Editor's note: Dennis Semrau covers prep sports for ESPN Madison 100.5 FM.

Dylan Bourne, Verona High School

Year: Senior.

Sports: Football, track and field.

Sports highlights: Dylan is a two-time letterwinner, three-year starter and two-time team captain in football as inside linebacker. He could also see time as a reserve offensive lineman this season. As a junior, he earned All-Big Eight Conference first-team honors at inside linebacker, finishing with 105 tackles, including two tackles for loss. Verona was conference co-champion his sophomore season.

He is a two-time letterwinner in track and field, competing in the shot put and discus. He was the Big Eight Conference runner-up and placed fifth at regionals in the discus his junior year and is a four-time conference medalist in the throws.

Pre-game ritual or superstition: Take a 35-minute nap before football games and envisioning stopping an offense’s most-used play.

Cumulative GPA: 3.99.

Favorite subject/class: AP Literature and Comp.

Favorite teacher: Richard Matulat (AP Literature).

Quick quote: “Competing in sports has taught me that making the players around you better is the most valuable trait in football. Culture eats strategy for lunch.”

Three words to describe me are: Passionate, perspicacious, raw.

I got my start in sports: Playing fourth grade tackle football and dominating at left guard.

I wish I could play: Basketball, if I had any coordination.

My most memorable moments in sports: Our comeback win against Hartland Arrowhead in the 2016 WIAA Division 1 football playoffs.

I like about high school sports: Community involvement, creating family with those you’ve grown up with and the coaches are involved because of how much they love to do it.

I enjoy playing football because: Stars can’t win you games, a collective unit with chemistry and grit can be less talented than those they beat.

Advice: “It is way more enjoyable if you care.”

My role model is: Coach John Campbell, our varsity offensive line football coach and track and field throws coach. I’ve learned more from him than I have from anybody.

Most inspirational teammate: Ben Vandervest, hardest-working and best-listening teammate.

My family includes: My mom, Lisa, dad, James, step dad, Mon Lun, brother, Hunter, sister, Bentley, step sister, Evi, and step brother, Alex.

Nickname: D-Bo

Words to live by: “All that matters in the end are the people you spend your time with.”

Favorite athlete: Antonio Brown.

Favorite team: Wisconsin Badgers.

Favorite opponent: Middleton Cardinals.

Favorite facility/site to compete in: Curtis Jones Field (home football field).

Favorite movie: ‘The Shawshank Redemption’.

Favorite TV show: ‘Sherlock’ (Benedict Cumberbatch) or ‘The Office’.

Favorite food: Carbonara.

Favorite fast food place and/or restaurant: Noodles and Company.

Favorite sport on TV: NCAA football.

Favorite place to visit: Pacific Northwest (Oregon).

I want to visit: Zion National Park.

Top three favorite songs: ‘Saturn’ -- Sleeping at last; Life’s for the Living’ – Passenger; ‘No Hard Feelings’ -- The Avett Brothers.

Primary news source: CNN.

Favorite website: Yahoo Sports Fantasy Football.

I drive: A 1988 Jeep YJ, without the top or doors.

Dream car: A 1988 Jeep YJ, without the top or doors.

I can’t live without: Black garlic sea salt.

I like Verona High School because: We have definitely the kindest, least dramatic and funniest kids in the state.

If I could change anything: Take away all the mosquitoes.

I wish we could play: Kimberly.

I wish I could meet: Aristotle.

Dream date: Watch the sunset at the Memorial Union Terrace, then eat Babcock ice cream and listen to live music.

Dream gift: College tuition in cash.

Preferred brand of shoe: Vans.

My perfect day: All day outdoors, 73 degrees and no humidity, hiking and exploring near a lake and then enjoying a bonfire under the stars.

I like to read: Poetry (19th and 20th Century contemporary).

This and that: Member of Model United Nations and Peer Court … work with my dad in construction … volunteer work includes peer tutoring, assisting at youth football and track and field camps.

Academic honors: Passed all seven of my Advanced Placement classes and gotten straight A’s besides an A- second semester of Pre-Calculus my freshman year.

Hobbies: Writing poetry, spending time outdoors, playing Fantasy football, avid Verona volleyball fan.

Post-high school plans: Attend college, my top three universities are: USC, University of Oregon (Eugene) and Princeton.

Did you know? I strongly dislike all condiments. … My dad, James, played tight end for the Wisconsin Badgers, and my brother, Hunter, is a former all-state tight end.

Career goal: Do something I love that improves the quality of other’s lives and work in the Pacific Northwest.