When Drew Edmiston was 15, his dad got a job with a pharmaceutical company in Oklahoma. That meant Edmiston would have to leave St. Thomas More for his final three years of high school.

Fortunately for UL's football team, Edmiston later returned to Lafayette to kick for the Ragin' Cajuns.

The senior kicker, a preseason all-Sun Belt pick, recently took a few minutes to answer some questions from The Daily Advertiser about academics, life as a kicker and his future.

Question: What excites you the most about the upcoming football season?

Answer: It's kind of bittersweet. I was excited to start off this year but then also sad because this is our last year to do something great. I think we have the potential to turn things around like we should of in the past, but things just didn't work out. As a team we've been looking incredible over the summer and through fall practices.

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Joshua Parrott • jparrott@theadvertiser.com • August 21, 2008