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)
October 7- Idalys Rea (she once caught a shark in the Gulf of Mexico)
October 13 - Bailly Bounds (her car was once followed by a swarm of bees)

RICHMOND, Ky. – Over the spring and summer (and now fall), we will be profiling members of the Eastern Kentucky soccer team. Next up: sophomore Tara Claus.

Tara, a forward from Cincinnati, is a huge fan of rapper Machine Gun Kelly.

EKUSports: How did you become a Machine Gun Kelly fan?

Tara Claus: I started listening to his music when I was a freshman in high school; before he got big, back in 2010-2011. And I just really got into his music.

ES: So you've seen him live, right?

TC: Yeah, like 13 times.

ES: Which show was the best show?

TC: We caught him in Cleveland last December. He was playing back-to-back nights up there. I actually got my bandana at that show, pretty much everybody at the show had one. You can see it has "EST" on it, and that stands for "everybody stand together," which is a pretty cool way to look at being on a team.

ES: Do you use any of his tunes for your pump up music?

TC: We blast "'Till I Die" before every game, and he's pretty much the only rapper I listen to.