Time out with Cody Yeater

SCHOOL: Dayton High

YEAR: Junior

SPORT: Football

Q: What are your favorite sports and why?

A: Football and basketball because they are great team sports that I love to play.

Q: Who is your favorite professional athlete and why?

A: Michael Phelps because that's where dedication and hard work get you?

Q: How do you feel about drug/alcohol testing at the high school level? Should it be random or should everybody be tested once during the season?

A: I feel it's wrong because the kids that do alcohol or drugs just won't play, and that's taking the only thing that keeps them out of trouble away.

Q: If you saw a teammate doing drugs or alcohol, what would you do? Would you talk to him/her about it or turn him/her into the coach?

A: Definitely talk, not tell, and explain you don't just let the coach down you bring all of us down.

Q: What sport(s) have you always wanted to try and never have, and why not?

A: Hockey because it looks like a fun contact sport and there aren't a whole lot of ice rinks in Nevada.

Q: Do you have any hobbies?

A: Just hanging out with my friends.

Q: Do you have a favorite TV show?

A: CSI Las Vegas

Q: What is your favorite food?

A: Probably chicken alfredo

Q: What was the last non-academic book you read?

A: "No Limits The Will to Succeed" by Alan Abrahamson

Q: Who is your favorite musician or group?

A: The Knowmads

Q: What has been your most thrilling moment in sports?

A: In eighth grade football against Fernley. I scored six touchdowns and dragged three kids into the end zone on the last one.

Q: After graduation, where do you plan to attend college, and what are you looking at in terms of a major?

A: Just go to Truckee Meadows and become a marine ocean welder