Getting To Know ... TJ Nichols

Q: What baseball memory stands out the most for you?
A:  The best baseball memory that stands out to me is going to states in minor league and staying in the hotel and just having fun with all my friends.

Q: What is the best part of being a college athlete?
A: The best part of being a college athlete is knowing how hard you worked to get where you are and how it pays off on the baseball diamond.

Q: What is the best advice you have ever received from a coach?
A: When you step onto the field, give it all you have.

Q: Who is your most influential role model?
A: My teammates because we benefit from each other’s up’s and down’s.

Q: What celebrity would you most like to meet?
A: Chris Farley, back in the day.

Q: Do you have a favorite type of music you listen to?
A:  If there is a good beat, I will most likely be listening to it.

Q: What is your favorite movie?
A: 300—“Give them nothing, But take from them everything”.

Q: What is your favorite sports movie?
A: The Sandlot.

Q: Do you have a favorite food or meal?
A: BBQ Chicken is amazing or a New York strip.

Q: What is your favorite holiday?

A: Christmas, you get awesome presents.

Q: What is your favorite professional baseball team?
A: I would have to say the Boston Red Sox.

Q: Who is your favorite professional baseball player?
A: Alex Rodriquez.

Q: Name one thing that people would be surprised to learn about you.
A: I am an Extreme video gamer (Halo 3) I have sky coasted and hopefully one day sky dive!

Q: What is the place that you haven’t traveled to, that you would most like to visit?
A: I would like to go over seas and see different countries and experience different cultures.

Q: What would be your dream job?
A: Obviously playing professional baseball, but other then that becoming a physical therapist and helping people in need.

Q: What is it that attracted you to IUP?
A:  The atmosphere, how nice it is and all the people. There are so many things you can do and have fun with.

Q: What do you like most about the city of Indiana?
A:  I like Indiana because it is similar to Dubois, my hometown. It helps me keep “hometown” feel.

Q: What baseball team in the PSAC would you most like to beat?
A: This year I would like to beat Clarion really bad because I have a couple friends on the team.

Q: What is your favorite thing about the sport of baseball?
A: How one game you can be the best and the next you could be the worst.

Q: What is your earliest baseball memory?
A: Almost hitting a homerun in T-ball but my friends dad jumped up and robbed it.

Q: If you could play any other sport in college, what would it be?
A: I would like to play football because it’s a good “team sport”.

Q: What (if any) pre-game superstitions or rituals do you have?
A: I have to take a shower before every game, you have to be clean and look good if you want to play good.

Q: What are some of your favorite things to do in your spare time when you are not playing baseball?
A: I like my video games and I like to hang out with my friends.

Q: What was your favorite TV show growing up?
A: Saved by the Bell every morning before elementary school.

Q: What is your favorite TV show now? Do you have a favorite character on that show?
A: Reno 911 is pretty funny, Jim Dangle is hilarious.

Q: What are your career goals?
A: I would like to take my education as far as I can and go from there.

Q: What does it take to be academically successful at IUP?
A: Time management is key and dealing with stress in a positive way that you can benefit off of.

Q: What does it take to be athletically successful at IUP?
A: Work hard, push yourself and each other and to be focused on small realistic goals.