On today's episode of the Lax Lounge, we sit down and talk with Big #4 Kyle Kutyla! Kyle's been a feature of our Cabrini defense since we got on campus and he shares all about how he got to this point in his lacrosse career. From his early days playing football (and bowling?), being a part of the beginning days of the club ball circuit , and battling injuries through college, Kyle gives us a great look at how he's used lacrosse to develop as both an athlete and a person. Another one of our most pure conversations that gets topped off with one of the most dominant draft performances of all time. This one is definitely worth it to listen to all the way through! Make sure to check out our website at https://laxloungeinc.com/ and thank you to our sponsor Edvative Learning! (https://www.edvative.com/)
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Kyle Kutyla joins us in the lounge and runs through our fast five questions and we immediately dive into our video game pasts with through the Playstation v Xbox debate, Kyle talks about his love for GTA 5 and we all reminisce on our time playing Minecraft 1:46-13:35
We get into Kyle’s background growing up in North Jersey and his early athletic career playing football (and bowling?), he talks about the pride he has in his youth football highlights and Fridge shares a heartbreaking story of how he almost got an interception playing freshman football, his transition from elementary school to middle school and we talk about some of our iconic PE locker room moments, Kyle shares when he started playing lacrosse in 4th grade and his first experience playing in the early generation of club ball, playing for BBL throughout his career and some of the teammates and coaches he’s had 13:35-42:21
Kyle talks about his high school lacrosse experience where he was able to earn a starting spot as a freshman, his experience dealing with dyslexia on and off the field, how he is able to use lacrosse as a distraction and an escape from everyday life (and us connecting that to how getting into the zone of podcasting is the best), falling in love with the weight room and how that has impacted his career, the balance that he was able to have keeping him from burning out from the sport, our thoughts on the importance of speed/agility versus weight lifting 42:21-1:14.13
We dive into Kyle’s Cabrini recruiting story and how he fist came into contact with the coaching staff, coming to a Cabrini prospect day and breaking the hand of one of their top prospects, Kyle shares an exclusive voicemail that he got from Coach Colfer while he was getting recruited, watching Cabrini win the natty as a senior in high school, his freshman year getting cut short by Covid, getting the email to move out of the dorms and scrambling to pack, memories from spring (in February?) break before the shutdown along with a quick tangent about the infamous cold cut sandwiches, and more flashbacks to life in the dorms 1:14.13-1:38.36
Kyle talks about returning to campus post-covid and the team get together where Cabrini’s first covid cases happened, Kyle’s experience testing positive and how he was able to keep in on the down low, practicing with face shields over the helmet, the confusing 2021 season and the game against UPenn, tearing his Labrum in the fall of his junior year and playing through it all year, playing Salisbury in the NCAA tournament and finding out he tore his ACL, his path of recovery and the feeling he had finally getting back on the field, and the big reason why he decided to come back for his 5th year 1:38.36-2:13.29
The guys breakdown their moments of the week highlighting the magical wedding of Hunter Waldron we got to witness over the weekend and Fridge’s one year anniversary of his wild hospital visit from fall ball 2022, and Kyle flips the script and asks Fridge about why he decided to transfer schools in high school 2:13.29-2:27.43
Draft of the best pizza toppings 2:27.43-2:53.33
