Mitch Fox/The Hoya Sophomore forward Casey McCann and the Hoyas look to make a splash at the Big East.

Sport: Soccer

Position: Goalkeeper

Hometown: Richmond, Va.

High School: Freeman High School

School/Year: COL ’04

Major: English/Classics

High School Highlights: Team captain . Named First Team All-District and All-Region . Earned All-Academic honors at both the district and regional levels . First Team All-Metro selection and All-Metro Player of the Year in 2000 . played on the 1999 District Tournament Champion team and 2000 Regular Season Tournament and Regional Championship Teams . Member of the 2000 National Championship ODP Team and was named the Goalkeeper of the Tournament . Played on the three-time State Cup Championship Club Team with the Richmond Strikers . Participated on the Regional Olympic Development Team.

Georgetown Highlights: Has registered 54 saves on the season thus far . 2001: Made six saves in 201 minutes … Ended the year with 2.24 goals against average . Held Penn to one goal during the Hoyas’ win . Had four saves vs. Howard in the D.C. College Cup . 2002: Started seven games in goal . Registered five wins and 37 saves in 681 minutes . Posted two shutouts . Recorded a 1.32 goals against-average and a .787 save percentage.

How’d you get into soccer? I started when I was four or five – when everyone else started to play. And I just kinda kept playing. In eighth grade I was cut from the basketball team – soccer was the sport I wasn’t the worst at, so I thought I’d keep playing.

Accomplishment of which you’re proudest : I’d say just staying as sane as long as I have with the guys living in the same apartment with me.

Person you aspire most to be like: Keith Tabatznik – he’s the coach. He’s a sharp dresser.

Favorite author: The author of The Sunken Island. It’s a kid’s book, but one that kinda sticks with you.

Person who’s had the most impact on you as far as soccer is concerned: I’d say Brian O’Hagan. It makes me feel good to know there’s someone out there lazier than I am.

Siblings: I have two older sisters – Nancy is turning 24, and Ellen is 25.

What was the injury you suffered from last year? I strained my CL and tore my meniscus. I did it in practice early in the season and pretty much played the rest of the season, but wasn’t 100 percent. Then after the season I had surgery.

Did your injury affect the way you play now? I was more cautious at first. In essence I took six to seven months off without playing full-contact soccer. At first I was afraid it would happen again, but after a while you just kinda forget about it.

Best concert you’ve ever been to: New Kids on the Block. I was young, but they influenced me a lot.

Three Magazines on your ideal coffee table: Three copies of Redbook.

Who’s your favorite athlete and why? Carl Skanderup – one of my roommates and one of the guys on the team – because he’s so good-looking and he never talks back.

Biggest sacrifice you’ve had to make for sports: The time commitment. Obviously, here we’re practicing and traveling all the time. Most of the time, it’s been worth it – I enjoy it – but it’s taken a lot of time.

Quality you value most in a friend: Honesty.

Favorite movie: Multiplicity.

Least favorite movie: Cabin Boy.

How’d you end up as a goalie? I’ve been playing since I was 9 or 10 – I didn’t have to run as much, and it went from there. That was the biggest bonus – still is.

What’s the worst thing about being goalkeeper? When you screw up, everyone knows about it . It’s hard to hide in the crowd. I usually just take the blame and cry myself to sleep.

What do you order when you go to Wisey’s? Chicken Madness – no peppers, no tomatoes.

Biggest misconception that others have about you: I don’t know . That I’m as comfortable as I act like I am in a lot of situations.

One word you would use to describe yourself: Relaxed.

One word your roommate would use to describe you: Fat. Last year since I couldn’t run I gained like 15 or 20 pounds, and everyone started calling me fat. Well, this summer I lost the weight, but they still call me fat. I guess it just kinda stuck.

If you could meet one person, dead or alive, who would it be and why? Gandhi. I think he’d be a real animal to go out with on the town.

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I’d probably get a haircut.

Favorite holiday: Christmas.

Hardest class you’ve taken at Georgetown: General psychology with Professor Stearns. She just talked like a mile a minute and I had no idea what was going on.

Freshman dorm: New South, first floor. I loved it.

Biggest obstacle you’ve had to overcome: When I was a freshman in high school my coach died. He’d been my coach for five or six years – he started coaching us when we were 9, and took us to Europe when we were 13. He taught us a lot more than just about soccer. It was the first run-in I’d had with losing someone who was close to me. He had a heart attack when he was skiing – none of us saw it coming.

Favorite quote: “Man trips over stone, not mountain.”

Farthest place you’ve ever traveled to: Morocco. I went for soccer with the Olympic Development Program. It’s a program to find the top youth players throughout the country, to narrow them down. It’s like the AAU for basketball.

New South or Darnall? New South.

Personal goal for the rest of the season: To qualify for the Big East tournament.

What do you want to do after you graduate? Sports journalism, mainly – something along the lines of writing. I was a sports intern at the Richmond Times-Dispatch two summers ago. They gave me a couple of stories and then one of their reporters left, so they asked me if I wanted the job . and I did. I did high school stuff until the high schools let out and a lot of local sports and features – golf tournaments and the sports that are reported that the real reporters don’t want to do. I was pretty much a reporter for two months.

Weirdest story you covered: I interviewed a female body-builder. She was scary. I didn’t see her, I talked to her on the phone. But she kept talking about herself and she sounded manly. I saw photographs and she could have definitely kicked my ass.

One non-sports related thing you want to achieve before graduating: Finish the first draft of my first book. I guess I’d better get working on it.

What’s under your bed right now? A big, smelly Irish kid. (Our beds are bunked.)