Getting To Know ... Mitch Perez
Q: What baseball memory stands out the most for you?
A: Winning a national championship in high school
Q: What is the best part of being a college athlete?
A: Making baseball a full-time job.
Q: What is the best advice you have ever received from a coach?
A: Love to go out and perform every time you step on the field.
Q: Who is your most influential role model?
A: My Grandfather.
Q: What celebrity would you most like to meet?
A: Will Farrell.
Q: What is your favorite movie?
A: Boondock Saints.
Q: What is your favorite sports movie?
A: The Natural.
Q: Do you have a favorite food or meal?
A: Beef Tenderloin.
Q: What is your favorite holiday?
A: Christmas.
Q: What is your favorite professional baseball team?
A: Orioles/ Red Sox.
Q: Who is your favorite professional baseball player?
A: Ted Williams.
Q: What is the place that you haven't traveled to, that you would most like to visit?
A: Greece.
Q: What would be your dream job?
A: Working around baseball.
Q: What is it that attracted you to IUP?
A: The big college feel.
Q: What do you like most about the city of Indiana?
A: Quiet and relaxed.
Q: What baseball team in the PSAC would you most like to beat?
A: Kutztown.
Q: What is your favorite thing about the sport of baseball?
A: The fact that you can fail and there will be another opportunity awaiting you.
Q: What is your earliest baseball memory?
A: Playing waffle ball with my grandfather in his backyard.
Q: If you could play any other sport in college, what would it be?
A: Basketball.
Q: What pre-game superstitions or rituals do you have?
A: The way I put on my uniform and the way I sleep the day before a game.
Q: What are some of your favorite things to do in your spare time when you are not playing baseball?
A: Snowboard, play MLB The Show, work out and get better.
Q: What was your favorite TV show growing up?
A: Ninja Turtles.
Q: What is your favorite TV show now? Do you have a favorite character on that show?
A: Family Guy - Stewy.
Q: What are your career goals?
A: I want to be able to go back to my high school and teach and coach baseball.
Q: What does it take to be academically successful at IUP?
A: Staying on top of everything.
Q: What does it take to be athletically successful at IUP?
A: Constant Hustle.