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Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Tiffany Oshinski and I'm Kato and this is

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

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Speaker 1: is finally here. Each episode will be going over the

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Speaker 1: matches from the week to keep you up to date

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Speaker 1: on everything League one Volleyball.

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Speaker 2: Then stick around after the analysis.

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Speaker 1: For interviews with some amazing people in and around the sport.

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Speaker 1: Today's episode features two outside hitters from Love Omaha, Jaylly

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Speaker 1: Winters and Mattie Kubic Banks. But before we get to

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Speaker 1: the interview, the first ever Love Classic was this weekend,

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Speaker 1: held in Kansas City, Missouri, in conjunction with the Triple

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Speaker 1: Crown n one of the biggest club tournaments in junior volleyball,

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Speaker 1: The Love Classic gave junior club athletes and their families

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Speaker 1: a taste of what's possible for their volleyball careers as

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Speaker 1: they were able to watch all six Love Pro teams

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Speaker 1: compete in a three day tournament, with the winning team

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Speaker 1: getting one hundred thousand dollars. My Lovely and Hillarys co

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Speaker 1: host Kat Bell was on the scene in Casey not

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Speaker 1: just as a player for Love Austin, but also as

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Speaker 1: a boots on the ground reporter Kat had a chance

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Speaker 1: to talk to a bunch of players from all the

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Speaker 1: teams before the tournament started, including Houston's Maddie Kingdon, Rischell,

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Speaker 1: Salt Lakes, Tory Dixon, Austin's Zoe Jarvis, and so many more,

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Speaker 1: and here's what they had to say.

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Speaker 3: Coming in for the scoops. Maddie, Maddie Rish, how do

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Speaker 3: you feel about being Kansas City out here to support

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Speaker 4: I'm excited.

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Speaker 5: I think there's a big vollyball community here with the

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Speaker 4: I'm so excited actually to be here.

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Speaker 6: I never played in this tournament when I was younger,

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Speaker 6: but it seems very cool and very high level, and

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Speaker 6: I'm just excited for all these young girls to come

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Speaker 6: watch everyone play because everyone here is so amazing. It's

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Speaker 6: been so great so far, easy travel day, ready to

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Speaker 4: It's so cool.

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Speaker 7: This is a beautiful city and I love that all

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Speaker 8: Are here and we're with all the youth players too.

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Speaker 4: It's such a cool experience.

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Speaker 2: So little tea if you can.

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Speaker 3: What what is something that Houston's gonna do going into

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Speaker 5: After traveling today and touches in this gym and like

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Speaker 5: serving passing a huge for us, but like going aggressive

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Speaker 3: So salt Lake is our competition going to the quarterfinals,

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Speaker 3: So can you give me a little bit of insight

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Speaker 4: Y'all listen, first of all, you're.

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Speaker 2: Second of all, I ain't telling you nothing, no game plan, nothing.

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Speaker 6: You can tell me what we're no Honestly, I would

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Speaker 6: just say, we just want to focus on being our best,

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Speaker 3: What's come with some of our game playing going into

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Speaker 2: I can't tell you that I'm going to get a

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Speaker 4: For the fans, hold it down, That's all I got

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Speaker 2: Scream for us, cheer loud for us, and thank you for.

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Speaker 4: All your support.

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Speaker 2: Indians love best, so shout out salt Lake. Love you guys,

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Speaker 1: This girl to see you guys, there was a ton

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Speaker 2: Now let's recap what all went down this weekend.

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Speaker 1: On Friday, Love Atlanta and Omaha got to watch the

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Speaker 1: by thanks to ranking first and second, respectively in the

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Speaker 1: And then the other quarterfinals match, Love Austin knocked out

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Speaker 1: Outside Logan Eggleston led Austin with twenty points thanks to

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Speaker 7: I think our centers tips run a really good offense.

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Speaker 1: Met Saturday semifinals saw two four set matches. The first

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Speaker 1: So smooth and Love Atlanta beat Love Austin twenty five

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Speaker 3: Unbelievable Jammerson Balk walk again at you.

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Speaker 1: And lastly, Sunday Night's winner take all finals between Houston

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Speaker 2: And was named player of the match. Wow gay shit do.

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Speaker 1: Along with Amber, Jordan Thompson, Jess Murzik, Grace Frowling, and

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Speaker 1: their libero Pianoopnoy. The game ultimately ended on an Atlanta

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Speaker 3: Houston Whens got championship in the League one Volleyball Classic and.

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Speaker 2: One hundred thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: So congrats to Houston on their win. And after a

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Speaker 1: We got for outside hitter Austin's Logan Eggleston Liberro was

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Speaker 1: was also named the tournament's MVP. Well, we hope you

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Speaker 1: enjoyed watching all the ball this weekend. We're only halfway

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Speaker 1: through the inaugural Love Seasons, so there's still plenty more.

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Speaker 2: Women's professional volleyballs to come up next.

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Speaker 1: On certain Pancakes, we have Love Omaha's Jayy Winters and

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Speaker 1: Natty Cubic Banks on to talk about their volleyball journeys,

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Speaker 1: the camaraderie on their team and in the league, their pets,

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Speaker 2: Stay tuned, we are back with love.

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Speaker 1: Omaha outdid hitters Mattie Cubic Banks and Jailly Winters. Originally

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Speaker 1: Greece and France. Mattie Jailly, welcome to serving pancakes.

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Speaker 9: Thank you, hello, thanks for having us.

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Speaker 2: So excited to have you ladies here.

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Speaker 1: And I see for those who are watching on YouTube,

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Speaker 1: you had some kitty cats daily. Can you tell me

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Speaker 9: This is Stormy. She's the newest member of the fam.

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Speaker 7: She was actually my sister's cat first, and then I

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Speaker 7: a senior cat, got him in September October. I want

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Speaker 2: Still, he's new to the family. It'll happen. Yeah, what

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Speaker 7: I knew I didn't want a kitten like I just

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Speaker 7: He was just the cutest little thing and I was like,

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Speaker 7: to be thirteen years old.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, mister, welcome to the family.

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Speaker 7: I don't want to talk too much, but I will

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Speaker 7: say I had asked. I was like, can I please,

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Speaker 7: I just need a cat that can eat dry food

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Speaker 7: so I can leave it some dry food when I'm

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Speaker 7: They said it was no problem. Yeah, the cats they

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Speaker 7: all eat dry food. I've tried him on five different

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Speaker 7: dry foods. He throws them all up. Oh no, So

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Speaker 7: that part's a little bit of a bummer. But I

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Speaker 7: So it is what it is.

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Speaker 1: Maybe someone who's listening can get off for y some

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Speaker 8: They did like a whole streamers and birthday hats and

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Absolutely, I think every single day in the gym, I

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Speaker 8: I've just always really looked up to her, obviously her

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Speaker 4: So that's kind of cool to see that full circle moment.

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Speaker 1: When you guys got to the team for your first practice,

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Speaker 9: I'd say it was pretty chill.

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Speaker 9: So you just can't think about it.

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Speaker 8: I feel like the first couple of days it was like,

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Speaker 1: Now, you guys both grew up in Iowa. You guys

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Speaker 1: So how did you two end up becoming very good

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Speaker 4: Yes, I'm the oldest of four.

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Speaker 4: When about you, Maddy, I started playing in third grade.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I find that to be a very common thread.

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Speaker 8: So that, yeah, right, your exertion level are not thinking

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Speaker 1: for you when you realize is that volleyball was going

445
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Speaker 1: to be your sport that you really did want to

446
00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:06,160
Speaker 1: pursue it. What did you do to go from being

447
00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:08,040
Speaker 1: a good player to a great player?

448
00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:10,840
Speaker 7: My mom will tell you, I just like really was

449
00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:15,800
Speaker 7: dialed in, Like I'm just naturally a very driven person.

450
00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,840
Speaker 7: Like if you look back at my old notebooks, I

451
00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:21,439
Speaker 7: would like I discovered what a hit workout was, like

452
00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:24,159
Speaker 7: thirty seconds long and ten seconds off. I discovered what

453
00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:26,080
Speaker 7: that was when I was like fifteen, And I would

454
00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:28,399
Speaker 7: like make myself little workouts and I would like do

455
00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:31,840
Speaker 7: them before school started. Wow, And like I would do

456
00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:33,719
Speaker 7: my extra work as I start. We had like a

457
00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:36,440
Speaker 7: membership with the YMCA, me and my friend Jordan.

458
00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:38,280
Speaker 9: We would go to the y with her dad in.

459
00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:41,639
Speaker 7: Some mornings before school started, and just like I just

460
00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:45,000
Speaker 7: really wanted to like be great, And I don't know,

461
00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:47,240
Speaker 7: I think when I really love something.

462
00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:50,000
Speaker 9: I just really just go for it. And I don't

463
00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:51,560
Speaker 9: know that's really it. I just love winning.

464
00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:55,320
Speaker 4: Who doesn't so evident in the way that you are Jayly,

465
00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:56,080
Speaker 4: it really is.

466
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Speaker 8: I feel like for me, it was like as soon

467
00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:01,200
Speaker 8: as I decided that I only wanted to play volleyball,

468
00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:04,239
Speaker 8: which was pretty I guess probably eighth grade, I just

469
00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:06,920
Speaker 8: poured so much time into it. Is like you're in

470
00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:09,240
Speaker 8: club season, then you're in high school season, then your

471
00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:10,800
Speaker 8: summers are with USA.

472
00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:12,480
Speaker 4: And da da da da da da da a year round.

473
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Speaker 8: And I feel like when you spend so much time

474
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,720
Speaker 8: dedicating to like learning and growing, then I feel like

475
00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,440
Speaker 8: you kind of inherently have to get better. You would hope,

476
00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:23,159
Speaker 8: I guess, But I feel like also my parents just

477
00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,080
Speaker 8: really pushed me when I was in high school, and

478
00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:26,919
Speaker 8: it was kind of like, Okay, do your homework so

479
00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:28,240
Speaker 8: we can go to bed at nine o'clock because you

480
00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:30,000
Speaker 8: got to practice tomorrow and da da da da dah.

481
00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,119
Speaker 8: So they had that structure at home, which I think

482
00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:34,200
Speaker 8: was a little bit of a learning curve.

483
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Speaker 4: Going to college.

484
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Speaker 7: I also think like coming from families where your parents

485
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:41,760
Speaker 7: were also athletes, it just like isn't graded in you

486
00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:44,640
Speaker 7: that you need to pick a sport and be good ada.

487
00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:47,080
Speaker 7: And like for me, it was like, oh, you want

488
00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:49,680
Speaker 7: to go to college. Oh that's not in the budget,

489
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,480
Speaker 7: so you're gonna need to get a scholarship for a sport.

490
00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:56,160
Speaker 7: So you figure out what one do that because you

491
00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,160
Speaker 7: have to go to college and we're not paying for it.

492
00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:00,159
Speaker 7: I was like, okay, great, so this is just we

493
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,720
Speaker 7: have to do little sink or swim kind.

494
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Speaker 2: Of fun, right.

495
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Speaker 1: I just remember those early, like morning Saturdays when I

496
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:12,520
Speaker 1: first started playing club. I was just kind of in

497
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:14,560
Speaker 1: a local team before I went into like the more

498
00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 1: national level team, And I just remember those Saturday mornings

499
00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:20,199
Speaker 1: waking up at like five or six because we had

500
00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,440
Speaker 1: to drive two hours to some tournament, then play all

501
00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,359
Speaker 1: day to then drive the two hours back home. And

502
00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:28,880
Speaker 1: I'm like that dedication, like for my parents.

503
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:30,679
Speaker 2: To to let me do that.

504
00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:32,520
Speaker 1: And to be the ones to take me to all

505
00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:37,080
Speaker 1: those tournaments, I'm like, I yeah, that that fire was

506
00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:38,000
Speaker 1: lit from them.

507
00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:43,240
Speaker 7: For that. And like when I was in like middle school,

508
00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:46,719
Speaker 7: junior high even into high school, like I was a menace.

509
00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:48,960
Speaker 7: If we would lose a game at a club tournament,

510
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:50,639
Speaker 7: like I would not speak the rest of the day.

511
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:52,320
Speaker 7: I was mad at everybody. I didn't want to talk

512
00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:54,159
Speaker 7: to my mom. I didn't want to eat dinner, Like,

513
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:56,560
Speaker 7: and she's over here spending all this money to take

514
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,000
Speaker 7: us on this nice trip and stay at these hotels

515
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:00,040
Speaker 7: and all you know.

516
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Speaker 9: I'll just put in all this time for her whole weekend,

517
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:06,960
Speaker 9: and I just you're, like, this sucks. Shout out to her.

518
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:10,600
Speaker 2: Do you still have that attitude on the court when

519
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:11,000
Speaker 2: you play?

520
00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 7: Gosh, I think a little bit less. Like now if

521
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,480
Speaker 7: after a loss, I just need like ten minutes to

522
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:18,679
Speaker 7: like do my little cool down stretches and be like

523
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:21,560
Speaker 7: a little bit huffy, and then I can be.

524
00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:23,440
Speaker 9: Like, okay, we have to separate.

525
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:26,200
Speaker 7: Now we have to go love our families and like

526
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:27,120
Speaker 7: it's okay.

527
00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:31,920
Speaker 1: Do you guys have that like Jacqueline Hide persona between

528
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:33,000
Speaker 1: off the court and on the court.

529
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Speaker 7: I'd like to think so, Like I'd like to think

530
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 7: like we're more of like dogs on the court, and

531
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:39,720
Speaker 7: like off the court, we're.

532
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Speaker 9: Just kind of like, what's up, guys, what are you

533
00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:41,959
Speaker 9: doing tonight?

534
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:42,720
Speaker 4: Yeah?

535
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:45,080
Speaker 8: I feel like it also depends on the match too,

536
00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 8: Like if it's I don't know, maybe more of like

537
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:49,400
Speaker 8: a rival or kind of like you get into that

538
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:51,800
Speaker 8: intense like point to point, it brings out a different

539
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:53,919
Speaker 8: side where you can get a little like crazy eyes,

540
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:57,280
Speaker 8: like let's go kind of vibe versus you know, fun

541
00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:58,280
Speaker 8: and bubbling or whatever.

542
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Speaker 4: So I think definitely the match can bring out a

543
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:01,040
Speaker 4: different side.

544
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,920
Speaker 1: Now, Maddie, you got to play with Audrianna fitz Morris internationally.

545
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:06,080
Speaker 2: Now she's on your team.

546
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 1: Were there are other players that you knew previously that

547
00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:13,080
Speaker 1: you get to play against now or play with.

548
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:15,959
Speaker 8: Yeah, fifteen and I played together in Puerto Rico, and

549
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:19,639
Speaker 8: then I played with Lauren and Lexi and New Amber

550
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,440
Speaker 8: by approximation because of Lauren played.

551
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:25,240
Speaker 4: Against Gabby for most of college. Emily theater.

552
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:29,199
Speaker 8: Random enough, I actually was born in Kansas City and

553
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:31,920
Speaker 8: my dad's from Springfield, Missouri, which is the same city

554
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:33,600
Speaker 8: that she's from, So I would have gone to the

555
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:35,359
Speaker 8: same high school as her if I did, if we

556
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,199
Speaker 8: didn't move to Iowa, so I'd like known her, like

557
00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:40,600
Speaker 8: heard of her and watched her since I was little too.

558
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 8: So it just seems like there was a ton of

559
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 8: connections actually to this group.

560
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:45,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, what about you, Jayley.

561
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:51,320
Speaker 7: I played against Emily and Conde this past season. They

562
00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 7: were in Paris when I was on another team in France.

563
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:58,680
Speaker 7: Obviously knew Maddie from way back when oh I played

564
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:00,520
Speaker 7: against vicky' all, so she was in France at the

565
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:02,960
Speaker 7: same time I was playing there. Fitz she was also

566
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 7: in Greece the same time I was in Greece. So

567
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:08,240
Speaker 7: a lot of playing against each other.

568
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 1: Now being brought together when it comes to playing other

569
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:15,640
Speaker 1: teams that you like may have played with those girls

570
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,200
Speaker 1: before or have known them before from off the court

571
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 1: type of stuff, like do you have cordial relationships on.

572
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 2: The court or does it get pretty competitive?

573
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,159
Speaker 7: So four it's very cordial, and it's really fun to

574
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:29,480
Speaker 7: like look across the it and be like, yeah, that

575
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:31,560
Speaker 7: was a bad call, like to like you know, and

576
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 7: they'll just laugh like, oh.

577
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,320
Speaker 9: My gosh, like what just happened, Like it's pretty.

578
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:36,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's true.

579
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 8: It seems more like a celebration of our league and

580
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:41,879
Speaker 8: of like getting to compete against each other versus like

581
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:45,119
Speaker 8: some kind of rivalry. And maybe that's because we're like

582
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 8: first time in these teams.

583
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,400
Speaker 4: Or yeah, I don't know. Just seems like a celebration

584
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:51,680
Speaker 4: more than like a rivalry.

585
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:53,879
Speaker 1: That's actually a really cool way to look at the

586
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 1: league because I feel like, even though someone's gonna be

587
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 1: crowned the champion of the league in April, it is

588
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 1: kind of cool that you because you know each other,

589
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 1: you know of each other. It's it is a celebration,

590
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 1: like you said, instead of you know, cutthroat rivalry type

591
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 1: of situation.

592
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 9: But at the same time, I hope we get there.

593
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 9: I hope we have to cut through rivalries in the

594
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,240
Speaker 9: next couple of years. Do or die.

595
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 8: It's true, but I do feel like there is more

596
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 8: encouragement about like women supporting women and not being like

597
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:23,880
Speaker 8: and I think we were kind of talking to Jordan

598
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 8: about this. She's like when we were in college, we

599
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:28,120
Speaker 8: did not talk to other team. We were like, no,

600
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,240
Speaker 8: we're not talking to him. There are enemy da da

601
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 8: da da da da.

602
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:33,359
Speaker 4: And I feel like it's a lot less like that now.

603
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 7: Yeah, especially because it's like probably one hundred percent of

604
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:38,920
Speaker 7: the players. If I was on the same team as

605
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 7: you know, susie Q on whatever team, like, we would

606
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,199
Speaker 7: be best friends, right, So it's just not understand of like,

607
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 7: if you put me on a team with anybody, we

608
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 7: would probably end up being best friends just because of

609
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 7: the proximity and like everyone's so cool.

610
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, it true, that's awesome.

611
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,399
Speaker 1: Talking a little bit off the court, I know internationally,

612
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:01,440
Speaker 1: your schedule can be busy or sometimes you know, a

613
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,119
Speaker 1: lot of the players said it can be kind of

614
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:06,439
Speaker 1: lonely sometimes because not everyone speaking English. So now that

615
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:08,399
Speaker 1: you're here in the States, have you been able to

616
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 1: find new hobbies or new things to do during your downtime.

617
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 6: Yeah.

618
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 7: I went to college in Omaha at Creating University, so

619
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 7: I have gotten to reconnect with a lot of my

620
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 7: friends that still live here, a lot of my old

621
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 7: teammates that still live here. And it's so weird and

622
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 7: so cool to have a life outside of volleyball. I

623
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 7: like actually have cats now and like family around, and

624
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,119
Speaker 7: it's like it's fun to like have some roots and

625
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,359
Speaker 7: feel a little bit of stability outside of the gym.

626
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 6: Yeah.

627
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:39,040
Speaker 8: Absolutely, I think having our animals, like we kind of

628
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,479
Speaker 8: full circle back to the beginning of our conversation. But

629
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 8: for me, like that is so much of my time

630
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 8: that's spent outside of volleyballs, either walking them, brushing their hair,

631
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 8: doing whatever. And I feel like it does give me

632
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 8: like an outlet to pour into and things to like

633
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 8: love and care for because yeah, I think we spend

634
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 8: a lot of time at volleyball, but we need things.

635
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 4: That balance our lives to care for, love, do whatever, etc.

636
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 1: Speaking of caring for and loving, I mean, you just

637
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 1: got married over the summer, Maddie, congratulation, Thank you. I

638
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 1: saw you got married in Mexico. Well, I want to

639
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 1: know why Mexico. I'm half Mexican, so it's super exciting

640
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 1: to hear that you went to Quintana.

641
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 7: Rue.

642
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,240
Speaker 4: Right, it was in toulom to Loom.

643
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 8: Okay, Yes, So we got engaged last July, and I

644
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 8: left to go live in Italy to play for the

645
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 8: season in August. So for nine months of our engagement

646
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 8: we were a long distance and so we knew that

647
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 8: we wanted to get married this last summer sorry, two

648
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 8: summers Agos when we got engaged, then in the nine

649
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 8: months then the last summer was our wedding. But we

650
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 8: wanted to be able to plan it virtually, and so

651
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 8: the easiest way that we could do that was with

652
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 8: the destination wedding, because we would get on our zoom

653
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 8: calls with our wedding planner and kind of make our

654
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 8: selections from pictures, and we knew that it was already

655
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 8: going to be beautiful because of the scenery. So we

656
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 8: were like, you know what totally fits our personalities and

657
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 8: we get to, you know, go to this fun vacation

658
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 8: and bring all our people and it.

659
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 4: Was just a good fit.

660
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 8: We didn't see our weddings in you or a reception

661
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 8: space until literally two three days before the wedding. So

662
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 8: I feel like, if you're like a super type a bride,

663
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 8: that's probably not the move, but.

664
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 4: For us it was perfect.

665
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 9: I'm also getting married in Mexico. I literally think it's

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Speaker 9: just the best.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Ever, I don't know who I'm married, but we will

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Speaker 7: be getting married in Mexico.

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Speaker 8: Like well, and Jamie's sister Airy got married literally the

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Speaker 8: same weekend in Mexico.

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Speaker 2: Oh sorry, Yes, still a destination wedding and a beautiful location.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, destination wedding. Way to go.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's so funny.

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Speaker 1: We did not do a destination wedding, however, I was

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Speaker 1: not a psycho bride. Our wedding cake was like super late,

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Speaker 1: and I guess the wedding planner wanted it to be

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Speaker 1: on the table so that when people entered the reception,

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Speaker 1: like they would see it and they're like the cake

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Speaker 1: isn't here, and I'm like, who cares. You don't need

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Speaker 1: cake till like super late in the wedding, Like what

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Speaker 1: does it matter? And he was like, but it's not

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Speaker 1: going to be there when we open the door. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I don't care.

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Speaker 8: Really, you plan so much for then a day that

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Speaker 8: goes like literally that fast, and it's all the details

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Speaker 8: that you were like, I didn't really think about that, Like,

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Speaker 8: you don't know how much it takes to plan a

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Speaker 8: wedding till you actually plan one, and then the actual

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Speaker 8: day of it's like you wait around and then it's

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Speaker 8: like boom boom, boom boom, and then the day's over.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, so fast.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: What does your husband think of you playing here in

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Speaker 1: the States now and this new venture that you're going on.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, he's really excited. He just finished his NBA at

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Speaker 8: Rice and so he's training to go try and play

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Speaker 8: in the NFL right now. So we're doing long distance.

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Speaker 8: He's living in Houston doing his training, but it's definitely

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Speaker 8: nice to be on the same time zone.

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Speaker 2: Very cool.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, I have one last question that I

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Speaker 1: want to ask you guys. Bring it back to volleyball,

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Speaker 1: especially because I like this idea that love has. You know,

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Speaker 1: the pro teams, but you guys work a lot with

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Speaker 1: the club teams. So talking about you guys as young players,

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Speaker 1: with where you are now, if you could tell your

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Speaker 1: younger self something or give your younger self some advice,

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Speaker 1: what would you want to give?

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Speaker 9: You're exactly where you need to be.

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Speaker 7: I think as a young girl, as a young player,

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Speaker 7: you like, wish you were doing this better, wish that

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Speaker 7: this was.

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Speaker 9: Wish that as a player.

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Speaker 7: But it's like, if you were perfect, you wouldn't even

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Speaker 7: want to play volleyball anymore. Like the reason we play

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Speaker 7: is to get better, So like, just be okay with

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Speaker 7: where your eye and keep getting better every day, and

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Speaker 7: don't be so hard on yourself.

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Speaker 9: Have fun.

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Speaker 7: Part of the process and part of the enjoyment is

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Speaker 7: learning and getting better. If I was perfect a volleyball,

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Speaker 7: I would stop playing because what's what's the point?

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Speaker 6: You know?

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Speaker 9: So yeah, that's it's all part of the fun, all

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Speaker 9: part of the journey.

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Speaker 8: I think similar vain to daily just like go for

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Speaker 8: it and be okay with failure and risk. I feel

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Speaker 8: like that's something that I'm still learning and trying to do.

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Speaker 8: But I think when I was younger, I was really

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Speaker 8: afraid to make mistakes and that was going to be detrimental,

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Speaker 8: and I was gonna do it whatever, the whole spiral

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Speaker 8: that you take yourself on when you make mistakes, but

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Speaker 8: I think, yeah, just to go for it and to

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Speaker 8: just be okay with risk and failure and know that

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Speaker 8: you're growing.

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Speaker 2: Love that well.

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Speaker 1: Jally, Mattie, it's been a pleasure speaking with you. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for joining me on Serving Pancakes.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 9: Was fun.

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

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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 Bell. Anya Alvarez is our

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Speaker 1: senior producer. Our executive producers are Carrie Stett, Tamara Dike,

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Speaker 1: and Lindsay Hoffman. Our marketing lead is Juwara Parker. Sound

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

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Speaker 1: Pancakes by Eric W. Mass Junior Special thanks to Jally

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Speaker 1: Winters and Mattie Cubic banks. Stay tuned for next week,

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