He grew up in Ripon and went to high school there, and is the latest to participate in “20 questions.”
Q: If you could’ve been anything or did anything for a living, what would it have been?
A: Playing for the Milwaukee Brewers, or their general manager.
Q: What was the most trouble you’ve ever gotten into as a child?
A: I didn’t get into a whole lot of trouble as a kid. There was no major incident. I remember getting benched by my parents at a campground for like running out into the road.
Q: What was your least favorite school subject?
A: Math. No real reason, I just had a stronger interest in other subjects. I don’t dislike math, it just wasn’t my main thing.
Q: What was the most embarrassing moment for you in any sport?
A: Trying to score a run from second and rounding third, slipping and falling, and getting thrown out.
Q: What’s the longest you’ve been without a cell phone and how did you survive?
A: A four-day weekend. It was peaceful.
Q: Why did you want to become an athletic director?
A: I thought it would be a neat way to be able to have a positive impact in the lives of young people through sports.
Q: What do you love most about your job?
A: The opportunity to interact with the students, the staff, and the community, and to have a positive experience around athletics for everybody.
Q: What’s something you do as AD that most people would not know about?
A: I pray for the student athletes and the teams.
Q: What’s the funniest thing that’s happened at one of your jobs?
A: I don’t know if it’s ha-ha funny or strange, but when I was athletic director at Greendale, we had the lights go out in the middle of a basketball game. What it was, a little kid had been throwing a tennis ball against like one of our circuit boxes or whatever. None of us had seen it happen. Somehow that triggered the lights to go off.
Q: How would you describe your office?
A: I’m new here, and I’ve been organizing things. Usually there’s something like a mascot costume laying around in the office, but right now there isn’t.
Q: What scares you the most?
A: Sharks in the ocean.
Q: What is the best restaurant in the area?
A: I’ll go with Parker John’s.
Q: Favorite movie?
A: Field of Dreams.
Q: What is the one TV show you always have to watch?
A: Anything on the MLB Network.
Q: What’s the best band or musician of all time?
A: All time, that opens it up. I guess I’m just going to say Bob Dylan.
Q: What is the song you enjoy the most but are afraid to admit?
A: I listened to a lot of Disney music, like the soundtracks from movies and stuff, as a young kid. But I enjoy it. And it’s kind of a guilty pleasure.
Q: Let’s say you just won the lottery. What do you do?
A: Buy the Brewers and run the Brewers.
Q: Favorite and least favorite pro athlete?
A: Favorite of all time, Robin Yount. Yadier Molina just always bugs me when he plays the Brewers.
Q: What is the biggest pet peeve you have?
A: People that double park.
Q: What is a hidden talent you have?
A: I do hobby farming, so I raise chickens.
