Five Questions With Erich DeMars

Erich DeMars is an 18-year-old football player from Chatham, Ontario, who recently completed his final season with the Chatham-Kent Cougars Senior Varsity football team.

A John McGregor Secondary School graduate, DeMars currently attends the University of Waterloo. This season, DeMars was one of the Cougars’ top tacklers, in his 8th season with the organization.

Below are Erich DeMars answers to CKSN’s Five Questions:

1. What is your career sports highlight/top memory?

My top career memory would have to be the trip to Nipissing I took with the 2012 Cougars. It was just a long 2 day trip and it’s one of the best games I have had in my career. It was just one of those games where you just spent forever on a bus and came out and just left it all out there after the long trip.

2. Who is your favourite professional sports team and athlete?

My favourite professional team would have to the Baltimore Ravens, with my favourite athlete being Terrell Suggs.

3. If you could achieve one thing/goal in sports, what would it be?

My one regret over the course of my football career is never having won a championship, so that would have to be the one thing I would want to achieve to just win a championship.

4. Who has been your biggest sports influence and why?

My biggest influence on the field would have to be my dad. He helped coach the teams that I was on for years and he always taught me to keep playing until the end and to never doubt myself on the field. He always encouraged me to play and he is the reason that I made it as far as I did in football.

5. What do you love most about playing sports?

The thing I love most about sport is definitely the competitive nature of them. I love to compete and just have the ability to just show how hard you work at your sport and it’s the ultimate test of who has worked harder and who wants to win more. And that’s just something that I love about sports.

Five Questions is a weekly feature on the Chatham-Kent Sports Network. We’ll ask athletes from across Chatham-Kent Five Questions, and post their answers every week. If you know an athlete or coach we should question, or you’re an athlete or coach who would like to participate in “Five Questions,” please email us at ian@cksn.ca.