On today's episode of The Lax Lounge, we sit down and talk with current Malvern Prep stud and Georgetown commit Jake Bickel! Jake gives us insight into his career growing up playing lacrosse and being involved in the first wave of youth travel lacrosse teams. We then look at his high school career earning back-to-back Inter-Ac championships in his first two years. He also talks about his experience on September 1st and why he chose Georgetown. Definitely a good listen!
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Current Malvern Prep standout and recent Georgetown commit Jake Bickel joins us in the lounge, we go through our fast five questions and gives us the most unique take for best ice cream flavor, we get into his early lacrosse career growing up in a family of big lacrosse names, his decision to choose lacrosse over baseball (in 5th grade?), the origins of Team Ten and the breathtaking Berwyn Sports Complex, his youth lacrosse career playing with Conestoga, Fridge reminisces on his only successful youth lacrosse season in 3rd grade getting to hoist the Harvey Cup and Jake touches on his club success in middle school 1:44-22:09
Jake talks about his experience going through Covid as a 7th grader, what his online school experience looked like, the ways he used quarantine to focus on his development, how quarantine impacted him deciding to go to Malvern Prep, his transition back to in person classes and getting adjusted to high school, playing freshman football and golf in the offseason 22:09-39:15
His first year playing lacrosse with Malvern at a national level, being on varsity as a freshmen and getting to learn from talented upperclassmen, some of the iconic moments from his freshman campaign including his first goal, getting to rush the field in the Inter-Ac championship, and going through the freshman summer ball circuit 39:15-53:50
Growing in confidence as a sophomore and playing with the pressure of being defending champions, filling the gaps of graduating leadership and facing adversity early in the season, Fridge talks about a similar identity crisis his team faced when he was a senior captain, making a run late in the year and winning back to back Inter-Ac titles, getting a small break between spring ball and summer ball, going through the summer circuit and the support he had from his coaches 53:50-1:11.56
Jake goes through what it was like on September 1st to be contacted by some of the best coaches in the country, going on visits to schools throughout September and narrowing down his list, his decision to commit to Georgetown and how it felt to make the call 1:11.56-1:23.50
We all highlight our moment of the week, Nick talks about winning our Friday morning box lacrosse captains tournament and dominating in knockout, Jake goes into his performance stepping in for intramural football and having an awesome game, and Fridge discusses how his Saturday morning got opened up and was able to enjoy his Friday night 1:23.50-1:29.13
Draft of the best frozen foods 1:29.13-1:46.27
