On today's episode of the Lax Lounge, we sit down and talk with the face-off specialist for our last ride Johnny McCormick! Johnny talks about growing up in Springfield and making the decision to go to high school at Episcopal Academy. We then get into his lacrosse career and were shocked to find out how late he started taking face-offs and his crazy path to Cabrini. From there Johnny gives us a rundown of his Cabrini career and how he is able to balance being a student-athlete and business owner. We end with a draft of the best appetizers that definitely didn't disappoint. Make sure to check out our website at https://www.laxloungeinc.com/ and thank you to our sponsor Edvative Learning (https://www.edvative.com/)
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Johnny McCormick joins us in the lax lounge and we instantly kick off with the fast five questions including an important conversation about our favorite thanksgiving foods (including a hot take from Fridge) and a flashback to dressing as the hangover characters freshman year halloween 1:44-9:54
We get into Johnny’s background including an ironic connection that him, Nick, and one of our previous guests share, he talks about growing up in Springfield, PA and switching to Episcopal Academy for high school, balancing the different friend groups that he had 9:54-19:35
Johnny talks about his early athletic career playing hockey which transitioned him into the lacrosse world, his late specialization as a face-off athlete and how talented the position has come, we take a hard right turn and begin talking about the 2015 final four and talk about some current events in division one lacrosse, the wonders of doing physical therapy as a college athlete, and the wildest under hitting in college football over the weekend 19:35-32:43
We get into Johnny’s career at Episcopal and how he went from an attack man to a face-off specialist, what is was like competing with some high level competition at EA, how he got recruited to Cabrini without playing summer lacrosse, the dynamics of the face-off locker room on the 2023 cavaliers, Johnny’s first starts at the face-off stripe last season in big games against Lynchburg and Dickinson, how he uses his previous experience as an offensive player to make him a better face-off guy, a preview of our spring break trip to Farmville this year along with other iconic hotel memories, the magic of naps on long car rides 32:43-1:05.51
We recap Johnny scaring Fridge awake from a nap before we started recording and other examples of Fridge getting scared by Nick around the apartment, Johnny explains some of the dynamics living with his roommates, how he balances being a college student athlete with a landscaping business, and the joys of having a young dog in a college house 1:05.51-1:20.49
The guys share their moments of the week, Fridge talks about getting to meet Cabrini alumni Joe Holden during his talk with our PR class, Nick shares his family dinner on Sunday night, and Johnny talks about celebrating our good friend Hunter Waldron on his 21st birthday, featuring an honorable mention moment where Fridge got stung by a bee on the inside of his lip on Saturday 1:20.49-1:36.05
Draft of the best appetizers 1:36.05-1:54.25
