Getting to know… Storm Deemer
Senior football player
Storm Deemer
Class: Senior
Major: Communication Studies
Minor: Integrative Media
Hometown: Washington,
NJ/Warren Hills High school
Position: Slot receiver
Q: What was the driving force for you to come to Wilkes?
A: It was the small school atmosphere; also I was still able to play football if I came here. I want to get into sports advertising where I can use both my major and minor in my career, as well as still be around sports.
Q: What are your hopes for the upcoming season?
A: I want to win the MAC championship and Keep the Mayors Cup here at Wilkes.
Q: When and why did you first begin playing football?
A: I started playing football when I was 7, my neighbor asked me to join the local team because I was fast and a good athlete and I’ve been playing ever since.
Q: Does the football team have anything they would like to inform the student body?
A: I would just want to get more students more involved in all the sporting events so we would have bigger and better crowds to supports all of our sports teams.
Q: Who would you say is the most influential person in your life? Why?
A: My brother is one of the hardest working people I’ve ever seen and has accomplished so much in his life already in his career field and as an athlete.
Q: A quote you live your life by?
A: “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, that’s when you’ll be successful.”
Q: Do you have any other sports/interests/hobbies off of the field?
A: Other than football I do a lot of snowboarding, hunting, and fishing.
Q: What does “Be Colonel” mean to you?
A: To me it means, being proud of who you are and knowing there is an army people behind you that will always have your back.
Q: If you could have dinner with a famous person, who would it be?
A: Biggie Smalls and Tupac… so we could squash the beef.
Purvit Patel is an Environmental Engineering with a minor in Political Science and Geology Class of 2018. He started as a sports photographer, and now...