April 18 - Cassie Smith (she comes from a large, ethnically-diverse family)
April 21 - Makenna Sullivan (she is a Leap-Year Baby)
April 28 - Kacy Eckley (she used to be one of the top youth golfers in the country)
May 5 - Annika Pater (she was a basketball star in high school)
June 8 - Monica Rios (she was born in Puerto Rico)
June 17 - Haley Kemper (she is into four different types of boardsports)
June 23 - Emmi Carroll (she has broken 12 bones in her lifetime)
July 11 - Allison Werner (she attended private Catholic school for grades K-12)
July 19 - Mikayla Brillon (she attended the prestigious NCAA Career in Sports Forum this summer)
August 1 - Anna Hall (she was a star forward in high school before becoming a goalkeeper)
August 24 - Logan Harvey (she has lived through two tornadoes)
September 1 - Jordan Foster (she has ziplined upside down in the jungles of Honduras)
September 22 - Sutton Edwards (she can solve a Rubik's Cube)

RICHMOND, Ky. – Over the spring and summer (and now fall), we will be profiling members of the Eastern Kentucky soccer team. Next up: sophomore Idalys Rea.
 
Idalys, an physical education major from Houston, Texas, grew up around the Gulf of Mexico, where she developed a love for fishing.

EKUSports: How did you get into fishing?

Idalys Rea: My dad is a big fisherman, so we'd go out when I was younger. We also had a pond by our house. I got started there.

ES: So, you caught a shark in Galveston over the summer? 

IR: I did! it was on Father's Day, so we went fishing with my dad because that's what he wanted to do. As we we're heading to the pier I said to my dad and my brother: "today's the day ... I'm going to catch a shark," and they kind of blew it off. We had been fishing for probably an hour or so, and eventually I started reeling in and it was pulling a little more than normal. I was pretty excited. I thought it was just a big fish, but when I started pulling it out of the water, I was like "it's a shark!" My dad thought I was playing around, but when he saw the shark on the pier, he was surprised.

ES: That's incredible. In your time fishing, have you caught anything else cool?

IR: Back when I was in elementary school, my dad entered me into a fishing contest and I won second place. Another time, we went out on a four-hour trip on a boat and I caught a pretty big fish, too!