During the 2024-25 academic year, Lakeland athletics will feature a student-athlete from one of its eight athletic programs in a "student-athlete spotlight" segment. Student-athlete spotlights can be found on the Lakeland athletics website and on the Lakers' Facebook and Twitter/X accounts. Archived student-athlete spotlights can be found HERE.

Athlete Name: Till Oppermann
Team: Men's Soccer
Year: Sophomore
Hometown: Bordesholm, Germany 
High School: Alexander von Humboldt School


Get to know, Till:

What is something you’ve always wanted to learn?
Learn to fly.

Who is your favorite sports team?
Holstein Kiel.

What is your go-to board game?
Monopoly.

Do you have any nicknames?
Tillopp.

What is your favorite social media platform?
Snapchat.

What is your favorite ice cream flavor?
Cookies and Creme.

Do you have any hidden talents?
I can solve a Rubiks Cube.

What is your favorite restaurant?
Villa Coloniale, (Germany), and Zia Maria, (Little-Italy, Cleveland).

Who inspires you?
My father.

What is one rule you live by?
I live my life like I would die tomorrow.

What was your first job?
I delivered newpapers in Germany.

Outside of your sport, what are your favorite hobbies?
Playing Poker.

What is one sport you’ve never played, but wish you could?
Baseball.

If your life had a theme song, what would it be?
In Heaven Theres no Beer, by Roberto Blanco.

What is your favorite place you’ve traveled to?
Crete, Greece, and New York City.

If you could have a super power what would it be?
To fly.

What is your favorite aspect of Lakeland?
The athletics department.

Where do you see yourself in five years?
Clinical psychologist in America or Germany.