Player Profile – Alanna Byrne (A)

Nickname:  Alan

Previous teams:  Always played for Guildford
 
Other current teams:  Slough Scorpians rec hockey

How long have you played for Guildford:  About 15 years

Best thing about hockey:  Everything…the speed, excitement, people you meet…everything

Worst thing about hockey:   Late night training sessions

Best rink:  In this country…Guildford and Sheffield I guess

Worst rink:  Streatham and Billingham

Best hockey memory:  There’s too many to be honest…so many amazing memories playing in Canada, China etc. but there’s been way too many funny times back home to begin choosing favourites

Team you like playing against the most:  Hmm Bracknell and Newcastle

Team you dislike playing against the most:  Slough

Teams you support:  I don’t really…I like to see Guildford do well obviously.  But NHL teams…I keep an eye on Boston and Toronto

Hockey idols/Players you admire:  Ovechkin’s a god…but the people I admire in hockey the most are 2 guys I met whilst travelling the States and Canada. After I quit for 3 years they made me fall in love with the game all over again, and encouraged me to keep going, no matter what

Other sports/interests:  Running, climbing, basketball, drinking…that’s a sport, right?

Favourite food:  Chinese

Favourite TV Shows:  Scrubs, South Park, Who’s Line Is It Anyway, Have I Got News For You, Mock the Week

Favourite Movie:  Too many

Favourite band: WAY too many
 
If you could meet one person, dead or alive, who would it be?  Again, way too hard…Virginia Woolf, Henry James, Jim Carroll, Michelangelo, Nick Drake for sure…yea i’m a geek

If you could bring one character to life from your favorite book, who would it be?  Oh god, this is my dream question…Holden Caulfield…or maybe Lord Asriel from his dark materials

Who would you most like to be stuck in an elevator with? Least like?  Most like? Josie Least like…? Lydia haha

If you had to be trapped in a TV show for a month, which show would you choose?  Scrubs

You can select one person from history and ask them a question to which they must give a thruthful reply. Whom would you select, and what question would you ask?  I’d have a lot to talk to Neitzche about…G.E. Moore aswell. Napoleon for definite! Any artist from the modernist movements of the early 20th century…wow, what a time to live

Would you be willing to eat a bowl of live crickets for £10,000?  Nope

If you could have personally witnessed one event in history, what would you want ot have seen?  Collapse of the Berlin wall maybe…modernisation of Paris…the Battle of Trafalgar

If you could have one superpower, which would you choose?  To fly

If you could be any age again for one week, what age would you be?  21 forever

If you could plan a two week trip anywhere in the world for yourself, all expenses paid, where would you like to go?  Various places in South America…or just Canada…you can’t beat Canada

If you could be a guy for one day, would you do it?  Yea I would. it would be HILARIOUS. You could do whatever you want and have absolutely no remorse. haha just kidding