JAY BHIMANI (11) (Right): “Personally, I think a big part of being twins is that we push each other a lot. Naturally, as twins, we do a lot of the same activities whether it’s volleyball or other extracurriculars that would push us to be better. We push each other, whether it’s encouraging each other or having some playful competition.”
NEEL BHIMANI (11) (Left): “I think having a twin really helps you be successful because I always have someone to do something with. It helps having someone there to support me. We’ve grown into distinct people and I think people recognize that. Being in separate extracurriculars helps us introduce each other to new activities.”
JAY: “Although people sometimes group us, we do separate things. Neel cares a lot more about sports and I care a lot more about leadership. We use that to both of our advantages. Neel will introduce me to different sports and get me involved and I’ll help get him involved in leadership. We play off each other, give each other good opportunities, and help each other to elevate ourselves.”
NEEL: “Also, we look very different as fraternal twins, so we don’t often get mislabeled, but people do mess up our names sometimes because our names often get grouped together. I like that we’re fraternal because identical twins can get mislabeled and it allows us to develop our own identities, which is a big benefit.”
JAY: “I really like being fraternal as well. It makes us distinct people. Being fraternal gives you the good aspects of being twins. For example, we think the same things a lot. Someone will say something and me and Neel will have the exact same thought at the same time. We’ll make eye contact and go ‘Wow.’ We have the same sense of humor a lot of the time, so there’s very similar interactions with that, but being fraternal allows us to be separate people.
Something unique about our relationship as twins is that we’re in the same friend group. We have the same close core friend group of eight guys, but we have other friend groups too. So, a lot of times, we’ll hang out with separate friend groups, but we have the same core group of friends. I think that shows a lot about our taste in friends.”
