March 6, 2006
1. What's the biggest difference that you've found in your performances and training from your freshman season to this point as a sophomore?
DM - "I think that it's been the level of training and experience from my first year."
2. What are your goals for the upcoming outdoor track and field season?
DM - "I want to break the school record in the 100-meter dash and qualify for regionals."
3. You came to the Rio Grande Valley from the Virgin Islands, how did that come about?
DM - "Coach (Marisa) Robinson knew my old sprint coach, and met at a meet in San Antonio where he told her about me."
4. How did you first get involved in track and field?
DM - "I got started when I was about seven years old just participating in school events."
5. In your eyes, are the sprint events more mental or physical?
DM - "It's definitely more mental. For me being injured, I can feel it on the track in practice, and I just have to push through it."
6. What are your thoughts before, during and after each race?
DM - "Before the race, I think about how I am going to run it. I really go blank during the race, and sometimes I don't even stick to my plan. After the race, I'll talk with the coaches and see what I did and what I didn't do."
7. During the indoor season, you broke the school record in both the 55-meter and 60-meter dash events. Was that one of your goals coming into the season or is it something that just happened through great training and preparation?
DM - "It really just happened because it was my first indoor meet."
8. What is the one thing about the sprinting events that the normal, everyday person wouldn't understand?
DM - "I think that it's the mechanics that goes into sprints. From the drive base to the transition to being relaxed towards the finish line, there are a lot of minor details that goes into a race."
9. How much of a difference is there between competing in the indoor season to the outdoor season?
DM - "There really isn't that much of a difference in actually competing, but probably the surface of the track is different. I like the indoor tracks better because it has a better surface to me."
10. Who has been a major impact in your life?
DM - "My momma because she always reminds me to stay focused, and that I am here for purpose. She never lets me quit."
1. What is the first car you drove after getting your license?
DM - I don't have my license.
2. What is the first thing you pack before going on a road trip?
DM - Clothes
3. What is the first CD you ever bought?
DM - Destiny's Child
4. What is the first Halloween costume you remember wearing?
DM - Maid
5. What is the first thought that runs through your head in the morning?
DM - I don't want to get up.
6. What is the last concert that you ever attended?
DM - 50 Cent
7. What is the last karaoke song that you've performed?
DM - I've never done it.
8. What was the last book that you read for pleasure?
DM - Bible
9. What was the last DVD that you bought?
DM - What's Love Got To Do With It
10. What was the last movie that you saw in the theaters that you couldn't wait to be over?
DM - Something New
1. Television Father - Homer Simpson, Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable or Al Bundy?
DM - Cliff Huxtable
2. College Movie - Animal House, Old School or Back to School?
DM - Old School
3. Season Break - Christmas Break or Spring Break?
DM - Christmas Break... I get three weeks of sleep.
4. Cartoon Child Troublemaker - Stewie Griffin or Bart Simpson?
DM - Bart Simpson
5. Board Game - Connect Four, Sorry or Monopoly?
DM - Monopoly
6. Way to Predict the Future - Crystal Ball, Tarot Cards or Palm Reading?
DM - Crystal Ball
7. ABC TGIF Show - Full House, Perfect Strangers or Family Matters?
DM - Family Matters
8. Reality Show - Survivor, Real World or Fear Factor?
DM - Flava of Love is the best reality show.
9. Late Night Talk Show Host - Jay Leno, David Letterman or Conan O'Brien?
DM - David Letterman
10. Trash Magazine - National Enquirer or Star?
DM - Star
1. What is the best advice you've ever received?
DM - "You have to love track and field and have a passion for it."
2. What is the worst advice you've ever received?
DM - I've never received any bad advice.
3. What is the best thing about being a sprinter?
DM - Competing
4. What is the worst thing about being a sprinter?
DM - Practicing
5. The best class that you've taken since being at UTPA?
DM - Kinesiology
6. The worst class that you've taken since being at UTPA?
DM - Accounting and Quantitative Methods
7. The best road trip as a Lady Bronc that you've taken?
DM - Texas Tech... we flew.
8. The worst road trip as a Lady Bronc that you've taken?
DM - UTEP... we were on a bus for 15 hours.
9. The best trash talker on the track and field team?
DM - Me
10. The worst trash talker on the track and field team?
DM - Liliana Cavazos
1. If you could pick one celebrity to play your life in a movie?
DM - Angela Bassett
2. If you weren't running track at UTPA, were would you be and what would you be doing?
DM - Working at home
3. If you were a superhero, what would be your superpowers?
DM - Get everything that I want
4. If you could be at one place anywhere in the world right now, where would it be?
DM - Heaven
5. If you had the power to change one thing in your life (past or present), what would it be?
DM - My mom wouldn't be so far away
6. If you could change one thing about your stay at UTPA, what would it be and why?
DM - It would be more diverse
7. If you could pick one person in the world to sprint against, who would it be?
DM - Veronica Campbell
8. If you could have dinner with any three people (dead or alive), who would you invite?
DM - Devin Reed, My mom and Angela Bassett
9. If you have to select a cast to play the coaching staff in a television show, who would that cast include?
DM - Coach Vaughn would be played by Samuel L. Jackson... Coach Cunningham would be played by Jim Carey and an actor that is quiet would play Coach Ybarra.
10. If you could pick one track in the world to run on, which one would it be?
DM - The University of Texas
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