2008 Woodie Awards
Know Your Knights: Women's B-Ball
Amber Gordon and Mary Konecknik
Issue date: 1/28/08 Section: Features
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Why did you get involved in basketball?
Monica: "I started playing basketball and I loved it."
Alicia: "It's something fun and exciting to do."
Rachel: "In sixth grade the basketball team needed girls, so they recruited me."
Are there any other sports you play?
M: "Cross-Country."
A: "Soccer and lacrosse."
R: "Soccer and track."
What is your favorite part about being a basketball player?
Monica and Alicia: "Being part of the team."
R: "The team and stuffing the crap out of people."
What is your favorite memory of basketball?
M: "All the good times with the team."
A: "Florida trip freshmen year."
R: "Michelle's three-point buzzer-beater versus SLU."
What position do you play?
Monica and Alicia: "Guard."
R: "All of them."
What is your hometown?
M: "Sandwich, MA."
A: "Cortland, NY."
R: "Holliston, MA."
When are your birthdays?
M: "February 20."
A: "December 21."
R: "April 13."
What is your major?
M: "Biology with a minor in psychology and a concentration in physical therapy."
A: "Mechanical engineering with a minor in math."
R: "Civil engineering with a concentration in construction management and a MBA."
What is your favorite movie?
M: "Love of Basketball and Boondock Saints."
A: "A League of their Own."
R: "I like all movies."
What is your favorite song?
M: "I like a lot of different music."
A: "'Whoa Now' by B-Rich."
R: "The Ross 3 rendition of Journey's 'Don't Stop Believing.'"
What is your favorite food?
M: "Chicken Parmesan."
A: "Everything."
R: "Goldfish and Cheez-itz."
What is the funniest pick up line that you have used, had used on you, or have heard?
M: "'Did it hurt?? When we fell from heaven?'"
A: "'Did you just fart because you just blew me away.'"
R: "'Are you a parking ticket? Because you've got fine written all over you.'"
What is your favorite color?
Monica and Alicia: "Blue."
R: "Green, the color of the bus."
What is your favorite kind of car?
M: "944 Porsche."
A: "1988 Celebrity."
R: "The bus, aka the Jeep."
What is the most embarrassing moment on or off the court?
M: "Falling twice in the SLU game last year."
A: "Waiting for my 'meeting' at 5 in the morning in a place with no entry."
R: "Being dropped off the centipede thing at a rope challenge course."
What is the best thing to do on the weekends?
Monica and Alicia: "Hang out with friends."
R: "Hang with the team and the basketball groupies after games.
If there were one celebrity that you could go on a date with, who would it be, where would you go and what would you do?
M: "Play basketball with J. J. Riddick."
A: "Watch Encore with George Clooney in the townhouses because he is in the spotlight for January."
R: "Go to the BK Lounge with Dane Cook."
If you could trade places with someone for one day, who would it be and why?
M: "Victoria Beckham so I could be married to David Beckham for a day."
A: "Mickala Henson so I can block shots instead of being blocked."
R: "Katie Goldberg so I feel welcome when I crash Chanukah parties."
What is the best piece of advice you have received so far?
M: "'Live each day like it's your last.'"
A: "'You have to make your own fun.'"
R: "'Your body can handle it, it's all mental.'"
What are your plans for after college?
M: "Grad school for physical therapy."
A: "Get a job."
R: "MBA then get a job."
What is the best experience you have had at Clarkson?
M: "Being on the team and making friends."
A: "Meeting new people."
R: "Frequent visits to Ross 3."
If the student body could know one thing about you that they don't already, what would it be?
M: "I have a twin."
A: "I tend to pass out every few years having started in kindergarten."
R: "On Tuesdays, I let my inner gangster out."
Note: The above text is not a direct quote unless noted by quotations. The Clarkson Integrator does not necessarily agree or disagree with the views of the interviewees.
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