Dante Lampkin Research Paper

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Imaging catching the winning pass in a football game. For Dante Lampkin that is what he does. He’s a wide receiver for Hempfield Area High School. Dante Lampkin is 17 years old. He a football player and has loved it since he was 5. Although he plays football every day he also loves his family. I learned a lot about Dante being about to talk with him about his family, school and plans after school, and his hobbies. Dante’s family is very important to him. Losing family is actually a fear of his he was born on July 19th, 2000. Dante was born at the Latrobe hospital. He didn’t live in Latrobe though he was only born there. He has lived here his whole life. Dante has moved, though it was only to another neighborhood. His family consists of his parents and his two sisters. Dante’s sisters are Sophia who is 19 and goes to Penn state and his younger …show more content…
Dante is into hunting and football. He loves football because he can hit people without getting in trouble. Dante also likes the competitive nature of the sport. Dante has been playing football since he was 5 and hunting with his grandpap since he was 8 years old. Dante concluded that he likes football also is because he likes that he can keep growing and learning and getting better and there is always a challenge. Dante realised while we were talking that he thinks his best personality trait is being open. Which I find true cause he was really open thru the whole interview. He also thinks he’s good at making jokes, which is probably why his favorite show is “Impractical Jokers”. Dante’s favorite movie genre is also comedy. Dante noted that his biggest pet peeve is ungrateful people. I think that is a really good pet peeve to have. He also said that the worst thing about being a teenager is all the expectations to do a career and be good at certain things. But he likes not having the stress of having to pay bills like an

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