1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,360 Speaker 1: It is not on a big old jen air liner, 2 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:05,200 Speaker 1: but rather right here at home. In other words, the 3 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:07,320 Speaker 1: Fever aren't taking a plane to their next game. They 4 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:09,399 Speaker 1: are at home tonight taking on the Seattle Storm seven 5 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: o'clock tip. You can hear it right here on this 6 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: radio station. And for those of you who are inevitably 7 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: clamoring for more Eddie Garrison on your radio airwaves, no 8 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 1: worries six forty five pregame. Eddie will have that duty 9 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 1: before the game tonight. Joining us now on the program 10 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:26,760 Speaker 1: is the head coach of the Indiana Fever, Stephanie White, 11 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 1: who requested Steve Miller last week when we talked to her, 12 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:32,240 Speaker 1: I guess I'll begin with this. When you were in 13 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 1: high school, true or false, Indiana miss Basketball Stephanie White, 14 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 1: while driving to school would be listening to Steve Miller 15 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 1: and thought for certain that he was actually saying, big 16 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:44,000 Speaker 1: old jet, got a light on? Yes or no? 17 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 2: No? 18 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 3: What who said? 19 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 2: Who said get a light on? 20 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:50,839 Speaker 1: You've never heard, as people always say, one of the 21 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 1: most common So let me ask you this, give me 22 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 1: a song that you were singing along to the radio 23 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 1: your entire life and then once like the advent of 24 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 1: the Apple iPhone lists the lyrics you were like, oh 25 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 1: my gosh, that's what the lyrics are. I've been doing 26 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:08,840 Speaker 1: it wrong all this time. 27 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 3: There has to be one to remember, like back in 28 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:15,199 Speaker 3: those days, like the internet dial up didn't even come into. 29 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 2: Place while I was in college. So by the time 30 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 2: we got to the. 31 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 3: Apple iPhone, the words coming lyrics coming across the Apple iPhone. 32 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 3: I mean that was just recently for me, right, Like 33 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:26,680 Speaker 3: I'm so old school. 34 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 1: Oh it's mind blowing, I know, but there. 35 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 2: I'm trying to think. 36 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 3: There have been a number you know, probably tell me 37 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 3: what you want in spice girls, right. 38 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:41,039 Speaker 2: Like that, okay week exactly all of them. 39 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 3: That go really fast and they kind of run together. 40 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:46,319 Speaker 3: But jet Airliner no, because I don't know if you 41 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 3: remember this, but I majored in aviation in college. Oh 42 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 3: I was always like flying was always my thing. So 43 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 3: the jet air liner was definitely not one of those. 44 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: No way, okay, because those of us that don't have 45 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 1: the intellect of major and aviation always thought that it 46 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 1: was not always not a lot. But there are people 47 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 1: that joke that they that they sing along to it 48 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 1: saying big old jet got a light on, because that's 49 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 1: what it sounds like you're saying. Now, I'm curious when 50 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: you were when you flew planes, because obviously for that 51 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 1: program coach at Purdue, you had to do like solo flights. Correct, Okay, 52 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: more turbulence your first solo flight or the injury report 53 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:28,360 Speaker 1: for the fever of the last six weeks. 54 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 3: The injury report for the fever over the last six weeks. 55 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 2: No doubt. 56 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:35,920 Speaker 1: When you are flying a plane in there's turbulence, everybody 57 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 1: says to me that that's a pilot. They're like, look turbulence, Jake. Like, 58 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 1: as a passenger, I know it's unnerving, but like it's 59 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 1: not as smaller planes. I realize it's a little bit, 60 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 1: you know, trickier. But but when you are coaching, and 61 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:51,640 Speaker 1: I know we talked about this last week, you know 62 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 1: you have to do this navigation of treading through and 63 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: what really has been almost unprecedented within this franchise of 64 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 1: the number of players that you've lost, but it's all 65 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:03,960 Speaker 1: been kind of in the same area in your back court. 66 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: So let's begin with this, Caitlin Clark, I know now 67 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 1: is starting to kind of work out again. If you 68 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:12,640 Speaker 1: had to target or benchmark where you are hoping to 69 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:14,800 Speaker 1: be the area where she could return to gameplay. 70 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 3: It would be when I mean we still haven't had 71 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 3: a full practice with her on the floor, and ideally 72 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 3: we'd like to get about five of those practices in 73 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 3: just to make sure endurance level, movement patterns, physicality, all 74 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 3: of those things are there for her, you know. So 75 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 3: that's got to happen. And so this week on the road, 76 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 3: when we're out west and being able to get some 77 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 3: of those practices in is going to be is going 78 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 3: to be critical. 79 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: And I realize that, you know, when it comes to injuries, 80 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 1: you're not the team trainer. I understand that Stepanee. I 81 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 1: can't remember if we talked about this last week, but 82 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 1: when you are looking at the overall movement and just 83 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark reacclimating physically back into the game, originally it 84 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 1: was a groin injury, then we now know that there 85 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 1: was a bone bruise. I think in the ANC, is 86 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 1: it one area versus the other that you guys are 87 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 1: targeting in terms of looking at in terms of her 88 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 1: comfort level. 89 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 3: I mean I think that for her right now, it's 90 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 3: I'm mostly focused on as a as a coach in 91 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 3: endurance because being able to get up and down the 92 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:19,480 Speaker 3: floor and run not just in straight lines, but run 93 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,599 Speaker 3: in in movement patterns that she's going to have to 94 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:26,920 Speaker 3: withstand ninety four feet pressure, handling the ball. 95 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 2: Being able to move on the defensive end of the floor. 96 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 3: But what I don't want as a coach is if 97 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 3: she's not ready from an endurance standpoint, there that they're 98 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 3: setting her up for more injury. I mean, she hasn't 99 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 3: played ball in two months, and so while the the 100 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 3: athletic training staff might be looking at how quickly she's 101 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:46,919 Speaker 3: firing from a muscle standpoint, or how sharp her movements 102 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,840 Speaker 3: are from the bone bruise standpoint, I want to make 103 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:52,360 Speaker 3: sure that she's physically fit enough to withhandle the pressure 104 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 3: that she's going to have throughout the course of however 105 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:56,720 Speaker 3: many minutes she's able to play in a ball game 106 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:00,159 Speaker 3: without setting her back, because again, you know, I think 107 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 3: from that perspective, it's the long term health and wellness 108 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 3: is the most important thing in making sure that we're 109 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 3: not going to put her in a position that she's 110 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 3: not ready to succeed in. 111 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 1: When you look at the players that you have been 112 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:19,280 Speaker 1: able to acquire and plug in as you have lost players, 113 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: and again primarily in your backcourt. Right when you look 114 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 1: at what Odyssey Sim's shape, Petty aerial powers have been 115 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:28,159 Speaker 1: able to do for you. Do you have to alter 116 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: at all the style of play that you're hoping or 117 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:33,159 Speaker 1: that you have become a custom as a franchise to 118 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:36,040 Speaker 1: play because of the new faces or is it, hey, 119 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 1: this is how we play, and this is how we 120 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:42,280 Speaker 1: want you guys to be able to continue playing as 121 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 1: you yourselves gel with this new team. 122 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:46,359 Speaker 2: It's a little bit of both. 123 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:49,039 Speaker 3: I mean, certainly we have to scale back, you know, 124 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:50,600 Speaker 3: we've got to We've got to simplify. 125 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:51,919 Speaker 2: You know, at this time of the. 126 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 3: Year, you'd typically be tweaking, adjusting, changing, changing the framework 127 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 3: of what you do in terms of the way that 128 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 3: it presents in alignments and things like that. And we're 129 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:08,599 Speaker 3: teaching we're teaching, you know, two or three secondary actions 130 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 3: that we can run, two or three things that we 131 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 3: can get any offense because we're talking about primary ball 132 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:16,240 Speaker 3: handler specific to shape Petty and Odyssey Sims who have 133 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:18,279 Speaker 3: not been in training camp since April, who were just 134 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:21,119 Speaker 3: throwing into the fire right now. So instead of instead 135 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:25,599 Speaker 3: of tweaking and and and adjusting and adding, we're simplifying 136 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 3: and we're going back to basics, and so we do 137 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:28,040 Speaker 3: it from that. 138 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 2: Standpoint, you know, But also we have to find. 139 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 3: A way as as coaches to put those guys. 140 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 2: In positions to be successful because they're. 141 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 3: Different than than CC and Airy and Sid and so. 142 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 2: Being able to do a little bit of both. 143 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 3: Allowing them to do what they do instinctually and naturally, 144 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:47,919 Speaker 3: because that's how we're going to find success at this 145 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 3: point for them, as well as integrating them into what 146 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 3: we have found success with as a team, and so 147 00:06:55,160 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 3: trying to find those things and then building the chemistry 148 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 3: continuity in those actions. 149 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 2: You know. 150 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 3: I think Odyssey has had three practices and Shay's had 151 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 3: two practices, and Ariel got her first one yesterday. So 152 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 3: that's that's kind of the situation that we're in right now. 153 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 3: And you know, thankfully those three have had experience in 154 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 3: our league and have been able to come in and 155 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 3: be impactful, and now it's just how quickly can we 156 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 3: can we get it jailed and get it moving. 157 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 1: Do you believe in momentum? I do, as do I 158 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 1: I know some people do not, especially in the course 159 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: of a game. You know, there's there's two kinds of 160 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 1: momentum coach. There's there's game momentum where you can just 161 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:36,240 Speaker 1: kind of feel things for one side or the other, 162 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 1: and then there's in season momentum when you look at 163 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 1: and I realize that injuries have been a major part 164 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 1: of this, Yeah, but when you look at the way 165 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 1: that your team is playing or right now having the 166 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 1: playoffs kind of hanging in that balance, you're a game 167 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 1: over five hundred, you've got seven tough ones left. How 168 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 1: do you manage or manipulate the momentum? 169 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if you can manipulate it at all. 170 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 3: But you know, I even think back to these last 171 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:07,880 Speaker 3: two games against Minnesota and and for the most part 172 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 3: in the game, we we had some momentum. It's when 173 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 3: you give it away to really good teams for for 174 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 3: those four to five minute segments, they make you pay. 175 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 3: And and Minnesota did that to us. Obviously they're the 176 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 3: best team in the league for a reason. 177 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 2: But but I was. 178 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 3: Pleased really with how we played on the offensive end 179 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 3: of the floor. I mean, I thought we were efficient, 180 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 3: I thought we were affected. 181 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 2: We got good shots. 182 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 3: Sometimes they went in, sometimes they didn't. You know, it's 183 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 3: it then becomes the defensive end of the floor in 184 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:37,560 Speaker 3: the consistency with that. So I do feel like this 185 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 3: next week is is a is a really great opportunity 186 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 3: for us to gain some some of that momentum, you know, 187 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:46,079 Speaker 3: certainly starting with with tonight against Seattle and then we 188 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:47,920 Speaker 3: go out on the road and have it a couple 189 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 3: of days with with this group to be able to 190 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 3: have a couple of games and I practice day to 191 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 3: be able to to build some of that. It's a 192 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 3: It's a critical time for us, There's no doubt about it. 193 00:08:57,080 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 3: You know, this team has been able to show that 194 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 3: they can put us into positions to win, and now 195 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:05,080 Speaker 3: we've got to be able to get connected to gain 196 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:08,080 Speaker 3: that momentum and be consistent on both ends of the floor. 197 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 1: By the way, your degree from Purdue is in communications. 198 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 1: Is that correct? 199 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 2: It is? 200 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:15,199 Speaker 3: Yes, two years in aviation and then two years in communication. 201 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 1: Okay, So how about that? Okay? 202 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 2: And so graduation sr. 203 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:21,559 Speaker 1: Does that mean? And I'm just curious, does that mean 204 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 1: essentially that that you looked at it And I'm not 205 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 1: I'm not taking anything away from your efforts, but the 206 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 1: aviation did you get two years into that and then 207 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:30,840 Speaker 1: say this is really time consuming. I want to do 208 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:33,840 Speaker 1: something that like a monkey could do, and talking radio? 209 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 1: Is that? What that's? Is that what this means? 210 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:36,880 Speaker 2: It's not? That is not. 211 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 3: I actually got two years into it and realized it 212 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:41,559 Speaker 3: was much more of a hobby than a career opportunity. 213 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 3: And then change to communications, having no idea what I 214 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 3: wanted to do, certainly, but but yes, that was it 215 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:51,640 Speaker 3: was not physical education, but it was communications. 216 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:57,080 Speaker 1: Right, what's the and pardon my my naivete on this right? 217 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 1: With flight aviation? How far I assume that's a four 218 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:05,320 Speaker 1: year program? Correct, obviously, So if you were two years 219 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:09,240 Speaker 1: into it, did you get into the actual substance of 220 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:11,240 Speaker 1: it or were you still doing mostly pre rights? In 221 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 1: other words, did you do much flying? 222 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 3: Of course we did flying on day one. I had 223 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 3: my license in first semester. 224 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:19,839 Speaker 1: Really, now, how long does that license hold up? Do 225 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 1: you still have it? 226 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:23,599 Speaker 3: I have a license, but I'm not current. You have 227 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:25,840 Speaker 3: to you have to go up every three months. Well 228 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 3: at that time it was every three months to stay current. 229 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 3: And after I graduated from college, I still went up 230 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:32,440 Speaker 3: while I was in college with my buddies from flight school, 231 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,160 Speaker 3: and not a little bit after college. But but after 232 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:38,199 Speaker 3: I got into into coaching and finished playing, I hadn't. 233 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:39,439 Speaker 2: I hadn't done that, But. 234 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 3: By the time I finished, I had not. You know, 235 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:44,839 Speaker 3: when you get into that, you know, year three, year four, 236 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 3: you're you're talking multi engine rating and then jet ratings, 237 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:49,719 Speaker 3: and then you're deciding whether you want to go get 238 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:52,079 Speaker 3: the commercial route or the private route. And I did 239 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:53,560 Speaker 3: not get into into any of that. 240 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 1: So what's the biggest plane that you flew? And if 241 00:10:56,920 --> 00:10:58,240 Speaker 1: you did solo that you did. 242 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:01,960 Speaker 3: Solo single engine like single ENGINESESTNUS pipers. 243 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:04,240 Speaker 1: So what's the furthest distance you flew? 244 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 3: When you do solo fights, they're pretty regional. So I 245 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 3: think the furthest one I did was from Purdue to Bloomington, Normal, Illinois, 246 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 3: up to Kalamazoo, Michigan, and then back to Purdue. 247 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 1: I mean, that's pretty impressive. Did you find And I 248 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: know that this sounds really dumb to ask, Okay, but 249 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:29,200 Speaker 1: in any way, shape or form, did being an athlete 250 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:32,080 Speaker 1: help you with that? Or vice versa? Because of the 251 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:34,360 Speaker 1: fact that, like if you're reading instruments and whatever else, 252 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:36,760 Speaker 1: you've got to make quick decisions. Your mind has to 253 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:40,320 Speaker 1: process things did in any way, shape or form one 254 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 1: parlay to the other it did. 255 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:44,800 Speaker 3: And doing things under pressure, like I remember there was one, 256 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:47,440 Speaker 3: you know they call them cross country flights. You're not 257 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 3: really going across the country. One flight that I had 258 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:53,080 Speaker 3: to Bloomington normal and back and my alternator went out. 259 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 3: And so being able to just stay under you know, 260 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:57,960 Speaker 3: stay call them under pressure, be able to go through 261 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:00,120 Speaker 3: the checklist of hey, let's try to get this back, 262 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 3: let's see what's happening here, to be able to communicate 263 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:05,199 Speaker 3: or not communicate with with with tower and go through 264 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:09,000 Speaker 3: the entire process. Being able to stay home under pressure, 265 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 3: and being an athlete and being in those situations certainly 266 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:12,240 Speaker 3: helped as well. 267 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 1: My alternator goes out. I go to AutoZone. Right, I'm 268 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 1: not radioing into people to find out how to fly 269 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:21,600 Speaker 1: a plant. I mean, that's that truly is remarkable though. 270 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 1: And then my last thing on this, and I promise 271 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 1: we'll get back to basketball before we wrap here. Did 272 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:29,560 Speaker 1: did you find that most of the classmates that you 273 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 1: had do most of them go? I think we think 274 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 1: to ourselves, like, oh, you go on from there and 275 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:36,920 Speaker 1: you either fly for like FedEx or American Airlines. But 276 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 1: you know, when you look at you know, simple stuff 277 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:43,760 Speaker 1: in terms of like agricultural aviation and things like that, 278 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:46,960 Speaker 1: is it all across the board in terms of those opportunities, It. 279 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:48,679 Speaker 3: Is all across the board. And now a majority of 280 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:53,080 Speaker 3: them do go commercial airline or private and charters. And 281 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:55,200 Speaker 3: in fact, sometimes there would be I would be flying 282 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 3: with with places that I was coaching, and some of 283 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:00,800 Speaker 3: our charter charter flight pilots be people that I went 284 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:03,839 Speaker 3: to flight school with. And so yeah, there's a lot 285 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:06,480 Speaker 3: of different areas that you can go into and different 286 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 3: directions that you can go. And you know, usually by 287 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:11,760 Speaker 3: by sophomore year you're making those decisions, and as you 288 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 3: go into junior year, you're making those decisions. 289 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 2: And where you want to go. Now that was back 290 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:15,400 Speaker 2: in the old days. 291 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 3: That might be accelerated now. 292 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 1: My sophomore year at college, I learned how to balance 293 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 1: my check book. My parents were so proud. Meanwhile, you're 294 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 1: you're radioing in alternator problems in Bloomington, normal and dealing 295 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 1: with it. Very impressive. All right, seven o'clock tonight it 296 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:35,480 Speaker 1: is Seattle and the Fever at the field House as Indiana. 297 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:38,839 Speaker 1: One more time coach. In terms of Caitlin Clark, I 298 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:41,960 Speaker 1: want to recap this. You'd like to see five practices 299 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 1: out of her and to see that endurance before you 300 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:47,200 Speaker 1: then try to put her back out on the floor 301 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 1: in a game situation. 302 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 3: Correct, Yeah, I mean, for me, the endurance piece. We 303 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:53,600 Speaker 3: want to get her into five practices before we put 304 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:54,800 Speaker 3: her out there in a game for sure, just to 305 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:57,719 Speaker 3: see where she is and handling the level of physicality 306 00:13:58,440 --> 00:13:59,600 Speaker 3: and making sure that making sure that. 307 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:01,560 Speaker 1: She's ready and she's had how many so far? 308 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:06,079 Speaker 2: M No live practices so far. 309 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:09,040 Speaker 3: Everything that we've done has been has been basically. 310 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: Like a shoot round walkthrough. Is that kind of thing? Okay, 311 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 1: all right, coach, best of luck. We appreciate the time 312 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:13,240 Speaker 1: as all. 313 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 3: Thanks you all right. 314 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 1: Stephanie White joining us on the program.