The team finished last year’s spring schedule with a 24-8 record. The team has already opened its 2008-09 season this fall. Last month, the team competed in the Delaware Showdown, finishing third.
The ‘Prince’ recently sat down with Herceg to get an inside look at one of Princeton’s oldest club teams.
Q: What was your welcome-to-college moment?
A: Freshman year when I woke up on a Saturday morning on a couch at Terrace.
Q: What has been the greatest highlight in your sports career?
A: This fall we were playing Pittsburgh, and I went deep on one of their captains, skyed him (out-jumped him) and caught the disc for a score. Last year he took a semester off from college to train with the Australian national team.
Q: What’s your funniest story about a coach?
A: We don’t have a coach. But two years ago one of the frosh was having unprotected sex with his girlfriend in the shower and got a “donut” shaped infection.
He had to go to the hospital and get circumcised.
Q: Quirkiest teammate? Why?
A: [Junior] Mark Limperis. He is from Rhode Island, and his vocabulary consists of three phrases: “c’mon,” “you gotta be kiddin’ me” and “this is the worst.”
Q: What has been your most embarrassing moment with the team?
A: Sophomore year we had a tournament in the fall at Yale, and I forgot to bring a towel. After showering I drip-dried for 20 minutes.
Q: What’s the best part about being an athlete on campus?
A: Getting the “he’s the man look” from all the varsity athletes.
Q: What’s the worst/hardest part about being an athlete on campus?
A: Do you know how exhausting it is to say “hi” to so many people every day?
Q: What’s your favorite thing to do when not practicing?
A: Playing pick-up ultimate. It’s when I can do everything I am not allowed to do in a game and not get yelled at.
Q: If not ultimate, what other sport would you like to play at Princeton?
A: Probably football. I think it would be pretty cool to play safety and hit people silly.
Q: If you were a coach for a day, you would…?
A: We will be perfect in every aspect of the game. You drop a pass, you run a mile. You miss a blocking assignment, you run a mile. You fumble the football, and I will break my foot off in your John Brown hind parts and then you will run a mile. Perfection. Let’s go to work.
Q: Favorite class taken at Princeton? Why?
A: B&W Photography because I get to play with chemicals, which unfortunately doesn’t happen in my Chem. E. lab.
Q: Do you have a pre-game ritual?A: Not exactly, but we do sweet chants such as one person yelling “100 percent” and everyone following with “loads in the face.”
Q: Most embarrassing song on your iPod?
A: Tom Jones — “Sex Bomb.”
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