The Owners' Manual | Issue 11 | Fall 2017

When driving, safely of course, what do you like to listen to? I seem to perseverate on listening to the new songs I downloaded to my phone… Imagine Dragons, Halsey, Tegan and Sara, Hamilton the Musical, Coldplay, Brandi Carlile… repeat…repeat. If you won the lottery, what is the first thing you would do? Fund my children’s college accounts and then travel. What is something you learned in the last week? A glass tile wet saw blade doesn’t work very well on ceramic tile. If you could learn to do anything, what would it be? I would learn to play guitar better and to be able to sing carrying a note. I took guitar lessons recently for 2 years, but got too busy

with life and work to continue. I’d like to pick it back up again soon. Which celebrity do you get mistaken for? Mariska Hargitay – I don’t see it all, but it’s happened more than once so I’ll go with it because she is amazing! Who is your favorite teacher/mentor?Why? My favorite mentor is my college (UCONN-Huskies!!!) field hockey coach, Nancy Stevens. She is the winningest coach in Division I field hockey history, still coaching at UCONN, and although I may not have realized it at the time I was playing for her, I learned so much about leadership, dedication, teamwork, hard work, loss, and success under her tutelage. Attending

college out-of-state is hard enough, but being a student- athlete adds an extra challenge, and she helped guide our team to become a family and learn to rely on each other when things were easy and when things got tough. After a day of preseason double sessions in 100 degree heat, feeling completely exhausted, I remembered her having us just relax on the turf as she played us recordings of Maya Angelou reading excerpts from her book/ poems. It helped me learn that if you give it your all and leave nothing behind, your reward at the end it ever so sweet.

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