Eat Like a COLLEGIATE Athlete Day in the life of Wills Francis Being a Female COLLEGIATE Athlete
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Editor in Chief Mason Duling
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Creative Consultant
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Ally Witt Wills Francis Logan Meurer
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EVAN Rahn BASEBALL
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Name: Evan Rahn Age: 22 Height: 6’3” Weight: 185lb Sport: Baseball Position: Right Handed Pitcher High School: Bettendorf Major: English Writing Home Town: Bettendorf, IA Favorite Food: Carbs Role Model: Dad (Rick Rahn) Favorite Sports Team: St. Cardinals Favorite Gatorade Flavor: Grape Favorite Pro Athlete: Micheal Jordan Fun Fact: Leap Year Baby 2/29/92
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Tyler Peters Basketball
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Name: Tyler Peters Age: 22 Height: 6’4” Weight: 200 lbs. Sport: Men’s Basketball Position: Guard High School: Medina High School Major: Business/Economies Home Town: Medina, Ohio Role Model: Jody Peters (Tyler’s Father) Favorite Movie: Count of Monte Christo Favorite Sports Team: Cleveland Cavaliers Favorite Gatorade Flavor: Orange Favorite Pro Athlete: Novak Djokovic Fun Fact: “I once had aspirations of becoming an Olymic badminton player.”
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Find Your Color.
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Maris Hovee Basketball
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Name: Maris Hovee Age: 22 Height: 6’1” Weight:175 Women’s Basketball Position: Power Forward High School: June Buchahan Major: Applied Health Science Home Town: Pippa Passes, KY Favorite Food: Taco Bell Chalupa Role Model: My Dad “he’s a pretty cool dude” Favorite Movie: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King Favorite Sports Team: Oregan Ducks Football Favorite Gatorade Flavor: Purple Favorite Pro Athlete: Lebron James “I hate the Heat but he’s amazing” Fun Fact: “I can’t go past my knees in the ocean because I’m deathly afraid of sharks.” 16
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James Waterman Cross Country
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Name: James Waterman Age: 22 Height: 5’10” Weight: 130 Sport: Cross Country High School: Wheaton North Major: Applied Health Science Home Town: Wheaton, IL Favorite Food: Culvers Double Deluxe Burger Role Model: My Coach- Scott Bradley Favorite Movie: Warrior Favorite Sports Team: Bulls Favorite Gatorade Flavor: Orange Favorite Pro Athlete: Derrick Rose Fun Fact: “I have an identical twin.”
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Jesse Geary Football
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Name: Jesse Geary Age: 21 Height: 5’11” Weight: 220 Sport: Football Position: Tail Back High School: Mountain Vista Major: Applied Health Science Home Town: Parker, Colorado Favorite Food: BBQ Ribs Role Model: Pat Dansdill Favorite Movie: School of Rock Favorite Sports Team: Broncos Favorite Gatorade Flavor: Orange Favorite Pro Athlete: Adrian Peterson Fun Fact: “I have never had braces.” He Wants You to Know: “I love snowboarding”
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Matt Adams Golf
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Name: Matt Adams Age: 20 Height: 5’11” Weight: 170 Sport: Golf High School: Heritage Academy Major: Business/ Economics Home Town: Martinez, CA Favorite Food: Blackened Shrimp Role Model: Arnold Palmer Favorite Movie: Crazy, Stupid, Love Favorite Sports Team: San Francisco Giants Favorite Gatorade Flavor: Glacier Freeze Favorite Pro Athlete: Adam Scott Fun Fact: “I love to fish. I usually don’t catch anything, and usually hurt myself, but I love it.”
Jonathan Clark Soccer
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Name: Jonathan Clark Age: 20 Height: 6’0� Weight: 173 Sport: Mens Soccer Position: Midfield/Defense High School: Palatine High School Major: Business Economics Home Town: Palatine, IL Favorite Food: Chipotle Burrito Role Model: Josh (older brother) Favorite Movie: Warrior Favorite Sports Team: Arsenal Favorite Gatorade Flavor: White Cherry Favorite Pro Athlete: Mesut Ozil
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Ally Witt Soccer
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Name: Ally Witt Age: 20 Height: 5’6” Weight: 130lb Sport: Soccer Position: Forward High School: Wheaton Academy Major: BITH & Christian Education Home Town: Hanover Park, IL Favorite Food: Chips & Guacamole or Sushi Role Models: Kelly Peacock (pasters wife), Leah DeMoss, Mom Favorite Movie: Despicable Me or Italian Job Favorite Sports Teams: Bulls & Blackhawks Favorite Gatorade Flavor: Glacier Freeze Favorite Pro Athletes: Patrick Kane, Alex Morgan, and Brian Scalabrine Fun Fact: “I have a 3 legged dog.” She Wants You to Know: “If you can’t tell by the fact that I gave multiple answers for every question, I’m incredibly indecisive.”
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BEING A FEMALE COLLEGIATE ATHLETE eing a college athlete is so much more than just showing up to practice for two hours a day and playing in an occasional game. It is about pushing yourself to an even higher level of motivation, determination, and work ethic day in and day out. Being a college athlete requires you to push yourself both mentally, physically, and emotionally further than you thought you could, because being “good” is not going to get you very far at the colligate level. It is important as a college athlete to maintain a high level of disciple both in your sport and also in your time management. Passion is also incredibly important when desiring to succeed in a sport, or in anything for that matter. If you’re going to push yourself right up to the line of breaking down mentally and physically then it better be something you’re passionate about. Being a part of a team is also a huge part of what it means to be a college athlete. Recognizing that the things that you do or do not do affect not only yourself but also affect an entire team is something that cannot be taken lightly. Learning to work for and with others is an incredible life skill that is learned through being an athlete. Learning that success will come when unity within a team is deeply rooted in service and love for each other is also gained through being an athlete. More specifically, being a female athlete makes things a little bit more unique. Aside from it being a bit more emotional and dramatic from time to time, there are a lot of different challenges that male athletes do not necessarily have
to deal with. One of the challenges is recognizing that there is not going to be a lot of recognition. Women’s sports are not going to get as much press, as many fans, or as much glory as the men’s sports do, which is understandable! It just adds a unique aspect to playing a sport at a higher level. It is also hard as a female athlete to accept the fact that we cannot be as strong or as fast as the male athletes; our bodies were simply not created to sustain as high of a level of intensity in sports as men’s bodies can. Understanding and accepting that is very important as a female athlete. Being an athlete teaches you innumerable amounts of lessons that are so paralleled to things pertaining to life. I have learned more about myself, faith, others, and just life in general from being an athlete, and these are things I do not know how I would have learned had it not been for the opportunity to be involved in sports throughout my life and through college. -Ally Witt
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Wills Francis Swimming
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Name: Wills Francis Age: 21 Height: 6’3” Weight: 185 lb. Sport: Swimming Position: Sprint Freestyle and Backstroke High School: Frank W. Cox High Major: Business/ Economics Home Town: Virginia Beach, VA Favorite Food: Cornbread Role Model: Jon Lederhouse Favorite Movie: O Brother Where Art Thou Favorite Sports Team: LA Dodgers Favorite Gatorade Flavor: Lemon Lime Favorite Pro Athlete: John Offerdahl Fun Fact: “I own a miniature dachshund named Cridget.”
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DAY IN THE LIFE OF WILLS FRANCIS oming from a very relaxed highschool swimming program to swimming on the Wheaton College swim team was no easy transition. I was forced to adjust to a lifestyle of swim training rather than an after-school hobby. Here at Wheaton, swimmers take their training very seriously, and you almost never walk into an easy day. In the peak of our training, my day starts at 5:30 am. I wake up and hopefully grab a piece of fruit or a granola bar to get my body moving and awake as I drive to the pool with the 3 other senior captains I live with. We arrive and meet with the coach in suits at 6am sharp. Morning practice is usually focused on kicking, so we will get in up to 3000 yards in an hour and a half. Practice begins with warm up and getting in some slow interval, distance kicking then we get into faster kicks on shorter intervals. One of our coach’s favorite sets is 10 100s on 1:30 each with each getting faster. After this we do some resistance swimming where we attach a mesh bag filled with tennis balls to our waists. We only swim with the ball bags in short distance, slow interval sprints to focus on sprinting at a high kicking intensity. While I, and most of the sprinters, only swim mornings until 7:15 or so, many of the distance swimmers will continue swimming until 8, usually getting in up to 6000 yards in morning practice alone. After practice I hop in the shower, get dressed, and run to grab some breakfast before my first class. I usually have two classes a day and work on homework in the early afternoon in an attempt to not stay up super late because waking up at 5:30 takes a toll with only 4 hours of sleep. At 3:30pm, I arrive back at the pool for a team meeting where we discuss how our training is going and what we need to do to prepare harder and smarter. Team meeting usually
includes a devotional from an athlete and some information we need to know about an upcoming meet or practice protocol. At 4pm we are back in the water. On a typical Monday or Friday when we have doubles, we will work primarily on our freestyle stroke with minimal specialty stroke focus. Friday practice usually starts with a warm up and some distance swimming to get our bodies prepped and ready to go fast. We then go into some medium rest, medium distance swimming such as a few 200s freestyle with around 15 seconds of rest in between each one. We then go into some descending swims which means each swim is faster than the one before. For example, we will swim 6 100s with the last one being close to as fast as we can go. Around this time I start questioning why I continue to do this painful sport. From here we do what coach calls a “measurement set” which helps assess our level of training potential. We will do 100s with each 100 on a faster interval than the one before until we are too exhausted to make the interval. For example, we will start the 100s on the 1:40, then 1:35, then 1:30, then 1:25, etc until we cannot touch the wall before the next one begins. Overall we swim around 5000-6000 yards, close to 3 and a half miles, over an hour and a half. The sprinters then get out and go into the weightroom for lifting. My lifting group focuses on heavier loads with high intensity because of our body type and need for explosive power in the 50 and 100. Our most common lifts are pullups, bench presses, squats, dips, and weighted core exercises. We will lift for another hour and then shower and change to head to dinner. We try to eat well and get lots of sleep to get up and do it all over again. -Wills Francis
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Ali Offerdahl Swimming
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Name: Ali Offerdahl Age: 21 Height: 5’8” Weight: 145 Sport: Swimming Stroke: Sprint freestyle (50, 100, 200), 100 fly High School: Westminster Academy Major: Applied Health Science Home Town: Fort Lauderdale, FL Favorite Food: Sushi Role Model: My Dad “he’s just so goofy and awesome” Favorite Movie: Hot Rod Favorite Sports Team: Miami Heat Favorite Gatorade Flavor: Glacier Freeze Favorite Pro Athlete: Gabrielle Reece Fun Fact: “I spend the majority of my life in the water- training in the pool or freediving/snorkling/padaleboarding in the ocean.”
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Josh Ward Tennis
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Name: Josh Ward Age: 20 Height: 6’0” Weight: 160 Sport: Mens Tennis High School: Madison Academic High School Major: Christian Education Home Town: Jackson, TN Favorite Food: Pizza Role Model: My Dad Favorite Movie: Remember the Titans Favorite Sports Team: Chicago Bulls Favorite Gatorade Flavor: Cool Blue Favorite Pro Athlete: Rafael Nadal Fun Fact: “I am left handed.” He Wants You to Know: “I have never been out west.”
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Erika Nelson Tennis
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Name: Erika Nelson Age: 19 Height: 5’4” Weight: 111 Sport: Tennis High School: Salisbury High School Major: Christian Education Home Town: Salisbury, NC Favorite Food: Pizza and Fries Role Model: Grandmother Favorite Movie: Justin Bieber Movie Favorite Sport Team: Florida Gators Favorite Gatorade Flavor: Blue Frost Favorite Pro Athlete: Tim Tebow Fun Fact: “I like to ride dirt bikes with my family.” 58
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MUSCLE MILK
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Riley Mulhern Track and Field
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Name: Riley Mulhern Age: 22 Height: 5’11” Weight: 150 Sport: Track & Field Position: 800 m High School: Littleton High School Major: Geophysics Home Town: Englewood, CO Favorite Food: Pasta Role Model: Wendell Berry Favorite Movie: Gandhi Favorite Sports Team: Colorado Rockies Favorite Gatorade Flavor: Glacial Freeze Favorite Pro Athlete: Peyton Manning Fun Fact: “Always wanted to be a chef as a child.”
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THE BMW i8
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Ally MOore Track and Field
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Name: Ally Moore Age: 20 Height: 5’6” Weight: 130 lb Sport: Track Event: 400m High School: Glenbard West Major: Business/ Economics Home Town: Glen Ellyn, IL Favorite Food: Sushi Role Model: Bob Goff Favorite Movie: Remember the Titans Favorite Sports Team: Blackhawks Favorite Gatorade Flavor: Strawberry Favorite Pro Athlete: Russell Wilson Fun Fact: “I figure-skated competitvely for 8 years.”
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Andrea DeMoss VolleyBall
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Name: Andrea DeMoss Age: 20 Height: 6’0” Weight: 137 Sport: Volleyball Position: Right side/ Outside Hitter High School: West Morris Mendham High School Major: Communication Home Town: Chester, NJ Favorite Food: Pasta, bread, frozen yogurt Role Model: My Mom Favorite Movie: Lion King Favorite Sports Team: Bulls Favorite Gatorade Flavor: Lemon Lime Favorite Pro Athlete: Michael Jordan Fun Fact: “I paint portraits and sell them.” She Wants You to Know: “I love Chipmunk versions of songs.”
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Logan Meurer Wrestling
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Name: Logan Meurer Age: 22 Hieght: 5’10” Weight: 160 Sport: Wrestling Position: 157 lb weight class High School: Ashton- Franklin Center High School Major: History & Secondary Ed. Home Town: Ashton, IL Favorite Food: Chick-fil-a Role Models: Jim Gruenwald (coach) and my Dad Favorite Movie: Shawshank Redemption Favorite Sports Team: Packers Favorite Gatorade Flavor: Grape Favorite Pro Athlete: Brett Favre Fun Fact: “I’m going into the Marines post- graduation.” He Wants You to Know: “I originally wanted to play football at Wheaton, but felt called to be a part of the wrestling program.”
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Eat LIke a COLLEGIATE Athlete Weekly In-Season Diet Plan of Logan Meurer (Senior, Team Captain. 157 lbs)
At the start of the season, weight cutting is the most difficult. This is due to the fact that your body is essentially in shock from the increase in calories burned, and the decrease in calories and water taken in. For example, on a normal Saturday during the beginning of the season, I will weigh in at roughly 7am at a tournament. By the end of the day, I could be anywhere from 10-12 pounds heavier than what I weighed in at that same morning. As the season goes on, however, the weight cut gets a little easier, and I typically don’t gain as much weight back the days following a weigh in. For example, I may only be 6-8 pounds heavier than what I weighed in at during the week. Keep in mind, I only lost about 13 pounds in order to make weight this year, which is not much compared to some of my teammates who lost 20+ pounds. Here’s what I would typically eat during a competition week:
Monday-Thursday (my portions continually get smaller as the week goes on)
Breakfast Medium sized serving of scrambled eggs Small bowl of yogurt w/ granola 1 grapefruit 1 glass of skim milk
Lunch Salad w/ lunch meat or hard boiled egg on top 1 glass of water
Dinner Small serving of a carbohydrate (typically pasta or rice) 1 serving of chicken or beef Spinach salad with sunflower or pumpkins seeds & little dressing 1 glass of water or Gatorade
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Breakfast 1 apple (or nothing depending on weight) 1 cup of coffee
Lunch Typically nothing (maybe a slice of bread w/ peanut butter, depending on how much I weigh) Dinner 1 six inch flat bread sub sandwich w/ meat only (sometimes nothing depending on weight) *I drink very little during the day on Fridays. Probably less than 24oz of water throughout the entire day
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Weigh in around 7am, then slowly rehydrate and refuel throughout the day in between wrestling matches
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Eat normally, and then start working off the weight (8-12 pounds) that I gained over the weekend so I can be ready for the next tournament
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