#10 Jake Shaffer
IUP Baseball
Q: What baseball memory stands out the most for you?
A: When we had to carry tires around the baseball field.
Q: What is the best part of being a college athlete?
A:
Being able to get the classes that you want, and missing school.
Q: What is the best advice you have ever received from a coach?
A: Work hard.
Q: Who is your most influential role model?
A: My parents.
Q: What celebrity would you most like to meet?
A:
Jessica Beal.
Q: Do you have a favorite type of music you listen to?
A: Country.
Q: What is your favorite movie?
A: Top Gun.
Q: What is your favorite sports movie?
A:
The Rookie.
Q: Do you have a favorite food or meal?
A: Tacos.
Q: What is your favorite holiday?
A: Thanksgiving.
Q: What is your favorite professional baseball team?
A: Pittsburgh Pirates.
Q: Who is your favorite professional baseball player?
A: Hank Aaron.
Q: Name one thing that people would be surprised to learn about you.
A:
I don’t watch many sports on TV.
Q: What is the place that you haven’t traveled to, that you would most like
to visit?
A:
Ireland.
Q: What would be your dream job?
A:
To invent something huge and make bank off it.
Q: What is it that attracted you to IUP?
A:
Close to home and its big, but not huge.
Q: What do you like most about the city of Indiana?
A:
Wal-Mart.
Q: What baseball team in the PSAC would you most like to beat?
A:
Cal U.
Q: What is your favorite thing about the sport of baseball?
A:
Seeing who truly is the better team.
Q: What is your earliest baseball memory?
A:
Watching a kid run the bases backwards in t-ball.
Q: If you could play any other sport in college, what would it be?
A:
Soccer.
Q: What pre-game superstitions or rituals do you have?
A:
Eat something, I can't play on an empty stomach.
Q: What are some of your favorite things to do in your spare time when you
are not playing baseball?
A:
Hunt, fish, ride my dirt bike, and hang out with buddies.
Q: What was your favorite TV show growing up?
A:
Power Rangers.
Q: What is your favorite TV show now? Do you have a favorite character on
that show?
A:
Sons of Anarchy, Jacks.
Q: What are your career goals?
A:
To graduate, get a good paying job, pay off loans and start my
life.
Q: What does it take to be academically successful at IUP?
A:
Going
to class and keeping up with your work.
Q: What does it take to be athletically successful at IUP?
A:
Work hard and stay in shape.