Getting To Know ... Travis Bobik
Q: What baseball memory stands out the most for you?
A: Playing for the Atlanta Braves Fall Scout Team.
Q: What is the best part of being a college athlete?
A: Being able to choose classes before everyone else.
Q: What is the best advice you have ever received from a coach?
A: When you think you have worked hard enough, there is someone out there
working harder.
Q: Who is your most influential role model?
A: Parents.
Q: What celebrity would you most like to meet?
A: Will Ferrell.
Q: Do you have a favorite type of music you listen to?
A: Rock.
Q: What is your favorite movie?
A: The Last Samurai.
Q: What is your favorite sports movie?
A: Eight Men Out.
Q: Do you have a favorite food or meal?
A: Chinese.
Q: What is your favorite holiday?
A: Thanksgiving.
Q:
What is your favorite professional baseball team?
A: Baltimore Orioles.
Q:
Who is your favorite professional baseball player?
A: Cal Ripken Jr.
Q: Name one thing that people would be surprised to learn about you.
A: I’m a very good writer.
Q: What is the place that you haven’t traveled to, that you would most like
to visit?
A: Montana.
Q: What would be your dream job?
A: Professional baseball player.
Q:
What is it that attracted you to IUP?
A: The close drive from home.
Q:
What do you like most about the city of Indiana?
A: The Chinese restaurants.
Q:
What baseball team in the PSAC would you most like to beat?
A: Mansfield.
Q:
What is your favorite thing about the sport of baseball?
A: The constant battle of overcoming failure.
Q:
What is your earliest baseball memory?
A: Playing baseball in the backyard with my family.
Q:
If you could play any other sport in college, what would it be?
A: Football.
Q:
What (if any) pre-game superstitions or rituals do you have?
A: I don’t have any.
Q:
What are some of your favorite things to do in your spare time when you are
not playing baseball?
A: Fishing and just hanging out with friends.
Q:
What was your favorite TV show growing up?
A: Saved By The Bell.
Q:
What is your favorite TV show now? Do you have a favorite character on that
show?
A: Sons of Anarchy.
Q:
What are your career goals
A: Be successful and support my family.
Q:
What does it take to be academically successful at IUP?
A: To be successful you have to stay calm and just take everything a day at a
time.
Q:
What does it take to be athletically successful at IUP?
A: One has to be willing to work hard and just give your best.