Speaker 1: Me, me me, you know I got the sauce.
Speaker 2: Hey, No, it's a little more like you know, I'm sauce.
Speaker 3: Hey boom boom, yeah boom, slow and steady, both servant pan.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's Cat and Maddie and we all live right now.
Speaker 1: We're about to give you all the volleyball news coming
Speaker 1: through hot in Istory.
Speaker 4: Girls. Now it's seving pancakes. Bow bow bow.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, we are back. What's going on in the
Speaker 2: volleyball world right now? We're announcing everybody and their moms
Speaker 2: to our Can you excited?
Speaker 4: Hold your horses? Can we talk for a second? Damn? Like,
Speaker 4: can we say?
Speaker 2: Hey, hour of July?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well I did see you.
Speaker 1: I just talk about that exactly, like exactly Mattie came.
Speaker 4: To Miami to visit me for what you were here for?
Speaker 4: Three days? Three days?
Speaker 1: Yeah, something like that, something like that. Hold and we
Speaker 1: had a great time. It's a great time.
Speaker 2: I almost died at an NFL workout, but I somehow
Speaker 2: made it out a line.
Speaker 4: You didn't, Mattie. You're built for this.
Speaker 1: Know. What's funny is I didn't tell you this, but
Speaker 1: they were asking me. They were like, so, where's your friend?
Speaker 1: And I was like, they wanted me to come hold
Speaker 1: the slides for them. Yeah, I was like, yo, it
Speaker 1: was I was like, she was only here for the
Speaker 1: day whatever, and comparing like one of the guys made
Speaker 1: a comment to you know who. It was like just
Speaker 1: let you know that thing was saying something like that,
Speaker 1: and I was like, we must, can we not?
Speaker 4: Can we just work out and not be worried about it?
Speaker 2: I just work out and just girls just don't look
Speaker 2: at me.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean we were getting after it, but it
Speaker 2: was so hot and humid and disgusting, Like I truly
Speaker 2: felt like I jumped in a pool after that workout.
Speaker 4: We did that one we did the studio three.
Speaker 2: Kat was so Kat was so tired, So what did
Speaker 2: we do first? First we get there and Kat's like, Oh,
Speaker 2: we're just gonna go do a lift. And so we
Speaker 2: go into the weightlifting gym and we're going through a
Speaker 2: little workout and I was like, Oh, I feel so
Speaker 2: good after this.
Speaker 4: That's great.
Speaker 2: And then Kat was like and then normally they go
Speaker 2: to the turf after and I was like the turf
Speaker 2: and it was like horror on my face.
Speaker 4: I felt like and I.
Speaker 2: Was like, what do we do on the turf like run,
Speaker 2: pull sleds like fox shoves, and I was like, you
Speaker 2: gotta be joking.
Speaker 1: And we did all of that, and originally we weren't
Speaker 1: going to do because I just wasn't up to it
Speaker 1: and I was kind of tired. But I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, let's just give her a warm welcome,
Speaker 1: you know, let's just get right to it.
Speaker 2: It was warm, I'll give you that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she didn't get it, but get on the boat, y'all. Maddie.
Speaker 1: Definitely my first noise complaint. Maddie goes on to the
Speaker 1: balcony and yelled, I mean so loud. Go to my
Speaker 1: Instagram be the video, yell so loud.
Speaker 4: What'd you say?
Speaker 2: I just screamed, Miami, Because when you walk out of
Speaker 2: Cat's apartment onto the balcony, you can literally see like
Speaker 2: all of the water. What is the water right there,
Speaker 2: the little the area where.
Speaker 4: Bay Biscayne Bay. Yeah, I was that Miami.
Speaker 2: So the neighbors were like hello, and I was like,
Speaker 2: was that you Cat?
Speaker 4: She's like, no, that's that was definitely.
Speaker 1: Somebody definitely said like hello or something like that.
Speaker 2: The person said hello, how was your fourth of July?
Speaker 4: Fourth was good.
Speaker 1: You know me, I'm the host of the Moses, Hostess
Speaker 1: with the Moses. You guys, I'm like stuffed up from
Speaker 1: a science infection. So my words are not coming out
Speaker 1: there I want them to. But I somehow ended up
Speaker 1: hosting a fourth July party at someone's house who had
Speaker 1: just moved in to their house, like maybe not even
Speaker 1: maybe three weeks ago. Maybe you cooked. I know you
Speaker 1: went in there and you were cook, cooked, cleaned, sorry,
Speaker 1: put up the grill, like help put up water slides.
Speaker 4: Like I didn't come here for that, you know what
Speaker 4: I mean?
Speaker 1: Like I was supposed to come here to be relaxed
Speaker 1: and be part of the festivities, and I definitely was not.
Speaker 2: But you know what, I feel like, you are always
Speaker 2: the person who is like taking care of other people,
Speaker 2: and so you will always find yourself unfortunately in that capacity,
Speaker 2: which is like a really amazing quality that you have
Speaker 2: but also can be overwhelming at the same time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I also feel like that just wasn't my plan.
Speaker 4: I didn't.
Speaker 1: I think I definitely was hyperjacked, hijacked in the situation
Speaker 1: because it's hyperjected because for me, it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: you invited all these people.
Speaker 4: Who are my people, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: They're my family, and I don't want my family to
Speaker 1: come in a place that's like not ready to host
Speaker 1: people when they could have gone like somewhere else.
Speaker 4: But yeah, anyways, but it was great. Besides that, it
Speaker 4: was great good.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that the fireworks you see in the
Speaker 1: sky you can buy those and put.
Speaker 4: Them on the ground and do your own firework show.
Speaker 4: So we had our own firework.
Speaker 2: She never went to Mexico and bought your own fireworks. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but not those kinds like these are these are the
Speaker 2: big ones? Yeah, okay, speaking of those, I was at
Speaker 2: the angel City FC soccer game last week and there
Speaker 2: was a fireworks show at the end and they were
Speaker 2: like shooting them from the field in one shot into
Speaker 2: the crowd. Everyone was fine, but like we were sitting
Speaker 2: like field side, and then literally right next to us
Speaker 2: like in the next kind of sweet area. It was
Speaker 2: like boom, But I think it didn't directly hit somebody,
Speaker 2: but it was terrifying.
Speaker 4: Lawsuit, lawsuit for sure.
Speaker 2: Sorry lawsuit anyway, So fireworks do be crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we had a good time. He had a little show.
Speaker 4: At one point.
Speaker 1: It was almost like some other neighbors also had like
Speaker 1: big boy fireworks and it was also a competition and
Speaker 1: like you know who goes back to the fire stand
Speaker 1: and was like, oh, they want to light it up.
Speaker 1: Well that's lighted up, and like goes back by all
Speaker 1: these different fireworks are like four hundred rounds Madison Madison
Speaker 1: Scooter six. It was crazy and it was like ours
Speaker 1: was popping off on the sky. People were coming out
Speaker 1: of their house and like watching.
Speaker 4: Cars were coming down.
Speaker 1: The street to park to watch ours, and they were
Speaker 1: popping theirs off in the air like it was.
Speaker 4: It was cool. But you know who definitely was like
Speaker 4: they get out do us. I'm like, yeah, watch the
Speaker 4: sick Yeah. And he was like into it too.
Speaker 1: He had his own little rhythm how he was popping
Speaker 1: them off, and at one point it was like.
Speaker 4: It was crazy. It was a big cleaness that's for sure.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but he's lit them off before the fireworks
Speaker 2: can be kind of dangerous.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he It was giving pro That's what I was doing.
Speaker 2: My mom has a friend because she does like promotional sales,
Speaker 2: and so she used to do stuff for this company
Speaker 2: called Fireworks Production, and she knew this guy who literally
Speaker 2: like lit one turned around to light other ones and
Speaker 2: like blew one of his.
Speaker 4: Butt cheeks off.
Speaker 2: But these were like the mega mega like into the
Speaker 2: sky fireworks.
Speaker 4: That that's what we had.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, good thing. You still have your ass. But
Speaker 2: maybe you said it and I've seen that thing recently.
Speaker 4: You could have blown them both off. Well I do.
Speaker 4: He doesn't like you, damn.
Speaker 2: Okay, mm hmm, that's all what they said at the
Speaker 2: combine workout.
Speaker 1: Okay. Anyways, anyways, so back to.
Speaker 2: Love Yeah works Fanny Big. We have a lot of
Speaker 2: new player announcements. I'm just gonna pull up the Instagram
Speaker 2: quick so we can just see some because there's a
Speaker 2: lot we're cooking.
Speaker 4: We cook it. More teams equals more players, a lot
Speaker 4: more players.
Speaker 2: And some of some of our good friends are coming
Speaker 2: over exactly.
Speaker 4: Some people are coming back.
Speaker 2: Also, Yeah, Stage is coming back. You got to play
Speaker 2: the Stage. She's doing great with national team right now.
Speaker 4: Exactly. She's doing really well. So she's back. Good for her.
Speaker 4: Who else is back? Who else is coming in? Nati?
Speaker 2: We have some big names coming over from MLB though.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Shampoo, I would love to playing with her. She's
Speaker 4: so good. I love playing with her in the other league.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we played athletes unlimited with her shampoo, Nati, Sarah
Speaker 2: will Hyella, come on, who else we got? We got
Speaker 2: some big names, so we got some youngsters suit Sydney
Speaker 2: Hilly whoa Today.
Speaker 1: I wonder if, like all the super fans are going
Speaker 1: to train Chinco were to like love because Supernova fans
Speaker 1: they love them.
Speaker 4: Some brook like they go because of her to most
Speaker 4: of them. Yeah, I wonder where.
Speaker 2: We don't know where anybody is going, but it'll be
Speaker 2: fun to kind of see when rosters come out, hopefully soon.
Speaker 4: I'd be deep in those comments.
Speaker 1: I love three people's like guesses and what do you
Speaker 1: think is you're gonn to go? Some people are like
Speaker 1: kind of upset about other players, like transistioning.
Speaker 4: Over and that kind of stuff. You gotta read the
Speaker 4: comments on those posts. They're funny.
Speaker 2: As I glance at the comments, sometimes you also realize how.
Speaker 4: Maing people don't really know volleyball either too. That's what
Speaker 4: I was gonna say.
Speaker 2: I think sometimes reading them, I'm like, Okay, they have
Speaker 2: a good point, and then I'll read another one and
Speaker 2: be like, you don't you don't have a clue of
Speaker 2: what's happening. But you shall you should comment on this,
Speaker 2: which is you shouldn't have.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you shouldn't.
Speaker 2: I wish you couldn't have.
Speaker 4: Thumbs down comments and you don't like them like put hearts.
Speaker 2: Didn't people used to be able to thumbs down. Maybe
Speaker 2: that was on Facebook.
Speaker 4: Yeah, or just have like a gift from Mattie going boomoo.
Speaker 4: I would love that. Ooh, I would love that.
Speaker 2: Speaking of volleyball, so the girls are at where are
Speaker 2: they this week? Our national team is in Japan this week.
Speaker 2: I think they play Thailand today. But they've been doing great.
Speaker 2: They're seven and one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're the number one seed right now. Number one seed.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that that already qualifies them for finals week.
Speaker 2: I would be shocked if they didn't, but I think
Speaker 2: they're in.
Speaker 4: Today.
Speaker 1: They've kept their roster pretty the same. I feel like
Speaker 1: last summer they were just switching a round every week.
Speaker 1: This year he's kept it kind of more because he
Speaker 1: saved with the same.
Speaker 4: Group of girls.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is good. You can get to gel more.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Everyone seems to be doing well.
Speaker 2: They're killing it, so I mean, as long as you're winning,
Speaker 2: can't be mad.
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Speaker 4: watching any of the World Cup?
Speaker 1: Actually I watched my first soccer game all the way
Speaker 1: through last night when USA loss?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Okay, do you think that you could have done what
Speaker 2: the goalie did or like stopped the goal where he so?
Speaker 4: Look, I don't know soccer me either.
Speaker 1: I know my lane though, and I know my area,
Speaker 1: your jurisdiction.
Speaker 4: What are you doing? Where are you? What are you
Speaker 4: told you could kick? You got to use your hands, like.
Speaker 1: Not even like he couldn't pick it up. He was
Speaker 1: out of his own to be picked up anyways. For
Speaker 1: you're too far out out of here trying to pick
Speaker 1: it up and too. It wasn't like he was trying
Speaker 1: to like kick it. He was trying to like juke,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, bro, kick it out, kick it.
Speaker 4: That's why you have to get back to your You're
Speaker 4: not good with your feet. Apparently that has to because
Speaker 4: you were that good at your feet, you'd be out
Speaker 4: there in the field.
Speaker 2: That's why I'm thinking that we could have been goalies
Speaker 2: like we if we if we were out there, we
Speaker 2: would have stayed right there. We would have kept the
Speaker 2: hands up, we would have monster blocked all those goals.
Speaker 2: I would have just do your job, don't try to overdo,
Speaker 2: don't try to get fancy.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was unfortunate, but it was really how that
Speaker 2: was the farthest they've gotten in a while, I.
Speaker 1: Think, and that forever. I I was telling you know who,
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't think we've have been this
Speaker 1: far before.
Speaker 2: You Oh, they've never won a World Cup. Best ever
Speaker 2: performance in the tournament was third place at the inaugural
Speaker 2: event in nineteen thirty.
Speaker 4: Yes, you think they've never been that, They've never been
Speaker 4: that far in like a long time.
Speaker 1: Nineteen thirty yeah, that was a great depression nineteen thirty.
Speaker 2: That what it said, But the women have won four.
Speaker 4: Times women in sports.
Speaker 1: Give it up with a little lady, lady, shake you ass,
Speaker 1: if you a lady, shake you ass, if you a lady.
Speaker 4: As shaken ass? Can you ask for the ladies? Yeah too,
Speaker 4: men's to you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy nineteen thirty. Like to leat that, just
Speaker 1: say never.
Speaker 2: But you know, I had to look this up today
Speaker 2: because I chat GBT, like why why have our men
Speaker 2: not won?
Speaker 4: Or why aren't they better?
Speaker 2: And it was saying that because a lot of men
Speaker 2: tend to go to like the bigger sports.
Speaker 4: Yes, NFL US blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, see l ovb USA is not a soccer a
Speaker 1: soccer fall is comfortable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we just have more male sport options.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so like we're not good to our feet, we
Speaker 1: run and hit people.
Speaker 2: We run and hit people, yeah or yeah, or we
Speaker 2: play baseball or we play whatever.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but I think but still just running really
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But then it was saying that because of Title nine
Speaker 2: that we invested in our women's team like way early
Speaker 2: and that's why they've done so well.
Speaker 4: So there's that for you. I also didn't know.
Speaker 1: I was like, do national teams like hire players to
Speaker 1: play for the country, And that's what I think. You
Speaker 1: have to have some type of affiliation with the country too,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I think it's yeah, yeah, you have to
Speaker 2: have some sort of like blood relative.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's almost like that. So would you say the
Speaker 1: World Cups like the Olympics for soccer. I believe so,
Speaker 1: because it's everything Olympic soccer.
Speaker 4: No, we need your help on this. Oh, this is
Speaker 4: got to be bigger.
Speaker 1: We know, you guys is not a soccer podcast, but
Speaker 1: we're just talking about it anyways.
Speaker 4: But you know, we're learning.
Speaker 2: Yes, soccer is in the Olympics official summer sport, so
Speaker 2: it's like VNL regulated by FIFA.
Speaker 4: Interesting, well, the more you know.
Speaker 2: Oh, also, we were supposed to tease this at the beginning,
Speaker 2: but we were going to watch some of our collegiate
Speaker 2: highlights today and interviews and react to.
Speaker 1: First off, I just want to say I didn't know better.
Speaker 1: Mattie knew better.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no, I didn't know anything.
Speaker 2: I didn't know there was no social media really that
Speaker 2: that was like right when Instagram was starting to come out. Okay,
Speaker 2: I had my vice vine, MySpace. Facebook was like kind
Speaker 2: of their Instagram I think came out like my junior year.
Speaker 4: Maybe. Yeah, we didn't know.
Speaker 2: I didn't know how to talk to the camera like
Speaker 2: there was We just have to preface it by saying.
Speaker 1: That Texas literally did not let me literally that's why
Speaker 1: they literally did not let me get on the mic
Speaker 1: for interviews or anything like that. And sale like just
Speaker 1: because have my mouth this like we didn't have only
Speaker 1: a lot of pr people just knew what not to say.
Speaker 1: You know me, I'm gonna say whatever, whatever the hell
Speaker 1: I want.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, what you're not supposed to say is what
Speaker 2: Kat is saying most of the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And they were like we cannot put her on
Speaker 1: a mic until they had to look at you now,
Speaker 1: but like devil that will more than my head fire
Speaker 1: in the background.
Speaker 2: But then put like a like wings on me and
Speaker 2: like the angel I know, don't do that. Okay, let's
Speaker 2: let's watch some of them. Don't make me go first.
Speaker 4: It was awesome.
Speaker 1: It was a great experience.
Speaker 2: It was to meet the other girls. A pack of
Speaker 2: the best players is an awesome experience.
Speaker 4: The play was that is such a hot Oh, it's
Speaker 4: a big thing.
Speaker 2: If the other team can't pass.
Speaker 1: Then I'm glad you have like no emotion now, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like you speak more.
Speaker 3: With your eyes.
Speaker 2: I think because I just I was like really nervous
Speaker 2: to talk to the camera really and maybe I was
Speaker 2: just bored.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: But the one thing that stands out to me is
Speaker 2: what you need to know is that the pre wrap
Speaker 2: headband during this time, and like the low founding father's ponytail.
Speaker 4: Was like all the rage. So no jewelry, no earrings.
Speaker 2: You couldn't play with jewelry r earrings.
Speaker 4: Isn't that bull? Yeah?
Speaker 2: It was illegal back then, so I used to, like
Speaker 2: I don't know why I enjoyed doing it. I would
Speaker 2: get piercings like every other week, but I would always
Speaker 2: just put the clear things in them because during volleyball,
Speaker 2: you if they saw them, I don't know, you either
Speaker 2: had to take it out or like you got in trouble.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Honestly, for me, what's funny is how close we
Speaker 1: are now and how like our friendship is.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I know we're the same person.
Speaker 1: There's no way, like like I know I've been like
Speaker 1: this for a very long time.
Speaker 4: There's no really like.
Speaker 1: You've changed and became who you are today, like you've
Speaker 1: been like a good personality.
Speaker 2: And I don't, I don't, I can't, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm bored watching myself speak in that. I need
Speaker 2: a little more emotion. I think I was just what
Speaker 2: look at me now, we're just we just don't care.
Speaker 4: I just don't care.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's watch on them kat.
Speaker 4: Hair on fleek. Wow, a little bit of stare down.
Speaker 1: This is pre veneers, please stare down and catches.
Speaker 2: The vibe and stuff like that in the last four years.
Speaker 1: Okay, so this hair is supposed to be blocked by
Speaker 1: the way team name it was getting there.
Speaker 4: Girls, that's a really sweet clip, is that? Yaka? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I played with all the greats, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then that's Hailey Eckerman, right, Yeah, I played my
Speaker 2: first pro year with her.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's great. I talked to her today. She's gonna
Speaker 1: come to visit. Like senior outside hitter, that's wrong. I
Speaker 1: was a senior because.
Speaker 2: You were literally a middle and an outside and opposite
Speaker 2: during your time there.
Speaker 4: True, you didn't play little Barrow.
Speaker 1: Too one game actually, that's the kind of funny one game.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, let's watch this.
Speaker 2: Okay, this knee brace, that's what I remember. I remember
Speaker 2: the knee brace like it was yesterday. The high I
Speaker 2: s okay, you're hitting o T What year was this
Speaker 2: you're playing?
Speaker 4: Is that you look at Chiaka? No, it's Chiaka.
Speaker 1: We did this thing where like Chiaka, Molly and Chiaka
Speaker 1: like Chiaca would play middle and then play the right side,
Speaker 1: and Molly would play right side and then play middle
Speaker 1: and they would switch when I was and you know,
Speaker 1: Molly would come in. We did a dub sub or
Speaker 1: something like that, and Molly would come in. She's now
Speaker 1: chess in the middle. I'm on the slide, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean?
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, I don't know how Yeah, you're in the
Speaker 2: middle now, Okay, then calm down.
Speaker 4: That's what it's about. Sex's plays. We love to put
Speaker 4: those horns up. That's che of course it is. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I remember I did that.
Speaker 1: I'd be ringing a slide and then she'd be ringing
Speaker 1: quick and somehow we would switch. Maybe it's a freeball
Speaker 1: player or something. Yeah, but she played opposite most of
Speaker 1: her freshman year. No way, set the slide. Look at
Speaker 1: her now set they what's funny is I did things
Speaker 1: for Texas that most players would transfer for. Oh imagine
Speaker 1: being a seducation outside and they come in to you
Speaker 1: and being like, hey, I don't think Hailey was really
Speaker 1: playing that much at that time.
Speaker 4: Yea, and our.
Speaker 1: Middle blockers we had big middle blockers, but they couldn't close.
Speaker 4: The offense was too fast. You know, Texas were in
Speaker 4: a high offense, so in practice.
Speaker 1: Our middles were a bit slower just because our offense
Speaker 1: that we ran was higher, so we played against teams
Speaker 1: that were a faster offense.
Speaker 4: The block was.
Speaker 1: Terrible, and I think Eric was the one that sat
Speaker 1: me down, was like, hey, like we can't close the block,
Speaker 1: and we know you've had some experience like playing middle,
Speaker 1: Like would you like transfer to the middle for us
Speaker 1: and play middle? And I was just like freshmen, just
Speaker 1: like whatever the team needs, like yeah, like I'll do it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: And I did that.
Speaker 2: But honestly, being a being a utility player young and
Speaker 2: not specialized, I feel like helps so much more like
Speaker 2: my skill set even now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I started.
Speaker 2: As a middle, I played opposite for a little bit.
Speaker 2: I played a passing outside, but then like overseas, there
Speaker 2: were times when we needed someone to fill in for
Speaker 2: an opposite, I could go do that. I could go
Speaker 2: like anywhere. Okay, now I would hate to be a middle,
Speaker 2: but it's it's such an advantage to be able to
Speaker 2: do all of the skills.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I used to like kind of be a little pissbout
Speaker 1: it about myself because I think that like doing that,
Speaker 1: I wasn't able to train my platform as well as
Speaker 1: I should have, you know, to be an ounside hitter,
Speaker 1: because I can hit really well from that, from that,
Speaker 1: from the four. But I will say it's like develop
Speaker 1: my game because I wasn't focused on hitting and passing.
Speaker 1: I've developed my game pretty much, really good far as
Speaker 1: like setting out a system or setting in system, or
Speaker 1: playing defense or you know, hitting on both.
Speaker 2: Sides, setting into We saw you do that a lot
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 1: True, setting in system, let me set the ball, just
Speaker 1: get out the way.
Speaker 4: But yeah, that was that was hell of fun.
Speaker 1: But yeah, back in the day, back in those days,
Speaker 1: what advice would.
Speaker 2: You give to the college version of yourself?
Speaker 4: I would just say, enjoy enjoy the moment.
Speaker 1: You know, I feel like we spend so much time
Speaker 1: thinking like what's next, or so much like I have
Speaker 1: so much anxiety about the past or what we need
Speaker 1: to do, those kind of things, and I feel like
Speaker 1: I was always just so anxious and I just wanted
Speaker 1: to do everything and be good at everything and impress
Speaker 1: my coaching staff, and like the result was gonna be
Speaker 1: the result.
Speaker 4: It was the result anyways.
Speaker 1: Because I was a hard worker and like, obviously my
Speaker 1: life has turned out.
Speaker 4: To be amazing.
Speaker 1: I would just say, like, I wish I would have
Speaker 1: enjoyed being there more, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, honestly, I would give the same answer.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, just enjoy the ride, which I
Speaker 2: do think I enjoyed it a lot while I was there,
Speaker 2: But like you don't really realize it when you're when
Speaker 2: you're in the moment, you know, you're just like, oh,
Speaker 2: like I'm gonna be here forever.
Speaker 4: No, that four years goes really fast.
Speaker 1: So I remember my freshman year, I was like I
Speaker 1: was there and I think it just started like preseason
Speaker 1: or like in the preseason, going into the end of
Speaker 1: the summer, the summer season and going into preseason, and
Speaker 1: I was like, hell, I was like just finish summer
Speaker 1: workouts and stuff.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I have four years to do this.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, that's a long time, and it goes
Speaker 1: by like that, yeah oh yeah.
Speaker 2: But when you're in the like brutal workouts, you're like,
Speaker 2: this is gonna be forever. What's something that you didn't
Speaker 2: appreciate about college volleyball?
Speaker 1: I guess more I appreciate our practice time a lot
Speaker 1: more than I did in college. You know, like I
Speaker 1: take practice like really serious now, like to the point
Speaker 1: where like like don't come in here if you're gonna
Speaker 1: like not give it all and like not work hard
Speaker 1: because it takes away from the group.
Speaker 4: I take that very personal.
Speaker 1: I think in college I always definitely more of like
Speaker 1: passive with it, just like okay, it's practice, like here
Speaker 1: we go again, like blah blah blah, unless like I
Speaker 1: you know that kind of thing. I think I had
Speaker 1: the appreciation a little bit better after my injury. But
Speaker 1: also like the help you have, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: That's what I would say all kind of stuff too,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and like the facilities, the amount of help, just
Speaker 2: the access to everything, Like, yeah, people are all about you.
Speaker 2: And I feel like once you go pro well and
Speaker 2: when you go abroad of just like fighting and advocating
Speaker 2: for yourself the whole time. Yeah, and I just feel
Speaker 2: like they're there to like make sure that you're doing well,
Speaker 2: You're passing all your classes, everything is going well, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And that was something that I definitely undervalued.
Speaker 1: But I will say that because you had, you know,
Speaker 1: that standard, you expect that, especially at a pro level,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's kind of a give and take two
Speaker 4: kind of thing.
Speaker 1: But now that we were able to like obviously experience that,
Speaker 1: Like you can't as a pro you're not and you
Speaker 1: sign a contract with say overseas, you're not going for
Speaker 1: no boy, you know what I mean. And when you
Speaker 1: get there, like you know, there's some things that you
Speaker 1: just have to kind of roll with the punches with.
Speaker 4: But just something by John, you know.
Speaker 2: So, what's one thing you're glad you don't have to
Speaker 2: do anymore collegiate wise?
Speaker 4: School?
Speaker 2: I can tell you mineol, I hate to go into class.
Speaker 2: Mine would be for punishment. We had to do sled
Speaker 2: like towel pushes. At the beginning of preseason. We had
Speaker 2: to all bring like a two by four piece of
Speaker 2: w would and a towel, and we like nailed the
Speaker 2: towel to the board, and anytime we had a punishment,
Speaker 2: we would do I don't know if I can say suicides.
Speaker 2: We had to do like down in backs pushing the
Speaker 2: thing across.
Speaker 4: The floor for practice when you got in trouble.
Speaker 2: Yes, so you're like face down, ass up pushing this
Speaker 2: board across the gym. Whenever like somebody I don't know
Speaker 2: whoever killed the drill, it would be like okay, sled
Speaker 2: push and you'd have to go down back and it
Speaker 2: was so great.
Speaker 1: Jared didn't do that. If you killed the drill, you
Speaker 1: just got kicked out of the drill. And if you
Speaker 1: got in trouble with any type of thing, he wouldn't
Speaker 1: even waste his time for practice. He would just basically
Speaker 1: tally it up. And then you'd have a thing called
Speaker 1: a breakfast club. This is like when you got in trouble,
Speaker 1: trouble like yeah, missing practice, missing class. A breakfast club
Speaker 1: was a workout before the six am workout, so it
Speaker 1: sort of six you had a five am workout. Well,
Speaker 1: I tell you, I had like probably the most in
Speaker 1: history I will see.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, I was gonna say you were eating breakfast a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was eating a lot of breakfasts. But baby
Speaker 1: girl body was tea. I was in shape, like super strong,
Speaker 1: So it was funny. It was almost like I would
Speaker 1: catch a second wind. And so I was always like
Speaker 1: beating people in races unless it was distance. I can't
Speaker 1: beat you in on distance shit, But like sprance wise,
Speaker 1: you can up to exit catch this dust.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: That is crazy.
Speaker 2: If we were late for anything, we would have an
Speaker 2: hour on the StairMaster, but you couldn't hold on to
Speaker 2: the railing, so you just had to.
Speaker 4: That was awful. I had to do it one time.
Speaker 2: And then for our six am workouts, the like burner
Speaker 2: at the end, we would do stadiums and you'd go
Speaker 2: up and down all the way around the stadium in
Speaker 2: under three minutes. If you didn't make the three minute time,
Speaker 2: you had to come back in the afternoon after you
Speaker 2: did all your classes and everything after practice, and you'd
Speaker 2: have to try again until.
Speaker 4: You got to under three minutes.
Speaker 1: These people were nuts and you can't do it now,
Speaker 1: you can't do it now. Oh.
Speaker 4: We heard a lot of peop chancer even calling the laws.
Speaker 1: I was also like there was some girls who were
Speaker 1: like I want to say, there was like a weight requirement,
Speaker 1: but like if they wanted you to a certain weight
Speaker 1: or wanted you to be like I guess more in shape.
Speaker 1: They would acquire players to like do extra workouts and
Speaker 1: stuff throughout the week, which was fine.
Speaker 2: We would ever meet, but yeah, we had like body
Speaker 2: comp stuff, but it was never I don't think it
Speaker 2: was ever enforced, like you have to come and work
Speaker 2: out extra. I was a girl in college though I
Speaker 2: didn't know like probably the proper nutrition. So after I
Speaker 2: would take the protein shake, I would be like drinking
Speaker 2: the muscle milk in the weight room, and then that
Speaker 2: day I would go to Chipotle and I would get
Speaker 2: like a steak case idea and a burrito for later,
Speaker 2: and I would house both of those in a day.
Speaker 2: And like I was, if you ask ask anyone, I
Speaker 2: was like beefy when I was in college.
Speaker 1: Damn yes, beefe Yeah, my dumb ass one. I thought
Speaker 1: like I went vegetarian or prescatarian, and I just wanted
Speaker 1: to see how much I could lean out, like how
Speaker 1: it was when I got sick. Baby girl, head was big.
Speaker 1: Head was big, like one seventy five, fallen.
Speaker 4: Over like this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't need to be like that, that was dumb. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 2: if you were in college now and you got nil money.
Speaker 4: Baby, I'm rich, I'm rich, I'm rich. What would you
Speaker 4: spend it on?
Speaker 1: Honestly, like I'm doing now, like hair nails, whatever, real
Speaker 1: estate investing? Yeah, out of my mind, wasn't there, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Like it wasn't.
Speaker 2: But I feel like these girls now they have help.
Speaker 4: You have to. Yeah, they're they're they are helping them,
Speaker 4: you know, But like.
Speaker 2: Right, I would hope that someone would have helped us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they would have helped us for sure, But I
Speaker 4: don't know if I would have listened or not.
Speaker 1: I think I would have. But like I definitely would
Speaker 1: have bought a car. I'd be like driving a Mercedes
Speaker 1: or something because.
Speaker 4: That was cool. Then like you know, yeah, I feel
Speaker 4: like my parents would like what do you do? That's
Speaker 4: so stupid? Yeah, see that they wouldn't let me. What
Speaker 4: would you buy? They would lay what were you would
Speaker 4: have done? Oh?
Speaker 2: They probably would have made me invest it and then
Speaker 2: given me like some sort of allowance per month.
Speaker 1: That's crazy that your parents, your parents would have your
Speaker 1: parents would have took your money, my mom, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have I wouldn't have.
Speaker 2: I don't think they would take it. I think that
Speaker 2: they would have been like, hey, this is like the
Speaker 2: smart thing to do.
Speaker 4: We need you to lock in and be.
Speaker 2: Realistic because if you blow all this, that's a huge mistake.
Speaker 4: I would have hoped they would have done that.
Speaker 2: But also I probably would have spent all of that
Speaker 2: on Lulu Lemon.
Speaker 4: Because Lulu hit like our senior year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wasn't in the luluvays. I just like to
Speaker 1: wear short dresses and high heels. Oh my god, how mommy,
Speaker 1: someone's off. She's like, you always to go out looking
Speaker 1: like that and do Okay, I'm grown, a grown.
Speaker 4: Nineteen year old exactly. Do your teammates like you, be honest?
Speaker 4: Did my teammates like me? Yeah? Okay?
Speaker 2: But when I was a senior, we had one freshman Okay,
Speaker 2: our arena it was just a big circle all the
Speaker 2: way around, and you had all of the team's locker
Speaker 2: rooms all the way around it. And there was one
Speaker 2: girl that told me at the end of the end
Speaker 2: of her freshman season when I was a senior, we
Speaker 2: were like friends at the end, but at the beginning,
Speaker 2: she said, I was so scared of you or like
Speaker 2: intimidated by you. She was walking one way down towards
Speaker 2: our locker room, and she saw me walking this way,
Speaker 2: but I didn't really see her. And then she turned
Speaker 2: around and walked all the way around the entire arena
Speaker 2: after I had walked in the locker room, just so
Speaker 2: that she wouldn't have.
Speaker 4: To like interact with me. Oh that's it.
Speaker 2: Was funny when she told the story, but I was like, dang,
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: This span actually tagged me into Florida versus Texas Wild
Speaker 1: Wild video. It was the year I think we won
Speaker 1: that championship and I ended up going back to watch
Speaker 1: like it was we swept. I think we swept Florida
Speaker 1: three zero, but like it was a confrontation, like a
Speaker 1: confrontational game, Like it was good.
Speaker 4: It was a good game.
Speaker 1: I was like that as actually like playing volleyball. Okay,
Speaker 1: it was in Florida, was like really good.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, anyway we can round it out here,
Speaker 2: but everybody make sure you're watching our girls USA playing
Speaker 2: in Japan this week at BNL. Watched them close out
Speaker 2: their last regular week and then finals week I think
Speaker 2: next week or the following week.
Speaker 5: YEP.
Speaker 1: Also being a lookout for some new roster announcements coming up.
Speaker 4: For Yes, the Love League.
Speaker 1: We got some things coming up, pretty exciting happening, So
Speaker 1: big things are coming, so stay tuned.
Speaker 2: But for us, I think that's it.
Speaker 4: Yep. So I'm Mattie.
Speaker 1: Rischel and I'm Kat Bell and we'll catch you on
Speaker 1: on the thip side.
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