{"id":64188,"date":"2017-11-10T17:44:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T23:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=64188"},"modified":"2018-03-06T18:50:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T00:50:25","slug":"kjhk-qa-jackson-scheider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2017\/11\/10\/kjhk-qa-jackson-scheider\/","title":{"rendered":"KJHK Q&A w\/ Jackson Schneider"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jackson Schneider<\/strong><\/p>\n

Grade: Junior<\/p>\n

Major: Journalism with a Sports\/Media Concentration<\/p>\n

KJHK Position: Sports Director<\/p>\n

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Jackson Sabol: Alright, I guess we can start off with something simple: d<\/span>o you have any hobbies?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jackson Schneider:<\/strong> Yeah! I like to watch sports on TV. That\u2019s pretty much\u2026 Sports is like my biggest hobby in general. You know, being the Sports Director, that makes sense, but I also like to draw. I doodle all the time, which is something I don\u2019t think a ton of people know, but literally every assignment I\u2019ve ever turned in to a teacher there are doodles on it. I kinda have fallen off from this lately; also I used to play tennis all the time. But I\u2019ve kinda fallen off that. I need to get back on, because I\u2019m getting out of shape, but I love to play tennis. It\u2019s a good time, and it\u2019s a fun way to exercise too.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sa: Awesome! Were you ever on a tennis team?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sc:<\/strong> Yeah, actually, I was. I played in middle school and high school, and I started out in middle school because my parents wanted me to either run track or play tennis just so I was active somehow, and I did not want to do track, because I didn’t want to run. I never have liked running. So I played tennis. Little did I know that there\u2019s almost more running involved in that, just in shorter stints. But I really enjoyed it. I played in high school. I was a senior captain of my high school team, and I played two years in college before I transferred here at Kansas Wesleyan University. So I played a lot back then, but when I transferred here for school, I kinda just fell off and haven\u2019t played in a while.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sa: What is your favorite color?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sc:<\/strong> My favorite color is purple.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sa: Purple?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sc:<\/strong> And that\u2019s weird being at KU, I know.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sa: Yeah\u2026<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sc:<\/strong> But I did grow up a big K-State fan, both my parents went there, and I still like K-State, so I kinda keep that more on the low-key, but those who know me better know that. It\u2019s just kinda how I was raised and it\u2019s still deep in my blood, but I like the color, and \u201cit makes my eyes pop,\u201d says my girlfriend, so that\u2019s another reason I wear the color purple.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sa: So does that mean you prefer K-State over KU?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sc:<\/strong> No, I wouldn\u2019t say that at all. I\u2019d say I\u2019m more neutral. Like when people think of [the] K-State\/KU rivalry, I\u2019m pretty neutral about it. I root for K-State, usually, in that situation just because of how I grew up, but I still root for KU and I don\u2019t dislike either one. It\u2019s just kind of like I have two favorite teams, I guess you could say.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sa: So what careers are you considering?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sc:<\/strong> Sports broadcasting, sports media, things like that. Ideally I\u2019d want to be the voice of a college athletics team like basketball, football. Like here at KU, just to follow a team and to be embedded in their culture and history, like when I think back to listening to games on the radio when I was a kid, there was like one voice in my head, and I kinda wanna be that for other people when they grow up to try and do the things that I want to do. I just think it\u2019d be an awesome job. I think it\u2019d be really fun, and the voice of KU, Brian Hanni, I met him while he was just out of college, because my mom worked at the same radio station as him, and as soon as I met him, I kinda just shadowed him around, and watching him do the things he does is just like, re-confirming everything that I\u2019ve thought to this point is exactly what I want to do.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sa: Cool! Is that why you started here at KJHK?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sc:<\/strong> Absolutely, so I started my first two years at Kansas Wesleyan, like I said, and they didn\u2019t really have anything like KJHK; it was a really small school, so I helped out with the athletics department filming sporting events and interviewing coaches, things like that. I did high school sports broadcast with the local radio station there, and I was just sure. I knew exactly what I wanted to do, and I realized that I wasn\u2019t going to learn the things that I needed to at that school, and being from Lawrence originally, I knew exactly where I needed to go, and the Sports Director last year, Nicholas Lewis, was one of my good friends from high school, so he was kinda my lead in to the Sport Staff here at the station. I\u2019ve just been kinda learning on the go, but I still love it, and I think it\u2019s even cooler, because in Sports Staff we all help each other work. It\u2019s not like I run the show. It\u2019s more of like, I\u2019m kinda taking charge, but I get help from everyone else. It\u2019s awesome the way we have it set up.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Sa: So, seeing as you are the Sports Director, I figure I should ask you at least ask you a few questions about sports.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sc:<\/strong> Okay.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sa: So what\u2019s your favorite sports team?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sc:<\/strong> My favorite sports team is the Kansas City Royals. I am a huge fan. I have been my whole life, and up until the last couple of years, that was dreadful to say, we\u2019ve had a good stretch recently, and I think that might be coming to a close, but I\u2019ll support them wether they\u2019re good or bad, but I love \u2018em, and I probably always will, so we\u2019ll see how that goes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sa: Do you remember where you were during the world series?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sc:<\/strong> Absolutely. The night that they won it, I was in Power and Light district, and I was in the front row off of the stage inside the KC live area, and I gave a high five to one of the Royals\u2019 broadcasters when the game ended, and I was just in a big mosh pit, and it was one of the coolest experiences of my life. It was just so crazy, and there were so many people just losing their minds. It was a blast and I\u2019ll never forget that. It was awesome.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sa: So does that mean baseball is your favorite sport to watch?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sc:<\/strong> I mean I like it a lot. They\u2019re my favorite professional team to watch. I really like watching football if I\u2019m at the game. Basketball is usually more fun to watch on TV I think, because there\u2019s less stoppage and it\u2019s constant action. But baseball\u2019s one of my favorite sports just because the season is so long that it\u2019s always there, and I\u2019m just pretty ingrained in all that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sa: So what\u2019s your favorite sport at KU?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sc:<\/strong> I think it\u2019s basketball, just because they have such a rich tradition and sustained success. It\u2019s always awesome to go to games and watch them play. It\u2019s so competitive, such a high level. It\u2019s a lot of fun.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sa: Last question now, and this is the most important, I think\u2026 Do you foresee the KU football team getting any better in the next few years?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sc:<\/strong> Yeah, absolutely I do, and my main basis on that is gonna sound kinda harsh, but it\u2019s because you can\u2019t get much worse. But I believe, I fully believe, that David Beaty, their head coach, is the right guy for the job. I think that he\u2019s got the right motives, the right tendencies. I think some changes will need to be made within that staff, most of it on the defensive side of the ball, but I do think they\u2019re going to get better, and I think that it\u2019ll happen in the next year or two. I don\u2019t think they\u2019re going to become overnight National Championship winners, but I think that if we stick with Coach Beaty and give full support to the program, I think they\u2019ll become a lot better in the next couple years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sa: Alright, looking forward to it. Thank you so much!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sc:<\/strong> Yeah no problem, thank you! It\u2019s been fun. I haven\u2019t been interviewed in a long time, so that was cool. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sa: Well good!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sc:<\/strong> I feel important that way.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sa: You are important.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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