2021 PFN Player Profile: Derek Burk – Deer Lakes @DerekBurk_ @tim_burk @dlhslancerland @DeerLakesAth

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Billy Splain | August 4, 2021

Derek Burk
Deer Lakes
Class Of 2024
Quarterback
Jersey # 11
HT/WT 6’1 188
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Twitter @DerekBurk_

Why do you play football?
Because of the love for the game. I want to follow in my dads footsteps. He was the main reason I fell in love with football. Him graduating at Deer Lakes and being the quarterback there just makes me love the game.

Who is your favorite sports star and why?
I would say Tom Brady because of his competitive edge, drive, and dedication to the game. He goes back year after year proving everyone wrong and winning another championship.

Do you have a favorite play you remember the most? Explain:
My favorite play would probably be against North Catholic. I got pressured around the outsides so I stepped up and scrambled. With the D end and linebacker right next to me I threw across my body to Brandon College who ended up scoring.

What are your goals for this coming season?
My goals for this season is to make playoffs. At my school a lot of people hate on the football team and just being able to prove them wrong would be amazing. But my goals personally are to make all conference, get ranked on a recruiting website, and get my first offer.

What is your favorite Pro team, any sport?
Being from Pittsburgh I feel like your forced to like the steelers, so i would say them for my favorite team.

What game, yours, college or pro, was your favorite game and why?
My favorite game was from a while back when Pitt played Penn state at Heinz field. Pitt ended up winning that game and me liking Pitt a lot more than penn state love seeing that atmosphere and Pitt winning.

What sports movie would you watch every day if you had to pick one and why?
I would choose either Varsity blues or Remember the titans. Both of those movies are comical and have good football stories to go with it.

If your mom and dad are screaming at you from the stands, what is it they usually yell?
My dad would be cussing me out and screaming while my mom just sat there minding her own business.

Who is your mentor, the person you want to be like?
My dad is my mentor because he did grow up in deer lakes and now is my coach. But him being a quarterback as well just makes it that much easier to choose him to look up to.

Name a sport you’d love to play but can’t:
I would say hockey because of the pace of the game and the physicality it takes to be great. Also how one person can change the game and you would never expect from them.

What is your most embarrassing sports moment?

Is there anyone in your family, besides your parents, you could consider your biggest fan? Who, Why?
I would say my pap. He is always at everyone of my games even if that means leaving work early. Some of the time he even comes to practices to see how thing are going. He would know because he coached at Deer Lakes too.

When you aren’t playing, practicing or training for sports, what is your go to activity and why?
I would probably say video games. Just relaxing and talking to my boys is just amazing because of the memories it creates.

What is your favorite football memory to date?
My favorite football memory is when we made the playoffs for the second time in school history. When that happened the crowd erupted and stormed the field. For most schools that isn’t that big but for us it was a crazy feeling.

What is your favorite play to run?
There is nothing really specific but my two favorite routes to throw would be a dig and post because my receivers do a great job at getting open on those routes.

What scares you the most?
What scares me the most is probably getting ready to throw and a free D end comes and puts his helmet in my back.

Music of choice:
While working out I would choose to listen to rap but just listening to music would be country.

What was your favorite gift as a little boy? Why?
My favorite toy was definitely WWE action figures. I loved having those toys around to play with while watching it.

What restaurant is your go to when you need a big meal?
Longhorn steak house would be my choice of place and get a ribeye steak.

Which one? Sheetz or Wawa
Sheetz

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