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Prep profile: Tim Losby, Mount Horeb

Dennis Semrau  —  5/07/2008 8:09 am

Name: Tim Losby

School: Mount Horeb

Year: Senior.

Sports: track and field, basketball, football, golf.

Fast facts: Losby is in his first season competing in track and field following three years in golf; he runs on the 400-, 800- and 1,600-meter relays and participates in the long jump for the Vikings. Losby was a three-time letterwinner in football, starting at running back as a junior and senior and serving as a reserve cornerback on defense as a senior. He ran for 1,513 yards and nine touchdowns during his varsity career, including 850 yards and five TDs as a senior, when he earned All-Badger North Conference honorable mention. Losby was a two-time letterwinner in basketball, starting at guard as a senior.

Cumulative grade-point average: 4.1 on a 4.3 scale.

Favorite subject: mathematics.

Quick quote: "Competing in sports has taught me how to work hard for what I want and to be a good leader and teammate."

My most memorable moments in sports were: kicking the game-winning field goal to beat No. 1 ranked Evansville in a season-opening football game my senior year and qualifying for the football playoffs for the first time in five years.

My role model is: my brother, Mark.

My family also includes: my dad, Steve, mom, Julie, sister, Susan, stepdad, Mark, and stepmom, Lisa.

Favorite athletes: LeBron James; fellow Mount Horeb athlete Riley Koval.

Favorite team: LSU football.

I drive: a 1999 Mazda Protege.

I listen to: hip hop.

This and that: member of Young Life co-president of Math Club member of Prom court member of High Honor Roll throughout high school volunteer work includes helping out at Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mount Horeb.

Post-high school plans: attend Carroll College to study liberal arts and play football.

Career: engineer.

Dennis Semrau  —  5/07/2008 8:09 am