The Observer, September 8, 2006
Volume XXXIX, Issue 2
Spartan Spotlight: Scott Christensen
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Major, sport: Scott Christensen is a senior polymer science and engineering major who plays for the men's soccer team.
Position: Defense.
High School/Hometown: Gates-Chili High School, Rochester, N.Y.
Years Participating in Soccer: Too many.
Hobbies/Extracurricular Activities: Tau Beta Pi, Golden Key, a lot of other random stuff…
Jeffrey T. Verespej: Who inspired you to play soccer?
Scott Christensen: Didn't Reagan play soccer?
JTV: Yeah, but he was only in it for the moms. Favorite athlete?
SC: The captain of the American curling team.
JTV: Oh, he's right up there with LeBron. Athletic honors?
SC: I don't get what you'd call "athletic" honors.
JTV: Just like I don't get what you call "girls." Any academic honors?
SC: Academic All-UAA, ESPN The Magazine Second-team Academic All-District IV.
JTV: Best soccer memory…
SC: Beating NYU on the road last year.
JTV: Beating a bunch of dudes called the Violets sure is tough. Worst soccer memory…
SC: Losing all our UAA games freshman year.
JTV: Favorite quote…
SC: "Oberlin is attacking us."
JTV: I think H.G. Wells said that over the radio once. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
SC: I'll have gotten a job and miraculously, still be completely immature.
JTV: Yeah, age is just a number. Something most people don't know about you:
SC: At least twice a week I find myself singing along to Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance with Somebody."
JTV: I'm here to dance with you. You never ask. What makes soccer stand out from other sports?
SC: If you try and head a baseball, it'll crush your face.
JTV: Touché my good friend, touché. If they made a movie about your life, who would you want to play you?
SC: I've been told that I look like Conan O'Brien. Lucky me.
JTV: I thought you'd get some sun playing soccer. You could be at one place but Case (like you would ever want to leave). Where would you go?
SC: Ireland. I've always wanted to go there and never been able to.
JTV: Nothing to make fun of there. You make my job no fun. Next question. What's your least favorite thing about soccer?
SC: The running does get old.
JTV: True, but laundry by Hugh Marshall never does. If you could be a girl for a day, what would you do?
SC: I've been asked this before, and for the editor's sake, I'll plead the fifth.
JTV: That's because you know I'd turn you down on a date. If you could participate in any other sport, which would you pick and why?
SC: Kickball… gotta use the only skill I've got, right?
JTV: Only if you play with fourth-graders, right? What would we find in your locker right now that might surprise us?
SC: A pair of chaps and three tubes of Instant Tan.
JTV: Wow. What goes through your mind during a game?
SC: "The Final Countdown" (da da daaa da, da da dum dum dummm…)
JTV: You're a walking iPod from the 1980s. All that's missing is coke and Bobby Brown. What's it like being a sex symbol to millions of lonely Case girls?
SC: I'm not sure, better talk to Eiseman for that one.
JTV: Oh so modest Scott. Finish this sentence: Soccer is like a girl …
SC: I've been playing for years, but I still don't get it.
JTV: That's why I stick with solitaire. What's the high point in a soccer player's season?
SC: For a player like me, successfully kicking the ball to Steggerda.
JTV: Shout out No. 2 in the books. Anymore? No? Well, we'll move on then. What does a soccer player do for fun in this town?
SC: We make our own fun.
JTV: With Bob Niccoli on the team, that must never be a concern.
