Burning Questions: Meet senior midfielder Molly Gerst

Staff reporter Matt Valinski sat down with senior forward Molly Gerst, from Forest Hills, Mich. She tied for third on the team with four goals last season.

Matt Valinski: What are your plans after graduation?
Molly Gerst: Well, I won’t graduate until next fall, so I’ll start doing my student-teaching with my major of elementary education. I’ll do my pre-teaching next fall so, after that, hopefully (I will) get a job. I would love to teach where I’m from in Forest Hills, which is in Grand Rapids. I have just always loved being there and would love going back.

MV: What is the last movie you saw?
MG: Beauty and the Beast on the bus. It was good, a real good flashback to my childhood.

MV: What do you like doing outside of soccer?
MG: I really like to read and hang out with my friends. We don’t get that much free time, so just relaxing a lot.

MV: What is your favorite book?
MG: “The Shack.” It is kind like a Christian-type book.

MV: Do you have a favorite class or subject here?
MG: I’ve always been really into English. I hate math and science and stuff. I was in journalism all throughout high school, so I really enjoy writing and (going to) my English classes.

MV: What do you do when you go home?
MG: I actually have my parents come up here a lot because we don’t get to go home too much. I’m looking forward to Thanksgiving and my first Christmas break; just going home to hang out with my family because, normally, I have to work out all the time. It will be nice to finally get back to my family and just visit home a lot more on the weekends, when I have time.