High School: Ran cross country runner sophomore through senior years and track for four years… ran outdoor and indoor track for four years… played soccer as a freshman… primary events for track included the 400, 1600 and relays… cross country captain and indoor track captain in 2012… all-conference in cross country in 2012… Most Improved in 2010… Class MM cross country champions in 2010 and 2012, and second at State Open in 2010… placed seventh in New England’s in 2010… conference champions in 2010…
PERSONAL: born Christopher J. Burkle May 1, 1995... Parents: Margot and Kurt...Major: English... Career plans: Teaching... Sisters: Colleen, Caroline and Kaitlin... Residence: Guilford, CT...
CHRIS...REVEALED
Your pre-game ritual: Listening to Selena Gomez on my $10 headphones from the bookstore that break within a month
Personal goal for the season: To set the tone.
Your most overused phrase: “Yo”
Favorite place to stop for food after a competition: Applebees
If you could describe yourself in one word, it would be: Affable
Biggest waste of money: Insurance and war
Biggest adjustment to college life: Remembering to put water in the pot when I make pasta. Also, the fact that we only have pepsi products.
If you were to choose a superpower what would it be: I would be Diet Coke Boy and my power would be turning Pepsi into Diet Coke.
If you could travel anywhere in the world where would you go: Ireland. And after that I would go to Alaska so I could begin my training to be a future Iditarod champion.
Biggest crisis facing the world: Climate change and zookeepers
Your spirit animal: Harambe
One thing you would like to do before you died: Try every kind of muffin the library café has to offer.
The automobile you would buy tomorrow if you had the money: 2002 baby blue Prius
Dream job: Writer of some sort.
Last person you bought roses for: Emilia Clarke
Job you consider the hardest or worst to do for a living: Breading seafood
Most frustrating kind of seafood to bread: Clam strips. They get all tangled up with each other and it takes forever to back sure you’ve equally distributed the flour.
Longest time you have watched a Netflix series: I watch Friday Night Lights a lot. I like to consider myself the cross country version of Tim Riggins.
Number of hours watching the 2016 Olympics: Less than 1
Favorite Olympic sport to watch: Equestrian
Greatest story to come out of the 2016 Olympics: My old camp counselor Abby D’agastino from Dartmouth taking a bite out of the track during the 5k. I kid, but she’s a nice person and a great sport.
Greatest Olympian of all time: Courtney Pollack, 2016 live pigeon shooting gold medalist.
Trump or Hillary: Wahlberg
Miley or Hannah: Miley
Greatest sports dynasty of all-time: Canada’s 1864 Olympic water polo team.
If you could meet anyone (living or dead), who would it be: Harambe or the guy who shot him
If your life could be made into a movie, the title would be: Burkheart
Patriots’ record in first four games without Tom Brady will be: Perfectly fine.
Favorite Emilia Clarke performance: Lou in Me Before You
Favorite aspect about Eastern: I really like how when I walk into the bookstore whoever happens to be working the register says hello and asks if I need any help. It’s very much appreciated and brightens up my day. Also, the crispy chicken sandwich from the stu.
One thing you would change about Eastern: I would make it a rule that Professors can’t force their students to buy books that they, or other Eastern faculty, wrote. I am honestly surprised this isn’t already something that is enforced. You’re overcooking my grits, Mann.
