1. How long have you been involved in sports? 13 years

2. What is your most memorable moment in sport? Winning the Ontario Cup in 2001.

3. What is your most embarrassing moment in sport? Tripping over a ball in indoor soccer when no one was around me and falling twice on my butt on the way to the buses for a volleyball tournament.

4. What is the best part about playing sports at Laurentian University? The great atmosphere, the dedication of players and fans (its always encouraging knowing that people are there to support you) and just the amazing people that you get the opportunity to meet.

5. What is a typical game-day like for you, starting when you wake up?

9 am: Wake up, make a good breakfast and start getting ready

10 am: Make the hike to the field with fellow players and take care of all team duties and get pumped up with the girls

10:50 am: Pep-talk from Coach Gallo

11 am: Head out to the field for warm up

2:30 pm: game finishes

2:45 pm: debrief about the game

3:00 pm: either watch the guy’s game or head back to residence

Rest of day: relax and do some homework

6. Are you superstitious in regards to sports? If so, how so? Yes, I have certain undergarments that I feel bring me luck.

7. What is your favorite pre-game meal? Something that is going to fill me up, I always enjoy a bagel or some oatmeal in the morning with some fruit and a big glass of juice and for dinner any type of pasta is a must.     

8. You love soccer because… I don’t understand how you couldn’t, it’s awesome.

9. What is the best advice you have ever received? Just keep it simple

10. What advice would you give a young soccer player? Do whatever you put your mind to and don’t stop till you get it.

11. If you could change one thing about soccer it would be? To make the nets wider, being incapable of hitting a net seems to be following me from team to team.

12. Do you have any other talents? I have the amazing ability to find everything funny even when it’s really not.

13. What do you enjoy on off-days? Sleep and watch movies (if I don’t have any homework of course).

14. If you could witness one moment in history, it would be? I would like to witness the fall of the Berlin wall and to have seen the Titanic…maybe not have been on it but just to have said I that I’ve seen it. Also, I think it would have been pretty cool to see Elvis Presley in a concert.

15. Who has influenced your sporting career the most? My dad.

1. How long have you been involved in sports? When I was 6, I played in a soccer league, so I’ve been playing organized sports for 13 years.

 2. What is your most memorable moment in sport? When my junior team in high school made an OBA team and went to Windsor to compete in the OBA’s, we made it to the finals and lost in double overtime.  The loss hurt but the experience was amazing.

3. What is your most embarrassing moment in sport?  I came late to a tournament game in high school (because I was in a free throw shooting competition) and coach put me in as soon as I was changed, I got fouled right away and shot two air balls from the free throw line.

4. What is the best part about playing sports at Laurentian University?  The best part about playing basketball for Laurentian is the amount of support we have from students, alumni and people in our community, there is a lot of people cheering for us no matter where we are playing.

5. What is a typical game-day like for you, starting when you wake up?  My typical game-day starts like most other days, I get up and try to eat a big breakfast and then if it’s a home game on a Friday I have class then shoot around then class again; if it’s an away game I watch TV or a movie.  In the afternoon we have a pre game meal then I have a nap, when I wake up I go through the game in my head, going through our plays and how we are going to defend theirs.  Then I head over to the gym for the game.

6. Are you superstitious in regards to sports? If so, how so?  No, I’m not a superstitious person really.

7. What is your favorite pre-game meal?  Any type of pasta meal, with tomato sauce that has peppers and onions in it, those are my favourite pre-game meals.

8. You love basketball because…  I enjoy being active and playing all sports but Basketball I love because it’s a team sport and it’s challenging; you’re never going to make every shot you take so there’s always room to improve, and in the end it’s just fun. 

9. What is the best advice you have ever received?  “Don’t think so much” my dad always says that to me.

10. What advice would you give a young basketball player?  I’d tell a young basketball player that the only way to get better is to constantly be around the game of basketball, whether its walking to school dribbling a ball or watching a game on TV to learn different moves then practicing them.

11. If you could change one thing about basketball it would be?  I’d lower the height of the net so I could dunk more.

12. Do you have any other talents?  I guess cooking is another talent I have.

13. What do you enjoy on off-days?  I like to watch movies, play other sports and beat my roommate in video games.

14. If you could witness one moment in history, it would be?  I would witness Wilt Chamberlain's 100 points in an NBA basketball game, because it’s something that will most likely never be accomplished again.

15. Who has influenced your sporting career the most?  My dad has definitely influenced me the most in my sporting career, he was my coach most of the years I played sports and even if he wasn’t the coach he’d take time to work on different aspects of the sport I was playing with me.  He is a Physical Education teacher at the high school I attended and the basketball coach so I would always go to the school and shoot around or watch his team’s games when I was younger, almost everything I know about sports I learned from him.