[GIVE AND GO]
Chazz Woodson
MLL moonlighter, now a motivational speaker, might actually enjoy life without a cell phone Who is your favorite athlete?
Because I grew up in the Jordan era, His Airness. I tend to like athletes that are either unbelievably dominant or smaller athletes — because I was the small guy for a long time — that do big things: Muggsy Bogues, Barry Sanders, Allen Iverson.
What’s one thing you can’t live without?
I’d be stuck without a cell phone or the Internet, but eventually I’d get used to it — and probably like it.
What’s the proudest moment of your lacrosse career? My junior year of college, having my NYC students come up to Brown for our last game against Princeton. (Woodson taught at PS 20, a grade school on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, during his semester studying urban education.) It was an experience they will never forget, nor will I.
What’s on your bucket list? I intend to a leave a mark on the game that goes far beyond a uniform, a YouTube highlight reel or a SportsCenter Top 10 moment. Those are just the mechanisms that afford me the platform to do something bigger. I want the sport to be better for me having been a part of it. As for life, I don’t really have a “bucket list.” At some point, I’d like to own and operate a center for young people that provides the best leadership, athletic and educational development in the world.
If you could meet anyone, dead or alive, who would it be?
My great-grandparents. I would love to meet the people that raised two of the greatest people I’ve ever met.
What’s the most adventurous thing you’ve ever done? Dropping everything and going to Thailand in 2010 for a week. I took a chance, and I’m glad I did.
Overtime (from Maryland defender Megan Douty) If you could have one song played after every time you scored, what would it be? Two years ago, we did that in Ohio [for the Machine], and my song was George Clinton’s “Atomic Dog.” It would always have to have one or more of three components — heavy hitting, old school or something that makes fans want to dance.
Double Overtime (from Serafina DeMunno, Barrington, Ill.) Who first got you interested in lacrosse? My father [Ed Woodson]. He played a year in college, post- collegiately in Sacramento and then coached the sport as I was coming up.
Pose a question for our next subject. If you had the resources, what one problem in America or the world would you address? What would your first step be?
©MATT DUNN
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