Number: # 11
Position: Versatile
Born: 1963
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 190
Hometown: San Jose, CA
Joined Quakes: 1996

Q: How'd ya get into hockey anyway?
A: I learned to play hockey as a teenager in the Basque region of Spain.

Q: Yeah, right!
A: Really, my family moved there so my Dad could do a 2 year work assignment.I went to an American school where they took us boys to an ice rink once every two weeks. At that rate it took almost the whole 2 years just to get good enough skating forwards and backwards. Shortly after I had actually started to play hockey, my family moved back to California. I was seventeen and there wasn't a league around for me to play in. But I did keep up my skating skills by going to Sunvalley Mall in Concord which used to have a rink.

Q: Tell me about your experience with the Quakes.
A: Some friends who knew I liked hockey told me about an article in the Bay Area Reporter that a team was forming to compete in the 98 Gay Games in Amsterdam. I knew it was perfect for me! A chance to finally really get to play hockey and to visit Europe again, which I hadn't done since living in Spain. I went to the team's second meeting at the Castro Country Club and have been
involved ever since.

Q: Is that beard of yours a playoff beard that you for some reason never got rid of?
A: No, I've had it since '94, before I got back into hockey.

Q: Is it tough being Captain?
A: It had been at times in the past. But it's a pleasure with the great group of people we have on this team. We are like a big, happy (and only slightly dysfunctional) family!

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