SENIOR SPOTLIGHT: Mitch Haldane, Mountlake Terrace

  • Tuesday, August 24, 2010 9:57pm

Sports: Football, basketball

Goals: To help the football team go to the playoffs.

Honors: First team, all-league in football; Seattle Seahawks high school player of the week

Highlight: Making the playoffs in football for the first time in school history.

Biggest asset: Work ethic

Pregame routine: For football, “I’m silent. I just listen to music and go over what I’m suppose to do.”

Athletic role model: Ray Lewis, my coaches.

One word that best describes you: Determined

Favorite academic subject: Science

Post-high school plans: Attend college and play football.

Best advice from a coach or fellow athlete: “The best piece of advice that I have received was my sophomore year when my defensive coach told me ‘don’t think, just react,” because I was thinking too much and it affected the way I played.”

Favorite leisure activities: Listening to music and hanging out with friends

Favorite snack: Beef jerky

Super Bowl pick: New Orleans Saints

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