Prep Confidential

Jackson's 5 Part XVI

Posted by: Marcus Jackson

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 7:12 PM

Each week, staff writer Marcus Jackson will pose five questions to an area prep athlete. This week it's Tuscola three-sport standout (volleyball, basketball, softball) Kelsi Hoey, the reigning News-Gazette Area Softball Player of the Year.

 

MJ: What’s it like around school during homecoming week?

KH: It’s exciting. Once next week starts, we’re going to have different dress-up days and stuff and that’s the most fun time of the year. I like the favorite sports day, you wear your favorite jersey. I’m going to wear a Cardinals jersey.

 

MJ: Your brother Wade was an All-Area football and baseball player for Tuscola but he was never Player of the Year like you were in softball last year. Do you ever give him a hard time about that?

KH: No, I guess last year when I did get Player of the Year he was just excited for me.

 

MJ: You guys seem pretty close and always put each other down on questionnaires as each other’s favorite athlete. Do you really feel that way or do your parents make you do that?

KH: Definitely not that. We really do feel that way about each other. He’s the guy that I look up to and we’re really close. Now that he’s graduated, we used to fight, but now we’re really close.

 

MJ: Now two of your head coaches are named Kohlbecker (volleyball coach Aja and basketball coach Tim). Who’s the better one to play for?

KH: I think they’re both kind of equal in their own way. Aja really gets us going easy and she gets us excited. Tim is just funny and we have a lot of fun at practice and I love playing for both of them.

 

MJ: So there’s no chance I’m going to get you to choose between the two of them?

KH: Nope.

 

MJ: You qualified for state in the discus as a freshman and sophomore, but you no longer compete in the sport. Why?

KH: After we had the whole deal where if I would have made it to the finals it wouldn’t have mattered what I threw because on the day of finals I was going to be at the softball regional championships so I just didn’t want to have to go through that again. I just decided to stick with the team sport.

 

MJ: Was it tough for you to give that up?

KH: Not really. It was tough not spending time with Coach (Stan) Wienke and all of them but it was fine.

 

MJ: Do you have high expectations for basketball and softball after making it to supersectionals in each sport last season?

KH: Definitely. We’ll probably be working harder in each sport, too. We’ve had a couple of girls quit already so that kind of brought us down a little, but I guess we’re going to have to work through that.

 

MJ: You followed the baseball team last year during their run to the state tournament, but be honest, were you a little bit jealous that you guys weren’t playing that weekend, too?

KH: Yeah, there was a little jealousy there, but it was cool watching them be able to do that.

 

MJ: With a lot of girls’ sports, there’s a lot of singing on the bus trips. Do you guys do anything like that on your road trips?

KH: The girls in the back of the bus do, us seniors. It’s not like a tradition or anything, but we always sing on the bus.

 

MJ: Who’s the best singer?

KH: It’s probably a tie between Molly Romine and our statistician Mariah Brookins.

 

MJ: You’re not up there on the list?

KH: I like to sing. They say I’m good, but I don’t know.

 

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