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In the spotlight: Austin Moore

By MIKE CAMUNAS, Times Staff Writer
Published February 1, 2008

SCHOOL: Sand Pine Elementary

GRADE: Fifth

SPORT: Played Wesley Chapel Athletic Association recreation soccer, competitive soccer for past three years with Wesley Chapel Flames, WCAA flag football since 2001, baseball for four years and lacrosse in 2007

REC TEAM: Flag football

ATHLETIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS: 2002 and 2007 flag football championship team, 2005 baseball championship team, 2007 FYSA Region C final four soccer team recorded four shutouts as the Flames goalie

ACADEMIC ACCOMPLISHMENT: Tropicana speech class winner

FAVORITE CLASS: Physical education

HARDEST CLASS: Language arts

FAVORITE MUSICIAN/BAND: Soulja Boy

IN YOUR CD PLAYER: Nickelback

WHAT'S ON YOUR IPOD BEFORE A GAME? Crank that (Soulja Boy)

FAVORITE MAGAZINE: ESPN the Magazine

FAVORITE MOVIE: Remember the Titans

A MOMENT IN HISTORY YOU WOULD HAVE LIKED TO WITNESS: 1950 United States vs. England soccer match (first major national team win)

SUPERSTITIONS: Always put on my right shin guard, then left shin guard, right sock, then left, then left shoe and finish with my right shoe

FAVORITE SPORTS TEAM: AC Milan

DO YOU HAVE ANY PETS? A dog named Baxter and four fish

DREAM VACATION DESTINATION: Italy

COOLEST PLACE YOU'VE BEEN: Myrtle Beach, S.C.

FAVORITE SPORTS MOMENT: Watching USF defeat West Virginia in football last fall.

FAVORITE SAYING: "Leave it all on the field."

WHOM DO YOU MOST ADMIRE? Italy's goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon

I WOULD LIKE TO GO TO DINNER WITH: Jeff Gordon, NASCAR driver

DREAM JOB: Goalie for the Italian national soccer team

Compiled by Mike Camunas, Times staff writer. Want your child in the spotlight? Nominees must be youths who participate in recreation sports. Send us your name to mcamunas@sptimes.comor call (352) 544-9480.

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