1 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:05,480 Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Tiffany Oshinsky, and this is Serving Pancakes with 2 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:08,720 Speaker 1: League one Volleyball. The inaugural Love season is just around 3 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:11,160 Speaker 1: the corner, so we're talking with some of the amazing 4 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 1: people in the league to introduce you to the players 5 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: on the court and coaches. 6 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:15,960 Speaker 2: And others involved off the court. 7 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:21,439 Speaker 1: Today's episode features Love Madison outside hitter Marina Hayden. Born 8 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 1: in Minnesota, Marina took her talents to the University of 9 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 1: Nevada Las Vegas, where she played an integral role in 10 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 1: leading the Rebels to two Mountain West Conference championships. 11 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:33,599 Speaker 2: She was also named the conference's. 12 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:38,919 Speaker 1: MVP, Best outside Hitter, best scorer, best server, and best spiker. 13 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 2: She can just do it all. 14 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 1: She's also played professionally in Greece and France and now 15 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 1: brings her talents back to the States to play in 16 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:48,519 Speaker 1: Wisconsin for League One. 17 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 2: Marina, Welcome to Serving Pancakes. Thank you so much for 18 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 2: being here, Thanks for having me. I'm so excited. 19 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 1: I gotta start with the current topic because the women's 20 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: NCAA Volleyball tournament is happening right now. 21 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 2: So have you been watching it at all? 22 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 3: Yes, last night I watched the you and I and 23 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 3: Louisville game, and that had my heart rates so high 24 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:09,399 Speaker 3: because I know, I mean, I know up two of 25 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 3: the girls that play at You and I because they're 26 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 3: from Minnesota, so it's kind of cool. But they gave 27 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:14,960 Speaker 3: the one seat a run for their money. But yeah, 28 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 3: I've definitely been tuned in, and I'm rooting for a 29 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 3: Zoo now because that's where my old head coach down 30 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,200 Speaker 3: solving coaches, and she brought them to the Sweet sixteen now, 31 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 3: so I'm rooted for her and hoping they end up 32 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:26,959 Speaker 3: making a fun little run. And yeah, definitely been tuned in. 33 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 2: I love it. 34 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: I was supposed to go to Penn State, so I'm 35 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 1: kind of cheering for Penn State, although I did a 36 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:35,320 Speaker 1: bracket and I have pit Penn State in my finals 37 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:38,479 Speaker 1: with pitt winning, even though I want Penn State to win. 38 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, did you do a bracket. 39 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:42,840 Speaker 3: I didn't do a bracket. I should have, but I did. 40 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 3: I have my own bracket in my head. Like each 41 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 3: game I watch, I'm like, Okay, I want these team 42 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 3: to win, and when they don't, I'm like, I like, 43 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 3: I liked upsets though, I like the little underdog stories. 44 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 3: So if it's an upset, not even like a six 45 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 3: and three Like those ones aren't. I mean, they're kind 46 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 3: of upset, so like the five and four, not really 47 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 3: that upset, but I like the one in eight if 48 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 3: they give him a run for their money, like you 49 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 3: and I did the Louisville But yeah, oh for sure. 50 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: I feel like, no matter what or no matter who 51 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:12,639 Speaker 1: I want to win, I always root for the underdog. 52 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:14,800 Speaker 1: So I'm like, I love upsets. It's so much fun 53 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:18,519 Speaker 1: and once yeah it is, all right, well let's talk 54 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: about love now. 55 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:22,080 Speaker 2: So how does it feel to be playing professionally in 56 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 2: the States. 57 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 3: It's so it feels so great and so surreal. I mean, 58 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:28,119 Speaker 3: I get to go home for Thanksgiving this past week, 59 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:31,240 Speaker 3: and I haven't been home for Thanksgiving and years, just 60 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 3: because in college we were always playing in the tournaments too, 61 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:36,360 Speaker 3: so I was never really home for Thanksgiving. So I 62 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 3: think the last time I was home for Thanksgiving was 63 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 3: like my senior year of high school, honestly, so it's 64 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:42,919 Speaker 3: been like a long time. I didn't get to come 65 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 3: home when I was in Greece because they don't celebrate 66 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 3: over there, so it's not really a holidayd like kids 67 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 3: go home for, so it's great to just get in 68 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 3: my car drift four hours and be at home and 69 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:54,640 Speaker 3: spend a couple of days as family, and it was 70 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 3: it was really nice because I hadn't been able to 71 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 3: do that for a long time. 72 00:02:57,520 --> 00:02:59,800 Speaker 1: So, yeah, did you get to have like a special 73 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,120 Speaker 1: from the family because it was your first Thanksgiving forever? 74 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:05,799 Speaker 3: No, my mom was just excited and had my bed 75 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 3: made up and my room in the house made up. 76 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 3: But my brother didn't even know it was coming home. 77 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:13,080 Speaker 3: One of my best friends from high school, she teaches 78 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 3: at elementary school in our hometown, and she went up 79 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 3: to my brothers She's like, Aeronie excited for Marina to 80 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 3: come home today. And she's like, wait, she's coming home today. 81 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:24,959 Speaker 3: And she's like, oh, no, did I ruin the surprise? 82 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:26,679 Speaker 3: Were you gonna surprise him? I'm like, nob was it 83 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:28,400 Speaker 3: gonna surprise him. I probably just told him a week 84 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 3: ago and he forgot. But he was thrown off and excited, 85 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 3: and I get a phone call and like, well, were 86 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 3: you coming home today? I'm like, yeah, oh nice. He's 87 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 3: all excited though. Yeah. 88 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 1: Now, going back to League one, there's a lot of 89 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 1: women in the league who played overseas professionally, what have 90 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: you found for you to be the difference between professionally 91 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: and now being here in the States, besides being able 92 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 1: to be home for Thanksgiving. 93 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 3: Right, I think the biggest differences probably like the balance 94 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 3: of life and volley well, you know, they're very big 95 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 3: one us to have, like a balance between volleyball and 96 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 3: our own life. Overseas, it was a lot of volleyball, 97 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 3: and here it's like we're in the gym from nine 98 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 3: to one and then we're done for the day, you know. 99 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 3: So they want us to make sure we fill our 100 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 3: lives with our happiness and what makes us happy, and 101 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:17,919 Speaker 3: then that will make us perform on the court. You know. 102 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 3: So as long as our mind is happy and we're 103 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 3: filling our cups to make us happy, we'll be able 104 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 3: to give that one hundred percent that we have on 105 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:27,960 Speaker 3: the court. So I really enjoy that part of being 106 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,720 Speaker 3: able to, you know, explore a little bit Madison and 107 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:33,320 Speaker 3: do some different things. And we like to go trivia 108 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 3: on Wednesdays. Some of us like to go play trivia 109 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:37,920 Speaker 3: at this little brewing thing, So we do that on 110 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:41,359 Speaker 3: Wednesday nights and love that. This is just fun to 111 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 3: do something other than buyball, you know, get to know 112 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 3: your teammates a little bit more. But I'd say that's 113 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:48,359 Speaker 3: probably one of the biggest differences, is the balance between 114 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 3: life and volleyball and not just volleyball bullyball. 115 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 2: Real quick, I got to ask what was your team name? 116 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 3: Amazonians? Because we kept walking into the brewing place and 117 00:04:57,480 --> 00:04:59,479 Speaker 3: the lady was like, jeszu, is there like a height 118 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 3: requirement to be on your guys' team? And we're like, 119 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 3: actually played volleyball here for Love on Madison. It's just 120 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:07,280 Speaker 3: if you see somebody walk in, they're over six feet, 121 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 3: they're probably on our team. 122 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:13,160 Speaker 1: So talking about, you know, getting to know your teammates 123 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:15,239 Speaker 1: a lot better, did you know any of them personally 124 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:16,839 Speaker 1: before you join Love Madison? 125 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 3: Not really, I didn't know any of them, like personally. 126 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 3: I obviously knew of a lot of them, but I 127 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:25,840 Speaker 3: hadn't played again start played with any of them. So 128 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:29,159 Speaker 3: it was kind of fun coming in and meeting people 129 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 3: and saying new faces. 130 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 1: Were there any players in particular that you were excited 131 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: to see that they were on your roster? 132 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:37,919 Speaker 3: Of course, Lauren and any truths. I mean, when I 133 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:40,279 Speaker 3: saw Lauren the first day, She's like, hey, Mom, Like 134 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:46,840 Speaker 3: hy Lauren he sees this, but no, it's just cool 135 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:49,839 Speaker 3: to you know those household names that now you're like 136 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 3: part of their team. It's kind of a surreal moment. 137 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 1: So can you talk about a typical day in your 138 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:59,600 Speaker 1: preseason world right now? Like, I know you said that 139 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:02,080 Speaker 1: you're not to one and then you get to enjoy 140 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: your life, But like, what do you do between the 141 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:04,840 Speaker 1: hours of nine and when? 142 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 2: What's a typical day at Love? 143 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 3: I'll start when I wake up. I wreck it up 144 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:11,040 Speaker 3: around seven twenty because I like to have my coffee 145 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 3: a little breakfast. As I've gotten older, I've learned that 146 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 3: I'm not the type that can just roll and go. 147 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:18,040 Speaker 3: I need to like wake up and let my body process. 148 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:20,920 Speaker 3: So I get around seven twenty, drink some coffee, eat 149 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 3: some breakfast, leave the house around eight fifteen ish, get 150 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 3: to the gym around eight thirty, get some treatment, talk 151 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 3: to the girls a little bit, and then at nine 152 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:34,039 Speaker 3: we have like optional passing, so the pastors will go 153 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:36,560 Speaker 3: and get some extra passing reps in and then nine 154 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 3: thirty is when our practices start. So then that's when 155 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 3: everybody's kind of in there and we're doing our thing 156 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 3: from like nine thirty to eleven, eleven thirty, and then 157 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:48,599 Speaker 3: every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday we have workouts after that. 158 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 3: But then on Tuesdays or Thursdays we'll have like film 159 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 3: or something, or we're just done for the day. Usually 160 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,040 Speaker 3: Thursdays is like a team meeting, like serve and pass 161 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:01,279 Speaker 3: type of day and recovery. So it's more like a 162 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 3: chill day to let our bodies kind of recover a 163 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:06,040 Speaker 3: little bit. Yeah, that's kind of what my normal day 164 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 3: looks like. 165 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:08,279 Speaker 2: That sounds so nice. 166 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: I mean, I would love to play volleyball and work 167 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:17,240 Speaker 1: out and make out my life well. Love Madison head 168 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:20,080 Speaker 1: coach Mat fear Bringer has been on the US men's 169 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 1: national team staff for both the Olympic bronze medals in 170 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen and twenty twenty four. 171 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 2: So how has he been like as a head coach. 172 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:30,119 Speaker 3: I've actually really enjoyed him a lot. He talks about 173 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 3: the his men's teams a lot, just like their their 174 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 3: systems they do and everything like that, and kind of 175 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 3: how we can incorporate it to us because we're running 176 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 3: some systems and different formats in practice that most of 177 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 3: us have never played volleyball like that before. But he's 178 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 3: really big on trusting your system and doing your system 179 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 3: really well, and if we do that, we'll be a 180 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 3: great team. So it's kind of nice learning something from 181 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 3: like a men's point of view. Or I mean, he's 182 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 3: so tall. I didn't realize how tall he was. And 183 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 3: he'll be like other than that, like tipping a ball, 184 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 3: but he'll just be like, I'm like throwing it. That's 185 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 3: like geez, that like jump a little bit. But no, 186 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 3: it's kind of cool just to see the different his 187 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 3: different philosophies on the men's game and the women's game 188 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 3: and how we can kind of tie those in together. 189 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:14,200 Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, the men's game is so 190 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 1: powerful and strong, and the women's game, I feel like 191 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 1: there's so much the neesse. I mean, the men's game 192 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:20,240 Speaker 1: has finesse too, but I feel like you see a 193 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 1: lot more longer rallies in the women's for like women's game. 194 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 1: What are the differences that he teaches, Like what does 195 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 1: he use from the men's side to bring to the 196 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 1: women's game. 197 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 3: More so, just like blocking schemes and defensive schemes, so 198 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:38,320 Speaker 3: like we're blocking, like committing to the outside, that would 199 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 3: determine like what defense we're in and like, if everything 200 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 3: is as it should be, we should get a digger. 201 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:45,600 Speaker 3: We should play defense around it because you know, like 202 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:47,080 Speaker 3: in the men's game, if you're not in the right 203 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:49,079 Speaker 3: place at the right time, it's over. You know, like 204 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 3: they're going to get a kill. So like translating that 205 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:53,440 Speaker 3: to women's like, if we're in the right place, because 206 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:55,240 Speaker 3: our game is more finesse and a little slower, like 207 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 3: we'll be able to make it move from that or 208 00:08:57,320 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 3: just end up being in the right place because their 209 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:01,200 Speaker 3: block is doing the right thing too, So I'll just 210 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 3: kind of float together cohesive. So it's starting to come 211 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 3: together piece by piece and practice and then like when 212 00:09:07,679 --> 00:09:09,560 Speaker 3: we scrimmage each other. So it's kind of cold, see, 213 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 3: but yeah, that's so cool. 214 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:14,839 Speaker 2: Now you're from Minnesota, You're used to the cold. 215 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 3: But how I'm not sure if I'm used to it. 216 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:19,439 Speaker 3: I just deal with. 217 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:21,679 Speaker 2: It, you know about it? 218 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, So, how has it been in Madison, Wisconsin? 219 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:29,200 Speaker 3: You know, it's like forty eight degrees outside today, so 220 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 3: it's actually really nice out This past week, it's been 221 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:35,280 Speaker 3: like twenties and like in the teens, which is cold 222 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 3: because I mean being in Vegas and overseas in Greece. 223 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:41,640 Speaker 3: Theren't really snow much, so I wasn't used to the snow, 224 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 3: I guess. But like coming back cam like I haven't 225 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:46,680 Speaker 3: been back for a winter in a long time. Like 226 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 3: what am I gonna do? But thank goodness, I have 227 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 3: an automatic starter in my car, so like ten minutes 228 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:54,080 Speaker 3: before I go to my car in the mornings, I 229 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:55,880 Speaker 3: started up and then when I get in there, it's 230 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 3: it's ready to go. So I'm like, I'm even though 231 00:09:58,000 --> 00:09:59,960 Speaker 3: we only live like five minutes away from our festill 232 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 3: and like I'm not sitting in that cold for five minutes. 233 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:20,319 Speaker 1: So well, So tell me about Minnesota. Tell me about 234 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:22,560 Speaker 1: what it was like growing up in bell Plaine and 235 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:25,080 Speaker 1: how you hung your love for volleyball, well ball playing. 236 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:27,440 Speaker 3: It's a small town. It's about an hour south of 237 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:31,080 Speaker 3: the Twin Cities. Like it was like six thousand people 238 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:34,160 Speaker 3: now it's about seven thousand, So it's a small small town. 239 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:35,839 Speaker 3: When I was growing up, I did a lot of 240 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:41,319 Speaker 3: sports like softball, basketball, volleyball, gymnastics. I tried. I became 241 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:43,760 Speaker 3: too long for the bars. My body would like touch 242 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:46,679 Speaker 3: the ground before it was supposed to, so I had 243 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:48,680 Speaker 3: to give that up. I did dance. I did everything 244 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 3: that involved like moving, just because I like to be involved, 245 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:53,680 Speaker 3: and volleyball just kind of stuck. I think it was 246 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 3: fifth grade is when I decided to try out for 247 00:10:56,960 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 3: like my town's JO. So it was like well playing 248 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 3: and I ended up playing with eighth graders when I 249 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:05,360 Speaker 3: was in fifth grade, and my first position, I was 250 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:07,680 Speaker 3: actually a setter. They needed a setter and I was 251 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 3: tall for my age and bigger, and I just needed 252 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:11,600 Speaker 3: to put the ball where I needed to go. So 253 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 3: that was my first ever volleyball position, was a setter. 254 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:16,400 Speaker 3: So that's just kind of how it blossomed from there. 255 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:18,440 Speaker 3: I just kind of played, and then when I was sixteen, 256 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:20,959 Speaker 3: I went to Northern Lights because my mom's like, you're 257 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 3: not going until you can drive. I'm like, fair enough, 258 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 3: I won't want to drive forty five minutes three times 259 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 3: a week either. But I played well playing joh and 260 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 3: then went to the Northern Lights when I was sixteen 261 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 3: and kind of took off from there. 262 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 2: That's pretty cool. How important was your mom in your 263 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 2: volleyball career? 264 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 3: She was pretty important. She pushed me a lot, and 265 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:42,360 Speaker 3: I think instilled that driveing into me. She just always 266 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 3: wanted me to dream big and not give up on 267 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:47,199 Speaker 3: my dreams, even being from a small town. And give 268 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:48,960 Speaker 3: a lot of credit to her when it comes to 269 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:52,000 Speaker 3: my hard work and my wanting to be great, because 270 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:53,440 Speaker 3: she helped me a lot with that. 271 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 2: And who did you look up to when you first 272 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:56,960 Speaker 2: started playing volleyball? 273 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 3: I really liked watching mike A. Hancock because I was 274 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:02,320 Speaker 3: like a Penn State fan when I was younger too, 275 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:05,680 Speaker 3: So like watching her play. And I got a picture 276 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 3: with her one time after one of their games at 277 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 3: the U. I they were like walking out to their 278 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:11,560 Speaker 3: bus after the game, and I asked her for a 279 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 3: picture and she took a picture with me. So I 280 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 3: really liked watching Micah mainly because we're served because she 281 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 3: did that like crazy top spin, So I liked watching 282 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 3: her do that. 283 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:22,319 Speaker 2: How does it feel to be playing against Micah? 284 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be like full circle moment, Like 285 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:28,400 Speaker 3: she probably doesn't even know who I am, but I 286 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:31,040 Speaker 3: will see her. I'll be like starstruck, you know, just 287 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:34,199 Speaker 3: because I've watched her since I was probably like twelve 288 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:36,200 Speaker 3: years old, you know. So it's just kind of cool 289 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:39,439 Speaker 3: to have that full circle moment and just see her 290 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 3: play in like real time. 291 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 2: You can be like I met you way back when and. 292 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 3: Need to think she wouldn't remember. But I met you 293 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 3: when you play Minnesota and here's us in a photo. 294 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:53,600 Speaker 2: You should recreate it so that would. 295 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:56,200 Speaker 3: Be cute bus years later or whatever it was. 296 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 2: There you go. Now. 297 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:01,319 Speaker 1: I was reading about your a high school career a 298 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:05,680 Speaker 1: bit and I saw that in the state championship you 299 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 1: tore your acel but stayed in the game. 300 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:13,079 Speaker 3: Yeah that is true. Yeah that did happen. I think 301 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 3: I might have tweaked at me and the other girl. 302 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 3: It was the game point and I went up to 303 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:19,840 Speaker 3: hit and she went up to block, and we like 304 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 3: hit knees and I like went down and I stood 305 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 3: back up, and I think my adrenaline was just pumping 306 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 3: and I was feeling my knee. I'm like I'm fine, 307 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 3: I'm fine, Like I'm not leaving this floor. Told my setter, 308 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 3: I'm like, do not set me, Like I don't know 309 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 3: how this is gonna go. Don't set me. She's like, yeah, 310 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:35,679 Speaker 3: I'm not gonna set you. So then she sets our 311 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:39,200 Speaker 3: middle a slide, the center covers it, the middle sets me, 312 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:41,120 Speaker 3: and I go up to hit it and I'm like, 313 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:43,120 Speaker 3: don't land on my left leg? Do not land on 314 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 3: my left leg? And I naturally like lean this way 315 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 3: when I hit, so of course I land on my 316 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:49,079 Speaker 3: left leg and you can just like see my knee 317 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 3: like buckle. And a bunch of people had videos of it, 318 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:53,440 Speaker 3: so I have a video of it on my phone. 319 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:56,280 Speaker 3: But we got the point and everybody erupted and I 320 00:13:56,320 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 3: turned my ACL yep, Oh. 321 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 2: My gosh, were you like on the floor in pain celebrating. 322 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:05,400 Speaker 3: Or I know, I think I blacked out because I 323 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:07,120 Speaker 3: don't remember much of it, like I'll remember it is 324 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 3: like waking up or just like coming to it, and 325 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 3: like everybody surrounded me, and I'm like, oh my gosh. 326 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 3: It's kind of a bittersweet moment because everybody was like 327 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:15,960 Speaker 3: cheering and they realized like I was on the floor 328 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,520 Speaker 3: like screaming in pain, and they're like, oh. 329 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 1: No, those also your school's first state championship, right yeah, 330 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 1: m hm. 331 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 2: Oh, and there you are just in pain from an aclchair. 332 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. 333 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 3: You can hear me like scream in the video too, 334 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 3: like throw up the whole arena, Like you can just 335 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 3: hear when land like ah and then it's over it. Yeah, 336 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 3: it was crazy. 337 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:39,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, bittersweet for sure. 338 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 1: No, obviously you were an amazing high school player and 339 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 1: then you went to UNLV, But at what point did 340 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 1: you know that, like you could keep playing volleyball and 341 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 1: playing college. 342 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 3: Our head volleyball coach at the time she went played 343 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 3: at USD for a year and then went back to Minnesota, 344 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 3: but she was a due one volleyball play and it 345 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 3: was a seventh grade I played JV and got pulled 346 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 3: up to varsity towards the end. And then my eighth 347 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:08,040 Speaker 3: grade years like when I started a varsity and I 348 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:11,600 Speaker 3: think that's when something switched like in my brain, like Okay, 349 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:13,720 Speaker 3: I might actually be kind of good at this sport, 350 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:15,680 Speaker 3: or I might actually want to play this sport. And 351 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 3: then my uncle and my aunt live in Las Vegas, 352 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:21,160 Speaker 3: and I went to a camp out there at UNL 353 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:23,880 Speaker 3: be my eighth grade going into ninth grade year, and 354 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:27,080 Speaker 3: that's when they offered me like a scholarship to play 355 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 3: for them. So that kind of made me think, like, huh, 356 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:31,640 Speaker 3: I might kind of be good at this thing, maybe 357 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:33,880 Speaker 3: I want to continue playing it. My mom's like, I 358 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 3: know you want to play volleyball, but like you don't 359 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:38,440 Speaker 3: understand now, But like this full ride deal is it's 360 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 3: a big deal, Like if you're going to go somewhere, 361 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:42,400 Speaker 3: you want to have your school paid for. And that's 362 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 3: what it was. And obviously I wanted to commit right 363 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:47,400 Speaker 3: then and there, but she's like, my gosh, go on Vegas. 364 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 3: I'm like, but just kept my options open. And my 365 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:55,840 Speaker 3: softomore year, I think that's when I committed there and 366 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 3: I had to call my head coach and tell her like, hey, 367 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:01,720 Speaker 3: we won the state championship, but it's more MACL. But 368 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 3: I ended up making obviously a good recovery and being 369 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 3: able to come back from that. But I think it 370 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 3: was like my eighth grade going to ninth grade years 371 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 3: when I was like, yeah, this is something I want 372 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 3: to do. 373 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:14,000 Speaker 1: So when you tore your ACL, were you nervous at 374 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 1: all that maybe like volleyball was over or did you 375 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 1: just become more determined to overcome it. 376 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:24,680 Speaker 3: I didn't think I fully understood like how serious the 377 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 3: injury was. You know, you see acls and whatever. But 378 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 3: then I hadn't seen like very many stories of other 379 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 3: people tearing it. So I'm like, oh, I'm going to 380 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:34,240 Speaker 3: make a comeback. But you didn't see stories like back 381 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 3: then of people like not making a comeback or not 382 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 3: getting their strength back more than you do now, just 383 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 3: for the social media and everything. So it just made 384 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 3: me like super determined. I went up to tree out 385 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 3: like three times a week once I was able to 386 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 3: start like doing my rehab and like was in a 387 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:50,840 Speaker 3: really like intense rehab program and they made sure I 388 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:52,840 Speaker 3: was ready to go. I didn't like my knee brace, 389 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 3: and the first time I started playing it didn't wear 390 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 3: my brace, and my doctor like found out about it, 391 00:16:57,280 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 3: and he's like, you put that brace back on, like 392 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 3: not allowed to play without that. The first year playing back, 393 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:05,520 Speaker 3: coming back and playing, I'm like, okay, fine, because I 394 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:08,239 Speaker 3: just hated like it felt kind of restricted. But I 395 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:10,879 Speaker 3: was confident myself that was gonna make a comeback. And 396 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 3: it happened that I also played AAU and when I 397 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,200 Speaker 3: was younger too, and one of my AU teammates tour 398 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:19,119 Speaker 3: ACL too, so we're both at trio like doing the 399 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:21,240 Speaker 3: rehab program together. So it's kind of nice having a 400 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:23,640 Speaker 3: little buddy like going through that program. 401 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:28,639 Speaker 2: Together to ACL friends together. Yeah. 402 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 1: Now, when you went to UNLV, you were obviously an 403 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:36,960 Speaker 1: amazing player. What was it like being a collegiate athlete 404 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:38,200 Speaker 1: in Las Vegas. 405 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:40,920 Speaker 3: It's weird knowing that I went to school like in 406 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,040 Speaker 3: Las Vegas, because people go to Las Vegas for other 407 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 3: things than sports. So I didn't really feel like it 408 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 3: was a huge steal other than like you can go 409 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 3: to the strip and so many things to do and whatever. 410 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:54,840 Speaker 3: But I liked the hotels and they had like cool 411 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:57,400 Speaker 3: restaurants and cool little bars you could go to once 412 00:17:57,480 --> 00:17:59,520 Speaker 3: you got older. But that's all I knew. Like I 413 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:01,919 Speaker 3: would never know like what a college town was like, 414 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 3: you know if I went to Madison or somewhere where 415 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:06,520 Speaker 3: it's like a big college town like bars. We didn't 416 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 3: have like bars. It was like house parties like forty 417 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 3: five minutes away. You know. Like it was just a 418 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:15,359 Speaker 3: totally different scene than like a normal college like experience. 419 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:17,920 Speaker 1: What about in the summer when you guys had to 420 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:20,879 Speaker 1: get to college to you know, start training for the season. 421 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 1: Was it incredibly hot? 422 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:27,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, it was like that's something you get used to too, 423 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:30,000 Speaker 3: but like not really. I mean June July August, it's 424 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:33,720 Speaker 3: like one hundred and five to like one fifteen. Like 425 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 3: every single day it was just like you walk outside 426 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:38,639 Speaker 3: and it's just like hits you like a blow dryer, 427 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:41,440 Speaker 3: you know, like it's just like I mean, it's dry heat, 428 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 3: it's not humid, but it's still hot. Yeah, but yeah 429 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:45,240 Speaker 3: it was. It was very warm. 430 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:47,159 Speaker 2: Oh man, I don't think I could handle that. 431 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 3: Like, my shoes would shrink, like my little slides we 432 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:53,200 Speaker 3: got from school. They would shrink because they're like plastic 433 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:55,159 Speaker 3: and if you leave them in the heat, they like shrink. 434 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 3: So like I had shoes that were like this small 435 00:18:57,280 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 3: because I left them in the back of my car 436 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:00,639 Speaker 3: and the heat, so they like shrink. 437 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:06,000 Speaker 2: Wow, that's crazy. I didn't realize that could happen. 438 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:09,480 Speaker 3: I didn't either. They looked at my shoe and I'm like, 439 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:13,200 Speaker 3: whose shoes are these? I'm like, they're mine and their 440 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:14,480 Speaker 3: four sizes too small? 441 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:18,879 Speaker 2: Wow? How many pairs of shoes did you have to 442 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:19,320 Speaker 2: go through? 443 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 3: A couple? I learned pretty like the first time. I'm like, yeah, 444 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:24,919 Speaker 3: I'm not going to just prove some shoes again, so 445 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 3: let's not let's not forget some slides in my car. 446 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 1: So when you were at UNLV, at what point did 447 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:32,600 Speaker 1: you decide, Hey, I can go pro. 448 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:35,160 Speaker 3: It was like in my mind when I was younger 449 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:37,919 Speaker 3: that I didn't want to play volleyball. After college. I 450 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,199 Speaker 3: was set on like going to law school and just 451 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 3: kind of continuing like volleyball. When volleyball was done, it 452 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:46,120 Speaker 3: was done, so I didn't really know much about it. 453 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:49,199 Speaker 3: And then Kirsty Jackson she came and she was an 454 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:51,800 Speaker 3: assistant coach at UNLV, and she was just like, I 455 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 3: think you should really do this, and she kind of 456 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:57,120 Speaker 3: helped me with paving away and helping me learn more 457 00:19:57,119 --> 00:19:59,400 Speaker 3: about it because I really was clue aside, no idea. 458 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 3: You don't really much about overseas when you're back here 459 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:03,960 Speaker 3: unless you know anybody that's over there. So she helped 460 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:07,800 Speaker 3: me a lot with that, and after my super senior season, 461 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:10,200 Speaker 3: I was like, Okay, let's do this thing and ended 462 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:13,679 Speaker 3: up going overseas, and that first overseas experience wasn't the 463 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:15,840 Speaker 3: greatest and almost made me not want to keep playing, 464 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 3: but my mom was like, I don't want you to 465 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:20,919 Speaker 3: base this whole experience off of five months in a 466 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:22,920 Speaker 3: bad place, like it wants you to give it one 467 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:25,440 Speaker 3: more full season. If you don't like it, you leave, 468 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:28,760 Speaker 3: And then went to Greece, loved it and decided I 469 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:29,879 Speaker 3: wanted to keep playing. 470 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:33,200 Speaker 2: What me do you ultimately decide France and Greece. 471 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:37,440 Speaker 3: France, well, I was coming off of my half season. 472 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:40,120 Speaker 3: This team at France was good for like players that 473 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 3: I mean, they're a pretty high team in France or 474 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:45,200 Speaker 3: had been in the past, and Kirsty knew the team 475 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:46,679 Speaker 3: and thought it would be a good spot for me 476 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:48,359 Speaker 3: to go to as my first season to just kind 477 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 3: of dit my foot in and get the hang of it. 478 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:53,040 Speaker 3: So you don't really have much of us say, I mean, 479 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 3: you get a choice. I'm sure a couple of countries, 480 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:57,159 Speaker 3: but coming in like in a half season, it's kind 481 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:59,159 Speaker 3: of hard to really pick a place. So France just 482 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 3: seemed like a good, like safe country for me to 483 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 3: just kind of test the waters. So and then Greece, 484 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:05,440 Speaker 3: I was like, what the heck, I want to go 485 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,919 Speaker 3: to Greece. Yeah, So I went there and ended up 486 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:10,840 Speaker 3: being there at the same team for two years, and 487 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:13,160 Speaker 3: that was I really liked Greece a lot. 488 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 1: Was there like a culture shock when you got to 489 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 1: these clubs, especially with the way that the US treats 490 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:21,160 Speaker 1: college athletes. 491 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, France for sure. I mean compared to like our 492 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:28,359 Speaker 3: college weight room, our weight room in France was like 493 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:30,520 Speaker 3: the size of my kitchen, you know, it was way 494 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:33,040 Speaker 3: smaller and like the trainers and stuff. You didn't have 495 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:35,159 Speaker 3: trainers I practice every day, So it was just like 496 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:38,359 Speaker 3: a big like change, you know, like on road trips, 497 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:41,359 Speaker 3: we didn't have like food waiting for us before we 498 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:44,400 Speaker 3: left for games or something, you know, like in college. 499 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,600 Speaker 3: Definitely a big shock. I mean, considering it's pro I 500 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 3: think they get some. I mean, I'm sure the bigger 501 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,200 Speaker 3: teams they get all the good stuff, but like better 502 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 3: treatment in college than in pro were like body wise, 503 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:59,119 Speaker 3: I guess and food wise. But now in Madison it 504 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 3: feels like, I mean again, you know, we have a 505 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:03,119 Speaker 3: trainer every day that's willing to do treatment. We have 506 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 3: food in our locker rooms, we get food sometimes after 507 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 3: before practice, So it feels like I'm in not college again, 508 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 3: but it feels like we're getting the same type of treatment, 509 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:13,520 Speaker 3: which is nice. 510 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:16,360 Speaker 1: Was that a big reason to make you come back 511 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:18,119 Speaker 1: to the States and play for League One or were 512 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 1: there other reasons behind that decision? 513 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:23,880 Speaker 3: Mainly while I was over in Greece, I loved Greece. 514 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 3: I probably would have stayed there again if I didn't 515 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 3: get the opportunity to play here. But it was more so, 516 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:30,639 Speaker 3: my grandpa passed last January and I wasn't able to 517 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 3: come home for that, So that kind of was like 518 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:35,200 Speaker 3: a deal breaker for me to come home because me 519 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,000 Speaker 3: and my grandma are super super tight. God forbid something 520 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:39,760 Speaker 3: happens to her. But if something did happen to her 521 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:41,160 Speaker 3: and I wouldn't be able to come home, I don't 522 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:44,080 Speaker 3: think I'd forgive myself for it, you know, like if 523 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:46,360 Speaker 3: I had to quit the team or terminate my contract 524 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:47,960 Speaker 3: to be able to come home for that, I would. 525 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,400 Speaker 3: So just made sense for me to come back home 526 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:53,119 Speaker 3: because my people aren't getting younger and my siblings are 527 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:55,639 Speaker 3: getting older, and it's it's hard missing out on those times, 528 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:58,200 Speaker 3: especially Christmas. Didn't get to come home for Christmas the 529 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:01,240 Speaker 3: past two years either, so there's just time and kind 530 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:03,920 Speaker 3: of pass up that opportunity to do what I love 531 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,160 Speaker 3: and be able to be around my family while doing it. 532 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,920 Speaker 3: So that's kind of the main reason. Love my teammates, 533 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,280 Speaker 3: loved the club in Greece, loved all my friends I met, 534 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 3: But it's time to come back home. 535 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:17,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm very scority to hear about your grandfather. I'm 536 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 1: glad that you're now able to be with your family. 537 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 3: Thank you. 538 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 1: Let's talk about your life off the court. What do 539 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:42,439 Speaker 1: you like to do when you're not playing volleyball. What 540 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:44,200 Speaker 1: are some of your other passions. 541 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:49,280 Speaker 3: I've been trying to find some new passions. I love 542 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:52,280 Speaker 3: to binge watch shows. Right now, I'm into Peaky Blinders. 543 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:53,880 Speaker 3: I'm kind of late to it, but. 544 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,240 Speaker 2: I've been watching it, watching Fabulous. 545 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:59,000 Speaker 3: It's really good. It's very good so far. I like 546 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,399 Speaker 3: to go shopping. That's also a problem, but more so 547 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:03,760 Speaker 3: like online shopping, Like I will just sit in like 548 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 3: scroll for hours, which is bad. I like trying new restaurants. 549 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:11,359 Speaker 3: I like trying new food. I think that's why I 550 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 3: liked Overseas so much, especially Grace, Like the food was 551 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:17,080 Speaker 3: just unreal. So it's nice to try different restaurants here. 552 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:19,800 Speaker 3: I've always tried to, like learn how to crochet, but 553 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 3: like there's not an artsy bone in my body and 554 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,720 Speaker 3: I don't think I could figure it out. And my 555 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 3: grandma knows how to crochet like wash cloths, and I'm like, 556 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 3: can you please teach me how to crochet like an animal? 557 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:32,119 Speaker 3: She's like an animal. I don't know how to do that. 558 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 3: I'm like, well, you know, like the basic patterns of 559 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:36,480 Speaker 3: like the wasp Bot. I'm sure I could figure it out, 560 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 3: but no, I just I'm open to different things. I 561 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,280 Speaker 3: like trying new food, going to check out, like the 562 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:46,400 Speaker 3: trivia place. I love to read. Forgot about that. Love 563 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 3: to read. I'm on my what series is it? Thrown 564 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:53,360 Speaker 3: a Glass by Sarah J. Moss. I'm on the fifth book, 565 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:55,200 Speaker 3: so I have two books left, and it's a pretty 566 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:58,720 Speaker 3: big series that I've read. To all the book nerds 567 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:01,359 Speaker 3: out there, I've read all the at Guitar ones. I 568 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:04,720 Speaker 3: don't know if you've read or heard about those books. 569 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:08,679 Speaker 1: Like, oh yeah, yeah, that was like a I remember 570 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:10,399 Speaker 1: a lot of people were reading those books. 571 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, I read those like when I was in Greece. 572 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:16,200 Speaker 3: I like whipped those out in probably like two months, 573 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,359 Speaker 3: and they're like pretty thick books. But now, like the 574 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,400 Speaker 3: problem is I get obsessed and then like I can't 575 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 3: put it down, and then it like I finished the 576 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 3: book and I haven't started the fifth one ye because 577 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:26,800 Speaker 3: I'm like I need a little reset before I don't 578 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,120 Speaker 3: do anything else except for read. But yeah, I really 579 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:31,040 Speaker 3: like to read, especially when I find a series I like. 580 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:31,920 Speaker 3: I enjoy reading. 581 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,960 Speaker 1: So I saw in your love profile that your favorite 582 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:37,840 Speaker 1: podcast is crime Junkie, right? 583 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,040 Speaker 2: Is that true? Still very true? 584 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:44,119 Speaker 3: That's why I listened to my drives from home to 585 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:47,440 Speaker 3: here four hours of Prime Junkie and I can't get 586 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:49,119 Speaker 3: enough of it. Yes, for sure. 587 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 1: I think all of my podcasts for the most part, 588 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,359 Speaker 1: are either sports or crime. 589 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:56,960 Speaker 2: How did you get into your crime? 590 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:01,800 Speaker 3: My mother really the watch Lawn or Special Victims Unit 591 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:03,960 Speaker 3: when I was younger. That's still like my favorite show. 592 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,199 Speaker 3: I've watched every season, every episode. And I just like 593 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 3: crime because my major was criminal justice in college, so 594 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,240 Speaker 3: I've kind of always liked crime in that stuff, which 595 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,160 Speaker 3: is I mean, it's weird, but I like to listen 596 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:18,719 Speaker 3: to it and trying to like figure it out. Like 597 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,320 Speaker 3: I think my dream job would be like a forensic 598 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:23,679 Speaker 3: analysis or like something like that with like hands on 599 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:27,760 Speaker 3: crime stuff. But I think it And I was so 600 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:29,840 Speaker 3: scared of that stuff when I was little, Like one 601 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 3: time our gas station got ropped like by our house, 602 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:34,359 Speaker 3: and I had like an extremely panic attack and like 603 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:36,240 Speaker 3: threw up and I was like I'm gonna die, Like 604 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 3: it was like really bad. But now I'm like I 605 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:44,119 Speaker 3: love that stuff, like listening and researching and all that stuff. 606 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:48,960 Speaker 3: It's just interesting how people can get away within years later. 607 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,560 Speaker 3: Now that there's more like science behind it, there's starting 608 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,440 Speaker 3: to come out, like the whole like Jacob Wederling thing, 609 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 3: I mean that was that was he was from Minnesota, 610 00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 3: so that was like a huge case in our state. 611 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:01,439 Speaker 3: And when that came out, that just like broke my 612 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,280 Speaker 3: heart because you know, he killed him the first day 613 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,600 Speaker 3: he took him, you know. So it's just like that 614 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:10,240 Speaker 3: poor family. But like crime, I like all that jazz. 615 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:13,399 Speaker 1: So you said that you would love to be like 616 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,720 Speaker 1: a forensic analyst. You said that you were going to 617 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:19,720 Speaker 1: go to law school after college, but decided to keep 618 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,760 Speaker 1: playing volleyball. Do you think that when you do eventually 619 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 1: hang up your knee paths that you are going to 620 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,200 Speaker 1: continue down this criminal justice path or do you think 621 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:29,680 Speaker 1: you're going to do something else more volleyball focused. 622 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 3: I think I'll go down the criminal justice path. I 623 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:35,399 Speaker 3: don't want to go back to school since I've been 624 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:37,040 Speaker 3: out of school for so long, and I don't want 625 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,679 Speaker 3: to pay more money to go back to school. So 626 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,240 Speaker 3: I would like to be a detective. That's like one 627 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,520 Speaker 3: of my top ones, but I don't want to go 628 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 3: through the process of being a cop before that, just 629 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:50,640 Speaker 3: because it scares me. There's another way to do it. 630 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:52,680 Speaker 3: But yeah, I think I would want to go down 631 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:53,800 Speaker 3: that route. For sure. 632 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,199 Speaker 1: You want to be like Murushka Hagerta and for you, 633 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 1: I mean, she's pretty much a badass. 634 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:06,840 Speaker 3: So oh yeah, life goals right there. Yeah, even if 635 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:08,920 Speaker 3: I have to act to be her, I will. Maybe 636 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:10,560 Speaker 3: I'll go down the acting route just so I can 637 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 3: be a detective. 638 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:13,600 Speaker 2: Here you go, you can play a detective on TV. 639 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:15,400 Speaker 2: Bring your passions altogether. 640 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:17,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, do that? 641 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:21,760 Speaker 2: I love it all right. Well, last question to wrap 642 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:22,439 Speaker 2: the interview up. 643 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,119 Speaker 1: This is a question I like to ask all the 644 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 1: girls with love and the inaugural season about to be here. 645 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:33,440 Speaker 1: What are you hoping to showcase this season for the fans, 646 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:35,640 Speaker 1: for the media, for the public to know about you 647 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:36,800 Speaker 1: and about the sport. 648 00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:41,000 Speaker 3: I'm just excited to bring volleyball to the States and 649 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:44,560 Speaker 3: inspire the younger girls that this is possible. You know, 650 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,520 Speaker 3: I wish I had this type of platform available to 651 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 3: me when I was younger, you know, being able to 652 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,720 Speaker 3: watch pro athletes still doing their thing, you know, I 653 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:54,640 Speaker 3: mean we had college athletes to look up to, but 654 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,560 Speaker 3: like knowing there's a place after college and still at 655 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,320 Speaker 3: home and not have to go across the seat. Is 656 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,960 Speaker 3: really inspiring to me because I would have loved that. 657 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:07,920 Speaker 3: And I just hope that we can bring back a 658 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,719 Speaker 3: league to the States and show fans that we love 659 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 3: volleyball and it's a great sport and we're competitive and 660 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,200 Speaker 3: even though we're women, we like to compete and have 661 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:18,520 Speaker 3: some fun. And I think it's awesome even that there's 662 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 3: some moms in our league that you can like have 663 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:22,440 Speaker 3: kids and still be like a badass on the court 664 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:24,240 Speaker 3: and like do your thing, you know. So I'm really 665 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,920 Speaker 3: excited for the whole league just to come together because 666 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,160 Speaker 3: all of us are so different and just show everybody 667 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,920 Speaker 3: that you can you can do your thing here and 668 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 3: we can we can do it. 669 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,560 Speaker 2: Well, great answer, I love that. Well, Marina, thank you 670 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 2: so much for taking. 671 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:38,760 Speaker 1: The time to speak with me. It was a pleasure 672 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 1: for having me. Yes, thank you. Serving Pancakes is an 673 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 1: iheartwomen's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. 674 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,800 Speaker 1: You can find us on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 675 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,880 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts. Production by League one Volleyball. 676 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:01,880 Speaker 1: I'm your host Tiffany Oshinski. Any Olivarez is our senior producer. 677 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 1: Our executive producers are Carrie Stett, Tamaradike, and Lindsay Hoffman. 678 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,880 Speaker 1: Our marketing lead is Jawara Parker. Sound editing and mixing 679 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:15,120 Speaker 1: by Daniel Gonzalez. Our theme music is Pancakes. 680 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:15,360 Speaker 2: By Eric W. 681 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:20,280 Speaker 1: Mast Junior special thanks to Marina Hayden. Stay tuned for 682 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,040 Speaker 1: another episode of Serving Pancakes. 683 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:23,160 Speaker 2: Thanks for listening.