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Name: Nic Pierick

School: Highland

Grade: Senior
 
Football Honors: Four-year varsity letter winner for coaches Joel Oleson, Chris Gotto and Shaun Reuter … Played fullback and linebacker for the Cardinals as a senior … Rushed for 404 yards and six touchdowns as a senior while also finishing third on the team in total tackles with 77 … Voted second-team all-conference in Six Rivers Conference as a kicker and punter and honorable mention as a linebacker as a senior … Earned first-team all-league honors as a junior at offensive guard and honorable mention all-league status on defense as a linebacker.

Basketball Honors: Four-year varsity letter winner ... Earned first-team all-league honors in Six Rivers West in each of the past two seasons … Averaged 14 points and 4 rebounds per game as a junior while helping Highland to a 10-13 record under coach Chad Paquette … Averaged 10 ppg as a sophomore for the Cardinals.

Baseball Honors: Four-year varsity letter winner for coach Terry Cool … Earned first-team all-league honors as an infielder and honorable mention laurels as a pitcher as a junior … First-team all-league pitcher as a sophomore and honorable mention all-conference as a utility player as a freshman … Named to the Academic All-State and All-District teams as a junior.

Favorite Sport: “Baseball is my favorite sport. I am the most successful in baseball and I really like that is a thinking game as well.”

Best Part of High School Sports: “I like being with the guys and working hard in the practices and having fun being out there with my friends. Being successful in all of the sports is also a lot of fun.”

Best Advice from a High School Coach: “When I’m competing, I just try to always remember to not my frustration show to my opponent. If I screw up in something, I don’t want my opponent to know that I’m upset.”

Most Memorable Moment in High School Sports: “Last year, we beat Potosi in football to earn a share of the Six Rivers Conference championship. We were the first team from our conference to beat Potosi in football in like 27 games so that was a big accomplishment.”

Best Part of Playing Three Sports: “You get to compete in all of the sports. You don’t get to focus on one sport over another sport.”
 
Toughest Part of Playing Three Sports: “The toughest part is learning time management in the first couple of years of being a three-sport athlete. I’ve played three sports all my life so I had it figured it out pretty early.”

Favorite Opponent: “Belmont. Highland and Belmont is a big rivalry. It’s one of the games you get pumped up for. If you don’t, you’re gonna hear about it. Highland kids and Belmont kids don’t always get along the greatest.”

Favorite Professional Teams: Milwaukee Brewers, Detroit Tigers.

Favorite College Team: Wisconsin Badgers.   
 
Cumulative GPA: 3.7.
 
Toughest Individual You’ve Competed Against: “Jon Alanis of Seneca in football. He ran the ball so hard. I haven’t seen anybody run the ball as hard as he did last year. Trying to stop him was a big challenge.”

College Plans: “I am going to for sure play college baseball. Clarke University has offered me an athletic scholarship to play baseball. I’m also talking to Upper Iowa for baseball as well. Academically, I would like to pursue something with sports, maybe physical education or kinesiology.”

Activities Outside of Sports: National Honor Society, 4H Club, Feed My Starving Children program at Hidden Valley Community Church in Dodgeville, volunteer time at the local food pantry, tutor foreign exchange students.

I Find it Relaxing to: “I like to hang with friends, listen to music and go to movies. I enjoy going wild-tail deer hunting.”

Favorite TV show: “SportsCenter.”
 
Favorite Movie: “Coach Carter.”  
 
Favorite Musical Artists: “I listen to a lot of rap music and country. I listen to pretty much everything.”

Favorite Subject: Biology.
 
Favorite Restaurant: Texas Roadhouse in Madison.
 
Favorite Websites: www.wissports.net.
 
Other Family Members: Father, Tom; mother, Jean; older sister, Megan.        
 
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