Q & A with Clifton Krotz

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Clifton Krotz (Cattaraugus Little Valley) is a sophomore strong safety for this year's football team. Krotz is a leader on defense, accumulating 19 total tackles including 2 for a loss and 1 quarterback sack. He is the subject of this week's Q&A.

Wed, 09/24/2008 - 06:59

Clifton Krtoz Clifton Krotz (Cattaraugus Little Valley) is a sophomore strong safety for this year's football team. Krotz is a leader on defense, accumulating 19 total tackles including 2 for a loss and 1 quarterback sack. He is the subject of this week's Q&A.

What are your personal and team expectations for this season? My expectations for the season are to play well enough to make it to the next level in college football. My team expectations are to be conference champions and make it to our conference bowl game.

Describe your feelings of playing the first ever football game on campus at Alfred State. I was ecstatic knowing that I would have the chance to be a member of the first football team ever to play on the campus also to actually play in front of fans was a great feeling.

How has practice changed, from pre-season, now that the season has started? Practice now is extremely focused and getting sharper as the first units work together every week. We have worked hard in practice and our shut out of Williamson Trade is a good bench mark to prove this.

Who has been your biggest influence? My biggest influence came from following the examples set by some of the sophomores last season. This year it is about not wanting to let my teammates down, this drives me to go 100% all the time.

How do you deal with the pressure of meeting both athletic and academic responsibilities? Time management, It's very difficult to succeed in both if you don't manage your time, especially since we are now starting to travel to games.

What is on your iPod? Country, Rap, Rock - anything that has a good beat

If you could have superpowers, what would they be? I would want to fly

Name 3 people, past or present, that you would like to meet. A.J Hawk, Al Gore, and Lance Armstrong