A: One night during first semester, I heard a thunderous knock at my door around 4 a.m. I jumped out of bed and flung my door open to a huge group of boys who then proceeded to drag me out of my room half naked and with no shoes. They piggybacked me around campus for the next two hours. I had a math quiz that morning I never got to study for ... oops.
Q: What has been the greatest highlight of your sports career?
A: Hitting my first career home run against Columbia last weekend. Bringing the power to the slappers gone wild crew.
Q: What is your funniest story about a coach?
A: Our head coach [Trina Salcido] telling us in a team meeting that we had to be “guerrillas in the mist.” ... Enough said.
Q: Who is your quirkiest teammate? Why?
A: [Junior infielder] Collette Abbott. She is always telling stories that end in her somehow finding 20 dollars ... “Aww hamburgers.”
Q: What has been your most embarrassing moment at Princeton?
A: After catching a pop fly against Dartmouth (with no runners on base) I went to throw the ball to [senior infielder] Kat [Welch] and tripped on my shoelace, completely face-planting in leftfield. Everyone laughed. I did not.
Q: What’s the best part about being an athlete on campus?
A: Definitely getting up at 5:30 a.m. to walk to Jadwin in less than 10-degree weather for conditioning and being part of the delirious team breakfast conversations that go on afterwards.
Q: What’s the hardest part about being an athlete on campus?
A: Literally sprinting from your seat in Spanish class in the basement of McCosh to Jadwin Gym because you have to be at practice in seven minutes.
Q: What’s your favorite thing to do when not practicing?
A: Oh, what up Facebook?
Q: If you didn’t play softball, what other sport would you play?
A: Cross-country. I ran all four years of high school, and I really miss it.
Q: If you were a coach for a day, you would…?
A: Take the team to Twist and do absolutely no conditioning after practice.
Q: What has been your favorite class taken at Princeton?
A: PSY 254: Developmental Psychology. I get to go to a preschool and play with children ... basically the most fun class ever.
Q: Who gets the most guys on the team? Who has the most game off the field?
A: Kat Welch brings all the boys to the yard (she increases our fan size by at least 20 people every game), but I would have to say [sophomore outfielder] Brittney Scott takes the cake — I have never seen someone talk to five different guys via five different technologies simultaneously.
Q: What’s your pre-game ritual?
A: ATFNO. The outfielders know what’s up.
Q: What music to you listen to before games to inspire you?
A: Anything I can dance to down in the locker room before our games ... ask one of my teammates about my “stanky leg.”
Q: Most embarrassing song on your iPod?
A: “I gotta question for ya ... why they hatin on me?” (Turn My Swag On-Soulja Boy. Props to Kevin DeMaio and Michael E. Catapano.)
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