Garrison Woods
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Grade: Senior
Football Honors: Four-year varsity letter winner for the Wildcats … Led Belleville in receiving yards (787) as a senior … Earned first-team all-Capitol Conference honors as a wide receiver as a senior under the guidance of head coach Mathew Weber … Picked up second-team all-league honors as a senior as a cornerback and kick returner … Honorable mention all-conference punter as a junior.
Basketball Honors: Four-year varsity performer for the Wildcats … A 5-foot-9 point guard with excellent ball handling and passing skills … Very good quickness in the open court … Scored a career-high 32 points in a 71-65 victory over Wisconsin Heights as a junior … First-team all-league pick in the Southern Division of the Capitol Conference as a junior and honorable mention all-league selection as a sophomore … Currently averaging 13.8 ppg for coach Jarod Wichser.
Track Honors: Three-time first-team all-league pick in the Capitol Conference entering senior year … Conference champion in the long jump and triple jump in each of the past three seasons … Three-time state qualifier in the triple jump, finishing 16th as a freshman, second as a sophomore and third as a junior in Division 2 … Two-time state qualifier in long jump, finishing 16th as a freshman and 10th as a junior in Division 2 … All-State selection in the triple jump in 2012 and All-Area in triple jump as a sophomore and junior.
Favorite Sport: “Basketball. I’ve been playing it my whole life. My dad says I taught myself how to dribble a basketball.”
Best Part of High School Sports: “Competing against and playing with friends you make while in the sport.”
Best Advice from a High School Coach: “If you want to accomplish something, you will have to work hard to achieve it, because there are no free rides in life.”
Most Memorable Moment in High School Sports: “My first time going to the WIAA State Meet in track and field as a freshman and competing in two events, the Long Jump and Triple Jump. Unfortunately, I scratched all three times in each event, which was a learning opportunity. I knew I would be back.”
Best Part of Playing Three Sports: “Being able to spend that much more time playing sports with your friends.”
Toughest Part of Playing Three Sports: “The minimal amount of rest between seasons.”
Favorite Opponent: New Glarus
Favorite Professional Teams:
Favorite Professional Athlete: John Wall of the
Cumulative GPA: 3.77
Toughest Individual You’ve Competed Against: “Cam Ward from
Most Admired High School Teammate: “Ryan McCoy, who is now in the US Navy.”
College Plans: “I plan to run track and field at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and study computer science/software engineering.”
Activities Outside of Sports: National Honor Society, Spanish Club, and SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions), referee youth football, work as an umpire in summer baseball, and referee basketball games in the winter.
I Find it Relaxing to: “Listen to music while playing basketball. Basketball is a rhythmic sport and music can help improve the skills.”
Favorite TV show: How I Met Your Mother.
Favorite Movie: Happy Gilmore.
Favorite Musical Artists: Chance the Rapper
Favorite Subject: Math.
Favorite Restaurant: McDonalds.
Favorite Website: Twitch.tv.
Other Family Members: Father Otis; mother, Tammy; brother, Donovan; sisters,
Did You Know: “I also played baseball my first three years of high school as a pitcher, third baseman and center fielder, earning a varsity letter my sophomore and junior years. I can earn 15 high school varsity letters if I compete in both track and field and baseball my senior year.”
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