Hanks

Favorite TV show: Naruto

Favorite musical artist: Drake

Favorite book: The entire Percy Jackson series

Favorite home-cooked meal: My dad’s famous hamburgers on the grill

Favorite restaurant: Firebirds

Whose mind would you like to read: Matthew Haag’s

Place where you’d love to travel: Arizona

Talent you’d like to have: Being extremely flexible

Favorite school subject: World History

Favorite athlete: Lionel Messi, Jaylen Brown

Favorite team: Boston Celtics, Cleveland Browns

Something in the world I’d like to change: The large gap between the rich and the poor

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