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#137 From Carson to Columbia: Caleb Sanchez's Multicultural Journey in Athletics

June 05, 2024 By Todo Wafi
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#137 From Carson to Columbia: Caleb Sanchez's Multicultural Journey in Athletics
Jun 05, 2024
By Todo Wafi

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Join us on the Todo Latino Show as we sit down with Caleb Sanchez, a remarkable young athlete of Salvadorian and Filipino heritage. Growing up in the sports-centric environment of Carson, California, Caleb's story is one of passion and perseverance. He shares his experiences from playing multiple sports to honing in on football at St. John Bosco High School. Caleb reflects on his dual cultural influences, his curiosity about his Salvadorian roots, and the strong presence of Filipino culture in his community.

What does it take to transition from high school sports to a prestigious university like Columbia? Caleb takes us behind the scenes of his college decision-making process, highlighting the late recruitment that led him to this Ivy League school. Listen as he discusses the competitive nature of securing a spot on the football team, the challenges of balancing academics and athletics, and his excitement about exploring New York City's vibrant life. With an undecided major, Caleb's journey is filled with endless possibilities, as he contemplates futures in business or journalism, all while savoring the memory of his mom's homemade meals.

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Join us on the Todo Latino Show as we sit down with Caleb Sanchez, a remarkable young athlete of Salvadorian and Filipino heritage. Growing up in the sports-centric environment of Carson, California, Caleb's story is one of passion and perseverance. He shares his experiences from playing multiple sports to honing in on football at St. John Bosco High School. Caleb reflects on his dual cultural influences, his curiosity about his Salvadorian roots, and the strong presence of Filipino culture in his community.

What does it take to transition from high school sports to a prestigious university like Columbia? Caleb takes us behind the scenes of his college decision-making process, highlighting the late recruitment that led him to this Ivy League school. Listen as he discusses the competitive nature of securing a spot on the football team, the challenges of balancing academics and athletics, and his excitement about exploring New York City's vibrant life. With an undecided major, Caleb's journey is filled with endless possibilities, as he contemplates futures in business or journalism, all while savoring the memory of his mom's homemade meals.

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Speaker 1:

I'm Caleb Sanchez and you're tuning in to the Todo Latino Show.

Speaker 3:

Alright from 1500. Live at Pro Audio LA. The Todo Latino Show is sponsored by Global Processing Systems, the official merchant for Todo Wafi and Revolucion 2024. I am your host. Daisy is off today, but joining us is Bree and Yobi, and our special guest is a Salvi Filipino. Welcome, who is heading to Columbia University. He's a Trinity League MVP and former star of the St John Bosco. Welcome to Caleb Sanchez. What's up, man? Welcome Caleb. Welcome Brie. Thank you.

Speaker 2:

Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 3:

So this is going to be fun. We always start the show with the same thing.

Speaker 1:

Every Marvel movie has a hero and we want to know what your origin story is.

Speaker 3:

So what was it like growing up?

Speaker 1:

So I grew up in Carson. I still live there today. Obviously, you mentioned Salvador. My dad is Salvadorian, my mom is Filipino and, honestly, I grew up happily. I mean, I live a good life. I always played sports. My dad had me playing baseball, basketball and football growing up and I just he instilled a work ethic in me and I love playing sports all the time. We watched every game that we could. We're big Lakers fans, dodgers fans and then for football, we're Broncos fans, which is kind of that's a weird one.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, because my dad in the 90s the the Broncos were good when they had Elway. Oh, he was a John Elway fan, so I guess he was a bandwagon during that time, and so I had no choice but to be a Broncos fan. But, like I said, I loved sports growing up. I quit baseball at 12 because I thought it was boring.

Speaker 1:

I pitched, but I thought it was so boring because it was too, slow-paced, and then I started tackle football at around like 12-2, and then that's when I made the decision to go to Bosco St John Bosco in Bellflower and from there it was just work, work, work and I ended up quitting basketball after my sophomore year and then I played football for the rest of my years there.

Speaker 3:

Why don't you like basketball? I mean, you're pretty tall.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I don't know. I thought it would be too hard to do both at the school, because our basketball team is also like really good, yeah, and also football is really good. It's like a year-round thing. So I didn't think I would be able to do both.

Speaker 3:

Ah, you wouldn't be able to play both.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, to play both. Regret not doing it. Honestly, it was a I still could have a moment. I mean hey, I could have played baseball too, but it's whatever.

Speaker 3:

I can't do it now, but I mean, look what you did with football.

Speaker 1:

So that's yes sir.

Speaker 3:

So salvadoranio and half filipinos, you got like your culture. Which one was prominent culture in the household was what were you more salvi in the household? Were you more filipino?

Speaker 1:

uh, I would honestly say I'm more Filipino because of where. If you've ever been to Carson, it's kind of a Filipino town. There's lots of Filipino stores, everything there is Filipino. We live in a town home and all of our neighbors we have five different families that live attached to our house they're all Filipino, so that doesn't really help. But yeah, I would say I was more Filipino growing up and also my family that that I would see more often was closer to carson than than my dad's side, which is salvadorian okay, yeah, have you been to el salvador?

Speaker 1:

I have not.

Speaker 3:

I've not been out the country at all oh, wow, okay, I mean that's a good place to go. Now, though it is it is.

Speaker 2:

It is the place, one of the destinations to travel.

Speaker 1:

Yes, that's what I mean. My aunt, my, my tios and all my grandparents always go and they're always telling me how safe it is not, how different it is compared to when they lived there before.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, they cleaned it up in the last couple of years, so if it's a good time to go, it would be now.

Speaker 1:

I don't even think my dad has been there, since at least I've been alive.

Speaker 3:

He's probably been like what I did when I turned around and I left DR. I wasn't born there, but we visited there, and the last time I was in PR was like when I was five and then I went back. It was two years ago. My daughter gifted me that as like a birthday gift. And it was the first time in like 30 years that I had well, almost 40 years that I had gone back and experienced Puerto Rico.

Speaker 2:

At the moment you're going to have a full circle moment for yourself or your dad.

Speaker 3:

Have you gone to the Philippines? At least he's been really focused.

Speaker 2:

He's going to have a blast Were you guys eating?

Speaker 3:

Have you at least here in LA? I know you've had lumpia. Which one did they cook more? Are you guys having Latino dishes in the household, or is it like a more?

Speaker 1:

Not as often as Filipino.

Speaker 3:

Okay.

Speaker 1:

Because my dad okay, so my mom cooks, so she knows obviously how to cook the Filipino dishes.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

My dad doesn't cook, he only cooks breakfast, so we're not really eating many Salvadorian dishes. We're eating more Filipino dishes.

Speaker 3:

Okay, very cool, all right, so we're going to have to take you out one time. Yes, yes, we have to.

Speaker 2:

Salvis' brunch Jump it out.

Speaker 1:

So do you speak both languages? I mean, do you speak?

Speaker 3:

Spanish and Tagalog no.

Speaker 1:

English, english, you don't speak it.

Speaker 2:

Oh, there you go.

Speaker 1:

I am both my parents. Yeah, they're both immigrants, okay, and I know everyone asked me if I speak. Both I could, but I just, I'm just curious.

Speaker 3:

I have friends who are both Latino and friends who are Filipino, and my Filipino friends are all. They're huge and they got they. You know, they try to learn a little bit of Spanish, obviously because you're in LA. And then I have uh, you know, I think I have some Spanish friends that don't even speak Spanish so it it's just I'm just curious, you know, because you live in that like that multi.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, whether or not it was like, I think I didn't learn because my parents, they spoke English to each other in the house.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

It was a little.

Speaker 3:

I had the same issue, yeah, yeah. So when I was raising my kids it was the same thing. We kind of assimilated to English. How long I'm not. So originally, when you started playing football, was there somebody who got you into it, or did you just jump in?

Speaker 1:

My dad, your dad, yeah, Like I said, he loves sports. We still watch pretty much every game we can. That's all we're watching in the house is sports. To be honest, espn whatever's showing the games. So it was him who got me into, uh, playing football and, like I said, uh, baseball and basketball, and from there I just I fell in love with it and that's pretty much all I know nowadays.

Speaker 3:

So it was my dad really built that into me so, as you you were, I think you started senior year, you're kind of waiting around, and so for you eight dude, like it was. Uh, what is it? Two 256, 3622 completion passes, 70% completion percentage, 3,341 yards and 35 touchdowns. Yeah, that's insane dude. It is yes.

Speaker 1:

Is there rushing touchdowns for that or just 35? No, I didn't get a single rushing touchdown I wanted.

Speaker 3:

my goal is to get at least one, so you're like a pure passer.

Speaker 1:

I'm a pure passer, yeah, pretty much.

Speaker 3:

I say I'll run when I have to, but I really don't enjoy it. Can you run or you just don't want to?

Speaker 1:

I can run fast, I don't know, but I can run. If I have to run, you've got to make plays.

Speaker 3:

So how far did you guys get into the league this year? Because you were, like I said, the Trinity MVP.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so we won Trinity League, which is the final five games of the regular season, which is just our league opponents, and so we made CIF, where we won two playoff games. And then we made the Southern Section finals, which we played at USC in the Coliseum. We played against Mater Dei, where we lost, but yeah, we made it to the CIF Southern Section championship.

Speaker 3:

Bro USC. I mean, that stadium was huge.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, it was so surreal, what was that like Surreal, surreal. When I got in there, the first thing I noticed was the lighting in there. It was different than the high schools I've been in, because it was so well lit.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, they have a super stadium. Yeah.

Speaker 1:

And it was also a grass field which I was not used to playing on. It was super well taken care of and I thought it was super cool, you guys on turf. Yeah usually yeah, we usually play on turf all the time, because grass boots are hard to maintain. So How'd you?

Speaker 3:

like it. You like grass better than turf.

Speaker 1:

No, Other than okay, turf hurts more when you're falling and if you slide. But grass I don't know.

Speaker 3:

Grass is just I think you're slower on grass, so I like turf better. Oh, really yes.

Speaker 1:

That's what I think, but I don't know, because I'm so used to playing on turf, so that's all I know. But turf does hurt more, so that's the only bad thing about that.

Speaker 4:

Well, honestly, I've seen that you've maintained a 4.0 GPA throughout your academic career, while also being a student athlete. Like what? How did you do it? Do you have any key strategies to like, balance everything?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, ok, so growing up it was another thing I owe to my dad. Is that he really? And my mom too?

Speaker 1:

They really made me focus on being academically sound in school, obviously because I didn't learn this until recently, but recently I mean like high school years good transcript. They won't even continue the recruiting process with you. So that's the first thing they ask for, and if you don't meet their requirements, whatever, whatever school it is, they won't even look at you. So I I realized how important that was, and I I grew up, uh, valuing academics a lot and so it was never really a problem, and just being able to manage school and sports was super hard. I stay up late a lot, even today. I'm still preparing. I have an AP exam tomorrow.

Speaker 3:

I was about to ask you that AP.

Speaker 4:

Gov yeah, I have an AP exam tomorrow.

Speaker 1:

I have to study for that. But yeah, it was just being able to manage time. I think that's the biggest thing that you have to do.

Speaker 3:

That's awesome. Yes, Thank you guys. That is crazy. All right, so you made a decision to go to Columbia University. What other options did you have? Like because I know football, you know you did great in football. Did you have other options besides Columbia?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I was talking to a lot of schools. Obviously I wasn't heavily recruited because I started as a senior. Yeah, and colleges they start, they like to recruit early and if you can play earlier, like as a freshman or a sophomore, you have a higher chance of being recruited. And schools they want to get their guy as soon as possible. So there wasn't much. There were still some schools Like I was talking to Fordham, it was also in New York, the Bronx New.

Speaker 1:

York schools, yes, yeah. And then Houston Christian, which is in Texas, is a small FCS school. I had some PWO preferred walk-on offers so I would have gone to the school, not in a scholarship, but I would have made the football team.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 4:

That would have been ideal.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah yeah, but Columbia was really like the only one who really pushed hard for me and so I chose them because I mean, you can't really beat the high academics, and it was always my dream to play a division one football while also going to school for free, and I achieved that goal. So excellent so you're.

Speaker 3:

What did your coach say? I mean, are they, are they planning on putting you in right away, or is it one of those things where you have to kind of grow into the position?

Speaker 1:

yeah, yeah, so uh, you have to it's. It's a competition every single day yeah uh, coach, his name's coach poppy. That's our head coach. Uh, he says that I can go. I go in and I have the chance. I, there's an opportunity for me to start. There's no name starter yet. Um, but I just willing. Am I going to put in the work and they're not going to just going to give me the job. It's not yeah.

Speaker 1:

No, I mean it's not like yeah, yeah I still have to do my time, do my, pay my dues, uh, in in the weight room, in the classroom, wherever. Whatever I'm doing, I have to show that I'm ready to play, and that's really up to me. So if I can perform well when I get there and do what I'm supposed to do, then there's a good chance I start.

Speaker 3:

New York man.

Speaker 1:

Are you?

Speaker 3:

ready for New York Is New York ready for you?

Speaker 2:

Is it as ready as it can be?

Speaker 1:

I don't even know what to expect, because when I went there it was pretty sure I like it. There's a lot to do. There's a lot of food places to go to. I like food.

Speaker 3:

I mean Columbia University is like right in the heart.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, right outside the school there's so much stuff to do. I mean, what is it? What was I going to say? Times Square is like a 15-minute subway ride down and it's right there. So it's crazy. It's really crazy how much there is to do there.

Speaker 3:

That's going to test you, bro. Yeah, that is going to test you, because here in LA, everything requires you to drive from here all the way down. In New York, you just take a subway.

Speaker 1:

You are right there. I won't be having a car there. There's no, no driving for me. I'll just be walking and taking the trains, yeah do you know the subway like?

Speaker 4:

do you?

Speaker 1:

already oh, he's in for a treat to find someone who knows it he's in for the subway entertainers, the people who are cough hacking throughout the morning while he's trying to get into school the rush hour what are you excited about?

Speaker 2:

you know, especially when it comes to your study, to your career. What are you gonna be concentrating? Know, especially when it comes to your study, to your career. What are you gonna be concentrating or focusing when it comes to your academic?

Speaker 1:

goals. So like what am I going to study?

Speaker 2:

I don't know yet, so I went on undecided.

Speaker 1:

So okay, I don't, I don't really have a major yet, for that's fine so my plan was to I wanted to go in there and meet with some football players, talk to some guys and learn what career best suits me just being over there and the opportunities New York offers. So I wanted to know what I'd be able to do most realistically playing football and studying.

Speaker 4:

So I want to ask some guys what they do and what's the most, I guess, way to to be good at both football and and school academia while being there yeah journalism what fits me the most, also, being in new york, there's a lot of business opportunities, so maybe I'm but yes, yeah, I'm not too far from like post-grad life. So a little advice like try, try it all, yeah, and with college. College was such an amazing experience for me, so I'm really excited for your new chapter, but one thing that I was always missing was a home-cooked meal yeah, that's like yeah so what's one home-cooked meal that you're like? I know I'm gonna miss?

Speaker 1:

oh my god, I like spam a lot spam and rice and eggs. That's what I eat for breakfast a lot my mom makes it take me back, so I think.

Speaker 3:

I think I'll miss spam yeah from my mom specifically but yeah, I mean you'll be able to get spam by the local convenience store, but the whole time it's the way, mom.

Speaker 2:

It's the way mom. Just ask her, though.

Speaker 3:

You just tell her hey can you just write the recipe for me?

Speaker 1:

and then I'm just gonna flip this and send it to me no, it's the way, because even when I'm at home and like I just want some food, I'll tell my mom to make it because, because it's better when she does it, like when I do it.

Speaker 4:

It's just like it's not the same.

Speaker 3:

Maybe it's a mind thing, but just gotta get, not just gotta get her to sit her down and be like hey, show me the spam recipe and then you have your dad show you how to make papusas yes, sir those are, but the spam is the easiest one, I think spam is easy.

Speaker 1:

I know it's not that hard to make, but I swear, I swear it's her. I don't know she makes it special.

Speaker 3:

Yes all right. So I want to get on the representation side because, um, you know a lot of people don't realize, you know, the low percentages of it is for even latino and even filipino players that are taking place like in the actual, like college. So it's like 3.1 percent of football players, three point and that's in the FBS, and 3.6 percent of FCS players are Latino, and that's not even tapping into the Filipino side of it, which is extremely lower. I think there's only one current like popular college player that's playing on the NCAA right now. So clearly this is a huge step for representation you going into Columbia University and you might be the first Latino Filipino that breaks any record that they have there. From that standpoint, is that coming on? You? Do you feel like you have a weight on your shoulder when it comes to that or do you feel like you're enjoying the process of the representation aspect of it?

Speaker 1:

No, I feel like I'm enjoying it because I mean, when I'm playing, that doesn't that is. I don't think about any of that.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

And then afterwards it's like damn putting on for a lot of people and I mean I hear it every day at school.

Speaker 2:

You have it on your shoulders.

Speaker 3:

Yes, yes, that's the only reason I bring it up because I I know for a fact I've seen some of the interviews that you've done. I've seen some of the articles that were written about you, and a lot of them. It's the highlight, that's the first thing that they lead in with yes, oh latino, filipino going to colombia to make you know, uh, make a mark.

Speaker 3:

And so I'm curious if that like gets into your head, like are you sitting there going? You know, I gotta turn around, I got this weight on my shoulder and and so forth no, I know it's a big deal, but I I try not to think about it.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, but in a good way, you know, because when I because when I do think about it and I think about man, it's a lot of people that I'm, that I'm playing for right now. That that's a lot in on my head, so I try to just not think about it at all. But when I do get the chance to talk about it, I will. So, like you guys are talking about it right now, I will talk about it and I'm really grateful to be representing so yeah very cool so, with that being said, you know you have a hectic schedule coming up.

Speaker 2:

So, and all in all, you know you're, you're pretty young. So what are you looking forward in this new, you know phase in your life or stage? You know looking forward, as a young person, that you are.

Speaker 1:

It'll be cool because I won't be living with my parents. I want to see I want to see how well I do they're watching this by the? Way.

Speaker 3:

I'll tell you what.

Speaker 2:

You're going to learn a lot about yourself, like you said.

Speaker 1:

I do want to learn a lot about myself. I want to learn. My parents aren't going to be here all the time, and so it'll be. It'll be a good um, a good time for me to to learn and grow in that way. Obviously, I'll still miss them, um, but it'll help me um grow up, I guess a little bit and I'll learn a lot of stuff. Yeah.

Speaker 2:

I miss that I miss it so much you're gonna you to really everything that has been taught to you good and you know your values and more. Everything is going to be in place.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I'll be able to show everything my parents taught me. And at the end of the day, I'll be representing them too, when I talk to people and everything I do. So I want to do that the best way I can while I'm there.

Speaker 3:

So when you're wiling out, just keep in mind that you're representing your parents now.

Speaker 1:

Just kidding. He's like this isn't my dad's name he's walking down the street.

Speaker 3:

I won't be doing any of that yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. He said he doesn't have time for fraternity, so that's it have you?

Speaker 3:

have you seen what the campus looks like as far as, like your, your dorm room?

Speaker 1:

uh, yeah, so I already know who my roommate's gonna be.

Speaker 3:

Actually oh very cool yeah, because we chose.

Speaker 1:

we chose who that would be. It's, it's, I think I'm. I'm rooming with the kicker actually who's also my grade, so we'll be going in there. It's like a classic dorm. It's like split in half room, split in half, and then we shit we also share a. So there's a big room, we share it with another pair, so there's four total in one big room, but we have our own separate quarter things. But yeah, so I've seen it, it's pretty small. The only thing I'm worried about is sharing a bathroom with three other guys.

Speaker 4:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

Because I like to keep stuff clean. So we'll have to see how that goes. I'm going to have to tell them we got to keep this clean you're pretty kind of guy.

Speaker 3:

On the very first day you get there you show some fabuloso come with that.

Speaker 1:

I don't want to be coming home late and trying to use the bathroom and it's dirty and sneaky, and all that and even taking showers you're going to be fun.

Speaker 3:

We just cleaned.

Speaker 1:

No see that there's a drop there I like going home and using the bathroom, so I hope, hopefully it's clean when I get there that's gonna be an experience for sure you know you get the words out of me, uh-huh.

Speaker 4:

Now, you are definitely an inspiration to a lot of many student athletes. Um, what's a piece of advice that you can give to those that are following their dreams like you are?

Speaker 1:

So the biggest piece of advice that I've taken and I've learned is to trust the process, because everyone's process is different and, like you mentioned earlier, I didn't start till my senior year and it was hard at times because I knew I was good enough. If I were to leave the school and go to another school, I probably would have started, uh, done some good things.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

And that's just. That's not me bragging, but I just feel like that that would have happened. Um, but I had to trust the process and trust what I committed to at St John Bosco and, um, every day I had to put the work in, I had to prove that I was ready, uh, for that starting job, and when I eventually got that, the results showed for itself. I performed really well and I'm so blessed that I was able to stay in that and trust that, because it built a lot of character in me and it was hard, like I said, to sit there and not play because sitting on the sidelines as much as I might.

Speaker 1:

I mean, you won the national championship in 2022, but it isn't hit as well because I wasn't the one playing. You know, I was the one starting. I played some games, but it was in times that didn't matter most of the time. So when I, when I got out, I learned that trusting the process, trusting in what I committed to, really helped me and it built a lot of character and a lot of resilience in me. So I would say that's the biggest piece of advice I would give to any kid, regardless of where they are. Even if they do have the chance to start earlier, they still have to trust the process and the whole thing, even if it's faster for them.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, I really like how you said everyone has their own path.

Speaker 1:

Yes.

Speaker 4:

It's really hard to compare and do everything like that, but that's right on.

Speaker 3:

I was, but that's, that's right on. Yes, I was a huge baseball guy I still am. But when I was growing up like, I played for the dominican traveling team and so forth and I was visiting there and even when I came back, football was new to me. It was like freshman. It was like freshman year of high school that football was introduced to me and I sucked hard. Oh my goodness, I spent so much time trying to watch the NFL that freshman year because coaches were just yelling at me and screaming all over the place and I was trying to figure out how to do it. They put me at left end, they put me at receiver. It wasn't until sophomore year that I did all that research and I came back and I started playing cornerback and I felt like that was my spot.

Speaker 3:

Like you were not getting past me, you were not running on my side, you were not throwing on my side and and uh, I had a really successful like sophomore year. I didn't play junior and senior because I decided to kind of do track uh, yeah track, track. Uh, sprinting was was, you know it didn't look like it, but sprinting at the time, at the time I was sprinting it this way what did you run?

Speaker 1:

What races did?

Speaker 3:

you run the 100, the 200, and then the relay. Oh okay, yeah, I was a sprinter type Because I realized the one thing I realized in football was like I was really fast but I just I didn't like the mechanics of the position I was playing. Like if it was up to me I would be playing running back. But, they wouldn't put me there.

Speaker 1:

You chose the hardest position.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I was like, yeah, let me just go ahead and play cornerback. And everybody was just like, oh okay, you're kind of good at that, so we're just going to leave you there. And when I was trying to transition, they wouldn't let me because they already had their their spot started, so I just kind of went to track and and so forth. This is. This was really good man. I really wish you a lot of success. Thank you, we're obviously going to be watching thank you so much to see how you do so, see if you mess up.

Speaker 3:

No, I'm just kidding, no, I mean the one. The one advice I will give you is you know, just go there and and have fun like you're going to new york. You know you're're going to a great university and you'll have time to figure out what you want to do you know, throughout the time there, you do you know, get the best advice, like surround yourself with people of wisdom who are on the right path, and I mean you'll, you're just going to go on and do great things.

Speaker 4:

So it was really cool to have you here, like if people wanted to follow you.

Speaker 3:

Where would they go If people wanted to follow you.

Speaker 1:

where would they go? So I have Instagram Twitter. My user is Caleb Sanchez, but it's Caleb with two Bs, because the one's the one we were taking. So Caleb with two Bs and then Sanchez, my last name.

Speaker 3:

You're the only person that told me to have a Twitter. Yeah, okay, because we have to have Twitter. Oh for recruiting, for recruiting, you have to have it.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, because coaches, nowadays they use Twitter to see your highlights, to watch your film, and they'll even message you on there to get your number and stuff.

Speaker 2:

Oh, I didn't know that Twitter is a big thing. Sports-driven yeah, Twitter is a big thing.

Speaker 1:

It's supposed to be super formal for athletes. You've got to be posting the right things. You can't be doing bad things. You've got things. You gotta be liking the right thing, sharing the right things. Um, yeah, and you have to have twitter now, like, coaches will ask you for your twitter. That's what they ask you for very cool.

Speaker 3:

I didn't know that and I know. I know a lot of athletes who had x for whatever reason and for and I couldn't you know, I mean, I'm trying to get used to it. I still call it twitter too, but yeah, that really cool yeah.

Speaker 1:

so I don't know if I'll need it for college as much, but I know for high school, because I haven't posted there in a long time.

Speaker 3:

I mean you'll probably all the NFL players and all the college players.

Speaker 1:

They all still have them, so.

Speaker 3:

I'm assuming that it's kind of like a standard across the board for the athlete, because I guess that's where they get most of their information out to the public. Yeah, that's true, which is kind of interesting because I I feel like instagram would be like a good sub, but for the most part, yeah, twitter, they're just it's very interactive, very fast, uh, yeah so all the, all the sports players that I follow that's where I, on twitter, I see them.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, yeah like, even when I go look at, uh, you know whatever sports updates and so forth.

Speaker 2:

X is normally yeah, the ranking, the highlights, is pretty there. It I can't say X, it's hard, I got used to it. It's hard. I'm saying it now and I'm like forcing it, I'm just like it's X, it's X.

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