Iona University Athletics

GET TO KNOW SOFIA:

• Favorite athlete? Peter Snell
• Favorite food? Butter Chicken
• Favorite sports memory? Making the NZSS cross country team 2 years in a row and competing at the Australian cross country champs and coming 6th
• Nickname? Sof
• Hobbies outside of sports? Food, family and friends, coaching
• Career goals? Get BSC in Biology and then continue to study to become a sports doctor
• Person I would most like to meet and why? Keely Hodgkinson as she is doing what I want to do in the future and she is one of the top 800m runners in the world
• Interesting things/facts about you? I am 1/4 Spanish and 1/4 Canadian
• After Iona I plan on? Continuing post grad study back home in NZ, keep on running- hopefully make nz teams for worlds or olympics
• Person/people I admire most and why? Richard Potts, my coach in NZ
• Biggest accomplishment in life so far? Making 4 NZSS teams and earning a scholarship to a D1 college in the states (Iona University)
• I try to mold my game after? Keely Hodgkinson
• Pregame rituals? Custard the night before a race, Milo