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Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're back

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Speaker 1: from Door County, Wisconsin, full of spotted cow at, cheese curds,

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Speaker 1: and newly friends with a goat named Natcho. It's Monday,

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Speaker 1: August twenty fifth, and on today show, we'll be talking

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Speaker 1: to Michelle Laflam, the senior manager for World Para Hockey,

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Speaker 1: about the first ever Women's Para Hockey World Championship, which

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Speaker 1: gets underway this week, why the sports open gender label

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Speaker 1: hasn't helped with the development of the women's game, and

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Speaker 1: her ambitious goals looking ahead to the twenty thirty Paralympics.

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Speaker 1: Plus rising temps meet rising tempers, triple doubling and hat

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Speaker 1: tricking with speed, and it's time to hang another plaque

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Speaker 1: in the Good Game Hall of Fame. It's all coming

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Speaker 1: up right after this Welcome back slices, Happy Monday. Here's

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Speaker 1: what you need to know today. Let's start with the

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Speaker 1: NWSL where a new attendance record was set. On Saturday.

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Speaker 1: AFC welcomed a sold out crowd of forty ninety one

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Speaker 1: for their match with the Washington Spirit. The mark broke

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Speaker 1: the previous NWSL record of thirty five thousand, set during

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Speaker 1: a Chicago Stars BFC game at Wrigley Field in June

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Speaker 1: of last year. BAFC ended up losing the match three

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Speaker 1: to two, and the team is now winless in its

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Speaker 1: last six games, but not all bad news. In addition

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Speaker 1: the match also broke the attendance record for any US

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Speaker 1: women's pro sports league. Per ESPN, the NWSL now has

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Speaker 1: forty eight of the top fifty most attended games in

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Speaker 1: US women's pro sports history. Another record broken in the

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Speaker 1: NWSL this weekend, this time by the Chicago Stars.

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Speaker 2: Lude Mila.

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Speaker 1: The Brazilian striker, scored three goals in ten minutes in

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Speaker 1: the Stars game against the North Carolina Current JO on

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Speaker 1: in league history. The game ended in a three to

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Speaker 1: three draw, with all six goals coming in the second half,

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Speaker 1: including Ludmila's equalizer in the eighty sixth minute. More on

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Speaker 1: WSL and an update to that heat delayed Casey Current

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Speaker 1: Orlando Pride game we told you about last week quick refresher,

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Speaker 1: which coincidentally is what the players and fans and attendance

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Speaker 2: But I digress.

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Speaker 3: So yeah.

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Speaker 1: Just over a week ago, a match between the Kansas

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Speaker 1: extreme heat, with the start pushed back incrementally until the

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Speaker 1: than intended. The game was initially slated to air on

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Speaker 1: CBS at three pm Local time four pm Eastern, one

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Speaker 1: of eleven regular season matches that CBS was set to

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Speaker 1: According to new reporting from The Athletic, midway through that

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Speaker 1: three and a half hour delay, League Commissioner Jessica Berman

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Speaker 1: the delay and heat checks. Per the Athletic sources quote,

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Speaker 1: a heat check. After the league decided to go forward

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Speaker 1: teams initially contacted the league at ten thirty am the

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Speaker 1: the wet bulb globe temperature you remember, that's the heat

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Speaker 1: index measurement used to determine whether a game is allowed

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Speaker 1: officials took another reading and it came in at ninety

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Speaker 1: But per the Athletic sources, a cloud was passing overhead

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Speaker 1: And there's more bad news out of that game. You

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Speaker 1: She was the twenty twenty four NWSL Championship MVP, the

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Speaker 1: in March of twenty twenty four, and of course for

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Speaker 1: Haley Carter said, quote, Barbara has been instrumental to our

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Speaker 1: success and losing a player of for caliber is heartbreaking

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Speaker 1: Now, the excellent reporting from the Athletic on this game

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Speaker 1: with criticism of NWSL Commissioner Jessca Berman growing after fallout

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Speaker 1: game back in May. That continued despite the on field

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Speaker 1: Sky reported that they brought a sign that read Berman

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Speaker 1: NWSL leadership this year has been fair, from scheduling issues

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Speaker 1: It feels like the league just hasn't quite been ready

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Speaker 1: players and coaches or WNBA players. There's been an uptick

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Speaker 1: and folks criticizing their leagues throughout this season's growing pains

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Speaker 1: on the playoff picture. In the last week, the Connecticut Sun,

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Speaker 1: That leaves nine teams fighting for seven spots. Behind the Links,

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Speaker 1: Twenty twenty six draft, cuz with the teams being eliminated,

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Speaker 1: I'm already thinking about the Wings getting lazy for asy

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Speaker 1: paisy together again. In the pros, Paige Beecker's Asy Fud

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Speaker 1: on a team together again. Forget the amazing basketball, think

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Speaker 1: about the content, y'all.

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Speaker 2: But wait a minute.

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Speaker 1: If the Wings take Lauren Betts out of Ucla instead,

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Speaker 1: that could mean Azy Fudd's available for my Chicago Sky.

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Speaker 1: Forget Paisy now, I'm dreaming of Azy serving up Angel

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Speaker 1: in the post. Sorry, sorry, back to this season and

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Speaker 1: back to the top ranked Links with the FISA call

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Speaker 1: you're still out with injury. Forward Jessica Shepherd has been

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Speaker 1: stepping up in a big way for Minnesota. In the

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Speaker 1: the WNBA's triple double Queen, recorded her fastest in twenty

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Speaker 1: eight minutes back in twenty twenty three. CBAS Sports Jack

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Speaker 1: Maloney has a great breakdown of Shepherd's historic night, which

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Speaker 1: we'll link to in the show notes. Collier has been

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Speaker 1: sidelined for the last seven games, with the Links going

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Speaker 1: a fine five and two in her absence, but on

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Speaker 2: Before Minnesota's Sunday night game against the.

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Speaker 1: Fever, the team put out a statement mirroring the famous

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Speaker 2: The letter read simply quote.

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Speaker 1: The following statement was released today by Nafisa Collier through

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Links social media team located in Minneapolis, Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: in response to questions about her injury status.

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Speaker 2: Quote unquote, I'm back with a crown emoji and.

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Speaker 1: The contact number in the corner of the statement for

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Speaker 1: any questions six one two MVP fee. You think she

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Speaker 1: hears those footsteps from Asia Wilson and Alissa Thomas, She

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Speaker 1: sure does. Great to see Nafisa Collier back. And speaking

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Speaker 1: of Alissa Thomas, wouldn't you know it, she got another

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Speaker 1: triple double soon. We're just gonna have to start telling

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Speaker 1: you when she doesn't get a triple double. The Phoenix

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Speaker 1: In that game, Thomas, who is in her first season

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Speaker 1: Connecticut Sun, tied Phoenix's single game assist record as well.

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Speaker 1: Mercury fans flood at the stadium with MVP chants during

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Speaker 1: Thomas's impressive outing on Friday night, and they're right, we

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Speaker 1: been remiss in not including her. I mean, just listen

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Speaker 1: to this stat. Thomas has more triple doubles in her

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Speaker 1: last nine games five than any other WNBA player has

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Speaker 1: in their entire career. Four for Sabrina and Escu to rugby,

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Speaker 1: where the Women's World Cup got underway on Friday, with

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Speaker 1: the tenth ranked US Eagles getting routed by host nation

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Speaker 1: and tournament favorite England sixty nine to seven, but in

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Speaker 1: it the best attended game in Women's Rugby World Cup history.

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Speaker 1: Next up for the US a chance to redeem themselves

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Speaker 1: another group stage match, this time against Australia next Saturday.

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Speaker 1: We'll link to the full Rugby World Cup schedule in

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Speaker 1: the show notes to tennis. The women's singles draw at

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Speaker 1: the US Open got underway on Sunday, with world number

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Speaker 1: over Switzerland's Rebecca Masarova. Another noteworthy game, Alexander Iala made

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Speaker 1: history becoming the first player representing the Philippines to win

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Speaker 1: a major singles match in the Open era, defeating Clara Tawson.

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Speaker 1: The first round continues today with Madison Keys, Taylor Townsend,

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Speaker 1: with tennis legend Pam Shreiver live from the US Open

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Speaker 1: last week. She did a great job breaking down all

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Speaker 1: the favorites for this year tournament.

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Speaker 2: And I'll be back at.

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Speaker 1: The US Open tomorrow on Billy Jean Kings Sweet for

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Speaker 1: some more action and maybe another couple Honey juices. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: be paying me Grey Goose call me slices. This weekend,

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Speaker 1: my super slice Hobby Brad and I rolled up to

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Speaker 2: It's Michelle Laflop.

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Speaker 2: It's Michelle laflam Hi, Michelle Hi, Sarah, English, Russian and

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Speaker 1: I assume you also speak French based on that last

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Speaker 4: Yeah, originally from Montreal. So first language is French and

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Speaker 4: No? Sadly yeah, I've been in Germany for five years

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Speaker 1: Do you want to hear my favorite German word, of course, please,

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Speaker 1: We're talking to ahead of the first ever Women's Para

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Speaker 2: That's all the same sport, right.

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Speaker 4: it is the same sport, and it is para ice hockey.

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Speaker 1: For now, we're insisting on saying sled hockey, and we

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Speaker 4: Yes, I mean a lot of it comes from, I

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Speaker 4: it's not mandatory that men and women compete.

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Speaker 4: So what's happened is that because there was this door

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Speaker 1: At the Paralympics, teams of historically been limited to seventeen players.

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Speaker 1: other hand, there were women who were playing who were

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Speaker 1: running into issues with unclear rules. There was a Swedish

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Speaker 1: led hockey player who actually showed up at the two

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Speaker 1: thousand and six ter Reno Paralympics aiming to play with

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Speaker 1: her team and then was told she wasn't able to

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Speaker 1: because she was a woman, and she had been under

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Speaker 1: the impression that things had been opened, but at one

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Speaker 1: point during the nineties the.

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Speaker 2: Early two thousands, the sport had sort of.

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Speaker 1: Switched being only men, but hadn't really been updated to

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Speaker 1: the point where she was informed about that before arriving

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Speaker 1: at the game, so she had to kind of be

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Speaker 1: a cheerleader for her team despite having played with them.

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Speaker 1: That sparked this inquiry that allowed them to go back

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Speaker 1: to being mixed gender ahead of the twenty ten Vancouver Paralympics,

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Speaker 1: but still there were so few women competing that it

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Speaker 1: might as well have not been co ed right, which

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Speaker 1: leads us back to where you are. Where you're trying

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Speaker 1: to create this pipeline where you say, yes, you can play,

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Speaker 1: and we're going to make opportunities for you to play

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Speaker 1: in the women's space, so that you are guaranteed or

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Speaker 1: not guaranteed, but so that you have an option to

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Speaker 1: actually make a roster and compete, which brings us to

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Speaker 1: this incredible event that's happening for the very first time,

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Speaker 1: the Women's World Championships, just a few days in Slovakia.

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Speaker 2: So tell us about the Championships.

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Speaker 1: Why is this such a big thing, and how did

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Speaker 1: that women's development pathway that you started end up increasing

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Speaker 1: participation enough to allow for this to happen.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so really I can't stretch enough how big of

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Speaker 4: a deal it is, right. I mean, I'm looking at

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Speaker 4: the numbers and it's going to be a little less

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Speaker 4: than thirty years after the first ever men's World Championship,

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Speaker 4: and you know, I compare it with the ICHEF. I

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Speaker 4: think they had a sixty year gap between their first

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Speaker 4: men's World champ and their first women's World champ So,

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Speaker 4: you know, we're getting fifty percent. Thirty years is still

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Speaker 4: a big difference. Finally we get to, you know, put

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Speaker 4: an end to this and just say like no, we

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Speaker 4: now have officially annual Women's World Championship. So that is

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Speaker 4: amazing and also like a huge thank you to NPC Slovakia,

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Speaker 4: who is hosting that event. So they're the one who's

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Speaker 4: putting the event together on the ground, and there have

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Speaker 4: been great partners of ours and just the fact that

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Speaker 4: they're welcoming the world to beautiful Doney Cubin where we'll

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Speaker 4: be going, is just great. So I think when it

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Speaker 4: comes to you know, how we got there, it's going

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Speaker 4: to sound silly, but it's repetition, repetition, repetition, Like we

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Speaker 4: say the same thing to our members over and over

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Speaker 4: again for the last five years, and still every year

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Speaker 4: I get like, oh, really women can play, or like, oh,

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Speaker 4: this year is the first women World Challenge, Like.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes it is. Please take notes or read the

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Speaker 3: minutes that we sent you.

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Speaker 2: It is.

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Speaker 3: We are serious about this, please show up right.

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Speaker 4: So what's been great is that we've got new national

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Speaker 4: teams now because for the last when we were doing

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Speaker 4: the Women's World Challenge, we always had USA, Canada and

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Speaker 4: Great Britain. Now Norway has its own national teams, Australia

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Speaker 4: as its own national team that is joining the event.

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Speaker 4: And then we're also going to do a Team World

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Speaker 4: as well, because we want those athletes in Team Worlds

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Speaker 4: to go back to their countries and again share the word,

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Speaker 4: share the message that it's serious.

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Speaker 3: It is happening. I think one of.

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Speaker 4: The issue that we had in the past was that

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Speaker 4: there was always this narrative of like, yes, a women's

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Speaker 4: World Championship will come along the way, yes in the

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Speaker 4: near future, Like no, now it's real. So we said

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Speaker 4: it was going to happen five years ago, and we're

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Speaker 4: sticking to our timeline. So we're going to continue the messaging.

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Speaker 4: We're going to continue to say this is year one,

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Speaker 4: We're going to have another one next year and another

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Speaker 4: one after that.

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Speaker 3: Our goal is still to go to the.

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Speaker 4: Twenty thirty Paralympic Winter Games. It is very ambitious. Some

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Speaker 4: might say aggressive, but I'll take it because between now

516
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Speaker 4: and the time we need to do the application for

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Speaker 4: twenty thirty, basically we need to have eight national teams.

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Speaker 4: Now we're at five, so we're still again. We went

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Speaker 4: from zero team to three teams in a year, and

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Speaker 4: then we went from three teams to five teams in

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Speaker 4: three years. It's not impossible that we get to eight teams.

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Speaker 4: But we need the countries to again answer the call

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Speaker 4: and show up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you mentioned the rise and participation just from the

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Speaker 1: increased kind of awareness, dedication, repetition to the point where

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Speaker 1: female athlete representation in pair of hockey rows from point

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Speaker 1: seventy six percent to twenty one point seventy five percent

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Speaker 1: in just three years. So nearly twenty two percent of

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Speaker 1: pair of ice hockey players.

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Speaker 2: Are now women.

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Speaker 1: After for so long it felt like they didn't even

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Speaker 1: realize that there was an opportunity for them to play,

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Speaker 1: So already well on the way to creating more opportunity,

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Speaker 1: more programs, more countries that could be represented for this

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Speaker 1: particular championship, this first one, USA, Canada, Great Britain, Norway,

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Speaker 1: Australia and a Team World So tell me about the

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Speaker 1: Team World team.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so Team Worlds we have athletes from literally everywhere

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Speaker 4: around the world. So we have athletes from Finland, Sweden, Korea, Germany.

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Speaker 4: France is there as well. So they all train either

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Speaker 4: with men or they trend by themselves in their own country.

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Speaker 4: For xyzad reason, they don't have a national women's teams program.

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Speaker 4: Because of that, they are registering as individual athletes under

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Speaker 4: their their their country. Then we get them together literally,

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Speaker 4: we announced their roster officially last week. We introduced them

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Speaker 4: to their teammates, so they started their WhatsApp group. We

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Speaker 4: introduced them to their coaches. So we're getting coaches from

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Speaker 4: national program as well. So we're getting the coach from Germany,

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Speaker 4: We're getting the head coach from Slovakia, We're getting the

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Speaker 4: head coach from Czech Ya. They're all coming in and

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Speaker 4: then it's going to be their team for the week,

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Speaker 4: win or lose. They probably some translators, yes, yes, a

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Speaker 4: lot of Google Translate, a lot of phone, a lot of.

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Speaker 1: Hand signals or I don't know how they're going to

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Speaker 1: come up with the ways to communicate with each other

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Speaker 1: on the ice in such a short time, but what

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Speaker 1: an incredibly fun way to be connected to people from

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Speaker 1: all over the world.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's that's what's amazing about this this event,

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Speaker 4: or just the women's pathway in general, is just all

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Speaker 4: the connection that those athletes are making. And that's something

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Speaker 4: I always tell the Adam leads and the coaches and

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Speaker 4: the managers. It's like, as much as we want, you know,

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Speaker 4: I expect everybody to want to win, it's like you're

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Speaker 4: not just winning a medal this year, like you are

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Speaker 4: playing to make sure that the dream continues, to make

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Speaker 4: sure that in ten fifteen years from now, women won't

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Speaker 4: even question whether or not they can't play right because

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Speaker 4: it will already be a consistent event, will already be

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Speaker 4: in the games probably right, So like we won't people

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Speaker 4: to understand how much it means for the sport but

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Speaker 4: also for the future generations. Everything that we're doing this

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Speaker 4: year is going to have an impact for the next

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Speaker 4: duration of the sport.

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Speaker 1: Well, we'll keep an eye on that and we'll be

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Speaker 1: watching for you and your team, which is you, to

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Speaker 1: see what's next out of the world Pair of Ice Hockey.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time and congrats on

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Speaker 1: getting this tournament up and running and I hope it's

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Speaker 1: an absolute blast and a thrill for everyone that gets

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Speaker 1: to compete and changes the landscape as we approach the

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Speaker 1: upcoming Olympics and Paralympics and the ones in the future

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Speaker 1: that you hope to compet.

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Speaker 3: Great, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again to Michelle for taking the time. We got

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Speaker 1: to take another break. When we come back, it's time

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Speaker 1: to hang another plaque in the Good Game Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back Slices.

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Speaker 1: It's time to open the door, or better yet, smash

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Speaker 1: it down to welcome in the latest inductee into the

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Speaker 1: Good Game Hall of Fame. Ah Yes, the Good Game

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, where we celebrate women's sports lore, the

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Speaker 1: kind of legendary stories that we should all know by heart,

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Speaker 1: just like we know about Kurt Shillings, Bloody Sock and

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Speaker 1: the break lights outside Dodger Stadium, as fans who left

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Speaker 1: early heard the roar for Kirk Gibson's legendary World Series

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Speaker 1: walk off Homer. Honestly, we got some catching up to

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Speaker 1: do when it comes to women's sports stories. So grab

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Speaker 1: another plaque and find a good place on the wall,

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Speaker 1: because today we've got another inductee.

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Speaker 2: The last place.

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Speaker 1: Dallas Wings may be struggling, but Page is still finding

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Speaker 1: a way to fly, and during a game last week

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Speaker 1: against the Los Angeles Sparks, the twenty three year old

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Speaker 1: guard set the WNBA single game rookie scoring record, recording

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Speaker 1: forty four points in the wings eighty one to eighty loss.

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Speaker 1: Little context on Becker's big night. Her forty four points

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Speaker 1: accounted for fifty five percent of Dallas's total, the fifth

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Speaker 1: highest percentage in WNBA history and highest mark any player

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Speaker 1: has achieved since two thousand and four, and Becker's efficiency

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Speaker 1: was off the charts. She shot seventeen of twenty one,

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Speaker 1: becoming the first WNBA player to shoot at least eighty

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Speaker 1: percent from the field while scoring forty or more points. Now,

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Speaker 1: it's worth noting that back in the league's inaugural season

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Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety seven, then first year WNBA player Cynthia

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Speaker 1: Cooper also scored forty four points in a game. But

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Speaker 1: given the Cooper was thirty four years old at the

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Speaker 1: time and had previously played professionally overseas for more than

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Speaker 1: a decade, the true rookie record was previously held by

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Speaker 1: Candice Parker, who scored forty points in her rookie season

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight.

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Speaker 2: Hat's off to Page.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to believe that just a few months ago

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Speaker 1: she was cutting down the nets with her Yukon Huskies,

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Speaker 1: and since she's probably lost more games than the rest

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Speaker 1: of her career combined, but we know that brighter days ahead.

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Speaker 1: And one fun footnote to this, sitting court side to

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Speaker 1: watch Page break this record was star of Criminal Mind

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Speaker 1: Schamar Moore, one of two people that Paige had said

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Speaker 1: would be her top choice to come see her play now.

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Speaker 1: Page said that because she's a huge Criminal minds fan. I,

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Speaker 1: on the other hand, worked at a restaurant in La

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Speaker 1: in my twenties, and when Shamar Moore walked in, I

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Speaker 1: literally dropped all of the silver where I was holding

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Speaker 1: because he is so frickin' hot.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that's why.

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Speaker 1: Page wanted him to be there, but we all have

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Speaker 1: her own reasons for getting excited about Shamar Moore sitting

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Speaker 1: court side. Anyway, Congrats to Paige and welcome to the

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Speaker 1: Good Game Hall of Fame. We love that you're listening slices,

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Speaker 1: but we want you to get in the game every

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Speaker 1: day too, So here's our good Game play of the day.

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Speaker 1: Follow along as the inaugural Women's Para Hockey World Champion

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Speaker 1: and Ships get underway. The tournament starts tomorrow in Slovakia

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Speaker 1: and continues through Sunday. We'll link to the full schedule

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Speaker 1: as well as the Paralympic YouTube page where you can

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Speaker 2: Review, y'all. It's so easy watch.

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Speaker 1: Chelsea Chasing Sheep rating twenty out of twenty Properly Contained

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Speaker 1: little fun spin on training camp duties. In a session

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Speaker 1: a little over a week ago, Women's Super League side

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Speaker 1: CHELSEAFC got some recovery work in by hurting sheep at

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Speaker 1: a farm near the club's training ground in the Netherlands.

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Speaker 1: The team posted a video from that session and it

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Speaker 1: is pure gold. It's no wonder that attacking third calls

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Speaker 1: them side QUESTFC. So good we'll link to it in

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Speaker 1: our show notes. We're glad to see Chelsea's players back

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Speaker 1: in action, aren't you. The flock or squad kicks off

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Speaker 1: the Super League slate on September fifth against Manchester City

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Speaker 1: from Stamford Bridge, and it's an afternoon start for us

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Speaker 1: here in the States, so it won't even be past

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Speaker 1: your bedtime. Sorry, I sheepishly had to ram that one in. Okay, Okay,

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Speaker 1: my god, I'm wooly sorry. Now it's your turn, rate

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Speaker 2: See you tomorrow. Good game, Michelle, Good game. Slices of Wisconsin.

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