Underwater Hockey at Roger Bacon High School with Rebecca Meiser – WFNY Podcast – 2013-08-15

Today I decided to talk to Rebecca Meiser who recently wrote a feature for SB Nation on Underwater Hockey.

Here’s Rebecca’s bio:

Rebecca Meiser is a freelance writer living in Cleveland. She’s won awards for sports writing, personality profiles, and investigative reporting. A graduate of Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, her long form stories have been featured in Cleveland Magazine, Tablet, Village Voice publications, and SB Nation. You can find her on twitter @rebeccameiser and on the web at rebeccameiser.com

Here’s a video of Roger Bacon playing underwater hockey in 2011.

• Underwater hockey with Roger Bacon
• Why hasn’t underwater hockey gone viral yet?
• A silent sport under the water
• Michigan State being a rivalry with Roger Bacon and the rivalry
• Underwater hockey as a recruiting tool for the high school
• The dynamics of a co-ed sport that limits verbal communication
• How did she come to write it for SB Nation?
• Long form pieces at SB Nation
• Paul Wittekund and his carrying on the tradition of underwater hockey
• What’s Becky’s relationship to sports, especially Cleveland sports
• Cleveland is starting an underwater hockey team
• Jewish athletes in sports

Check out this episode