While most sprinters face a slow start to the indoor track season after a six-month hiatus from racing, sophomore Austin Hollimon has enjoyed a strong opening month. He has already set an indoor school record in the 300m, held the second-fastest time in the nation in the 400m, reached NCAA provisional standards in the 400m (47.65 seconds on Saturday at the New York Road Runners Meet) and helped the 4x400m relay team reach NCAA provisional standards.
Q: What’s the greatest highlight of your sports career?
A: Winning the 200m at the Ivy League Championships last year, because I’d never run that distance before.
Q: What is your goal for this season?
A: Nationals for the 400m and 4x400m relay indoors and nationals in the 200m, 400m and 4x400m relay outdoors.
Q: Who is your professional athletic role model?
A: It’d have to be Usain Bolt. He’s tall and skinny like me and fast. The entertainment value he brings to the sport is great.
Q: What are your favorite and least favorite things about being a sprinter?
A: My favorite part is the amazing body it gets you. Working out helps get the girls. My least favorite I’d say is the workouts -— they’re painful. Also finishing a race, because it causes actual sickness.
Q: What was your “welcome to college” moment?
A: When the van turns around and Mom is waving from the back and you realize you’ll be here for the next four years.
Q: Who’s your strangest teammate?
A: There’s a couple whose names I don’t know, but I’d say sophomore sprinter Ivan Charbonneau. It’s not even that he’s strange, it’s that he’s eccentric in an Ivan-Charbonnistic way.
Q: What has been your most embarrassing moment at Princeton?
A: Bicker’s pretty embarrassing … Probably something stupid I’ve done in the past two days.
Q: What’s the best part about being an athlete on campus?
A: All the special treatment we get from professors. You know, they always give us A’s when we don’t deserve them. I also like all the excessive amounts of women, too.
Q: What’s the worst part about being an athlete on campus?
A: The fact that we have to get so many girls. It’s time consuming, and there are so many girls to get.
Q: What’s your favorite thing to do when you’re not practicing?
A: I’m actually a musician, so for me it’s playing my trombone.
Q: If not track, what other sport would you do?
A: Football.
Q: What would you do if you were the head coach for a day?
A: I’d make everyone do sprint workouts so they’d all know what it feels like.
Q: Do you have any pre-race rituals?
A: There’s always a prayer. I listen to gospel music before my races, and this year, I throw a gang sign up — Princeton up, pistols down.
Q: Who gets the most girls on the team? Who’s the fastest guy off the track?
A: Definitely sophomore pole vaulter Derek Hynes and senior pole vaulter Chad Faulkner.
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