Roxanne Chalifoux, Villanova’s arrant piccolo amateur who became an Internet awareness over the weekend, says she’s demography her newfound acclaim “in acceptable spirits.”
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Chalifoux batten with Philadelphia’s WIP radio base on cheap new era hats Monday morning and said she was arrant because she’s a chief and it was her endure time assuming with the school’s pep band. She said she was acquainted the cameras were on her, but that viral acclaim was the extreme affair from her apperception at that moment.
“I saw myself on the Jumbotron and all i could anticipate about was that my dad was at the game,” Chalifoux told WIP’s Angelo Cataldi. “I didn’t wish him to see me crying. Little did I apperceive that it was traveling to end up all over the Internet and that [my dad seeing me crying] was the atomic of my worries.
“It’s just simple to get emotional, abnormally if you’re a senior. That just afflicted the bold for me.”
Chalifoux says she’s apparent all the jokes on the Internet from a blow of her arena the affair from Titanic to getting comforted by Joe Biden to getting yelled at by the music abecedary from Whiplash. The inboxes on her amusing media accounts accept been abounding of producers and reporters cheap hats aggravating to acquisition out added about her.
“It doesn’t bother me,” she said. “I anticipate it’s funny.”
There’s one affair she says she wants humans to know: While some humans accept questioned whether she was in fact playing, Chalifoux says the tears did not stop her from assuming the song.
Chalifoux says she’s over the loss, which resulted in Villanova getting the aboriginal No. 1-seed alone from this year’s NCAA tournament. She was aswell a boom above during football division and plays the bassoon for Villanova’s concert band. After admission with a amount in biology, she affairs to appear optometry academy in the abatement and affairs to become an eye doctor.
Will she anytime play the piccolo again? Chalifoux says she’s not sure.
“At atomic it’s so tiny that I could cull it out and play it if I cheap snapbacks hats absolutely capital to,” she said.
And she did just that for WIP.
Tear-free, this time.