Tomas Quiroz kicks, does ballet, sings, plays guitar and is St. Francis’ most interesting kid
LA Times
AUG. 22, 2016 3:27 PM PT
When it comes to most interesting teenagers on a football team, St. Francis has a top candidate in sophomore Tomas Quiroz, who’s a kicker for the junior varsity team.
Since he was 2, he has been training in ballet. Two summers ago, he spent five days a week, five hours a day at the Joffrey Ballet Academy in Chicago.
His football coaches have been using the word pirouette on occasion. His teammates even tried to imitate him doing their own ballet.
“It was so wrong,” he said.
Ballet has made him one of the most flexible players on the team and helped his kicking, he said. He trains 10 to 15 hours a week at a dance studio.
He also plays soccer, but his time commitment to theatre at St. Francis didn’t allow him to be on the soccer. He got to dance, sing and do some ballet when the school had a production of “A Chorus Line.”
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Asked what he likes about ballet, the 5-foot-10, 150-pound Quiroz said, “With all the stress in life you leave it at the door and express with dance.”
His dream would be to be the kicker for the New York Giants, then be a guest ballet dancer at the American Ballet Theatre.
