Getting To Know EliAlcaraz
| Born: | |
| Parents: | Daniel and Jody Alcaraz |
| Major: | International Relations, Spanish |
| Nickname: | E |
| The best thing about Stanford is: | The 3am debates that start about if Pepsi is better than Coke and end up with what is the meaning of life...oh! And Stanford Men's Gymnastics |
| My favorite place on campus is: | Outside my house, at the benches eating dinner, in the spring, watching the sun set over the lake. |
| Ten years from now I hope to be: | An NCAA Team Champion, graduate of law school, bartender, entering my political career and still loving life. |
| My favorite class at Stanford: | Buddhist Political and Social Theory/ Human Behavioral Biology |
| Something people would be surprised to know about me: | I am a certified SCUBA diver as was a huge X-Files fan. |
| The place I would most like to visit: | The Moon and Area 51 |
| My favorite pre-meet rituals are: | Watching our team videos, Mushroom Clap, and feeling like a million bucks when the whole team walks out on the floor decked out in Stanford Gear. |
| Stanford Men's Gymnastics will be fun to watch this year because: | We are going to win and we have style and class. |
| My greatest athletic moment was: | Nailing my floor routine at last year's Stanford Open to help us to a team victory. It is my favorite because when I finished I yelled out of joy, but couldn't hear my own voice because a crowd of 1,300 was cheering even louder back at me. |
| The athlete I admire most: | Jordan Jovtchev |
| The current or former Stanford athlete I most enjoying watching perform: | Dan Gill (Men's Gymnastics), Cynthia Barboza (Women's Vollyball) |
| Since coming to Stanford, I have learned: | The best pick-up line ever. |
| Best book I have ever read: | The Game, The Stanford Spirit, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Favorite food: | Hot Cheetos |
| Least favorite food: | Lima Beans |
| If I had to cook all of my meals, I'd probably survive on: | Hot Cheetos, eggs, otter pops, no beans chili, Ketchup, Pizza My Heart coupons, and vanilla frosting |
| Favorite movie: | The Alcaraz Family Christmas 1990 (do home movies count?) |
| Favorite TV show: | Lost, Heroes, South Park |
| Favorite actor: | Al Pacino |
| Favorite actress: | Keira Knightly |
| My ultimate SportsCenter highlight would be: | Stanford Gymnastics Winning 4 in a row. |
| My favorite musical group: | Alkaline Trio and Dashboard Confessional |
| The best advice I ever received was: | Never pass up anything free. |
| If I could invite three people to dinner in history, they would be: | The original Buddha, William Jennings Bryan, Thurgood Marshall |
| I'd like to switch places for a day with: | A Dinosaur |
| If I could bring anything from my hometown to Stanford it would be: | My family |
| If I had one CD to listen to it would be: | "Good Morning" -Alkaline Trio |
| One wish I would make for the 21st Century: | Solve sustainability, cure death, make humans able to fly. |
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