| Editor’s Note: Over the next weeks and months, Emmaussports.com will be spotlighting senior spring sports student-athletes at Emmaus High School who have had their final athletic year cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Today we spotlight Max Eugster (ME) of the boys lacrosse team with our Q & A session: Q: How are you coping during these difficult and uncertain times with the Coronavirus pandemic? ME: I think I’ve been coping with the shut down pretty well. At first I honestly didn’t think it would last very long, but now that I know school is shut down and lacrosse it’s a different story. I am anxious for things to open up and hang out with my friends again. I worry about my grandparents and their health but we’ve all been social distancing from them. Q: What’s been the biggest challenge for you day to day? ME: Biggest challenge is not staying up too late and sleeping in too late. My sleep is all messed up. And then it’s being motivated to do school work realizing we need to do it to pass the marking period and graduate. Q: What are you doing to keep busy? ME: I’ve actually been doing a lot. The first weeks before online classes started I worked every day with my dad opening swimming pools. And I still work for Armetta’s on Friday nights delivering pizzas, so I’ve been making money. Now with school online, I do school work two days a week and work three days a week. After work I’ve been running and working on my lacrosse with my teammate, Michael. And I still have to do my chores around the house. In my downtime, I’m watching a lot of Netflix and playing Xbox, which is cool because I can play against my friends and we can talk. Q: How disappointed are you now that the spring sports season has been cancelled? ME: I am incredibly disappointed and really sad about losing out on my senior year. Last year, I was injured for a few weeks and there were seniors who played my position, so this was the year I was finally going to be a starter and have a chance to really contribute and play with my best friends everyday before we all leave for college. That’s all gone and can’t get it back. I feel badly for my parents, too. They’ve put a lot of time and effort into my lacrosse and it’s gone for them. I still have a little hope that we can play a summer tournament but who knows. The only good thing is I finished my junior year as a District 11 Champion, so if my career was going to end, at least it ended with beating Parkland. Q: What is your favorite memory from your high school sports career? ME: Well, I do have a great memory on one of our team trips last year singing Happy Birthday to Ryan Thomas. Funny stuff we do on the team are good memories. But, of course, beating Parkland last year in overtime for the District XI title is the best. I still watch the footage from that game and I’m pretty confident we could have done it again this year, too! Q:What are you future plans after high school? If college, what school have you committed to and do you plan on playing sports and what will be your major? ME: Hopefully we’ll have a graduation then a bunch of my friends still hope to go on a senior trip to the Dominican Republic. Then in September, I’m taking a semester at N.O.L.S. (National Outdoor Leadership School) in the Rocky Mountains in Wyoming and Utah; training in backpacking, mountaineering and climbing. After that I’ll start college at Utah State University majoring in Recreation Resource Management. I hope to one day become a National Park Ranger. I also plan to play club lacrosse at Utah. Go Aggies! Q: What’s the best advice you can give to your underclassmen? ME: I would say that you should always try to push yourself and your teammates to work hard. And if you are a senior or varsity player you should always help out the younger players and encourage them if you can. |