Full name: Jessica Lynn Powers
Nickname(s): Bodiqua, JP, Jpow, boot-e-licious, j. simpson
Birthdate: New Year's Eve 1983
Zodiac sign: Capricorn
Hometown: Massapequa, home of the Chiefs, Jerry Seinfeld, and Joey Buttafuco.
Favorite athlete: Who else but Carla Berube? She's pimp.
Favorite Tufts athlete: Ariel Samuelson - she is just so good at soccer that she scores for both teams.
So I heard that the reason for the supposed "renovation" of Nick's Pizzeria was to prepare us for the unveiling of the "Powers Lunch," a full meal named after the closest thing Tufts has to Taurasi. OK, I made that up, but anyone stopping by Nick's in the next week please lobby for it. And if they aren't biting, try Jay's Deli. I'm sure Arthur and Perry will be all ears.
Seriously, though, Jess Powers has those kind of skills that make you say "Mmmmmm." Passing, rebounding, and yeah, she's been known to shoot a little. I caught up with the junior guard at the local day care center, where she was picking up her boyfriend. Naturally, Seven Questions ensued ...
1) I hear you and Erin Connolly played against each other in the same league in high school? So who has bragging rights to this day?
It is true that my team, the Massapequa Chiefs, won five out of six meetings with Erin's Syosset Braves. But when it comes to individual bragging rights, every Jumbo knows that Erin's "free throw percentage" has always been better than mine.
2) Could you tell me why some random defensive end/baseball center fielder asked that I not put him in these questions?
Well I didn't know [Jess' boo] Chris [Decembrele] requested not to be mentioned in association with me. But now that I know, anyone interested in a single 5'9" brunette on the girls basketball team with long legs and big brown eyes?? Inquire within.
3) Let's say I'm making the "Jess Powers Story." Who plays you?
I think the most fitting actress for me would be Demi Moore. We both have a tendency to rob the cradle and go for younger guys.
4) The Tufts home crowds: Cousens Crazies or Ghost town?
What home crowds? The only person I ever see at the games is Quinn Kelley, always dressed to impress. We can smell his cologne from the court. However, he usually looks lost without his partner [hockey player and 7 Questions alum] Matt McCarthy right by his side.
5) Since you are in the Tufts Daily so often, how do you find time to do any work between reading all of your press clippings?
We all know the only reason I'm in the Daily so much is because I have "special arrangements" with the sports editors. You know what I'm talking about Timmy. What most people don't know is that I have a crack team of engineering students who do all of my work for me. I'm told they fight over who gets to do my Econ problem sets.
6) You're a New Yorker, Yankees fan, yada yada yada ... Who will you be pulling for in this Super Bowl between the two "baby New Yorks"?
The Boston/New York rivalry was in full effect at 24 Tesla last semester. Maybe, just maybe, if the Pats win and I cheer for them, my housemates, Ariel Samuelson and Emily Kolovson, who just this year miraculously became baseball fans, will give my fellow New Yorker Liza Blumenthal and me a spot back on the couch.
7) OK, so you knew a question like this was coming: If Austin Powers is the International Man of Mystery, is there something about Jess Powers that we may not know?
Despite what everyone thinks....I am NOT Jewish. Yes, I do live with three Jewish housemates, I do have brown hair and I am from Long Island....but I'm sorry Ben Simon's mom....I am NOT Jewish.
-by Tim Whelan
