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Washed Up Walkons

Spencer Lee | WUW 523

Washed Up Walkons

Tyler Kluver

Sports, College Football, Ncaa Team, Nfl Draft, Big Ten, Athletes, Hawkeyes, Iowa

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Spencer is from Murrysville, Pennsylvania and attended Franklin Regional High School. He was a Cadet World Champ, and the Top ranked pound-for-pound wrestling recruit in the country when he committed to the Hawkeyes. At Iowa he went on to be a 5 time All American, 3 time NCAA Champ, and 2 time Dan Hodge Trophy winner, amongst numerous other accolades, accomplishments, and awards. We got to sit down with Spencer 2 months out from his first Olympic appearance and talk shop. We discuss his career at Iowa, his mindset when he's on the mat, the Olympic qualifiers, the craziest workout he ever did, how he battled through so much injury in his career, his love for Pokemon, and a whole lot more.If you love the show and want to show support, tell your friends! And, check out our exclusive content at Patreon.com/washedupwalkons where you can find extra podcast episodes, exclusive merchandise, Merch discounts with every tier, private Walkon discord channel access, and more!Find us on social media @washedupwalkonsVisit TheWashedUpWalkons.com for all of our episodes, merchandise, and more!

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0:00.0

You just found the best Hawkeye podcast on Earth. Today's episode backs it up. The guest. Pretty self-explanatory. It's Spencer Lee. We're the best college wrestlers, maybe best college athletes of all time. He's now added Olympian to his resume. He is in search in the hunt for the Olympic gold in Paris this summer

0:16.8

We finally get to sit down and talk to the man the goat and it's an incredible conversation. You're going to love it Sit back relax. Let's have a day. Let's go Oh, I was that. Another episode of the Wash Up Walk On's today, couldn't get Drake for this one.

0:55.2

He's our like resident wrestling MMA Jiu-Jjitsu guy on this podcast,

0:59.9

full back when we played. We thought we were going to get him back to talk to the future

1:04.4

olympian gold medal winner Spencer Lee, but we didn't regardless. We've got us three. Spencer Lee is the

1:10.6

guest tonight. We've been waiting for this one a very long time.

1:14.2

Spencer, welcome to the show.

1:15.4

Thanks for having me, man.

1:16.4

Appreciate that.

1:17.4

What's life like right now? What are you doing?

1:19.2

Oh, well, today was a day off, so a little bit more relaxed.

1:22.2

But usually, I mean, I'm a training regiment so

1:25.2

we have like every day is a specific day and you have like different days of

1:30.2

rest and different days of training different days of workouts, all this other stuff I have to do.

1:35.0

Is a rest day for an Olympic wrestler, like an actual rest day or is it like an active

1:40.6

for?

1:41.6

Yeah.

1:43.0

Well, every rest stays different, you know.

1:45.0

For me, it's like I have active rest days, passive rest days, and then I have like, you know,

1:49.6

therapeutic rest days.

1:50.7

So like, they're all different different encompassing different things right so

1:53.7

everything's pretty active days what just like a three mile around that day well I

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