Speaker 1: We are back serving pancakes.
Speaker 2: Second episode with Maddie Covin cat and two volleyball. Great,
Speaker 2: we have the Micah, he god and me Jo.
Speaker 1: Okay, dogs in the house. Yes, okay, you know I've
Speaker 1: never heard that, but every time.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, she don't want to puppy you
Speaker 2: want to.
Speaker 1: Anyways.
Speaker 3: Yeah, welcome you guys to be serving pancakes. We're so
Speaker 3: glad to have you guys here with us.
Speaker 1: Tell us we'll telling on. What's the tea, what's.
Speaker 4: What's my hand?
Speaker 2: What have you been up this summer?
Speaker 1: For sure y'all been off doing plus off the grid.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like this much of a volleyball zero your mental
Speaker 5: A lot of life happening.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for some places you guys were able to travel
Speaker 3: this past summer.
Speaker 4: I went in Sula music.
Speaker 5: I was in San Diego living, so I really enjoyed
Speaker 5: that and then just a lot of music.
Speaker 2: And I went to Michigan and I was off around.
Speaker 2: Didn't go to Europe, dang.
Speaker 1: It, you've been there plenty.
Speaker 6: Next Jeorgan, I made it out to ism. I was
Speaker 6: in the six comandom.
Speaker 2: I did a little family trip to the Bahamas. I
Speaker 2: was I didn't know that one did you go to Atlantis.
Speaker 2: That's a received Yeah you've been done the slide with
Speaker 2: the shark that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was like, I'm good, I'll just watch Yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, someone else Trump exactly excellent.
Speaker 1: You know what.
Speaker 2: It's supposed to be there with me exactly exactly. Sorry, okay,
Speaker 2: well we have like a hot take.
Speaker 1: Just you guys.
Speaker 3: You're very quick, very fast to the point really for
Speaker 3: nothing too crazy.
Speaker 1: So three words described.
Speaker 2: Love it's the same time. Funny energy Okay, funny energy, yeah,
Speaker 2: and wow to what's one of your three words? Hilarious
Speaker 2: and I'll do you thank you yeah and not you.
Speaker 1: That's why anyway, I'm just down the street.
Speaker 2: What song is on the before the match?
Speaker 5: No, you go?
Speaker 2: Line's off the Ground by Anderson Study for you Jumbo Tron.
Speaker 1: Popping exactly, that's a good one. I go to Drake
Speaker 1: to popping ship is what she said.
Speaker 2: I'll say pop.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I never get that. I always say it wrong.
Speaker 4: Whatever you know.
Speaker 1: Next, next question, what's something you may be working on
Speaker 1: right now?
Speaker 3: Like, what's something maybe be small that you kind of
Speaker 3: added to your game that's a big impact related what.
Speaker 1: You bring into the table real quick?
Speaker 2: What do you bring in next? Season.
Speaker 1: What do you rage?
Speaker 2: How better defense? Honestly? Always upgrade? Yeah, blocking? Yeah, also
Speaker 2: me on the defensive side, I feel like yeah, also
Speaker 2: the side of our core. Actually, I'm gonna get really
Speaker 2: really good at that. Yeah, you guys can shut I'm
Speaker 2: giving all the balls. I know.
Speaker 1: Who's the biggest trash talker in practice?
Speaker 2: Maddie, Yeah, that's question that question.
Speaker 1: Actually think that question. I thought this is gonna hurt. Okay,
Speaker 1: we going to that question.
Speaker 3: What's like of the craziest things, the craziest things you
Speaker 3: guys argue about in practice?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I would for me. It's not even topics,
Speaker 2: it's just like how competitive she is?
Speaker 1: Okay, so she's the problem.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we know that.
Speaker 1: Last episode, I I want to light a little fire.
Speaker 1: We don't want to make it interesting.
Speaker 4: This is the issue.
Speaker 2: It starts off as a joke, but then you start
Speaker 2: getting really competitive, and if you start losing, you're starting
Speaker 2: to get pissed off.
Speaker 4: But the other person is still kind of joking around.
Speaker 2: You're like, not right now, Like I can't handle yeah,
Speaker 2: sometimes talking about.
Speaker 1: Joking.
Speaker 5: There were days so when we all knew one of
Speaker 5: us was doing like we were, we had had our
Speaker 5: love and we were just like, hey, just every day
Speaker 5: and we're all like yeah, but it would literally just
Speaker 5: move it.
Speaker 2: I would still chirp, but quietly and be like like
Speaker 2: do the net and then no, No, she's kind of
Speaker 2: mad eye contacting.
Speaker 4: You're like, all right, I'm done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if your mike mid match?
Speaker 2: What's one thing the producers would have to bleep out
Speaker 2: the word yeah, don't us. I don't know what.
Speaker 4: Someone give her her crown.
Speaker 2: Okay, if Beyonce wants to be on the Houston team
Speaker 2: as the starting opposite door center, you have to give
Speaker 2: up your.
Speaker 7: Yeah ass on a bitch? Uh No way, I give
Speaker 7: that hail the queen. But now I wonder, you know,
Speaker 7: I wonder she'd be good.
Speaker 2: I think Beyonce has talent. She's like, she could be
Speaker 2: a wonderful barrel.
Speaker 1: I think she'd be I think she is.
Speaker 2: She has a lot taller on TV to say, so,
Speaker 2: maybe she could be a setter.
Speaker 4: Sorry, hey what five eight?
Speaker 2: Aren't you five eight?
Speaker 4: Better? Quick?
Speaker 3: Team?
Speaker 7: Nice?
Speaker 2: What's her biggest team? Travel? People who are talking really
Speaker 2: loud on the bus.
Speaker 1: Shut up?
Speaker 2: Yeah, shut headphones? Like if you're like, it's one with this. Also,
Speaker 2: I just really got tired of wearing the same outfit
Speaker 2: all the time as a we're.
Speaker 1: Just like, we didn't love Austin.
Speaker 3: We didn't do that. We like, you kind of can
Speaker 3: wear what you want. Long it was a deta or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, did your captains choose that or something?
Speaker 2: But that you guys could wear whatever you wanted. Yeah,
Speaker 2: basically long.
Speaker 3: Yeah, long Adidas, and you know it was fine. We
Speaker 3: had like the what's the suit that we got from Revolve?
Speaker 3: Everyone got the blue and white one? Yeah, the st
Speaker 3: one that was from spank or spanks yeah sanks. Yeah
Speaker 3: that was comfortable. Yeah, nice, But we were able to
Speaker 3: kind of do our own kind of sense of style.
Speaker 1: Are like no brand, okay, yay?
Speaker 2: Comfort comfort? Is he for the great Yeah?
Speaker 4: The grout fit?
Speaker 2: Yeah, the I always went for the ground fit. Yes,
Speaker 2: all right. So what's your Houston hot take?
Speaker 4: Food?
Speaker 2: Nightlife, food scenes, epything? Yeah it is really good. What's
Speaker 2: your go to food? I feel like they have some
Speaker 2: good Italian food there.
Speaker 4: They also have everything.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we do have a we have a happy
Speaker 2: hour spot.
Speaker 4: That's good. I think I took.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, you didn't like it? Nothing I had
Speaker 2: brush at no or left no no, no different one anyways,
Speaker 2: all right, I have to move on to the real
Speaker 2: real stuff. You guys. Okay, So you guys have both
Speaker 2: had pretty incredibles until this point. You want two Olympic medals? Yes,
Speaker 2: what does that feel like? Do you feel different right
Speaker 2: to wear it?
Speaker 1: Is there a pressure of life into you wear these medallions?
Speaker 1: Or you have this like this.
Speaker 3: Stat for you to perform at any level or any
Speaker 3: team or like wherever you're at, Like.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like I have to play well?
Speaker 2: Because it used to be And then my mentality shifted
Speaker 2: a little bit, like right after Tokyo, I was like
Speaker 2: gotta be perfect and no, I'm like, I'm literally in
Speaker 2: house money, Like what am I stressing for?
Speaker 4: I literally worked my whole life for this And it's
Speaker 4: a journey.
Speaker 5: It's not like you never do this anyway like everyone
Speaker 5: thinks it's like that's how you get to success.
Speaker 4: And it's just that way. So it was liberating, like
Speaker 4: turn the other the other day, I don't say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was really liberating to be like, no,
Speaker 2: this is the mindset I need to have and it's.
Speaker 3: What's maybe some advice you'd give to other athletes that
Speaker 3: are trying to give with my mind to the pressure
Speaker 3: of like I did, all these great things have to
Speaker 3: keep being.
Speaker 5: Great, just like perfectionism is like not a thing. I
Speaker 5: think Sue inc Has actually said this recently. Does It's
Speaker 5: just like your overthinking stuff, be in the moment, be
Speaker 5: present and like approach that moment as you would, which
Speaker 5: like if you're doing it at a high level, like most.
Speaker 4: Of the time, it's going to be a good result.
Speaker 4: So it keeps you in.
Speaker 2: The moment and it's fun. Yeah, I mean, I honestly
Speaker 2: winning medals. It's weird because I don't feel this I
Speaker 2: thought would feel like a really strong emotional attachment to
Speaker 2: like this metal, But I think, like Mike I was saying,
Speaker 2: it was more about the journey to get there, and
Speaker 2: I felt just more confident in who I was as
Speaker 2: a player after and I think for at least my
Speaker 2: own personal journeys at both Olympics, it wasn't necessarily what
Speaker 2: I'd hoped for for myself, with like getting injured and
Speaker 2: different things happening, but like at the end of the
Speaker 2: day and like I was a part of that, and
Speaker 2: I think that speaks volumes to the journey I had
Speaker 2: to get there and the people that supported me along
Speaker 2: the way, and I think that's what I focus on
Speaker 2: more than like, oh, I now have to be this person.
Speaker 2: It's like, no, I don't have to change anything, Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: he did it. Did you guys know when you were
Speaker 2: younger that you wanted to go to the Olympics? Like
Speaker 2: was that always a goal for you or it just
Speaker 2: naturally you were? Like this is progressed and like now
Speaker 2: I have this opportunity that's like pretty sick.
Speaker 4: I always wanted to throw.
Speaker 2: I didn't know what that meant, though, I think none
Speaker 2: of us did. We didn't see it, like maybe because
Speaker 2: you're okay, she keeps us young.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we didn't have that.
Speaker 3: So okay, let's just say bobbles some in the picture.
Speaker 3: You know right now, what do you think you'd be.
Speaker 1: Doing if you weren't play volleyball?
Speaker 4: Who would you be?
Speaker 1: Who's Mica Hancock not the volleyball player.
Speaker 2: I don't know, like my unhinged answers that, like I
Speaker 2: would want to DJ? Are we making music?
Speaker 4: Or like do something creative?
Speaker 5: And it's really weird to think about life after volleyball
Speaker 5: because I'm like, it's just the whole world we don't
Speaker 5: know but using the time now, I think, as we
Speaker 5: have more time off not being overskies all the time,
Speaker 5: you have more time to kind of get your hands dirty,
Speaker 5: explore your interests and stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like I would be doing something either
Speaker 2: like helping people or horses. I knew you.
Speaker 1: Into this, Georgia a die hard horse. Go you have
Speaker 1: a horse, pat r Really.
Speaker 3: Is it like somebody who like group around horses as
Speaker 3: a kid, or just like somebody to develop as.
Speaker 4: I don't know what and it started.
Speaker 2: I mean I have this picture of myself like as
Speaker 2: a little maybe like one year old, and my brother
Speaker 2: had a petting zoo for his birthday and I was
Speaker 2: just on the back of this pony and wow, just like.
Speaker 4: And then maybe that's what started it.
Speaker 2: But I just feel like there's such like strong, powerful
Speaker 2: creatures and they're like gentle but also like sometimes a
Speaker 2: little intimidating and sometimes they stare people down through the
Speaker 2: net and whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, did you ever watch Spirits?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: But I was a.
Speaker 2: Big flick a girl that was like my movie. I
Speaker 2: always cried. I felt like Flicka when they put her
Speaker 2: in the trailer and then she's like she needs to
Speaker 2: see the sky.
Speaker 1: I'm like that's me Watch Spirit you love that too,
Speaker 1: and cried as well.
Speaker 2: Interesting, Okay, you guys have played a bunch of overseas
Speaker 2: as well. Where have you guys been? What have you
Speaker 2: what has been your favorite and why? I played in
Speaker 2: Italy and Turkey and I've played in wonderful And where
Speaker 2: do we go in Italy? Okay? Did you guys play
Speaker 2: against each other in Italy?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, because you were in one.
Speaker 3: Was What was the first place you played after graduating
Speaker 3: from Penn?
Speaker 4: I went to Italy?
Speaker 1: So how was that? Just like being what twenty one?
Speaker 3: Going off into the world by yourself, like in a
Speaker 3: place you don't really know language barrier?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought it was rough for me. I was like, whoa,
Speaker 5: I'm living alone, no one speaks my language. I couldn't
Speaker 5: even go over a coffee And so how did you
Speaker 5: kind of get.
Speaker 8: You?
Speaker 4: I was snatched? Yeah, but it was called Leish.
Speaker 5: Alicia Maass was there and Rachel Adams and it was
Speaker 5: like a nice little like whoa, actually this is the
Speaker 5: latter I have to climb here, like we just finished,
Speaker 5: like won a championship. I did get national paper year
Speaker 5: and I was like, yeah, let's go to Italy and
Speaker 5: se what's up, and they were like you suck. Okay,
Speaker 5: let's start to sing it all over again. So yeah, what
Speaker 5: did you feel like?
Speaker 2: Your biggest takeaway from that was like that you had
Speaker 2: to learn volleyball wise, transitioning from n C double A
Speaker 2: to pro that there's always so much more to learn,
Speaker 2: and like the things you don't know, you learn, you
Speaker 2: to learn, you know, Like I remember watching Moki the
Speaker 2: Italian livery, just like someone was spraying her balls and
Speaker 2: she's like diming out of sex. It's hitting the line
Speaker 2: every single time, like two feet off the net, and.
Speaker 4: I was just like, I can't even do that.
Speaker 5: That's my job, but I'm not doing that. So it
Speaker 5: was pretty enlightening at least.
Speaker 2: And then you were a finer first. Yeah, I was there, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and we got to hang out and you had that
Speaker 2: dog and had all the fleas.
Speaker 1: Okay, I found a dog.
Speaker 2: It was like literally a teeny tiny puppy and it
Speaker 2: was laying under I saw, like jump off the curb
Speaker 2: and crawl under a parked cars like front tire, and
Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god, it's gonna get run
Speaker 2: over if I don't pick it up.
Speaker 4: And so I picked it up.
Speaker 2: I was looking for its mom everywhere, couldn't find it.
Speaker 2: I had a dog at home already, like, oh, like,
Speaker 2: I'll just bring it home foster until I find someone.
Speaker 2: I'm literally sitting on the couch patting this dog. I
Speaker 2: see things like kind of crawling in and out of
Speaker 2: expert I'm like, I like, pull.
Speaker 4: Back his birth infested.
Speaker 1: That's gross.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you you say you got.
Speaker 1: The But is y'all getting random countries dogs and cats
Speaker 1: off the stree?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the animals.
Speaker 4: But then I got adopted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but picking dogs up the street.
Speaker 2: Nasty, And I was like, thank god, my like real
Speaker 2: dog didn't get the police. But then you rap about you,
Speaker 2: which is a pretty great club, and how was your experience?
Speaker 4: It was like getting punched in the face.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because listen, you go overseas and you're like, whoa,
Speaker 2: I'm playing for one of like the biggest clubs in
Speaker 2: the world.
Speaker 3: Let's not Let's note that for American volleyball, like to
Speaker 3: play at Hunter is such a huge thing, and for
Speaker 3: JT to come out of college and be put for
Speaker 3: that roster is absolutely insane.
Speaker 1: So CONGRATSI for that. I don't know that much about
Speaker 1: like overseas volleyball.
Speaker 3: But for her to go into that situation and come
Speaker 3: out obviously she's a is great, So that's amazing.
Speaker 4: It was really cool.
Speaker 2: But I think it was just like a lot to learn,
Speaker 2: and like the coaches in college versus the coaches overseas
Speaker 2: like very different and the things that they're allowed to
Speaker 2: say or like maybe do, and so that I was like,
Speaker 2: whoa culture shock. But I had Kelsey with me there too,
Speaker 2: and so that was nice. And then also I had you,
Speaker 2: so it's kind of it was nice that I had
Speaker 2: people around to show me the ropes and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Would you guys say like going overseas is a very
Speaker 3: important piece of being a pro vulbable play especially like
Speaker 3: at the level that you guys play, yet.
Speaker 2: I think for us, yeah, I mean to have the
Speaker 2: opportunity to go and play overseas because we didn't have
Speaker 2: love here, I think was really special for me and
Speaker 2: like I really cherish all of those memories and club seasons.
Speaker 1: I think it also like speaks away at the volleyball
Speaker 1: piece of it.
Speaker 3: Just like as women in general, like you said, you
Speaker 3: have to go in the situations and learn from them
Speaker 3: and kind of grow from them and kind of like
Speaker 3: fight those battles in those effort averse three times, you know.
Speaker 5: So like going somewhere for and like we all know
Speaker 5: the feeling of walking in this floor like this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and also or not know who you are, I
Speaker 1: mean being in a place who you are?
Speaker 3: I think for me, I mean, but I think it's
Speaker 3: I would always say, like, since love is becoming what
Speaker 3: is becoming and the level was so great, I would
Speaker 3: just say, like to be able to even draft into
Speaker 3: the league, I would say, you have to play at
Speaker 3: least one year or one season abroad just to get
Speaker 3: that like you know what I mean feeling.
Speaker 2: I think it's helpful just to kind of find yourself too,
Speaker 2: And like I know it's harder, but maybe a little
Speaker 2: bit of adversity is nice for character building. Yeah yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: So you guys are both founding athletes. How did you
Speaker 2: get to that point?
Speaker 1: Like what made you.
Speaker 2: Decide to come to love? Where were you in time
Speaker 2: when that was all being talked about for you? I
Speaker 2: was in Italy when those conversations started, and I remember
Speaker 2: before getting on the call to kind of really learn
Speaker 2: what love was all about, I was like absolutely not,
Speaker 2: Like I'm staying overseas.
Speaker 4: This is not happening. I'm not going home yet.
Speaker 2: And then as soon as I hung up the phone,
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm doing it. Sold really cool to
Speaker 2: see what was being built and then to kind of
Speaker 2: be invited inside of like, hey, we want your voice
Speaker 2: to be a part of this, and you know, we
Speaker 2: want your input and feedback. I think that was interesting
Speaker 2: for me to think about. And then obviously to have
Speaker 2: the opportunity to play at home and have my friends
Speaker 2: and family come and watch me they you know, never
Speaker 2: seen me play professional volleyball or maybe having seen me
Speaker 2: play since high school, that was really exciting too.
Speaker 5: I think to be a part of it is like
Speaker 5: the coolest thing. It's an honor to bring it home.
Speaker 5: I think as I was talking about overseas volleyball and
Speaker 5: how big of a journey, part of our journey, it
Speaker 5: was bringing that here and ting like America what professional
Speaker 5: action looks like, and like having girls in college to
Speaker 5: learn that sooner and like to see how that's.
Speaker 4: Going to change the future.
Speaker 2: Volleyball is like something I really couldn't say no to exactly.
Speaker 2: And so when you guys, from that point of like
Speaker 2: having those conversations it was like what four or five
Speaker 2: years ago, three years? Yeah, I played two years overseas
Speaker 2: and it's been a minute. Yeah, So do you feel
Speaker 2: like the like build up was really exciting because you
Speaker 2: were like I can I'm going to be home and
Speaker 2: like I can tell my friends and family.
Speaker 5: There was like I don't know, for me, there's like
Speaker 5: a release of like Okay, i can do this overseas
Speaker 5: like two more years and I'm coming home and like
Speaker 5: whatever that brings, Like it's it was technically kind of
Speaker 5: a startup last year, but like.
Speaker 4: We were so happy to be home and we all
Speaker 4: have this.
Speaker 2: Energy and we had a great group.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was perfect.
Speaker 3: And also like when love was being first talked about
Speaker 3: amongst like me and other people, it almost almost kind
Speaker 3: of like a rumor, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 3: we weren't sure if it was actually happening. I think
Speaker 3: it was in the really early stages of like getting
Speaker 3: players to come in and sign and like then you
Speaker 3: guys are are kind of like posting about it and
Speaker 3: we could see like, okay, well these players that they
Speaker 3: have and like for sure, like when they say Mike's coming,
Speaker 3: your comer are like, oh, well they're going to be
Speaker 3: playing at home and we get a chance to play
Speaker 3: with them and play against them, we want to do it,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying so loudly speaking about it,
Speaker 3: like helping the room. There is definitely like a different
Speaker 3: like tier, you know what I'm saying. So to be
Speaker 3: able to, like for myself, be able to be a
Speaker 3: part in being magit with you guys and from you guys,
Speaker 3: and play against you guys and play with you guys,
Speaker 3: It's such an honor and I feel like something we
Speaker 3: talked about I think the last time we were talking,
Speaker 3: like last week, that like it's almost like a full
Speaker 3: circle moment for us, you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 3: I've known Micah since twenty eleven when Michael.
Speaker 4: Was going a Tulsa baby.
Speaker 3: I know Michael was, yeah, but it's so cool to
Speaker 3: be able to like, well, thank you for thank you
Speaker 3: for guys for believing to what they had coming for
Speaker 3: everybody else. And it made us want to come home
Speaker 3: and like be with you guys, and I get to
Speaker 3: play for my family, my nieces get to see me
Speaker 3: play with you guys, and I'm like, yeah, like.
Speaker 2: Y'all are great.
Speaker 1: You know against it like two times before you know,
Speaker 1: so it's really cool.
Speaker 4: So it's like a full circle moment.
Speaker 5: Like at Au we played together, so it's always played
Speaker 5: against each other, you know.
Speaker 4: So it's just a cool thing to be a part of.
Speaker 1: We love you too many.
Speaker 2: Thank you anyway, But I was going to say something,
Speaker 2: but you just kept going on and you had to
Speaker 2: play twenty eleven. Okay, yeah, can we do? You want
Speaker 2: to touch on Tulsa and Penn State and then Cincinnati?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Whoa.
Speaker 3: My story with Micah was we were going to the
Speaker 3: un under I'm all American. I don't know how many
Speaker 3: girls go get invited to that. It's like the top
Speaker 3: twenty of us or top twenty five.
Speaker 2: You are this under arm and I'm.
Speaker 4: Under armmer now. But they didn't know who it was back.
Speaker 2: Oh no, it's okay. I mean people knew who you were. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you we're the same class. Yeah, yeah, we're the
Speaker 2: same class. We already told the story on the first Yeah,
Speaker 2: but why did you Why were you not invited to
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I was busy that week, okay, going on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and i'd never met Maca before and like I
Speaker 3: hadn't been, like I hadn't really I hadn't met you
Speaker 3: in the Nash.
Speaker 1: Team gym yet until like we were in school in college.
Speaker 3: But it's my first time seeing Micah and I was like,
Speaker 3: who the hell is this girl?
Speaker 2: Y'all want to tell you?
Speaker 1: They had all these like top now I'm stetters. I can't.
Speaker 1: I don't know who's there, no offense, but I know
Speaker 1: who you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: And I remember like Micah had this like you were
Speaker 3: still jump serving her.
Speaker 1: I think you want to set her competition as well too.
Speaker 3: She was doing all these amazing things and I don't
Speaker 3: think she was like I don't think they even had you,
Speaker 3: like ranked up high with the setters whatever it was. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was just like you almost like I'm here for
Speaker 3: the vibes type stuff, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And she was like, yeah, exactly being everyone I remember being.
Speaker 3: I'm like and for me, like I had been multiple
Speaker 3: camps for like ABCA, like top ten, whatever it was, I've.
Speaker 1: Never seen him. I'm like all the girls I played
Speaker 1: with and train was so far you were the best.
Speaker 1: And I was like, girl, where are you going to school?
Speaker 1: And she was like wholsome And I was like, what,
Speaker 1: no of Ulson? No offense?
Speaker 4: But like, you know, what are what's the mascot hurricanes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, hurricanes. Hulsa is not like it was at the time.
Speaker 3: I don't know what they are now. It's not a
Speaker 3: top like I was, say, top ten powers, you know. Anyway,
Speaker 3: So if I just want to say no offense, I
Speaker 3: feel bad about saying that, but I mean, I mean
Speaker 3: I remember like Colling Geer and being like we got
Speaker 3: to get Mica handcocked.
Speaker 1: Tell it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Mika almost went to Texas,
Speaker 1: by the way, damn when I had the money. That's
Speaker 1: the truth, you guys is about.
Speaker 2: This is the truth.
Speaker 1: We almost had it. But you guys went to Korea
Speaker 1: together on that trip. No go back to.
Speaker 5: I had to have a meeting because I had already
Speaker 5: signed to Tulsa.
Speaker 2: I had to have a meeting with the new coach.
Speaker 2: So that's why the whole thing happened.
Speaker 5: This coach that had recruited me left and I was like,
Speaker 5: wait what And the new coach was nice enough to
Speaker 5: be like, hey, I've seen you grow in the past
Speaker 5: two years.
Speaker 2: Like I know, like you can go somewhere and do
Speaker 2: something big.
Speaker 4: If you want to do that, I want to give you, like.
Speaker 2: The possibility, and I said, thank you so much and
Speaker 2: if I come back, like you know, I'm going to
Speaker 2: be one hundred percent committed here. And Penn State had
Speaker 2: a setter like completely quick volleyball, like super unhappy, which
Speaker 2: is a shame. But I did not know a single
Speaker 2: thing about pen Sate.
Speaker 5: I went and had an official visit and walk in
Speaker 5: and there's like just placks of women who have just
Speaker 5: been like for time America, like great Megan easy, you know,
Speaker 5: like Alicia, And I'm like, what did I just walk
Speaker 5: into And he's like you're gonna hate it, but like
Speaker 5: we're gonna make.
Speaker 2: You great ball up there, and I was like, I
Speaker 2: think I have to come here. Did you hate it partially?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Sure, I mean it was really hard mentally physically
Speaker 5: a lot to juggle. Yeah, a little diversary like we
Speaker 5: were talking about you strong, yes, and yeah so not Tulsa.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that wasn't in the cards for.
Speaker 1: Me, so glad.
Speaker 2: Yeah we loved Tulsa.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we love Tulsa. But I knew I was like
Speaker 1: my favorite, damn to go there and no offense.
Speaker 9: And my sister, that's my sister's on the water and
Speaker 9: but but she was also like you need to go
Speaker 9: like flying, and I think that is you need to
Speaker 9: have people around you like that.
Speaker 5: So I'm also grateful to the coach that that came
Speaker 5: in there and was like go awaiting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you and beat.
Speaker 4: That's crazy because that's.
Speaker 5: Also my time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this isn't really our things. I just trying to
Speaker 4: make it happen. Okay, you guys should be more like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: across anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have to at know the movie reference you
Speaker 2: didn't commit anywhere?
Speaker 4: And then do commit?
Speaker 2: He actually, sorry, oh you did tell us you guys,
Speaker 2: we're learning so much. I was committed to Syracuse my
Speaker 2: freshman year and then but my coach, my school coach
Speaker 2: my freshman year, she was like, it was my first offer,
Speaker 2: my first visit anywhere. She's like, you're going to get
Speaker 2: more offers. Don't take the first one. Wait it out,
Speaker 2: like they will wait for you whatever. And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: like for sure, I committed.
Speaker 1: So you're an easy cell, really decisive.
Speaker 2: They say, we have cheese. It's okay.
Speaker 1: I was great, So are the man fine, I'm coming.
Speaker 1: I should have looked at that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So then they also had a coaching change and I
Speaker 2: kind of reopened my recruitment.
Speaker 4: Also, like I was not good in high school, so
Speaker 4: like whatever, I'm sure you were fine.
Speaker 2: But I don't think a lot of people knew that
Speaker 2: I had decommitted, and then I didn't really know where
Speaker 2: to look. And one of my friends from high school,
Speaker 2: she was committed to Cincinnati, and she was like, why
Speaker 2: are you just going to visit there?
Speaker 4: I'm like, well, do they even want me?
Speaker 2: And so I went on a visit and I just
Speaker 2: like fell in love with the school, the coaching staff, JA,
Speaker 2: yeah exactly, yeah, okay, and then yeah, I committed shortly
Speaker 2: after and it was just really like I just really
Speaker 2: enjoyed my time there. I think a lot of people
Speaker 2: are like, why do you go to a big volleyball school?
Speaker 2: And I'm like I could have gone to maybe a
Speaker 2: big volleyball school, maybe on a partial scholarship, sat the
Speaker 2: first three years or like who knows that my journey
Speaker 2: it worked.
Speaker 3: For you to say, yeah, out of all our universities,
Speaker 3: who what if you had to take which one?
Speaker 1: Which one? Which want to go to there?
Speaker 7: Damn?
Speaker 2: This is I just go to talk.
Speaker 1: About city, about city?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 2: Would you want to be a women?
Speaker 4: What are we all going? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I also think based on city and weather, I would
Speaker 2: choose Texas, but I would never go to Texas.
Speaker 4: There we go, Sorry, it never had it's like.
Speaker 1: You know, man, no she.
Speaker 4: Didn't say yours boy? All wait where is is it in?
Speaker 4: Its in Tucson? Okay? Is that just all?
Speaker 2: It's yes, psychology though, yeah, it's really the best city.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Mean the culture, but I think like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's fun.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: Honestly, I feel like I would have picked Arizona.
Speaker 2: Because I think I maybe like I feel like if
Speaker 2: I would have gone to Texas or Penn State, I
Speaker 2: would have been the same thing, like, Okay, you're gonna
Speaker 2: play front Road. That's it. You're not allowed to practice
Speaker 2: background at all, no defense, and I'm like, no, like
Speaker 2: I want to. I that was a big thing for me.
Speaker 2: Even in high school. I would beg my coaches like,
Speaker 2: please let me practice all the way around, like you
Speaker 2: don't have to put like play me in games better,
Speaker 2: but like just give me a chance in practice, like
Speaker 2: I will come before, stay after whatever. We love our
Speaker 2: DS is but overseas you don't have as many substitutions,
Speaker 2: so and obviously who can do it all? Really really
Speaker 2: hard to come by. So thankfully at Cincinnati, they I
Speaker 2: think like invested.
Speaker 4: In me right away and allowed.
Speaker 3: Me a lot of opportunities to I will also say
Speaker 3: that I think it's a big thing too. A lot
Speaker 3: of players are transferring because that's an option that they
Speaker 3: don't really have, especially like attackers and oppos who can't
Speaker 3: who can't play six and not able to train in
Speaker 3: that way of playing that manner as well too.
Speaker 1: That's a big thing.
Speaker 3: I also say for me that like, I feel like
Speaker 3: for our generation, once you decided to find that contract
Speaker 3: and you go into that school like you're going to go,
Speaker 3: and I feel like back then people were transferring, it was.
Speaker 1: Like almost like a them problem kind of thing.
Speaker 2: I almost like, oh yeah, yeah, like that told me
Speaker 2: and one of my friends talking about like when I
Speaker 2: was at Texas, like you know, I played middle when
Speaker 2: I was playing outside, Like whatever they asked me to do,
Speaker 2: I did it for the team. I didn't care about
Speaker 2: like what I did for myself physically or my career
Speaker 2: was like, Okay, what can I do to make help
Speaker 2: make the team be successful? Exactly at the same time strength, yes,
Speaker 2: at the same time, it's like I do. I used
Speaker 2: to think back back, like Okay, what if I not transfer,
Speaker 2: but just like you know, didn't make the changer said no,
Speaker 2: I still like you know, we're not all out of
Speaker 2: my positions were at where would I be? You know,
Speaker 2: look at you now, I love your basically, Yeah, I
Speaker 2: can do it.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you I can do it all.
Speaker 2: That's huge.
Speaker 1: So being well rounded is a huge deal.
Speaker 5: And I know I know that that's like a not
Speaker 5: easy thing to have when your mental when you're playing
Speaker 5: and you're well, now I have all these different like
Speaker 5: things I need to do.
Speaker 2: But also not a lot of people are built that way.
Speaker 4: Just hold that, appreciate that.
Speaker 2: You can do it all. You said you defend sometimes
Speaker 2: unless I tip on you.
Speaker 1: Please please please, Matthie, just get you.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: We'll finish it off here because you guys are running
Speaker 2: a long time.
Speaker 1: These are going to be said it.
Speaker 2: You want to you want to go one by one
Speaker 2: who said it? Okay, it's going to be one of
Speaker 2: you said it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, here we go.
Speaker 3: First one who said, what heavy on the time is
Speaker 3: the most precious gift we have me?
Speaker 8: You?
Speaker 1: Wow, what did you say that?
Speaker 4: In my Instagram caption?
Speaker 2: Maybe on the time is the most precious gift we
Speaker 2: have heavy on the time is the most precious gift.
Speaker 2: Oh you're heavy on it that the time is the
Speaker 2: most precious gift. Oh got it?
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, there.
Speaker 2: Was no punctuation here, but I'm sure okay it is okay, okay,
Speaker 2: hardly home but always repon.
Speaker 5: I would be when did you say that? Instagram? Probably
Speaker 5: probably also a.
Speaker 3: Caption that feeling so deep could swim? Oh, feeling so
Speaker 3: deep you could swim?
Speaker 2: In there you go? I said that right, Also a
Speaker 2: caption maybe that was for cat sweating.
Speaker 4: Oh, I don't remember. I think it was thank you.
Speaker 1: A walking billboard at this point.
Speaker 2: And I'm not mad about it.
Speaker 4: I am.
Speaker 2: June.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's an advertisement able to be sorry?
Speaker 1: We do we do.
Speaker 2: We do love building up our volleyball community and we
Speaker 2: are all wearing our friends brand. But you don't have
Speaker 2: to put that out there. But we love her and
Speaker 2: she knows who she is and also go buy everything.
Speaker 2: It's for the tall girls with tall girls. Let's see,
Speaker 2: I don't remember ladies tits up?
Speaker 4: That would me? That would have been me.
Speaker 2: What is that from? That's from versus magel? So right before?
Speaker 2: Have you seen that on Amazon. She's a comedian in
Speaker 2: like the nineteen fifties. She breaks she breaks away, and
Speaker 2: her manager, yeah, she tells her like before she goes
Speaker 2: on stage, tits up, and she's like she gives it, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: heads up, ladies. This is just like a quick interjection.
Speaker 2: Can you just do your best accent?
Speaker 1: In general?
Speaker 2: What's your go to?
Speaker 4: Because I know this is the one I ad. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you already know, but when you asked me, it's really
Speaker 4: hard to do. So it's sometimes.
Speaker 1: We should have started his whole interviews.
Speaker 2: You're talking like that, Jordan, you have any what's yours?
Speaker 2: I try to do an Aussi accent, but I'm not very.
Speaker 3: But what you do?
Speaker 2: One?
Speaker 4: You do? You do voices?
Speaker 2: We do?
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're just it sounds. It's like yours. You to
Speaker 4: me are more just a mixer. Yeah, you're more like sounds. Ye,
Speaker 4: stuff like that, And Mike is more accents.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I like, yeah, I really confuse you.
Speaker 2: I feel like we will just be talking normally about
Speaker 2: thet we all go to the store.
Speaker 4: I don't know, is something wrong with me? Actually, I
Speaker 4: don't know. I think it's normal. Thank you, Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2: Next one, let my spirit speak freely, so deep.
Speaker 4: Why do you come up? You're like the most I
Speaker 4: know and I feel like that's that. Yeah, EQ is
Speaker 4: very high with Okay, you got that one. Does this
Speaker 4: make me?
Speaker 1: Does this make me an age bad?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah? Can you describe to everyone what an age
Speaker 2: town baddie is? You're looking at her in the flesh?
Speaker 2: Do you not see?
Speaker 4: Usually it's like great personality?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so pretty much on a Tuesday, talk about me
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 4: Okay, we know you got all right.
Speaker 2: There is good and pure love in this world, and
Speaker 2: somehow I got lucky enough to collect.
Speaker 4: I'm a love of girl. There she goes, There she goes.
Speaker 4: That was good.
Speaker 2: I knew it was in there somewhere.
Speaker 1: This a little bit of that and lots of love.
Speaker 2: That's also mine and lots of lovb Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well you guys, that's really all I got for you here.
Speaker 2: Any anything you have going on you want to let
Speaker 2: the people know about it's coming out for season two
Speaker 2: that you're excited about, excited to.
Speaker 5: Get on the court with some I mean obviously a
Speaker 5: lot of returning faces for Houston, but some new ones
Speaker 5: and yeah, a new coach, a new.
Speaker 4: You can talk about her.
Speaker 2: I played for her at bak If in Turkey, and
Speaker 2: she was awesome. She's just like I think, so knowledgeable,
Speaker 2: like of the game and just such a great human
Speaker 2: And I think she balances kind of like, you know,
Speaker 2: helping us as women and like being sensitive to I think,
Speaker 2: who we are as people, but then also really like
Speaker 2: pushing you on the court and knowing like kind of
Speaker 2: what you're capable of and helping you reach that.
Speaker 4: And so I'm just really excited to have with.
Speaker 2: Her some more, have her, you know, be hard on
Speaker 2: us and help us grow. So I'm excited to be
Speaker 2: my first time I think, playing for a female coach.
Speaker 4: But she seems awesome.
Speaker 2: She's I'm very excited about this, so uh watch out please. Okay,
Speaker 2: you guys. In our last episode, we did talk that
Speaker 2: they never beat us in season. See I don't forget.
Speaker 1: But new Year.
Speaker 2: The team is different.
Speaker 1: The team is different a little bit. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: in the day, it doesn't matter. It's the end that counts.
Speaker 4: Right, You're right, and where were you? Okay? That's me Kat?
Speaker 8: Sorry, Well all right, that's it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you guys for you guys, you so much.
Speaker 2: We're excited too to watch you guys. Play no, No,
Speaker 2: I'll be watching you, guys. I'll just be passing balls
Speaker 2: and then you guys can take care of the rest.
Speaker 2: We'll also be yelling at you through the net. I'll
Speaker 2: probably on the sideline.
Speaker 3: I'll be still yelling from the sideline, trying to get
Speaker 3: in your head.
Speaker 1: Perfect.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you guys for joining us for episode two,
Speaker 2: Obscure Pancakes. We are so glad you tuned in. Watch
Speaker 2: and laugh.
Speaker 1: Listen he hey keyed with us.
Speaker 2: Yes, Sam, thank you and that's a wrap.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and shout out to Michael and Jordan for coming in.
Speaker 3: And you know, batties. Ye'll see you guys next time.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm looking in my head on the mic, coming
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