Matthew Vest '24 Recruiting Profile

Hi, My name is Matthew Vest and a member of the class of 2024 at Iowa High school.  I have a new found love of the game of Football.  Growing up, I played soccer from the age 6.  Since my high school does not have soccer program, so I joined the Football and Baseball Teams.  Being green in two new sports, I gravitated to the kicking position in football.  I became the starting Varsity Kicker at Iowa in the season of the 2021-2022, where I broke the school single season PAT record with 48 and earning a spot on the All-District Team (second team kicker).  It’s something that has got into my Blood and it’s all I want to do and go as far as I can!  It will take a lot of hard work, but that’s something I can and will DO.

There are a few quotes I go by in life.  "I'm still a work in progress" is one  I go by when practice gets hard and it's not going in my favor.  Another is ”Hard work beats talent".  I go by this one because I had to fight for my varsity spot.  I practiced super hard to earn and maintain it. I believe that these quotes have positively affected my mentality and my actions towards myself and the game I'm preforming in.