#5 Robbie Zinsmeister
IUP Baseball

 

 

 
 

Q: What baseball memory stands out the most for you?
A:
Winning states for baseball my senior year in high school.


Q: What is the best part of being a college athlete?
A:
Hanging out with your teammates.


Q: What is the best advice you have ever received from a coach?
A:
Always hustle.


Q: Who is your most influential role model?
A:
My dad.


Q: What celebrity would you most like to meet?
A:
Steve Carell.


Q: Do you have a favorite type of music you listen to?
A:
I like all types.


Q: What is your favorite movie?
A:
Step Brothers.


Q: What is your favorite sports movie?
A:
Hoosiers.


Q: Do you have a favorite food or meal?
A:
Shrimp scampi.


Q: What is your favorite holiday?
A:
Christmas.


Q: What is your favorite professional baseball team?
A:
Philadelphia Phillies.


Q: Who is your favorite professional baseball player?
A:
Chase Utley.

 

 


Q: Name one thing that people would be surprised to learn about you.
A:
I am an only child.


Q: What is the place that you haven’t traveled to, that you would most like to visit?
A:
Cancun.


Q: What would be your dream job?
A:
Professional baseball player.


Q: What is it that attracted you to IUP?
A:
The baseball and education programs.


Q: What do you like most about the city of Indiana?
A:
A college town and it's not too big and not too small.


Q: What baseball team in the PSAC would you most like to beat?
A:
Kutztown because one of my best friends plays there.


Q: What is your favorite thing about the sport of baseball?
A:
Anybody can beat you on any given day.


Q: What is your earliest baseball memory?
A:
Hitting a grand slam in little league.


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:
Listen to certain songs before game time.


Q: What are some of your favorite things to do in your spare time?
A:
Hang out with friends.


Q: What was your favorite TV show growing up?
A:
Doug.


Q: What is your favorite TV show now? Do you have a favorite character on that show?
A:
CSI.


Q: What are your career goals?
A:
To be happy.


Q: What does it take to be academically successful at IUP?
A:
Organization, time management and the determination to want to be successful.


Q: What does it take to be athletically successful at IUP
A:
Strong work ethic and the determination to want to be successful.


 


 

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