US Lacrosse is proud to welcome Fred Opie to our lineup with his weekly podcast. Opie is an author and former Syracuse University and US National Lacrosse team player growing integrity, effort, and care on and off the field.

On this week’s podcast: we ask the questions are you eating to win or winning to eat? When I started playing competitive sports I had horrible eating habits. That continued until I became a Division I athlete at Syracuse University. I was a physical education major and therefore exposed to the importance of food, nutrition, and athletic performance. I started making the necessary changes to get playing time. As my career continued after college so did improvement on my diet. How much better would I have been as a college player if I had eaten better and hydrated with water more often?

Today’s show takes a look at that question through the lens of players and coaches from the 1960s to the present: Bill Tierney, Jack Emmer, Mike Waldvogel, Kevin Buchanan, John Galloway, Peter Baum, Kevin Corrigan, Kristin Igoe, Janine Tucker, Scott Rogers and Kyle Harrison.