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Finding Community Through Sports feat. Joey Files ‘15
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Sports were a constant for Joey Files in school. He played basketball and football at Cranbrook and crew & football in undergrad.
Joey graduated from Cranbrook in 2015. From there he went to the University of Michigan where he also played football. After undergrad, Joey took up teaching for a bit and is now in his third year of medical school at Wayne State University.
He chats with Robert to talk about finding community through sports, watching the football program grow through his time on the team, the diverse mix of college walk-on athletes and getting into medicine.
About The Guest:
Joey Files graduated from Cranbrook in 2015. From there he went to the University of Michigan and is now in his third year of medical school at Wayne State University.
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Selected Quotes:
On being a team captain at Cranbrook
You're always going to be invested. Its hard to participate in a team and to not be at some level invested in the shared goal, whatever that shared goal of the team is. But anytime you sort of are allowed that privilege of being a captain or being a team leader is sort of when, you like take that step back and you're like, wow, the rest of my team gives me that respect. Like they trust me that I'm going to take them in the right direction.
Family legacies & football
Ironically, the rest of my family is Michigan State grads. I didn't grow up a huge Michigan fan, like obviously I am now. And so when I originally chose to go to Michigan, I sort of got some teasing from the rest of my family. Where they were like, “Really, you chose that school, out of all the other schools?” And then I got on the team and I was obviously ecstatic and my parents were like, “Well, we can't cheer against you now. Like you've made it impossible. We have to cheer for Michigan now.”
On teaching without much training
Just to keep kids that are attained is it is a hassle in itself, to actually try to teach them things is like a whole other battle.