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Speaker 1: Hey, Serving Pancakes listeners, Tiffany here with a quick shout

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Speaker 1: out on your chance to be part of history. Hi,

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Speaker 1: I'm Tiffany Oshinsky and I'm Capo, and this is serving

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Speaker 1: pancakes with League one Volleyball. The inaugural Love Finals are

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Speaker 1: almost here, and in today's episode, Kat and I will

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Speaker 1: be going over all the matches from the final week

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Speaker 1: of the regular season to get you ready for the

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Speaker 1: final showdown in Louisville next week. Then, after the analysis,

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Speaker 1: I sat down with Love Madison's Claire Chafe where we

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Speaker 1: talked about matt amazing turnaround, clears, volleyball journey, and so

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Speaker 1: much more. The cat we are one week away from

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Speaker 1: the season.

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Speaker 2: Believe that gosh, I can't I think by so quick?

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Speaker 3: You know, we're in the first week and we're talking

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Speaker 3: about the recap is the first few matches and then

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Speaker 3: here we are at towards the end.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, and you guys get to Louisville early, right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we travel out on Tuesday. So we came back

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Speaker 3: from Salt Lake today and it's a quick turning round

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Speaker 3: practice tomorrow and back on the plane on Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: Let's go one final showdown.

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Speaker 2: One last draw.

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Speaker 1: Here we go. It's the big one and the first

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Speaker 1: one ever, so it's like extra historic, which is super

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Speaker 1: fun fun.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's do these week thirteen recaps and

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Speaker 1: then we'll get into what we are going to expect

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Speaker 1: in the finals next weekend. So let's start with Thursday

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Speaker 1: night's match between top seeded Love Atlanta versus Love Omaha.

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Speaker 1: Atlanta swept the Girls of Nebraska in Nebraska twenty five,

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Speaker 1: twenty three, twenty five, twenty three, twenty five, nineteen. So

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Speaker 1: what stood out to you most about how they handled

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Speaker 3: Hey, you know, Atlanta's like a good product you want

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Speaker 3: to keep buying. You know, they're keep pushing out the

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Speaker 3: same thing every weekend, and it's a great product you

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Speaker 2: They're consistent with what they.

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Speaker 3: Do as attackers, as a defense, as an offense, obviously

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Speaker 1: Opposite Danielle Katina delivered another player of the match performance

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Speaker 1: with twelve kills in all three of Atlanta's aces, and

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Speaker 1: two hundred points, another milestone in this inaugural season. What

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Speaker 1: did you love about her game Thursday night? And how

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Speaker 3: I'm obsessed with Danielle. She is such a great opposite

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Speaker 1: a huge development for Atlanta. So how dangerous is this

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Speaker 3: I mean it's dangerous now tested being back, you have options.

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Speaker 3: This last week is what matters, and potentially I feel

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Speaker 1: And another player that we need to shout out Tia

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Speaker 1: Congrats to Tia.

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Speaker 1: Describe the impact Tia has defensively at the net?

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Speaker 2: Gid you a great opportunity. So that's she did a

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Speaker 1: She's so fun on watch, Yeah, she is so fun.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: Well, Friday night we saw Love Madison win their seventh

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Speaker 1: when you know they weren't at their best, what stood

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Speaker 3: The best teams don't how to close out, and I

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Speaker 3: But just staying steady even though they're backs against the wall,

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Speaker 1: Now. On the salt Lake side, Ronnie Jones, Perry and

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Speaker 3: You know, they have so many options. Even though I've

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Speaker 2: Minami is just the best bro in the league. She's amazing.

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Speaker 3: I think Saltlake has a really good chance to compete

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, it was the first match of Saturday's

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Speaker 1: They get the bye after sweeping Madison twenty five twenty five,

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Speaker 1: They were locked in from the first serve and really

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Speaker 3: I think it's just well deserved. I think Houston has been,

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Speaker 1: We had a little watch party on Saturday night with

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Speaker 2: What was the reaction after Madison lost? What was the reaction?

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Speaker 1: She's like, boom, Madison dy lost. It's okay, baby girl.

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Speaker 1: Going back to Houston, you know, their blog was dominant.

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Speaker 3: just relying heavy on your pin hitters, relying heavy on

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Speaker 1: Madison's seven match win Street came to an end and

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Speaker 2: It's all about what we're doing.

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Speaker 1: I always call it like the ted Lasso mentality, because

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Speaker 3: You know, my friend's majority of my friends also on

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Speaker 3: But Haley being Haley, you know, there was a ball

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Speaker 1: If you were at the net when Haley did that,

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Speaker 3: Like what at one point, like even our benches were

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Speaker 2: It was fun. We enjoyed. It was great. It was thick.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, great game. Well, speaking of Haley, Haley Washington had

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Speaker 3: They have so many puzzles and so many opportunities to

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Speaker 2: Their blocking schemes are work great.

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Speaker 3: Heidi is just amazing defensively picking up balls for them

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Speaker 1: Well, you ladies Austin had a block party on Saturday night.

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Speaker 1: We didn block anything.

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Speaker 1: And blocking is so fun to watch when it just

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Speaker 1: Confidence is key, for sure.

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Speaker 1: Well, now we have to look forward to the Love

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Speaker 1: The first game is at four thirty pm Eastern Time,

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Speaker 1: which is you guys, Love Austin versus Love Salt Lakes'.

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Speaker 1: Starting with Salt Lake. They've had an up and down season,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they find a spark.

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Speaker 1: When it matters. So what gives them their edge in

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Speaker 3: Of the I told to Chiako Ramali this morning. I said,

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Speaker 3: But the spark is just what they all have, you know,

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Speaker 1: So you ladies obviously just played Salt Lake, so this

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we need we need to collect our coins back.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I actually looked it up. Salt Lake has played

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Speaker 1: the most five set matches of the season. You ladies

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Speaker 2: I'm just like, let's just shock the world. Why don't we?

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Speaker 3: You know, we have such a great team and on

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Speaker 2: But that's not the case right now.

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Speaker 3: So I think right now for us, it's just like

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Speaker 2: We have to squareut a system.

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Speaker 3: We got to find better resolutions when it comes to

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Speaker 2: So right now it's pins.

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Speaker 3: So as attackers on the pin, we got to find

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Speaker 1: To shock the roster, find a roster than shock the world.

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Speaker 2: I love it off the world. All right.

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Speaker 1: The next quarterfinal match on that same Thursday, we'll be

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Speaker 3: Don't do too much it don't do too much major comeback,

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Speaker 3: I think again, it's just you know, forgetting about what

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Speaker 3: They also have great leaders. They have what a last

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Speaker 2: They'll be just fine, all right.

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Speaker 1: Love Atlanta and Love Houston get an extra day of

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Speaker 1: the Semis. So let's look at these two teams for

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Speaker 3: I think both teams they have a rhythm, they have

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Speaker 3: I would say, by position, try to be better than

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Speaker 3: But they can come into the court defending if it

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Speaker 3: is them back to back in a championship match. Going

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Speaker 3: head to head and being the better player in your position,

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Speaker 3: we'll definitely try to keep your points close.

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Speaker 1: And lastly, Kat, I know that you're playing in this tournament.

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Speaker 1: I know that you probably or most definitely want Austin

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Speaker 1: to win, But I gotta still ask, who do you

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Speaker 1: think is gonna hoist that trophy in the end.

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Speaker 2: You know we're gonna shock the world. I'm gonna go Austin.

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Speaker 2: But let's just say we miss our flight.

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Speaker 3: And we can't make it to the party. I'm probably

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Speaker 3: gonna go Houston. I'm probably go Houston.

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Speaker 1: Interesting, you know what I was thinking about who's gonna

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Speaker 1: win on my end? Like who I would bet on?

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Speaker 1: Which I'm not a better but like if I had

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Speaker 1: a guess, I kind of think Houston too. I think

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Speaker 1: I think Madison's a game. I like, I feel it

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Speaker 1: could be a Madison Houston rematch, But I think Houston

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Speaker 1: will squeak it out in the end too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, I definitely agree.

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Speaker 1: If you guys miss your plane, of course, yeah.

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Speaker 2: If we miss our plane, you know, we all get

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Speaker 2: through poison or something. Yes, it has to be something

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Speaker 2: like that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, a lot. I'm so excited to see

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Speaker 1: what happens this weekend. Best of luck to you and

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Speaker 1: your team, and obviously to all the other ladies in

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Speaker 1: the league. I hope you do shock the world. It'll

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Speaker 1: be a lot of fun to watch.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Well, let's stick around after the break from my interview

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Speaker 1: with Love Madison's Claire Chasse. We are back and I'm

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Speaker 1: excited to have Love Madison's Claire Schasse on the show.

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Speaker 1: Claire is an outside hitter from Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, who

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Speaker 1: led the University of Louisville to five NCAA tournament bird

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Speaker 1: As a senior, Claire earned first team All American and

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Speaker 1: acc Player of the Year honors while taking the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: to the championship game. She made her professional debut in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three in Italy and has been playing here

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Speaker 1: in the States and now is with League One Volleyball

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Speaker 1: in Madison. Claire, Welcome to Serving Pancakes.

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Speaker 4: Hello, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: Always excited to have someone on the team from Madison,

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Speaker 1: the team that's making a huge comeback the second half

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Speaker 1: of the season. How are you feeling as we're wrapping

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Speaker 1: up the inaugural season.

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Speaker 4: It seems like it's gone by so fast.

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Speaker 6: But with the little hiccup we had at the beginning

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Speaker 6: and then coming back, I think this whole team, especially me,

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Speaker 6: are just really excited to finish it out in Louisville

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Speaker 6: as kind of just a cherry.

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Speaker 4: On the top to finish the season.

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Speaker 1: Have you been back to Louisville since you left school.

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Speaker 6: I've gone back I think once or twice, but not

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Speaker 6: for long periods of time.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so this is going to be a nice little

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Speaker 1: reunion for you.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and do it with Stevie is gonna be amazing

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Speaker 6: and see all the girls and coaches and everything.

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Speaker 4: It will be awesome for sure.

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about the Love Madison season so far, because,

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Speaker 1: like you said, it started off with a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a hiccup, a little slow. What do you Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I look slow, But it's okay because you guys are

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Speaker 1: the hottest team right now. So talk about this turnaround.

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Speaker 1: What do you guys attribute it to.

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Speaker 4: I think it's a lot of things.

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Speaker 6: But our strength coach always talks about just winning the day,

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Speaker 6: and from the beginning he has said that. So even

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Speaker 6: through the yuck that went on at the beginning, like

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Speaker 6: how can we keep finding good in the day that

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Speaker 6: we're doing right now. Also, we started double days in

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Speaker 6: the middle of the season, so I think just touching

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Speaker 6: the ball more, being in the gym longer with each

517
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Speaker 6: other I think helped. We also started to hang out

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Speaker 6: outside the gym more, just creating that chemistry that we needed.

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Speaker 6: So I think there's a lot that contributes to it,

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Speaker 6: but those three main things probably for sure.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the chemistry for a second, because I

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Speaker 1: love hearing these stories about what you guys do off

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Speaker 1: the court as a team. What has kind of been

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Speaker 1: the big team bonding moment or the big thing that

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Speaker 1: you guys like to do off the court?

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Speaker 6: Well, every week now, actually ever since our first win.

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Speaker 6: I think that week we started it, we had a

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Speaker 6: team dinner every single week, whether that's at a teammate's

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Speaker 6: house or going out to eat. Last night, since we

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Speaker 6: got here early to Salt Lake, we made out last

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Speaker 6: night as a team. Coaches support stuff, anyone that can

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Speaker 6: make it is more than welcome. So I think that's been.

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Speaker 4: The biggest thing outside the gym that we've been doing.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome, that sounds great. What about on the court,

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Speaker 1: do you guys like to goof around when you guys

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Speaker 1: are practicing or is it pretty serious.

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Speaker 6: I think half of us definitely like to goof around,

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Speaker 6: make some jokes, but there's some people like to be serious.

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Speaker 6: And I think that ultimately us combining together makes it better.

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Speaker 6: Like having serious people goofy people jelling them together. Everyone's

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Speaker 6: just having a good time.

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Speaker 1: You're one of the younger players on the team. So

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Speaker 1: have you found sort of like a mentor to help you.

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Speaker 4: I think there's definitely multiple.

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Speaker 6: At the beginning, it was Dolly, but she got injured

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Speaker 6: and then she ended up leaving unfortunately. But now she's

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Speaker 6: back with us, which is amazing. But her, especially with

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Speaker 6: passing more on the court stuff, I would go to

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Speaker 6: her and then off the court, I love going out

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Speaker 6: doing things most of the time, and Annie loves to

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Speaker 6: also do that. So she would always reach out and

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Speaker 6: we would find something to do or just talk on

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Speaker 6: the phone, text, whatever it is.

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Speaker 4: We would do that. And I think on the court

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Speaker 4: to chemistry.

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Speaker 6: Wise, Lauren kind of gives you the motivation to Like

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Speaker 6: she a lot of times just says like go rip it.

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Speaker 6: That's kind of why you're in here, Like just take

559
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Speaker 6: a rip on the ball, Like don't play too cute,

560
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Speaker 6: don't try to just tip it over.

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Speaker 4: She's like, just go rip it.

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Speaker 6: And that gives me a lot of confidence no matter

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Speaker 6: what I'm doing to just like attack the ball and everything.

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Speaker 1: Amy Drews and Lauren CARLINI are, you know, two obviously

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Speaker 1: phenomenal players Olympians. When you first and the team was

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Speaker 1: it kind of a little bit of a starstruck moment

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Speaker 1: for you.

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Speaker 6: I actually grew up watching Lauren with the Badgers because

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Speaker 6: I'm from Madison area, so that was really cool. But

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Speaker 6: I actually played against both of them in Italy my

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Speaker 6: first season, so I'd already seen them like on the court,

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Speaker 6: but it definitely kind of struck me. I guess that

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Speaker 6: I was actually playing with them, playing with Olympians and

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Speaker 6: all of that, but my family, so I was like,

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Speaker 6: oh my gosh, it's so crazy that you're playing with Olympians,

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Speaker 6: like they're just all stoked for me and everything.

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Speaker 1: It's nice having them actually on your side of the court. Now.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm like, I was a little afraid of Lauren,

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Speaker 6: but she is so nice.

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Speaker 4: I was like, please, I swear I'm nice.

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Speaker 1: I mean, speaking of other players that used to play

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Speaker 1: against you, played against Sarah Franklin in college. So what's

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Speaker 1: it like having her now as your teammate.

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Speaker 4: It's awesome.

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Speaker 6: She's so dedicated to volleyball, and to see someone that

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Speaker 6: young just always getting a for reps, getting in the

587
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Speaker 6: gym during the recovery. I think her age, but like

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Speaker 6: definitely her is the next like generation wave of this

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Speaker 6: type of volleyball.

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Speaker 4: So I'm excited to see where she goes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all of you, guys, I'm excited to see where

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Speaker 1: you go because all of you are doing this amazing thing.

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Speaker 1: I've asked a bunch of girls this question before because

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Speaker 1: sometimes I feel like, you know, you can be so

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Speaker 1: in the moment and so into what you're doing, but

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Speaker 1: there's this whole younger generation that is watching you and

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Speaker 1: looking up to you.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I know that you've experienced this in college because Louisville

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Speaker 1: has a big fan base. You know, you played college

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Speaker 1: in the prime era of social media, and you know

602
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Speaker 1: the rise of women's volleyball on television and everything, so

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Speaker 1: you've experienced it. But is there a different level to

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Speaker 1: the fandom or to like having these club girls come

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Speaker 1: to your games and like look up to you. Do

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Speaker 1: you feel this and notice this.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I definitely feel not that it's any sort of pressure,

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Speaker 6: but I feel volleyball well is now more well known,

609
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Speaker 6: more people watch it, more people want to play it.

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Speaker 6: So it just feels really cool that they can now

611
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Speaker 6: look at us and be like, hey, I can play

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Speaker 6: professionalvolleyball in the States, and before I obviously was just oh,

613
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Speaker 6: I could play college, which is still amazing to do

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Speaker 6: and it's really hard to do. But to have them

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Speaker 6: see this in their hometown is it's really a blessing

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Speaker 6: and it's something we really are grateful for and we

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Speaker 6: don't take it for granted.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you get to play in your home town basically,

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Speaker 1: and what's that like.

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Speaker 6: It's so surreal, like having my grandma at the match

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Speaker 6: and middle school coaches, teachers from middle school, high school

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Speaker 6: showing up to my games and seeing them in the stands,

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Speaker 6: or people that used to babysit, people who used to

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Speaker 6: play club with me will come to the games and watch,

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Speaker 6: which is really nice. And my family, of course, is

626
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Speaker 6: amazing and sometimes it's a little hard to separate, you know,

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Speaker 6: but it's.

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Speaker 4: Really awesome to be playing in my hometown.

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Speaker 1: That's cool, And talking about the fans have you had

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Speaker 1: any fun interactions with any of the fans, because I've

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Speaker 1: talked to some of the girls with you know, the

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Speaker 1: friendship bracelets they've received for the signs they've seen in

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Speaker 1: the stands, like can you can you pinpoint one that

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Speaker 1: really stood out to you or if you that stood

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Speaker 1: out to you.

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Speaker 4: Well, the friendship bracelets.

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Speaker 6: I don't know whose idea what that was, but I

638
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 6: think that's such a cool idea of people just putting

639
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Speaker 6: like air Claire or whatever it is on the bracelet

640
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Speaker 6: and give it to me. I think that's just so special.

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Speaker 6: But one fan that stuck.

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Speaker 3: Out to me.

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Speaker 6: It was actually two little girls and it was with

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Speaker 6: Sarah Franklin. But I was there and I was like,

645
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Speaker 6: are you signing her forehead? And these little girls wanted

646
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Speaker 6: her to sign her forehead. I was like, Oh my goodness,

647
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Speaker 6: what has this got to But I thought that was

648
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Speaker 6: really funny and that stuck out to me.

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Speaker 1: The best that's adorable, air Claire. Was that your college nickname,

650
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Speaker 1: high school nickname? Where'd that come from?

651
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Speaker 4: It came from my last season here in the States,

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Speaker 4: So I kind of like it. It's stuck with me

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Speaker 4: a little bit. But I've never been called up before,

654
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Speaker 4: so it's kind of new.

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Speaker 1: I like it though. It's a cool, clever nickname. It's

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Speaker 1: a good one to have. We'll be right back with

657
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Speaker 1: more from our interview with Claire Chasse after this. All right, well,

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Speaker 1: let's go back to your origin story and you know,

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Speaker 1: the beginnings of your volleyball journey. How did you discover

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Speaker 1: the sport and when did you know that you wanted

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Speaker 1: to pursue it.

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Speaker 4: I always say the same thing with this question.

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Speaker 6: But my sister she started playing probably when she was

664
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:52,440
Speaker 6: ten or eleven, I would say, but not seriously until fourteen's,

665
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 6: which is then when I started following in her footsteps.

666
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 6: I went to all of her practices, all of her games,

667
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 6: wanted to be just like her, like every little sister,

668
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 6: and then we would just always play against our garage

669
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 6: or out in the yard. She would never take it easy,

670
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 6: of course, but I think that's kind of when I

671
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 6: fell in love with it. But I was playing soccer

672
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 6: at the same time, and by I think eighth grade

673
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 6: or freshman year of high school, I had to decide.

674
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 6: My dad was like, you can't do both. It's just

675
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 6: not possible if you want to play club as well.

676
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 6: So I decided with volleyball, and then probably two years

677
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 6: later I committed to Louisville. So all happened very fast,

678
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 6: I would say. But I've been playing since I was

679
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 6: like nine or ten as well, so.

680
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 1: You've been playing a while. What eventually motivated you to

681
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 1: want to play in college and continue past the club

682
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:45,440
Speaker 1: in high school levels?

683
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 4: Well, my sister did, and.

684
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, and seeing her just having so much fun,

685
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 6: and she had that influence on me, And I can't imagine,

686
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 6: like how many other people she had that influence. And

687
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 6: maybe I had that influence on another little girl, like

688
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 6: another short outside maybe, But yeah, that's definitely.

689
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 4: Why I wanted to go to college and play.

690
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 6: Also, I just loved the sport, So why not try

691
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 6: and go play anywhere? It doesn't matter D one, D

692
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 6: two or D three, But can I go play and

693
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:16,240
Speaker 6: have fun somewhere?

694
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 1: So what made you ultimately decide on Louisville?

695
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 6: It came down to two schools, But Louisville was honestly

696
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 6: the only school that didn't give me a timeline of

697
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 6: when they needed to know by which I really respected,

698
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 6: and I feel like that made me think that they

699
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 6: respected me.

700
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 4: A little bit more.

701
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 6: Also, It's a little bit of smaller school and about

702
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 6: seven or eight hours from my hometown, and I wanted

703
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 6: to be a little bit further away, but not too

704
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 6: far so I could still drive home if I really

705
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 6: wanted to. But the food there is great, the girls,

706
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 6: and the coaches they are amazing, and I definitely would

707
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 6: go back there in a heartbeat.

708
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 1: Speaking of coaches. And this is a quick aside, because

709
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 1: I know this isn't really you know, love and professional

710
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,520
Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff, but uh, can we

711
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 1: just do a quick little talk about Danny Buspooon Kelly

712
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 1: and her going to Nebraska kind of went through your

713
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 1: mind when you heard that news.

714
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 6: I wasn't surprised because she actually sat us down, maybe

715
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 6: my sophomore year, our junior year of college, and she

716
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 6: was like, guys, I just want to let you know

717
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 6: I'm renewing my contract here. But in my contract it

718
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 6: says if that job ever opens up, that I could

719
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 6: leave for Nebraska, And so that's always been the case.

720
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,479
Speaker 4: Everyone's always known that. But I'm really happy for her.

721
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 6: She is going where she played, won a national championship,

722
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 6: she's already coached there, her family's there, So I'm just

723
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 6: really excited for her in this new chapter. I think

724
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 6: she loved it in Louisville, but I hope that she

725
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 6: even loves it even more in Nebraska. At least she

726
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 6: still gets swear red right, yeah, right, her fancy blazers,

727
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 6: all her Gucci blazers that she got, crazy.

728
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 1: Girl, I didn't realize that they're Gucci.

729
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, some of them are. Yeah, they get set it

730
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 4: to her.

731
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 6: I think my senior year and I don't think it

732
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 6: was my super senior year, but yeah, Gucci gave it

733
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 6: to her.

734
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 4: I was like, that's insane.

735
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 1: That's amazing. See people sometimes like question the money in volleyball,

736
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: and it's it's on the rise and Gucci is now

737
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 1: providing coaches coats.

738
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:15,719
Speaker 4: I love it, especially for her.

739
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love she rocks it very well. So I

740
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 1: love it really does. So when you were playing in college,

741
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: at what point did you realize that you wanted to

742
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: go pro?

743
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 6: Honestly, I didn't know until my last year, my COVID

744
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 6: senior year, and that's because I didn't really know that

745
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 6: kind of part of volleyball. No one ever reached out

746
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 6: to me, like, no agents, and I think my fifth

747
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 6: year really helped me grow as a player, Like, that's

748
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 6: kind of when I was seen, I guess for a

749
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 6: lot of agents. So without COVID, honestly, I don't know

750
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 6: if I would be playing pro, but because my fifth

751
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 6: year was so adamant to like where I am now,

752
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 6: But yeah, I think, yeah, my fifth year.

753
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 4: Is when I found out out that I could go

754
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 4: play pro.

755
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 1: And that's when I decided, what did you want to

756
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 1: do before you decided to go pro?

757
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:10,440
Speaker 6: I want to be a wedding photographer really, yes, yeah,

758
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 6: I had my first wedding two summers ago, and before that,

759
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 6: I actually did a COVID wedding for Tory Dilfer.

760
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 4: So that in like engagement or family shoots babies. Yeah,

761
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 4: that's so cool.

762
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 1: Because you were a criminologist major in college, right.

763
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 6: I went in criminology and then I eventually switched it

764
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 6: to sports administration with the minor communications.

765
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 1: So where did the photography come in?

766
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 4: I've always liked it.

767
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 6: I've always wanted to take photos, and my mom took

768
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 6: my senior photos and so she would say that she

769
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 6: definitely got me into it, but I would say that too.

770
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 4: But that's kind of where I fell in love with it.

771
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 4: Was because my mom.

772
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 1: That's so sweet and so cool. I feel like that's

773
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 1: one of those professions that I haven't heard from players.

774
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 1: I mean, I know Kelsey Robinson Cook loves to take

775
00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: photos and she's very big in a photography. But yeah,

776
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 1: you know, I believe she said that she always wanted

777
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 1: to be, you know, playing volleyball, and that's always been

778
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 1: like kind of her goal. So it's really fun to

779
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 1: hear that that was like what you wanted to do.

780
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,399
Speaker 1: Do you think that when you retire and are done

781
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 1: playing professionally that you're going to go into like wedding

782
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 1: photography in that world?

783
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's my that's my goal. Obviously people have to

784
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:21,760
Speaker 4: like my photos though for that to happen.

785
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 6: But that's my goal, and the dream would be to

786
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 6: do destination weddings, but I know I got to start small,

787
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 6: so I'll have to do a little little ones first.

788
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 1: Would you do a destination wedding, like if it was

789
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of something kind of crazy, like

790
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:42,720
Speaker 1: like Iceland during I would yeah, when it's like cold

791
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 1: and not like the Caribbean type of destination wedding.

792
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:47,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I would do anything.

793
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:49,800
Speaker 6: I think it's so cool that you can be a

794
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 6: part of so many people's favorite day or the best

795
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 6: day of their lives. People say so, I think being

796
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 6: a part of that and being able to just see

797
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:01,840
Speaker 6: everyone just smile, all unhappy and like just be in

798
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 6: that environment is so I think so unique, and just

799
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:07,880
Speaker 6: to be able to capture those moments for everyone and

800
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:10,879
Speaker 6: grab them to have those photos forever is really cool

801
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 6: to me.

802
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:13,279
Speaker 1: This is a perfect segue to talk about your off

803
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 1: the court stuff. In your free time. Are you taking

804
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 1: photos and going out and exploring and capturing moments or

805
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 1: are you doing other things?

806
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,239
Speaker 6: In season it's a little bit harder, especially because a

807
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:25,800
Speaker 6: lot of the times people want photos on the weekends

808
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 6: and where I was playing on the weekends.

809
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,760
Speaker 4: So I haven't done it a ton. But I actually

810
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,880
Speaker 4: just took photos of a family and their newborn.

811
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:37,920
Speaker 6: I think like two weekends ago, and before that it

812
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 6: was probably right before season started.

813
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:41,799
Speaker 4: I would say, very cool.

814
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: Have you taken photos of your team at all or

815
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:47,799
Speaker 1: are you planning to like give them a little photos shoot,

816
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 1: especially with the clothing and you know, you're, yeah, that's true.

817
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,319
Speaker 1: With all the style and the walk up, I feel

818
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,800
Speaker 1: like you have prime opportunity to start, you know, I

819
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 1: know you want to do more wedding and like family style,

820
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 1: but getting that fashion luck too, it might be a

821
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,360
Speaker 1: little fun. I should. I should.

822
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 4: I actually didn't even think about that. But maybe in

823
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:09,320
Speaker 4: the off season I'll have like a few of them come.

824
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:11,320
Speaker 6: Back to Madison and just be like, hey, can you

825
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 6: bring all your favorite outfits and we can just go

826
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 6: around Madison and take photos.

827
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 4: You have photos to post and until I get seen more.

828
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:18,959
Speaker 4: So it's nice.

829
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:22,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, you can like also do like a visit

830
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 1: Madison photos shoot type of thing where you take photos

831
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 1: and all the cool places in Madison.

832
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,280
Speaker 4: All the Bucky Badgers going around laying around everywhere.

833
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:36,240
Speaker 1: Perfect. Do you take your teammates to like hidden gems

834
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 1: around Madison and around the area that you know they

835
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:41,440
Speaker 1: might not know about, but you do because you're from

836
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 1: the area.

837
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 4: No, sadly, but I actually I don't mean that in

838
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:47,359
Speaker 4: a bad way.

839
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 6: But there's this one place called Chicken Licks and it's

840
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 6: a dive bar, but they have the best chicken wings,

841
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 6: and so I told everybody that they have to go,

842
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:01,239
Speaker 6: and everyone that's gone on our team is obsessed. So

843
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 6: I think if I just take them to places like that,

844
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 6: they'll love it. But I honestly don't know a ton

845
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:09,719
Speaker 6: of places in Madison, but places like chicken Legs, I'm

846
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 6: pretty bad, I would say, so, Yeah.

847
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 1: That's amazing. Now I want to go back. I know

848
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 1: you said that you changed your major from criminology to

849
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 1: you know, sports administration and everything. But are you a

850
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:24,760
Speaker 1: true crime junkie?

851
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:25,439
Speaker 2: Yeah?

852
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 4: I love every TV show Criminal Minds, n CIS, Law

853
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 4: and Order. I just watched How To Get Away with

854
00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:35,800
Speaker 4: Murder and finished it so fast. It was amazing, White Collar,

855
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:39,239
Speaker 4: any of those types of shows. I love, love, love love.

856
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,840
Speaker 1: Do you watch the documentaries too? Are mainly the scripted shows?

857
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 6: I do watch the documentaries on Netflix only on Netflix,

858
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 6: though I think I've only watched a few of those,

859
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:50,399
Speaker 6: But I do like a lot of those.

860
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 4: Those are really good too.

861
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: So I want to end the interview going back to

862
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:58,319
Speaker 1: volleyball and your current love career, the beginning of your

863
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 1: love career, and everything going on with league and volleyball.

864
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 1: So for you when it comes to playing and where

865
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: you are now, what advice would you give your younger

866
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:12,759
Speaker 1: self as a volleyball player, knowing all the hurdles and

867
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 1: all the goals and everything that you've achieved to get

868
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 1: to where you are today.

869
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:16,879
Speaker 4: Wow.

870
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:17,880
Speaker 3: I don't know.

871
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 6: I feel like I would say kind of what our

872
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 6: strength coach says is just when the day because a

873
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 6: lot of things can just you can just start thinking

874
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 6: and a lot of of your thoughts aren't even real

875
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 6: and like what's actually happening. So I think just have fun,

876
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 6: keep having fun because that's how you're going to get

877
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 6: here and always get extra reps and keep being a

878
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 6: good teammate. I think that's another big thing, is like

879
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 6: no coach wants to coach someone who's all about themselves,

880
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 6: So just pushing yourself out there and just keep being

881
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 6: a good teammate and just having fun.

882
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:52,360
Speaker 4: I think that's.

883
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 6: Something I still say to myself today, is like, keep

884
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,839
Speaker 6: having fun because otherwise there's no point, So just keep

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Speaker 6: having fun while you're doing it.

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Speaker 1: I love that now. I know that you want to

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Speaker 1: keep having fun while you're playing, but you also have

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Speaker 1: to remember that the Love Finals are approaching rapidly and

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Speaker 1: that'd be competitive for that. You can have fun, but

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Speaker 1: you know there's money and trophies on the line, So

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Speaker 1: what's kind of your mindset going into the finals, both

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Speaker 1: for yourself and Love Madison As a team, I think.

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Speaker 6: For myself, well, I'll do my team first. For our

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Speaker 6: team going into Louisville, I think that we have a

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Speaker 6: good thing going and just remembering that just doing whatever

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Speaker 6: we individually can for the team to make sure that

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Speaker 6: we're ready for what's on the court, and then once

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Speaker 6: you're out there, it's just doing it for the girl

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Speaker 6: next to you. I think that's what Lawrence says a

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Speaker 6: lot is like, do it for the person next to you,

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Speaker 6: And I think that's what our main focus is, other

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Speaker 6: than who are obviously going to be playing and scouting.

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Speaker 6: But I think that for our team and then for me,

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Speaker 6: I think staying focused. You know, back in Louisville, people

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Speaker 6: can reach out and want to hang out, but I'm

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Speaker 6: to hoist up a trophy at the end, So just

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Speaker 6: making sure I'm so locked in and which I will be,

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Speaker 6: and I'm just having fun.

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Speaker 4: But also putting a little chip on my shoulder and

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Speaker 4: all of that.

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Speaker 1: So I think that you've had an amazing season so far.

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Speaker 1: Things have been going so great for you, and now

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Speaker 1: as Madison's team has turned it around to this extent,

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Speaker 1: I mean things are going great for the team. Everything's

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Speaker 1: going so well. So I'm really excited to see what

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Speaker 1: you guys do at the end of the season in

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Speaker 1: the finals in Louisville. But thank you so much Claire

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Speaker 1: for taking the time to chat with me, and that's

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Speaker 1: welcome the rest of the season.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: Serving Pancakes is an iheartwomen's sports production in partnership with

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Speaker 1: Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You can find us on

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Speaker 1: Production by League One Volleyball. I'm your host Tiffany Oshinsky.

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Speaker 1: My co host is kat Dell. Anya Alvarez is our

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Speaker 1: senior producer. Our executive producers are Carrie Stett, Samaradike and

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Speaker 1: Lindsay Hoffman. Our marketing lead is Juara Parker. Sound editing

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Speaker 1: and mixing by Daniel Gonzalez. Our theme music is Pancakes

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Speaker 1: by Eric W. Mass Junior special thanks to Claire Chasse.

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Speaker 1: Next week we'll be covering the final week of the

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Speaker 1: Love inaugural season. It is the Love Finals. Stay tuned

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Speaker 1: and thanks for listening.