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Rippee Writes: kicker, decathlete and hybrid athlete Cruz Oguz

MPW Digital

MPW Digital

Sports

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Cruz Oguz is a track athlete and future kicker for Mississippi State. He's the son of Turkish immigrants who began to build a social media following through the sport of "tricking" and doing flips and other acrobatic feats. He then began to combine that skill with his kicking talent and turned it into a track career and an SEC scholarship Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Rippy Rights with Brian Scott Lippie.

0:04.5

Transcript can be obtained by drinking a fifth of bourbon, ramming your head through some drywall, and then writing down every thought you have.

0:10.9

What is up on a Friday? Thanks for tuning into another edition of the Rippy Rights podcast, brought to you by Twisted Tea.

0:16.7

We have a great show for you today. Another one of those interviews that's a little bit off the beaten path.

0:20.5

Today we have Cruz OgoGooze on the show.

0:23.6

Cruz is a hybrid athlete who is currently a track athlete at Mississippi State,

0:28.5

but that is just the beginning of his story.

0:30.6

He was one of the better kicking prospects coming out of high school at Bio Academy there in Cleveland,

0:35.6

Mississippi.

0:36.2

He will eventually kick for the Mississippi

0:38.1

State football team, but he's into a sport called tricking, which I'll let him explain it to you

0:43.3

when we get into the show. He's going to explain it better than I can, but he's basically a certified

0:46.9

ninja. He does all kinds of different flips and acrobatic stuff that neither are you or I could do,

0:52.9

and he somehow turned that into a large social media presence doing trick kicks. There's a couple of videos of him doing backflips and while making a field goal at the same time. He's a very fascinating kid. He's a fascinating story. He's of Turkish descent. His father was a Turkish swimmer who came to the United States to swim in college at Delta

1:11.9

State ended up staying in Cleveland. He's got a great story. We talked about his path into

1:15.5

becoming a large social media influencer hybrid athletes, as he calls it, but a really,

1:21.6

really wild story. If you want to get prepped for this interview, I would go to his

1:24.6

Instagram, cruise.oos, and just watch some of his videos. It is pretty wild stuff. So we talked about his path as the son of a swimmer, how he got into tricking, how he turned that into being able to monetize it on social media, all the way up to somehow becoming a track athlete and a potential football player at Mississippi State. So I promise you, enjoy this interview. Buckle up. Before we get to that, they wanted to remind you. Podcast is also brought to you by Rent the Sip Oxer. Their Turnberry location sleeps eight comfortably, less than a mile from the Ole Miss campus right off the old Taylor Road there. It is gated. It offers amenities such as tennis courts, Asana, again, sleeps eight comfortably. They have availability for Mercer, Vandy, and ULM football weekends. Please go check about it. It can be hard to find a place to stay in Oxford, particularly on big weekends. Or maybe you're just passing through on a random night or a random weekend and you're looking for a place to stay. Want to have some more space, have a larger crew with you, don't want to screw with the hotel.

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