SLIPPERY ROCK — Bo Jackson has nothing on Derrick Orloski.

Bo may have known many sports, butOrloski has actually played them.

The Slippery Rock High senior is a whirling dervish of activity.

Rest is not an option. If there is a sport offered by the school district, Orloski has played it.

Wrestling? Check. Golf? Check. Soccer? Check. Swimming? Check. Football, basketball, baseball, track and field? Check on those, too.

"I think I just wanted to be as active as I could," Orloski said. "I can't just sit down and do nothing. I have to be doing something."

These days Orloski specializes in football, basketball and baseball. He and classmate Nick Cress became the first Slippery Rock athletes in school history to be members of playoff teams in three sports in the same school year.

Orloski made his fifth consecutive sports season trip to the postseason this fall with the football team and will try to keep that streak alive this winter as a guard on the basketball team.

"That means a lot to me," Orloski said. "It shows how good our teams have been, too. ... I don't like to lose."

Orloski is also adverse to downtime.

During the summer, Orloski hit the weight room early in the morning for the football team, traveled to the basketball court for an open gym, went to his landscaping job in the afternoon and played American Legion baseball in the evening.

During the fall, as his football team was winning games and making a deep push into the District 10 playoffs, Orloski went to school, football practice, then to his job at a fast-food restaurant until midnight.

"I was pretty tired every week," Orloski said.

It didn't show on the football field.

Orloski caught a team-high 43 passes for 682 yards and seven touchdowns. The next closest receiver on the roster had nine receptions.

"Going into the season, our goal was to try to get the ball to him 50 times," said Slippery Rock High football coach Clyde Conti. "I thought we were going to have to throw the ball a lot more than we did. Had he played in an offense that emphasized the pass more, he could have caught 60 or more passes. He came up big, and he always did very well against the quality-type teams."

On the basketball court, Orloski will be counted on this season to pick up the slack caused by three graduation losses. When Zack Ejzak, Brian Kelly and Matt Shearer wrapped up their careers, they took 71 percent of the offense with them.

But Orloski carried the Rockets last year when Kelly and Shearer were sidelined. He averaged 14 points per game down the stretch, including a 20-point night againstPIAA Class AAA semifinalist General McLane in the District 10 playoffs.

It didn't take long for new Slippery Rock boys basketball coach Phil Bushre to tell what kind of motor Orloski possessed.

"He's the type of kid who would run through a brick wall if you asked him to," Bushre said.

That hard-nosed demeanor came from growing up with two older brothers who also were ultracompetitive.

Eldest brother Clint enjoyed several standout seasons on the track and field team at Slippery Rock. Middle brother Doug is playing football at Westminster College.

As if Orloski didn't have enough to do, on Dec. 1 he bagged a 5-point buck while hunting before basketball practice.

When his hectic high school career concludes, Orloski plans to join his brother Doug on the football field at Westminster.

No matter what Orloski chooses to do, Conti can sum up how he will approach it in one succinct phrase.

"Derrick Orloski is a 100 percenter," the coach said.