Drea

The first time I saw Drea was at one of our spring clinics.  I think it was the 2010 one.  She did something to stand out in my mind without playing, and I think it was because she was talking for awhile with our assistant coach.  She was injured at the time, but must have made a good impression.

What I will remember most about her is her performance in the spring and then of course her talent show performance.

First to the talent show performance.  I really had no idea what crumping was until Gurnon told me that she was getting lessons on how to do that from Drea.  When I first saw Drea's performance in the talent show I didn't quite know what to make of it.  I wasn't sure what the judges would say.

I also couldn't figure out who it was that was dancing.  I swore it was Mika because I could only think of one person crazy enough to have done that.  Then Eric pointed out to me that they had blonde hair.

I still don't know what to say about it, but I'll give her lots of credit for what was the best act of the entire night in Gampel.

Filming it was sort of funny too.  I remember panning around and then all of a sudden in the corner of the screen I saw lots of movement and heard a crowd reaction.  Thankfully I found Drea quickly.  Not sure if she's thankful of that.

I think my first impression of her was that she was quiet.  I thought I would have a hard time convincing her to Irish Dance on camera.  She was actually the first person to Irish Dance on camera.

I came up with the idea for Irish Dancing in my head quickly, and I associated dancing with her because I was pretty sure that during her pre-season interview on her first day with the team that she said she was a dancing major.  It turns out there was a misunderstanding on that - she is a speech language pathologist major, or on a path to becoming one.

Drea was someone who I was also constantly rooting for during the running tests.  She always seemed to have a positive attitude.  Everytime I watched her on Monday or Wednesday mornings I was hoping that she would cut off more and more time, especially as I saw her run after practice.

As a player, it's a bummer I didn't get to watch her play much.  I will say, from someone who knows nothing about the game, that I thought she got stronger and more confident as time went on this year.  She is someone who was very intimidating and was a constant scoring threat in practice.  She even gave me a bloody nose in practice once.  It's funny because one time I almost ran into her and she said "I don't want to get injured."  I responded, "Me either."  She did actually injure me though.

All Day Dre will be fun to watch in years to come.  

And here she is being interviewed...sure she hates me for posting this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qgjdt16SA8

Way too serious of an interview for me.  I'd rather listen to her talk about crumping, but any reporter who asked her about that would be really creepy. 

I wish I actually did interview her for the facebook page.  I wish I did that more with the freshman, but it never really happened this year.

It is weird listening to them talk about soccer though.  I feel like the closer you get to working with the team the less you talk about soccer, if it all.