Getting To Know: Kent State's Brian Lainhart

2009 Football Summer Preview: Getting To Know...

The 2009 MAC Football season is quickly approaching and as part of our preview we would like to give you an inside look into the lives of our student-athletes. You can find the schedule of student-athletes we will preview by scrolling to the bottom of the page or by clicking the “Getting To Know” advertisement on the front of our homepage or football page. You can also stay up-to-date with our player features via Twitter and Facebook.

Be sure to visit www.mac-sports.com on Friday, July 31st to watch live video interviews with the league’s head coaches and student-athletes as we kick off the season with our 2009 MAC Football Preview at Detroit’s Ford Field.

Getting To Know: Kent State's Brian Lainhart

Brian Lainhart is a junior safety for the Kent State Golden Flashes. Lainhart emerged as one of conference’s top defensive players, earning second team All-MAC honors last season. He was a first team All-MAC selection by Phil Steele’s Magazine and garnered team’s Outstanding Defensive Back Award. His six interceptions led the MAC and were tied for seventh in the nation. The total was also fourth in Kent State’s single-season annals. He finished seventh in the MAC and tied for 39th nationally with 8.8 tackles per game. Lainhart’s 106 stops were second-most on team. Get to know more about the Kent State safety by reading below...

1. Why did you choose Kent State?

I choose Kent State because coach Martin and the rest of the coaching staff believed in me      and it was my only division I offer.

 

2. What do you still hope to accomplish in the future?

I hope to win a MAC championship and a bowl game.

 

3. What are your goals for this season?

My goals for this season are to win the MAC and have the top ranked defense.

 

4. How did you get started playing football?

My Dad got me hooked on football when I was young.

 

5. What is your favorite beverage/food/dessert?

My favorite food is seafood, kool aid is my favorite drink and ice cream is my favorite desert.

 

6. If you can have one animal be extinct, which would it be?

I would like to have Poodles be extinct.

 

7. What were you up to this summer?

I have been getting ready for the season and taking a class this summer.

 

8. What is your greatest fear?

My greatest fear is failing at anything I do.

 

9. When you were a little kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?

When I was little I always wanted to play in the NFL.

 

10. Which three people (dead or alive) would you invite to dinner?

I would invite Jesus, Tiger Woods and Emmitt Smith to dinner.

           

11. What would your ideal job be? (outside of playing sports professionally)

My ideal job would be to be the President of the United States.

 

12. What was your youth sports highlight?

My youth sports highlight was going to the Youth Football Superbowl.

 

13. What’s the best part of being a Division I athlete?

The best part of being a Division I athlete is the free education

 

14. What are your pregame rituals?

Before our games I listen to my iPod, get stretched and spatted.

 

15. What is your strangest superstition?

My strangest superstition is that I wear the same pair of black socks for every game.

 

16. What is your favorite TV show? Why?

My favorite TV show is Fresh Prince of Bel Air because it’s funny.

 

17. Besides football, what sport would you have pursued for a college scholarship?

I would have pursued baseball for a college scholarship.

 

18.The artist that takes up most of my iPod...

Fabulous is the artist that takes up most of my iPod.

 

19. What is your favorite holiday?

Christmas is my favorite holiday.

 

20. What is your most memorable moment in sports, either as an athlete or as a sports fan?

Winning the High School State championship in football was most memorable moment in sports.

 

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2009 MAC Football Summer Preview: Getting To Know...
July 1: Tyler Sheehan, QB, Bowling Green
July 2: Austin Pritchard, LB, Western Michigan
July 3: Eugene Jarvis, RB, Kent State
July 4: Frank Zombo, DL, Central Michigan
July 5: James Starks, RB, Buffalo
July 6: David Bryant, S, Northern Illinois
July 7: Chris Jacquemain, QB, Akron
July 8: Barry Church, DB, Toledo
July 9: Taylor Price, WR, Ohio
July 10: Ryan Downard, DB, Eastern Michigan
July 11: Daniel Raudabaugh, QB, Miami
July 12: MiQuale Lewis, RB, Ball State
July 13: Andre Neblett, DL, Temple
July 14: Tim Hiller, QB, Western Michigan
July 15: Jahmal Brown, DB, Bowling Green
July 16: Dan LeFevour, QB, Central Michigan
July 17: Brian Lainhart, DB, Kent State
July 18: Chandler Harnish, QB, Northern Illinois
July 19: Almondo Sewell, DT, Akron
July 20: Aaron Opelt, QB, Toledo
July 21: Noah Keller, LB, Ohio
July 22: Andy Schmitt, QB, Eastern Michigan
July 23: Jordan Gafford, S, Miami
July 24: Brandon Crawford, DL, Ball State
July 25: Mike Newton, DB, Buffalo
July 26: Dominique Harris, DB, Temple