Meet The Starters

KE: What are your strengths? My strengths are my speed and vision. KE: Who are your sports idols? I have 2 major sports idols that I enjoy listening to and watching: Kam Chancellor and Ray Lewis. KE: When and why did you start playing football? I started to play football in the 5th grade for my park board team. I started playing because I loved watching it and I wanted to try it. An...

KE: When did you start playing soccer?  I started playing soccer when I was five years old, because every kid plays soccer when they are little but I really liked it so stayed with it. KE: Who is your sports idol? Lionel Messi. He is amazing! KE: What are your stregnths as a player? I’d say my strengths are speed, technical skills (dribbling), and field vision.

KE: What are your strengths as a runner? What I bring to the team, I would say, is a lot of hype, because I know how to get people excited for the race. KE: What are some of your other favorite sports? Well the only other sport I do is track and field, which I don’t really like. So, my favorite sport is cross country. KE: Who is your sports idol? Jack Boase. Boasey has an amazing work ...

KE: When did you start running? I started running CC in 10th grade at Benilde, so I was a little bit of a late-comer but that’s ok. I started CC cause I already did distance in track since 7th grade, and I knew a lot of the girls from that so I thought it would be an easy transition. Plus Claudia [Elsenbast] kept yelling at me to join, so I eventually gave into it. KE: What are some of your o...

KE: When did you start playing soccer? I started playing when I was about 5 years old. I’ve been playing it all my life.  It’s kind of part of my childhood. I was so young [and] my parents just signed me up for it, but I just love sports, and when I tried it I really liked it, [so] it became one of my favorite sports very quickly. KE: What is your favorite thing about playing soccer?   My ...

KE: Why did you start swimming? I started swim team my freshman year. I joined because I had been on a swim team since I was 5 years old, and I love the sport. KE: What is your pregame routine? We bring speakers on the bus and play music and get the whole team pumped and ready to go. But during warm ups and especially right before your race, that’s when you need to start envisioning what you are ...

KE: What is your pregame and postgame routine? Coach Phong (Luong) gives us the scouting report for the other team and a pep talk and then we cheer as a team. If we win, we usually all go to dairy queen as a team. KE: What is your favorite thing about volleyball?  My favorite thing is spending time with all of the girls and winning really big games, and creating friendships with people I...

KE: What is your pregame and postgame routine? Before every match we always do a chant in german. We have done it for years to get people excited. KE: Who is your sports idol? She’s not a tennis player, but I have always loved Lindsay Vaughn because I love skiing and she’s always done well through injuries. She had the same injury that I had while skiing, and [she] recovered and kept skii...