Behind the Uniform with Will & Kayli Johnson: It's a Michigan Family Affair
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🗓️ 13 August 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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In episode two of Behind the Uniform, we visit with University of Michigan All-American cornerback Will Johnson and special guest Director of On-Campus Recruiting, and Will's big sister, Kayli Johnson. The siblings reflect upon Kayli's journey as a student athlete, and rapid rise in the ranks of athletic administration. Will discusses the injury adversity he dealt with last year while covering some of the nation's best wideouts, and how pristine health heading into this year has his poised to take his game to another level. Kayli shares her outlook and vision for the recruiting department and Will highlights his evolution as a team leader. He also spends time detailing his financial journey in the era of NIL, highlighted by an enlightening visit with the team at the University of Michigan Credit Union.
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| 0:00.0 | And welcome to another edition of Behind the Uniform, a special edition. You know, I don't know that we'll ever have another three-time guest of a fitting that is probably the guy on the team that I've known along is going back to his middle school years where he was working out with high schoolers. |
| 0:32.3 | His dad had him working out with high schoolers as a middle schooler, college guys as a high schooler, hell, pro guys now. |
| 0:41.0 | So we know Will Johnson forever, but at the same time, we thought we talked to him so long. |
| 0:47.1 | Let's do something a little different. |
| 0:49.1 | So let's bring his big sister on with him as well. |
| 0:52.0 | So Kaylee Johnson joins us here on behind the uniform. So we'll |
| 0:55.8 | introduce them both here momentarily. After we tell you a little bit about the platform, behind the |
| 1:02.0 | uniform, as you know, season two is something that we came up with to take you inside and in-depth |
| 1:08.7 | lives of student athletes away from the field or court of play. |
| 1:12.8 | So you can see what they do and what they're about away from the sports that they play, |
| 1:17.5 | who they are and what they're about. |
| 1:19.8 | And not only that, in the age of NIL, we also want to uplift a bit, give back a bit. |
| 1:25.2 | They give so much to us, what can we do to help them out? |
| 1:27.9 | In the words of my guy Giovanni Ohadi, he said, you know, we aren't very smart with our money, |
| 1:33.7 | some of us. I said, okay, well, Gio, we're going to do something to try to help that out. |
| 1:37.3 | So our friends at UMCU and Morgan Stanley, they're doing a lot to help us lay the financial literacy foundation to help |
| 1:47.0 | uplift these student athletes in ways not only where they can help themselves but help others. |
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