Washington Huskies junior long snapper Cameron Warchuck shares his backstory and path to Colorado before transferring this spring.
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00:00Yeah, most definitely. So I started off a little bit different journey. I was originally
00:05a center and that's kind of what got me into long snapping. So I started playing football
00:10when I was seven years old. So when I was seven years old, I started playing football
00:14and I was, I was the center. I was always like one of the, the younger guys on the team,
00:20but I would always play up with the older division. So like I would be playing with
00:23if I was seven, I'd be playing with eight and nine year olds is I was always on like
00:27the, the top level team, if you want to say so. So it was one of those things that I always
00:33got to play up with bigger kids, different age groups and stuff like that. That was able
00:38to help me like level up my game and be able to compete since the moment I stepped into
00:43football. But over the years of being able to play football, I've, I was the center.
00:49So they were like, Hey, just throw the ball a little bit farther kind of thing. I was
00:52like, all right, sounds good. I can do that. So for punts, I just started throwing it back
00:56instead of five yards, it was eight, 10 yards or whatever to just kick the ball out of way
01:01with a, without having to change the offense or any of that. Then it got to high school
01:07around middle school, high school. It got a little bit more serious. It was like, Hey,
01:10you're pretty good at this. You can, you can kind of take this and run with it. And so
01:16from there I started going to camps and I taught myself how to longstaff actually off
01:20the F off of YouTube videos and doing different things like that. So, and then I ended up
01:26going in camps and being able to get here. So was there any camp in particular that stood
01:32out to you or one that maybe you picked up a couple of things with that really kind of
01:36just said, Oh, I can definitely do this. Whether, whether it's at this school or wherever.
01:40Yeah, most definitely. I went to his name's Rubio, Rubio longstaffing. So I went to a
01:46lot of his camps. So the big thing for specialists is to be able to get a ranking. Not necessarily
01:52just for where you are at the rankings, but to be able to get a rank and be able to be
01:58on that, that radar, to be able to be on this list as a specialist is huge and be able to,
02:04obviously you want to be at the top of the list. You want to be in that, that top 10.
02:08Like I was ranked at one point, I was, I believe that was like fifth in the country. And then
02:14going to different camps and stuff like that, you, you start competing and stuff. So I think
02:17I finished off my senior year at ranked at 12 in the nation. So obviously we want to
02:24be up on that top of the list to be able to get recruited to a D one university because
02:29not every year they need a long snapper. So there's select few schools. When that happened,
02:35my coach helped me get in contact with the coaches over at Colorado and then as well
02:40as a couple other schools. So, but Colorado was the best fit for me at the time. And yeah,
02:46and everything I've done over the past couple of seasons at Colorado has helped me get to
02:50this point to be at UW.