May 21, 2024 • 45 mins
Tune in to hear Deuce and Dylan interview Jacob Rombach, a defenseman for the Lincoln Stars of the United States Hockey League! Listen to hear about an average day in the life of a USHL athlete, as well as Jacob's journey to the league and his favorite moments on the ice!
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was last calendar year for sure,like a hober maybe semester. Yeah it,
you know, you know, weget busy. We're dunes, you
know. Hey, hey, wealways made it clear that we were students
first, right, don't ever saythat we didn't. We did, but
I didn't tell you what episode itwas. Yeah, but at the end
of the day, we like tohop on the podcast. That's why we're
kicking off today's episode with a greatsong. That song you just heard was
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Captain Marble released in May of twentytwenty one. Great song, kind of
the Tame and Paula kind of vibe. Yeah, it's totally that windows down
summer vibes. I mean top song, like we said, you know,
big Jeep guys here, top songthe Jeep brothers. We you know how
it is. I've already taken thefront two pieces off. Oh yeah,
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I see, I got that brandnew soft top. And so the easy
up, easy down, I meanthe soft the soft top is. It's
it's the way to go when you'renot dealing with the Minnesota winter where like
if if you try and ride aroundwith a soft top, the insulation is
just not as. It's not gonnakeep it and you get some snow on
it, a little too much snow, get caught in some bad weather.
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Although it'd be great in the snow, your soft top would probably be ruined.
It would not work. It couldthe snow could pile up, it
could cave in, like the Metrodome, and no one wants to see that,
not the Metrodome, especially not meor the insurance company or my dad.
But welcome to Studio three one three. My name is Daniel Coland,
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better known as Deuce on the airwaves, and I'm joined by my lovable and
huggable co host, Dylan sash Oh, it's always great to be here.
Daniel. It's phenomenal to be herewith you. Dylan. We're coming at
you as usual from Room three onethree here in Anderson Hall, better known
as the College of Journalism and MassCommunications, affectionately known as the co Jay
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see right here on the University ofNebraska Lincoln's city campus. Dylan, it's
fantastic to be back in the studio. We've obviously had, you know,
a fair bit of time in betweenour last episod U and now, so
kind of tell me what's been goingon with you. What's new? Yeah,
well, just like everything we talkedabout it big big in school,
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big school, big school focus,you know us otherwise, you know,
lacrosse is pretty busy with lacrosse,big huge lacrosse guys. You all know,
still the club president still like well, I mean technically I just finished
my term after this season. Youknow, we went one nine and one,
not exactly what we were looking forfor the season. But let the
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record show that the University of NebraskaLincoln Lacrosse Club beat Creighton, the interstate
rival, interstate rival, the Universityof Nebraska Lincoln Club across team has never
lost to Creighton, and I thinkwe're not starting this season. We're not
gonna start next season, and we'renot ever gonna lose to them. They
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knocked off Creighton. And something abouta Nebraska Creighton matchup. When those two
teams play, it's gonna be astreet fight. It's always a street fight.
And if it's a street fight,you better start getting ready right now.
Throw the records out the window whenthose two teams play. But you
got the big win on the interstateteam, big win, win that mattered.
You avoided double digit losses. That'ssomething that's well, Hey, I
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mean, if if you look atboth seasons this season and last season,
we hadn't won a game, andlike it was, our win against Creighton
was our first win in like eighteengames or something like that. But that
doesn't matter. We're back o.W A win, Oh, win is
a win. Win is a win, and it'll be that way till the
end of time. And so,I mean school year, you got your
classes and lacrosse, But what aboutthis upcoming summer? Yeah, you know
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this summer, little something, alittle something easy. We're going to Oregon
for a little internship Oregon. Yousay we're going to Oregon where an organ
is the only city I know whenOregon is like Portland. Yeah, so
it's not Portland. I'm in alittle coastal town called Warrenton. I mean
little is you know, relative right, relative to a big port relative to
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a big Portland. What is thepopulation roughly? You know? I don't
know off the top of my head. I got my computer here though,
that I will look at up tenthousand people. Ten thousand people. So
it's smaller, yeah, not liketeeny tiny town. But it it ain't
big, that's for sure. Yeah, definitely definitely, not not huge,
not small by any means. ButI think we'll be all right. They've
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got a costco there. They dohave a costco. They've got a costco
bear essentials pretty much. If you'regoing somewhere for an internship where you can't
even go and pick up a fivepound shepherd's pie, you might be cooked.
That might be your situation might justbe so cooked it might be over.
But you're up in the Pacific Northwestin the summer. I'm jealous.
On the ocean too, it's gonnabe pretty That's what I've been told a
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lot of people have been telling mehow pretty it's gonna be, you know,
kind of what the vibe is gonnabe, which is and I'm really
looking forward to Thatpportunities are going tobe all around me. Lots of national
parks, forests, things like that. Working at a production plant for fish
meal, first intern to go there, which is, you know, really
exciting, kind of daunting, butI'm always up for it. But you
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know, like the plant manager,like everybody that I've met so far,
and so I'm really looking forward toit. I know. Otherwise, you
know, obviously you got to getyour shine, and we got to let
you. We got to know whatyou're doing, What have you what have
you been up to? Obviously ifI've been busy, you've been busy too.
Sure, Oh we're I mean tryingto juggle being a student and also
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being a being a human and havinga social life and time to relax.
It's tough. It's strenuous, evenfor a business major like myself. You
know, Hey, the ab seasoncounting one, two, three, get
kind of tired. You figure outwto color in between the lines? Yet,
uh, coloring coloring two oh oneis really that's kind of kicking your
butt, really grinding my gears likeone on one. You learn the very
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basics, you know, putting thecrayon to paper. You know, we
don't put then, we don't putpen to paper in right essays, we
put crayon to paper, marker topaper. That's just kind of the deal.
But classes have been pretty normal.I mean I got five classes three
credit hours apiece for fifteen total credithours. You see that math Business majors'
business major math right there. Wecan do that mental math. I did
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my multiplication tables. I know that. For an arm fact, classes have
been pretty irrelevant. I have takenone campus job, one job working right
here on unl's campus. I havestarted work at a sorority house. Of
all places, a sorority house.So one might ask Daniel, what do
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you do at the sorority house.I'm I'm but a measly little dishwasher.
All I do is basically like anyrestaurant work. You know, I've I
kind of clean up the kitchen andwashed dishes, make sure that you know,
plates and cups and other various kitchenwhere properly stocked so that the girls
are getting their money's worth with thoseliving because I know it ain't cheap.
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It can't be. So I've I'vetaken up that as a job. And
Dome Crew, Dome Crew, weare having one heck of a season,
big season in football. I mean, hey, if we want to touch
on basketball, a good basketball game. Basketball was rough, The ending was
rough, The ending was tough.The ending was tough, that's for sure.
But we had good moments in theregular season. And look, I
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will say that me and myself,Deuce, I am a horrific basketball player.
When I get on the court,I kind of just like to run
around and kind of create havoc,just like you know, it's the d
place, lockdown defense and don't lethim tell you otherwise. I look,
occasionally, I did hit a threepoint shot and I was wearing the Dame
jersey watching you on the court.Hit that Dame time was crazy. I
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hit the Dame time celebration and thatwas We won that game by a pretty
close margin. We needed that three. We needed it. I got the
three, so I let the peopleknow it was Dame time. But I'm
really not a great hooper, Dyleither, Am I really Dylan? But
Dylan Sash he's I mean, he'sbigger than me, so I'm bigger the
paint and that's what matters you.You go hard when you're down low in
the paint. And we got TrevorBraid and Barrett Brandon and Barrett being the
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very athletic twins, and Trevor justjust an absolute sharpshooter, just their athletic
friend. Who is he's got oneheck of a shot. Yeah, guys,
they they did a lot of theI'd say a lot of the work.
We won. Did we go ondefeated in regular season or did we
lose a game or two? Idon't even remember we went we went undefeated.
We just had too many close games. So our point differential didn't put
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us in the highest speed or inthe highest difference, so put us up
higher, higher in seeds. Yes, which led us to a our first
round of the playoffs, which waswas it first or second round? The
first I think we won the firstround because that was when, oh yeah,
that was the game that Oh yeah, our first round was we ended
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up only having four players? Well, no, it was I think we
had five to start. I thinkbecause I showed up late. Well you
showed up Lake. But to startthe game, we only had four.
Yeah, yeah, that was me, Andrew stodd In and then Travis and
so then we literally one of thewe got lucky. We got so lucky
one of the other courts didn't havea team show up. So because the
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team didn't show up, Uh,we had one of the refs from that
team play for us. That's thathe was actually kind of a dog.
He was hitting threes, he's playingreal good defense. I mean he was
he was command like. It waskind of funny. The number one thing
that we like about trev Is ishe's got a good point guard presence.
He knows how to command and moveand and kind of make things happen.
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And so it's hard and we're withouthim, we really struggle in that regard.
But the reef of all people,this is the ref of all people.
He knew he was and he cameup big and he kind of started
doing that stuff which allowed us to. Uh. We started the game about
halftime, I think we were wewere down maybe five at half. It
was a close game this whole entireway. We came roaring back. Yeah,
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after half, we started off electric. They went you know, a
couple times down, didn't score,didn't really were able to really push anything,
and every single time we were takingadvantage, we were pushing transition.
It was a gritty game. Itwas a gritty game, and I think
we ended up towards the end ofit, we really solidified our win in
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them last five minutes because at thatpoint in time, they started getting a
little frustrated, just like always,I mean I would get frustrated too.
Oh yeah, you're beaten. You'regetting beat by a team that had at
that point in time no subs,got a lead going into half, got
a lead. You lost it.So for them or for us, I
should say, it really came downto when they got upset and they were
fouling us. When they started foulingus, they were fouling Travis. Well,
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that was a big mistake because freethrow line Merchant. Yeah, we
looked at the stats. He'll knockthose down. Seventeen for twenty from the
free throw line, He'll knock thosedown. At it, that's seventeen free
points. Seventeen points that they're justhanding out. They're free points. And
we won that first game. Ithink the next game we got bounced.
It was it was a rough one. But we don't need to talk about
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that because we're onto football where itis. The Dome Crew four before Revenge
tour, we went it is.We went undefeated in the regular season.
I was at every regular season game. Let the records show that not only
did we go undefeated, we weresecond and overall points four we should have
been first, but the ref didn'tlet us go for three points. You
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didn't let us do our conversion.If we had gone for three and gotten
it, we would have been infirst. We would have been in the
top seed. But you get achoice of one, two or three point
conversions. But we reached the mercyrule and we were not allowed to perform
one, which was rather heartbreaking.But we went undefeated, played a real
good regular season. I was notable to make our first postseason game because
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I had to study for a test. We're student athletes at the end of
the day, just like we talkabout. But it don't matter. I
mean, we crushed the team thatwe played first for sure. Now we're
back on Sunday, and let mejust say that the Dome Crew Revenge two.
It's ongoing, but I mean it'sit's not complete by any means finished.
I don't think so. No,it's not finished at all. We
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got a handful of games to gobefore we can officially put this thing to
bed. So it's been you know, my on campus job, which is
I mean, that's just a jobto you know, put some money together.
It's been intramural sports, classes havebeen I mean they've been pretty regular.
But I have got one campus jobthat kind of sparked my interest to
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get back on the podcasting grind anddo this interview. Nothing she doesn't turn
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aroundcome on moted all right now,little Billy Idol. They play this song
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at every single game, every singletime I hear it, and I honestly
thought at first it was catchy,like a rash, but it's kind of
grown on me. I enjoy thesong honestly quite a bit. It's in
my playlist, which not a lotof songs get that honor bestowed upon them,
so I think it's a real greatsong. But where do they play
this song? What's this job thatI've taken? Well, I work for
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the Lincoln Stars. Now what whoare the Lincoln Stars? Daniel? Tell
me who are the Lincoln Stars?Well, let me clue you in the
Lincoln Stars are a junior hockey teamthat play here in Lincoln at the ice
Box, which is a phenomenal namefor a hockey event. You're just fantastic.
They play on the former Nebraska StateFairground, which is right next to
the University of Nebraska Lincoln. Soit's a junior hockey team. But what
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league do they play in? Well, they play in the United States Hockey
League, which consists of sixteen teamskind of across the Midwestern States and kind
of Great Plains area. The playersare between the ages of sixteen and twenty
one, and the league it's amateur. So former players from the USHL go
on to usually play at Division oneuniversities. They go D one with the
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hopes of eventually going pro, andthe Lincoln Stars have had a handful of
players go pro, even one Iknow for sure. One maybe a couple
who have hoisted the Stanley Cup.But all in all, the Stars they
play in the USHL and I workthere as a moving camera operator. I
like, I just call myself movingcamera guy colloquially at the end of the
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day, independent film. I'm anindependent videographer because you know that sounds a
little fancier. I sound a realprofessional term. I sound much more distinguished
that way. My job, Iwalk around with a camera that I carry
kind of over my shoulders, andwhen there's a when there's a whistle on
the ice and there's a break inthe action, I kind of go up
in the stands and I'll record fansand the person up in the press box
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will see my video, and ifI get a shot of fans that they
like or they're not already putting someadvertisement on the JumboTron, they'll put my
crowd shot on the JumboTron. Andit's really fun because a lot of times
it's kids and stuff. Yeah,yeah, I'm recording kids, and a
lot of times it's families and theyjust think it's the coolest thing ever to
get on the on the JumboTron.It's very rewarding I do that, and
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you know, I'll record inner intermissionsegments. You know, they'll have people
come on the ice and play tugglewar. I'll record the players walking to
and from the locker room in betweenperiods. It's a real fun job and
it's kind of gotten me more exposedto sports media in general and industry that
I really want to explore. AndI got very lucky because I talked to
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the Lincoln Stars play by play announcerwhose name is Joel, and I said,
Hey, you know, I doa little podcast on you know,
I do a little something something onthe side. I'm podcasting, and I
would love to talk with one ofthe players because I had just like a
lot of genuine questions about, youknow, how the league works and kind
of what the day to day islike. I just I just wanted to
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talk to one of the guys outof genuine curiosity. I'm like, can
make a podcast episode out of theYeah, we could do a little something
like that. So I asked aroundto Joel said, you know, hey,
I want to get one particular Minnesotaguy on the podcast, because you
know, State of Hockey, weproduce a lot of USHL talent. And
one guy who caught my eye wasa defenceman from Blaine, Minnesota named Jacob
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Rombach. He is committed to theUniversity of Minnesota and he just played his
first season for the Lincoln Stars andwe're gonna have them on today. We're
gonna chat with him and we're gonnasee what's there to know about Jacob Rombach,
Jacob, can you hear us?All right? Yes? Video on
beautiful noworries man your time. We'vekind of been playing around with all the
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technology and here we got to getthis funky little Bluetooth gizmo plugged into the
podcast things that your audio is comingthrough. But everything seems to be working
well for now. Awesome, therehe is, well, Jacob, thank
you very much for taking the timeto sit down with us. I'm can
you see us both? Okay?I mean the lighting is kind of it's
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kind of the lighting is not great. Dylan's kind of he's looking like a
maybe like a what a middle schoolhistory teaching, which kind of I feel
right now. I got the poloon and the khakis. It's all it's
all crazy. It's talk all crazy, but you know, we're happy to
be here with you. I'm Danieland this is Dylan, my lovely co
host, and this is Studio threethirteen. So thank you for taking the
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time to sit down with us Virtual. I know was a busy season.
We just want to open it upby just asking you to tell us,
like a little bit about yourself.If you're summarizing yourself, what do you
want the people to know about.Jacob Rombach athletic athletic person. I have
two brothers from Blayne, Minnesota,grew up playing for Spring Lake Park High
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School, and I'm sixteen years old. Last year is my year, You're
sixteen, seventeen? Actually I justturned seventeen. Oh my god, so
I'm twenty one. Oh my god, I know I feel so old.
I'm young. I do feel old. Hopefully those concussions aren't setting into quick
the sixteen and then all of asudden, you're seventeen. At the blink
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of I just got to give itthe business a little bit. But seventeen
years old, couple brothers from Blaine, Minnesota. Obviously an athlete, and
you played hockey for Spring Lake Parkoriginally in high school. But kind of
what led you to pursue a careerin the United States Hockey League? What
led you that direction? What ledme was probably the competition. Going against
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bigger, stronger, faster players iswhat you need to help develop yourself.
And I thought I was ready tomake the jump from high school to the
USHL. I thought this year wasa great development year for me. It
is a real competitive league and yourfirst season in the league and you started.
I don't have the exact number inmy head how many games you started,
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but you played nearly every game thisseason. I believe there were sixty
two games you played in fifty eightor fifty nine. I believe the number
fifty nine, fifty nine. He'sgot some stats on Locky. I'm sure
you knows everything he's ever done.I did a little I did a little
preparation. I did a little preparation. But USHL kind of get it into
the draft, like, yeah,so obviously first round selection, so obviously
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the stars that you are a prettyathletic kid and you are ready to go
compete, you know, kind oftell us, you know, what was
that draft process like, especially sinceyou know you as at the time.
Would you have been sixteen then too? Yes, I just turned sixteen right
before the draft, so I didn'treally have any communication with Lincoln before the
draft actually, so it was justjust go when I went to a forty
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man so like the development camp forthe USA team, so the NTDP and
the u SHL. Sure, Iwould say that's got like all my exposure
to all the USHL teams went tothe draft, just waiting for my name
to get the called, I guess, and so do they do kind of
like is it very similar to likean NFL style where they like they bring
you all to one place or isit all through a phone call? Like
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how does that work for you?It's all through a phone call? So
yeah, you're just waiting waiting athome watching the list saying if you're gonna
get picked, and then once youget picked, you get a phone call
saying, yeah, we just draftedyou, and like all of that.
So really you would know, Ilike you could have gone either way,
like if you just had never gottena call, you wouldn't have ever been
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drafted. Like is there like afree agency for this as well? Can
you get picked up like middle ofthe season kind of like you can hear?
Yeah. I think there's like arole in the USHL. You got
to play ten games to be ifyou're not draft did to like end up
like being a draft pick. Soyou're not a draft pick, but if
you played ten games, like theteam gets your right, gotcha? Gotcha?
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Interesting. I feel like there's alot to it, and I mean
the league obviously isn't like it's notnationally popular everywhere, but there's so it's
got a good bit of it's pickedup a bit of steam in the Midwest,
kind of Great Plains area. Butone thing I kind of want to
touch on is your experience with thatUSA and that USA development team. So
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you played in the U seventeen tofive Nations Tournament. How do you land
that spot? How did you sortof find your way to Team USA?
Yeah, first you had to goto Buffalo and then compete against all the
other sevens in the in the country, and then yeah, then they whittle
it down to about forty guys toplay in like a so called All Star
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game. And then from the AllStar Game, they bring you into a
room and then they just call yourname on and luckily I was able to
get my name called off and eighteen. That's fantastic. And you played a
lot of games, I mean,it's it's it's national competition. So what
was Was there anything different kind ofplaying against national teams versus just you know,
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playing here in the USHL Any stylesof play different or was it relatively
similar to what you'd see here y'all? I would say the biggest difference was
obviously younger guys, Like since it'sonly you seventeen. Obviously the guys aren't
as developed, not as big andstrong as what everyone is in the USHL.
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So sure making it from like theFive Nations to the USHL was a
big step, right, So you'dsay that the USHL certainly a step up
from those national teams. You keepsaying, like bigger and stronger, just
so I get a size reference here, how like what would you like,
what are you weighing in at?Like how tall? Size? Wait?
Like, are you do? Youfind yourself on the larger end smaller end?
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Probably in the middle because my heightObviously, I'm like, I'm six
five sixty six and then I'm like, I'm trying to get that up.
Well, let me tell you.I'm the camp I'm moving cam guy for
the Lincoln Stars. But I liketo say I'm a I'm an independent videographer
because he sounds better. But I'mmoving camera guy. And when I stand
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at the end of the tunnel catchingthe shot of them walking back, you
know they're they're all bigger guys,and they're on skates, so they're all
like kind of tall. But aRombach he looks like a force. And
that's kind of just how those defencemencome built. Typically they're a little bigger
from what I've seen. Does thename Derek Bouguard ring a bell, No,
it does not. That was theMinnesota He played for the Minnesota Wild,
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and like when I was a prettylittle kid and he was a big
six seven. He was a bruiserdefenseman. He constantly got into fights.
He would brawl with people, likepretty much every game he was throwing hands.
And sometimes those defensemen they kind ofneed to. They gotta set the
tone. You know, if ifguys want to get chippy, which a
lot of those get that. I'vewatched a lot of them get chippy,
you got to set the tone andlet the let the other team know,
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hey, we're not gonna let thatslide. Personally, aside from the games
and the style of play, Imean, being in the USHL, it's
a pretty big adjustment. I Mean, you go from living Minnesota to living
in Lincoln with a billet family.So how does the process of finding a
billet family work and how much timedo you spend at that home during the
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season. So during main camp lastyear, they told me I was going
to be living with Patty and JoeJohnson, So I knew who I was
most likely going to be living with, but they just into a house basically,
and then if things don't end upworking out, you can communicate with
the coaches and the staff to getto get things switched out. But yeah,
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my living situation was great. That'sawesome, man. So if you
know, if something's not working out, they have like other homes or families
kind of ready to take players in. Yes, okay, yeah that works
out well for So for you,well, let's say you know you're in
season, obviously a very busy time, Like what's your like average pretty much
like day to day routine looking like, cause I know you guys are pretty
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pretty intense with practice obviously traveling too. But on top of that, like
at some level, you're still ahigh school student. You know, you
just said you're seventeen. You know, maybe talk us through that, you
know how you're kind of handling bothsides of that for us. So on
a regular day during the week,we get to the rink around nine o'clock,
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get a quick dino taper sticks,then we do watch a little bit
of video before we hop on theice and then run the house ice probably
an hour maybe to an hour anda half. But since we own our
rink, we don't have to sharewith anyone else. We get we get
free ice after to stay on andwork on what we need to work on.
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And then when you've got that freeice time, are you you know,
let's say, do you end updoing a lot of things like coach
suggested things or is it more likefree time? Kind of like a mix
of both, because I know forour players, uh, I'm the president
of lacrosse club here, and sowhen we get that free field time,
most of our players just kind ofwant to mess around. But then there's
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a handful of them that are takingit serious, you know, footwork,
drill, shooting on the run,kind of things like that. So is
it kind of a mix of bothfor you guys? Yeah, mix of
both. Obviously you want to workon like bigot like your weaknesses and your
strengths. So then obviously you gotto have a little bit of fun out
there some things too, maybe dosome shootouts after But for me it was
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like walking the blue line after practiceworking on my put control. So yeah,
a little bit of both. Whatwould you say is the biggest part
of your what's the strongest part ofyour game and what's like the weakest part
of your game that you've kind ofbeen looking to improve Because I'm I I
didn't know a lot about hockey.I got nothing going on besides the enforcing
side of stuff. And there's there'sstill not a like, there's still a
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lot plenty. I don't know abouthockey. I mean, if you asked
me before I started working with theStar, I would have told you that,
you know, icing, that's whatyou put on a cake. I
didn't even know. I didn't evenknow what that kind of stuff was.
So I'm still learning, but I'msure there's a lot that goes into the
game. So what's something that youdo very well and what's something that you
don't do as well that you've kindof worked to improve. I would say
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my vision is one of my biggeststrengths, so like on regroups, trying
to find find the forward, stretchingthe zone, and then one of my
weaknesses, it's probably like my strengthto get my strength, get a little
bit stronger and not guys off thefuck a little bit easier, and then
my shot too. You know,vision definitely makes sense. Being six or
five, I'm sure you're seeing overeverybody out there. Really hard to not
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be able to see when you're standingover the crowd. Yeah, and hockey
moves so fast, it's like likeplays can develop just just like that.
I've there. There was one gamethat I was working at where there was
I think there were literally two secondson the clock and I was like waiting
at the end of the tunnel toget the shot of the guys coming back,
and you know, at end ofthe period, and before that two
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seconds was up, a goal wasscored. I wish I could remember what
game it was, but it wasit's it's quick, It's a quick sport.
Which game remember that? Which gameWasn't Sue City one of those games
Kai Jiangria scored with like two secondsleft? Yeah, Yeah, it was
one of those Sue City games.Sue City was a very common foe,
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at least at games that I wasworking at. We there were three regular
season games that I worked when youwere playing Sue City at the Icebox and
the two no, just just thosethree games against Sue City and that was
who after you guys knocked off Waterlooand the best out of three you were
knocked off by Sue City in thepostseason kind of tell me what the kind
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of the postseason feel was, like, I mean, I the arenas are
a little bit emptier than Honestly,the ice box was a little emptier in
postseason than it was in the regularseason. I don't why. I mean,
I'm sure a lot of people justdidn't even realize the game is happening.
Like sometimes it's tough to get theword out, but kind of,
I mean, what what does coachtell you guys when you know, oh,
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it's the end of the season.You know, you guys have been
away from home a long time,sixty two games. How does coach kind
of coach Rocky make sure that youguys are like laser focused and you know,
make sure that you guys don't getburned out or fatigued mostly state mentally
focused and driven. That's guys.You can't be thinking about going home.
It's always in the back of yourhead, but you can't be thinking about
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that because then it's gonna start takingit over and then I think it's as
a team, is still that collectivefocus. I mean, you guys are
going it's the Clark Cup, Isthat correct? That's what you guys compete
for. Yeah, it's that Clarkcut. I mean, just for anybody.
I mean, you want to wingames. That's why you're playing the
sport, not only because you loveit, but because the I mean it
feels great when you win. Buton top of that, I mean,
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if you could win it all andyou take home the trophy, I mean,
what's more than the that Like,that's what you're competing for. Now.
Look, obviously you're a Lincoln Starand we love you that way.
That's how we want we do.That's how we want you to be for
the time. But you know youcan't help, but you know, kind
of think about the future of yourcareer because you will be going to the
University of Minnesota. Big Minnesota guyright there, What is a how did
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that process kind of come through?Because obviously, you know, sixteen seventeen
years old, you're kind of doingthat whole deal. You finally hit that
point because same rules apply. Can'ttalk, can't be talked to bike like
coaches and things like that, right, just like for football and everything else.
Ye, like a certain timeframe,So what's that process look like for
you? Did you kind of likethe goal in mind? Obviously Home State
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probably pretty close to mom and dadback home. Family obviously makes a big
impact for you. What was thatkind of process like when when looking at
colleges and things like that. Forme, I was open to going anywhere,
just the best school that fit mepersonally. But during the decision,
I decided to take my time andvisit schools. From Quinnipiac, I went
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there for a visit, but Ialso took some visits closer to home,
and obviously Minnesota felt right, sodecided to commit Up in the Northeast,
Man, they take hockey. Hockeyis pretty serious up there. I mean,
Minnesota is a state of hockey andit'll stay that way. But man,
it's it's nasty up in the Northeastfor you. Obviously. I know
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a lot of coaches in high schooltalk about being a dual sport athlete but
still having like a primary focus.Did you play any other sports that you
feel like really helped prepare you forhockey or maybe some different situations kind of
things like that. Yeah, Igrew up playing baseball until ninth grade,
and then once I hit ninth grade, I was like, I need to
start focusing more on hockey weight training, So at that point I was,
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yeah, I switched to hockey onlyto start getting stronger, because in the
spring you would be playing another sportand you wouldn't really be focusing on hockey
that much. So like, it'sgood to play two sports growing up.
But then I feel like it's bestfor you once you hit like high school
or that rain stuff, narrow downto like one sport that you're really passionate
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about, and then put everything intothat. Gotcha, be honest with me,
Be honest with me. Were youhitting nukes? You know? Middle
school? Up until ninth grade,I was more of a doubles guy.
Oh, I was really home runs. I was mostly hitting the doubles.
Did you have an egregious double Selly, No, not really. Maybe maybe
once in a while while gotcha,Hey, he's a respectful gentleman out on
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that baseball diamond, you know.Not. Sometimes it's just about getting on
base. Look, I play alittle intramural softball, and look my my
batting average. I think I've onlyplayed like two games. I'm one for
four. I'm not gonna I'm notgreat on the on home play, but
hey, anything on base, LikeI got teammates who are just single merchants
all though, do is just kindof PLoP one out to like barely in
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the outfield. But hey, backsidesingles, Yeah, a singles, a
single getting on base, that's somethingthis guy gets it. Chicks dig obb
indeed they do. Now. Imean, you're still seventeen years old,
like we've mentioned a couple of timesnow, living with the Billet family out
of state. What does your highschool education look like? That's just that
That's one of the biggest questions Ihave. I was wondering what you guys
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kind of do for school. I'mstill through my Springlake Park High School,
so I was I was lucky theylet me do online since my address is
still in spring Blame, Minnesota,but go to spring Lake Park, so
they let me stay online as longas my parents still lived at the house
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that is. So that's sweet lucky. I feel like some not every player
gets that arrangement. I'm sure,are any guys like home school or do
they do like with the Billet families, or do they kind of to get
some other online alternate program. Ithink it's the Nebraska Online Schooling That's what
most of the other guys do.But I decided to it was spring Like
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Park to be able to graduate withmy friends, right. No, that's
that's the way to go. Imean, it's you want to be able
to kind of be around just yourhometown. I mean, you're you're a
hockey player, and you're certainly tryingto make it far, but you still
got to be just a teenager andhopefully will you get like a graduation ceremony
like when you know when okay,okay, that's good, but he's still
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walking the stage because of diploma,because slipping the ballot or whatever it's called.
Because our class is twenty twenty one, we got a graduation, but
it wasn't anything. No, itwas weird, like at least we got
something in the class of twenty twentyreally got screwed, but we we it
was. It was not great.So glad you still get the online school
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from home is a sweet sweet yeah. But kind of going back on the
track of just playing hockey, whatwould you say, who's the who's the
biggest coaching impact you've had so far? I know, obviously, I'm sure
coach Rocky is very knowledgeable, butwere there any coaches in your you know,
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earlier childhood that really inspired you tokeep pursuing sports? Seriously, maybe
not even hockey. Maybe a baseballcoach. Were there anyone's besides besides Rocky?
Or maybe maybe Rocky is by fartop dog? Yeah, obviously Rocky,
Yeah he's done. But another coachwas Tate Johnson? Was He was
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my triple A coach growing up andreally gave me the passion to keep going,
gave me opportunities that didn't really havebefore, and watched me developed through
the years. Was was your datahockey player? Is that kind of where
the foundation came from for you?No, I'm the first hockey player in
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my family. I just got causeI was gonna a good follow up question,
So are your brothers playing hockey?They follow in the footsteps at all.
My younger brother he's playing hockey andbaseball, following in my footsteps.
My older brother he didn't really playany sports. He was an Eagle scout
and at NYU. Right now,okay, well, it's a family of
high achievers, is kind of whatI'm here. That's what I'm hearing too,
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what I'm understanding. So real questionis should we be watching out for
your younger brother? Is that rombackfamily name gonna be a legacy going on?
Is he next up? Are youthe next Gretzky's hopefully? Hopefully?
Hey, only one way to getthere, Just keep putting that work in,
day in and day out. Thisseason has come to an end.
Regular season. You guys were inthe postseason. You pulled the upset on
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Waterloo, sweeping them in that bestout of three in Waterloo, Iowa.
And unfortunately the season came to anend in Sue City. So what's the
process of getting ready for next seasonlooked like? When you'll be back down
in Lincoln And when does practice resumeand does practice lead right into the regular
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season or is there kind of agap in between there to rest. So
first, I think at the endof June, we have like a main
camp, so that's where they startpicking the team for next year. They
a couple more extra guys to bringthe training camp in the fall at September,
So you go to main camp inJune, they picked the team,
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like, add a couple more guysto Phillip spots, and then you go
to training camp in September. Sure, and then for one month in September,
it's just like two practices a dayon the ice and then getting ready
to show them what you can doand get a final spot going into the
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Into Pits into Pittsburgh Showcase. SoJune is like the kind of the initial
camp and then you come back laterin September where you show him everything you
got. It's all hands on deckuntil the Pittsburgh Showcase. So I mean,
thank June. It's a it's aquick I mean it's already it's male,
is it like right at the beginningof June you kind of come back
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and swinging to it. End ofJune, so you get a nice little
breather back home, hang out withthe family. I'm sure all the friends
are good to glad that you're back. Yep. But before you know it,
it's gonna be twenty twenty four totwenty twenty five. I'm I'm already
pumped for next season. I thinkthat are you going back? Oh yeah,
I'll I might be on the movingcam, but I also might do
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a little of the other production,you know, working the big jumbo tron
up there that they got, orwork in the They do some replay cameras
because you know, if there's likea goal or a big hit or a
big brawl, which is always funto watch. They'll they'll throw those up
on the on the board. Butyou are you finding yourself in any fights,
any scraps. Not this year,but I'll have to get a couple
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next year. Hey, he's keepinghis hands clean, so he's welcome back.
But next year it's full force.I mean, look the the strength
training. You know, you sayyou want to you want to not guys
around the ice and be able tokind of leverage your way to the puck
when it gets jammed up in thecorner. But I think part of it
is if someone gives you the business, I mean, you got to let
him know. I think what onequestion I think? I mean, I
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think this could be our kind offinal question if I really just got one
more. I just want to know. So far, this could be from
when you're seven or eight years oldor currently with the Lincoln Stars. What's
been your favorite moment on the iceand why? Wow, it's a nice
that's a tough question. One ofthem was probably when I was younger,
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when in a Triple Crown tournament,just going up against some top competition,
obviously coming out of the top rightman, another hockey moment, get my
first us HL goal. I waswhat when when did that come from?
What? Or like what? What? Give us the replay on that?
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How did you end up that?Walk us through? It was against Fargo,
I think it was. It wasin a third period, ended up
being the game winning goal because theyended up scoring after that, so so
I think it was Keyts. Hecame around the back of the net,
he went low to hide in meand then there's like there's like eight eight
guys in front of the net.I just shot. It ended up going
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screening the goalie. I think goalieis a tough, tough position. I
mean that puck is so small andwhen guys start screening in front of the
net like that, it's rough.Luckily, Man show Stack, our goalie
was huge in the postseason to getus past Waterloo. That's I think that's
all. That's all I mean,not necessarily that you have to do.
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You have anything else that you wantto talk about specifically or anything like any
last showcases. Now, just gettingready for next year. Hopefully we can
end up winning a clerk Cup nextyear. Hey he's he, Hey,
this guy's right. We're onto it. We're onto something special. The Clerk
Cup is what it's all about,you know. Jacob, thank you very
much for taking the time to sitdown with us. It's it's it's good
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to just talk hockey because with theStars season being over, I miss it
and a lot of a lot ofthe fan base being from Minnesota. I
mean, they've got their background inthere as well. I'm sure a couple
of the listeners might be hometown friends, heroes, something like that. To
you. We do appreciate you comingcoming on here and giving us an opportunity
for inviting me out. Absolutely.Course we'd love to have other players on
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sometime next season. So hey,all, I'll be in touch if that's
all right with you, and we'llwe'll sort some Hey maybe, hey,
maybe after the Clark Cup next season, we can get you back on here.
Maybe we can get you in thestudio. Have it a little more
formal this way, Yeah, alittle little victory lab victory tour if you
will. But Jacob, thank youvery much for taking the time. You
have yourself a good night and enjoybeing home until June. Thank you.
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Yeah. And that was Jacob Rombach. Jacob Ronbach, what a kid.
Honestly, First off, the factthat he was seventeen was I was looking
at that oh, seven birthday,and I didn't think anything of it until
he goes, oh, yeah,I'm sixteen. Well actually i'm seventeen.
Yeah, And I was like,holy smoke, it's crazy. And let
me tell you, these they're bigdudes, like a seven. Well,
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it's crazy. My sister is seventeen, yeah, and this kid six'
five. My sister's like five tofive. Yeah. Right, And you
know it's a guy and a girl. It's different, but still different,
but still the whole foot is insaneand there's a lot of a lot of
talent in the ushl. Let metell you it's it's a real good,
really good league for you know,up and comers. I believe. I
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don't know what the exact number was, but it was like an absurdly high
percentage of players have Division one commitments. A few of them will end up
going pro. Around the ice box, there's posters of oh god, yeah,
players who have you know, hoistedthe stand, a couple have who
have hoped on you, who've beenformer stars, and the atmosphere of the
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games is so much fun. It'sa joy to work and it's kind of
I want I want to do more. Around the whole sports media field and
just kind of dive deeper in thereand kind of just just see what the
field has to offer. Of course, of course, but that's all for
today, mister Sash, Thank youguys so much for joining us. We
really appreciate you guys taking the timeto listen. I know it was a
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little a little longer wait than we'resorry. We're sorry. We're trying to
get better at it. We're gonnaget better at it. I remember when
I started, I sat up.We were going to do this every week.
Oh it was every week, andthen it was, hey, we
get busy. We're students first,and then we got a little too student
focused. We were I think wegot to be we gotta be podcaster students
instead of student podcasters. Student athletepodcaster. That's what I am. That's
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what I am. There you go, Thank you guys for joining us.
This has been Studio three one three. Have a lovely evening, and up
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Speak gas and fun so so wellto table game Signora is always from so
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its a lot game down from It'sbeen a while, We've we've taken a
hiatus, just a brief little break. One could say it's it's been a
minute. I mean, the lastepisode we recorded together was probably like it
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was last calendar year for sure,like a hober maybe semester. Yeah it,
you know, you know, weget busy. We're dunes, you
know. Hey, hey, wealways made it clear that we were students
first, right, don't ever saythat we didn't. We did, but
I didn't tell you what episode itwas. Yeah, but at the end
of the day, we like tohop on the podcast. That's why we're
kicking off today's episode with a greatsong. That song you just heard was
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called Optical Wealth by this indie popkind of electronic duo named cap'n Marble,
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Captain Marble released in May of twentytwenty one. Great song, kind of
the Tame and Paula kind of vibe. Yeah, it's totally that windows down
summer vibes. I mean top song, like we said, you know,
big Jeep guys here, top songthe Jeep brothers. We you know how
it is. I've already taken thefront two pieces off. Oh yeah,
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I see, I got that brandnew soft top. And so the easy
up, easy down, I meanthe soft the soft top is. It's
it's the way to go when you'renot dealing with the Minnesota winter where like
if if you try and ride aroundwith a soft top, the insulation is
just not as. It's not gonnakeep it and you get some snow on
it, a little too much snow, get caught in some bad weather.
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Although it'd be great in the snow, your soft top would probably be ruined.
It would not work. It couldthe snow could pile up, it
could cave in, like the Metrodome, and no one wants to see that,
not the Metrodome, especially not meor the insurance company or my dad.
But welcome to Studio three one three. My name is Daniel Coland,
(02:37):
better known as Deuce on the airwaves, and I'm joined by my lovable and
huggable co host, Dylan sash Oh, it's always great to be here.
Daniel. It's phenomenal to be herewith you. Dylan. We're coming at
you as usual from Room three onethree here in Anderson Hall, better known
as the College of Journalism and MassCommunications, affectionately known as the co Jay
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see right here on the University ofNebraska Lincoln's city campus. Dylan, it's
fantastic to be back in the studio. We've obviously had, you know,
a fair bit of time in betweenour last episod U and now, so
kind of tell me what's been goingon with you. What's new? Yeah,
well, just like everything we talkedabout it big big in school,
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big school, big school focus,you know us otherwise, you know,
lacrosse is pretty busy with lacrosse,big huge lacrosse guys. You all know,
still the club president still like well, I mean technically I just finished
my term after this season. Youknow, we went one nine and one,
not exactly what we were looking forfor the season. But let the
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record show that the University of NebraskaLincoln Lacrosse Club beat Creighton, the interstate
rival, interstate rival, the Universityof Nebraska Lincoln Club across team has never
lost to Creighton, and I thinkwe're not starting this season. We're not
gonna start next season, and we'renot ever gonna lose to them. They
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knocked off Creighton. And something abouta Nebraska Creighton matchup. When those two
teams play, it's gonna be astreet fight. It's always a street fight.
And if it's a street fight,you better start getting ready right now.
Throw the records out the window whenthose two teams play. But you
got the big win on the interstateteam, big win, win that mattered.
You avoided double digit losses. That'ssomething that's well, Hey, I
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mean, if if you look atboth seasons this season and last season,
we hadn't won a game, andlike it was, our win against Creighton
was our first win in like eighteengames or something like that. But that
doesn't matter. We're back o.W A win, Oh, win is
a win. Win is a win, and it'll be that way till the
end of time. And so,I mean school year, you got your
classes and lacrosse, But what aboutthis upcoming summer? Yeah, you know
(04:47):
this summer, little something, alittle something easy. We're going to Oregon
for a little internship Oregon. Yousay we're going to Oregon where an organ
is the only city I know whenOregon is like Portland. Yeah, so
it's not Portland. I'm in alittle coastal town called Warrenton. I mean
little is you know, relative right, relative to a big port relative to
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a big Portland. What is thepopulation roughly? You know? I don't
know off the top of my head. I got my computer here though,
that I will look at up tenthousand people. Ten thousand people. So
it's smaller, yeah, not liketeeny tiny town. But it it ain't
big, that's for sure. Yeah, definitely definitely, not not huge,
not small by any means. ButI think we'll be all right. They've
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got a costco there. They dohave a costco. They've got a costco
bear essentials pretty much. If you'regoing somewhere for an internship where you can't
even go and pick up a fivepound shepherd's pie, you might be cooked.
That might be your situation might justbe so cooked it might be over.
But you're up in the Pacific Northwestin the summer. I'm jealous.
On the ocean too, it's gonnabe pretty That's what I've been told a
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lot of people have been telling mehow pretty it's gonna be, you know,
kind of what the vibe is gonnabe, which is and I'm really
looking forward to Thatpportunities are going tobe all around me. Lots of national
parks, forests, things like that. Working at a production plant for fish
meal, first intern to go there, which is, you know, really
exciting, kind of daunting, butI'm always up for it. But you
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know, like the plant manager,like everybody that I've met so far,
and so I'm really looking forward toit. I know. Otherwise, you
know, obviously you got to getyour shine, and we got to let
you. We got to know whatyou're doing, What have you what have
you been up to? Obviously ifI've been busy, you've been busy too.
Sure, Oh we're I mean tryingto juggle being a student and also
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being a being a human and havinga social life and time to relax.
It's tough. It's strenuous, evenfor a business major like myself. You
know, Hey, the ab seasoncounting one, two, three, get
kind of tired. You figure outwto color in between the lines? Yet,
uh, coloring coloring two oh oneis really that's kind of kicking your
butt, really grinding my gears likeone on one. You learn the very
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basics, you know, putting thecrayon to paper. You know, we
don't put then, we don't putpen to paper in right essays, we
put crayon to paper, marker topaper. That's just kind of the deal.
But classes have been pretty normal.I mean I got five classes three
credit hours apiece for fifteen total credithours. You see that math Business majors'
business major math right there. Wecan do that mental math. I did
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my multiplication tables. I know that. For an arm fact, classes have
been pretty irrelevant. I have takenone campus job, one job working right
here on unl's campus. I havestarted work at a sorority house. Of
all places, a sorority house.So one might ask Daniel, what do
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you do at the sorority house.I'm I'm but a measly little dishwasher.
All I do is basically like anyrestaurant work. You know, I've I
kind of clean up the kitchen andwashed dishes, make sure that you know,
plates and cups and other various kitchenwhere properly stocked so that the girls
are getting their money's worth with thoseliving because I know it ain't cheap.
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It can't be. So I've I'vetaken up that as a job. And
Dome Crew, Dome Crew, weare having one heck of a season,
big season in football. I mean, hey, if we want to touch
on basketball, a good basketball game. Basketball was rough, The ending was
rough, The ending was tough.The ending was tough, that's for sure.
But we had good moments in theregular season. And look, I
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will say that me and myself,Deuce, I am a horrific basketball player.
When I get on the court,I kind of just like to run
around and kind of create havoc,just like you know, it's the d
place, lockdown defense and don't lethim tell you otherwise. I look,
occasionally, I did hit a threepoint shot and I was wearing the Dame
jersey watching you on the court.Hit that Dame time was crazy. I
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hit the Dame time celebration and thatwas We won that game by a pretty
close margin. We needed that three. We needed it. I got the
three, so I let the peopleknow it was Dame time. But I'm
really not a great hooper, Dyleither, Am I really Dylan? But
Dylan Sash he's I mean, he'sbigger than me, so I'm bigger the
paint and that's what matters you.You go hard when you're down low in
the paint. And we got TrevorBraid and Barrett Brandon and Barrett being the
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very athletic twins, and Trevor justjust an absolute sharpshooter, just their athletic
friend. Who is he's got oneheck of a shot. Yeah, guys,
they they did a lot of theI'd say a lot of the work.
We won. Did we go ondefeated in regular season or did we
lose a game or two? Idon't even remember we went we went undefeated.
We just had too many close games. So our point differential didn't put
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us in the highest speed or inthe highest difference, so put us up
higher, higher in seeds. Yes, which led us to a our first
round of the playoffs, which waswas it first or second round? The
first I think we won the firstround because that was when, oh yeah,
that was the game that Oh yeah, our first round was we ended
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up only having four players? Well, no, it was I think we
had five to start. I thinkbecause I showed up late. Well you
showed up Lake. But to startthe game, we only had four.
Yeah, yeah, that was me, Andrew stodd In and then Travis and
so then we literally one of thewe got lucky. We got so lucky
one of the other courts didn't havea team show up. So because the
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team didn't show up, Uh,we had one of the refs from that
team play for us. That's thathe was actually kind of a dog.
He was hitting threes, he's playingreal good defense. I mean he was
he was command like. It waskind of funny. The number one thing
that we like about trev Is ishe's got a good point guard presence.
He knows how to command and moveand and kind of make things happen.
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And so it's hard and we're withouthim, we really struggle in that regard.
But the reef of all people,this is the ref of all people.
He knew he was and he cameup big and he kind of started
doing that stuff which allowed us to. Uh. We started the game about
halftime, I think we were wewere down maybe five at half. It
was a close game this whole entireway. We came roaring back. Yeah,
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after half, we started off electric. They went you know, a
couple times down, didn't score,didn't really were able to really push anything,
and every single time we were takingadvantage, we were pushing transition.
It was a gritty game. Itwas a gritty game, and I think
we ended up towards the end ofit, we really solidified our win in
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them last five minutes because at thatpoint in time, they started getting a
little frustrated, just like always,I mean I would get frustrated too.
Oh yeah, you're beaten. You'regetting beat by a team that had at
that point in time no subs,got a lead going into half, got
a lead. You lost it.So for them or for us, I
should say, it really came downto when they got upset and they were
fouling us. When they started foulingus, they were fouling Travis. Well,
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that was a big mistake because freethrow line Merchant. Yeah, we
looked at the stats. He'll knockthose down. Seventeen for twenty from the
free throw line, He'll knock thosedown. At it, that's seventeen free
points. Seventeen points that they're justhanding out. They're free points. And
we won that first game. Ithink the next game we got bounced.
It was it was a rough one. But we don't need to talk about
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that because we're onto football where itis. The Dome Crew four before Revenge
tour, we went it is.We went undefeated in the regular season.
I was at every regular season game. Let the records show that not only
did we go undefeated, we weresecond and overall points four we should have
been first, but the ref didn'tlet us go for three points. You
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didn't let us do our conversion.If we had gone for three and gotten
it, we would have been infirst. We would have been in the
top seed. But you get achoice of one, two or three point
conversions. But we reached the mercyrule and we were not allowed to perform
one, which was rather heartbreaking.But we went undefeated, played a real
good regular season. I was notable to make our first postseason game because
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I had to study for a test. We're student athletes at the end of
the day, just like we talkabout. But it don't matter. I
mean, we crushed the team thatwe played first for sure. Now we're
back on Sunday, and let mejust say that the Dome Crew Revenge two.
It's ongoing, but I mean it'sit's not complete by any means finished.
I don't think so. No,it's not finished at all. We
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got a handful of games to gobefore we can officially put this thing to
bed. So it's been you know, my on campus job, which is
I mean, that's just a jobto you know, put some money together.
It's been intramural sports, classes havebeen I mean they've been pretty regular.
But I have got one campus jobthat kind of sparked my interest to
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get back on the podcasting grind anddo this interview. Nothing she doesn't turn
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aroundcome on moted all right now,little Billy Idol. They play this song
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at every single game, every singletime I hear it, and I honestly
thought at first it was catchy,like a rash, but it's kind of
grown on me. I enjoy thesong honestly quite a bit. It's in
my playlist, which not a lotof songs get that honor bestowed upon them,
so I think it's a real greatsong. But where do they play
this song? What's this job thatI've taken? Well, I work for
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the Lincoln Stars. Now what whoare the Lincoln Stars? Daniel? Tell
me who are the Lincoln Stars?Well, let me clue you in the
Lincoln Stars are a junior hockey teamthat play here in Lincoln at the ice
Box, which is a phenomenal namefor a hockey event. You're just fantastic.
They play on the former Nebraska StateFairground, which is right next to
the University of Nebraska Lincoln. Soit's a junior hockey team. But what
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league do they play in? Well, they play in the United States Hockey
League, which consists of sixteen teamskind of across the Midwestern States and kind
of Great Plains area. The playersare between the ages of sixteen and twenty
one, and the league it's amateur. So former players from the USHL go
on to usually play at Division oneuniversities. They go D one with the
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hopes of eventually going pro, andthe Lincoln Stars have had a handful of
players go pro, even one Iknow for sure. One maybe a couple
who have hoisted the Stanley Cup.But all in all, the Stars they
play in the USHL and I workthere as a moving camera operator. I
like, I just call myself movingcamera guy colloquially at the end of the
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day, independent film. I'm anindependent videographer because you know that sounds a
little fancier. I sound a realprofessional term. I sound much more distinguished
that way. My job, Iwalk around with a camera that I carry
kind of over my shoulders, andwhen there's a when there's a whistle on
the ice and there's a break inthe action, I kind of go up
in the stands and I'll record fansand the person up in the press box
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will see my video, and ifI get a shot of fans that they
like or they're not already putting someadvertisement on the JumboTron, they'll put my
crowd shot on the JumboTron. Andit's really fun because a lot of times
it's kids and stuff. Yeah,yeah, I'm recording kids, and a
lot of times it's families and theyjust think it's the coolest thing ever to
get on the on the JumboTron.It's very rewarding I do that, and
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you know, I'll record inner intermissionsegments. You know, they'll have people
come on the ice and play tugglewar. I'll record the players walking to
and from the locker room in betweenperiods. It's a real fun job and
it's kind of gotten me more exposedto sports media in general and industry that
I really want to explore. AndI got very lucky because I talked to
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the Lincoln Stars play by play announcerwhose name is Joel, and I said,
Hey, you know, I doa little podcast on you know,
I do a little something something onthe side. I'm podcasting, and I
would love to talk with one ofthe players because I had just like a
lot of genuine questions about, youknow, how the league works and kind
of what the day to day islike. I just I just wanted to
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talk to one of the guys outof genuine curiosity. I'm like, can
make a podcast episode out of theYeah, we could do a little something
like that. So I asked aroundto Joel said, you know, hey,
I want to get one particular Minnesotaguy on the podcast, because you
know, State of Hockey, weproduce a lot of USHL talent. And
one guy who caught my eye wasa defenceman from Blaine, Minnesota named Jacob
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Rombach. He is committed to theUniversity of Minnesota and he just played his
first season for the Lincoln Stars andwe're gonna have them on today. We're
gonna chat with him and we're gonnasee what's there to know about Jacob Rombach,
Jacob, can you hear us?All right? Yes? Video on
beautiful noworries man your time. We'vekind of been playing around with all the
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technology and here we got to getthis funky little Bluetooth gizmo plugged into the
podcast things that your audio is comingthrough. But everything seems to be working
well for now. Awesome, therehe is, well, Jacob, thank
you very much for taking the timeto sit down with us. I'm can
you see us both? Okay?I mean the lighting is kind of it's
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kind of the lighting is not great. Dylan's kind of he's looking like a
maybe like a what a middle schoolhistory teaching, which kind of I feel
right now. I got the poloon and the khakis. It's all it's
all crazy. It's talk all crazy, but you know, we're happy to
be here with you. I'm Danieland this is Dylan, my lovely co
host, and this is Studio threethirteen. So thank you for taking the
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time to sit down with us Virtual. I know was a busy season.
We just want to open it upby just asking you to tell us,
like a little bit about yourself.If you're summarizing yourself, what do you
want the people to know about.Jacob Rombach athletic athletic person. I have
two brothers from Blayne, Minnesota,grew up playing for Spring Lake Park High
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School, and I'm sixteen years old. Last year is my year, You're
sixteen, seventeen? Actually I justturned seventeen. Oh my god, so
I'm twenty one. Oh my god, I know I feel so old.
I'm young. I do feel old. Hopefully those concussions aren't setting into quick
the sixteen and then all of asudden, you're seventeen. At the blink
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of I just got to give itthe business a little bit. But seventeen
years old, couple brothers from Blaine, Minnesota. Obviously an athlete, and
you played hockey for Spring Lake Parkoriginally in high school. But kind of
what led you to pursue a careerin the United States Hockey League? What
led you that direction? What ledme was probably the competition. Going against
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bigger, stronger, faster players iswhat you need to help develop yourself.
And I thought I was ready tomake the jump from high school to the
USHL. I thought this year wasa great development year for me. It
is a real competitive league and yourfirst season in the league and you started.
I don't have the exact number inmy head how many games you started,
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but you played nearly every game thisseason. I believe there were sixty
two games you played in fifty eightor fifty nine. I believe the number
fifty nine, fifty nine. He'sgot some stats on Locky. I'm sure
you knows everything he's ever done.I did a little I did a little
preparation. I did a little preparation. But USHL kind of get it into
the draft, like, yeah,so obviously first round selection, so obviously
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the stars that you are a prettyathletic kid and you are ready to go
compete, you know, kind oftell us, you know, what was
that draft process like, especially sinceyou know you as at the time.
Would you have been sixteen then too? Yes, I just turned sixteen right
before the draft, so I didn'treally have any communication with Lincoln before the
draft actually, so it was justjust go when I went to a forty
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man so like the development camp forthe USA team, so the NTDP and
the u SHL. Sure, Iwould say that's got like all my exposure
to all the USHL teams went tothe draft, just waiting for my name
to get the called, I guess, and so do they do kind of
like is it very similar to likean NFL style where they like they bring
you all to one place or isit all through a phone call? Like
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how does that work for you?It's all through a phone call? So
yeah, you're just waiting waiting athome watching the list saying if you're gonna
get picked, and then once youget picked, you get a phone call
saying, yeah, we just draftedyou, and like all of that.
So really you would know, Ilike you could have gone either way,
like if you just had never gottena call, you wouldn't have ever been
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drafted. Like is there like afree agency for this as well? Can
you get picked up like middle ofthe season kind of like you can hear?
Yeah. I think there's like arole in the USHL. You got
to play ten games to be ifyou're not draft did to like end up
like being a draft pick. Soyou're not a draft pick, but if
you played ten games, like theteam gets your right, gotcha? Gotcha?
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Interesting. I feel like there's alot to it, and I mean
the league obviously isn't like it's notnationally popular everywhere, but there's so it's
got a good bit of it's pickedup a bit of steam in the Midwest,
kind of Great Plains area. Butone thing I kind of want to
touch on is your experience with thatUSA and that USA development team. So
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you played in the U seventeen tofive Nations Tournament. How do you land
that spot? How did you sortof find your way to Team USA?
Yeah, first you had to goto Buffalo and then compete against all the
other sevens in the in the country, and then yeah, then they whittle
it down to about forty guys toplay in like a so called All Star
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game. And then from the AllStar Game, they bring you into a
room and then they just call yourname on and luckily I was able to
get my name called off and eighteen. That's fantastic. And you played a
lot of games, I mean,it's it's it's national competition. So what
was Was there anything different kind ofplaying against national teams versus just you know,
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playing here in the USHL Any stylesof play different or was it relatively
similar to what you'd see here y'all? I would say the biggest difference was
obviously younger guys, Like since it'sonly you seventeen. Obviously the guys aren't
as developed, not as big andstrong as what everyone is in the USHL.
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So sure making it from like theFive Nations to the USHL was a
big step, right, So you'dsay that the USHL certainly a step up
from those national teams. You keepsaying, like bigger and stronger, just
so I get a size reference here, how like what would you like,
what are you weighing in at?Like how tall? Size? Wait?
Like, are you do? Youfind yourself on the larger end smaller end?
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Probably in the middle because my heightObviously, I'm like, I'm six
five sixty six and then I'm like, I'm trying to get that up.
Well, let me tell you.I'm the camp I'm moving cam guy for
the Lincoln Stars. But I liketo say I'm a I'm an independent videographer
because he sounds better. But I'mmoving camera guy. And when I stand
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at the end of the tunnel catchingthe shot of them walking back, you
know they're they're all bigger guys,and they're on skates, so they're all
like kind of tall. But aRombach he looks like a force. And
that's kind of just how those defencemencome built. Typically they're a little bigger
from what I've seen. Does thename Derek Bouguard ring a bell, No,
it does not. That was theMinnesota He played for the Minnesota Wild,
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and like when I was a prettylittle kid and he was a big
six seven. He was a bruiserdefenseman. He constantly got into fights.
He would brawl with people, likepretty much every game he was throwing hands.
And sometimes those defensemen they kind ofneed to. They gotta set the
tone. You know, if ifguys want to get chippy, which a
lot of those get that. I'vewatched a lot of them get chippy,
you got to set the tone andlet the let the other team know,
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hey, we're not gonna let thatslide. Personally, aside from the games
and the style of play, Imean, being in the USHL, it's
a pretty big adjustment. I Mean, you go from living Minnesota to living
in Lincoln with a billet family.So how does the process of finding a
billet family work and how much timedo you spend at that home during the
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season. So during main camp lastyear, they told me I was going
to be living with Patty and JoeJohnson, So I knew who I was
most likely going to be living with, but they just into a house basically,
and then if things don't end upworking out, you can communicate with
the coaches and the staff to getto get things switched out. But yeah,
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my living situation was great. That'sawesome, man. So if you
know, if something's not working out, they have like other homes or families
kind of ready to take players in. Yes, okay, yeah that works
out well for So for you,well, let's say you know you're in
season, obviously a very busy time, Like what's your like average pretty much
like day to day routine looking like, cause I know you guys are pretty
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pretty intense with practice obviously traveling too. But on top of that, like
at some level, you're still ahigh school student. You know, you
just said you're seventeen. You know, maybe talk us through that, you
know how you're kind of handling bothsides of that for us. So on
a regular day during the week,we get to the rink around nine o'clock,
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get a quick dino taper sticks,then we do watch a little bit
of video before we hop on theice and then run the house ice probably
an hour maybe to an hour anda half. But since we own our
rink, we don't have to sharewith anyone else. We get we get
free ice after to stay on andwork on what we need to work on.
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And then when you've got that freeice time, are you you know,
let's say, do you end updoing a lot of things like coach
suggested things or is it more likefree time? Kind of like a mix
of both, because I know forour players, uh, I'm the president
of lacrosse club here, and sowhen we get that free field time,
most of our players just kind ofwant to mess around. But then there's
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a handful of them that are takingit serious, you know, footwork,
drill, shooting on the run,kind of things like that. So is
it kind of a mix of bothfor you guys? Yeah, mix of
both. Obviously you want to workon like bigot like your weaknesses and your
strengths. So then obviously you gotto have a little bit of fun out
there some things too, maybe dosome shootouts after But for me it was
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like walking the blue line after practiceworking on my put control. So yeah,
a little bit of both. Whatwould you say is the biggest part
of your what's the strongest part ofyour game and what's like the weakest part
of your game that you've kind ofbeen looking to improve Because I'm I I
didn't know a lot about hockey.I got nothing going on besides the enforcing
side of stuff. And there's there'sstill not a like, there's still a
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lot plenty. I don't know abouthockey. I mean, if you asked
me before I started working with theStar, I would have told you that,
you know, icing, that's whatyou put on a cake. I
didn't even know. I didn't evenknow what that kind of stuff was.
So I'm still learning, but I'msure there's a lot that goes into the
game. So what's something that youdo very well and what's something that you
don't do as well that you've kindof worked to improve. I would say
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my vision is one of my biggeststrengths, so like on regroups, trying
to find find the forward, stretchingthe zone, and then one of my
weaknesses, it's probably like my strengthto get my strength, get a little
bit stronger and not guys off thefuck a little bit easier, and then
my shot too. You know,vision definitely makes sense. Being six or
five, I'm sure you're seeing overeverybody out there. Really hard to not
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be able to see when you're standingover the crowd. Yeah, and hockey
moves so fast, it's like likeplays can develop just just like that.
I've there. There was one gamethat I was working at where there was
I think there were literally two secondson the clock and I was like waiting
at the end of the tunnel toget the shot of the guys coming back,
and you know, at end ofthe period, and before that two
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seconds was up, a goal wasscored. I wish I could remember what
game it was, but it wasit's it's quick, It's a quick sport.
Which game remember that? Which gameWasn't Sue City one of those games
Kai Jiangria scored with like two secondsleft? Yeah, Yeah, it was
one of those Sue City games.Sue City was a very common foe,
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at least at games that I wasworking at. We there were three regular
season games that I worked when youwere playing Sue City at the Icebox and
the two no, just just thosethree games against Sue City and that was
who after you guys knocked off Waterlooand the best out of three you were
knocked off by Sue City in thepostseason kind of tell me what the kind
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of the postseason feel was, like, I mean, I the arenas are
a little bit emptier than Honestly,the ice box was a little emptier in
postseason than it was in the regularseason. I don't why. I mean,
I'm sure a lot of people justdidn't even realize the game is happening.
Like sometimes it's tough to get theword out, but kind of,
I mean, what what does coachtell you guys when you know, oh,
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it's the end of the season.You know, you guys have been
away from home a long time,sixty two games. How does coach kind
of coach Rocky make sure that youguys are like laser focused and you know,
make sure that you guys don't getburned out or fatigued mostly state mentally
focused and driven. That's guys.You can't be thinking about going home.
It's always in the back of yourhead, but you can't be thinking about
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that because then it's gonna start takingit over and then I think it's as
a team, is still that collectivefocus. I mean, you guys are
going it's the Clark Cup, Isthat correct? That's what you guys compete
for. Yeah, it's that Clarkcut. I mean, just for anybody.
I mean, you want to wingames. That's why you're playing the
sport, not only because you loveit, but because the I mean it
feels great when you win. Buton top of that, I mean,
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if you could win it all andyou take home the trophy, I mean,
what's more than the that Like,that's what you're competing for. Now.
Look, obviously you're a Lincoln Starand we love you that way.
That's how we want we do.That's how we want you to be for
the time. But you know youcan't help, but you know, kind
of think about the future of yourcareer because you will be going to the
University of Minnesota. Big Minnesota guyright there, What is a how did
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that process kind of come through?Because obviously, you know, sixteen seventeen
years old, you're kind of doingthat whole deal. You finally hit that
point because same rules apply. Can'ttalk, can't be talked to bike like
coaches and things like that, right, just like for football and everything else.
Ye, like a certain timeframe,So what's that process look like for
you? Did you kind of likethe goal in mind? Obviously Home State
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probably pretty close to mom and dadback home. Family obviously makes a big
impact for you. What was thatkind of process like when when looking at
colleges and things like that. Forme, I was open to going anywhere,
just the best school that fit mepersonally. But during the decision,
I decided to take my time andvisit schools. From Quinnipiac, I went
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there for a visit, but Ialso took some visits closer to home,
and obviously Minnesota felt right, sodecided to commit Up in the Northeast,
Man, they take hockey. Hockeyis pretty serious up there. I mean,
Minnesota is a state of hockey andit'll stay that way. But man,
it's it's nasty up in the Northeastfor you. Obviously. I know
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a lot of coaches in high schooltalk about being a dual sport athlete but
still having like a primary focus.Did you play any other sports that you
feel like really helped prepare you forhockey or maybe some different situations kind of
things like that. Yeah, Igrew up playing baseball until ninth grade,
and then once I hit ninth grade, I was like, I need to
start focusing more on hockey weight training, So at that point I was,
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yeah, I switched to hockey onlyto start getting stronger, because in the
spring you would be playing another sportand you wouldn't really be focusing on hockey
that much. So like, it'sgood to play two sports growing up.
But then I feel like it's bestfor you once you hit like high school
or that rain stuff, narrow downto like one sport that you're really passionate
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about, and then put everything intothat. Gotcha, be honest with me,
Be honest with me. Were youhitting nukes? You know? Middle
school? Up until ninth grade,I was more of a doubles guy.
Oh, I was really home runs. I was mostly hitting the doubles.
Did you have an egregious double Selly, No, not really. Maybe maybe
once in a while while gotcha,Hey, he's a respectful gentleman out on
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that baseball diamond, you know.Not. Sometimes it's just about getting on
base. Look, I play alittle intramural softball, and look my my
batting average. I think I've onlyplayed like two games. I'm one for
four. I'm not gonna I'm notgreat on the on home play, but
hey, anything on base, LikeI got teammates who are just single merchants
all though, do is just kindof PLoP one out to like barely in
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the outfield. But hey, backsidesingles, Yeah, a singles, a
single getting on base, that's somethingthis guy gets it. Chicks dig obb
indeed they do. Now. Imean, you're still seventeen years old,
like we've mentioned a couple of timesnow, living with the Billet family out
of state. What does your highschool education look like? That's just that
That's one of the biggest questions Ihave. I was wondering what you guys
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kind of do for school. I'mstill through my Springlake Park High School,
so I was I was lucky theylet me do online since my address is
still in spring Blame, Minnesota,but go to spring Lake Park, so
they let me stay online as longas my parents still lived at the house
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that is. So that's sweet lucky. I feel like some not every player
gets that arrangement. I'm sure,are any guys like home school or do
they do like with the Billet families, or do they kind of to get
some other online alternate program. Ithink it's the Nebraska Online Schooling That's what
most of the other guys do.But I decided to it was spring Like
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Park to be able to graduate withmy friends, right. No, that's
that's the way to go. Imean, it's you want to be able
to kind of be around just yourhometown. I mean, you're you're a
hockey player, and you're certainly tryingto make it far, but you still
got to be just a teenager andhopefully will you get like a graduation ceremony
like when you know when okay,okay, that's good, but he's still
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walking the stage because of diploma,because slipping the ballot or whatever it's called.
Because our class is twenty twenty one, we got a graduation, but
it wasn't anything. No, itwas weird, like at least we got
something in the class of twenty twentyreally got screwed, but we we it
was. It was not great.So glad you still get the online school
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from home is a sweet sweet yeah. But kind of going back on the
track of just playing hockey, whatwould you say, who's the who's the
biggest coaching impact you've had so far? I know, obviously, I'm sure
coach Rocky is very knowledgeable, butwere there any coaches in your you know,
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earlier childhood that really inspired you tokeep pursuing sports? Seriously, maybe
not even hockey. Maybe a baseballcoach. Were there anyone's besides besides Rocky?
Or maybe maybe Rocky is by fartop dog? Yeah, obviously Rocky,
Yeah he's done. But another coachwas Tate Johnson? Was He was
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my triple A coach growing up andreally gave me the passion to keep going,
gave me opportunities that didn't really havebefore, and watched me developed through
the years. Was was your datahockey player? Is that kind of where
the foundation came from for you?No, I'm the first hockey player in
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my family. I just got causeI was gonna a good follow up question,
So are your brothers playing hockey?They follow in the footsteps at all.
My younger brother he's playing hockey andbaseball, following in my footsteps.
My older brother he didn't really playany sports. He was an Eagle scout
and at NYU. Right now,okay, well, it's a family of
high achievers, is kind of whatI'm here. That's what I'm hearing too,
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what I'm understanding. So real questionis should we be watching out for
your younger brother? Is that rombackfamily name gonna be a legacy going on?
Is he next up? Are youthe next Gretzky's hopefully? Hopefully?
Hey, only one way to getthere, Just keep putting that work in,
day in and day out. Thisseason has come to an end.
Regular season. You guys were inthe postseason. You pulled the upset on
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Waterloo, sweeping them in that bestout of three in Waterloo, Iowa.
And unfortunately the season came to anend in Sue City. So what's the
process of getting ready for next seasonlooked like? When you'll be back down
in Lincoln And when does practice resumeand does practice lead right into the regular
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season or is there kind of agap in between there to rest. So
first, I think at the endof June, we have like a main
camp, so that's where they startpicking the team for next year. They
a couple more extra guys to bringthe training camp in the fall at September,
So you go to main camp inJune, they picked the team,
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like, add a couple more guysto Phillip spots, and then you go
to training camp in September. Sure, and then for one month in September,
it's just like two practices a dayon the ice and then getting ready
to show them what you can doand get a final spot going into the
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Into Pits into Pittsburgh Showcase. SoJune is like the kind of the initial
camp and then you come back laterin September where you show him everything you
got. It's all hands on deckuntil the Pittsburgh Showcase. So I mean,
thank June. It's a it's aquick I mean it's already it's male,
is it like right at the beginningof June you kind of come back
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and swinging to it. End ofJune, so you get a nice little
breather back home, hang out withthe family. I'm sure all the friends
are good to glad that you're back. Yep. But before you know it,
it's gonna be twenty twenty four totwenty twenty five. I'm I'm already
pumped for next season. I thinkthat are you going back? Oh yeah,
I'll I might be on the movingcam, but I also might do
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a little of the other production,you know, working the big jumbo tron
up there that they got, orwork in the They do some replay cameras
because you know, if there's likea goal or a big hit or a
big brawl, which is always funto watch. They'll they'll throw those up
on the on the board. Butyou are you finding yourself in any fights,
any scraps. Not this year,but I'll have to get a couple
(39:58):
next year. Hey, he's keepinghis hands clean, so he's welcome back.
But next year it's full force.I mean, look the the strength
training. You know, you sayyou want to you want to not guys
around the ice and be able tokind of leverage your way to the puck
when it gets jammed up in thecorner. But I think part of it
is if someone gives you the business, I mean, you got to let
him know. I think what onequestion I think? I mean, I
(40:22):
think this could be our kind offinal question if I really just got one
more. I just want to know. So far, this could be from
when you're seven or eight years oldor currently with the Lincoln Stars. What's
been your favorite moment on the iceand why? Wow, it's a nice
that's a tough question. One ofthem was probably when I was younger,
(40:45):
when in a Triple Crown tournament,just going up against some top competition,
obviously coming out of the top rightman, another hockey moment, get my
first us HL goal. I waswhat when when did that come from?
What? Or like what? What? Give us the replay on that?
(41:05):
How did you end up that?Walk us through? It was against Fargo,
I think it was. It wasin a third period, ended up
being the game winning goal because theyended up scoring after that, so so
I think it was Keyts. Hecame around the back of the net,
he went low to hide in meand then there's like there's like eight eight
guys in front of the net.I just shot. It ended up going
(41:30):
screening the goalie. I think goalieis a tough, tough position. I
mean that puck is so small andwhen guys start screening in front of the
net like that, it's rough.Luckily, Man show Stack, our goalie
was huge in the postseason to getus past Waterloo. That's I think that's
all. That's all I mean,not necessarily that you have to do.
(41:52):
You have anything else that you wantto talk about specifically or anything like any
last showcases. Now, just gettingready for next year. Hopefully we can
end up winning a clerk Cup nextyear. Hey he's he, Hey,
this guy's right. We're onto it. We're onto something special. The Clerk
Cup is what it's all about,you know. Jacob, thank you very
much for taking the time to sitdown with us. It's it's it's good
(42:15):
to just talk hockey because with theStars season being over, I miss it
and a lot of a lot ofthe fan base being from Minnesota. I
mean, they've got their background inthere as well. I'm sure a couple
of the listeners might be hometown friends, heroes, something like that. To
you. We do appreciate you comingcoming on here and giving us an opportunity
for inviting me out. Absolutely.Course we'd love to have other players on
(42:37):
sometime next season. So hey,all, I'll be in touch if that's
all right with you, and we'llwe'll sort some Hey maybe, hey,
maybe after the Clark Cup next season, we can get you back on here.
Maybe we can get you in thestudio. Have it a little more
formal this way, Yeah, alittle little victory lab victory tour if you
will. But Jacob, thank youvery much for taking the time. You
have yourself a good night and enjoybeing home until June. Thank you.
(43:00):
Yeah. And that was Jacob Rombach. Jacob Ronbach, what a kid.
Honestly, First off, the factthat he was seventeen was I was looking
at that oh, seven birthday,and I didn't think anything of it until
he goes, oh, yeah,I'm sixteen. Well actually i'm seventeen.
Yeah, And I was like,holy smoke, it's crazy. And let
me tell you, these they're bigdudes, like a seven. Well,
(43:22):
it's crazy. My sister is seventeen, yeah, and this kid six'
five. My sister's like five tofive. Yeah. Right, And you
know it's a guy and a girl. It's different, but still different,
but still the whole foot is insaneand there's a lot of a lot of
talent in the ushl. Let metell you it's it's a real good,
really good league for you know,up and comers. I believe. I
(43:45):
don't know what the exact number was, but it was like an absurdly high
percentage of players have Division one commitments. A few of them will end up
going pro. Around the ice box, there's posters of oh god, yeah,
players who have you know, hoistedthe stand, a couple have who
have hoped on you, who've beenformer stars, and the atmosphere of the
(44:05):
games is so much fun. It'sa joy to work and it's kind of
I want I want to do more. Around the whole sports media field and
just kind of dive deeper in thereand kind of just just see what the
field has to offer. Of course, of course, but that's all for
today, mister Sash, Thank youguys so much for joining us. We
really appreciate you guys taking the timeto listen. I know it was a
(44:28):
little a little longer wait than we'resorry. We're sorry. We're trying to
get better at it. We're gonnaget better at it. I remember when
I started, I sat up.We were going to do this every week.
Oh it was every week, andthen it was, hey, we
get busy. We're students first,and then we got a little too student
focused. We were I think wegot to be we gotta be podcaster students
instead of student podcasters. Student athletepodcaster. That's what I am. That's
(44:51):
what I am. There you go, Thank you guys for joining us.
This has been Studio three one three. Have a lovely evening, and up
ain't no vamily long and up ain'tno whining that hedn't be forgetting to you
made to the mother day I setyou free. I told you you can
(45:16):
always count on me. Doming fromthat day, I think
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