Preseason Interview with #18
lainey lyle senior, pitcher ZACHARY LUCY
Do you have any postgraduate plans yet? Law enforcement.
Are you thinking you’ll stay in the Fargo-Moorhead area for that? That’s a good question. I don’t know. They’ve kind of offered paying for half of the skills program here in Fargo. So I mean, it’s definitely an option, but it’s also really stinking cold here.
Why do you want to be a police officer? What made you want to do that? I took a class in high school, and it was called Street Law. And basically it was we figured out the way bodies were being dragged and like forensics and stuff. And it was really interesting. So then going into college, I was like, I don’t know what I want to do. And
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so that was kind of just what led me [to] criminal justice. And it’s been very interesting to me. So I think this job that I’m doing right now will help me figure out if it’s exactly what I want to do.
gonna be pretty good this year. I’m hoping to leave off on a good note, and I’ll win conference tournament, go to a regional. That’d be awesome. But yeah, I’m extremely excited. [I’m also] excited to go to Mexico for 10 days so I can enjoy some warm weather.
Have you taken any forensics courses?
Did you always pitch?
I haven’t taken any forensic courses, but I’m actually in a serial killer class right now, which is really interesting, but I haven’t taken any forensics class, which is a little unfortunate…Being a detective one day would be awesome, but [you have to] work your way up to that.
[I] remember my coach was like, “who wants to pitch?” and half the team raised their hand and I was one of them. So, I started going to a pitching coach and fell in love with it. I played a little bit of basketball when I was younger, played like two years of volleyball, but didn’t stick with either of those.
What are some of your feelings heading into the season with it being your last?
What do you like about pitching?
I mean, it’s crazy. I played softball since I was eight. So to think that this is my last season ever playing softball is absolutely insane. But I think we’re
I [like] the adrenaline. I mean, being out there on the mound, especially here in college, we played some big teams my freshman year [when] we went to