 Walker walker Walker gonna film the video What's that Walker nothing much just watch the highlights from You know footballs. I really championship game. Oh true. No big deal. No big deal. Um, you ready to film the video What's up guys is Josh and we're back again with another video today It's going to be the next installment in my Yale student interview series and today. We have someone very special We actually have a Yale football player here. This is Walker. He lives down the hall from me And he's here to talk to you guys about not only his experience here at Yale But also his experience getting recruited as a student athlete. Hey guys, I'm Walker lot. I'm from Hoover, Alabama Yeah, okay Walker, I guess we'll just start off Give the viewers a little rundown of like your whole high school experience growing up playing football in Alabama and everything with that growing up in Alabama playing football is a special thing because down in Alabama football is definitely king everyone loves football Friday night lights everyone goes out community whole town show up and Growing up there was it was some of the best times of my life I loved high school football there and I didn't really realize it until I got to college And you always have people come and tell you like Man, you're gonna miss this. Don't cherish every moment of it. You know, don't forget where you count where you come from and When they told me that I'm just kind of yeah, you know, you're right. I Right now, I don't really know how I feel about that But once you get into college and you start getting into Practice and the swing of things and going through school. You really realize how special of a time it was and how much you actually miss The high school and the guys you played for and your coaches and just everything about it, especially the people That's some really good advice. Make sure you guys Enjoy your high school years. It's not all about grinding and getting prepared for college It's also about you know trying to have fun and live it up Enjoy. So I guess probably the biggest question some of the viewers have especially those that are looking to get recruited To the Ivy League schools. What did the recruiting process for you look like? Recruiting process for me was tough. I think recruiting process is for anyone or tough, but it definitely varies for me I actually went to two different high schools I went to a private school a private Christian school my entire life until Second semester my junior year and I transferred to a public school, which was 7a highest division in Alabama So that was definitely a huge change for me Recruiting definitely picked up then which was nice, but it was it's tough because you never know Who's gonna want you never know what's going on? You got all these coaches messaging you and whatnot and I just say for anyone who's trying to get recruited Don't be afraid to put yourself out there. Don't wait for someone to come to you Don't wait for a coach to notice you or for and you want to be like Oh, this guy's pretty good at football or pretty good at whatever sport that you're playing and get film get highlights Whatever you want and send it out to people contact coaches on the Twitter Twitter is a huge thing that coaches use if you don't have a Twitter I would get a Twitter because I don't I'm not on Twitter a lot, but I used it for recruiting 95 percent of the time So I would do that just contact any coach that you want any school that you're thinking about going to hey My name is blank and really interested in your school. I played this sport here in my highlights Let me know what you think send it out to them hopefully you'll get a response and Just yeah, just don't be afraid to be a little Self-centered on that aspect and and really make yourself Known to the coaches around you because with without you putting in effort to make yourself known It's just not gonna happen like you want it to and start early right start very early Yeah, I mean I started getting recruited my sophomore year in high school and all three years three years out of high school It's just every day or every week, you know You get a message or you get emails or whatnot and schools colleges coaches every light. It's just It's intense All right. Awesome. Thanks for sharing that Walker. So, um, what other schools were you getting offers from? All right We're back. It's all getting cut out. Obviously you were probably getting offers from a couple other schools Um, why did you choose to go to Yale? I? Say main reason I chose to go to Yale. It's just the coaches were awesome and the people were incredible being recruited by a lot of different schools I had fantastic coaches that contacted me, but sometimes the school academically just wasn't all there and Other times that academically it was there But I just really didn't like the coaches that were talking to me or I didn't enjoy the players around them Just didn't didn't match with our personalities or or something like that and But Yale's just it's a special place the coaches kept in contact with me Throughout my entire season like every week. Hey man Walker. How you doing? How'd the game go? How's your family doing? They knew my family they knew my parents names They knew my family's names and my girlfriend's name even my dog's name that was that was a huge thing for me because I'm big on family and The fact that they cared enough to ask about them and to really get to know them Really meant to me that they care about me not only as a player, but as a person and as a student athlete and another big reason was Just academics were too good to turn up I mean if you ever get a chance to be offered by an Ivy League definitely take it because you're not gonna get this experience anywhere else It's it's one of a kind Athletically academically and the people here are the absolute best Josh included Everyone here is incredible and you'll realize that when you get on campus when you start meeting people And really get to know the community. So obviously we're in the tail end of football season Walker and the football team just be Princeton over the weekend Putting us at the number one spot and making us Ivy League champions for the first time in how many years 11 11 years Wow, so we're in the tail end of the season the Harvard UO games coming up this Saturday. We're gonna absolutely Demolish our brilliant. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, so obviously these are your last couple days as a Football player in freshman year in season obviously. So what does the daily life of a football player here at Yale look like? Man the daily I daily life of a football player I'm not gonna lie. It's tough any athlete. You can ask them. It's tough Especially certain days of the week are big Tuesdays and Wednesdays. They're definitely my hardest I would say Tuesday luckily. I'm lucky enough that I know I don't have classes on Tuesday But I have workouts at one Straight from workouts. I go to football. We have meetings at 240 meetings go all the way until 430 which is when we have to be on the field and we practice on the field until about I Would say 6 30 to 7 ish. I usually get home around 7 30 Get a dinner in real quick and then go to my room and do homework the rest of the night Go to sleep start the day over and then Wednesday. It's definitely one of the biggest I start out at class at 9 and then I end at 2 15 I go straight from class to football get on the bus take the bus directly to our field house and Have the exact same schedule 240 to Set 6 37 at night and then after that it's kind of downhill from there We're starting to prepare for the game more we get Scouts and everything else going on Thursday and Friday in the Saturdays the game big game done Awesome, obviously you didn't just come here to play football. You're also a student. I mean student athlete What are you studying here Walker? So I'm not quite sure what I'm studying for a while I was with econ and Right now I'm considering MCDB molecular cellular developmental biology, but as we all know I didn't come here to play school So we'll see you came here to play football. Oh, yeah came here to play football Yeah, Walker, obviously there's a lot of things to love here at Yale I mean, it's a great campus great people great opportunities. What is your single favorite thing? About Yale so far my single favorite thing is definitely the people I love every person on this campus that I'm at They're awesome. You really can't find anyone here that you don't like. I mean you can but 95% of the people that I have met here are just incredible people. They're all very bright very Just kind caring people that they will help you at a moment's notice if you need help on the homework problem Or you need advice on a certain class or what not? Everyone is very willing to to give you advice to help you out to let them know what their experience is with that and how Their year went especially the upperclassmen because they've been through it. They know it all they you know have been through classes and meetings and Societies and everything else that you got going on organizations and so they kind of they have a little bit of Experience and everything so they're very welcoming to you and you can ask them any questions that you need to Awesome. Yeah, I've had a lot of great