Gym Rats’ Lamar puts speed to good use on football field Published May 3, 2012 By Mike W. Ray Tinker Public Affairs TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. -- It is said that dynamite comes in small packages. Taylor Lamar fits that description. Lamar is a speedster who plays both sides of the ball for the Gym Rats flag football team. He is an adept rusher, a pass receiver who has caught several touchdown passes, and in a March 27 game he intercepted two passes, one of which he ran back for a TD. "From an athletic perspective, people often underestimate the short guy," says Lamar, who's 5'6" and weighs 165 pounds. He was a member of the Gym Rats teams that won the base flag football fall championship in 2009 and repeated in 2010. Lamar, 27, was born and reared in Abilene, Texas, where he played baseball, basketball, and receiver on the Abilene Cooper 5A high school football team. He stayed in Abilene to attend Hardin-Simmons University. He started at 2nd base for three years for the Cowboys, and was an all-conference selection during his senior year. Lamar was graduated in 2008 with a double major in Accounting and Finance. While finishing college he interned at Dyess AFB with the Air Force Audit Agency. Offered a job with the AFAA after his internship, he chose Tinker AFB; his family lives in Abilene and many of his friends lived in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex, "so Tinker was a good fit." He moved to Oklahoma almost four years ago, in July 2008. Lamar is one of approximately 30 auditors in the Tinker AFAA office, in Bldg. 510. "We use a systematic methodology to analyze performance, processes, procedures and activities, with a goal of identify problem areas and recommending solutions."