I Played, Too

This week, former North Dakota State baseball player Zach Wentz, whose younger brother Carson was the 2nd overall pick in the 2016 NFL Draft and made the Pro Bowl the following year, joins the show. Zach talks about Carson and his YouTube show Wentz Bros Outdoors which has taken them from North Dakota to Hawaii and many points in between, tearing his ACL in high school and how that affected his re...

This week, retired soccer player Cleve Lewis, whose younger brother Carl won multiple Olympic gold medals and is one of the best track and field athletes of the 20th century, joins the show. Cleve talks being baptized by Martin Luther King, being the first African-American drafted into the North American Soccer League(which was the precursor to the MLS), scoring the game-winning goal in overtime o...

On this week's episode, former Los Angeles Dodgers prospect Austin Yount, whose uncle is two-time American League MVP Robin Yount, joins the show. He talks about once starting ahead of former National League MVP Buster Posey for Team USA, his grandfather working on the Manhattan Project, setting a school record with 10 RBI in a single game while in high school, being teammates with his cousin...

This week, surfer Steve Hawk, whose younger brother Tony is a skateboarding legend, joins the show. Steve talks about how he fell in love with the water at an early age, why Alaska is one of his favorite places to surf, being one of the few to surf on the continent of Antarctica, his career as an editor and writer that took him from newspapers to Surfer Magazine to Hollywood, his relationship with...

On this week's episode, musician Jonathan Roy, whose dad is Hall of Fame hockey goalie Patrick Roy, joins the show. He talks about his most recent album "Life Distortions," opening up for the Backstreet Boys in front of 100,000 people, his recent European tour, playing goalie in junior hockey while Patrick was his head coach, once being roommates with Stanley Cup champion Jonathan Ma...

This week, musician Krysten Knievel, whose grandfather Evel and father Robbie were acclaimed daredevils, joins the show. Krysten talks about being the lead singer of the Knievel's Daredevil Band, opening for Everclear coming up in August, singing the national anthem at just age 12 before Robbie's Grand Canyon jump, Robbie's passing in January and keeping his memory alive, her son being...

On this week's episode, former LPGA golfer Charlotta Sorenstam joins the show. She talks about growing up in Sweden with her sister and legendary women's golfer Annika Sorenstam, winning a national title at the University of Texas in Austin, saving Hall of Fame golfer Donna Caponi's life and winning the Mary Bea Potter Award due to her heroic efforts, her transition into becoming a coa...

On this week's episode, Jordan Parise returns to the show. Jordan talks about playing at the legendary high school hockey powerhouse Shattuck St. Mary's in Minnesota, getting expelled from school, playing hockey in Austria, Germany, Italy and Norway, the fun of a German Christmas market, how Vancouver Canucks goalie coach Ian Clark changed the course of his career, running hockey camps for...

On this week's episode, former collegiate swimmer Hilary Phelps, whose younger brother Michael is the most decorated Olympic swimmer of all-time, joins the show. Hilary talks about how she got into swimming, wanting to give up swimming in high school only to continue and swim collegiately at the University of Richmond, her alcohol addiction and subsequent recovery as she's been sober for o...

On this week's episode, current York United head coach Martin Nash, brother of two-time NBA MVP and Basketball Hall of Famer Steve Nash, joins the show. Martin talks about playing on the 2000 Gold Cup-winning Team Canada squad, just missing out on playing in the MLS, playing for several teams in England and in North America, getting a chance to re-connect with his brother Steve as both were pl...

On this week's show, Judd Garrett, whose older brother Jason both played for and coached the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Giants, joins us on I Played, Too. Judd talks about growing up in a football family, winning 1989 Ivy League player of the year at Princeton, going to training camps with several teams and what they were like, playing in the CFL as well as the now-defunct World League of...

On this week's episode, Jordan Parise, son of former NHL All-Star and former Shattuck St Mary's hockey director J.P. Parise, joins the show. Jordan talks about how and why he became a goalie, attending training camps with NHL goaltending legends, Martin Brodeur, Henrik Lundqvist and Marc-Andre Fleury and what he learned from each, playing for North Dakota in the Frozen Four vs Boston Colle...

I am in the midst of a move, and so no podcast this week. Thanks for your understanding, but it will be back next week with former goaltender Jordan Parise. His father, JP and brother Zach, are both former NHL All-Stars. So, please, tune in then!! Thanks again

On this week's episode, figure skater Danielle Logano, whose brother is NASCAR driver Joey Logano, joins the show. Danielle talks about her career in skating, how she ended up in the non-traditional skating market of Charlotte, doing a fire act and once setting herself on fire(!!), becoming a power skating coach for hockey players, getting back out on the ice just FOUR weeks after having her f...