Football isn’t the only sport Akeem Dent is good at.

While the redshirt sophomore linebacker is excellent at pursuing the ball, he’s also pretty good at another sport he participated in over the summer.

That would be bowling.

Dent said he spent much of his free time bonding with his teammates, as they would go to the bowling alley and compete against each other.

“It was almost every night,” Dent said.

He said he couldn’t remember what his bowling average was, but did remember his high score.

“The highest I’ve ever bowled is about 230,” Dent said. “It was probably luck for that one day.”

However, Dent has one skeptic, as head coach Mark Richt seemed to think 230 might have been a little too high for Dent.

“Hmm, I don’t know if I believe that,” Richt said.

Regardless if Dent bowled a 230 or not, he claims he’s not even the best bowler on the team.

“It’s probably Knowshon (Moreno),” Dent said.

Moreno wouldn’t admit he was the best, but did say the football team is full of some good bowlers.

“I mean, there are a lot of good bowlers on the team,” Moreno said. “Reshad Jones is pretty good, and my boy and partner Demarcus Dobbs is pretty good. We’re tag team champions.”

While bowling and football don’t seem like they go hand in hand, Dent said he uses vision to approach bowling the same as he does in football.

“When you think about it, in bowling the main thing is that my eyes are focused on the target that I’m trying to hit,” Dent said. “Being a linebacker, it’s about what you can see. You have to be able to read a puller, a backfield set and everything. You have to be able to take charge at linebacker.”

And that’s what Dent did last season at the Sam linebacker spot. He started five of 13 games and racked up 36 tackles.

Off the field, Dent said he hopes to eventually tie his academic major into a future career.

He is majoring in housing and consumer economics, but he originally wanted to do something in architecture. However, the University only offered landscape architecture and Dent said he wanted to do something with buildings.

“I decided to change to housing and consumer economics so I could get involved with real estate, be like a broker and sell homes to less fortunate families and things like that,” Dent said.

Dent said he has always involved himself with charity and said he loves doing the summer charities Richt encourages the team participate in, such as Camp Sunshine, Habitat for Humanity and Countdown to Kickoff.

For Dent, he said it’s about giving back to not only the less fortunate, but for those that have shown support to him and for his team.

“We have people that come out and try to support us and all we want to do is give back and support them and show our thanks and appreciation,” he said.