ISAIAH BRANDT-SIMS BIO
Brandt-Sims also stars on the school relay teams.
Photo by Todd Shurtleff
Wenatchee, Wash.
School: Wenatchee High School (enrollment 2,079)
Big Brother: Isaiah will team up with younger brother Christian – a rising sophomore – on the Panthers varsity football team this fall. The two teamed up on the Wenatchee 4x400 meter relay team in track last spring.
"I'd get really nervous and tense up and I would look over at him and he would be so calm," Christian said of his big brother.
Due to their two-year age difference, Isaiah and Christian have limited experience competing together – aside from a brief but dominant stint as linemen on a pee wee football team. There have been a few of adversarial moments, identifying laptops and foam swords as objects they have broke hitting each other with.
Christian is a promising-looking young athlete in his own right. He's all of 6-foot-2 already and is expected to be a threat at the wide receiver position for Wenatchee this season.
Brandt-Sims' choice of favorite athlete is much differentthan most high schoolers would choose.
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How dynamic is Brandt-Sims? In addition to being the face of the Panthers football program, he also had a leading hand in creating the team's website.
See it here.
Brandt-Sims can see himself pursuing that type of work in the future. He's certainly headed to the right school given Stanford's proximity to Silicon Valley.
"Later on I'd really like to be a game developer or create apps," Brandt-Sims. "That is something that really interests me."
Not a soccer guy: Brandt-Sims has found success with virtually every sport he has tried his hand at. In addition to football and track and field, he was a dominant wrestler as a youth and played basketball as a freshman and sophomore at Wenatchee High.
Soccer was another story.
"Once I figured out there were rules, I wasn't so good at that," Brandt-Sims joked.
Favorite athletes: When asked about his athletic role models, Brandt-Sims went off the board. Not LeBron James. Not Adrian Peterson. Not beloved Seahawks Marshawn Lynch or Russell Wilson.
Instead, he opted for former Wenatchee football/track and field standouts and twin brothers Jacob and Lucas Sealby. The Sealby twins moved on to Washington State, where they have continued competing in both sports.
"I always looked up to them," Brandt-Sims said. "They were really hard workers."
