{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Road to Your Name Podcast","title":"Road To Your Name - Season 8, Episode 6: A conversation with Warren Hill, lacrosse goaltender with the Halifax Thunderbirds","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2275,"description":"Yoha:te ne kahsen:na / The Road to Your Name\nSeason 8, Episode 6\nGuest: Warren Hill, Professional Lacrosse Goaltender and Education Mentor\nThis episode was recorded in November 2025\nEPISODE DESCRIPTION\nIn this episode of Yoha:te ne kahsen:na, The Road to Your Name, host Lisa VanEvery sits down with Warren Hill — professional lacrosse goaltender for the Halifax Thunderbirds and Student Mentor at the Ogwehoweh Skills & Trades Training Centre (OSTTC) in Six Nations — for a conversation about the game that shapes so much of life at Six Nations, and about the work he does helping students find their own path. Warren traces his lacrosse journey from picking up a stick \"as soon as he could walk\" through a lacrosse family, to playing at The Hill Academy, Onondaga Community College, and Syracuse University, to turning pro in 2016 and becoming one of the top goaltenders in the National Lacrosse League. He talks about what it takes to play the position, how the game has grown internationally, the deep cultural significance and craft of the traditional wooden lacrosse stick, and what it means to carry the responsibility of the Haudenosaunee origins of the game onto the world stage. The conversation then turns to Warren's \"nine-to-fiver\" as a student mentor, where he draws on his own difficult first experience with post-secondary education to help students at OSTTC — many balancing school with work, family, and other life circumstances — find support, community, and a path to their goals.\nWHAT WE TALK ABOUT\n- Growing up in a lacrosse family at Six Nations and picking up the game before he could walk\n- The path from The Hill Academy to Onondaga Community College to Syracuse University, and turning professional in 2016\n- Finding his way into goaltending as a kid, and what makes a great goaltender (\"80% mental, 20% physical\")\n- The maturity and life skills that professional lacrosse demands, on and off the floor\n- Playing for the Georgia Swarm, Rochester Knighthawks, and the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/EMAPSU_o9vetcBfJJ4OU41woZtyCGFgI7d9nIXpjEOY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iMGM3/MjAxOGE0Njg1ZWVj/MWUxZTFkMzllNmI3/ZWQzZi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}