I was lucky enough to sit down and talk to Timmy, who is a perpetually cool person. Timmy, a futball fan/expert, was kind enough to share with me some fascinating tidbits of his life:
Q: So why did you choose St. John's?
A: I graduated High School as a Junior and my parents didn't want me to go to Arizona, which is where I wanted to go to school cuz they have a very good communications program which is what I was majoring in at the time. So i came to St. Johns and then I decided that I didn't want to do Communications anymore, I wanted to do Journalism and since St. Johns, I knew, had networks and stuff like that in journalism...yeah.
Q: How did it happen that you graduated a year early?
A: I really don't know. I just took all the classes I was supposed to and I always accelerated at a really high rate and stuff like that. I finished all my Math classes in 9th grade, all my English classes were done by at least 10th grade so by eleventh grade it was just doubling up on a couple of History classes which were a breeze also so next thing I knew I was graduating.
Q: What are some of your favorite bands/artists right now?
A: Well, I don't listen to bands except One Republic and I always thought One Republic was from England, but they're actually from Colorado and I learned that today and I was kind of just appalled by that. Yeah, I was like, "What?! Really?!" Their voices sound like in the songs, they always sound like they're from England. Eh, I'm kind of ruined now. But I usually listen to Hip-hop and R&B so J Cole, Chris Brown, I listen to a lot of underground music. I have a lot of friends on campus that do their own type of music so that's where I kind of listen put my ear to more. Radio's really killing songs these days so unless I really get attracted to it and it's worth the download on my iPod, I really don't listen to too much commercial radio, more of just what I like to hear.
Q: When did you get into sports?
Q: When did you get into sports?
A: Sixth grade, I was really good at soccer. I was supposed to play for the JV High School soccer team. But the summer of, I was playing just a regular game with my friends and I got clipped in the knees and then it started to cause inflammation in both my knees so I couldn't run anymore cuz the inflammation would burst out when I would start to do any activities and then I developed arthritis in my feet so pretty much from the knees down, I'm not allowed to do anything active. That killed my whole career of playing soccer so I was like, alright i'll work through the other types of it and that's you know, writing for it, maybe coaching, stuff like that.
Q: I'm sorry to hear that. I'm sure you're extremely upset/disappointed. Did it come to a certain point where you came to terms with it and said, "ok, well since i'm not playing it's ok if I do other things?"
A: Yeah, I mean, you know, at first it was just like "ugh, now all of the stuff I want to do I can't do." I'm not a very religious person but I do believe god does things in mysterious ways and now, that path from playing soccer led me to working harder on the books, graduating early, it also opened my mind to other kind of sports. Not just soccer. I started to watch a lot more basketball, football, baseball and a lot of kids in my own age-group, they were already watching this stuff and they knew so much stuff and they were like "how do you not know that?" and I was always focused on soccer cuz coming from a European-based family, all that came from Europe, nobody being born American, it's soccer, soccer, soccer. For me it was always just soccer. When I go to Europe, I play soccer whether it's in Macedonia where visit my aunts and uncles or when I was in Germany visiting my grandparents I'd always play soccer. Sometimes when I went to Greece I would also be playing soccer. That was always the transcendent, I was always playing soccer. That was what I loved but after that I opened up more to the American sports, baseball and basketball and stuff like that.
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