WEBVTT - Beyond the Megaphone's 'One Shining Moment' 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.920 Beyond the Megaphone is a production of I Heart Radio 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:14.120 and the College Athletes Network. Hey, everybody, this is Nathan 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:17.119 and Cassidy. You're listening to Beyond the Megaphone on the 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:20.040 College Athletes Network. Please subscribe to the podcast that you 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:22.320 never miss a new episode. This can easily be done 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:24.639 via the I Heart Radio app. Also, you can find 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:28.000 me on Instagram and Twitter at our Nathan Paris and 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:30.720 you can find me on Instagram at Cassy with a 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:35.040 double y Sarnie. All right, Hey, welcome to Beyond the Megaphone. 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:38.559 For everyone listening, this has been about five months in 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:42.160 the making. UM. If you're listening to this, it's pretty 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:45.319 much because something really crazy happened in March, and we're 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:48.680 gonna tell you about that. UM. We want to before 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:50.520 we get into it, we want to say just how 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:55.440 thankful we are, UM for everybody's support ever since the 0:00:56.120 --> 0:01:00.520 crazy March madness one shiny moment happened. UM, it's been 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.400 so overwhelming but so positive at the same time. And 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:05.640 we can't thank each and every one of you guys enough, 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:08.600 UM for all the support thus far. And we have 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:10.639 so much to tell you guys about cheer and about 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:13.680 that and we're so excited to tell you. Um, so 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.000 let's get into it. Why don't you tell everybody about 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:21.920 who the Castie Serny is? Okay? Um, all right, Well 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:28.560 starting off with my crazy live I'm so crazy. Um. 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.560 I was a gymnast for a little bit and then 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:35.440 I just fell out of love with gymnastics and wanted 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:40.360 something new. I did All Star for like my eighth 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:43.280 and eighth grade year and my freshman year. My sophomore 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:46.640 year I quit. I was just it wasn't the environment 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.160 I wanted to be in my sophomore year, I just 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:52.040 did high school cheer um. But then my junior year, 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:56.560 I joined the same all star Jim again. Um, and 0:01:56.880 --> 0:02:00.240 I had a whole entire new team than them I 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:02.960 did before. I was the oldest on my team. I 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:07.760 had twelve year olds on my team. I had thirteen, fourteen, fifteen. 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:11.880 I was sixteen turning seventeen at the time. Um. So yeah, 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.240 I was a wide range of kids. I was like 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:17.920 oldest cheerleader at my gym for like that remainder of time. 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:23.240 Um yeah until I left. Yeah. Um. And it was 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:25.640 it was a big adjustment because you know, you're surrounded 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:27.880 by these kids who were so much younger than you 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:30.040 and you have like all these goals that you want 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.240 for a team. But it was a great opportunity for 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:35.760 me to take a spot as a leadership on that team. 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:40.320 Um and my first year I came back with junior year, 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:46.000 my team consisted of eleven athletes, and going into a 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:50.440 competition with eleven athletes on the map, it's really intense 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.079 because it's hard to make yourself look showy when you 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:56.799 don't have as many athletes. But that first competition, I 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:00.800 knew that team was going to be absolutely insane. Every 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.079 person on that team just has such a big heart 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:07.799 for cheer and wanted cheer as much as I did, 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:10.600 and all had goals for you know, what they wanted 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:12.600 to do in their season, how they wanted to end 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:16.920 their season, and just everyone was super driven. And I 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:20.000 think that that year sparked my love for cheer more 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.440 and made me want to cheer in college even more. 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.720 And all those girls still to this day are like 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:29.960 people who I am inspired by. I'm inspired by like 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:34.280 a thirteen year old, so weird, But um, yeah, that 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.840 was a great year and I had that same team 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:41.440 my senior year. Senior year got cut short, and I 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:46.000 was unable to finish with that team. But UM, I 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:50.280 tried out for AU College cheer made the co ed team. 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.280 I spent two years there, and now I'm an old girl, 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:59.520 UM studying clinical psychological sciences. I don't know what that 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.560 means or what I'm gonna do with it. I as 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:06.640 of today, It'll change tomorrow probably, but as of today, 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:11.160 I either want to be a professor or I went 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:14.720 to be a clinical psychologist. Well, yeah, I don't know. 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:22.520 She's smart. Smart. It's awesome. Thanks. That's well a little 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:27.200 bit about me. UM. I found cheer much differently than 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.760 I would say the average cheerleader finds cheer, but maybe 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:33.799 not the average male cheerleader. UM. From what I've found 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:37.800 at my time during cheer, especially in the Midwest regions, 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.839 and you know, especially at I, you cheers something that 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:44.560 starts for males in college. You know, it's not a 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.800 lot of people in high school, middle school, and you know, 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:51.719 primary school who do All Star, who do school. UM, 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:55.680 it's much more common for those to be mainly females, 0:04:56.240 --> 0:05:00.320 and so so it's been really fun. Growing up. I 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:04.200 was doing all types of sports. I did baseball, basketball, 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:08.520 a little bit of track, tennis, UM A cross country 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:12.560 that was awful. UH, don't miss that at all, UM. 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.359 And I just kind of was trying to keep myself busy, UM, 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.600 trying different things. My main tour basic baseball and basketball. UM. 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.719 I also was UM in theater. I did theater for 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:26.440 seven years. UM. Loved that. That was super fun. UM. 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.400 And then I also was in the a lot of 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:33.000 the arts, the music. I was in show choir, regular choir, band, 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.520 I played the outdoor saxophone, and so I kind of 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:37.400 had my handed a lot of different things. And so 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.880 when I got to EYEU, this is an incredibly large 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.000 school that you know, you can't do everything right. You 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:45.960 kind of have your one thing and that's that's it. 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:49.960 So what I started out doing was band. I I 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:53.760 was in the Marching hundred for two years UM and 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:57.039 that was awesome. I loved it. I have such great 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.920 memories from those uh you know, best seats in the 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.720 house most of the time for all games. UH. It 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:06.000 was so fun. UM getting to perform again. I missed 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:10.480 that feeling of performing UM. And so as my second 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:14.280 year went on, during the band, we perform with the 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.080 cheer team, the dance team, the band, and the cheer 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.279 team all are kind of the spirit squad, and so 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.320 what I started noticing was how much fun the cheerleaders 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:25.760 were having and how much fun cheer looked. And I 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.040 vividly remember this one guy, uh, during one of the 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:32.240 football games, through this girl right over his head all 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:36.440 the way to the top toss extension, and after he 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.520 was done catching, he looked right back down and started 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:41.200 talking to somebody on the ground like it was nothing. 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.000 And I was like, this is insane. I need to 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.880 learn how to do that, Like it just seems so 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.680 um crazy to me that you could do that. And 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:53.320 so I reached out our head coach, Julie. I reached 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:57.160 out to her, um at the beginning of UM, let 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.200 her know my interests. She was so awesome about it. Um. 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.560 She got me into a practice, got me in contact 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.320 with some of the teammates, the team members at the time, 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.200 and it just started practicing, trying to figure it out. 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.600 And then COVID hit. So I tried out online and 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.520 it worked out. Um that might have been why it 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:17.000 worked out, because he tried out online. UM. But um, 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.040 but it's been fun and it's it's been an amazing ride. 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:26.280 Um Yeah, I'm I just graduated. Uh, you got a 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:31.000 degree in finance and information systems. Um going to grad school. 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:33.680 Now we got one more year here, one last ride, 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.960 and it's gonna be great. So what I loved about 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:39.200 um cheer once we first started like that. Let's go 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.760 back to that first year during COVID. Okay, the COVID year, 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:46.280 we couldn't regularly practice. We weren't at games, neither was 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.200 anyone else. So we were on the team, but we 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.000 couldn't do anything that the team would do. So so 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.440 it was weird, right, Um, So we had to figure 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.920 out ways to one figure out how to cheer. I'm 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:00.760 talking about me specifically. Um, I joined this thing and 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:02.520 I was like, I don't know what I'm doing. So 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:07.280 we would meet up um outside because it was it 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.320 was safe to do so outside, and we were just 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.520 trying stunt. It's over and over and over again. A 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.760 lot of the yeah, a lot of the new people. UM. 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:20.200 But I think that's how we got so close, especially 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:22.720 our group, the ones that would go every day. I mean, 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:26.760 we ended up just becoming best friends immediately outside. Yeah. 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:28.840 I mean I'd wake up, I go to my online classes, 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.600 and my entire day just consisted of when I'm gonna 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:34.160 go stunt? When is that gonna happen? Right? And then 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.880 we'd get there, it'd be like early afternoon. We wouldn't 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:42.040 leave until the street lights came home. Literally, sun is set, 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.640 like it should not be out there anymore. Everyone's asleep, 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:50.079 and my fresh to cheer shoulders definitely could not handle that. 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:53.640 Um but that was okay, um, But yeah, I mean 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.920 it's just been awesome. It was. It was super intimidating 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.320 for me because I was coming from a whole different 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:05.119 world into the athletics world. I remember, let's do first impressions. Okay, 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:09.120 So I show up. I thought you were like a junior. Okay, 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:11.240 I thought we were the same age because when I 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:13.960 showed up to the first stunding session, you were like 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:17.920 already doing all the crazy stuff, like everything was already 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:21.960 figured out on your end, and you were studying with Ethan, 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.880 who was so fro from who I know is like 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:29.920 the best on our team, um you know. And so 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:31.679 I was like, oh, well, they are returners, they're doing 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:35.320 their own thing. I'll hang out with the we'll just 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:38.200 do that. And then we finally met each other and 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:43.559 you're like, yeah, I'm freshman. I was like, what it's like, Okay, 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:49.600 my bad. Um. Now, my first impression of Cass was, um, 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:52.200 she's really nice, but she definitely knows what she's doing, 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.080 so don't slow her down. That was that was my like, 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:58.040 that was my impression. I was like, oh man, she's 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:01.720 gonna have to be really patient. Wh But what about you? 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:08.319 My first impression of you was a lot. I have 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:11.440 never been like I had someone so close to my 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:14.600 life now, at least at the time, we weren't that close, 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:17.960 but like meaning you originally you had just so much 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.680 energy from the start, and I have always been such 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:25.679 a very like when I'm introverted to I'm just like 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:31.040 quiet for most of my days. And three you were 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:35.839 the guy with the speaker, so you had your your E. 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:40.400 D M on just getting ready to go, and I 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:44.480 was so like sensory overload for like a couple of days. 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:46.840 And then I like figured it out and I was like, Okay, 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.400 I actually have a lot of pent up energy too, 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:55.040 this is perfect, dude. I didn't. I did not used 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.520 to be like. I have never had like a group 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:00.560 of friends where I could be so in ergetic all 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:03.440 the time and literally be like on when all the 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:09.840 time until like this friend group honestly, so yeah, I 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:14.040 mean after COVID, basically we were just like, let's just 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:16.480 stunt and stunt and stunt practice and practice practice. We're 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:19.440 ever going to get to the field. Fast forward eighteen 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.559 months from joining the team and we're getting ready for 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:28.120 our first game day. I was terrified. I mean, like, 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:34.319 I've never been more, um insecure, not confident, nervous in 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.040 my life, right because you gotta think, like, this is 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:39.760 my first time I ever putting this on in a 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:44.240 professional level, not professional, but like performing this and it's 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:46.960 not just practice, right, So that was that was really 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.760 overwhelming for me. But at the same time, I've never 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.360 been more excited for a performance in my life, you know, 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:56.000 I'm I would first tell you I definitely teared up 0:11:56.360 --> 0:12:00.280 and got emotional before the first game. Oh yeah, gonna 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.640 cry but in a bad way. Oh no, this was 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.840 really good tears like the like the second we stepped out. 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:09.840 It was a versus Idaho, a night game. The lights 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.560 are on, the student session is packed from the crazy 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.880 season we had during um, I mean, it's filled to 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.280 the brim already pre game. That's unheard of. It at 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:20.480 I U football, all right, So I just look up 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.880 and I just lose it. Nobodn't really notice it because 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:26.320 I was hanging out with Tias, and but I was like, 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.520 Matias can see me cry, and that's fine because he's 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:31.760 emotional like me. But I was like, I can't show 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.040 everybody that I just get emotional before we even did anything. 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:38.520 So yeah, it was. I mean after that, I was like, 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:41.240 all right, we gotta we gotta, we got stuff to do. 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:42.920 Mallory looked at me, She's like, you ready to go, 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.880 and I was like, okay, yeah, I'm ready. Sorry. Um, 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.439 but yeah, after that, off the races and we never 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:51.880 looked back. That first season was so amazing, huge shout 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:53.760 out to Mallory for the whole season. I mean, she 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:56.880 was like my rock during all of it. When I 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:58.880 was like I don't know what I'm doing, She'd be like, Okay, 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.360 let's slow it down, let's figure it out. Here's what 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:04.199 you're gonna do. I was like, okay, cool. Um. So 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:08.360 she was amazing um start to finish. Um couldn't have 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:10.880 asked for a better first year with somebody, and we 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:14.040 were together the whole year. It was. It was just awesome. 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.439 I I replay all of our moments during the first season, 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:21.280 I was just like, this was literally perfect. You know. Yeah, 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:23.800 football season was good. Football season was really good. I 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:27.120 had Ethan, which is now a coach, as my stunt partner, 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:31.480 um which you obviously he's coached down. He was great, 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:35.200 helped me a lot through football season. He was my 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.600 stunt partner for a little bit of basketball season, and 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:42.679 then I got Cam. Okay, Cam, if you're listening, I 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:47.560 love you. He was amazing. He had never been in 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:50.360 this type of atmosphere before, so that was a little 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:52.840 bit of a like rocky start, but he did great. 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:58.680 My most iconic from like regular seasons Perdue game. That 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:02.800 game was in insane. I was with Ethan at that game, 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.920 and I was underneath the basket, which is like a 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:10.720 huge deal, and it was like the most intense game 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.440 ever to watch and to like have that type of 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.200 c at that game just be like in it the 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:20.840 whole time. There's cameras everywhere, there's people everywhere, literally the 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:24.040 first to rush the cores. That was intense, but it 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:29.680 was so fun. I was back sweat everywhere in that uniform. 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:33.480 My legs hurt after that game from like jumping up 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:37.680 and down. It was amazing. I love that game. That 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.560 game was that was literally a conic, that was a 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:42.920 piece of history. We were there. Yeah, it was almost 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.960 as cool as what happened in March. That is true. 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:49.120 So when we come back, we'll take you through um, 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:52.320 our crazy one Shining moment um, start to finish, the 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:56.360 full story, um, everything that you want to know and 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:58.400 need to know. Um. You may have heard it or 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:00.880 may have read about it somewhere, maybe on Instagram or 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.920 or bleach your report or maybe, but we'll take you 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:07.880 through everything starts to finish. So, um, this is Beyond 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:11.200 the Megaphone. I'm Nathan and and this is the College 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:27.320 Athletes Network. Welcome back to Beyond the Megaphone on the 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:31.240 College Athletes Network. I'm Nathan and I'm Cassidy. Subscribe to 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:34.760 our podcast so that you never missed another episode. Okay, 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:40.080 the moment, the one, shining moment um, the stunt heard 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.920 around the world. Let's get into it. Okay, So where 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.800 does the story start. We could start it at the night, 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.440 but I think there's more to that story. Let's start 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:51.880 in dating. Okay, So to give context, this is the 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:54.360 first time I had ever been in the tournament. UM 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:56.960 for like the past five years, four or five years 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:00.000 since we've been in the NT double A tournament. Um, 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:01.640 and so it was a big deal. We were excited 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:05.320 to go. Um. And so we land in the playing 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:09.440 game during the selection Sunday. So we go to Dayton. Uh, 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.320 this game is packed. We're playing Wyoming. We know nothing 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:16.440 about this team. Um, but they're talking some smack, not 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.840 gonna lie like they definitely came in thinking they were 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:20.680 gonna win by like a lot. They didn't think it's 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:23.560 gonna be kind of made me a little nervy. Yeah, no, yeah, 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:28.200 and yeah the game was pretty close. It so we 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.360 wont it. It It doesn't matter. But um, so we go 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.240 through that game. Um. The game starts at like nine 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:36.560 because we're the second game, of course, and it doesn't 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:39.160 get out to like eleven thirty at night. So here's 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:42.280 what's crazy. After that, we don't get We don't go 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:46.200 home and take a night and then get up and 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:48.560 go to Portland. No, no, no, no no. We get 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:51.200 on a plane and go straight to the airport from 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:55.680 the game and fly out to Portland overnight. Yeah, I 0:16:55.720 --> 0:17:00.880 remember that game. The game ended. We're literally renting out 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:02.680 of there. To get to the airport because we had 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:04.639 you know, we had to get there on time or 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:09.840 plane would leave right no wrong. Um. We waited at 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:15.399 a charter airport for like two hours. The first two hours. 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.320 The first two hours were on a plane. They're not moving. 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:23.240 Nobody knows why. Find out that there's too much luggage 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:25.560 on the plane. I don't know what to do about it. 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:29.040 So we're just sitting there waiting to see if they're 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:31.320 going to figure something out. It was hot. It was 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:35.639 so hot. I was sitting next to j P and 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:39.679 then the aisle next to me was Matthias, Jonah and 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:44.119 Andre I'm surrounded by what is it buy you guys? 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:47.399 You like by the basketball team. So I was okay. 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:49.040 I was like, this is awesome. I'm talking to Dane 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:51.240 five and some of the other players. I was like, 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:53.080 this is crazy. I was like, we can stay here 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:54.920 all night, and that's fine. I would not stay there 0:17:54.920 --> 0:18:00.000 all night. I wanted to sleep. But that two hours 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:04.000 later passed and we're still waiting, and then they're like, okay, 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.560 never mind, we're moving to another plane. So we moved 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:08.840 to another plane. Get on the plane. We wait for 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:13.639 like another two hours because it was too heavy. Again, 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:15.439 that was the thing. It was the same exact plane, 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.080 So I don't really know what the whole switching thing was, 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:20.840 but I have no clue. But then they just decided, okay, 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:24.840 well cheer and banned because it was basketball, cheer and 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:27.960 banned all on the same plane. And they decided to 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:30.920 leave our luggage behind because it was the heaviest and 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:34.199 they were gonna send it at a later day. So 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:40.640 we didn't leave Dayton until like three four thirty UM, 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:44.840 Indiana time, and so that was like um, one thirty 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:47.399 a m. Portland's time, because we're going out to Portland. 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:50.520 So then we finally get into the air. It's five 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:53.320 and a half hour flight, so we don't really get 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:57.200 to our hotel and I think it was seven thirty, 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:00.439 which was ten thirty our time, and we hadn't really slept. 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:03.000 I think I slept two hours on the on the plane. UM. 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:07.040 And so we get there. We're all tired, but like 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:11.360 it's fine whatever, it's spring break. We're out, we're hanging out. Um, 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:14.800 We're like we can sleep later. It's fine. I slept 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:17.720 when we got there. Some of them did not. Um, 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.400 they out, they went out and yeah, they just needed 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:23.720 some caffeine. So we get there, we're hanging out. Portland's great. 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:26.119 It's a really fun time with our team and everything 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:30.240 like that. Um. Fast forward to game day. Yeah, we 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:34.480 get up, we're ready to roll. Um, we're excited. I mean, 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.600 social media's going crazy for are you, Like we said, 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:41.040 this is a big deal. Um. We get there. Um, 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:43.119 we get situated, and we get into our warm up 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:46.320 area and we get on the court and um, we're 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:49.840 playing in Portland, so we're in the Trailblazers stadium. Um. 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:52.600 And so as we are getting ready and get situated, 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:57.199 Andy katz Um comes up the reporter and uh, I 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:00.119 don't I don't think I actually told you this until now. 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:03.560 But before that game started, me and Mallory went up 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:05.240 to him and was like, Hey, if you need any 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:08.000 like extra content during the game, let us know, we'd 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:10.400 be happy to an interview. I'm so mad. I didn't 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:15.520 know about that. So I kind of predicted our own future. 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:18.920 But it is what it is. Um. So we get 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:22.680 there and it's it's totally fine. Um. Mom and dad 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:25.960 of course are like the first twenty people, some of 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:28.639 the first twenty people in the whole stadium. Um. So 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:32.359 they're going crazy. It's just awesome. Game starts, it's not 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:36.080 going great for the Hoosiers. It's okay, it's fine. It's 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:41.200 not going great, um exactly. And so first half comes 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:44.520 and goes, and then right after halftime we're into it 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:47.840 and Trace puts up this shot and the ball is 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:53.840 not coming back. Ball stuck. They go through the mop. 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:57.080 They try and get us stool. The poor ref who's 0:20:57.160 --> 0:20:59.840 like five eight, tries to stand on a chair. That's 0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:02.440 not gonna work. They don't let the players down the 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:05.000 chair that would have probably actually gotten the ball off, 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:07.000 that would have been tall enough, but it's a liability thing. 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:11.640 They can't stand a chair. So then what happened they 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:14.040 I remember the St. Mary's player looked over at us. 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:17.680 We're like all intensely watching what's going on, and St. 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:21.600 Mary's players looks over at us and motion to throw 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:25.959 up a stunt. Basically, I saw that and just shot up. 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:28.040 It was like, someone put me up, Someone put me up. 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:31.000 Our coach and Ethan are like, we need the tallest 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:34.000 guy if we're going to actually do this, so we 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:37.840 don't look dumb. And if we wouldn't have been talling, 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:44.120 Oh my gosh, no, no, absolutely not. So Nathan's tallest 0:21:44.119 --> 0:21:49.280 starting team. UM stands up and we literally built our 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:51.800 stunt right where we were and walked over because I 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:54.359 was nervous. I was like, I was like, okay, I 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:56.720 can go. And so I wasn't thinking like we should 0:21:56.720 --> 0:21:58.359 go to where the ball is. I was just like, 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:00.200 let's just put stunt up and then they'll know we're 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:02.840 doing something. UM. And so we put the stunt up 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:04.520 an hour or seven ft away, and I was like, well, 0:22:04.920 --> 0:22:07.920 I didn't really think this through. Probably should have done 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:11.000 this at the ball. So again our drummonds hyped up. 0:22:11.080 --> 0:22:16.120 I've never really walked with a stunt until then. I 0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:19.680 no thoughts in my brain. I had no clue like, 0:22:19.840 --> 0:22:23.359 oh yeah everything. I was blacked out every time. Yeah. 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:25.359 And so we put the stunt up. I walked like 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:28.600 seven to ten feet with her in hands, not at 0:22:28.640 --> 0:22:31.920 like his shoulders or anything like that. UM, and then 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:36.320 I pressed her to extension, UM grabs the ball, gets 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:38.320 it down. What were you thinking when you, like, when 0:22:38.320 --> 0:22:39.959 you touch the ball at the top of the bagboard, 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:43.320 what were you like? Um? It was it was cool 0:22:43.440 --> 0:22:46.159 hearing like people make a big deal out of it 0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:49.320 because it's just something that you know, we knew we 0:22:49.320 --> 0:22:53.280 could have done easily, but everyone was going nuts just 0:22:53.320 --> 0:22:55.439 because the build up to get the ball down was 0:22:55.520 --> 0:23:00.920