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Andrew Rogers

Where do you live?: Menlo Park

Home Team: Friends (especially Sis) and Family

Hometown: Dallas, Texas

Motivation: Feel good about helping others; get back into shape

Honoree(s): Jeff Swanson, Ed Cloutman, and all our team honorees

Favorite tri gadget(s): First tri, so I don’t have a lot of stuff yet, but I’d have to say my sweet new running shoes right now (I had my last pair for three years … yeah, I’m learning a lot)

Last three books read: The Audacity of Hope, Harry Potter (all seven of them), Blink

Last three movies seen: Superbad, The Bourne Ultimatum, Transformers

What person do you look up to the most and why? Any person over 6′, because they are taller than me!

Favorite local cheap-eats restaurant: Uncle Frank’s

Desert Island Five: Robinson Crusoe, The Swiss Family Robinson, Lost, Castaway, and Gilligan’s Island… figure one of those ought to be able to teach me something about either getting off or improving life on the island!

What did you want to be when you grew up? Still haven’t grown up.

Middle name meme:
Pre-med: applying to medical school right now
Herald: I have a somewhat booming voice
Italy: took a trip to Rome/Florence with my brother last New Year’s
Learning to fly: currently taking lessons to get private pilot’s license
Leveling: old family tradition (ask me about it)
Icon: I once served as the mascot for a professional baseball team
Party Boy: a nickname bestowed upon me by my freshman dorm
Seriously: why is there an ‘S’ at the end of the name? As if it weren’t long enough already..