Kinesiology major and senior Jordan Yuson is an athlete of many trades–he strings rackets for the tennis team, manages the intramural sports program and plays a number of sports in his spare time. 

Kristina Schenck: Which athletic activities do you participate in?

Jordan Yuson: For intramurals, I’m just going to name off what I can think of — racquetball, dodgeball, basketball. I did play a game of indoor soccer if you want to count that, volleyball…sand volleyball as well, I like to play ultimate on the side and do a little running on the side as well. 

KS: Why do you play so many sports? 

JY: It sort of comes with the territory … I manage the intramural sports program, so why not play also at the same time as managing?   

KS: Does managing change your perspective of the game?

JY: Being able to teach somebody something in turn teaches me that same technique or skill set. 

KS: What’s your dream athletic activity?

JY: I want to do wind suit proximity flying, so flying as close to rocks, roads, trees as possible.  

KS: What’s your proudest moment as an athlete?

JY: I like to think of myself as a well-decorated intramural champion here at St. Edward’s. Three-time champion for volleyball, defending champion for sand volleyball. One-time champion for racquetball. 

KS: If you could choose a new mascot for St. Edward’s, what would it be?

JY: I already made a project about this in Kinesiology. I would choose the Sorin Oak … we chose the Sorin Oak to represent the school. So, like how we have the Hilltopper name, but we could be the Oaks.  But we are represented by a squirrel because we have so many squirrels on campus. I figured that having a tree to be a mascot would pose a very big liability risk. You can’t have tree branches hitting people … I thought this through. 

KS: If you had to pick an animal to represent you, which would you choose?

JY: Giraffe. I always liked how tall they are.

KS: Do you think they would be good at basketball? 

JY: Something like that.