Tour de Force

This weeks special guest is Shae Counts, a junior at Utica College. Shae is one of the bubbliest people on the planet she loves to make everyone smile. She is also a serious person that has her life in order. Keep an eye out for her because she will be very successful in the future. Shae and I go in depth with our questions and answers. Listen to her talk about being adopted, finding the sport later in life, her struggles her freshman year, and what she thinks this year has to hold for her and her team.

A surprise episode for you guys today! I was going to wait until next Monday to release this episode but I could not wait. Sean Dickson and I were discussing when we should reschedule his interview and he tossed out the idea that we do it right then and there. The first half of this episode shows the responsible, smart, hard working, athletic side of Dickson. Then the second half of the episode is a larger conversation with a group of roommates and friends that crashed our interview. Please enjoy!

Here we are with another bad ass bitch, Meghan Galanos! I love a girl with a big smile and a lot of banter and Meghan does not disappoint. Meghan is going to be a senior at Bowdoin College. Listen to her discuss the idea of switching pathways from the legal world to the nutrition world, her time with the Boston Shamrocks, her time at Bowdoin College, and the struggles of a herniated disc in her back. Then the cherry on top of the episode is her doing a breakdown of her roster for the year. This episode will not disappoint!

This week we are double packing the action with two different segments. The first segment is an interview with one of the founders of Stand Out Sports Hockey, Adam. Listen to Adam break down what his business is, the staleness of our current stat system and the reason to switch it up, the importance of a highlight video, and the important magnitude of a highlight video during the covid-19 pandemic. Then the second segment is the Quarantine QandA. I put together a list of interesting and controversial topics to ask the players that I have been living with. Listen to Tyler Dill, Jasper Korican-Barlay, Zach Dill, and Eric Larsson talk about their opinions of is juicing a problem in the hockey community, contract lengths in the NHL, can aggression in a game be taken to legal court, and should Jeremy Roenick have been fired for his inappropriate comments about Kathryn Tappen.

Alea Bowen is a childhood friend and a current coworker of mine. She is a force of nature in the way that she smiles and everyone else around her smiles; she brings the good vibes. I feel so lucky that I was able to convince her to help me out with Tour de Force. She will be working on planning events, designing merchandise, and making an appearance here and there on the podcast. Listen to Alea talk about her experience with the Jr. Sharks, what it was like to be high school age and have the majority of your team leave town to go to boarding school, the rebuilding process, playing hockey at Lindenwood, living in San Francisco, and her dreams to be a physical therapist.

Mickey Lang is a man of many words and even more chirps. There is no way to be within a football field of this man without being captivated by his energy. Listen to Mickey discuss his hockey path, the pivotal moment everything changed, his coaching career, and his current goal to help grow hockey in his hometown. Mickey played D3 College hockey and was able to make the jump to play professional hockey in the East Coast League and eventually in the American League as well. After pushing himself towards his dream it all came to a sudden blockade when he was injured in a game. The injury shifted his life into the role of being a mentor and a coach for the youth of the game. Now his goal is to help develop the sport in his hometown of Reno, Nevada by getting a hockey stick into the hands of every child possible.

MJ Peters is a triple threat! She is very intelligent, super beautiful, and extremely athletic. Listen to her discuss her internships working to help fix stigmas around concussions, talk about her passion of being a goalie, her opinions on boarding schools, and finally her freshman year at Connecticut College.

Parker Bishop is a very down to earth person with his head on straight. Listen to him discuss his path way from Roseville Capital Thunder to Northwood School Huskies to Stony Brook Seawolf. He elaborates on his experience of debating going to juniors or straight to college. Then he explains his career in the D1 ACHA program. Finally he tells the tail of his early retirement from the sport. Concussions are no joke and Parker Bishop reiterates that for all of us to hear.

Leila Kilduff is a bad ass bitch; it is as simple as that. She has dedicated herself on and off the ice since she was a young child. Listen to us talk about her training regimen, the goal for women professional players to make a livable wage, playing for a college coach that had only ever coached mens hockey before, and how she feels being bisexual when it comes to her hockey community.

Scott Aaron is a very close friend of mine. He has navigated his hockey career while moving from location to location with his military family. Scott talks about his experience at Wilkes as a first year program. Then he lets us in on his transfer process and moving to Southern New Hampshire University. He also speaks on what he thinks he will be doing during his post collegiate life.