The Observer, April 21, 2006
Volume XXXVIII, Issue 25
Spartan Spotlight: Sarah Langhorst
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Name, major, sport, etc.: Sarah Langhorst is a junior chemistry major who plays for the women's tennis team.
Positions: Anywhere on court is fine with me.
Hometown: Midland, Mich.
Years participating in tennis: Five.
What inspired you to play tennis: Quitting swimming.
Hobbies/extracurricular activities: Looking out the window, and AAU jump-rope team. My team, the Kangaroo Kids, was on ESPN2 one night for national qualifiers.
Favorite athlete: Wilma Rudolph.
Athletic honors: The girls' pull-up record in elementary school.
Academic honors: Didn't cheat on an o-chem exam.
Best tennis memory: Getting hit by a semi in a charter bus on our way back from Indiana.
Worst tennis memory: Uh, I'm not allowed to go public with that response.
Favorite quote: "I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat, and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?" -Yogi Berra
Where do you see yourself in 10 years: Sailing my yacht in the Caribbean.
Something most people don't know about you: I am the best euchre player on campus.
Joel Sanderson: Word Association: tennis skirts.
Sarah Langhorst: Perverted old men.
JS: I think you do people like me a disservice by implying that it's only old men. If you could invite any three people to dinner, living or dead, who would they be and why?
SL: Nancy Kerrigan, Tonya Harding, and Vince McMahon to officiate.
JS: You didn't give me a why, but I guess that's pretty self-explanatory. If you could participate in any other sport, which would you pick and why?
SL: Figure skating, because I think tennis and figure skating have a lot in common.
JS: So do Pauly Shore and Tom Hanks. Wait, that's not true at all. What's your least favorite thing about tennis?
SL: Morning practice.
JS: Personally I would go with the nets. Yes, definitely the nets. What's the one thing that most people don't know about tennis?
SL: Cheat to win.
JS: That's how I would play too! I think you and I would get along swimmingly. What's it like being a sex symbol to millions of lonely Case guys?
SL: Mostly creepy.
JS: I didn't say describe us…Can a tennis racket be considered a weapon?
SL: Only when Steve Hsu throws it.
JS: What if the racket was made of titanium and had spikes and electrified barbed wire strings? I guess it wouldn't really be a tennis racket anymore at that point though. Do you ever dance along in your room?
SL: I would if I could dance.
JS: Believe me, all girls can dance in a guy's mind because guys are sexist jerks. How's that for honesty? If you had $1387, how would you spend it?
SL: I would buy ice cream for our loyal fan base – namely Marta's boyfriend.
JS: That kid is getting an awful lot of ice cream. Wouldn't tennis be more exciting without the net?
SL: But then Marta wouldn't have anything to knock over.
JS: I didn't even know you could knock over a net. Being a gourmet chef, what would you make if you could cook any meal?
SL: They got this burger at a minor league park in Illinois somewhere. It's a regular bacon cheeseburger, but get this, the buns are a Krispy Kreme.
JS: I prefer a Boston Crème from Dunkin Donuts, though I'm not sure how I feel about custard plus bacon. Could the women's team beat the men's team in a head to head competition?
SL: Does a bear sh-- in the woods?
JS: No, in fact a bear excretes fecal matter in the woodland area. Wait, no you're right, sometimes I fall into pretentious English major mode. My bad.
