Getting to Know Jacinta

• Why did you choose to attend Mount Holyoke? - Offers a pretty awesome Dual Degree engineering program where I get a BA from MHC and a BS in engineering at UMass.
• What do you like best about Mount Holyoke? - Sports (honestly) - the sports facility is amazing!
• Favorite Pro Sports Team - Barcelona
• Favorite Athlete(s) - Ronaldinho, Leo Messi, Nani
• Childhood Idol - John Cena
• Biggest Fear - Losing my mum 
• Most Famous Person Ever Met - Dr. Peter Weibe 
• Place You'd Like to Visit - Anywhere in Europe 
• First Memory of Your Sport - Playing street soccer with a bunch of guys when I was about 5 or 6 years old and doing track events (lemon and basket race) in kindergarten 
• Most Memorable Moment in College Athletics - Getting my first PR in shot put at Smith indoor track and field in 2010 
• Pre-Game Rituals - Sitting quietly and visualizing the game 
• Best Advice From a Coach - You'll be fine 
• If You Had $1 Billion Dollars You Would - Pay my school loans and sponsor all of my siblings to prestigious school, invest a million or two and handover the rest to my mum and dad 
• Career Aspirations - Researcher in coastal and marine environmental organic chemistry