Jeremiah Neitzel: Derby Racer, Lip Syncher, King of School
Launch the media gallery 1 playerJeremiah Neitzel, Saint Francis senior, said he finally feels like the king of school.
Neitzel said it's fun playing football and he wants to win state because they would be the first ones to do it. He said he likes Rodney Yates, head football coach, as a person and as a coach. “He is there whenever you need him,” Neitzel said. He will also compete in both basketball and track.
“Jeremiah is an extremely important person to our football team, he’s a captain and a two year starter. For me, he’s a hard worker, smart and understands the game well and that is only a fraction of what kind of person he is,” Yates said.
Neitzel said he likes being a senior because it is one step closer to going out on his own.
His favorite thing he has done in high school, so far, was doing the lip sync contest with Jenna Confer, Saint Francis senior. “It was super fun participating in the contest with Jeremiah,” Confer said. She said her favorite part to do with him was lip syncing to the "Bohemian Rhapsody."
Neitzel loves demolition derbies and said he’s been around them his entire life. He couldn’t wait until he turned 16 so he could finally get to compete in the derby for the first time. He won his first derby this summer at the Cheyenne County fair. He won by having the car that survived the longest.
Neitzel said his senior year is going by fast and he likes it that way.
For college, he plans to go to the University of Kansas and major in business. Even though he’s played sports throughout his high school career, he does not want to play sports in college so he can “be free.”
