2008 Woodie Awards
Bengal Chat: Matt Stucki
Kasie Scott
Issue date: 3/7/07 Section: Sports
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Bengal: Where did you grow up?
Stucki: I lived in Blackfoot until I was ten, then I moved to Pocatello.
Bengal: How long have you played basketball?
Stucki: I've played since as long as I can remember. Usually you start in fourth grade but I can remember going to my dad's city league games and playing. I also remember playing ball with my brothers in the back yard.
Bengal: How did you start playing basketball?
Stucki:My dad always played. I played with my dad and my brothers a lot.
Bengal: Why did you choose ball in ISU?
Stucki: Hometown support, I have a lot of support from friends and family. All my family comes to the games and it makes it fun.
Bengal: What are you going to school for?
Stucki: Business management and operations
Bengal: Do you have any favorite professional teams?
Stucki: The 49ers are the bomb all the way. I have favorite individuals but not teams in any other sport but football.
Bengal: What has been your favorite vacation?
Stucki: It was my senior trip to Cancun. I went a week with my high school buddies. We snorkeled, and laid out on the beach. The ocean was nice and blue. You could see all the way down to the bottom.
Bengal: What was your first job?
Stucki: It was a landscaping job when I was 15. I dug ditches for sprinkler systems and mowed lawns for three summers.
Bengal: How do you feel that the over all regular season has gone overall?
Stucki: We've had ups and downs and have been ending in a slump, but this is a new season and we'll come on strong.
Bengal: Do you think basketball is a mental game? How do you mentally prepare?
Stucki: I think it's a big time mental game. Shooting is all mental. Before the game I sit for 15 or 20 minutes and visualize all the stuff that we have been working on in practice and run it through my mind.
Bengal: What do you do for fun?
Stucki: I hang out with my friends and watch movies with my wife. I just hang out and do stuff that does not involve movement.
Stucki: I lived in Blackfoot until I was ten, then I moved to Pocatello.
Bengal: How long have you played basketball?
Stucki: I've played since as long as I can remember. Usually you start in fourth grade but I can remember going to my dad's city league games and playing. I also remember playing ball with my brothers in the back yard.
Bengal: How did you start playing basketball?
Stucki:My dad always played. I played with my dad and my brothers a lot.
Bengal: Why did you choose ball in ISU?
Stucki: Hometown support, I have a lot of support from friends and family. All my family comes to the games and it makes it fun.
Bengal: What are you going to school for?
Stucki: Business management and operations
Bengal: Do you have any favorite professional teams?
Stucki: The 49ers are the bomb all the way. I have favorite individuals but not teams in any other sport but football.
Bengal: What has been your favorite vacation?
Stucki: It was my senior trip to Cancun. I went a week with my high school buddies. We snorkeled, and laid out on the beach. The ocean was nice and blue. You could see all the way down to the bottom.
Bengal: What was your first job?
Stucki: It was a landscaping job when I was 15. I dug ditches for sprinkler systems and mowed lawns for three summers.
Bengal: How do you feel that the over all regular season has gone overall?
Stucki: We've had ups and downs and have been ending in a slump, but this is a new season and we'll come on strong.
Bengal: Do you think basketball is a mental game? How do you mentally prepare?
Stucki: I think it's a big time mental game. Shooting is all mental. Before the game I sit for 15 or 20 minutes and visualize all the stuff that we have been working on in practice and run it through my mind.
Bengal: What do you do for fun?
Stucki: I hang out with my friends and watch movies with my wife. I just hang out and do stuff that does not involve movement.
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