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trying to turn the goal line. What the hand? You know, Pat
shappo up here comes the spot now the sideline shown that spartop. Well,
welcome back to this is Sparta Podcast Show live a top of the Graduate Hotel
rooftop bar, the Rock Bar. I'm your host, Jason Straehorn with my
co host Jayu Kulker. How you doing today? I'm good. How you
doing? Great view, great scenery, Big shout out to the Rock Bar
for hosting us. Oh yeah, man, this is a great venue,
great place. Be sure to come here anytime you're in East Lancing, side
by to get a cocktail adult or you know, a soda pop whatever you
would like here at the Graduate Hotel at top of the Rock Bar here in
East Lancing. And really good foods oh man. Beautiful rooms too. You
know. We're going to talk a little bit now about the other fall sports.
Other sports in Michigan State volleyball, Yeah, which is a sport that
you know, Jay you was very you know he's a former volleyball player,
right, yeah, I played volleyball in high school. All tournament team,
you know, all Tournament All Tournament Team. It was that little break at
the end of basketball season, right before Trasie. Yeah, we had that
month long for boys volleyball banking climber New York. You know, so New
York, New York guys, you were a little springy. How you can
get off the ground a little bit. I had to come of little bunny
here and there. I just talking about in a thirty seven inch vertical in
the NFL combine. Now that is for those at home. That's pretty dog
one good. All right. So volleyball with new head coach Leah Johnson has
this team rolling this year, starting off for at six and oh for the
first time since twenty twelve. Yeah, great start for the women's volleyball team
that made the move from Jennison field House this year. They're playing in the
Breslin Now, you know, the capability for more fans, a lot more
excitement. I wonder what it's gonna because Jennison. I went to a volleyball
match two back in my day at college and Jennison was a cool atmosphere,
you know, like the fans are right on top of you. So I
wonder how that's going to change. And the noise level and everything in volleyball,
because volleyball plays off a lot of emotion and the momentum swings and everything,
so it will be really cool for them. I'm really excited that,
you know the fact that they're off to a six and oh start. Hopefully
they can make a run and continue to make a deep run into the NCAAs.
Yeah, a lot of history here at Michigan State and volleyball, a
lot of great teams. Let's see if this team can get over the home
and get a big ten championship or even go further into the national tournament.
Having a record breaking performance of seventeen service aces against division in a Division one
game, the most they've had since nineteen eighty three. So we're looking forward
to what new head coach Leah Johnson bringing to the table for MSU volleyball.
Now we'll go over to field hockey. Yeah, field hockey with coach Helen
no has field hockey right now three and zero when they open up with a
nice win over number twenty one American and they went on the road to California
played UC Davis had some more quality wins right now, as we said,
sitting three and one, they lost a heartbreaker this weekend to Stanford, losing
the penalty shootout one to zero. Yeah, it's good. It's really cool
and really good to see field hockey coming back. I know when I was
here, we hung out with a lot of the field hockey players. They're
very successful. They won the national title a couple times back in the day,
and so I'm just excited. Hopefully it's a trend in the right direction
and they're going the right places, can bring in good recruits and continue to
build on the program. And we want to continue to give love to all
MSU sports, especially the women's sports. Sometimes get overlooked, but we are
not overlooking any sport here at this is Sparta. We're talking about the whole
family. The family is in Spartan Nation, and we will talk about you
no matter what you do, win, lose, a draw, We're in
your corner. Moving on to men's soccer, where you have head coach Damon
Rinsing. They had a performance last week, you know against Akron who was
fourteenth rank but fell two to nothing the First Energy Stadium on Monday night.
Yeah, big big lights, big stadium playing where the Cleveland Browns play,
playing in an NFL Stadium. You know back, You know I always throw
this back. You know I played volleyball. You know. I got my
start in soccer, did you Yeah, being a kid from Africa, Yeah,
that's all I played. I didn't start playing football till the ninth grade,
okay. And the only reason I started playing football is because I went
to such a small school graduate with twenty six kids in my graduating class.
Wow. Yeah, And we didn't have a soccer team, so I had
to go over and play. So you were mad they didn't have soccer so
you had to put this freaking helmet off and play armor on. And I
remember when I first told my family I was playing football, They're like,
that's not football, that's handball. You get to gold the ball. So
yeah, I still hold a record for Little League Soccer fastest goals scored thirteen
seconds. Really yeah, thirteen seconds. I mean those fields aren't small.
No. If you I had Jets back then, they should use on the
Jets sweep here. What's going on? Jet sweep got instead of that power
guy scoring all those touchdowns for the Green and White. But we're definitely looking
forward to what it's going to bring. What's gonna happen with Michigan State men's
soccer right now sitting at one and three, you know, losing to the
Akron who still is four to oh this season. We're going to continue to
follow MSU men's soccer as the season progresses to see how things go for Damon
Rinsey, head coach and company. Going on to the women's soccer team,
where you have head coach Jeff Hostler gave the number eleven team in the nation
all they could handle. Uh. Now, they're back to De Martin on
Thursday, September eighth. This is coming up against the Oakland County Oakland Golden
Grizzlies. Excuse me, oh yeah, oh you? Oh yeah, baby,
oh you oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, it's good. It'll
be good. It'll be a good matchup though. The women's team, they're
off to a hot start, you know with that four one to one record,
so hopefully they can continue the momentum and you know, go in as
they continue to build on that and go into Big ten play and you know
they have potential to you know, come out with a Big Ten championship this
year. That's right. We'll be looking forward to MSU women's soccer to see
what they can do this season as well. Moving on to what's going on
some teams that are out of season but making some headlines right now, and
we're gonna go shift gears to MSU hockey, where a new head coach,
Adam Nightingale is just making a lot of waves on the recruiting trail right now.
Flipping a goalie who was committed to Michigan. This is a goltender,
Trey Augustine, that was called you up last year to the eighteen unders by
Nightingale as a seventeen year old, just decommitted from Michigan about twenty four hours
ago and now is committed to the Green and White. Yeah, you know,
the hockey team had a big recruiting weekend this past Friday night before the
football game. So did you see any of those guys. Yeah, one
hung out with them, some of the guys that you know, the Zach
McCallen, you know know him very well, big good friends with Drew Miller
and those guys. You know, we got to hang out a little bit
there that were making hot dogs and giving away hot dogs. And I did
see a bunch of recruits going through the money area there. But you know
that's what's gonna start happening now. Coach Nightingale is gonna start bringing those you
know, big time recruits there. Month's got a new facelift, The arena
looks beautiful. It's a great facility, futuristic Michigan State. They've won national
titles here in hockey, so it's not gonna be anything new. It's he's
gonna come and build that program. And what's happening now he has to support
of the alumni. A lot of those guys are starting to come back and
be integral part of the programs. And if you're a recruit coming in and
you're seeing guys that you see play in the NHL back on campus hanging out,
that's a good crise saying this is a family atmosphere and I want to
be a part of it. Very similar to what's been going on with tom
Izzo's crew in the Brezlent Center with MSU basketball bringing a lot of NBA talent
back throughout the offseason and this regular season when they have time to spend time
with those guys on campus, which is bodes well for recruiting. And then
we shift gears over to MSU Baseball and head coach Jake Boss just doing something
wonderful hunh Yeah, doing good for the community. You know, as you
if you're a student athlete, you always say you're more than an athlete.
You always want to give back to the community. So this September fourteenth,
the MSU baseball team will be playing a friendly game featuring athletes from MSU and
the Miracle League of Mid Michigan, teaming to raise funds to improve playing surface
and other field improvements alongside Children with Disability League of Mid Michigan September fourteenth at
six pm at Dewet Baseball Fields. Yeah. So, I mean, like
I said, that's really something that's cool that kids can really get a lot
out of it, and the athletes. You know, I as an athlete,
as a former athlete, I enjoyed you know, doing these types always
an athlete, that is true, but you know I enjoyed doing these types
of things. I enjoyed going out to the community and being a part of
the community. So you know, for yourself as well, because you know,
at one point in time, you were, you know, one of
those kids looking up to an athlete. And also too, you want the
community to know you're more than a jersey number running up and down the field
court, you know what, ice whatever you play on. So that's really
something good. And I think MSU does a lot of good things with giving
back to the community for their athletes. Humanizes the athletes and it gives them
an opportunity to give back. I know head coach football coach Mel Tucker teamed
up with Drew Stanton Able to do a Special Olympics. Yeah, Drew Staton's
High Five Foundation. Every year they you know, they do the Special Olympics
and this was the first year that it was combined. You know, Coach
Tucker and Drew combined it and you know Lancing Golf Club. Yeah, and
you know it's something great. You know, those two powers come together for
a good cause, draw more attention to the to the to the cause that
they're trying to raise more money and hopefully, you know, all these athletes
and all these kids can you know, find some light at the end of
the tunnel. Well, special special people and there's a special special time in
a very special place here in East Lansing. As we sit on top of
the Graduate Hotel at the rooftop Rock Bar here in East Lansing, be sure
to come by here anytime you are in East Lansing. It's a great place.
And this is gonna wrap up the episode. For this is Sparta for
j U Culcher and I'm Jason Straehorn and next time we'll see you. Have
a good night, God bless and go green, all White, Shallow Down
by Knock Knocked Down.