Meet the Bisons
The Bisons’ hard-hitting linebacker, Jeff Alamolhoda
Romer Bautista, Staff
Manitoban: When and how did you get your start in football?
Jeff Alamolhoda: That was a long time ago, when I was a kid. To be honest,
my older brother played [football]. I was playing soccer, which wasn’t
as aggressive a sport, you can say. My coach told my mom that it was probably
better to get me into a more aggressive sport, and seeing as how my brother
was playing football at the time, it was a good fit.
M: Why did you decide to play at the U of M?
JA: At the time I was trying to figure out what school I wanted to go to.
I was weighing a lot of things: academics, quality of the program, coaching.
I met with Coach Dobie as well as the defensive co-ordinator, Coach [Stan]
Pierre. What I got from [Coach Pierre] is that he is a genius of the game.
He enticed me enough to come here based on his defensive system and his defensive
package. And on top of it, the U of M is a good school, and it’s worked
out in the long run.
M: Do you have any pre-game superstitions or rituals?
JA: Actually, yeah, just one. Me and a couple of the guys on the team come
to Smitty’s every home game for breakfast before the game.
M: How do you or the team celebrate a big win?
JA: Well, usually there’s a lot of celebration going on in the Butler
Hut right after the game. Usually after every home game, all the guys who
want to sit around the locker-room and chit-chat and just hang out there celebrate
for a couple hours. Then we move on to the bar on campus or whatnot, and celebrate
that way.
M: What is your personal greatest sporting accomplishment?
JA: Well, that hasn’t come yet. Hopefully that will be done this year.
M: Favorite movie?
JA: I’m going to have to go with the old cliché, The Program.
M: Favourite television show?
JA: Heroes.
M: Favourite sport, other than football?
JA: Rugby.
M: Favourite athlete?
JA: Ray Lewis.
M: If you could sit down for dinner with anyone, dead or alive, celebrity
or non-celebrity, who would it be?
JA: Ray Lewis, to be honest with you. As far as I know, he is the best that
plays right now, and he could be one of the best to play ever.
M: What items can you never leave home without?
JA: My cellphone.
M: Finish this sentence: “If I were O.J. Simpson, I’d
be . . . ”
JA: Ecstatic, I’m free.
