The Observer, February 17, 2006
Volume XXXVIII, Issue 17
Spartan Spotlight: Lindsey Stahl
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Name, major, sport, etc.: Lindsey Stahl is a junior chemical rngineering major on the Case swim team.
Event: Anything except breaststroke.
High School: Bellbrook High School, Bellbrook, Ohio.
Years participating in swimming: 18
What inspired you to swim: My family got a boat when I was three. It was a matter of survival.
Hobbies/Extracurricular Activities: Phi Sigma Rho Sorority, triathlons, gardening, eating.
Favorite Athlete: Chad Johnson.
Athletic Honors: Second place in the Cocoa Beach Challenge.
Academic Honors: Hey, I'm still here. That should be enough.
Best swimming memory: Applefest!
Worst swimming memory: Getting kicked out of the playground at McDonald's after a meet when I was 14 for being too big to play in the balls.
Favorite quote: "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - T. Jefferson.
Where you see yourself in 10 years: Making plastic or controlling chemical processes or something really nerdy.
Something most people don't know about you: I inherited green thumbs from my mother and can make almost any kind of plant grow.
Joel Sanderson: Word Association: speedo.
Lindsey Stahl: Size 24 FastSkin II….. Ow, my boobs.
JS: I have no idea what just happened. What makes swimming stand out from other sports?
LS: No one else is crazy enough to practice at 6 a.m. in the equivalent of just their skivvies.
JS: Honestly, what defines a skivvy? Because all I know is it's not good to get caught in just them. Would you rather have the strength of 1000 (wo)men, have three feet, or breathe fire?
LS: Oh wow, if I had three feet, I could kick stuff and walk at the same time.
JS: Yeah, but what kind of shoes would you need to do that? Would it just be straight or what? What's your least favorite part of swimming?
LS: The whole getting wet part.
JS: I was led to believe that was a fairly essential part of the sport. If you could be a guy for a day, what would you do?
LS: Grunt, spit, fart, and burp. Oh wait, I already do all that.
JS: Quite the charmer. If you could participate in any other sport, which would you pick and why?
LS: Hockey, so I could be teammates with Pat Sullivan. He's so hot right now.
JS: Pssshhht. It's that Dan Pawlowski that really gets my heart pumping. What was the best part of Super Bowl?
LS: The Steelers didn't tear any quarterbacks' ACLs.
JS: Classy team those Steelers. How many miles could you swim at once?
LS: Five or six. That's as many as I could do in two hours, after which I would have to stop and eat something. I have the metabolism of a teenage boy.
JS: Man, I love teenage boys. What's the weirdest nickname you ever had?
LS: I've been called Goose since I was two. I'm not sure why, but it seems to fit.
JS: If you were a hot dog, would you eat yourself?
LS: Only as a last resort, with tons of ketchup or sauerkraut.
JS: I'd just cut a piece of myself off and use it as fishing bait. If you could be at one place but Case (like you would ever want to leave), where would you go?
LS: On a hiking tour of all the amazing places in the world.
JS: That sounds like a plan worth leaving for.
