Cullowhee, N.C. - As the opening of the 2018 Catamount fall camp and the 2018 home-opener against Newberry rapidly approach, CatamountSports.com conducted a series of question and answer sessions with Western Carolina senior football players to allow fans to further “Get to Know” the Purple & Gold.
The 2018 football preseason ramps up on July 25 as the Southern Conference is expected to reveal its preseason coaches' and media polls, as well as the preseason All-SoCon teams as voted on by the league's nine head coaches. WCU’s football student-athletes officially report for fall camp on Friday, Aug. 3 with the team’s first helmet-only practice on Saturday, Aug. 4 leading to the first fully-padded practice on Wednesday, Aug. 8 and the first preseason scrimmage on Saturday, Aug. 11.
Season tickets for all five home dates in 2018 are still on-sale now through the WCU Athletics Ticket Office located on the first floor of the Ramsey Center or by phone at (800)34-GOWCU or (828) 227-2401. Fans can also purchase season tickets online by visiting CatamountSports.com. General admission season tickets for adults begin at just $75 with a limited number of chairback seat season ticket options still available priced at just $125 for adults and $65 for youth (ages 3-12).
Single-game tickets for the 2018 season are slated to go on sale Tuesday, Aug. 7.
Up next in this year’s "Catamount Football Q&A series" is Mitchell Chancey, a senior linebacker from Asheville, N.C.
Name: Mitchell Chancey
Major: Entrepreneurship
What is your nickname?
Chancey: “Money Mitch.”
What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?
Chancey: Cookies and cream.
What is your favorite animal at the zoo?
Chancey: Lions.
Which team do you pick in Madden?
Chancey: the New Orleans Saints.
What is your favorite off-season activity?
Chancey: Working out.
What has been your favorite class to take at WCU?
Chancey: Stand up paddleboarding.
What motivates you to work hard?
Chancey: My family and love of the game.
What is something you always love doing, even when you are tired or rushed? Why?
Chancey: Working out because it’s my favorite thing to do.
Who is the most important person in your life?
Chancey: My mom.
As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
Chancey: A firefighter.
What was the best advice you were ever given?
Chancey: Someone always has it worse than you so don’t feel sorry for yourself.
What position do you play – and what is the one key thing to know about playing that position?
Chancey: Inside linebacker - and the key is having good eyes; you have to see through a lot and get your reads.
If you weren’t playing football, what sport would you have played in college?
Chancey: I’d be an Olympic swimmer.
One major goal for the 2018 season?
Chancey: Have the best season a linebacker has ever had at Western Carolina.
What's your favorite part about being a student-athlete at Western Carolina?
Chancey: Getting to use the weight room whenever.
What’s the most challenging thing about being a student-athlete at Western Carolina?
Chancey: Managing your time so you get everything you have to do accomplished.
What is your favorite thing about home games in Cullowhee?
Chancey: The fans.
What does #CatamountCountry mean to you?
Chancey: It means everything. Without the support, we wouldn’t have it as good as we do.
What is your favorite quote or saying from Head Coach Mark Speir?
Chancey: “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”
What does it mean to you to play in front of a large home-game crowd at WCU?
Chancey: It means that more people will get to see me go crazy on the field.
What has been your favorite athletics moment at Western Carolina?
Chancey: When we become Southern Conference champions and went undefeated during the 2018 season.
What will you miss MOST about being a Catamount?
Chancey: The family I’ve made here.
What does your athletic scholarship mean to you?
Chancey: It gave me a chance to go to school; if not for the scholarship, I’d be in the military.
What message would you like to send to the Catamount Nation?
Chancey: All eyes on 48.
