WEBVTT - Dogs, Houston Takeover, and Overseas VB with Amber Igiede 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:02.440 Boom, check it, boom, check it, boom. 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:05.720 It's severing pancakes on the way. Boom, it's Hat and 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:08.240 Maddie and yeah we're here to stay. Bo I'm going 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:11.800 to give you all the volleyball news coming and strong what. 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:12.639 You want to do? 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:13.840 Oh that's good. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:15.400 That's a better one. We're getting better at it. 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:18.759 Were getting That one was actually really good. 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:39.080 Welcome to serving pancakes. Boom, mic drop. That was the 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:41.879 best rap I've ever heard in my whole life. We 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:43.400 had today on the pod. 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.360 Amber e g Day. Make sure I'm. 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:51.559 Saying that right, Hey, guys, yeah it perfectly Yes, Okay, 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:54.960 Amber from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:56.480 Happy Marty Gross sister. 0:00:56.960 --> 0:01:00.520 Happy Marty Gross season. Have y'all been Marty Gras No, 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:05.080 Sadly it's crazy. You guys would love it. It's wait 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:08.760 bucket list. We're going with Amber. Yeah, it's a crazy scene, 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:10.759 but I think y'all can handle it. It's actually it's 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:15.040 actually really fun. But it's always during volleyball season during college, 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.760 so I never got to go, but I got exposed 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.640 to when I was younger, and it's so crazy, guys, 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:21.560 I love it. 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:24.560 What's like your Marti Gras celebration. 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:25.839 What do you do specifically? 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:29.760 So basically, it's obviously in New Orleans and my family 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:34.840 goes and there's like big parade floats, like like huge, 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.600 they're huge, and they all like have like masks on, 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:39.479 and there's obviously like a lot of history behind it, 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:42.440 but it's just like a huge celebration. They close down 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:48.440 the roads, hundreds of people, people like tossing beads everywhere, and. 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:50.960 You you because I know, we know how you get. 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:55.160 You'll know the tradition. No, I'm kidding, but I love it. 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:57.920 And my goal is to be on a parade flow 0:01:57.960 --> 0:01:59.760 one day and okay. 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.920 Be mady, okay shout out to love. Love should send 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:04.360 a parade float to body. 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:06.920 Love Marty Gras Parade. That'd be crazylo. 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:07.760 That'd be crazy. 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:11.200 It's gotta happen, and it's so amazing. You guys would 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:12.560 love it, you really would. 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:13.280 I'll go. 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:16.280 You're taking us, Yeah, I'll take you coming. I invited myself. 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:18.840 I'm going to party bus from Texas. 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.000 Hey, that'd be a long would you. 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:22.880 Fun? 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:24.080 It'd be fun. 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:25.959 I don't think I would make it there alive. 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:32.880 Honestly, for two time All American from the University of Hawaii, 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:36.280 twenty twenty five, National team member twenty twenty two, twenty 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:40.280 twenty three ABCA All American twenty twenty two women's Collegiate 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:43.280 national team, and you made your national team debut at 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:46.080 the Pan American Cup in twenty twenty four you won 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:49.079 a silver medal. And then you've played in Love, you 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:53.240 played in Italy. Can you just talk a little bit 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.200 about like your volleyball journey and like. 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:59.520 How did you get to Hawaii initially and get to 0:02:59.520 --> 0:02:59.960 where you are? 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:07.000 Wow? Thanks for that intros. Okay, So basically I would say, Okay, 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.040 I started when I was ten, Obviously, I think a 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.280 lot of people start in fifth grade or whatever. And 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:17.400 I went to this small club, but like I loved it. 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:19.040 Like you know, people like a lot of people go 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:21.960 to big clubs or they move around, like to get 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:25.760 eyes or whatever for college. But I stayed true to 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.760 this club. To this day, I'm still happy with my decision. 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.320 I'm so loyal. I stayed true to the club. And 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:34.880 I think I was a junior in high school and 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:40.760 I watched this video of like Hawaii volleyball playing I 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:42.400 don't even know what team it was, but it was 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:45.800 a volleyball rally, literally the longest rally I've ever seen, 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:48.800 and I don't even know Hawai won the point, but guys, 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:52.200 they like threw themselves on the ground like they were 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:54.920 so hard working. I really was like, I want to 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:57.880 go there, and so I reached out probably to every 0:03:57.960 --> 0:03:59.760 This is embarrassing to admit, but I really reached out 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.760 to the probably like every d one school. I'm not even kidding, 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.480 y'all could literally like name it. And I applied that. 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:08.480 Not even as you should, as you should just say you. 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:11.480 Every single one. And I emailed everybody twice, I kid, 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:15.240 you know. And so Hawaii was the one that answered me. 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.160 And they always made fun of me because they said 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.520 that they had to walk to like tim bucktoo to 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.080 watch me on but far court, like the far far court. 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:25.919 So they walked all the way there and they watched me, 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.919 and I was so nervous, and they actually offered me, 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.479 like I think it was my first tournament of my 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.719 junior year, so sixteen sixteen going to seventeen. Yeah, so 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.880 I was so excited and I said yes because it 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.719 was low key my only big school offer, but also 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:42.880 I had such a good feeling about Hawaii. 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:44.640 So well, how was it being in Hawaii? 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.720 I think you think Hawaii, think a vacation experience island line. 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:52.240 People really say like like it's really like the movies, 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:54.400 Like it was probably the best, like to this day, 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:56.479 like one of the best five years of my life. 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:00.640 Like people obviously outside of the volleyball the coach is 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.280 so beautiful, like people like you guys have been to Hawaii, 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:08.000 like y'all know, and culture. Everyone is so welcoming. The food, 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:11.760 the food child was so good. And I don't know, 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.040 like going to the beach between classes, like the outside 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:15.720 life was great. 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:18.240 Did you ever feel like you got island fever or 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:19.039 you know? 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:21.800 And everyone always asked me that too, if I got 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.919 island fever? But I think because I made like lifelong 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:28.160 friends there, I never got I live fever and we traveled. 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.520 Is that you should know that From playing in port, 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:37.480 it's like you feel like you're stuck and like, yeah, you. 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.080 Can't go anywhere. Yeah, and it's not exciting anymore, but 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.880 it was. It was always an adventure. Maybe in Hawaii. 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:43.800 I loved it. 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:47.040 Oh my gosh, you know, it's so funny. 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:50.520 I went to Hawaii every year for preseason really because 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:55.919 our coaches, well, Dave Soji and Dave Rubire, like we're beesties. 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:58.440 They would always plan so that we could go, they 0:05:58.440 --> 0:05:59.960 could hang out, and then we could play. So I 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.200 always went there and it was like everyone's favorite favorite trip. 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:03.880 Yeah. 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.880 I've only been to Hawaii once and it was with Texas. 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:08.840 We went, and it was we were there for maybe 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:10.560 like five days, and it was probably. 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:11.159 The best time in my life. 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.200 Oh, Like, isn't the arena so great y'all? Like, I 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:16.560 don't know if you'll remember, like years insane. 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.560 The thing I remember most that will be here forever 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:24.240 is because they sell garlic fries in stand Sheriff and 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:27.159 I just remember playing and it's smelling like garlic in there, 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:28.400 but like in a good way. 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:30.960 In a good way though, Like it's so funny they 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.719 sell garlic fries like in the arena. Ooh, and that 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.320 was good too, Oh my gosh. 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:40.320 And then so post collegiately, then immediately did you did 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:42.680 you graduate and then go do a half season in Italy? 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:46.720 Yeah? I graduated, and then I was waiting a long time, 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:50.479 like for an opportunity, you know. I did get drafted 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:53.880 by the Omaha Supernovas. But and I'm so grateful for 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.760 them for drafting me. But like I wanted to go 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:58.839 to Italy just a little taste of it. I wanted 0:06:58.880 --> 0:06:59.400 to just like. 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:00.839 Try it good for you. 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:06.279 Yeah, I mean thanks, guys, I really and not like 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:08.960 got like you know, so many different opinions about that, 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:11.920 but I don't know. I really decided to follow my 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.600 own heart with that and just like, oh, I want 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.360 to like try something different. It was really hard, but 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.440 it was so much fun. And I think I came 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.840 either mid January or beginning of February. Like it was 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.680 such a long process because I didn't think I was 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:28.640 going to get an opportunity, but I ended up getting one. 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:32.160 My agent texted me and I ended up going and 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:37.000 it was so much fun. Yeah. Yeah, I was in 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:42.080 Rome and my first practice, first practice, guys, was horrible, 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:46.120 Like it really bad. I was like that though, especially 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:48.280 I think my agent was like especially as a medal, 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:50.640 Like he just told me, like, just prepare, it's not 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.680 going to begin. So I went there and I didn't 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.080 let the girls see, but I shed some tears in 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:58.600 the car after practice. Bro, it was crazy. 0:07:58.680 --> 0:07:59.760 Yeah, I don't what I'm seeing. 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:02.560 Don't let them see though, but it was. My teammates 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:04.800 were so amazing, but it was. It's just so hard 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:08.680 transitioning from college to pro volleyble. Everyone knows that, but 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.440 I feel like, especially as a middle, like your eyes 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:14.200 are like cross side when you first practice, like and 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:16.680 on a different level because the pace is different, you 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.600 know what I mean. So I don't know. Yeah, but 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.080 it was so much fun. I loved it. Right after Rome, 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:29.240 I did the summer with the Pan Am national team 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:33.400 group and that was like my little integration into that summer, 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:37.559 which was really fun, and my integration into like knowing 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:40.640 some of the girls that I'm close with now, you know. 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:45.560 And so after that was when I moved Sack you 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:49.599 send to do love and it was so amazing. I 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:51.480 don't know if you remember our first practice, Maddie, but 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:53.240 do you know, I don't remember. 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.120 I don't know. But how did it go for you? 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.160 I don't, I don't. It's really no, it's really hard 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.720 for me to remember. That's why I'm asking you. It's 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.480 hard for me to remember. But I just remember. I 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.600 think we our team started off pretty strong, and I 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:11.840 think I just remember thinking that we have a super 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:17.079 competitive team, and I really enjoyed that, and yeah, after 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:19.920 that was yeah until now I think. 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.520 Yeah, right or no, well then you because because then 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:25.560 after that you did national team again, right, and then 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:26.720 you did Italy again. 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:29.559 Yes, you just ran it back. 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.240 Yes, guys, I think last year was one of my 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:37.760 favorite years, honestly because after the Love season season one, 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.920 I got invited to do the senior women's national team 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.640 and like do some vmls and stuff like that, and 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.120 I was just so grateful honestly to be there. Guys. 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:49.839 It was so much fun. Like I got to learn. 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:54.199 I feel like I got better, like mentally and physically, 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:58.640 so I really enjoyed that and the social aspect of it, 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:02.600 getting to know a lot of people and players, and 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:04.600 and I got to travel in different countries, which I 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:08.240 was so happy about. And then after that I was 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:12.840 feeling a little, you know, ambitious again, and I did 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.520 a little excursion in Italy and I went to Navara 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:18.559 and that was so much fun, guys, like so much fun. 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:20.800 It was only about I think it was seven weeks, 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.199 but it was so amazing. 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:28.440 And absolutely killing it. You were all over my Explorer page. 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:29.800 I didn't even know you were in Italy, so I 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:33.760 saw you like literally all over the place. 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:35.240 That was like what every day? 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:37.559 Like, Amberg stop playing? So well? 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:38.720 Are you coming back? 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:42.880 Yeah? When I tell you, they were literally texting me. 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:44.880 I think it was Yourdan first she was like are 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:46.960 you still coming back? I'm like, who told you all? 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.280 Wasn't coming back? Like I'm trying to live my life 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:51.360 right now in Italy. It was so much fun. But 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.840 I was for sure coming back obviously, but I didn't 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:59.160 tell nobody I was going basically, and so like, yeah, 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:01.200 I didn't that. That's why I think I didn't tell 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:03.960 anybody I was going, because I was. I was so nervous. 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:05.600 I was like, Okay, let me just go there and 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:08.480 then see how it's going, and then then I'll start 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:09.360 posting about it. 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:12.120 And so they started posting about you, which was a. 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:15.280 Good choice to me. Yeah, I know they started posting burns. 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:18.920 Was the reaction to hold the difference to yourself because 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:20.720 you like, for a reason, like you want to make 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:22.440 sure you're gonna go there and do well before you 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:23.119 have people. 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:24.240 Like following you and that kind of stuff. 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.160 Or you were like, let me just get my feet 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:28.679 wet really quick, and then I'm gonna let people. 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.480 Know exactly I think it's the second one. Like I 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.160 really just wanted to get my fee web feet under 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:38.640 like before I started, like you know, telling everybody about it. 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:40.720 And I think that was a good choice because I 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.880 was for me personally, I'm going to know this in 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:46.200 my circle. But I can get overwhelmed pretty easily. So 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.000 like if I'm telling everybody, I'm going toandling and then 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.559 I'm dealing with the travel, dealing with like the healthy 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.640 systems running and everything like that, I'm already overwhelmed. So 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.200 I really wanted to stick with what my goal was. 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:00.160 And my goal was to just learn a difference all 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:03.760 of volleyball, learn how to block different players, how to 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.439 hit against different players, and really just be a better 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.360 volleyball player, you know. And so that was really my goal. 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:12.280 I wasn't really going to tell anyone honestly, like the 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:12.920 whole time. 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:15.079 And I'm like, you, I love it. 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:17.360 Do you feel like people a obviously gonna bust you. 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.200 I feel like, now that's really helped you coming back here. 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:22.600 Like all of the experience that you have in Italy, 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:24.120 what do you what would you say, is like the 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:26.800 biggest piece that you've taken away from like your two 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:28.680 kind of short stints in Italy. 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:33.040 Yeah, So honestly, that's a that's a really good question 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:35.800 because there's so much stuff that I learned, and I 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:41.080 think in Italy a lot of the coaches, for me personally, 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:44.360 I feel like, don't talk as much like our coach 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:49.040 and Navara he was very he was very kind of 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:52.319 letting the players figure out what they need to do, 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:55.360 you know what I mean. And so for me growing up, 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:58.000 anytime I did something, I would like look over to 0:12:58.040 --> 0:12:59.640 the coach and be like, oh, like did I do 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:00.960 that right? Now? Did I do this right? You know? 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:04.240 And so I feel like in Italy and on the 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:07.079 team specifically I was on, he really wanted us to 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.280 kind of problem solve on our own. And I think 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:14.080 that helps me better with with my mindset, with figuring 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:17.760 out things. Just playing wise, and then just playing against 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:21.200 different type of players I think can really help you too. 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.560 It's not to say like if I go somewhere else, 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:27.440 like I'm gonna block the players the same. I feel 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:31.080 like knowing different players and how they hit the rhythm 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:35.240 and their approach, I think it can help you a lot. 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:37.920 And so I think for me that's what I valued 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.679 a lot for some reason, I don't know. And it 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:44.160 was over there and we were playing in the arena 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.440 and there's so many people, like it really is a 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:49.840 lot of pressure, and yeah, and I learned to really 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.120 enjoy that. Like I liked it. It felt like I 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:55.200 was literally I don't even know, it felt so good. 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:56.280 So I liked it. 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:58.360 What was like someone like, you know, that's all I 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.320 have permission to take in especial when comes, like you said, 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.319 trying to block different players, learn new system definitely probably 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.520 different than the American style kind of system, and then 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:08.240 going into a massive gym environment and you know, learning 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:10.199 how to take that environment and enjoy it and be 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:12.320 able to really focus in, you know, keen on what 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:13.760 you're doing on the court. What were some of the 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:15.640 practices that you did for yourself to make sure make 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:16.120 sure you're. 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:16.720 Ready to go every day? 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:21.040 So I would journal a lot. Are you talking about 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:22.640 mentally or like physically mentally? 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:24.240 Mentally? Mentally physicis yea. 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:28.440 Yeah, So I would journal a lot. And I remember, 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:31.760 like I said, before my first practice going into Rome, 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:34.360 I think I was just like I just want to, 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.600 you know, like do good. I hope I do so 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:41.200 good or whatever, like it was so broad my goal basically, 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:43.280 and I feel like when I was going to Novara 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:46.200 it was way different, Like my goal was like, Okay, 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.920 just be patient each drill, make a goal like if 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:53.240 we're doing cross court pepper, make sure you're moving your 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:57.240 feet quick or if you're blocking, make sure you're just 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.920 watching the ball and not be too frantic, you know. 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:05.360 So I kind of section each drill and had a 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:07.960 goal for each drill basically, and I think that just 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:12.960 made my life easier, honestly. So just looking back at 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:17.880 both the situations I was in, I really valued my 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:19.960 second one because of my mindset. 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:25.040 I feel like, what's been. 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.120 The biggest transition from season one to season two for you? 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:29.600 I don't know, Okay, if I'm being so honest, I think, 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:33.800 honest give us if I'm being so honest, because and 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:35.600 Maggie can probably back me up with this one too. 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:40.600 But I think for us it was an adjustment because 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:44.720 essentially we have the same team essentially. Yeah, and everyone 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:47.600 in the league, all the teams essentially, I think, have 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:53.800 different people and I think like going into season two, 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:55.680 I think a lot of the teams did a great 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:58.760 job of seeing that we're essentially the same team and 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:02.520 scouting us because as obviously they've seen us before, you know, 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:05.560 And so I think that was a big adjustment for us, 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:08.440 knowing that we know what we can do well, but 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:10.560 we just got to do it better, you know. So 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.400 I think that was a wake up call for a 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:17.200 few games, and we just had it bounced back, like 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:19.840 we know, everyone knows how it is to lose a 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.200 couple of games in our own losing streak, it felt 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:26.840 very morbid, but we bounced fun. So it's not fun. 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:31.680 It was really tough, and I honestly think that's a 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:32.320 big reason. 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.760 Yeah, I agree with everything that you it is. 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:39.000 It was definitely a challenge because people know us so 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.320 well and they know like our arsenal and what we 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:45.760 can do when we're on and we had to learn 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:46.520 everybody else. 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.280 But you guys are also in the same way. 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:50.760 You're kind of being able to use your bench a 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:52.200 little bit more too, you know, you have the depth 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:54.040 of that you guys every now and then that's different, 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.640 you know, ye last year. 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:58.480 Yeah, so it's. 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:02.560 An adjustment different, different, a little bit different style for sure, 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:06.440 but but yeah, like I agree with Amber, and then 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.359 just kind of figuring other things out as we go 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.879 to has been different than last year? 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.040 Is there? I guess for both of y'all, is there 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:15.919 like a certain like a certain amount of like pressure 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.240 of stress to know that, Okay, yeah, we're all the 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.119 same team and we have this camaraderie like we should 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:23.520 be able to, like, you know, with stand whatever that's 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:25.639 kind of coming towards us and kind of soff shaky. 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:27.399 How which were you guys to say we're trying to 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:29.639 like maintain and get out of that, like you know, 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:30.600 downward spiral. 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:38.720 Yeah, honestly, honestly, honestly, wasn't spiral. No, honestly, I that 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:42.399 was I think part of the frustration for me was, 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.440 oh my gosh, like okay, like we're like we have 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:49.720 these peaces where this seem like but the result wasn't happening, 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:52.480 you know. And I do think as athletes, and I 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:54.560 do have to remind myself of this a lot, like 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:58.720 as athletes, I really do think we compare like what 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:02.200 you or the team was last year versus this year, 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:04.639 Like every year is different. You know, you really can't 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:08.919 compare anything from last year because every year is different. 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:14.159 So we're all the same good players, but you just 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:16.520 have to recognize that and not compare, because there's really 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:19.600 no point to compare. Oh we this happened last year. Okay, 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:22.000 well it's not last year anymore, you know. So I 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:26.600 think I think our coach really just gave us a 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:28.639 talk and she was like, Okay, we're just gonna have 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:30.879 to do this better, you know, like point blank period, 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:33.240 Like it's really not rocket science. You just have to 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.199 play better. So I think we started to. I don't know, 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:39.280 I don't know what's looked, honestly, but we got it back. 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:44.600 We did well, you figured something out, figured out. 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:47.040 Yeah, No, it just had to take a little time, 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:50.000 I think, and I think it was needed, like those 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:50.760 first few games. 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:56.760 I think, so, yeah, now we're rolling cat you see. 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:03.760 I'm sorry. Yes, one is a win. A win is 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:04.280 a win. 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:05.960 You were there someday. 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.920 I's all, what's crazy and we're going to keep it 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:12.399 one hundred percent on this. My mom is a huge 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:15.160 Houston fan. She loves Mica, she loves JT, she loves 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:19.960 Maddie and even yeah, she's yeah, it's so crazy because 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:21.840 I get in the car with Maddie after the game, 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:23.680 and you know, I come to Houston. I just say 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:24.800 the night and just you know, to spend time with 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:27.160 her kind of hang out and stuff. And I get 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:29.160 on the phone. I called my mom just like hey, 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:31.639 like I'm with Maddie everything. I call my mom and 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:33.720 I was like hey. The first thing she says, she goes, 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:37.320 we're Maddie at and I was like right here. So 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:40.160 I put her on speaker phone and she was like, Maddie, 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:42.040 y'all whoop they asked. 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:48.480