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)
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)
August 1 - Anna Hall (she was a star forward in high school before becoming a goalkeeper)
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)
November 2 - Tara Claus (she is a big fan of rapper Machine Gun Kelly)
April 7 - Sam Eastes (she once spent a week hiking in the Rocky Mountains)
May 4 - Larissa Heslop (she studied abroad in London)

RICHMOND, Ky. – Over the spring and summer, we will be profiling members of the Eastern Kentucky soccer team. Next up: sophomore Erin Torrence.

EKUSports: Erin, you were the mascot at your high school. That's cool! What high school?
 
Erin Torrence: Hudson High School in Ohio. We were the Hudson Explorers, so I was just this weird Viking guy. I had a shield. I don't know … it was weird.
 
ES: Were you the mascot all four years of high school?
 
ET: I only did it my freshman and sophomore years. After that, I wanted to have a social life and attend other sporting events as a real person.
 
ES: At what sporting events did you dress up as the mascot?
 
ET: Only football games on Friday nights. I would cheer with the cheerleaders, run around with our Hudson flag, take pictures with little kids, stuff like that.
 
ES: Did you have a head on?
 
ET: Yeah, I wore a head. It was a guy head. No one knew it was me. 

 
ES: I've had to be the Colonel mascot a few times, and wearing that big head … it gets hot.
 
ET: Yeah, very hot. The Explorer head had a big, square, cartoonish chin, and all my sweat would gather in that. Also, I wore what looked like a bulletproof vest and it was wrapped in ice packs to keep me cool. But it was pretty gross. Just thinking about the people who had worn it before me …
 
ES: When I was the Colonel mascot, and I would take pictures with little kids, I would smile, even though I had a huge, fake, constantly-smiling Colonel head on and no one could see me. Did you do that?
 
ET: Absolutely. It's natural. I would be like, "Cheese! … oh yeah, no one can see me, so it doesn't matter."
 
ES: What's your best story as the Explorer mascot?
 
ET: I just remember a lot of little kids would try to sneak up from behind me and try to pull my head off.
 
ES: Did they ever succeed?
 
ET: No, luckily, because they probably would've been surprised that it was a girl in this old, gross Viking costume. I also remember I got to be in the senior class photo dressed as the Explorer. There I was, as a sophomore, right smack in the middle of the senior class photo. That was cool.
 
ES: Would you ever consider being the Colonel mascot? I think we have an opening right now.
 
ET: I saw that! My roommate, Lorah Pund, said I should do it.
 
ES: You bring two years of solid experience!
 
ET: We'll see. Maybe if you guys get really desperate.