Canadian Athlete Representation: Episode 9 with Andrew Coe

Episode 11 with Emmett Dunn

Recorded: June 1st 2021 Emmett Dunn makes his second appearance on the series with a relaxed pod, not entirely focused on footy this time. We catch up with Emmett about the COVID situation and what footy is looking like over in England. Away from sports, we talk a bit about Apple Music and Spotify, Netflix, and reality TV shows. Tune in to hear all about it!

Episode 10 with Jordan Sambrook of the Brock Badgers Men's Hockey Team

The Student-Athlete Series returns for an episode with Jordan Sambrook, a defenceman for the Brock Badgers Men's hockey team. Before bringing on Jordan as our sole guest for the episode, host Neville Madill provides some updates on the current U Sports season and what it may look like moving forward going into the spring. Jordan Sambrook then joins the episode to talk about his path to Brock University. Jordan talks about his OHL career, including being a part of the 2017 Erie Otters OHL Championship winning team. He also talks about his NHL Draft experience from back in 2016 and why he chose to be a Brock Badger coming off his four-year OHL career.

Canadian Athlete Representation: Episode 9 with Andrew Coe

At the beginning of the episode (0:41), Neville is joined by Kieran Cordy where they talk about some notable Canadian athletes ever since sports came back. Later on in the episode (14:28), Andrew Coe joins The Student-Athlete Series to talk about his journey as a rugby player in Canada. He was able to share when he started playing rugby during his youth and how the recruitment process went for him when he started to look at post-secondary education. He then talks a bit about his time at UBC, including the heated rivalry between the UBC Thunderbirds and the Uvic Vikes. Currently, Andrew represents the senior men's Canadian national rugby team and was able to talk about going to the rugby world cup in Japan back in 2019, where he attained some celebrity status while there for the tournament. Tune in to hear much more! Instagram: @studentathleteseries Music: Finally by Loxbeats https://soundcloud.com/loxbeats Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download: http://bit.ly/FinallyLoxbeats Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/fGquX0Te1Yo

Episode 8 w/ Kieran Cordy: Top High School Student-Athlete

At the end of the summer (August 20th), host Neville Madill was able to sit down with the Riverdale Collegiate Institute senior boys athlete of the year, Kieran Cordy. Kieran was able to reflect on his time as a top student-athlete back at Riverdale (1:09) where he was able to be a part of six teams including hockey, baseball, basketball, track and field, curling, and rugby. Later on, Neville and Kieran were able to talk a little bit about the Toronto Maple Leafs and why they weren't able to break through the qualifying round this year (19:34). The boys were also able to talk a little bit about their NHL Playoff Brackets (which did not turn out well) and who looked like they were going to take it back at the end of the summer when the first round of the NHL playoffs was taking place. The episode finishes up with Kieran's take on the Toronto Raptors playoff chances and how the MLB's return to play is panning out (47:20).

Episode 7 with Zoe Sherar of the Guelph Gryphons Track and Field Team

Zoe Sherar joins the series to talk about her experience at the University of Guelph as a student-athlete so far. Zoe talks a bit about getting into track and field (2:13) and a little bit of athletic background before her days as a track star. She then gets into talking about the adjustment to post-secondary as a student-athlete and balancing school and studies throughout the year (8:20). At 14:46, Zoe explains why the Guelph Gryphons track and field team is currently so dominant. Host Neville Madill recaps Zoe's participation in international events including World Relays and the FISU Games (17:35) while Zoe explains what she learned from those big stage experiences. The episode wraps up with Zoe explaining a little bit about how she has been involved in the Guelph community (23:15) which contributed to being named a top 8 academic all-Canadian for the 2018-2019 academic year.  Finally by Loxbeats https://soundcloud.com/loxbeats Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download: http://bit.ly/FinallyLoxbeats Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/fGquX0Te1Yo