Getting To Know ...  Travis Kreiling

Q: What baseball memory stands out the most for you?
A:  Quad A state semis in high school and colliding with my left fielder going for a blooper hit and hyper extending my knee as well as knocking him out unconscious. We went on to lose the game 7-6 and that team then won state.

Q: What is the best part of being a college athlete?
A:  Being recognized as a college athlete and you immediately have something in common with a group of kids once you arrive here at IUP.

Q: What is the best advice you have ever received from a coach?
A:  WINwithCLASS.

Q: Who is your most influential role model?
A:  Dad.

Q: What celebrity would you most like to meet?
A:  Jessica Alba because she is smoking. Plus if I met her I could quit school because she would probably want to marry me and my life would be set.

Q: Do you have a favorite type of music you listen to?
A:  Rock/ Rap.

Q: What is your favorite movie?
A:  Superbad, Dumb and Dumber, Mighty Ducks.

Q: What is your favorite sports movie?
A:  Varsity Blues.

Q: Do you have a favorite food or meal?
A:  Philly Cheese Steaks and Pork Roll.

Q: What is your favorite holiday?
A: Christmas.

Q: What is your favorite professional baseball team?
A: Philadelphia Phillies.

Q: Who is your favorite professional baseball player?
A: Jimmy Rollins because is just plain nasty offensively and defensively.

Q: What is the place that you haven't traveled to, that you would most like to visit?
A: California, I have been to Las Vegas and that is probably the best  place ever. But  California would be such a neat place to go, my mom  travels there for work all the time and she said its just so much different out there.

Q: What would be your dream job?
A:  Working in the Philadelphia Sports Organization in any way.

Q: What is it that attracted you to IUP?
A:  The bigger size compared to other Division II schools in the state.

Q: What do you like most about the city of Indiana?
A:  Other side of the State. It's pretty cool to see how much different it is in the Philly area than the Pittsburgh area.

Q: What baseball team in the PSAC would you most like to beat?
A:  California, no doubt about it.

Q: What is your favorite thing about the sport of baseball?
A:  You make it how competitive you want it to be. Your enthusiasm can easily change teammates.

Q: What is your earliest baseball memory?
A:  Beating a team in eight years olds 45-0.

Q: If you could play any other sport in college, what would it be?
A:  If I were a good at it, golf. It is just relaxing.

Q: What are some of your favorite things to do in your spare time when you are not playing baseball?
A:  Music, love listening to music, Lifting, playing football, going to the beach is must

Q: What was your favorite TV show growing up?
A: Boy Meets World, great show.

Q: What is your favorite TV show now? Do you have a favorite character on that show?
A: Prison Break and Entourage no question. I don't think I watch to many other shows besides sports, But on prison break Michael Schofield is just straight up genius, smartest man ever.

Q: What are your career goals
A: Hopefully work in with the US Marshals.

Q: What does it take to be academically successful at IUP?
A: Go to class, there is nothing else to say.

Q: What does it take to be athletically successful at IUP?
A:  Stay in shape and take criticism to improve yourself, whether its from a player, coach, or peer.  Never get down on yourself.