Wednesday, February 17, 2010

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Feb. 17, 2009) - The ETSU baseball team begins the 2010 season Friday, Feb. 19 with the first game of the The Citadel Memorial Challenge against the host Bulldogs. Every day, leading up to the first pitch, a different member of the 2010 squad will check in with Buccaneer fans. Today junior Paul Hoilman is letting ETSU fans get to know him a little better.

Paul Hoilman (junior infielder/pitcher)

Birthday:  February 11, 1989

Hometown:  Johnson City, Tenn.

High School:  Science Hill High School

What's on TV:   The Office, Seinfeld, Entourage

What's in my iPod:  Country, rap, some rock and blues

What I drive:  Nissan X-Terra

Favorite flicks:  The Sandlot

What I'm reading:  Bible

Bookmarks (websites):   email, mlb.com, etsubucs.com

Favorite class at ETSU:   Applied combinatorics and Problem Solving

Worst habit:   Picking at my hands

Pet peeve:  Guys with long fingernails

Superstition:   None substantial

On my wall:  Hank Aaron, Rocky, Kramer, Dwight Schrute

Love to trade places for a day with:  Albert Pujols

Talent I'd most like to have:  Speed

First job:  Mowing yards

Favorite meal:   Outback with Bloomin Onions

Favorite athlete to watch in another sport:  Lebron James / Peyton Manning

Best concert/sporting event I've attended:  Red Soxs Game

Favorite team growing up:  Cardinals

Favorite value in others:  Honesty

Favorite physical attribute about myself:   Size

Dream date:  Katherine Heigl

Greatest love:  Baseball

My hero:   My Dad

My favorite quote:   "Practice as if you are the worst; perform as if you are the best."