#44 Kofi Osei-Aning
IUP Baseball
Q: What baseball memory stands out the most for you?
A: Winning the 17U
USSSA World Series in Oklahoma. The fashion in which we won was like straight
out of a movie.
Q: What is the best part of being a college athlete?
A: Knowing that all of
the hard work I put in when I start playing 13 years ago is still paying off.
Q: What is the best advice you have ever received from a coach?
A: Do not quit.
Q: Who is your most influential role model?
A: My parents because
I feel like they have worked so hard to get to where they are now, which is why
I am here.
Q: What celebrity would you most like to meet?
A: Will Smith. Eva
Mendes second though!
Q: Do you have a favorite type of music you listen to?
A: Rap, Hip Hop, R&B,
and Oldies. It just depends on my mood.
Q: What is your favorite movie?
A: Bad Boys 2.
Q: What is your favorite sports movie?
A: The Sandlot.
Q: Do you have a favorite food or meal?
A: Wings
Q: What is your favorite holiday?
A: Christmas because I
get to go home and see my family
Q: What is your favorite professional baseball team?
A: Toronto Blue Jays
(They bother me often, but I'm with them to the end).
Q: Who is your favorite professional baseball player?
A: Jose Reyes.
Q: Name one thing that people would be surprised to learn about you?
A: I am an African
American Canadian.
Q: What is the place that you haven’t traveled to, that you would most like
to visit?
A: Italy
Q: What would be your dream job?
A: To play in the MLB.
Outside of that would be to find a job in the government.
Q: What is it that attracted you to IUP?
A: I had other players
on the team who I had played with in high school.
Q: What do you like most about the city of Indiana?
A: All the good people
I have met.
Q: What baseball team in the PSAC would you most like to beat?
A: Slippery Rock!
Q: What is your favorite thing about the sport of baseball?
A: Hitting.
Q: What is your earliest baseball memory?
A: Hitting home runs
at the age of 9 when I first began playing baseball.
Q: If you could play any other sport in college, what would it be?
A: Football because I
didn't play it in high school.
Q: What pre-game superstitions or rituals do you have?
A: Always collect my
thoughts while standing by the foul line before the game starts.
Q: What are some of your favorite things to do in your spare time?
A: Workout, hoop,
music, dancing, and relaxing.
Q: What was your favorite TV show growing up?
A: I really didn't
have one. I was always outside growing up but possibly Power Rangers.
Q: What is your favorite TV show now? Do you have a favorite character on
that show?
A: No favorite show
now but re-runs of Fresh Prince can hold me down.
Q: What are your career goals?
A: Of coarse to be
successful, but I am a senior and still do not know what I want to do.
Q: What does it take to be academically successful at IUP?
A: Time management, a
positive attitude, and concentration.
Q: What does it take to be athletically successful at IUP?
A: Discipline, trust
in your team, trust in your abilities, and one must be open to constructive
criticism and be willing to learn.