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Unbuckled Chinstrap with Jules Heningburg

Jerry Ragonese: Faceoffs, Face Masks and Gourmet Cooking

Unbuckled Chinstrap with Jules Heningburg

PLL

Sports

5.01.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Jerry Ragonese is not just a faceoff specialist for the Redwoods. He’s the owner and co-founder of ProAthletics, an apparel manufacturer that specializes in producing lacrosse uniforms. Yet in the wake of COVID-19, Ragonese found his business ground to a halt. So he pivoted - leveraging his sewing machines, skilled workforce and production capabilities to sew face masks in his facility in southern California. Since then he’s produced tens of thousands of face masks, including the ones sold by PLL today. Jerry and Paul dig into the origins of ProAthletics, the evolution (and controversy) surrounding the faceoff position, and how Jerry once faked an allergic attack to find out a recipe. You can get your very own PLL Face Mask at shop.premierlacrosseleague.com where all proceeds will be donated to Feeding America. Please rate, review and leave a question that you would like us to ask an athlete on future shows. Let us know your favorite bits from the episode by tagging us at @UnbuckledPod and you can follow Jerry on Instagram and Twitter @flowgo37. Enjoy the show!

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up everyone? Welcome to an all new episode of Unbuckled Chinstrap. I'm your

0:06.1

host Paul Rabel and this is an especially fantastic show we have for you today.

0:10.7

During these unprecedented times of COVID-19 in this pandemic

0:15.1

where we've all been quarantined, whether it's with your partner or your family,

0:19.0

your friends, or self, there's been a lot that's happened, a lot we're thankful for, in particular first responders

0:25.5

and our health care professionals.

0:27.8

But there's also a lot of businesses that are undergoing major changes.

0:31.6

In this week's episode, I host Jerry Ragnies who's not only a star

0:35.7

face-off player in the PLL and has been on every level but he's also a co-founder of

0:41.6

his company Pro Athletics and they underwent a number of changes in a matter of days,

0:46.4

rescuing their business in the face of sales decline, switching their production line from sporting apparel to protective masks in a matter of days.

0:57.0

So the impetus was to help the community.

1:00.0

They built the guardian mask. We've since partnered with them so you can get your own Guardian Mask that Jerry produces, that we advertise and we sell.

1:09.7

You can get a PLL mask like me or an Atlas Across Club like me or you can get a Redwoods

1:14.7

a cross club guardian mask like Jerry. We also offer beans lacrosse good math.

1:18.9

What will talk about all of that, how he got so good at face-offs what he thinks about face off's why he can

1:24.3

win so if you're a face off player out there this podcast is for you he talks about

1:28.4

Trevor Baptiste who he thinks has the quickest hands in the league

1:31.9

Jerry's a humble guy.

1:34.0

He's also a foodie, so we talk about the foods that he loves

1:38.0

and why he's such a talented chef, how he learned to cook,

1:41.0

which will surprise you.

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