Michael Muñoz

"It makes you feel good because you know that Mike's going to get the job done," says Moeller's senior quarterback, Brian Reisert. "You don't have to worry about if there is going to be a missed block on the side. You know that he is going to get his man and you just have to go from there."

Adds senior running back Marcus Blanks, "There have definitely been times where Mike has plowed people over and made a way for me to get there. I'm forever grateful."

"(Michael) definitely has a passion when he walks between the lines on Friday night or Saturday night. He is as competitive as anybody there is," says Moeller head coach Steve Kionne. "He is going to dominate his opponent. He is going to go to the whistle. He is going to put you on your back if he can. I mean, he is going to give you everything he has. He is a strong leader; in the huddle when things start to come apart, he is the one who settles things down and gets everyone to focus on what's going on."

"I'm not anywhere close to being there as a player at the peak or whatever," says Michael. "I just look at practice as every day you're getting a little better and working on things that I did wrong the last game that could maybe get me a step higher. You've just got to look at it as a staircase -- either you get better or you get worse. I just think if I try and strive to get better every day, then I can be a pretty good ball player."

"He is my big brother, we always kid around," says Michael of his father. "My mom sometimes gets mad at me and him for rough-housing too much. It's that kind of a relationship, where he works out with me. He'll push me and things like that, kind of like an older brother. He'll give me little things to think about and little lessons on life. I really enjoy that part from him, and on the other side he is my father and I respect him. He will guide me."

"Growing up without my father and never knowing my father, my mom made sure through Little League baseball and high school sports, really even college, that she was always at all our games," says Anthony Muñoz. "I knew how good that made me feel when I knew she was there. As a father, I always wanted to make sure that I was there because to me the family is so important, and being able to have that close-knit family. If that meant that I was going to be at every event, which usually meant most of them, that it would make a difference in our family, and that's what I took from my childhood. As people got older and sat around talking about their experiences with their dad, I wanted to make sure when our kids got older that they had those opportunities. I want them to be able to talk about positive experiences with their dad."