| Name | Jannah Eichenbaum
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| Major | Undecided maybe political science or psychology
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| What is your career ambition? | Still figuring it out hopefully something which gives me the opportunity to make a difference in the world!
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| What is your favorite thing about Yeshiva University? | My favorite thing about Yeshiva University is that I am given the opportunity to pursue my academic and extracurricular passions without compromising my religious observance.
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| What is your favorite thing about being a student-athlete at Yeshiva University? | My favorite thing about being a Yeshiva University athlete is all the new friends I have made! I spend many hours each week with my teammates and we have become really close. Making these friends has really enriched my experience at YU and it always so nice to see my teammates while walking the halls.
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| What Yeshiva University class have you found most beneficial? | Arab Israeli Conflict by Professor Chuck Freilich. This class helped me really understand the root of the Arab Israeli conflict. I now feel more confident in defending the state of Israel.
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| What was your greatest memory as a Yeshiva student-athlete? | WOW thats a loaded question. I would say preseason was a great bonding experience for the team. On a more personal level it is a compilation of all the times where your really see God helping you out on the court. Those points that you win don't think you have but "miraculously" the ball lands in the court or just bounces in off the net.
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| Who was the most influential person to you as a child? | My older sister Becky.
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| Growing up what teacher in school do you remember to have the biggest influence on you? | My English teacher in senior year of high school. She once told me something that I constantly think back to when I need a little confidence.
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| What is your favorite food? | Sushi and soup!
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| What is your favorite television show? | Parenthood
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| What is your favorite movie? | Footloose
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| In high school, what clubs were you involved with? | Tennis team, Dance, School Newspaper, College Bowl, model congress
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| If you can have dinner with any celebrity, who would you choose? | Ed Sheeran and Golda Meir
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| What accomplishment are you most proud of? | I am proud of the fact that I have not stopped playing tennis since I was nine years old. No matter how hard it got to play, I continued lessons as I got older, I followed my heart and continued to do something I love so much. That passion got me where I am today and I am so proud and I am also so thankful to my parents who without them it would have never happened.
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| What is your favorite hobby (besides the sport you play)? | DANCE. I have trained in ballet, tap, jazz,lyrical, contemporary dance since I was three.
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| Favorite sport to play (besides your sport)? | I consider dance to be a sport but I also played JV volleyball in high school and enjoy running for exercise.
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| What is your favorite sports team? | New York Knicks
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| What would people you know now find surprising about you when you were younger? | Let's see well I was born feet first and onetime my twin brother got stitches and I wore a matching bandaid on my forehead for like a week!
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