Welcome to the official first episode of Emerging Elite with Joe Denes and Yinka Odofin (YiNkZZ). With both on a quest to inspire, motivate and educate more people through various amazing life stories that involve sports that never gain the limelight that they deserve. 
In this episode, Joe and YiNkZZ discuss the very unique and interesting story of YiNkZZ from dealing with major life setbacks, to getting a track scholarship to a school in the United States and much more. The story is quite inspiring to any youngin out there trying to be successful in whatever their pursuit is. 
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Ep.1 Overcoming Major Life Setbacks (The story of YiNkZZ)

A lot of people have amazing life stories but not many end in bliss publically. Emerging Elite is a space where we examine people’s journey through life, that involves sports and how their stories could inspire others.

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In recent times, we are hearing and seeing of more student-athletes take their lives at such a young age. Why is this happening? What is the cause of this? Is there anything that can be done to reduce the amount of suicide rates within college student-athletes? 
Mikaela Brewer was a women's basketball star from Barrie, Canada who played for the University of Standford. She had been playing basketball since she was a child and had been able to channel her passion for the sport into something that allowed her to succeed in college, as well as in life.
In this interview with Mikaela, we talked about how she dealt with pressures of college sports and the mental aspect that comes with it which people do not talk about.
Mikaela explained that one of the main reasons why people do not talk about mental health is because it is such a taboo topic in society today. She said that people are afraid to open up about their own struggles or admit they have them because they don't want others to think less of them or judge them negatively.
However, Mikaela believes that talking about these issues will help make things better in society overall because then people will be more willing to seek out help when they need it rather than suffer alone in silence.
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Ep. 4 Mental Health Challenges as a Student-Athlete with Mikaela Brewer

In this inaugural episode, we interviewed Ocian Archer who is arguably Innisdale's Best Female and Most well-known athlete. She got a full ride scholarship to run at Mississippi State University a top D1 program. Ocian's accolades throughout her athletic career are as follows:

 400m hurdles MSU school record with a time of 58.29


 Member of the 4x400-meter relay team at 2015 NCAA Championships


  Member of the 4x400-meter relay that set the school record at the 2013 NCAA East Preliminary with a time of 3:34.29


  distance medley relay at the SEC Indoor Championships (11:26.86), the third fastest time in MSU school history


  Earned Second-Team All-American honors in the 4x400m relay.


  Competed at the Junior Nationals and the Pan-American Juniors.



Listen in to this interesting conversation we had with Ocian as we looked at some of the highs, lows and navigating life as a student-athlete in the south. 

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Ep.3 A Journey south to Mississippi State w/ Ocian Archer

In this episode, we discuss Joe Denes' upbringing and desire to make it to the highest level in his athletic pursuit. Some of Joe's accomplishment are as follows: 



 Nationally ranked decathlete 1994-2002
 Participated in the Canadian Track and Field Nationals as a decathlete (1994,96-98,2002,2004)
 Canadian National Bobsled Team Member (1998-2001)
 Best Coach out of Barrie 



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Ep.1 Overcoming Major Life Setbacks (The story of YiNkZZ)

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