006. Chatting with Sean Entrikin
Sean Entrikin is a strength-and-conditioning intern for Washington State University football. It's an area he'd like to work in once he's done with his degree. In this episode, Xander talks to Sean about his job, as well as just chat sports.
Transcript
[00:00:09] Sean Entrikin: So
[:[00:00:21] Sean Entrikin: So I'm a kinesiology major here. So I know I wanted to do something with movement and sports. Like that's kind of the path. I wanted to go for my career. Yeah. So I live two hours away while football, while Washington. So I knew Washington state was really close. It was a school that I was interested in coming to.
[:[00:01:03] Occupied my life more than I can even say for That's cool. About a year now.
[:[00:01:18] Getting to work with the full players, not just working in the weight room too.
[:[00:01:45] So it's been pretty, I feel like it's been a pretty unique experience, at least where I'm at right now, kind of get to see that. And then because I've experienced this, because I've been working with the team, I've kind of found a passion in it. I found a passion in, you know, [00:02:00] coaching, helping them, you know, be the best version of themselves, watching them progress, and I've also progressed myself a ton being here.
[:[00:02:17] Xander Piatt: That's good. And then, and then where do you, where do you want to see yourself after college? Like where do you want to see yourself be at after college?
[:[00:02:24] Sean Entrikin: I most likely want to go to more school, probably get my master's degree somewhere. probably have a graduate position. Ideally, that's the goal. Get a graduate position with a school somewhere, uh, doing strength and conditioning as well as, you know, finishing out my master's degree. And then after that, you know, continuing down the path of strength and conditioning, finding a job somewhere and wherever the road takes me after that, I'm ready for it.
[:[00:03:07] Sean Entrikin: Yeah, over there it's more, uh, I'm more of like an overseer. So I'm not really like working with any, any people specifically or I'm not coaching anyone specifically. I'm just kind of there, you know, uh, watching the weight room, making sure that everything is in order, making sure everybody's doing the right thing, making sure no one is.
[:[00:03:50] Xander Piatt: And then, and then where do you, where do you see yourself in 10 in five years? Like, where do you, where do you see yourself in five years? Like, uh, with, with, with getting a big job, like we're, we're, we're [00:04:00] What do you want to see, what do you want to see your, your, your, your, you go in the future so that you can get there.
[:[00:04:11] Sean Entrikin: Yeah, I think sometime, at some point I would love to, but in five years I'll probably, if I have two, maybe two or three more years of school, school left and then.
[:[00:04:40] Xander Piatt: And then, and then what got you to want to do, uh, do stuff in the weight room?
[:[00:04:46] Sean Entrikin: Um, for me, it was mostly, I played sports, you know, throughout my whole childhood and high school career. So I always loved it. Sports. And then I got into the weight room more in high school. I loved, I got, [00:05:00] I started to love lifting and training and all of that, especially during COVID.
[:[00:05:27] Like I said, found this opportunity here and it kind of just drove my passion further for the gym. And I figured out this is what I want to do.
[:[00:05:43] Like, let's say you go, you go to school and you're, and you love the cost you're taking, but then you think this weight job is bigger than just going to school? Can you think to yourselves?
[:[00:06:02] That's how I'm learning everything that I know. So I think that that's why I wanted to two more years of school, get my master's and see what that provides, you know, as an opportunity to learn more, you know, you never know what the future could hold. I might fall in love with some part of school, something that I learned about.
[:[00:06:36] Xander Piatt: And then, and then what got you to playing sports when you were, when you were really young?
[:[00:06:46] Sean Entrikin: Yeah. I don't know. I probably, my parents just signed me up one day when I was a kid. And then ever since then, as I grew older, you know, I really loved to play. I played soccer mostly.
[:[00:07:20] Just felt good. Always play with my friends. You know, it was a great experience, especially like from a smaller town. You know, that was something we always did. Play sports or, you know, ride bikes. Walk around the town. You know, it was always do something outside. So, I guess just from where I was from and how I grew up, it was always a part of my life.
[:[00:07:57] And you feel like that we're not, we're not care about our athletes too much [00:08:00] because we're not in a big conference right now and we're not anywhere where we need to be right now. How, where do you, where do you want to see us change, change, change just be made so we can get our conference being really good and helping our football athletes feeling like we care about them so much.
[:[00:08:37] So we're in a stage where it's, it can be a little rough, but we're now is the time where we're trying to get back, back into the swing of things. So. I can't really tell you too much about, you know, what the Pac 12 is going to look like, what the future is going to look like, but as long as we can do something that's going to provide, [00:09:00] you know, for the athletes, that's going to give them the best experience that they can have, give them the best opportunities that they can have.
[:[00:09:07] Xander Piatt: them. Yeah, I agree. But I also think, I also think adding to Deto is really good too, because I think we need to be really good at basketball, not just football. Uhhuh, . I feel like, I feel like now after we're looking at something, I think we should have Liberty in, uh, in, in James Madison, I think Deto should almost be like the big 12 where, where we have teams from the, we have teams from the East coast and we have teams from like the west side.
[:[00:09:33] Sean Entrikin: Yeah. Do you think that for football though? Not for the other sports?
[:[00:09:37] Sean Entrikin: like, the travel and everything, like, you think, like, that with football they can manage that?
[:[00:09:44] Xander Piatt: think traveling coast to coast? I think they can with football. I just don't know better sports, but I know football they can.
[:[00:10:01] It still is a you know, it's a long it's a long journey until it takes multiple days So, I mean i'm sure there's a right way to do it, but
[:[00:10:10] Sean Entrikin: I wouldn't really know I mean i'm not in their shoes, you know, i'm not
[:[00:10:13] Sean Entrikin: not traveling over there I don't know like what kind of effect it has. Yeah,
[:[00:10:19] Sean Entrikin: exactly Yeah,
[:[00:10:33] Where are those two schools at? Um, they're both from, uh, Virginia, Virginia. Okay. And then, and then, and then West, and then West Virginia is basically the same area, basically them. And I think if we add those two schools, they'll be really good to the conference. I think James Madison started to be really good at football and they already beat it out of North Carolina this year.
[:[00:10:56] Sean Entrikin: of
[:[00:11:03] Sean Entrikin: okay.
[:[00:11:09] Reason? I think we need to add North Dakota State to the Conference. I think if we add them and, and, uh, James Madison and Liberty, we're going to rebuild our football part of our Conference really well and do really good. Like I think if we add James Madison, if we only add two schools from the, from the East Coast, that I think that'll be fine if we don't have to travel to two teams on the East Coast, and then, and then we have like teams on the Midwest, and, and, and we can bring back Count Stanford, I think that'll be pretty good for us.
[:[00:11:38] Sean Entrikin: Yeah, I mean, that definitely could help, you know. Money is definitely an issue, so that's something we'd have to figure out. That's probably like the biggest, biggest thing right now, the reason all these guys left, and it's gonna be hard to get some of these big schools over here.
[:[00:12:20] So yeah, there is and
[:[00:12:39] Do you think, do you think their up and coming football team too that we can bring to help them, to help our conference do way better too. And if we want to, if we want to expand and, and have so many good football teams in our conference to help rebuild the football part of our conference.
[:[00:12:53] Xander Piatt: or yeah, if we bring, if we bring James Madison and Liberty,
[:[00:13:06] So it's kind of hard for me to say just because I'm not entirely sure how much better they are than how they were last year, how they are this year, but I mean, bringing in better teams is definitely like definitely could help.
[:[00:13:23] Sean Entrikin: know, I mean, are those teams, are they just having one really good year or are they going to be consistent with the, you know, with them being able to stay that good?
[:[00:13:35] Xander Piatt: It does. But I think, but I think if I look at it, if we had UNLV and North Dakota State and we had James Madison and Liberty, could our football conference be way better then? If we had them and then we had
[:[00:13:47] Xander Piatt: Like Like, let's say, let's say, let's say we had those schools and then we had Cal State for back to the conference, then could football be
[:[00:14:12] Xander Piatt: I agree. And then right now I kind of think for my picture for what we said already, I'd look at maybe like North Dakota State, South Dakota State, and then Iowa State, and then, and then, and then Collin Stanford, and then, uh, and then James Madison and Liberty, those would be really good teams to bring to the conference to like, look at the Big 12.
[:[00:14:45] Sean Entrikin: and all the other ones left.
[:[00:15:11] What do you think that means when they're, when they had a college game date at that, at their school, when they had a football game going on and, and, and, and, and with the FCS game, but not their FBS.
[:[00:15:21] Xander Piatt: Um, I do not remember, but I know they won that game. Oh, really? Okay.
[:[00:15:25] That's pretty cool. It definitely means something, you know, I mean, that it was big enough to be featured.
[:[00:15:38] And I will say, I think that's the best there for our conference. But, um, Where, where do you, where do you, where do you care what next school you go to or, or do you have like a specific area where you want to go next for your college journey?
[:[00:15:57] You know, I think that's, I mean, you're gonna [00:16:00] be a great experience regardless where I go, but it's gonna be good to, you know, reach out to a different school, get somewhere else in the country, because I've been in Washington my whole life, you know, didn't, been doing school here. I've been doing school in Washington, so, you know, it's going to be interesting, wherever I
[:[00:16:17] Do you think, do you think you could have ended up at like a school like maybe like LSU or like Kansas because of Coach Ben used to be there? Do you think you could have ended up at one of those schools if you, um, if you, if you keep, if you keep doing what you're doing right now? Do you think, do you think Kansas or LSU would be a really good school for you so you can maybe, maybe learn how they run, how they run their football teams differently at those bigger schools over there that maybe, that maybe, maybe is just the right thing I want to do or not?
[:[00:16:42] Sean Entrikin: Yeah, I mean it definitely, definitely getting into one of the, like a bigger school like that. Yeah. It definitely would be a different experience, different part of the country, you know, different culture, everything would be really different.
[:[00:17:12] You know, have a great opportunity to learn and be under someone who's really smart. It's going to teach me a lot, you know, that's really what matters to me. So, yeah,
[:[00:17:32] Sean Entrikin: Yeah, I definitely do. Once I, you know, get through my undergrad degree and then, you know, through my master's degree, you know, that's when I'll start probably thinking about it more like eventually getting married and having kids and, you know, dealing with that whole aspect of my life, but I think I still got a little bit of time before I have to, you know, get going on that part.
[:[00:17:57] Xander Piatt: Yeah, that makes sense. And then, [00:18:00] and then I hope you guys like this podcast and I hope you guys liked it and Let's go Cougs all day and then, let's know this, we need to add, we need to add UNLV in North Dakota State and South Dakota State and bring back Calum Stanford and bring in James Madison and Liberty if we want our football part of our conference to do really good.
[:[00:18:29] And let's go Cougs for life guys, let's go!
