Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where the college
Speaker 1: hoops season just ended and the WNBA Draft is in
Speaker 1: four days. We're not ready, We're exhausted. Frankly, we need
Speaker 1: a break. Imagine how Paige Becker's and the rest of
Speaker 1: the draft prospects feel. It's Thursday, April tenth, and on
Speaker 1: today's show, we'll be talking to Tiffany Oshinsky, host of
Speaker 1: the Serving Pancakes podcast, about the inaugural Love Volleyball season,
Speaker 1: this week's playoffs, and the players who've impressed her the
Speaker 1: most this season, plus feeling cocky, playing the long game,
Speaker 1: and an appropriate way to honor a star. It's all
Speaker 1: coming up right after this welcome back slices. Here's what
Speaker 1: you need to know today. Let's start with college hoops,
Speaker 1: where a few big names are on the move via
Speaker 1: the transfer portal that includes Florida State junior Tonight Latson,
Speaker 1: the leading scorer across all D one teams this season.
Speaker 1: Latson announced on social media that she's quote unquote feeling cocky.
Speaker 1: Translation she's joining Don Staley's South Carolina game Cocks. The
Speaker 1: move reunites Latson with her high school teammate Raven Johnson,
Speaker 1: who had an announcement of her own on Tuesday. She's
Speaker 1: passing up the WNBA Draft for one more year of
Speaker 1: college ball at South Carolina. So just so we're clear here,
Speaker 1: this is a South Carolina team that really needed a
Speaker 1: go to player in the clutch this season, and now
Speaker 1: they just got their veteran point guard back for another year,
Speaker 1: and they went and got the best go to player
Speaker 1: on the market for her to pass the ball to.
Speaker 1: And the duo already has built in chemistry, scary hours,
Speaker 1: impeccable recruiting from Dawn. Meanwhile, tc YOU announced it signed
Speaker 1: Olivia Miles from the transfer portal. Miles, a starguard for
Speaker 1: Notre Dame, made headlines last week when she announced she
Speaker 1: was waiting to turn pro and instead would enter the
Speaker 1: transfer portal. She'd previously been projected to go number two
Speaker 1: overall in this year's WNBA draft. Now she'll look to
Speaker 1: help TCU continue its rise as a women's basketball power.
Speaker 1: The Horned Frogs, who lost in the Elite eight to Texas,
Speaker 1: are coming off the deepest Toorney run in program history.
Speaker 1: Miles will help fill the gap left by departing grad
Speaker 1: students Hailey Vanlyth and Sodona Prince, who finally reached the
Speaker 1: end of their own college eligibility. Speaking of Hailey Vanlyth,
Speaker 1: she landed a spot in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition,
Speaker 1: gracing the April twenty twenty five digital cover. She joins
Speaker 1: a handful of other athletes featured in the magazine this year,
Speaker 1: including the WNBA's Cameron Brink, track and field star Gabby Thomas, Jimnast,
Speaker 1: Jordan Chiles and Sunny Lee and golfer Nellie Corda. To hockey,
Speaker 1: the World Championship scott underway and check you on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: with the US opening its tournament with a seven to
Speaker 1: one win over Finland. The round robin portion of attorney
Speaker 1: continues through Tuesday, followed by the knockout rounds. The PWHL
Speaker 1: is currently on pause through the end of Worlds, which
Speaker 1: conclude with the gold medal game on Sunday, April twentieth.
Speaker 1: Canada is looking for its second straight title and thirteenth overall,
Speaker 1: while the US last won two years ago. America hoping
Speaker 1: to reclaim the world title heading into next winners Olympics.
Speaker 1: We'll link to the full schedule in the show notes
Speaker 1: to International Soccer The US women's national team fell to
Speaker 1: Brazil two to one in the second friendly between the
Speaker 1: two squads on US turf on Tuesday night. Katerina Macario
Speaker 1: got the Stars and Stripes off to a hot start,
Speaker 1: scoring the seventh fastest goal in national team history just
Speaker 1: thirty four seconds in, but the rest of the scoring
Speaker 1: was all Brazil. Former NWSL MVP Caroline found the equalizer
Speaker 1: for Brazil in the twenty fourth minute, and the game
Speaker 1: was one to one until the visitors found some real
Speaker 1: magic late. Amanda Gutierrez cracked open the defense on a
Speaker 1: two to on one in the fifth minute of stoppage time,
Speaker 1: giving Brazil the win. The US women's national team now
Speaker 1: three to two in twenty twenty five. They'll hit the
Speaker 1: field again on May thirty first against China in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Speaker 1: More soccer news. FIFA announced at the twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: UEFA Congress that the US, along with Konka CAF partners,
Speaker 1: were the sole bid to host the twenty thirty one
Speaker 1: FIFA Women's World Cup. US Soccer issued a statement in
Speaker 1: response to the announcement. Quote. As FIFA finalizes the number
Speaker 1: of participating teams in the tournament, we will solidify our
Speaker 1: partnership structure with fellow Conka Caffe nations. We look forward
Speaker 1: to sharing more details and unveiling our full vision for
Speaker 1: the twenty thirty one FIFA Women's World Cup in the
Speaker 1: near future. End quote. Twenty thirty one will be the
Speaker 1: third time the US hosts a Women's World Cup after
Speaker 1: ninety nine and three, and while I'm super excited for
Speaker 1: the US to be the home for that event, it's
Speaker 1: a little bit of a bummer that there weren't more
Speaker 1: bids to try to get the Women's World Cup, especially
Speaker 1: from countries that could really benefit from hosting. To the
Speaker 1: NWSL expansion side, Denver announced that the club has sold
Speaker 1: more than ten thousand season ticket deposits just over two
Speaker 1: months after the city was officially named as the NWSL's
Speaker 1: sixteenth franchise, good enough to break the NWSL season ticket
Speaker 1: deposit record. Still, the club has a little bit of
Speaker 1: work to do to get those butts in seats. The
Speaker 1: team still figuring out seating inventory and pricing, and once
Speaker 1: it does, those who have paid deposits will be eligible
Speaker 1: to select specific seats and ticket packages. They're also building
Speaker 1: not one, but two stadiums before the team starts play
Speaker 1: next year, it's planning to build a temporary stadium in
Speaker 1: Centennial that'll be in use for both the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: six and twenty seven seasons, and the team's permanent stadium,
Speaker 1: which will seat more than fourteen thousand fans, will be
Speaker 1: located inside the Denver city limits in Santa Fe Yards
Speaker 1: that's expected to be open in time for the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty eight season. Some Michelle Kang money news in the
Speaker 1: soccer world. Last year, the Washington Spirit owner pledged thirty
Speaker 1: million dollars over five years to US Soccer to professionalize
Speaker 1: women and girls soccer. On Friday, she added to that total.
Speaker 1: She announced at US Soccer's She Believes Summit that she'll
Speaker 1: integrate the operations of her Kaniska innovation hub into US
Speaker 1: Soccer's Soccer Forward Foundation. Now Kaniska, a science backed platform
Speaker 1: dedicated to improving how female athletes train, will merge with
Speaker 1: US Soccer to scale resources at a national level. The
Speaker 1: move amounts to another twenty five million from Kang to
Speaker 1: US Soccer, bringing her investment in the federation and its
Speaker 1: support of girls and women's soccer to fifty five million dollars.
Speaker 1: Hey Michelle, can we borrow a dollar? Some Olympic news.
Speaker 1: The Inner National Olympic Committee on Wednesday confirmed the sport
Speaker 1: program for the twenty twenty eight LA Olympics, and for
Speaker 1: the first time ever, every team sport will have at
Speaker 1: least the same number of women's teams as men's teams.
Speaker 1: That includes water polo, where the women's tournament will grow
Speaker 1: from ten teams to twelve in line with the men's,
Speaker 1: as well as soccer, where the women will have sixteen
Speaker 1: teams up from twelve and the men will now have
Speaker 1: twelve teams, down from sixteen. This is pretty big news,
Speaker 1: considering that just last year, the IOC said it had
Speaker 1: no plans to change the number of teams in the
Speaker 1: soccer tournaments. We actually did a what the fact on
Speaker 1: the topic back in August, after the IOC told Sky
Speaker 1: Sports quote raising the number of women's teams would potentially
Speaker 1: trigger requests from other team sports, which would then have
Speaker 1: an even greater impact on the cost, complexity, size, and
Speaker 1: sustainability of the games end quote. At the time, we
Speaker 1: thought it was a pretty dumb argument, and we still do,
Speaker 1: and it seems at least some folks that the IOC
Speaker 1: did too good reminder that sometimes things suck for a
Speaker 1: really long time and that finally they changed for the better.
Speaker 1: Wildco But here we are. As for the men's Journey,
Speaker 1: which you might remember, is a U twenty three competition,
Speaker 1: dropping from sixteen teams to twelve. The IOC's quotes on
Speaker 1: the matter focused more on the growth of the women's
Speaker 1: game internationally and the fact that the women's tournament features
Speaker 1: the world's top talent. Now. There have also been a
Speaker 1: lot of questions in recent weeks about the United States
Speaker 1: ability to even host these Olympics, given the current administration's
Speaker 1: regulations on visas, especially for trans folks. So here's to
Speaker 1: hoping that complaining about that will lead to change as well. Finally,
Speaker 1: we've got a star spotting to report, a Hollywood star,
Speaker 1: that is, Billy Jean King received a star on the
Speaker 1: Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday. While king star is
Speaker 1: number two, eight hundred and seven overall, she became the
Speaker 1: first woman to receive one in the new Sports Entertainment category,
Speaker 1: which was created in twenty twenty three. In a post
Speaker 1: on Instagram, King wrote, quote, I may be the first
Speaker 1: woman to be awarded a star in this category, but
Speaker 1: I'm certainly not going to be the last end quote.
Speaker 1: Just add it to the list of bjk's many first
Speaker 1: and by the way, shout out to the Queen for
Speaker 1: delivering on our request from a recent show. You remember
Speaker 1: we joked about wanting a photo of her holding up
Speaker 1: her phone to show our podcast playing well. She did
Speaker 1: it the same day that episode hit. We Love You BJK.
Speaker 1: We got to take a quick break. When we come back.
Speaker 1: We're Serving Pancakes with Tiffany Oshinsky. We caught up with
Speaker 1: her on Wednesday ahead of the Love Finals, the playoffs
Speaker 1: which get underway today. Joining us now. She's the host
Speaker 1: of League one Volleyball Serving Pancakes podcast, part of the
Speaker 1: Iheartwomen's Sports Network, a three time Emmy Award winning freelance
Speaker 1: sports producer, award winning podcast host, and development associated NFL Film.
Speaker 1: She's an NYU grad and a self professed book reader,
Speaker 1: wine drinker, and kat obsessor. It's Tiffany Oshinski.
Speaker 2: Hi, Tiffany, Hi Sarah, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. I have to go with the
Speaker 1: most important things first. So what are you reading right now?
Speaker 2: I'm in between a few books.
Speaker 3: Actually, I'm reading Nosferatu by Joe Hill, which has nothing
Speaker 3: to do with the Vampire movie, but it's a crowd
Speaker 3: of vampire Joe Hill, Stephen King's son, so it's kind
Speaker 3: of like, oh wow that yeah, so it's long, it's interesting.
Speaker 3: I'm also reading a non fiction book called Chaos, which
Speaker 3: is about allegedly Charles Manson was a CIA informant.
Speaker 2: So I'm reading that and I'm reading.
Speaker 1: It's an earnest declaration of that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this guy went down a rabbit hole. I think
Speaker 3: they actually made a Netflix documentary on that. So there's
Speaker 3: that too if you don't want to read the book.
Speaker 3: And then I'm also reading this book called Hidden Pictures,
Speaker 3: which is just like a fiction thriller, fun book.
Speaker 1: Okay, cool, So just depends on your mood, I guess yeah. Dark.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, like, your mood must always be
Speaker 1: to dive right in.
Speaker 3: I feel like my life is very like light and fun,
Speaker 3: so sometimes it's just like I need to change of pace.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, what's your go to wine.
Speaker 3: There's a rose called Cotis de Rose. I believe it's
Speaker 3: called It's amazing. It's dry, it's delicious, It's got a fancy.
Speaker 1: Bottle with the okay, cools, on the bottom, so I'll
Speaker 1: look for that. And what are the names of your
Speaker 1: cats or cat.
Speaker 3: So I have two, although unfortunately Norbert is eighteen and
Speaker 3: a half and might not be with us much longer.
Speaker 3: But Bert Norbert is one. He's my oldest. And then
Speaker 3: my other one is Purdis Granderson.
Speaker 1: Amazing, amazing, all right for those of you who don't
Speaker 1: know Curtis Granderson baseball players, so perdis Granderson.
Speaker 2: Yes, and my husband let me get him one.
Speaker 3: I did the Kitten Bowl one year and I fell
Speaker 3: in love and he was like, we can get him
Speaker 3: if we name him after a New York met I'm
Speaker 3: like done.
Speaker 1: Amazing. I love that. Well, you're here to talk volleyball,
Speaker 1: mainly because the Love Finals kick off in Louisville on Thursday,
Speaker 1: the day you're all listening to this slices. We're just
Speaker 1: chatting a day in advance, and you're here to catch
Speaker 1: us up on all the Love storylines from the inaugural
Speaker 1: regular season and get us ready for the postseason. There's
Speaker 1: so much talent in this league, so much to get
Speaker 1: excited about. Nineteen Olympians national team veterans from over twenty countries.
Speaker 1: These teams are stacked. But before we get to their
Speaker 1: meetings in the postseason, want a little refresher on Love
Speaker 1: in its unique format from the youth to pro levels.
Speaker 1: We've talked about it here on the show, but for
Speaker 1: those who aren't super familiar, can you sort of talk
Speaker 1: about the youth volleyball system and how that set the
Speaker 1: foundation for this pro league that just kicked off this season.
Speaker 2: Sure. So, youth volleyball in the States is huge.
Speaker 3: I don't know how many people know that, but it's
Speaker 3: the fastest growing sport. It's the most widely played sport
Speaker 3: by youth players. There's a study in twenty twenty three
Speaker 3: they say that over four hundred and seventy thousand girls
Speaker 3: we're playing volleyball, which is more than basketball, more than softball.
Speaker 3: So it's a very very popular sport. And there wasn't
Speaker 3: really a pipeline for these girls to play in the States,
Speaker 3: unlike basketball, you know. So they decided Love was like,
Speaker 3: you know what, let's create a company, an organization from
Speaker 3: the ground up. So what they did in twenty twenty
Speaker 3: is they got fifty eight clubs across twenty seven states.
Speaker 3: It's about over nineteen thousand athletes that they have under
Speaker 3: these love clubs and they sort of created the system
Speaker 3: where they are part of the love ecosystem, right, So
Speaker 3: they started with them and they are now showing that
Speaker 3: there's a way that they can play pro in the
Speaker 3: United States through these Love Pro teams. And then each
Speaker 3: of these clubs are kind of most of them are
Speaker 3: based around a lot of the hot spots in volleyball,
Speaker 3: which is like Nebraska, Wisconsin, Salt Lake City like where
Speaker 3: byu Is, Texas like Austin and Houston. So they kind
Speaker 3: of found these areas that were hotbeds for youth volleyball,
Speaker 3: put them together with the pros. The pros help the youth.
Speaker 3: The youth get to see the pros, be part of
Speaker 3: the pros, and it just creates this system. It's almost
Speaker 3: like a minor league system in a way that allows
Speaker 3: these girls inspiration and motivation to be able to one
Speaker 3: day play pro and be one of them, right, because
Speaker 3: everyone wants to look up to something that they can
Speaker 3: be part of. And if they're able to stay in
Speaker 3: the States, because most of these pro players had to
Speaker 3: go overseas for many years all over the world, from
Speaker 3: Japan to Brazil to Puerto Rico to all over Europe.
Speaker 3: So this is a way that they can stay in
Speaker 3: the States.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really smart. Fifty eight clubs across twenty seven states,
Speaker 1: nineteen thousand athletes in these youth programs, and when we
Speaker 1: had Folks from Love come on, they did sort of
Speaker 1: describe this very cool scene of these younger players getting
Speaker 1: to practice alongside, not with, but near or in the
Speaker 1: same gyms or the same facilities, these athletes that they
Speaker 1: could look up to and hope to one day become.
Speaker 1: So they set the stage with that, and then after
Speaker 1: several years, they decided to launch this inaugural pro season
Speaker 1: in January. What are some of your biggest takeaways from
Speaker 1: this first season? Surprises, things that went great, maybe challenges.
Speaker 3: I think one of the biggest things, which I don't
Speaker 3: know if you know the volleyball X counts or anything,
Speaker 3: but there's an ex account cout well.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm working on it. I'm diving into volleyball with
Speaker 1: all these new leagues that are like propping up everywhere. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Right, So there's an account called avid Vali, which I
Speaker 3: don't know if this person did the research on this
Speaker 3: or if they found it from somewhere else on the internet,
Speaker 3: but I found this fascinating and it's the parody in
Speaker 3: the league, right. So Love wanted to create this even
Speaker 3: measured league right where anyone could win at any time,
Speaker 3: and they kind of got that. So some of the
Speaker 3: stats that they pulled up that Avid Volley pulled up
Speaker 3: with that thirty three percent of Love matches have been
Speaker 3: five sets and only twenty five percent have been sweeps.
Speaker 3: So if you compare that to like Italy, they had
Speaker 3: twenty percent of the regular season matches went five sets
Speaker 3: and forty percent were sweeps. And in China, fifteen percent
Speaker 3: of the matches were five sets and fifty four percent
Speaker 3: were sweeps. So we're seeing this nice even playing field
Speaker 3: and it's really exciting because you never know who's gonna win.
Speaker 2: It's up up in the air.
Speaker 3: I mean, we've seen this with Madison this year because
Speaker 3: they started the season one and seven, and all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, they went on a seven and one tear.
Speaker 3: Omaha started off three and oh and now they've had
Speaker 3: some tough battles the rest of the way. So it's
Speaker 3: kind of really exciting to see who could win at
Speaker 3: any given time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and with every team getting a chance in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: you just never know. None of them have been elimited,
Speaker 1: despite slow starts or hiccups during the season. Any challenges
Speaker 1: I know. Ann Marie Anderson came on the show and
Speaker 1: talked about some of the in season adjustments from Love,
Speaker 1: whether that's camera angles after the first broadcast, maybe how
Speaker 1: the broadcasters talk about the games. There's a little bit
Speaker 1: less of the interjecting and explaining in a little bit
Speaker 1: more of the straight broadcast style. Did any of the
Speaker 1: n season changes stand out to you as Love sort
Speaker 1: of learned on the fly in this first season.
Speaker 3: You know, the big one that I saw was the
Speaker 3: camera angles. I feel like that was such a big thing.
Speaker 3: And it's a new league, right, There's gonna be challenges.
Speaker 3: They're still learning. They wanted to try different things, which
Speaker 3: I think is great. That's what you should be doing, right,
Speaker 3: it's a newly You want to see what people like,
Speaker 3: what people don't like, and you adjust on the fly.
Speaker 3: So I remember that first week on X there were
Speaker 3: so many people who were talking about the camera angles
Speaker 3: and what is this and why can't they just stay
Speaker 3: on the wide shot and all that, and then adjusted
Speaker 3: to that, And the best part was that the Love
Speaker 3: account was replying to these people and interacting with them
Speaker 3: in real time, being like, look, we hear you, we understand,
Speaker 3: we're going to work on this. This is a brand
Speaker 3: new thing, and we want to make it so it's
Speaker 3: the perfect product for you. And so I think that
Speaker 3: that was probably the biggest thing and the best thing
Speaker 3: that showed a we're listening and that we care and
Speaker 3: we want to make sure we're putting out the best product,
Speaker 3: but also like, sure, there's going to be some hiccups
Speaker 3: and that's just kind of the way it is.
Speaker 1: I have an idea for you. I don't know what
Speaker 1: your plan is for the off season of Love and
Speaker 1: This podcast or what you're doing, but I know you
Speaker 1: have done a lot of video episodes, especially the ones
Speaker 1: with the Delicious pancakes that I watched that made me
Speaker 1: very hungry. But I would love to see you and
Speaker 1: a player sit down and watch a game and talk
Speaker 1: about it in depth. You know, a former game, so
Speaker 1: not a current game that people need the actual broadcast
Speaker 1: language around of this is what's happening now, but say
Speaker 1: this is a game we're watching from this date, this
Speaker 1: team beat this team like this, and then during it,
Speaker 1: talk about how you're watching as a professional and what
Speaker 1: you're looking for, because I think one of the big
Speaker 1: steps up in being a fan is when you can
Speaker 1: go from like that was a hard ace or that
Speaker 1: was a good dig to really understanding whether someone was
Speaker 1: in the right position or why a team is beating
Speaker 1: another team, and so taking an old game that you
Speaker 1: could just sit down and we can see the game
Speaker 1: while you're watching it and talking about it, like Mystery
Speaker 1: Science Theater three thousand or whatever it's called, with your
Speaker 1: popcorn telling us how to watch. I think that would
Speaker 1: be a really cool thing in the off season to
Speaker 1: get us ready for next year. So just a free
Speaker 1: idea from a Nube who needs some more tips. Love
Speaker 1: Houston claim the inaugural N season tournament, the Love Classic,
Speaker 1: and they've been a top team all season long, so
Speaker 1: maybe not a big surprise that they took Classic honors.
Speaker 1: But was there any surprise from you about how that
Speaker 1: first n season tournament went, whether it was just sticks
Speaker 1: infrastructure or who came out on top.
Speaker 3: I mean, I actually think that a lot of people
Speaker 3: thought Atlanta was kind of going to be the one
Speaker 3: who won that tournament, just because that they've been so
Speaker 3: dominant all season and at that point too, they were
Speaker 3: first in the standings. But I think just the way
Speaker 3: that it went down and the fact that it was
Speaker 3: at the same time as the Triple Crown Tournament in
Speaker 3: Kentucky or sorry, in Kansas City. I feel like having
Speaker 3: all of that and all these kids being able to
Speaker 3: watch them, right, and then they get to go out
Speaker 3: and put on this show, right.
Speaker 2: So I feel like all of that was just a
Speaker 2: great spectacle basically.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was some of the top players who
Speaker 3: played and Houston who came out on top. They're the
Speaker 3: only team to have beaten Atlanta like all season, and
Speaker 3: they have a winning record over Atlanta. So it's one
Speaker 3: of those things where it's kind of like we're starting
Speaker 3: to see even though it was week six of the season,
Speaker 3: it's sort of like, all right, well, there's a little bit.
Speaker 2: Of interesting dynamics. To me.
Speaker 3: I say that Atlanta Houston is like the biggest rivalry,
Speaker 3: so being able to watch them perform at the highest
Speaker 3: levels great.
Speaker 2: But also the fact that that.
Speaker 3: Tournament they let the other teams who weren't in the
Speaker 3: finals still play on Sunday, so even if you missed,
Speaker 3: you know, a chance to watch Omaha play earlier. You
Speaker 3: could still watch them on Sunday because I actually played
Speaker 3: in that tournament when I was younger, and so like,
Speaker 3: if you got eliminator, if your pool ended early on Sunday,
Speaker 3: you could go to this tournament afterwards, which I wish
Speaker 3: was a thing when I was there. But you know,
Speaker 3: so it's just a it was really cool the way
Speaker 3: that they did it in allowing all these people to
Speaker 3: view them. But yeah, yeah, I mean Houston is a
Speaker 3: fun team to watch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, we love those storylines that we can
Speaker 1: attach to, especially early in the league when there's not
Speaker 1: a lot of history and rivalries and things to look at,
Speaker 1: being able to say, Okay, we know that Houston's kind
Speaker 1: of got Atlanta's number and they seem to be the
Speaker 1: only one that what does that mean going forward when
Speaker 1: we look ahead to the postseason. Before we get to
Speaker 1: the postseason, I do want to talk about a couple
Speaker 1: of milestones from the regular season. In the last few
Speaker 1: matches of the regular season, a couple folks past some
Speaker 1: pretty notable things. Are there any that stood out to
Speaker 1: you or that we as fans will keep in the
Speaker 1: back of our heads as we're going to watch postseason games.
Speaker 3: I feel like one of the biggest ones that really
Speaker 3: stuck out to me was Kelsey Robinson Cook surpassing two
Speaker 3: hundred digs, being the first player to surpass two hundred digs,
Speaker 3: mainly because she's, you know, she's an outside hitter, but
Speaker 3: she's also an older player. She's a veteran who's been
Speaker 3: around for a while. So I feel like seeing someone
Speaker 3: like her who's not a libero, who's not a defensive specialist,
Speaker 3: getting that two hundred dig mark before anybody else is
Speaker 3: really cool.
Speaker 2: And to see somebody like her.
Speaker 3: Who as someone who is older and still likes to
Speaker 3: play you know, adult beer league volleyball, I'm like, I
Speaker 3: love this, Like that's an inspiration for me to still
Speaker 3: go out there and bust my ass on the court,
Speaker 3: even though it's not for you know, an actual championship
Speaker 3: like the Love Finals. But I mean, Kelsey Robin and
Speaker 3: Cook is just phenomenal and so fun to watch. And
Speaker 3: also I have Kat Bella as my co host on
Speaker 3: Serving Pancakes, and Kat was pointing out also when we
Speaker 3: kind of talked about milestones, about Madison Skinner opposite On Austin,
Speaker 3: who reached two hundred points and she's the youngest player
Speaker 3: to reach any of these milestones. Ambry gd she reached
Speaker 3: two hundred points as well, but like they're a little older,
Speaker 3: they're a little more experienced. Madison Skinner just came straight
Speaker 3: out of college and she's putting on a show. I mean,
Speaker 3: her and Jess Murziic are absolutely amazing, but Madison's the
Speaker 3: only one who's reached one of these milestones. So I mean,
Speaker 3: props to Madison for how amazing she's been.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's such a quick transition to the pro game
Speaker 1: for those who are listening. Just in case you don't know,
Speaker 1: a libero is a specialized defensive player in volleyball. So
Speaker 1: basically they have to wear a different jersey and identify
Speaker 1: as a libero because they can't go into the front row.
Speaker 1: They have to stand in the back row. They can't serve,
Speaker 1: they can't block, but they are the defensive specialists. So
Speaker 1: for someone to get to two hundred digs first that
Speaker 1: isn't a libero means that despite their ability and the
Speaker 1: rest of the game, they are also a really great
Speaker 1: defensive player who's been in the right place at the
Speaker 1: right time a lot of times, two hundred times to
Speaker 1: be exact, or Kelsey Robinson Cook. You mentioned your co host.
Speaker 1: I was listening to a handful of episodes, and she's
Speaker 1: in an interesting position because she's currently playing in Love volleyball. So,
Speaker 1: you know, you guys have some fun with it. You know,
Speaker 1: when you're predicting who's gonna win, she always says, well,
Speaker 1: if we miss our plane or we all get food poisoning,
Speaker 1: I guess maybe another team might win instead of us.
Speaker 1: But she plays for the Austin team, yes, and she
Speaker 1: sort of has to wear her analyst hat and her
Speaker 1: player hat. You know, this podcast is backed by the league,
Speaker 1: So how have you dealt with wanting to talk about
Speaker 1: different storylines or wanting to talk about how the league
Speaker 1: is doing in its first season while balancing your editorial vision,
Speaker 1: your journalistic integrity, and also the fact that the league
Speaker 1: sort of is the one running the podcast.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's actually really funny because I've asked
Speaker 3: a lot of girls who have come on as guests about,
Speaker 3: you know, love and if there are rivalries because a
Speaker 3: lot of these girls know each other already, right They've
Speaker 3: either played with them in college, or they've grown up
Speaker 3: idolizing them, or they played with them overseas, So I'm
Speaker 3: kind of like, is there trash talking, you know what
Speaker 3: kind of happens And they're like, you know on the court, yeah,
Speaker 3: like you want to win, you want to win. But
Speaker 3: it's kind of like League one call themselves love and
Speaker 3: the love is spreading, like everyone kind of loves each other,
Speaker 3: and so it's really funny to listen to these girls
Speaker 3: talk about that.
Speaker 2: So when it comes to.
Speaker 3: My job and like trying to talk about anything that
Speaker 3: could be quote negative, it almost feels like there really
Speaker 3: isn't anything negative because everyone is so determined and so
Speaker 3: wonderful and so nice that I can't find really any
Speaker 3: negativity behind it.
Speaker 2: And everyone wants to win.
Speaker 3: And so like talking with Kat who needs to wear
Speaker 3: these two hats, you know, if you listen to her,
Speaker 3: there's always like a positive to everything, Like even though oh,
Speaker 3: Maha might not be winning, it's like, yeah, but they
Speaker 3: still got Jordan Marson, they got Justine Wangarantas, they got
Speaker 3: Lexi Rodrigue, Like they have all these players who are
Speaker 3: really good and that they can figure out. If they
Speaker 3: can figure out what they're doing wrong, they'll be amazing, right,
Speaker 3: So it's kind of an interesting thing where it's like
Speaker 3: you kind of want to talk about that, right, because
Speaker 3: the stakes and that kind of makes the stories. But
Speaker 3: the stories are just that everyone's great, and everyone's working hard,
Speaker 3: and everyone wants this league to succeed at least this
Speaker 3: first season.
Speaker 1: Who knows it can change going to say, I feel like,
Speaker 1: especially now, everyone's just really excited to have a well built,
Speaker 1: well funded, well promoted league for them to play in
Speaker 1: in their own country, not traveling overseas. And then eventually
Speaker 1: maybe there'll be more demands for this or that or
Speaker 1: something to be done differently. But right now, it's making
Speaker 1: your job easy because you don't have too many people
Speaker 1: coming to you trying to get you to editorialize and
Speaker 1: speak out about stuff. But we'll see, We'll see you
Speaker 1: never you never know as things go on. But yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, let's talk about the finals first. I want
Speaker 1: to clarify. Why are we calling the playoffs the finals?
Speaker 1: This is very confusing to me. What am I missing?
Speaker 3: Well, it is the finals, right, someone's gonna finally win
Speaker 3: the whole thing.
Speaker 1: I get, yeah, but finals usually means like we've made
Speaker 1: it through the semis and the quarters and the whatever,
Speaker 1: and we made it to the finals. But they're calling
Speaker 1: the finals.
Speaker 2: Everything that's fair.
Speaker 3: But I also think unlike other leagues, like the NCAA
Speaker 3: tournament for example, it's not Yes, this is a tournament, right,
Speaker 3: and everyone's gonna pare down eventually there's going to be
Speaker 3: two teams, right, But the whole league is in this tournament, right,
Speaker 3: so anyone literally could be the final. And so I
Speaker 3: think that's just kind of why. I mean, I didn't
Speaker 3: come up with the name, but this is kind of
Speaker 3: like my guess, and it to me.
Speaker 1: My first complaint about Love. Take it to the people
Speaker 1: at the top. I just wanted to be called the
Speaker 1: postseason or the playoffs, and then the finals can be
Speaker 1: between the final two teams. That's It's just going to
Speaker 1: confuse me every time I say Love Finals, and then
Speaker 1: I'm like, and then the quarters of the finals, okay,
Speaker 1: but let's talk about the quarters. On Thursday, Love Atlanta
Speaker 1: entered the final week of the regular season with the
Speaker 1: number one seed. They had already clinched and earned their bye,
Speaker 1: but the race for the remaining positions came down to
Speaker 1: that final weekend. Houston swept Madison, which ended Madison's seven
Speaker 1: match win streak. They were surging and that gave Houston
Speaker 1: the other quarterfinal by so those two teams get a
Speaker 1: chance to rest and wait up. That sets up the
Speaker 1: two quarterfinals of Love Austin versus Love salt Lake and
Speaker 1: Love Omaha versus Love Madison. So let's start with the
Speaker 1: first one. Four thirty Eastern Thursday. Salt Lake finished their
Speaker 1: season seven and nine, Austin five and eleven. What are
Speaker 1: the keys to a win for each of these teams?
Speaker 3: So, Salt Lake has some amazing, amazing players. I mean,
Speaker 3: specifically to me, Minami Kojima, who is there liberro is
Speaker 3: one of the best liberos in the world. I know,
Speaker 3: Justin Wangmurantas won that distinction at the Olympics in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3: But she's I mean, Minami's just amazing to watch. She
Speaker 3: does not let the ball drop. So I feel like
Speaker 3: a combination of her on defense. Plus you have Ronnie
Speaker 3: Jones Perry, who's an outside hitter who is lights out.
Speaker 3: I mean, that girl every single time she I just
Speaker 3: imagine it's gonna be straight on the ground, right. So
Speaker 3: I feel like you have your outside hitter who's going
Speaker 3: to be super dominant with your setter Jordan Poulter, who
Speaker 3: is an Olympic medalist as well. You know, those two combined,
Speaker 3: it's just absolutely insane to watch at the net. Plus
Speaker 3: you have Manami who's gonna dig everything that you can imagine.
Speaker 3: So I feel like salt Lake just needs to be
Speaker 3: able to keep that up and keep that pressure up.
Speaker 3: Plus you got you know, Haley Washington's going to be
Speaker 3: absolutely amazing and Skyler Field's on opposite, she's also great.
Speaker 3: She really stepped up her game because she's also young.
Speaker 3: She's this is her second year playing pro for Austin.
Speaker 3: I feel like they are an interesting team because they
Speaker 3: have kind of struggled a little bit right They've gone
Speaker 3: back and forth between sometimes being great and sometimes not
Speaker 3: being great. Salt Lake and Austin have actually played the
Speaker 3: most five set matches out of the whole season, and
Speaker 3: this is actually a rematch of just last week, so
Speaker 3: they kind of are coming off fresh. So they know
Speaker 3: each other very well. But Austin is unique because their
Speaker 3: depth is it's very deep, their benches very deep. So
Speaker 3: they need to figure out still what is their winning lineup.
Speaker 3: I feel like they sometimes mess around with who's going
Speaker 3: to start, who's not going to start, who's going to
Speaker 3: come in and later sets, who's going to sit?
Speaker 2: And I feel like if they.
Speaker 3: Can just figure out that winning formula, they're gonna have it, because,
Speaker 3: like we talked about Madison Skinner earlier, Madison Skinner is
Speaker 3: just absolutely on fire. She's so fun to watch. Logan
Speaker 3: Eggleston for Outside is just so great to.
Speaker 2: Watch as well.
Speaker 3: Plus obviously Cat and your co host like host and
Speaker 3: you got.
Speaker 2: Chiako Bago in the middle.
Speaker 3: Who I mean, that girl is a wall at the
Speaker 3: net when it comes to blocking. So I feel like
Speaker 3: they just kind of need to figure out what is
Speaker 3: this winning formula to.
Speaker 1: Actually get well. And salt Lake probably feels pretty good
Speaker 1: coming in because they came back from down to win
Speaker 1: in five sets in that last matchup between the two
Speaker 1: of them in the last week of the regular season.
Speaker 1: So really no matter what happens, either they come in
Speaker 1: really confident, they get a lead and they hang on
Speaker 1: to it because they feel like, oh, we just beat
Speaker 1: this team, or if they get behind fresh and their
Speaker 1: minds as the fact that they were able to come
Speaker 1: back and win just a week ago. So Austin's got
Speaker 1: their work cutout for them in that one. Okay, the
Speaker 1: second matchup right after that seven pm Eastern. Madison finished
Speaker 1: the regular season eight and eight, Omaha five and eleven.
Speaker 1: Now you mentioned Madison started one in seven, so finishing
Speaker 1: eight and eight tells you that this is a team
Speaker 1: that has figured things out down the stretch. They've been
Speaker 1: almost unbeatable except for that last matchup that we just
Speaker 1: heard about where their seven game win streak or match
Speaker 1: streak ended. What needs to go right for Madison and
Speaker 1: Omaha for these teams to get the DUB.
Speaker 3: I think they just need to be fresh and ready,
Speaker 3: which I think they will be. Honestly, that loss against
Speaker 3: Houston in week thirteen was coming off of a short
Speaker 3: break because they played the night before, so I feel
Speaker 3: like they were just a little tired. I think that
Speaker 3: they're going to be just fine though. Any Drew Schumacher
Speaker 3: is an absolute beast at opposite.
Speaker 2: She is an Olympian as well.
Speaker 3: She's the only player in the league to win Offensive
Speaker 3: Player of the Week three times, so she is going
Speaker 3: to be a lot of fun to watch and is
Speaker 3: always so fun to watch from the front row, from
Speaker 3: the back grow, wherever she's hitting.
Speaker 2: She's just great.
Speaker 3: And plus you got Lauren Carlini, whose sets are like
Speaker 3: butter I mean every time I watch I'm just like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, what I would kill for her? At
Speaker 3: my own set from Lauren CARLINI I don't know what
Speaker 3: I would do with that ball. So I feel like,
Speaker 3: you know, watching them, they're gonna be just fine in
Speaker 3: the end. For Omaha, you know, as we mentioned earlier,
Speaker 3: they lost a few matches near the end after starting
Speaker 3: off really hot, but they have a great team. I mean,
Speaker 3: Jordan Larson's been great. Obviously, there's one.
Speaker 1: Time Olympic medalists basically basically the goat.
Speaker 3: Exactly, the Governor as they call her.
Speaker 2: She's amazing.
Speaker 3: But like on opposite a player who you might not
Speaker 3: have heard of or the Americans might not have heard
Speaker 3: off as a German player named Kimberly Drevniak who's absolutely
Speaker 3: phenomenal on opposite, And so then you got their setter
Speaker 3: is Laura Daikma. She also is great and knows how
Speaker 3: to spread the ball around to the pins to get
Speaker 3: these players ball. So I feel like, depending on who's
Speaker 3: in the front, it's just going to be a really
Speaker 3: good matchup. I think Madison does have the edge just
Speaker 3: because they're a little more on a hot streak. They
Speaker 3: figured out how to win, especially now that Annie has
Speaker 3: been back because she was injured those first few weeks
Speaker 3: of the season when they were on that losing streak.
Speaker 3: So I think that they're going to figure it out.
Speaker 3: And again mentioning Lexi Rodriguez and Justina Wangarante's in the
Speaker 3: backcourt is also just.
Speaker 2: A sight to see.
Speaker 1: Madison also might get a little bit of a bump
Speaker 1: because they've got two University of Louisville graduates on their team.
Speaker 1: So you've got two players coming home to your old
Speaker 1: stomping grounds. I presume there will be a lot of
Speaker 1: Louisville representation there cheering them on now that they're onto
Speaker 1: the pros, So maybe they'll get a little bump there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Actually, I just interviewed Claire Chasse, who is one of
Speaker 3: those Louisville players, and she said she's very excited, but
Speaker 3: she said that she's got to focus. She's very excited
Speaker 3: to be back, but she knows she has to focus
Speaker 3: because the point of being there is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, you can't go all year old haunts and
Speaker 1: throw any back with your friends. You've got to focus
Speaker 1: on the off first, and then if you win, you
Speaker 1: could celebrate. Claire and then Anna Hall, the other player
Speaker 1: from University of Louisville that gets a chance to go back,
Speaker 1: which is cool. Okay. Top seed Atlanta finished thirteen and
Speaker 1: three and the number two seed Houston ten and six.
Speaker 1: They're awaiting the winners of those matches. They'll face off
Speaker 1: on Friday. What should we know about the league's top
Speaker 1: two teams before the postseason starts? Give us a little
Speaker 1: scouting report for Atlanta.
Speaker 3: So Atlanta is another I mean, like I said, they're
Speaker 3: all just so fun to watch. So I keep saying that, right, Like,
Speaker 3: they're such a great team to watch. But you got
Speaker 3: Kelsey Robinson Cook, who we mentioned with how amazing she
Speaker 3: is on defense and as a hitter. You also got
Speaker 3: Tia Jimerson, who's their middle blocker. She is so fun
Speaker 3: to watch. I mean, like you think Chiaka's fun to watch,
Speaker 3: Tia Jimmerson is so great too. She's got this personality
Speaker 3: and she's just fiery and I love watching her.
Speaker 2: She reached fifty blocks.
Speaker 3: She was the first player to reach fifty blocks in
Speaker 3: the league, although Chiaka then ended up surpassing in that
Speaker 3: and has the most blocks in the league. Speaking of
Speaker 3: the two, but I mean Atlanta Leeds in total points,
Speaker 3: in aces, pass efficiency. They just kind of figured it out.
Speaker 3: They have a really good team, and especially after losing
Speaker 3: the very first match of the season, which is not
Speaker 3: just the first match, first Serve in Atlanta, I feel
Speaker 3: like they've kind of turned it around and been like.
Speaker 2: Ah, that was just a little fluke. Watch out. We
Speaker 2: are on fire. So they're great.
Speaker 1: What about Houston?
Speaker 3: So, Houston has been a lot of fun to watch.
Speaker 3: I love Jess Murzick. She's a Penn State player. She
Speaker 3: literally went from winning the championship the NCAA Championship in
Speaker 3: Louisville to going right to love Houston and has been
Speaker 3: one of their best players. She's I think the second
Speaker 3: player on their team with points. So she's just been
Speaker 3: on fire on the outside. And then you got Micah Hancock,
Speaker 3: who is the only player to have reached twenty aces.
Speaker 3: Her serve is absolutely insane. If you ever watch it,
Speaker 3: she does this top spin jump serve that is just
Speaker 3: I don't know how people defend it, but somehow they
Speaker 3: are able.
Speaker 2: To pass that.
Speaker 1: And then Jordan Thompson too big offensive weapon for them.
Speaker 3: Yes, and I was gonna say Jordan Thompson has also
Speaker 3: been on fire. Another player actually who was a little
Speaker 3: slow to start. She wasn't really putting up a lot
Speaker 3: of points. She kind of attributed that to coming off
Speaker 3: of the Olympics and kind of having that amazing run
Speaker 3: and just being a little tired and needing to get
Speaker 3: her body back and you know, ready for another tournament season.
Speaker 3: But since I think it was week five when she
Speaker 3: kind of found her groove again, she has been liked out.
Speaker 3: That girl can find a hole on any team. I
Speaker 3: don't know how she does it, but she can get
Speaker 3: over a blocking, get through a block, she can tip
Speaker 3: and find the campfire in the middle of the court.
Speaker 3: You know that she's just a great, great player to
Speaker 3: watch too.
Speaker 1: Tell us about the campfire? Can you explain that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So, I actually don't know if this is an
Speaker 3: official term, but I used to call it that when
Speaker 3: we were in high school. So, a campfires when you
Speaker 3: tip the ball and it lands right in the middle
Speaker 3: of the court and no one goes for it because
Speaker 3: everyone's watching it like a campfire.
Speaker 1: We're all circled around it with their s'mores, exactly feasting
Speaker 1: on the ball. The Love Finals are going to run
Speaker 1: alongside a major youth tournament sort of like the End
Speaker 1: Season Classic did the JVA World Challenge. So tell us
Speaker 1: about running those events can currently in Louisville and how
Speaker 1: it sort of continues that theme of connecting the youth
Speaker 1: and the sport to the pros.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so same thing as like we said the Love Classic.
Speaker 3: It's just it gives this opportunity for these youth players
Speaker 3: to be able to aspire to something. They get to
Speaker 3: watch these girls perform at the highest level and say,
Speaker 3: like one day I could be Jordan Thompson, one day
Speaker 3: I could be Kelsey Robinson Cook, right, And so I
Speaker 3: just think that it's great that they're able to watch them.
Speaker 3: And Love has done a great job providing opportunities for
Speaker 3: the fans to interact with the players as well. One
Speaker 3: thing that they have is they have a friendship bracelet
Speaker 3: making station in the hall. So I've heard from so
Speaker 3: many of the girls who have received friendship bracelets from
Speaker 3: these youth players, right, And then like the signs that
Speaker 3: they make and then they do the autographs at the end,
Speaker 3: and it's just kind of like the giddiness that you
Speaker 3: see from kids looking out to their idols. It's just
Speaker 3: so cute and exciting because it's the next wave, right,
Speaker 3: and you're not going to build your fan base if
Speaker 3: you're not reaching that younger generation that will continue to
Speaker 3: love the sport and fallow the sport and the fans
Speaker 3: are only going to keep growing because this sport is
Speaker 3: so popular in the United States that I feel like
Speaker 3: it's just going to keep growing, keep growing, and hopefully
Speaker 3: that someday soon. I mean the eighteen year olds who
Speaker 3: are playing right now in these youth tournaments, in five years,
Speaker 3: they're going to be playing pro so they could be
Speaker 3: the ones that are on the court representing these teams.
Speaker 1: The Love Woman of the Year award sort of connects
Speaker 1: with that because it's not really about an MVP or
Speaker 1: the best on the court. It's about someone that connects
Speaker 1: with the community in the way you just spoke about.
Speaker 1: Can you tell us about that award?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So a lot of these players have done amazing
Speaker 3: things within the community, but the teams decided, the players
Speaker 3: and the coaches decided to vote for one player on
Speaker 3: each team to be nominated for this Love Woman of
Speaker 3: the Year. So it's not just about their performance on
Speaker 3: the field, but their performance off the field and what
Speaker 3: they do in the community. So They have a lot
Speaker 3: of different ways that they get involved, whether you know
Speaker 3: it's Haley Washington who visits the you know, Children's hospital,
Speaker 3: Kimberly Drevniak on Omaha. She is actually part of this
Speaker 3: global foundation called Let's Keep the Ball Flying where they
Speaker 3: help bring.
Speaker 2: Resources to kids.
Speaker 3: All over to play volleyball, and she's brought that, you know,
Speaker 3: also with an Omaha. Logan Eggleston is on Austin and
Speaker 3: she's she's a fascinating woman. Ever since she was in college,
Speaker 3: she's been considering like one day running for president and
Speaker 3: has always been like an activist and wants.
Speaker 2: To help people.
Speaker 3: So all of these women are doing something within the
Speaker 3: community to not just make the their I mean, I
Speaker 3: hate to say that like their brand grow, because that's
Speaker 3: not what it's for, right. This is them and their
Speaker 3: hearts actually going out and doing things that they know
Speaker 3: is good for the community. And so I love this award.
Speaker 3: I think it's a great idea and I'm excited to
Speaker 3: see who eventually wins, because I don't know, all of
Speaker 3: them are doing great things well.
Speaker 1: And it's really cool how it does tie then back
Speaker 1: to what seems like it's at the heart of the league,
Speaker 1: which is sustainability by investing in what's next to come.
Speaker 1: And I the more interviews we do with these nascent leagues,
Speaker 1: the more I think about how different it would have
Speaker 1: been for people my age and before me if we
Speaker 1: had had all these different professional women's leagues of all
Speaker 1: different kinds to really be able to say, like, what
Speaker 1: do I want to do later and what could I
Speaker 1: become later? So very cool that love is a big
Speaker 1: part of that, and very cool that you came and
Speaker 1: gave us a little bit of a primer to get
Speaker 1: us ready for the postseason the finals. If you will
Speaker 1: and I won't, I will continue to say postseason, Tiffany,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for the time.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Sarah, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: We have to take another break. When we return, Schrodinger's
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Speaker 1: gameplay of the day. Watch The Love Finals quarterfinals are
Speaker 1: today on ESPN Plus. First up, Austin takes on Salt
Speaker 1: Lake at four thirty pm Eastern, followed by Omaha versus
Speaker 1: Madison at seven pm Eastern. The winners of those matches
Speaker 1: will play on Friday against the two teams that receivedodbye
Speaker 1: to the semifinals, Atlanta and Houston. Those games on ESPN
Speaker 1: two and ESPN Plus, then on Sunday the Love Championship,
Speaker 1: which will also be on ESPN two and ESPN Plus.
Speaker 1: We'll link to the full final schedule in our show notes.
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