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Unbuckled Chinstrap with Jules Heningburg

Winning Championships Is F***king Hard | Alex Aust

Unbuckled Chinstrap with Jules Heningburg

PLL

Sports

5.01.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Alex Aust is an Attacker for the WPLL Pride and Team USA. Since winning a National Championship at Maryland, Aust has transformed herself into a health and fitness influencer and one of the most dominant players in women’s lacrosse. In this intimate conversation, Paul and Alex discuss their shared first-love for basketball (09:03-11:13), winning and losing National Championships (17:46-20:56), the challenges and pressures of being a female athlete (26:19-32:15), and the future of women’s lacrosse (41:17-50:43). Please rate and review and leave a question you’d 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 Alex on Instagram @alexaust_. Enjoy the show!

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up everyone?

0:06.0

What's up everyone? Welcome to an all new episode.

0:08.0

This is Unbuckle Chinstrap and I'm your host Paul Rabel.

0:11.0

This week's guest is my first player who does not play in the

0:15.0

PLL. She plays in the WPLO, that's the women's professional lacrosse

0:19.0

league and her name is Alex Ost. Not only a star-studded attacker for the Pride and Team USA, but she's taken

0:25.8

her game to social and she's now influencing people across all of her social mediums, not only

0:31.8

young but older men's and women's lacrosse players on what it's like

0:35.4

to be a full-time professional athlete.

0:39.4

And I'm calling it right now.

0:41.0

If you follow her on Instagram and Twitter Twitter she's a great follow there but

0:43.0

follow her on Tik-Tok. I think if she keeps up her cadence she is going to be a

0:47.2

very famous Tik-Tocker and that could also put our sport on the map. So keep doing it Alex. In addition to all that on the show we talked

0:55.2

about her being recruited to Maryland when she first started playing basketball and picked up a stick and

0:59.9

became really good at it. Then how she helped the team win a national championship

1:03.6

her freshman year.

1:04.9

And she was on the losing end, her senior year.

1:07.4

That was a lot of what I experienced in college.

1:10.2

And we talk about her morning routine

1:12.2

and most importantly, her and her colleagues efforts to push the women's

1:16.1

lacrosse game into the spotlight. So let's get right to it. Here's Alex

1:20.3

Austin. Awesome.

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