Dale Liszka

Hometown: Greenville, PA
Graduation year: April 2003 (by some miracle)
Major(s): Drinking, Carousing, and Debauchery
Minor: Computer Engineering
Currently living in: Washington, DC
Signature Move: The Dale Flail (you've been warned)
Favorite movies: Spaceballs, Strange Brew, Walking Tall
Favorite quotes:
  • "Dude, did you just lactate? Dudes don't lactate." -Paul "Happycake" Jesse
  • "Oh shit, Nick's hurt again..." -everyone
  • "Heyyyy dijoyu knows thahemmigwayses hass $1 beerses BEFORE soccerrtime?" -Me
  • "Ole Ole Ole Ole OLE OLE!" -anon
    Interesting fact about yourself: I have had 2 major surguries from Soccer (torn ACL and broken neck (C6 vertabrae))
    I have not had toenails since I started Hooligan Soccer. Ask anyone who's played with me why not.
    Best Hooligan moments:
    • Handing out 300 slices of cheese during Hooligan Soccer's first appearance in the Freshman Activities Fair (2000)

    • Being the first organization to destroy the Pete's lawn

    • Mid winter soccer in 3ft snow drifts

    • Having allocations requests read to (and denied by) the Chancellor for:

      • A miniature donkey, 1 year of stable time for said donkey, 5lbs of crisco (2000)

      • A bullhorn (2000)

      • Inflatable swimming pool (2001)

      • $1500 to purchase car wreakage (2001)

      • 1 Adult sized ScoobyDoo moon bounce (2002)

    PS. Hooligan Soccer did not historically have a good relationship with those [sic] at SORC or the Allocations committee. That is why we play these little games.
    Advice: Being a Hooligan is about friends, partying, and debachery...soccer is actually a side effect.

  • Paul Jesse

    Hometown: Plymouth Twp, PA
    Graduation year: April 2004
    Major: B.S. Electrical Engineering
    Minor: Industrial Engineering
    Currently living in: San Diego "America's Finest City"
    Favorite movies: C'mon...after all those nights of Office Space and Super Troopers...how can I pick another. However if Harold and Kumar were out while I was still there that would have been on the list too.
    Favorite quotes:
  • "It's stinks like sex in here"
  • "Are you high? I'm not low"
    Interesting fact about yourself: I can clap with one hand..and if there was ever a ghetto Bob Vila show it would be hosted by Dale and myself.
    Best Hooligan moments: way way way to many to list. A few are definitely "The Dale Flail"; When Ulis, Nick, and I were actually good before we got injured/old/lazy; The mud games...I think there may still be mud in my ear canals and teeth
    Advice: The real world is NOT what it's cracked up to be. Take your time in college and enjoy EVERY minute. Don't worry about getting straight A's because what you know doesn't matter, it's who you know. All that matters is the piece of paper. And most importantly...make sure what you are going to college for, you really really like. Don't get a degree in something because you think it will pay well after school. All degrees pay well if use it to it's fullest. And it's not worth 4-5 years of torture just to make a lil more money.

  • Justin Ulis

    Hometown: New Philadelphia, OH
    Graduation year: December 2003
    Major: Industrial Engineering (advanced common sense)
    Minor: keeping everyone else out of jail and the clinic
    Currently living in: suburb of Pittsburgh
    Favorite movies: Office Space, Braveheart
    Favorite quotes: "run fatty" ~ either paul yelling to me or me yelling to nick
    Interesting fact about yourself: I met dale in knee rehab when I tore my PCL and the seed for Hooligans was planted....
    Best Hooligan moment: when paul, nick, and i were good (~20,000 beers ago)
    Advice: enjoy college cause the real world isn't as much fun

    Nick Hall

    Hometown: North East, PA
    Graduation year: Hasn't happened yet.
    Major: Computer Engineering
    Minor: Pittsburgh Cafe
    Currently living in: Baltimore, MD
    Signature Move(s): The "Fall down and cry" and the "shoot the ball as if I were kicking a 73 yard field goal"
    Favorite movies: Old School, Super Troopers, Major Payne, 1 Night In Paris
    Favorite quotes:
  • Me: "So you're just going to vaccuum up that popcorn?"
    Paul: "Yeah, why?"
  • Me: "So you're just going to melt chocolate in the bottom of that pot?"
    Paul: "Yeah, why?"
    I've got more, but i'll leave it at that
    Interesting fact about myself: At one stretch sophomore year I was at the Presby ER 4 times in 5 weeks.... by the time I blew my knee out the nurses knew me.
    Best Hooligan moments:
  • The very first organized Hooligan night where we had 10 games of 7 v 7 at the same time going on on the Cathedral lawn.
  • The very second organized Hooligan night where it was Me and Paul v. Dale and Ulis
  • Laying on the cost center turf for approx. 45 minutes waiting for an ambulance after I blew out my ACL and meniscus at the same time
    Advice: For the love of God study something you like and may actually like to do for the rest of your life. There's nothing like being in the real world with no degree and $40,000 worth of debt that you couldn't even begin to pay back

  • Amber Hardesty

    Hometown: Rockwood, PA
    Graduation year: April 2006
    Major(s): Psychology & Sociology
    Currently living in: Boone, NC
    Signature Move: One-touch boot
    Favorite movies: Office Space, Super Troopers, Boondock Saints
    Favorite quotes:
  • "You know you're allowed to trap the ball, right?" - Everyone
  • Garrett: "Did you see the look that guy gave her?"
          Paul: "Well, it's three guys and one girl  all covered in mud, what  do you think happened?"
  • Garrett: "Didn't your hair used to be blonde?"
          Me: "Yeah"
          Garrett: "Well, now it's dirty blonde...with emphasis on the dirty."
  • Interesting fact about yourself:
    Best Hooligan moments:
    • Sledding down the Pete hill after playing soccer in the Cost Center for 2 1/2 hours (2002)
    • Going to the Union for food after playing in the mud and watching all the sorority girls try to stay away from us (2003)

    • Playing soccer during the hurricanes (2004)

    • Painting the "FITZ" boys and getting on ESPN (2004)
    • Yelling at Gustavo for trying to kill Dan (2005)
    • Scoring 6 goals on Halloween (2005)
    • Knocking down the signs on the Cathedral lawn (2005)
    • The undefeated Hooligan Intramural team (summer 2006)
    • The mud games
    Advice: As Dale said, Hooligans is rarely about soccer and more about everything else that goes along with it.  Once you realize this, it becomes so much more fun.  As for real advice, how should I know...I'm delaying my entry into the "real world" for at least another two years, ask me then.

  • Dan Mazzei

    Hometown: Downingtown, PA
    Graduation year: April 2008
    Major(s): Chemical Engineering
    Minor(s): Materials Science Engineering and Fuel & Fuddle
    Currently living in: Pittsburgh, PA
    Signature Move: The Sprained Ankle
    Favorite movies: Dogma, Shaun of the Dead, Rudy
    Favorite quotes:
  • Amber: "At least he wasn't wearing glasses."
         Me: "Actually, they're over there."
  • "He's got bad ankles."  Josh countless times after someone has run through my ankles
  • Interesting fact about yourself: My best semester of college was also the same semester I did my first Bible at Fuel and Fuddle, go figure...
    Best Hooligan moments:
    • Near international incidents (2004 and on...)
    • Destroying the Cathedral Lawn my first night "in charge" (2006)
    • Nearly losing a nipple by doing a diving header through a mud puddle and all the stares I got while walking through Oakland without a shirt (2007)
    • Team dinners and parties at Bob's
    • The mud games

    Advice: There is so much more to college then just grades.  College isn't about how smart you've become after however long it has taken you to finish, but about the all-around person you've become.  In the end, would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?

  • Josh MacCarty

    Hometown: Downingtown, PA
    Graduation year: April 2008
    Major(s):
    Economics and German and Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian languages
    Currently living in: Pittsburgh, PA
    Signature Move:
    Step-over-step-over-step-over-until the defender laughs
    combo
    Favorite movies:
    Star Wars, Snatch, Lock Stock, Death at a Funeral,
    Braveheart
    Favorite quotes:
  • Anth: "I'll pee in your mouth"
    Laughing at people who do not use to be verbs.
  • Interesting fact about yourself: Staying at PITT another 2 years at GSPIA
    Best Hooligan moments:
    • Mud Games
    • Salim falling down every 2 minutes (or being shot by a sniper)
    • Bhavin getting hit in the nuts once a week
    • Hooligan dinners and parties
    • Extra pts. for throwing people into the hedges on Cathy lawn
    Advice: As stated above, Hooligan is more about the experience.  It's the fun of being on the field and making new friends or playing with the old friends.  As for real life: Don't drink the Kool-aid when visiting PSU?