Patrick Conery is a starting lineman for the Penn Kingsmen Football team. He also is a part of the Penn Wrestling team.
How do you feel you face adversity?
I feel like I face adversity when I mess up in practice and in games and if we are losing
What do you think you contribute most to Penn football?
“Only as a junior I feel like I contribute leadership to the kids in my class and the class below mine and I always try to hype up the team.”
How do you prepare for a game?
“I prepare first by hydrating the entire week, and then gameday I get my mind right by listening to music and blocking out all of thoughts in my head.”
What is your number one goal for this football season?
“My #1 goal is to win NIC and win first round of sectionals, but we need to take it week by week.”
Who is your idol and why?
“My idol is Brian Cushing because watching his style of football is just different, he hits super hard, and he isn’t scared of anything on the field, but if I had to pick someone based off their character I would pick Coach Harper just because he wants the best for me and everyone else and he has helped me build my character.”
What three words would you use to describe yourself?
“Discipline, Enthusiastic, Patient”
If you had all the money imaginable, what’s the first thing you would buy?
” If I had all of the money in the world, I would donate it to cancer research.”
What teammates of yours stand out to you?
” Kellen Watson, Colden Hernandez, Malachi Evans.”
If you could have dinner with three people alive or dead who would they be and why?
” I would want to have dinner with Travis Scott, he is one of my favorite rappers, Brian Cushing, my biggest football idol, Nick Saban, because he is one of if not the GOAT coach.”
How has football affected your life in negative ways?
” Football has affected me in negative ways and one of them was tearing my labrum and having to miss a few games because of it, and losing football games, especially regional championship when we lost to crown point it really brought me down.”
