Getting to Know: Track & Field's Ermin Mujezinovic and Michael Munson

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Getting to Know: Track & Field's Ermin Mujezinovic and Michael Munson

Class: 2011 (Mujezinovic is a redshirt sophomore)

Major:
Michael Munson (MM) – Biology
Ermin Mujezinovic (EM) – International Studies

Minor (if any):

EM – Spanish

ROTC Branch (if working to or are on commission track):

MM - Air Force

When did you start in Track and Field (what age) and why: 

MM – I started track as a freshman in High School, so I could stay in shape for football. 
EM – I started cross country to get in shape for soccer, but I ended up liking it and stayed with it because it was challenging.

Why VMI: 
MM – I always thought of a military school as an option, and then I actually ran at a high school meet at VMI. Coach Scott approached me about running the multis, and before I knew it, I was signing the matriculation book.
EM – Great recruiting, and it's not an ordinary place. I saw it as a place that would improve me as a person, and make me appreciate life more.

Favorite VMI memory: 
MM - Getting third in indoor conference running the heptathlon was a great memory for me.
EM - During the cross country championships my sophomore year, Donnie (Cowart '09) and I were running together with about two miles to go, fighting for all-conference spots (top-10). We were in seventh and eighth, and were able to push each other and finish the race in those spots. We were exhausted but really happy we both got all-conference.

Least favorite VMI memory: 
MM - When I realized that the rat line wasn't over after hell week.
EM - Being hurt, and walking to the training room ever day to bike on cold rainy days while my teammates were doing workouts and runs and I couldn't help them out at conference.

Goals for this season:  
MM  - All-Conference in the heptathlon (hep) and the decathlon (dec), with significant personal bests in both - meaning about 150-200 points in the hep., and about 300-350 in the dec.
EM - Get all-conference, run under a 4:10 mile and make IC4A's. Run a great DMR, and stay injury free.

Favorite movie/book and why:
MM - “Ace Ventura - When Nature Calls”
EM - “Seabiscuit” – It just shows great adversity, and how the best ones don't always win, but the ones with the biggest heart do.

When you have an hour of free time, you like to...:
EM - Play video games for more than the amount of free time I have.
MM - Watch Youtube, look up news and hang out with my roommates.

What sporting venue would you most like to visit?
MM - Madison Square Garden
EM - Any FIFA venue

When surfing the Internet, what web site do you visit most frequently?
MM - Youtube most definitely, because there is so much to learn there.
EM - Facebook, Youtube

Favorite sport to watch (other than T&F):
MM - Football
EM - Soccer

If someone would look at the songs I have, on my IPOD or computer, I'd be embarrassed for them to see I have this song: 

MM - The entire Halo soundtrack for 1, 2, and 3
EM - I wouldn't be embarrassed, but they'd probably make fun of me for all the Bosnian music I have on my IPod.

If you could eat dinner with three other people, living or not, who would they be and why? 

MM - Martin Luther King Jr., my grandfather and Jim Carrey.
EM - My uncle, Billy Mills and Hicham El Guerrouj

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Players Mentioned

Ermin Mujezinovic

Ermin Mujezinovic

Distance
Junior
Michael Munson

Michael Munson

Hurdles
Junior

Players Mentioned

Ermin Mujezinovic

Ermin Mujezinovic

Junior
Distance
Michael Munson

Michael Munson

Junior
Hurdles