High School: Honorable mention all-state by Wisconsin Football Coaches Association as a junior and senior … first-team All-Wisconsin Valley Conference selection as a junior and senior … second-team all-conference as a sophomore … finished career with 166 tackles, 57 TFLs and 17 sacks … also a three-year letterwinner in both basketball and baseball … academic letterwinner and scholar athlete all four years … first-team all-state academic for basketball as a sophomore and second-team as a junior … team captain for both football and basketball as a senior … coach was Pete McAdams
Personal: Parents are Bruce and Sari Ruzek … volunteered with Big Brothers Big Sisters … served food and cleaned tables at Lincoln Senior Center and volunteered at United Way … helped coach youth basketball and baseball camps … hobbies include golfing, fishing, wakeboarding, waterskiing and playing video games
