Rizzuto excels on field, in class

Published 12:00 am Wednesday, October 4, 2000

DANIEL TYLER GOODEN / L’Observateur / October 4, 2000

LUTCHER – Lutcher High School senior Seth Rizzuto is starter both on the football field and in the classroom.

He is a member of the Beta Club and is a starting tight end for the Bulldogs.

Last year Rizzuto traveled to Detroit with his science team member and girlfriend Brooke Roussel, to present a project at the International Science Fair. Their project tested the validity of eyewitness reports and how reliablethey are.

Looking to graduate with a head start on college, Rizzuto is taking the college English class offered by River Parishes Community College at Lutcher High School. Testing out of the first math class, he will take Intermediate Englishand trigonometry next semester in preparation for either Louisiana State University or Nicholls State University.

If admitted to Nicholls Rizzuto plans to major in manufacturing technology, or if at LSU, electrical engineering.

“I always did stuff like that,” said Rizzuto. He and his family built both of hisolder sisters’ houses when they got married, he added.

For now Rizzuto is working to get through the year. With football andstudying, he’s trimmed back his working, mowing and doing a little yard work for his neighbors. His advice to new high school students, which he seems tofollow well himself, is “don’t get distracted.” There is a time for everything,he said, and in class you work hard, on the field you work hard, and when it’s time to play you laugh hard.

He is the son of John and Gwen Rizzuto of Grand Point.

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