2020 Player Profile: Isiah Rico – Parkland @isiahrico @PHSTrojansFB
Tagged under: District 11, Player Previews
Billy Splain | September 3, 2020
Isiah Rico
Parkland High School
Class of: 2021
RB/DB
Jersey # 26
Ht: 5’9 Wt: 190
2019 stats: 1653 yards with 19 rushing touchdowns
Awards: Second-team all-area
Other sports: Track
Twitter: @isiahrico
Why do you play football?
Isiah: I grew up around it it’s all I knew when I was younger so I fell in love with it.
Do you have a favorite play you remember the most? Explain:
Isiah: It was my first play getting the ball Sophomore year in the first game on a punt return and I ended up taking it back 90 yards to break the school record. It just felt good to do what I knew I could do at a varsity level and prove it to everyone else.
what are your goals for this coming season?
Isiah: To break 2,000 yards and bring the district chip back to Parkland.
What is your favorite Pro team, any sport?
Isiah: The LA Lakers.
What sports movie would you watch every day if you had to pick one and why?
Isiah: Any given Sunday, the fight that they show in the movie is great.
Who is your mentor, the person you want to be like?
Isiah: My dad
Name a sport you’d love to play but can’t?
Isiah: I’d love to be able to like race cars, not NASCAR but the F1 races.
What is your most embarrassing sports moment?
Isiah: Would definitely have to be 8th-grade basketball missing a game-winning layup.
Is there anyone in your family, besides your parents, you could consider your biggest fan? Who, Why?
Isiah: My sister, she’s always at everything she even asks me to come with me when I workout sometimes just to cheer me up.
When you aren’t playing, practicing or training for sports, what is your go-to activity, and why?
Isiah: Usually playing with my pets or just watching movies.
What scares you the most?
Isiah: The thought of failing and not being who I know I can be.
Which one? Sheetz or Wawa?
Isiah: Wawa no question.
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