#18 Andrew Welch
IUP Baseball
Q: What baseball memory stands out the most for you?
A: Playing in the NABF World Series.
Q: What is the best part of being a college athlete?
A: To me the best part about being a college athlete is simply being a
college athlete. Not many people get the chance to play at the college level and
I think it is an awesome opportunity.
Q: What is the best advice you have ever received from a coach?
A: Enjoy the game for as long as you can and leave it all on the field
because you can’t play forever and one day you will want to go back and you
don’t want to regret anything.
Q: Who is your most influential role model?
A: My parents and my grandfather.
Q: What celebrity would you most like to meet?
A: Clint Eastwood.
Q: Do you have a favorite type of music you listen to?
A: Country and Rock.
Q: What is your favorite movie?
A: Office Space.
Q: What is your favorite sports movie?
A: Field of Dreams.
Q: Do you have a favorite food or meal?
A: Thanksgiving Dinner.
Q: What is your favorite holiday?
A: Christmas because it is a nice time for the entire family to get together.
Q:
What is your favorite professional baseball team?
A: The Baltimore Orioles.
Q:
Who is your favorite professional baseball player?
A: My favorite player of all-time is Cal Ripken Jr.
Q: Name one thing that people would be surprised to learn about you.
A: When I was younger I took karate lessons and received a black belt in
Tae Kwon Do .
Q: What is the place that you haven’t traveled to, that you would most like
to visit?
A: Montana for the fishing.
Q: What would be your dream job?
A: Working for Sirius Satellite Radio.
Q:
What is it that attracted you to IUP?
A: The chance to play baseball and the business program.
Q:
What do you like most about the city of Indiana?
A: The college.
Q:
What baseball team in the PSAC would you most like to beat?
A: All of them
Q:
What is your favorite thing about the sport of baseball?
A: I think hitting the baseball is one of the hardest things to do in
sports and its a great feeling when you succeed.
Q:
What is your earliest baseball memory?
A: Taking batting practice with my dad.
Q:
If you could play any other sport in college, what would it be?
A: Golf.
Q:
What are some of your favorite things to do in your spare time when you are
not playing baseball?
A: Playing golf and going fishing.
Q:
What was your favorite TV show growing up?
A: As a young kid I used to love Sesame Street.
Q:
What is your favorite TV show now? Do you have a favorite character on that
show?
A: Eastbound and Down, Kenny Powers.
Q:
What are your career goals
A: To be successful in whatever I do but also to enjoy whatever it is
that I am doing.
Q:
What does it take to be academically successful at IUP?
A: You have to go to class and keep up with your assignments.
Q:
What does it take to be athletically successful at IUP?
A: Work harder than everyone else.