Getting to Know ... Eliza Wack

Each week we will be sitting down to get to know one of our Louisville rowing student-athlete. This week, we get to know Eliza Wack. She is a sophomore interior design major from Nicholasville, Ky.

Q: What is your favorite pump-up song?
A: Transportin' by Kodak Black

Q: What is your favorite pregame meal?
A: Turkey avocado blt from Panera

Q: Where is your favorite place you have competed?
A: Oakridge, Tenn.

Q: Excluding your sport, what is your favorite sport to watch?
A: Hockey

Q: What is your favorite movie?
A: Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Q: What is a hobby that you have that most people do not know you have?
A: Art

Q: Do you have any pre-race rituals?
A: Putting on mascara

Q: If you could pick any college to compete against, who would it be?
A: University of Virginia

Q: Who is your hero/role model?
A: Shawn Johnson

Q: If you could eat one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?
A: Grapes

Q: What is your favorite animal to see at the zoo?
A: Polar bears

Q: What is your biggest pet peeve?
A: Chewing with your mouth open

Q: If you could go against anyone one-on-one, who would it be?
A: Lucie Heranova' in a seat race

Q: If you could see one artist in concert, who would it be?
A: Post Malone

Q: What is your favorite song to sing karaoke to?
A: Shower by Becky G

Q: What is one thing most people do not know about you?
A: I'm dyslexic

Q: Besides your own, what is one sport you wish you were really good at?
A: Hockey

Q: Who is your celebrity crush?
A: Drake

Q: What celebrity do people often say you look like?
A: "You look like a hobbit" – Vic Goldin

Q: Who is your favorite fictional character?
A: Ron Weasly

Q: What is your best memory/experience playing your sport?
A: My 4 in Oakridge with Tress, Olivia & Dukes. We had such a good practice and it was one of the best times being in a boat with such good people and being so happy about it.

Q: Why did you choose Louisville?
A: It gave me the opportunity to row and I loved the campus.

Q: How do you know coming to Louisville was the right decision for you?
A: When I stepped on campus and it felt like home. Then I started rowing and meeting the team and then it felt like everything fell into place.

Q: What is one thing our program has taught you?
A: That you can do so, sooooo much more than you thought you could. In rowing and in life because we are taught to go, work hard and break the limits of what you think you can do.

Q: What is your favorite thing about our team/program?
A: The people: they work so hard and love every minute of it. It is such a different mindset to walk into and it just makes you so excited to be there everyday.

Q: What is the best part about being a student-athlete at Louisville?
A: The community and meeting likeminded people who love there sport and want to be better everyday.

Q: What do you miss most about being on campus?
A: Seeing people daily and having coffee dates with the team in Starbucks because we basically live there.

Q: What are you doing with yourself during your free time?
A: Running, school, shenanigans

Q: What's one thing you wish you had with you during this time?
A: My people. I miss seeing everyone everyday.

Q: How are you continuing to stay in shape during this time?
A: I got an erg so I've been getting meters in that way and running.

Q: How have you and your teammates been keeping in contact?
A: FaceTime, Instagram, Snapchat, and Netflix party

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