#31 Roland Thiele
IUP Baseball
Q: What baseball memory stands out the most for you?
A: Hitting a HR in front of 12,000 people at the NJCAA World Series in Grand
Junction, Colorado.
Q: What is the best part of being a college athlete?
A: The recognition you receive.
Q: What is the best advice you have ever received from a coach?
A: Keep your hands back.
Q: Who is your most influential role model?
A: Parents.
Q: What celebrity would you most like to meet?
A: Alexander Ovechkin
Q: Do you have a favorite type of music you listen to?
A: Rock, country, pop.
Q: What is your favorite movie?
A: Borat.
Q: What is your favorite sports movie?
A: Major League.
Q: Do you have a favorite food or meal?
A: Tenderloin steak and home made mashed potatoes.
Q: What is your favorite holiday?
A: 4th of July.
Q: What is your favorite professional baseball team?
A: Washington Nationals.
Q: Who is your favorite professional baseball player?
A: Ryan Zimmerman.
Q: Name one thing that people would be surprised to learn about you.
A: Hate popcorn.
Q: What is the place that you haven’t traveled to, that you would most like
to visit?
A: Alaska.
Q: What would be your dream job?
A: To play major league baseball.
Q: What is it that attracted you to IUP?
A: A former teammate.
Q: What do you like most about the city of Indiana?
A: The friends I have met here.
Q: What baseball team in the PSAC would you most like to beat?
A: Cal.
Q: What is your favorite thing about the sport of baseball?
A: There is no time or clock in the game.
Q: What is your earliest baseball memory?
A: First home run in little league.
Q: If you could play any other sport in college, what would it be?
A: Golf.
Q: What (if any) pre-game superstitions or rituals do you have?
A: Only If I am going well at that plate I will do the same thing before
every game.
Q: What are some of your favorite things to do in your spare time?
A: Hanging out and enjoying life.
Q: What was your favorite TV show growing up?
A: Seinfeld.
Q: What is your favorite TV show now? Do you have a favorite character on
that show?
A: Man vs. Food.
Q: What are your career goals?
A: To obtain a job that I enjoy doing.
Q: What does it take to be academically successful at IUP?
A: Keeping up on work in advance of the due date of assignments.
Q: What does it take to be athletically successful at IUP?
A: The will and want to succeed.