As the holiday season is quickly approaching, kuseahawks.com wanted to give the fans and student-athletes a chance to get to know the coaches and athletic staff a little bit better. Keiser Athletics will be running a four-day segment, beginning with today's feature group.
 
The coaches and athletics staff were asked a series of 11 questions, each pertaining to the holiday season. Below are the various answers provided:

1. What's the worst gift you ever got?
   1. David Claybrooks (Assistant Track & Field Coach): N/A
   2. Terri Knecht (Head Softball Coach): Barbie hair and style set
   3. Kate Sjaardema (Assistant Women's Lacrosse Coach): Fuzzy socks: every year at our team holiday party, I always end up with the fuzzy socks
   4. Kayla Kregel (Assistant Track & Field Coach): Definitely don't remember…all gifts are either used for myself or to give onto someone else they are that bad
   5. Daniel Finn (Head Tennis Coach): Losing an assistant coach mid-year
   6. Brandon Miller (Head Golf Coach): A coupon book from my wife
   7. Patrick Johnston (Head Men's Lacrosse Coach): A jar of BBQ sauce with some toothpicks
   8. Lauren Bennett (Head Women's Lacrosse Coach): A cheap jewelry set
   9. Courtney Dunker (Assistant Softball Coach): Don't know about worst

 

1. Favorite Christmas game?
   1. David Claybrooks (Assistant Track & Field Coach): N/A
   2. Terri Knecht (Head Softball Coach): Football
   3. Kate Sjaardema (Assistant Women's Lacrosse Coach): Guardian Angel: Not just your average Secret Santa, you have the person the whole week and have to leave them cute notes or chocolates or something, then at the end of the week after opening the actual Secret Santa gift, you reveal yourself.
   4. Kayla Kregel (Assistant Track & Field Coach): White elephant gift exchange
   5. Daniel Finn (Head Tennis Coach): Pool
   6. Brandon Miller (Head Golf Coach): Heads up
   7. Patrick Johnston (Head Men's Lacrosse Coach): We do a white elephant with our team each year, it's always a great time
   8. Lauren Bennett (Head Women's Lacrosse Coach): White elephant
   9. Courtney Dunker (Assistant Softball Coach): Finding the pickle or LRC

 

1. Favorite Christmas TV episode?
   1. David Claybrooks (Assistant Track & Field Coach): NBA
   2. Terri Knecht (Head Softball Coach): Elf
   3. Kate Sjaardema (Assistant Women's Lacrosse Coach): Any of The Office Christmas specials
   4. Kayla Kregel (Assistant Track & Field Coach): National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
   5. Daniel Finn (Head Tennis Coach): Charlie Brown Christmas
   6. Brandon Miller (Head Golf Coach): Seinfeld Festivus episode
   7. Patrick Johnston (Head Men's Lacrosse Coach): Episode 1, Season 1 of the Simpson's with Santa's Little Helper….classic Homer
   8. Lauren Bennett (Head Women's Lacrosse Coach): N/A
   9. Courtney Dunker (Assistant Softball Coach): N/A

 

1. Toughest person to buy a gift for?
   1. David Claybrooks (Assistant Track & Field Coach): Mom
   2. Terri Knecht (Head Softball Coach): My sister
   3. Kate Sjaardema (Assistant Women's Lacrosse Coach): Hands down, my dad
   4. Kayla Kregel (Assistant Track & Field Coach): Always the boss man
   5. Daniel Finn (Head Tennis Coach): My dad
   6. Brandon Miller (Head Golf Coach): My grandma
   7. Patrick Johnston (Head Men's Lacrosse Coach): My older brother. I once gave him a hoody and he told me " that's nice but not my style" and then he gave it back to me
   8. Lauren Bennett (Head Women's Lacrosse Coach): My brother, he has everything
   9. Courtney Dunker (Assistant Softball Coach): My parents

 

1. If you could travel anywhere for Christmas where would you go?
   1. David Claybrooks (Assistant Track & Field Coach): Colorado
   2. Terri Knecht (Head Softball Coach): Holland
   3. Kate Sjaardema (Assistant Women's Lacrosse Coach): North Carolina or Colorado – I just want a white Christmas
   4. Kayla Kregel (Assistant Track & Field Coach): Home back in Iowa
   5. Daniel Finn (Head Tennis Coach): Hawaii
   6. Brandon Miller (Head Golf Coach): Glacier hike in Zermatt or ride horses through Mongolia
   7. Patrick Johnston (Head Men's Lacrosse Coach): Banff, Alberta. I've been quite a few times during the summer but I'd love to see it in the winter
   8. Lauren Bennett (Head Women's Lacrosse Coach): Italy, I would love to see the Vatican
   9. Courtney Dunker (Assistant Softball Coach): Somewhere in the mountains

 

1. Lease favorite item on your Christmas to-do list?
   1. David Claybrooks (Assistant Track & Field Coach): Not buying a gift for everyone
   2. Terri Knecht (Head Softball Coach): Putting up lights
   3. Kate Sjaardema (Assistant Women's Lacrosse Coach): Bake cookies: I kind of have PTSD from the thousands of cookies that my sister and I bake and decorate every year
   4. Kayla Kregel (Assistant Track & Field Coach): Definitely wrap the presents
   5. Daniel Finn (Head Tennis Coach): Traveling
   6. Brandon Miller (Head Golf Coach): Sweep the chimney
   7. Patrick Johnston (Head Men's Lacrosse Coach): Shopping
   8. Lauren Bennett (Head Women's Lacrosse Coach): Drive long hours in the car to visit multiple family members
   9. Courtney Dunker (Assistant Softball Coach): Putting away Christmas decorations (I don't knowwwww)

 

1. If you were Santa Claus, what kind of cookie would you want left out?
   1. David Claybrooks (Assistant Track & Field Coach): Oatmeal
   2. Terri Knecht (Head Softball Coach): Shortbread
   3. Kate Sjaardema (Assistant Women's Lacrosse Coach): Peanut butter kiss cookies
   4. Kayla Kregel (Assistant Track & Field Coach): Peanut butter kiss cookies
   5. Daniel Finn (Head Tennis Coach): Sour cream cookies
   6. Brandon Miller (Head Golf Coach): Chocolate cookies from Van Stapele
   7. Patrick Johnston (Head Men's Lacrosse Coach): White Chocolate Macadamia Nut
   8. Lauren Bennett (Head Women's Lacrosse Coach): Snickerdoodles
   9. Courtney Dunker (Assistant Softball Coach): Kolachiki's or Spritz cookies –YUM!!!

 

1. Would you rather build a snowman, go sledding, participate in a snowball fight or stay inside and drink hot cocoa?
   1. David Claybrooks (Assistant Track & Field Coach): Sledding & snowball fight
   2. Terri Knecht (Head Softball Coach): Sledding
   3. Kate Sjaardema (Assistant Women's Lacrosse Coach): Snowball fight for sure
   4. Kayla Kregel (Assistant Track & Field Coach): Snowball fight
   5. Daniel Finn (Head Tennis Coach): Sledding
   6. Brandon Miller (Head Golf Coach): Sledding
   7. Patrick Johnston (Head Men's Lacrosse Coach): Sledding all day…so many great memories sledding
   8. Lauren Bennett (Head Women's Lacrosse Coach): I would stay inside and watch Hallmark Christmas movies
   9. Courtney Dunker (Assistant Softball Coach): Snowball fight

 

1. Who is your favorite reindeer?
   1. David Claybrooks (Assistant Track & Field Coach): Rudolph
   2. Terri Knecht (Head Softball Coach): Dasher
   3. Kate Sjaardema (Assistant Women's Lacrosse Coach): Blitzen: being the last reindeer closest to the sled means he is definitely working the hardest
   4. Kayla Kregel (Assistant Track & Field Coach): Rudolph
   5. Daniel Finn (Head Tennis Coach): Rudolph
   6. Brandon Miller (Head Golf Coach): Blitzen
   7. Patrick Johnston (Head Men's Lacrosse Coach): Rudolph, he was a game changer…went from being called names and not invited to play in any reindeer games to "the most famous of all"…talk about grit
   8. Lauren Bennett (Head Women's Lacrosse Coach): Dasher
   9. Courtney Dunker (Assistant Softball Coach): Blitzen

 

1. If Santa Claus ever fell off your roof, would you put on the jacket? (The Santa Clause movie plot)
   1. David Claybrooks (Assistant Track & Field Coach): No
   2. Terri Knecht (Head Softball Coach): Yes
   3. Kate Sjaardema (Assistant Women's Lacrosse Coach): After seeing the movie, absolutely not
   4. Kayla Kregel (Assistant Track & Field Coach): Oh yes!
   5. Daniel Finn (Head Tennis Coach): Of Course
   6. Brandon Miller (Head Golf Coach): No, it's too hot in Florida
   7. Patrick Johnston (Head Men's Lacrosse Coach): you…Jack Frost weirds me out, I don't want that guy that always plots and schemes one me
   8. Lauren Bennett (Head Women's Lacrosse Coach): No, I'm not that merry
   9. Courtney Dunker (Assistant Softball Coach): No!

 

1. Did you ever get a red ryder bb gun for Christmas? If so, did you shoot your eye out (LOL)
   1. David Claybrooks (Assistant Track & Field Coach): No
   2. Terri Knecht (Head Softball Coach): 22 pistol and no deaths to my name
   3. Kate Sjaardema (Assistant Women's Lacrosse Coach): Nope!
   4. Kayla Kregel (Assistant Track & Field Coach): Nope, but I have gotten a gun for deer hunting. Skipping the bb guns for something bigger.
   5. Daniel Finn (Head Tennis Coach): I did, and no I didn't shoot my eye out but I shot everything else I could find though
   6. Brandon Miller (Head Golf Coach): No and no
   7. Patrick Johnston (Head Men's Lacrosse Coach): That's a negative but a great movie
   8. Lauren Bennett (Head Women's Lacrosse Coach): I never got any type of gun for xmas
   9. Courtney Dunker (Assistant Softball Coach): No and no