Q&A: Anna Barkey

Karina Rodriguez | THE RIDER

Q: What is your favorite sports memory?

A:“I think the semi-final game at the [Western Athletic Conference] tournament. It was pretty exciting.” 

Q:Other than sports what are your favorite hobbies?

A: “I’m from Colorado, so a lot of hiking. We have these mountains called fourteeners and their peak is 14,000 ft. or higher so those are like an 8-10-hour trip of walking. So, my friends and I spent a lot of time with those.”

Q: What do you plan to pursue after graduating from college?

A: “I would love to play professionally. I think in Europe. Just to get that experience. Two-in-one, soccer and travel.” 

Q: Who do you credit the most for your pursual of athletics?

A:“Probably my dad. My dad and his side of the family all played college soccer, so it runs in the family.”

Q: Who is your favorite celebrity?

A: “I love ‘The Office’ so the actor who plays Michael. Steve Carrell.”

Q: What is your favorite sports team?

A: “If I am going to watch, I always watch the U.S. Women’s National Team.”

Q: How long have you been playing soccer?

A: “Since I was 3, so 17 years.” 

Q: What is your favorite kind of music?

A: “Depends on the mood. I just like, I am really bad with music and artists, so I just like the songs that I can know the lyrics and sing out really loud with my friends, you know. So, whatever is popular, I guess.”

Q: What is your favorite food?

A: “Buffalo wings, the spicy kind.”

Q: If you had to play any other sport what would it be and why?

A: “I played basketball back in the day. But I have always thought, I don’t know, I feel like basketball.”