Joe Walters: From Nearly Failing Out Of College to Becoming An All-Time Great

Unbuckled Chinstrap with Jules Heningburg

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5.0 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Redwoods midfielder Joe Walters holds nothing back in a raw and candid conversation about his lacrosse career. Joe discusses growing up in Upstate New York (05:31-07:26), how we went to every Syracuse game at the Carrier Dome as a kid (02:54-05:30) and almost failing out of Maryland his first semester (30:48-35:20). Paul and Joe dive deep into his competitive nature (51:29-53:35) and the future of the Redwoods heading into the 2020 season (39:39-43:37). Let us know your favorite bits from the episode by tagging us at @UnbuckledPod and you can follow Joe on Instagram and Twitter @jwalters1. Enjoy the show!

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0:00.0	What's up everyone?
0:02.0	What's up everyone? Welcome to an all new episode.
0:07.0	This is Unbuckled Chinstrap.
0:09.0	I'm your host Paul Ravel, and this week we have LA resident and Redwoods midfielder legend in the studio with us.
0:17.2	Joe Walters.
0:18.7	If you've been around the cross at all, you know the legend of Joe. He's one of probably the only player in the cross that is known
0:27.4	and recognized just by his first name. Joe Tieland did a show on him once a few years ago. He talked about that. He also grew up in
0:34.2	up state New York. He played at Maryland. He donned the prestigious number one
0:38.2	Jersey. He has had a long and very successful professional career recover at all.
0:43.0	Ladies and gentlemen, there may not be a more underappreciated player in the
0:47.8	PLL right now.
0:48.8	Joe will be a National Hall of Famer and we talk about that and a lot more so tune in this piece was recorded
0:55.4	before the expansion draft and I actually made Joe put out a prediction on who
0:59.7	he thought the Redwoods would get back and who he preferred to get back. So we talk about that as well toward the end.
1:06.3	All right let's get into the beginning.
1:11.5	All right, all right we're rocking So I got Joe Walters here. Joe was texting me this weekend
1:16.0	he says his first podcast. I can't believe you haven't done a podcast before.
1:19.2	Saving the bus for the first. It's a disrespect man. Story of my career, man.
1:24.0	Story of my career, man.
1:26.0	Story in my career.
1:27.0	Yeah, I kind of was, so we've had a chance to play with each other
1:30.0	and then against and then done a bunch of team USA tryouts together.
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