Once a kid... always a kid
Kevin attended Mound Public High School (later the name was changed to Mound Westonka High School).
At high school, Kevin played football, basketball, was on the student council and was voted most versatile. (10.02.97 Broadcast Monday, KARE 11)
Kevin Sorbo: I was a good athlete and I could've been a very good athlete. I had good work ethics but I had sort of a bad attitude. I think that's part of being a kid, part of being a teenager. I had two older brothers that were trying to tell me how I should have done things and as a teenager you don't listen to that. You think you know everything; you don't know squat. (06.96 Answers for H:TLJ Forum)
His favorite sport was basketball, he was so obsessed that he used to chip the ice off the driveway in the middle of February to shoot hoops outside, in twenty below weather. (before 2002 Source unknown)
Kevin Sorbo: [My three brothers and I] we all grew up pretty athletic - we did real well playing football, baseball and basketball through the years. Because of our athleticism, golf was a game that was easy for us to pick up on. I never took any lessons, but I ended up being pretty good at it, and ended up playing on my high school golf team. (16.02.01 ABC Sports Online)
Q: Were you a hunk in high school? -- Kevin Sorbo: Well, I was always athletic. I wasn't All-American or anything, but I was good enought to start on the varsity teams. I wouldn't lift weights because I thought it would wreck my touch with basketball. I was 6 foot 3 by the time I was junior in high school, but I was a twig. (03.11.96 New York Sunday Daily News)
Kevin Sorbo: In school I was introduced to Greek Mythology when I was in junior high and I loved it. I think as a kid I was certainly fascinated with Zeus because he was larger than life and king of the gods. Also, Neptune with the oceans. (06.96 Answers for H:TLJ Forum)
Kevin Sorbo: I did plays all through junior high and high school. (07.95 Kidsday)
Q: How did you initially get involved in acting? -- Kevin Sorbo: There's really no easy way to say it, it's just something I always wanted to do and I pursued it. I did plays in high school. (03.04 dvd/authority online article)
Kevin Sorbo "looked like a geek - just like the rest of us," says account manager Mark Muth, the superhero's best friend since they grew up in Mound. At Mound High - where the 6'3" teen was 40 pounds shy of his current weight of 205 - Sorbo played basketball and baseball. (18.04.97 People)
Kevin Sorbo: I took glad drafting when I was in high school and I sketched my own house. I drew the plans for my own house, my dream house I wanted to build one day. (13.01.03 Cityline, Canada TV)
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