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Grizz Quiz: Winter Sports Athletes Feature

Grizz Quiz: Winter Sports Athletes Feature
Basketball – Zoey Dong
Basketball – Zoey Dong

What’s your go-to warm up song?

  • When we go out as a team for warm ups, we play the Liv and Maddie Intro song.

Favorite part about your sport?

  • The relationships with my teammates, and it’s just a really fun environment.

What’s your favorite memory when you’re playing basketball?

  • Just after games, going to eat dinner after with my friends.

What’s the best advice you have received from your coaches or teammates?

  • When I have off shooting days, my coaches tell me, “Just keep shooting the ball and keep going. You don’t make any shots that you don’t take.”
Track– Henry Hernandez
Track– Henry Hernandez

What’s your go-to warm up song?

  • I personally think anything that’s really Hispanic.

Favorite part about your sport?

  • How the teams are like family and how [track] can soothe anything out of my mind.

What’s your favorite memory when you’re running track?

  • Going to LA to run a track.

What’s the best advice you have received from your coaches or teammates?

  • Do what you want and do what your gut really feels. 
Soccer– Kate Sherman
Soccer– Kate Sherman

What’s your go-to warm up song?

  • Basically anything by Kendrick Lamar. I always listen to Kendrick Lamar before games.

Favorite part about your sport?

  • Probably just playing the game, and also creating friendships and bonds with teammates.

What’s your favorite memory when you’re playing soccer?

  • Winning NorCal on varsity last year.

What’s the best advice you have received from your coaches or teammates?

  • To focus on having fun more than comparing yourself to others.

If anyone wanted to join the girl’s soccer team, why would you recommend it?

  • It’s like a super fun opportunity to create friendships with new people, and to learn how to work as a team and improve.
Wrestling– Kellan Niimi
Wrestling– Kellan Niimi

What’s your go-to warm up song?

  • Either a beat or something to get my adrenaline going.

Favorite part about your sport?

  • I like that it’s an individual sport, helps with discipline and teaches me that I can’t really blame anyone else for my mistakes.

What’s your favorite memory when you’re wrestling?

  • The feeling of when you see growth within your own performance.

What’s the best advice you have received from your coaches or teammates?

  • Not worrying too much as a wrestler, it’s all about practice and getting [to] the goal you’re going towards.
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