Soccer
Favorite athlete: Chase Utley
Favorite team: Philadelphia Phillies
Favorite memory competing in sports: Winning in overtime to reach the state playoffs my junior year.
Most embarrassing/funnies thing that has happened while competing in sports: Tripping over third base on an almost inside the park home run in fifth grade baseball.
Music on iPod: I appreciate and listen to a wide variety of music, but my favorite group would have to be Coldplay.
Future plans: Go to a four-year college and major in nuclear or environmental engineering.
Words to live by: “The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.”
On goal before turning 30: Travel to Europe and go to a Liverpool game in England.
By Mary Jane Souder
Adam Remick might not do it all, but the Central Bucks South senior sure comes mighty close.
A three-year starter and co-captain for the SOL Continental Conference champion Titans’ soccer team, Remick also excels in the classroom. The owner of a 4.23 GPA, he is enrolled in three AP classes and is a member of the National Honor Society.
Remick is serving as treasurer of CB South’s student council for the fourth consecutive year, and he also happens to be gifted musically. A member of both the school’s select chamber and men’s ensemble, Remick sang the National Anthem at South’s last two home football games.
For good measure, he is the leader of Titan Terror, a CB South fan group with its own FACEBOOK page (and 553 members), and he singlehandedly led the pep rally prior to the school’s annual homecoming game.
“I really enjoy being part of the school and getting involved and making a difference in the school,” Remick said. “I really enjoy that stuff.”
That much is clear.
When it came time for the student council to promote the Bucks County Seat Belt Initiative, Remick and three of his friends decided to create a rap video, compiling a spinoff of Tyga’s “Rack City” entitled “Belt City.”
So popular was the video that it not only is approaching four thousand views on YouTube, it also earned Remick and his three fellow members of the Safety Allstarz an award from the Transportation Management Association during a recent banquet at Parx Casino.
It apparently also inspired students to start using their seat belts as CB South walked away with both awards in the contest, beating out 25 high schools in its division in both the highest percentage of students wearing seatbelts at the close of the school year (97 percent) and the largest increase in wearing seat belts from the beginning to the end of the year (84 to 97 percent).
“We had signs all around school,” Remick said. “At the end of the day, we would have our mascot outside holding signs with different messages about putting your seat belt on.
“We were the first school to ever win both categories.”
With all of his activities, it’s hard to imagine that Remick would have time to take soccer all that seriously, but he’s found a way.
“Sometimes you look around and say, ‘Where’s Adam?’” South soccer coach Don Brady said. “You know Adam is probably in the choir room getting ready for something or doing something with Titan Council, but you know he’s going to be there. There’s never a question that soccer is a priority for him.”
Remick also played basketball but – despite earning a spot on varsity as a sophomore – decided to give it up after that season to focus on soccer. The senior captain played an integral role in the Titans’ success this fall.
“I have four teammates – Brendan Rennie, Matt Gilbert, Connor Stackhouse and Russ Heist – that have been on my (Warrington United) club team since second grade,” said Remick, noting that even more of his high school teammates are members of the same club squad “Most club teams don’t stay together. We’re probably one of the only teams that are still together since our younger years.
“That’s really helped our team because we’ve all been on varsity since sophomore year, and we’ve played together on club all throughout high school, so we’re always playing together. This year we were all seniors, we all started, and we really had a lot of chemistry. That’s one of the reasons we had such a great season.”
This fall’s conference title was the first ever in boys’ soccer for CB South.
“That’s really been our goal the last three years since we were sophomores,” Remick said. “Our focus was always to get that banner up in the gym that says Suburban One Continental Conference champions. Almost every other sport has a banner up in the gym for winning a championship at least once, and soccer hasn’t had one. Now we can finally get one up there.”
Remick was one of the team’s unsung heroes, anchoring the defense at left back.
“The only time he came off the field was because of an injury, and that didn’t keep him down for long,” Brady said. “He’s a really strong kid, and he defends well.
“I know on his club he doesn’t like to play outside back, but he has emerged as a formidable outside left back. He could tackle, and he knew how to get forward. One of the trends now for outside backs is to get forward, and he can serve long balls.”
In addition, Remick was a respected leader.
“He has this quality – it’s kind of hard to describe,” Brady said. “He’s not very outspoken, but kids really look up to him, and I’d say it was the same way in the school building as well.”
Brady pointed to the response of South’s student body during the pep rally as an example of Remick’s ability to lead.
“I watched him lead a pep rally of 1800 kids in the gym,” the Titans’ coach said. “You don’t see that. Usually you have a teacher doing that, and he just did it all by himself from the get-go, trying to fire kids up, leading them through some cheers and also leading the activities.”
Remick made it sound almost effortless.
“Since I’m involved in student council, I helped plan the pep rally,” he said. “The teachers are all about having students run stuff because they think students will be more intrigued if a student is standing up there instead of a teacher.
“They approached me a couple of days before the pep rally, and I said, sure. I helped plan it, so I knew everything that was going on.”
His experience as treasurer of student council has given him ample public speaking experience, and when it came to leading the activities, Remick had no trouble getting the students on board.
“We did a tug of war, and we also had a chariot race that was very hectic,” he said. “It was people on scooters getting pulled around the gym by noodles. It was pretty funny.”
Remick takes pride that the Titan Terror student section is the largest it’s ever been, due in no small part to the fact that a concerted effort has been made to include students of all grades.
As for next year, Remick is uncertain where he will be going or if he will be playing soccer. With a college showcase in Bethesda, Md., on the horizon as well as several tournaments, Remick will be deciding within the next several weeks whether collegiate soccer will be part of his future.
Remick, who plans to major in engineering, has already been accepted at Penn State, and he is in the midst of completing his application for PSU’s Schreyer Honors College, an arduous process that includes writing three full essays. While Penn State admits eight thousand freshmen each year, only 300 freshmen are accepted into Schreyer Honors College.
“That’s a goal I’ve been working towards,” Remick said. “I’ve been working on the application for a couple of months.
“I really like Penn State. I’ve always been a huge Penn State fan my whole life. If I get into Scheyer’s, that’s my top choice right now.”
According to his coach, Remick is the consummate student-athlete.
“Adam is a shy, reserved young man who promotes a positive influence to his teammates and school,” Brady said. “He is a competitive motivator and leader without all the ‘in-your-face’ mentality.
“He is respected by his teammates, classmates, teachers and coaches who look to Adam to get things done on and off the field.”
Remick – who points to his parents at his role models – has somehow found a way to do it all and do it all the right way.
