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Jeff Roland

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Name: Jeff Roland

Favorite Food: Any kind of pasta

Favorite Movie:  Super Troopers

Favorite Television Show: Entourage

Favorite Musical Artist: Dispatch, O.A.R.

A word to describe me when I am competing: Intense

A word to describe me away from the athletic venue: Relaxed

My most memorable athletic moment was:  Quadruple overtime basketball victory senior year in high school

My most memorable Emory athletic moment: Running at Pre-Nationals my freshman year. Hopefully this will change to running at Nationals after this season is over

What I like most about Emory: My friends

I would like to switch places for the day with: Roy Williams

My favorite place on the Emory campus:  The Woodpec, I spend too much time there for it not to be.

Favorite pro athlete:  Antawn Jamison

The sports teams I followed when I was younger: North Carolina and most of the Boston teams – Patriots, Celtics. For some reason I’ve always hated the Red Sox even though I’m from New Hampshire

My favorite class at Emory and why: History of Film since 1938. I learned so much about the industry and I look at films a completely different way now.

The people who have helped me most at Emory are and why: My teammates. They’re always there for me when I’ve needed them most

Any pre-meet/competition rituals:  I always listen to Baba O’Reilly by The Who after I warm up and before I put on my spikes

The sport I would be playing if I wasn’t running/on the track and field team: I played basketball in high school

If I could have dinner with only three people in history, they would be: James Naismith, Johnny Evers (my great uncle, who’s in the Baseball Hall of Fame and I never got to meet), George Washington

The best advice I have ever been given and who gave it to you: You should never go into a race nervous. The training you’ve done should give you the confidence you need to succeed – Bob Kennedy

What is something that very few, if any, people know about you: I was actually born in Atlanta