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Name: Briar Nothaus
 
School: Hillsboro
 
Grade: Senior
 
Football Honors: Three-time varsity letter winner for coach Eric Auel … Played safety as a freshman, sophomore and junior before switching to defensive end as a senior ... Also played offensively at wide receiver all four years … Earned first-team all-league honors in the Scenic Bluffs Conference at defensive end as a senior … Also received second-team all-league laurels at wide receiver as a senior … Caught 12 passes for 237 yards and two touchdowns as a senior.
 
Basketball Honors: Three-year varsity performer for coach John Koopman … A 6-foot-3 forward who averaged 6.4 points per game as the sixth man on the Tigers’ conference championship team as a junior ... Leads Hillsboro in scoring as a senior at 17.7 ppg … Scored a career-high 34 points in a 49-34 victory over Cashton on December 8.
 
Baseball Honors: Four-year varsity letter winner for coach Bob Bothe … Plays centerfield for the Tigers, who finished 11-9 a year ago.  
 
Favorite Sport: “I would say basketball is my favorite sport. It’s the sport I have the most fun playing and my dad was a big basketball player growing up in Illinois. It just comes naturally to me.”
 
Best Part of High School Sports: “Being with my friends. It’s always fun being with my friends. It also keeps me in good shape and gives me something to do all year long.”
 
Best Advice from a High School Coach: “Coach John Koopman told me not to get down on the younger guys on the basketball team because they look up to you. They take compliments better than they take putdowns.”
 
Most Memorable Moment in High School Sports: “This year in the first round of the football playoffs, we played Potosi, which was ranked No. 1 in Division 7. I threw a touchdown pass to James Griffin that puts us ahead to win the game.”
 
Best Part of Playing Three Sports: “Like I said earlier, it keeps you in good shape. There really is no off season. I play summer basketball and then football starts up against in August, so there is very little down time. I love sports so playing three sports is a very good thing for me.”
 
Toughest Part of Playing Three Sports: “It does get pretty tiring at times. It can be stressful, especially if your team is not winning.”
 
Favorite Opponents: “My favorite team to play against is Royall. From kindergarten through fifth grade, I went to Royall so I’m good friends with a lot of their players. It’s always good to get back with those guys and talk with them. And they’ve all been pretty good games, too.”
 
Favorite College Teams: Wisconsin Badgers, Illinois Fighting Illini.
 
Favorite Professional Teams: Green Bay Packers, Oklahoma City Thunder.
 
Cumulative GPA: 3.5.
 
Toughest Individual You’ve Competed Against: “Ethan Grimsled of Seneca. I’ve played against him the last three years in basketball, and I also played against him in football this season. He’s a big guy and a very good athlete. He’s good at everything he does.”
 
College Plans: “I am going to attend UW-Richland Center for my first two years for civil engineering. I plan to basketball for UW-Richland Center. I then plan to transfer to UW-Platteville to finish out my college days.”
 
Activities Outside of Sports: Future Business Leaders of America, Future Farmers of America, Student Council, yard cleanup in community as service project for baseball team, soup kitchen volunteer for St. Patrick’s Parish in Elroy.
 
I Find it Relaxing to: “I like to hunt and fish. Both are big with me along with just handing out with my friends.”
 
Favorite TV show: “True Blood.”
 
Favorite Movie: “Inception.”  
 
Favorite Musical Artists: “Breaking Benjamin, Drake, Tech-9.”
 
Favorite Subject: Math.
 
Favorite Restaurant: Taco Bell in Richland Center.
 
Favorite Websites: www.wissports.net, www.facebook.com.  
 
Other Family Members: Father, Pat; mother, Lynn Thorson; step-dad, Paul Thorson; younger brothers, Ethan and Trent; younger sister, Lexie.
 
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