NEWSLINE STORY
published May-June 2015
Junior Profile: Dylan Holmberg
I’ll be Back
by Aleena Lepak, Junior Promotion Director
It all started on a warm sunny day in Tampa, Florida. Dylan Holmberg was helping his mom with the dishes when he saw his dad and a friend outside. He asked his mom what they were doing and she replied, “playing horseshoes.”
Intrigued, Dylan went outside to give it a try. His first shoe was a ringer and the sport has stuck with him ever since.
Three years later, at the age of 14, Dylan is still in love with the sport. He practices every day in his backyard, keeping his eyes focused on the stake, keeping his mind focused on horseshoes. His practice has paid off. He has won the Florida Junior Boys state title three years in a row, and at his first-ever World Tournament in 2012, he made the Boys Championship class and finished second. Dylan’s friends think that his accomplishments are awesome. They see him on the news, getting interviewed, and it has interested them to go to tournaments with him.
When he isn’t practicing or hanging with his friends, Dylan has a newspaper run of about 500 papers. At school he enjoys physical education, math, science, language arts and music. When he grows up, Dylan wants to be a construction worker, inspired by his Dad who is a handy man. With sincere admiration in his voice, Dylan’s immediate response to being asked about his hero was: “Dad is my hero. He does everything for me. Whatever he can, he will do it.”
His family is one of the most important things to him, and he hopes to one day get them involved in horseshoes as well. Though we haven’t seen him at the World Tournament recently, he has big plans of returning. “I miss all y’all and wish I could go, but I promise to come back.”
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