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Speaker 1: with Adidas Today. Hi, I'm Tiffany Oshinsky, and this is

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Speaker 1: serving pancakes with League one Volleyball. The inaugural Love season

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Speaker 1: involved off the court. Today's episode features Love Austin opposite

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Speaker 1: hitter Kat Bell. Growing up in Mesquite, Texas, Cat stayed

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Speaker 1: in twenty twelve, plus two other NCAA semi final appearances.

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Speaker 1: She's played in six countries during her nine year professional career,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Serving Pancakes.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: I was so excited to have you here. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to Austin. What's it like being back?

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Speaker 1: Before we actually started recording this interview, you were telling

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Speaker 1: but if you're on YouTube, you can see this gorgeous apartment.

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Speaker 1: So tell me about this place real quick. I want

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Speaker 3: So it's my first time coming back home and like

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Speaker 3: So but it's been great to see them, see what

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Speaker 2: It happened. Yeah, State was just the reign of its own.

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Speaker 1: So now I know you're there's a few international players

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Speaker 1: Well, with text us out, who are you rooting for?

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Speaker 3: My really good good friend Aaron Fairs is a cardinal,

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Speaker 1: All Right, I've got pitt in Penn State in the finals,

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Speaker 1: the PA Finals, but I have pitt edging out Penn State.

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Speaker 1: because you have quite the resume. So let's go back

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Speaker 1: to the beginning. When did you first fall in love

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Speaker 3: I think I was about I was in seventh grade.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't know it was whatever I saw on TV.

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Speaker 2: and I was like WHOA. And then like Jared walks in.

441
00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:25,960
Speaker 3: He has these big blue eyes and he's just such

442
00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:28,480
Speaker 3: an amazing father figure and I right away got that

443
00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:30,560
Speaker 3: feeling from him. He walks in and I was kind

444
00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:32,880
Speaker 3: of like, you know, he's very nice and Slimmer walk

445
00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:36,240
Speaker 3: Boyle was assistant around that time, and Brian was still there,

446
00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:38,400
Speaker 3: but Eric had came in yet. But they were, you know,

447
00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:40,080
Speaker 3: meeting the staff of the first time was all nice,

448
00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:42,520
Speaker 3: and then the girls come in and I will never

449
00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:44,760
Speaker 3: forget the feeling that I had just seeing I can

450
00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:52,520
Speaker 3: always tear up just seeing such like a panel of

451
00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:55,640
Speaker 3: girls who were tall and like, you know, not a

452
00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:57,760
Speaker 3: change of their height and their complexion and like just

453
00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:01,280
Speaker 3: so many different just so much diversity. Jared was painted amazing,

454
00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:03,080
Speaker 3: and he had so much diverse on his team, you know,

455
00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:04,080
Speaker 3: hit Sarah Palmer.

456
00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:04,520
Speaker 2: Who was Hawaiian.

457
00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:07,520
Speaker 3: You had so many black women on his team, and

458
00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:10,480
Speaker 3: I was like, dang, like wow, like this is like

459
00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:11,720
Speaker 3: I want to be a part of this, you know,

460
00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:13,439
Speaker 3: and they're all just amazing people, and like I got

461
00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:15,720
Speaker 3: to meet them and you know, Washington practice and like

462
00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:18,040
Speaker 3: they're just I mean, these girls are good. Like I

463
00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:19,879
Speaker 3: watched him practice and like just seeing him go aswere

464
00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:21,680
Speaker 3: they were going. And I think it could be intimidating

465
00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:23,080
Speaker 3: for some girls, you know, like to go into that

466
00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:24,480
Speaker 3: gym and be like Okay, well if I come on

467
00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:26,320
Speaker 3: this team, you know, it comes kind of comes down to.

468
00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:27,240
Speaker 2: Where I want to go.

469
00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:28,879
Speaker 3: Do I want to go somewhere I know I'm gonna play,

470
00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:30,600
Speaker 3: or do I want to go somewhere where Like there's

471
00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:31,840
Speaker 3: a chance I'm to set the bench, but I'm going

472
00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:34,240
Speaker 3: to develop, you know, and my mindset how it was,

473
00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:37,600
Speaker 3: I was like, there's no freaking way that, Like if

474
00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:40,080
Speaker 3: I come here, I'm sitting the bench. And like the competition,

475
00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:41,879
Speaker 3: I was playing it outs at the time, and like

476
00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,320
Speaker 3: Destiny and Julian for graduating, but he still had like

477
00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:48,640
Speaker 3: two or three seniors coming in, sophomores coming in. Hallett

478
00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:50,320
Speaker 3: come in and was also coming in, and I was like,

479
00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:52,600
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't care what I got to do,

480
00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:54,560
Speaker 3: but I'm about to come in here and I'm.

481
00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:55,720
Speaker 2: Gonna just go crazy.

482
00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:57,640
Speaker 3: And so I just immediately just being in the atmosphere,

483
00:17:57,640 --> 00:17:59,720
Speaker 3: in the environment, and again I was going to visit

484
00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:00,480
Speaker 3: by myself.

485
00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:02,399
Speaker 2: I personally got to know the girls from personal.

486
00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:04,840
Speaker 3: They were arguing at the table at lunch in front

487
00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:06,280
Speaker 3: of me, you know, so I was like, oh, like

488
00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:06,760
Speaker 3: this is.

489
00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:10,960
Speaker 2: Tea Like y'all, y'all real real, Okay, they're not fronting vacant.

490
00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:11,800
Speaker 2: It's not a show, you know.

491
00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:14,240
Speaker 3: It was it was real and that was the most

492
00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:16,240
Speaker 3: That was just that's what shoot out to me the most.

493
00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:19,080
Speaker 3: And so after leaving the visit, I found out, you know,

494
00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:20,399
Speaker 3: I didn't want to leave. I was under so much

495
00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:21,840
Speaker 3: dress because like I was a number two recruit in

496
00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:25,119
Speaker 3: the country, and I had so many like college coaches

497
00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:26,760
Speaker 3: and emails and like told me, like I had this

498
00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:29,679
Speaker 3: huge finder and like I would cry some nights because

499
00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:31,480
Speaker 3: when you talk to players and you're asking him, you know,

500
00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:32,119
Speaker 3: what are you looking for?

501
00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:33,680
Speaker 2: What's the feeling? They're like, you just get a feeling.

502
00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:36,199
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm not getting this feeling, and like this

503
00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:39,159
Speaker 3: is a very important choice, you know, for myself, and

504
00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:42,760
Speaker 3: the choice is only mine, you know. And the feeling

505
00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:45,680
Speaker 3: for me was I felt away from home, but close enough,

506
00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:46,879
Speaker 3: do you know what I'm saying. I didn't know that

507
00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:49,440
Speaker 3: Austin would give me that much of space between Dallas,

508
00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:52,280
Speaker 3: and just like it was a place I felt like

509
00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:54,320
Speaker 3: I belonged, you know what I'm saying. I wanted to

510
00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:57,720
Speaker 3: be somewhere where the gym was amazingly high talented, being

511
00:18:57,760 --> 00:18:59,320
Speaker 3: around girls who were more developed than I was. To

512
00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:01,119
Speaker 3: win the game faster I was able to do that

513
00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:03,080
Speaker 3: or play with the girls at a higher level. I

514
00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:05,639
Speaker 3: was able to develop faster. So I went home and

515
00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:06,600
Speaker 3: I was like, that was it.

516
00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:09,359
Speaker 2: That was it, that was it. And then I went

517
00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:11,720
Speaker 2: back for another visit and I didn't know how to commit.

518
00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:13,200
Speaker 2: I'm like, what do you do? Like you just like

519
00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:16,360
Speaker 2: call on the phone. Do you tell him? But what's

520
00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:19,040
Speaker 2: the process? You know? So they might be down again.

521
00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:20,800
Speaker 3: I was sitting on the bench and I'll never forget.

522
00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:24,000
Speaker 3: They were playing Kansas State, and I'm like, I gotta

523
00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:25,600
Speaker 3: tell him, and I don't know why decide to tell

524
00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:27,640
Speaker 3: him right then and there, but like I'm like, here's

525
00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:27,920
Speaker 3: my eyes.

526
00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:28,800
Speaker 2: I'm like, i gotta tell him.

527
00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:30,360
Speaker 3: And so Jared's come like pac him back and forth

528
00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:31,840
Speaker 3: what he does, and I'm sitting there.

529
00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:35,359
Speaker 2: I'm just like I was like coach Elliott and he

530
00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:38,000
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, I said I want to come here.

531
00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:43,720
Speaker 2: He was like what. I was like, I'm like, I'm

532
00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:44,480
Speaker 2: doing this the wrong way.

533
00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:46,520
Speaker 3: Like I was like, I want to go to school here.

534
00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:47,679
Speaker 3: He's like, do you want to play for me? I

535
00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:48,840
Speaker 3: was like yeah, I was like I want to play

536
00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:49,959
Speaker 3: for you. I want to go to school. And he

537
00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:51,040
Speaker 3: was like that's great news.

538
00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:52,600
Speaker 2: So it's like he'said, okay, let me. He's like, okay.

539
00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:55,520
Speaker 3: He ended up going to Salema and he goes, hey, Salema,

540
00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:57,520
Speaker 3: like I got something to tell you. He goes man Cat,

541
00:19:57,560 --> 00:19:58,920
Speaker 3: he played a joker and slap me. He's like, man

542
00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:01,240
Speaker 3: cat just told me she wants to go to Florida.

543
00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:02,920
Speaker 3: And I remember othern forget Sleiman looks down on me

544
00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:04,719
Speaker 3: down the bench and I can see her.

545
00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:08,719
Speaker 2: She's like, get off the bench. She's like, watches it. Man.

546
00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:10,080
Speaker 2: He's like, now, I'm just kidding the girls.

547
00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:12,000
Speaker 3: He not the girls for the game, and like they

548
00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,040
Speaker 3: came over to me and everyone huging, congratulating me. I

549
00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:17,600
Speaker 3: got to watch them when and like when I said,

550
00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:19,920
Speaker 3: I want it was the best decision of my entire life.

551
00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:21,800
Speaker 3: Like I know, Texas was the one place that I

552
00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:24,119
Speaker 3: needed to be and I know that, like me, going

553
00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:27,760
Speaker 3: there has just developed me so much, becoming the woman

554
00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:28,399
Speaker 3: that I am today.

555
00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:30,920
Speaker 2: So it was definitely the right decision. So yeah, I.

556
00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:34,320
Speaker 1: Mean the whole story was like a path of maturity

557
00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:39,600
Speaker 1: and like growing up and learning who you are. Oh well,

558
00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:42,159
Speaker 1: it never is right. I feel like it's not easy

559
00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:43,879
Speaker 1: to grow up and learn all the kind of that

560
00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:46,520
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. But I was like seventeen, eighteen year

561
00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:48,639
Speaker 1: old or were you sixteen? Were you sophomore when I

562
00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:49,480
Speaker 1: was seventeen?

563
00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:50,240
Speaker 2: I was seventeen.

564
00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:52,639
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I feel like, yeah, you're still learning so

565
00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:54,680
Speaker 1: much about yourself. So to be able to like put

566
00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:59,000
Speaker 1: all that emotion and like understanding into that visit and

567
00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:01,199
Speaker 1: like realize that this this is what I want and

568
00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:03,200
Speaker 1: what I need and these are the people I want

569
00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:04,720
Speaker 1: to be around. I'el like, that's so machure of you,

570
00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:07,760
Speaker 1: and like, obviously it worked out. I mean, you ended

571
00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:10,840
Speaker 1: up winning a title in twenty twelve as a sophomore.

572
00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:11,639
Speaker 2: What was that like?

573
00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:15,600
Speaker 3: So my freshman year, I tore my a CEO MPM

574
00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:18,720
Speaker 3: and this damn near complete blew my knee out. And

575
00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:20,800
Speaker 3: my biggest thing was like I'd worked so hard and

576
00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:22,840
Speaker 3: I was like I want to see those shiny blue courts.

577
00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:24,400
Speaker 2: Once I come out to Texas, I had to watch

578
00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:26,320
Speaker 2: more and I was like, I have to get to

579
00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:27,080
Speaker 2: those blue courts.

580
00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,760
Speaker 3: Going into my freshman year, like I think I was

581
00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:30,399
Speaker 3: picked myself.

582
00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:31,920
Speaker 2: I was competing for Freshman of the.

583
00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:35,080
Speaker 3: Year and like I was went from the outside and

584
00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:36,920
Speaker 3: we had a tough conversation with you. It wasn't tough,

585
00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:38,679
Speaker 3: but like I'm a team player, Like whatever you need

586
00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:40,160
Speaker 3: me to do, I'm going to do it or whatever

587
00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:42,000
Speaker 3: you need. And we had a lot of blocking issues

588
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,160
Speaker 3: in the middle for the M two, So Jarry was like, hey,

589
00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:47,080
Speaker 3: like I got to ask.

590
00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:48,879
Speaker 2: You to do something. I'm like what He's like, I

591
00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:49,919
Speaker 2: need you to play middle for me.

592
00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,600
Speaker 3: And I'm like freak like dang, like I'm just not

593
00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:54,919
Speaker 3: getting my rhythm, like I'm going crazy out here. But

594
00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:57,000
Speaker 3: I'm like cool, like whatever it's going to take for

595
00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:58,960
Speaker 3: us to get to where we need to be. And

596
00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,440
Speaker 3: I'm hitting two balls in the middle, likes flying high,

597
00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:04,840
Speaker 3: hitting two balls from Hannah Allison, like racking up killed points,

598
00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,720
Speaker 3: not doing a lot. But I also was say like

599
00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:09,439
Speaker 3: I'm a mature enough now, woman enough now to know that,

600
00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:12,000
Speaker 3: like what I was doing on the court was not

601
00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:13,720
Speaker 3: reflection the person I was off the court, you know.

602
00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:17,119
Speaker 3: And I think God has a really has an amazing

603
00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:18,600
Speaker 3: way of showing you that like just as easy as

604
00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:19,760
Speaker 3: can give it to you, is the easiest way I

605
00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:23,760
Speaker 3: can take it from you. And November, towards the end

606
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:26,280
Speaker 3: of October, I think we're playing at Kansas, I'm doing

607
00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,480
Speaker 3: what I normally. Do you know I'm hitting those two balls.

608
00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:30,840
Speaker 3: I'm going crazy, going crazy. I'll never forget. The ball

609
00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,320
Speaker 3: was set to me and it was set and more

610
00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:35,880
Speaker 3: to my left. So I jumped in the air, flew

611
00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:37,760
Speaker 3: in the air, hit the two ball, got the point,

612
00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:41,639
Speaker 3: came down done, and I immediately grabbed my leg And

613
00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:44,159
Speaker 3: as soon as it happened, I knew what had happened.

614
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:44,720
Speaker 2: I already knew.

615
00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:47,240
Speaker 3: And I'm like, Dan comes over and she's like just

616
00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,800
Speaker 3: telling me to calm down. End up carrying out the court,

617
00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:53,240
Speaker 3: and I already knew what I had done, you know.

618
00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:54,960
Speaker 3: And Dean looked at me and she was like, well,

619
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:56,560
Speaker 3: get a choice, Like righting in there, Dan's like you

620
00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:57,000
Speaker 3: have a choice.

621
00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,359
Speaker 2: It's like either you're going to come back and be

622
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:01,359
Speaker 2: stronger orre you gonna let this thing defeat you. It's

623
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:02,040
Speaker 2: up to you. I don't know.

624
00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:03,240
Speaker 3: Thing I can do is bring it to the well.

625
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:05,040
Speaker 3: Can't make you drink. So I was like no, like

626
00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:07,200
Speaker 3: I'm going to come back. And it ended up being

627
00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:08,960
Speaker 3: like I think, going the fastest recovery that text has

628
00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,920
Speaker 3: ever had. This is like the November I was back

629
00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:15,080
Speaker 3: playing by. I was running by March and cutting I

630
00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:18,720
Speaker 3: was back playing by April May, and I was full

631
00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:20,399
Speaker 3: blown ready to go before season even went on.

632
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:22,199
Speaker 2: So like I was not also pushing it. I mean,

633
00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:22,960
Speaker 2: my training was.

634
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,480
Speaker 3: It was intense. Like I pushed myself a lot. Even

635
00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:28,080
Speaker 3: when I was in the training facility with d N,

636
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:29,080
Speaker 3: I was doing my own stuff.

637
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:29,960
Speaker 2: There were sometimes there was.

638
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:31,400
Speaker 3: Days that she had to call me and be like Kat,

639
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:34,240
Speaker 3: like you can't be on the football field flipping tires,

640
00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:36,000
Speaker 3: Like that's not going to help your recovery.

641
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:37,520
Speaker 2: But I'm like I need to get back, you know.

642
00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:39,440
Speaker 2: So that motivation.

643
00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:42,560
Speaker 3: Definitely pushed me to be whatever my team needed to

644
00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:44,880
Speaker 3: be going in twenty twelve, which was a starting middle blocker.

645
00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:50,320
Speaker 2: And going through that trial and then coming.

646
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:52,240
Speaker 3: Back from that and then playing and having an amazing

647
00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:55,000
Speaker 3: season twenty twelve, and then like I'll never forget this.

648
00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:57,600
Speaker 3: We're playing Michigan and it's the practice before, no practice before,

649
00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:58,800
Speaker 3: that's championship, That's what it was.

650
00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,720
Speaker 2: And I go up just to do a blocking move,

651
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:03,679
Speaker 2: come down, and I feel like my whole back collapse

652
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:03,920
Speaker 2: on me.

653
00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:05,360
Speaker 3: I don't know if people know this or not, but

654
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 3: the night before the day before the NFT Championship game,

655
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 3: I had a bolding disc. My whole back collapse on me,

656
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 3: like it was it was out, it was on a nerve.

657
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:17,160
Speaker 3: I had a shooting pain, like I probably shouldn't play,

658
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,120
Speaker 3: but obviously, like it's like, ain't no way.

659
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:22,000
Speaker 2: I've come all this way and.

660
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,040
Speaker 3: I'm not finna get this, get get this money, like

661
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:25,159
Speaker 3: I'm not about to get this ring.

662
00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:27,919
Speaker 2: I'm I'm not gonna do it. So the doctor came in.

663
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,640
Speaker 3: They're okay, we can give you like a pain relief shot,

664
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:32,360
Speaker 3: but it's docked. I mean, it won't last as long,

665
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:33,440
Speaker 3: but it can kind of help you through things. So

666
00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:35,560
Speaker 3: we're kind of trying to time it where I could

667
00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:37,640
Speaker 3: be on the floor. I got a shot right before

668
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,800
Speaker 3: going onto the court, and I played.

669
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:42,760
Speaker 2: Well, played well, play well by the time the second

670
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:45,160
Speaker 2: where we went three zero that game, thank god, thank god.

671
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,480
Speaker 3: But by the time the halftime mark came in, the

672
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:49,840
Speaker 3: medicine was wearing off, and so I'm back like quidling

673
00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:52,320
Speaker 3: down again, like I could barely walk. And there I'm

674
00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:53,840
Speaker 3: like what are we gonna do? And I'm like, can

675
00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:55,280
Speaker 3: I have another shot? And we were like you sure,

676
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:56,719
Speaker 3: I'm like, give me, give me one more, just give

677
00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:58,960
Speaker 3: another shot. So I had another shot in my back.

678
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,680
Speaker 3: We won, everyone goes out that night to celebrate. I'm

679
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:06,639
Speaker 3: like in the hotel bed ridden. Like flying back was

680
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:08,359
Speaker 3: the craziest pain I've ever been in. I had to

681
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:10,520
Speaker 3: get an epidural on my back, like I was out

682
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:13,480
Speaker 3: a month again. Trainers at Texas are amazing, Donnie may

683
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 3: if he's amazing. They got me back going and come

684
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:17,760
Speaker 3: back from an injury. And then when NAT Championship was

685
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:19,560
Speaker 3: the best thing ever.

686
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 1: Ever despite the desk Yeah, where I mean, your whole

687
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:27,920
Speaker 1: journeys so far from what you've told me, You've had

688
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,880
Speaker 1: all this insane like determination. Where does the determination come from?

689
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 2: I think, Regina? My mom.

690
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:38,359
Speaker 3: My mom is such a boss. Like so I was

691
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,440
Speaker 3: raised in a single parent home. I still really reallyships

692
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 3: with my dad, But my mom has just.

693
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:44,440
Speaker 2: Raised me to be who I am.

694
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,600
Speaker 3: You know, she worked, you know, two jobs sometimes to

695
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:48,480
Speaker 3: take care of all of us, and like she really

696
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:50,640
Speaker 3: just did what she had to do to make sure

697
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 3: that we had what we needed, you know, And I've

698
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:55,440
Speaker 3: always wanted to take care of her. And like I'm

699
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:56,639
Speaker 3: proud to say that, Like, you know, I want to

700
00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 3: went pro. I was like, quit your job, like you're

701
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,240
Speaker 3: done like I can do it. I can do it.

702
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:01,760
Speaker 3: So I've been taking care of my mom now since

703
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,400
Speaker 3: I've gone pro, and I can't imagine how she even

704
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:04,600
Speaker 3: did it.

705
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:05,880
Speaker 2: I don't know how she did it, you.

706
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:07,919
Speaker 3: Know, And to see her work the long hour she

707
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:09,919
Speaker 3: working and still be a mom, be a parent, provide

708
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:11,920
Speaker 3: for us and like so she always preached just about

709
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 3: staying preyed up and taking care of yourself and you know,

710
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:17,960
Speaker 3: don't let you know circumstances put you down, like just

711
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 3: prevail through yourself.

712
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 2: It's definitely stems.

713
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 1: From her, for sure, super mom right there.

714
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 2: For sure, Girl, that's my dog.

715
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 1: So when it came to playing professionally, did you know

716
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 1: about professional volleyball when you were in college or how

717
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:47,479
Speaker 1: did that come about? Where you decided that you were

718
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 1: eventually going to go play abroad?

719
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,879
Speaker 3: Kind of sort of, But I wasn't mave sure like

720
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 3: about like, you know, my opportunities because I again, I

721
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 3: had been at Texas for four years. I played outside

722
00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 3: my freshman year, but then move to the middle, then

723
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 3: moved play a middle blocker my sophomore and junior year,

724
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 3: and then my senior year, Jared moved me to the

725
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,239
Speaker 3: opposite side. So I kind of bounced around a little bit,

726
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:09,200
Speaker 3: so I wasn't sure, like you know, about film, like

727
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 3: how that would look or what the process even was.

728
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,480
Speaker 3: And like at the time, Jared's close friend is Tim Kelly,

729
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:15,479
Speaker 3: who was running an agency at the time. The majority

730
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:17,199
Speaker 3: of the girls that came through Texas always like went

731
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:20,239
Speaker 3: through him to play pro, and I didn't really think

732
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 3: about it, honestly, Like I didn't really think about going

733
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:26,119
Speaker 3: pro until you know, Haley left and she went to Korea,

734
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 3: and like I heard about her experience and it wasn't

735
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,119
Speaker 3: the best experience. But again, like you know what they

736
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,200
Speaker 3: giving you, you get making what I'm about to go.

737
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:36,200
Speaker 2: Get that money like that I can be in an igloo.

738
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:38,639
Speaker 2: Don't worry about it. I can go get that money,

739
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:38,919
Speaker 2: you know.

740
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 3: So, And that's why I tell some girls too. It

741
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 3: depends on how you want to kind of like send

742
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 3: your careers, like do you want to go make money

743
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 3: or do you want to go travel or like you

744
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 3: want to go playing zeph Cup. I've always seen my

745
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 3: career around making money because I'm provided for my family,

746
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:53,480
Speaker 3: Like I take care of my family, So that was

747
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:53,959
Speaker 3: the main thing.

748
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,359
Speaker 2: It's like, Okay, I have to make money.

749
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:57,679
Speaker 3: I take care of myself and take care of my

750
00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 3: body and make better choices, whether it's working out or

751
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 3: eating because I have to make money. Like when Hailey

752
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:04,679
Speaker 3: went pro in Korea and she showed her experience and

753
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:06,440
Speaker 3: like how hard it was, but like what she was making.

754
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 3: I was like, well, you know, I love volleyball, but

755
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 3: like if this can make me some money, let's keep

756
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:11,159
Speaker 3: doing it, you know.

757
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:12,560
Speaker 2: So I got a.

758
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:16,640
Speaker 3: Wind to the Korean tryout and they had the Korean

759
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,159
Speaker 3: try in Anaheim, and that's when Emily Hartong was also on

760
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,440
Speaker 3: the team that you're Leslie Secra. There's a few girls

761
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 3: that I met that are playing and we're on the

762
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 3: same tryout, and like, you know, I had to play.

763
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,639
Speaker 2: All these positions, like I can set, I can pass,

764
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:28,639
Speaker 2: I can play defense, I can play middle.

765
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 3: And also like I made other girls look good and

766
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:32,920
Speaker 3: that's been you know it? So who was the draft

767
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 3: was just like playing volleyball with my friends, you know,

768
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 3: And I knew what team I was gonna be on

769
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 3: before the draft even happened, and like that's a draft,

770
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 3: you can't tell through the balls being picked. I just

771
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 3: knew the team I was going to be on. It

772
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 3: just happened to be Haley's team, and because you show me,

773
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 3: She's like, well, how do you know.

774
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 2: Gonna be the team?

775
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 3: They can be picked the draft pickers for like the

776
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,480
Speaker 3: fourth time, and like you not get picked by the

777
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 3: I'm like, it's.

778
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 2: All the draft is a draft. I just knew. I

779
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 2: don't know how I knew. I just knew that I

780
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:56,480
Speaker 2: was gonna be on that team that way.

781
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 3: So when that opportunity came to me about playing in

782
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 3: Korea and going pro and I talk to Jared, I

783
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 3: was like, hey, I need some film for this trial,

784
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 3: and there goes like okay, they helped me get some film,

785
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 3: and like it was all over the place, but I

786
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 3: sent in and the best thing was like if I

787
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 3: can get to a tryout, I don't need film, you know.

788
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 3: So going in to the Korean draft, went to the trial,

789
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 3: and from there the rest was history.

790
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 2: So that's awesome.

791
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 1: Now, out of all the countries that you've played in,

792
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,719
Speaker 1: what's kind of been your favorite, both to play and

793
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 1: just to be in?

794
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 3: Korea is my favorite and Turkey. I really enjoyed Turkey

795
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 3: a lot. I pick up the language pretty easily as

796
00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 3: well too. I think any girls that play there it's

797
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 3: just you developed the language very quickly. The food is amazing,

798
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 3: but I also love Korean food. But I just love Korea.

799
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 2: And also just like it's just an accid that I am.

800
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 3: Like, Korea is hard, It is tough, and it is

801
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,200
Speaker 3: a grind, and anyone that has played there, and it's

802
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 3: played there multiple years can tell you that, Like my

803
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 3: body's not the same I'm playing there, like it's done

804
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,600
Speaker 3: some damage. But like you know, it's you come out

805
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 3: like a phoenix, you know what I'm saying, Like, no,

806
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 3: I was chasing this.

807
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 2: I don't know what I feel like. I was just

808
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 2: chasing this dreams, you know with Korea.

809
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 3: You know, my first year of Korea, it was, you know,

810
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 3: going to something like that and being twenty one, never

811
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 3: been really abroad like that before. And like my mom

812
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 3: went with me because that was amazing heard of them

813
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 3: with me. But like it's a hard job. I mean

814
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 3: practice is I'm talking about. I would go to practice

815
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 3: twenty nine pay like nine am. I wouldn't be done

816
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 3: until like nine o'clock at night, Like it was a

817
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 3: like a twelve hour thing. Like I would my mom

818
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 3: had to force me to eat, that's how tired I

819
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:23,680
Speaker 3: was I think. I was like, right now, I'm one

820
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 3: hundred and come about one hundred and eighty five eighty

821
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 3: seven pounds probably like I'll say, we'll say like nineteen

822
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 3: percent eighteen percent body fat something around there. In Korea,

823
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 3: I was one seventy five and I was nine percent

824
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 3: body fat like I was. It was giving starvation like

825
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 3: it was bad, but it's because like my body was

826
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 3: burning so much and I was trying to consume.

827
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 2: But again, like the food there's already naturally healthy as well.

828
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 2: So it was a lot.

829
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:52,720
Speaker 3: But when I won the Korean Cup two years ago,

830
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 3: the team was in the fourth when I got there,

831
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 3: I left and left Turkey and the team was like

832
00:30:57,560 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 3: in fifth place, and so I was like, there was

833
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 3: one girl was the national team, wasn't the gym anymore.

834
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 2: She kind of completely just giving up on the team.

835
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 2: And I got a chance to talk to her.

836
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 3: She came out to practice and I was like, if

837
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 3: you can trust me, we can get we can get

838
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 3: out of this hole. And we did and it took

839
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 3: everything we were down. Kim Young is one of the

840
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 3: best house sides in the world. She's Korean and she

841
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 3: was that's like her first it was her first season

842
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 3: playing back in Korea, and so like everybody was just

843
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 3: like crazy about her. On top of she was on

844
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 3: the team, She's on the team that I was on

845
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 3: the year before, and so it was this whole kind

846
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 3: of like storyline. They're kind of building up and Pink

847
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 3: Spiders they had beat us every time we played them.

848
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:31,520
Speaker 3: Once I got there, they beat us every gain every match.

849
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 3: Every match, I was getting blocked left and right, like,

850
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 3: and my coach was like, you know, when you play

851
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 3: against Kink Spiders, you don't play that well. I was like,

852
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 3: I don't know, it's just God telling me not to

853
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 3: play good. Ask it, but when it counts, it's gonna

854
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 3: cut turning on. He was just like, cut, you know,

855
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 3: think I'm crazy. I'm like, no, Like I just I

856
00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 3: manifest every I believe it, you know. So we get

857
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 3: to the finals and we're playing Pink Spiders again. They

858
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 3: wiped us off across the floor every time they played us,

859
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 3: and it's five sets, five game series.

860
00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 2: They were playing five max and five sets every other day.

861
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 3: So the we're down two zero in the set and

862
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 3: then in the series, so they just need one more

863
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 3: game and that's it. We win the third third match

864
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 3: and I'm crying. So now I'm like, we ain't no

865
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 3: way I came all this way. There's no way I

866
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 3: came all this way. We won the fourth game, So

867
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 3: now I was going to the fifth series. Day five

868
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 3: of playing. We go, we go up two sets, they

869
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 3: win the third set, they win the fourth set, I mean,

870
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 3: going to fifth set, and I'm like, I'm.

871
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:24,959
Speaker 2: Not I haven't cracked a smile.

872
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 3: Every ball that hits my hand at least my hand

873
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:29,479
Speaker 3: is a point, like I'm not cheering.

874
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not gonna look at the score

875
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 2: and the scoreboard at this point.

876
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 3: And next thing you know, we win the fifth set

877
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 3: literally fifteen thirteen like it was, I mean every I.

878
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 2: Wanted it so bad. I knew in my mind. I

879
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 2: was like, if I want this, it's going I'm gonna

880
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 2: have to get everything that happen.

881
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 3: I get everything, and I end up being it was

882
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 3: the first thing they ever had a four and MVP

883
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 3: before normally did the girls get it.

884
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 2: So I was the first scoring MVP and it was.

885
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 2: It was a whole thing. I in a Korea amazing la.

886
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 3: I was like, when you come back, I'm like, probably not.

887
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like a mic drop right there.

888
00:32:58,040 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 2: But you can't do it better than that, you know.

889
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 1: So what made you ultimately decide to come to the

890
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 1: US and then now play for League One.

891
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 3: Just being back at home, honestly, like coming back to

892
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 3: Austin is a full circle moment. I've been thinking of

893
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 3: retirement already as it is, and to be able to

894
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 3: retire back in the States would be amazing. I've had

895
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 3: so much love overseas, but like being away for nine

896
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:21,479
Speaker 3: months at a time, it just became too It's just

897
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 3: it's a.

898
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 2: Grind and some manage who want to do anymore?

899
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 3: And like, fortunately I have the opportunity to play like

900
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 3: in short seasons like I was in the Philippines this summer,

901
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 3: and then that was amazing.

902
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 2: You know.

903
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 3: I spent my whole summer playing volleyball and making money

904
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 3: and like traveling and being in a warm climate, which

905
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:35,719
Speaker 3: was great. But just doing that long term eight month

906
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:37,040
Speaker 3: season and broad is just something you just didn't want

907
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 3: to do anymore again, going back to always one wanting

908
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 3: to be around and compete with the best, So that

909
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 3: definitely was something that when you want to come back,

910
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 3: and then when I often have a team, I was

911
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 3: like oh for sure.

912
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 2: Like I want to be a part of that too.

913
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 3: So now, like you know, have theses and nephews that

914
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 3: are older now and that can watch me on TV

915
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 3: and watch me play and come to the games and

916
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 3: watching play, So that's really important to me.

917
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 1: So, yeah, who were some of the players that you

918
00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 1: were excited to both play with and play against?

919
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 2: I would say Haley Washington.

920
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 3: She is amazing, Like I've watched her since she was

921
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:08,359
Speaker 3: also in college as well.

922
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:10,360
Speaker 2: I love her attitude.

923
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 3: I love how she's like just this amazing beast on

924
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,720
Speaker 3: the court and.

925
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 2: She's very entertaining, and so am I too, you know.

926
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:18,000
Speaker 3: So we even talked a little bit on insigin that

927
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 3: like this one game we can kind of trick for

928
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 3: a little bit, don't do too much, don't do too

929
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,839
Speaker 3: much pretending for fake, and go away real quick.

930
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 2: So but no, she I loved her energy in the

931
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:30,720
Speaker 2: court as well. Kelsey Robinson.

932
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:32,319
Speaker 3: I was able to watch her at Tennessee and when

933
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 3: she went to Nebraska and when she did there for

934
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 3: that program, and obviously watched her game to the national

935
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 3: team as well.

936
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:38,360
Speaker 2: So when I saw those names kind of come in

937
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 2: was amazing.

938
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,359
Speaker 3: And then I think Maddie came in towards the end,

939
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 3: which I was already signed, but then Mattie Kingan is

940
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 3: like one of my best friends. So Maddie being in

941
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 3: Houston was like even amazing. So I was able to

942
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:51,239
Speaker 3: like literally talk to Chiyaka about coming. So I talked

943
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 3: to her into comments and once she was coming, I

944
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:53,240
Speaker 3: was like, Yeah.

945
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:54,360
Speaker 2: This is gonna be amazing experience.

946
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 3: So I think the people, for sure, people definitely made

947
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:58,360
Speaker 3: it the experience for me, are making it the experience

948
00:34:58,400 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 3: for me.

949
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 1: All right, well, let's talk about you as a person,

950
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 1: because you are so fun and fascinating and your personality

951
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:10,840
Speaker 1: is great, So let's talk just hobbies, passions. What do

952
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 1: you like to do for fun?

953
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 2: I really just like growth is a big thing for me.

954
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 3: I think I love anything that can make me develop

955
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 3: my just becoming a I have a vision of myself

956
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 3: as this woman and anything I can do to get

957
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 3: me there, that's my biggest thing is like, Okay, what

958
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 3: can I do to get to her faster? You know,

959
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 3: I like to cook. I really do enjoy cooking. It's

960
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:32,759
Speaker 3: one of my favorite things to do. Yeah, and just

961
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 3: my new thing right now is building things. So going

962
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:37,400
Speaker 3: to like home goods and find different things to put

963
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 3: into my apartment and different chemises and that kind.

964
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 2: Of stuff too. So yeah, just chilling, developing. I like

965
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:43,680
Speaker 2: to go to church those kind of things.

966
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: For the last question, I just want to, you know

967
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 1: it bring it back to love. Ended on a love note.

968
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 1: What are you hoping to showcase in this inaugural season

969
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 1: for love? Both as a player yourself, but also like

970
00:35:58,160 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 1: when it comes to women's volleyball in general.

971
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 3: I mean, the sport is growing, and you know, I

972
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 3: just want to showcase the attraction for the sport. You know,

973
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:06,440
Speaker 3: hopefully we can get enough people like to really believe

974
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 3: in us and watch us and you know, show that

975
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 3: like you know, volleyball is an amazing fun game is

976
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 3: like everywhere else, you know, and I really hope that

977
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 3: the girls really dive into that aspect of it, Like

978
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:17,880
Speaker 3: it's entertainment. People want to come and be entertained, and

979
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 3: volleyball is already entering support. But like you know, having

980
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 3: amazing cheers on the sideline or cheers in the court,

981
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 3: and like you know, a little smack talking between the

982
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 3: that a little bit can like also drive it up.

983
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 2: I think that's one thing that did really well for

984
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:29,800
Speaker 2: women's basketball.

985
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 3: So just a showcase, like the sport is fun and

986
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 3: it's growing, developing, and like to show that, you know,

987
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 3: young girls that do look like me, that you guys

988
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:40,359
Speaker 3: have an option to play after college and there's something

989
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 3: you can do professionally at home. So it's you know,

990
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 3: I just wanted to keep going and just a showcase

991
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,440
Speaker 3: to the sport and just that it's an amazing thing

992
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 3: for us to have here in the States.

993
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: So yeah, I love it. Well, Thank you so much,

994
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 1: Cap for coming on. Serving Pancakes. It's a pleasure, Thank you,

995
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: Thank you for having me. Serving Pancakes is an iHeart

996
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 1: women's sports production in partner with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment.

997
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:05,799
Speaker 1: You can find us on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

998
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts. Production by League One Volleyball,

999
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 1: I'm your host Tiffany Oshinsky. Anya Olivarez is our senior producer.

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00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:19,480
Speaker 1: Our executive producers are Carrie Stett, Tamaradike, and Lindsay Hoffman.

1001
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 1: Our marketing lead is Juwara Parker. Sound editing and mixing

1002
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 1: by Daniel Gonzalez. Our theme music is Pancakes by Eric W.

1003
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Speaker 2: Mast Junior.

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Speaker 1: Special thanks to kat Bell, Stay tuned for another episode

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