Batavia Triathlon

Congratulations to Claire McGuire, Justine Boone & Emma McGuire on their completion of the Batavia Triathlon!

In the Scotlight: Taylor Rubarts

In the Scotlight: Taylor Rubarts

1. Three adjectives your friends would use to describe you are:

caring sarcastic trustworthy

2. What is something you’ve become involved in or experienced at Monmouth College that you didn’t expect to?
I was inducted into the Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society.

3. What is something most people don’t know about you?
My aunt Yoko is Japanese.

4. Who is your favorite athlete (past or present)?
Michael Jordan

5. What song would you pick as your anthem?
The Rest is Still Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield

6. What is the last book you read?
A book called War in ILA.

7. What is your favorite movie?
Remember the Titans, it never gets old.

8. If you could be a superhero, what would you want your superpowers to be?
My superpower would be, being invisible because I could see everything everyone else is doing but they couldn’t see me.

9. If you won $20 million in the lottery, what would you do with the money?
Put most of it in my savings and spend the rest on a ticket to California to visit my uncles and cousins, and to go shopping.

10. What’s it like to be a part of the Monmouth College women’s basketball program?
Being part of the Monmouth College women’s basketball team has been one of the best experiences I have had in my first year of college. Our team is a second family and a makes being two and half hours away from a much easier adjustment. I have made so many friends by just being involved with basketball. Outside of making life-long friends, being on the women’s basketball team is hard work and takes time and a lot of dedication! Being on the basketball team has taught me to never give up and if you want something bad enough you will work hard and make it happen!

 

Class of 2015

  

INTRODUCING: Jessica Howard (Galesburg High School)

1. What has been your proudest achievement so far?

Definitely this basketball season as a whole. We really came together as a family and worked hard every single day- which led us to the Elite Eight.

2. What do you expect to be doing ten years from now?
Hopefully I will have a successful career and be married. I also want to be a basketball coach at Galesburg.

3. How do you define “success?”
Success is working hard every day for something that you want and setting high goals for yourself and then achieving those goals. Anyone can be successful by luck, but not everyone can be successful by hard work and determination.

4. How would you describe yourself to someone who did not know you?
I would say that I’m pretty shy and quiet once I meet people, but after I get to know them and become comfortable I open up- and I’m a pretty easy going person. I also enjoy working hard for things that I want.

5. If you could talk with any one living (or deceased) person, whom would it be and why?
I would have to choose two people- choosing just one person is too hard. I would pick my Uncle Russell and Walter Steck, both of whom have passed away. I grew up being around my Uncle Russell all the time and he was my best friend, so getting to talk to him would be amazing. Walter was one of my dearest friends and family to me and I miss him every day. Both of these two also told the best stories, so I’d enjoy hearing some.

6. What about you is unique?
I love to read! My favorite book is Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini is a close tie.

7. What do you want to get out of your college experience?
I want to receive a great education that will prepare me for the type of career that I choose, which I’m confident Monmouth will provide.