A Small Dallas Stars Fan Inspires in a Big Way
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Student of the Year is a Frisco fundraising competition between high schools. Wakeland High School student-athlete, Ryen Stover, competes in the competition and introduced us to Max Hinojosa, the person who inspires her team to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
Max was diagnosed with JMML (Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia) at one month old. We talk to Max and his dad, Cristian, about their story, and how groups like Ryen and her friends help fight for kids and families like theirs.
And, of course, we talk about sports! Max is a HUGE Dallas Stars and Dallas Mavericks fan. Listen and you’ll hear it in his amazing little voice!
Enjoy this episode and other episodes of Hustle and Pro in our archives.
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Show Notes
[01:12 ] Meet Max (Bio )
[04:56 ] The Hinojosas’ JMML story
[13:36 ] Max keeps track of Stanley Cups
[18:55 ] “Can we talk about the Mavericks?”
[21:48 ] The Big Climb
Resources within this episode:
- The Big Climb: May 15, 2021 Donate to the Dallas Fire Department team here
- Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Website | Instagram @llsusa | Facebook @LLSusa | Twitter @llsusa |
- Student of the Year & Ryen’s team, Enough is Enough
- Kelly Walker: Bio | Instagram @kelly_walkertexas | Twitter: @kelly_walker_TX
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Welcome to Hustle & Pro I’m your host Kelly Walker. We have some special guests in the studio today. We’ve got Max Hinojosa and Max’s dad, Cristian Hinojosa. Hi guys. Thanks for coming and talking to me. All right. So Max, we’re going to start off by learning a little bit about you and what you love about sports. So if I was to ask you your favorite athlete ever was who would it be?
Luka Doncic
Oh yeah. That’s a good one. Now what about your second favorite? Cause I know we’re going to, we’re going to talk about another sport here in a minute. So I’m curious who Jamie Benn, Oh, okay. See, I think we’re going to talk some star. So Jamie Benn. Yeah, he’s a good one too. You like some, some good Dallas athletes. So, um,
I think I know the whole roster . Of the stars. Yeah. Give it, give it to me. How many can you name Pitt Pavelski Benn Rangelove Klinenberg Robertson. Gloriana of Kivronta. Wow. And how is a fun one to say he got a hat trick in the playoffs last year in a game winning goal for Dallas and move on to the Western conference championships.
Well, yeah, you did. You said a lot of those names that are not easy to say Jamie Benn. Sure. He’s easy to say. Some of those are really tough. Yeah. Those are harder. And for everybody listening, what you probably don’t realize is how old Max is. He sounds, he knows this stuff about the stars, but Max, how old are you? Seven years old. Seven years old. Got a lot of stars. Knowledge in that seven year old brain of yours.
I even been to some games that I, I went to the opening season game this, this year for the stars and they crushed them seven to zero. Wow. Did you get to see all those goals? Yes. That’s fantastic. Did anybody get a hat trick in that game with all those goals? Oh, no. Different players. All seven different players. Wow. And they were on a, I think at the beginning of this season, was it right? That they were on a good winning streak? Yes. But then they dropped down. Yeah. They were up to fourth, but then they dropped down to last.
Well, you know, hockey’s got a long season, usually. I don’t know. In normal seasons, normal years. It’s really long season it’s I think, I think it’s one of the harder sports to play a full season in like get to the finals and the, get to the, you know, win championships hockey is just kind of brutal. Right. What do you think? I don’t think it’s brutal off. So you don’t think when those guys are like skate and full speed and they get checked up against the boards I’d say that was brutal. Yeah. That seems brutal. Right? I feel like when I say brutal, I mean like tough on your body, Like they trip and slash
Who do you think some of the tougher athletes are? Jamie? He fights a lot. He’s a fighter. I know Yan Mon, but he was going, he was at destroys, but then he moved to Chicago.
Okay. Okay. So I think hockey players are super tough. Like I said, I think it’s hard to get to the finals in that sport. Um, because it’s a long season and it’s just so hard on your body, but I think they’re like tough players out on the ice, but I think there’s some of the nicest guys. Have you ever gotten to meet any of them or hear any of them talk off ice? No. I’ve seen, I’ve seen them interview. Yeah. Yeah. I’ve seen some interviews, but I never got a met any I’m working on that. We got, we made, make a wish. They were trying to figure out if I can meet. Oh my goodness.
Okay. So let’s get into that a little bit. Cause you mentioned Make-A-Wish so I do want to talk a little, this is a sports related, but it’s you related, So I want to talk a little bit about your story. So how I found you, um, it’s interesting to me
Leukemia and lymphoma society. That’s right. I have leukemia. You have leukemia. Yeah. My friend, her name is Ryen Stover. She’s a high school student here in Frisco, her dad and, um, my husband played soccer together in college. So we’ve known them through sports forever and they’re a big sports family. And she, um, is part of a group called student of the year who it’s basically like a local fundraising competition for him. I know. Right. And so her group that she’s in is called her team that she’s on is called enough is enough. And she
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