Q: What was your “welcome to college” moment?
A: Freshman week, freshman year. My roommate Felipe busted into my room asking if he should take down this girl, as she was standing right next to him.
Q: What is your goal for the season?
A: For our team to rebound from last year and to really get into medal contention on the national level.
Q: Who is your professional athletic role model?
A: Magic Johnson. He’s flashy, but also a hard-nosed guy, so he mixes both, and I like that.
Q: What are your favorite and least favorite parts of being a rower?
A: My favorite thing is that we wear minimal clothes and get maximum sun. Least favorite thing is having to hang out with [freshman] Alex Taaffe.
Q: What would you do if you were your head coach for a day?
A: I would make the team run a rickshaw service in Princeton so I could make some money on the side.
Q: Who is your quirkiest teammate?
A: [Senior] Mike Gilson, because he doesn’t want your bag of chips if you’ve already opened it.
Q: What has been your most embarrassing moment at Princeton?
A: It would have to be when my roommates were walking back into the room one time, when I just spilled out of my room completely naked. Everyone just started dying laughing.
Q: What is the best part about being an athlete on campus?
A: You have an immediate social network, and people just kind of recognize you. Well, maybe they recognize me because I’m 6 feet 7 inches tall. Maybe people think I’m more fun or outgoing or something.
Q: What is the worst part about being an athlete on campus?
A: I don’t think there are any negative aspects. I don’t know what I would do with my free time if I wasn’t rowing.
Q: If not crew, what other sport would you do?
A: Definitely basketball. I play intramurals all the time and I coached little kids basketball to back-to-back championships.
Q: Do you have any pre-race rituals?
A: I never eat at a dining hall or eating club on Fridays. I always order out.
Q: Who gets the most guys/girls on the team? Who’s the fastest off the water?
A: This has to be a two-part answer. The loosest person is [junior] Carl Thunman, but the sloppiest person on the team is [junior] Alex Cantwell.
Q: What music inspires you?
A: DMX or Rocky, just because one is extremely corny and one is extremely absurd, and somewhere in between, it makes a good mix.
Q: What’s the most embarrassing song on your iPod?
A: The Pokemon theme song.
Q: What’s your favorite class at Princeton?
A: My seminar on New Jersey, because it’s basically talking about myself for three hours a week.
Q: You look pretty different from your official Athletic Department picture. What happened to the mustache?
A: Well, that’s definitely me. We had a mustache-growing competition and I won. It happens every year during our training trip in Austin, Texas, in January. The picture was in the growing process, and I had one more month to grow it on top of that.
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