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Male Athlete of the Month - September 2015

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Daniel Amar
Amar led Yeshiva to their best-ever Skyline Conference start, as the team went 2-0-1 in their league games. Amar scored seven goals with five assists through eight games, including a game winner against Old Westbury in the Maccabees' 2-1 victory on September 18th.
 
Name (First and Last)Daniel Amar
MajorMarketing
Minor (if any)
What is your career ambition?Integrating the high standarts of marketing that I absurved in America to organizations in Israel
What is your favorite thing about Yeshiva University?Realizing how powerful our nation is and how much love we all the students share for Israel
What is your favorite thing about being a student-athlete at Yeshiva University?Be able to combine in my sentences while I talk to my teammates both Hebrew and English and they will understand completely.
What Yeshiva University class have you found most beneficial?Both Jewish Philosophy and Buyer Behavior
What was your greatest memory as a Yeshiva student-athlete?Simply the pre-game prayer that the team takes together
Who was the most influential person to you as a child?My amazing parents
Growing up what teacher in school do you remember to have the biggest influence on you?My high school teacher Ms. Bar Cohen that helped me combine and be successful in both the academics and soccer
What is your favorite food?My mom's Roast beef
What is your favorite television show?Suits/friends/house of cards
What is your favorite movie?The Godfather 2
In high school, what clubs were you involved with?The hiking club
If you can have dinner with any celebrity, who would you choose?Robin Williams
What accomplishment are you most proud of?For someone who came from a small town in southern Israel to recieve a full scholarship acceptance letter from an American university. Is by far my proudest moment.
What is your favorite hobby (besides the sport you play)?Trying to watch online every single one of TED's Talks lectures
Favorite sport to play (besides your sport)?Basketball
What is your favorite sports team?Maccabi Tel Aviv
What would people you know now find surprising about you when you were younger?I completed a 2 year program of computer technician