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Questions, Questions…

August 16th, 2007

Questions, questions…. and four answers for each:

Four jobs I have had in my life:
1] Professional Track and Field Athlete
2] Fitness Model
3] Pharmaceutical Sales Representative (Drug Rep)
4] SEO (Search Engine Optimization) / Web Design

Movies I could watch over and over.
1] Gladiator
2] Lord of the Rings (1, 2 and 3 - Extended versions of each!)
3] Life is Beautiful
4] James Bond movies

Four places I have lived:
1] Salt Lake City, Utah
2] San Francisco, California
3] San Diego, California
4] Provo, Utah

Four things I did this weekend:
1] Went on a road trip to St. George
2] Went on a road trip to Bear Lake (Yes, two in one weekend… don’t ask me why)
3] Went hot tubbing
4] Got almost NO sleep… (terrible, I know)

Four places I have been on vacation:
1] Italy.. (EVERYWHERE!… my favorite is Lake Como)
2] Belize & Cozumel
3] Hawaii
4] Sweden, Finland & Denmark

Four of my favorite foods:
1] Chicken Mango Salad from Bajio’s
2] PF Chang’s Sweet and Sour Chicken
3] Steak from Outback
4] Italian… almost anything

Four places I would rather be or go:
1] Italy
2] Hawaii
3] Belize
4] San Diego

What are your favorite activities?
1] Working out / Training
2] Going to the beach or the pool
3] Riding my motorcycle
4] Working… really. I love feeling like I’ve accomplished something.

Your favorite non-alcoholic drinks?
1] Dr. Pepper
2] Limeade with mint leaves from the backyard
3] Strawberry lemonade from Outback
4] Fresca

Your favorite alcoholic beverages?
1] I
2] don’t
3] drink
4] :)

Favorite scent/smells?
1] Clean skin
2] Fresh baked brownies
3] Acqua Di Gio, Boss by Hugo Boss, Jake, or whatever other scents that guys I’ve liked (or like) wore. :)
4] Clothes out of the dryer

Favorite colors?
1] Pale turquoise
2] White
3] Pink
4] Black

Favorite Flower?
1] Orchids
2] Pink roses
3] Pink tulips
4] White tulips

Favorite TV shows?
1] 24
2] Lost
3] Law & Order, CSI, Without a Trace, etc.
4] Smallville (I have a thing for Clark Kent)

4 Hopes for the future?
1] To be happy! (And to give those around me a reason to be happy as well)
2] To continue to be blessed with good health (and maintain an athletic lifestyle)
3] To be successful at the things I put my mind to
4] To travel (the rest of) the world

4 bad habits?
1] Twirling my hair
2] Staying up too late
3] Eating too much sugar (ask my coach)
4] Is “being indecisive” a bad habit? If so, then ya, that is #4.

Hottest profession of opposite sex? (huh.. weird question)
1] Hmmm… I’ve generally dated other athletes, but not always… since other inner qualities are just as, if not more important to me than how athletic the guy is.
2] So I’d have to sum it up like this: If a guy is smart, hard working and passionate about what he does, then that is attractive to me.
3] Enough
4] said.

BYU Athletes: Four-Year All-Americans

June 5th, 2007

There are only a handful of BYU athletes who have earned All-Americam accolades four years in the same sport. Below are the four-year All-American athletes, their years honored and some specific disciplines or events. Also included are notes on interrupted careers. The sports are listed in alphabetical order:

Women’s cross country

Elizabeth Jackson, 1996-1999

Women’s diving

Courtney Nelson, 1988-1991 — four years on 10-meter platform; additional honors on 3-meter board.

Vanessa Bergman Thelin, 1991-1994 — four years on 3-meter board; additional honors on 1-meter board.

Men’s golf

Ray Leach, 1969-1972

Mike Reid, 1973-1976

Mike Brannan, 1975-1978

Rick Fehr, 1981-1984

Andy Miller, 1997-2000

Men’s gymnastics

Darren Elg, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1996
INTERRUPTION: Elg served an LDS Church mission to Los Angeles from 1990 to 1992. He redshirted in 1994 because of a shoulder injury.

Women’s soccer

Aleisha Rose, 2000-2003

Men’s swimming

Arunas Savickas, 1998-2001 — individual backstroke and freestyle events

Women’s swimming

LeLei Fonoimoana, 1977-79, 81 — individual butterfly and individual-medley events
INTERRUPTION: Fonoimoana interrupted her collegiate career to train for the 1980 Summer Olympics but did not compete because of the U.S.-led boycott of the Moscow Games

K.C. Cline, 1988-91 — individual backstroke and medley relay events

Men’s track and field

Tito Steiner, 1977-1979, 81 — decathlon
INTERRUPTION: He returned to his native Argentina to train for the 1980 Moscow Summer Games.

Doug Padilla, 1978-1981 — individual and relay distance events

Oluyemi Kayode, 1990-1993 — individual and relay sprint events

Jeff Hansen, 1999-2002 - pole vault

Women’s track and field

Maria Betioli Zanandrea, 1979-82 — four years in the outdoors high jump; additional honors in indoors high jump.

Tiffany Lott - 1994-95, 97-98 — four years in the outdoors heptathlon; additional honors in indoors heptathlon, indoors and outdoors hurdles and outdoors javalin.
INTERRUPTION: After redshirting the indoor season in 1996 to prepare for the Olympic-year outdoor season, Lott-Hogan suffered a severe knee injury her first week and missed the entire outdoors competition.

Amy Christiansen Palmer, 1994-1996, 1998 — four years in the outdoors shot put; additional honors in indoors shot put, indoors 20- pound weight and outdoors hammer.
INTERRUPTION: She redshirted in 1997 due to her coach’s decision.

Men’s volleyball

Ethan Watts, 1991-1994

Ryan Millar, 1996-1999