WEBVTT - All About Brie O’Reilly 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:00.400 Chicken. 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:05.520 Yeah, it's Kat and Maddie on Seven Pancakes. If you're 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.560 tuned in, we're going all the way, coming in clean 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:09.440 with me. 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:12.480 Let's go Severn Pancakes. Queens. 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:33.959 Aye, terrible that could have been one of your words. 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:37.880 Anyways, Welcome to Seven Pancakes you guys. 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:40.920 Today we have joining us a special guest, three times 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:44.880 nors Saica Championship bronze medalists, Canadian team national team member 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:48.040 love Austin Setter, Trinity Western University alumni. 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:49.960 They're one and only three. 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:56.440 Oh oh yeah, happy to be here. 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:59.720 So you're from Langley, British Columbia. Can you tell me 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:01.600 where as I'm looking at Canada? 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:01.920 That is? 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.280 Yes, far as far west as you can go, right 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.000 like two hours north of Seattle. 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:09.959 Oh okay, So I like on the Vancouver side. 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:11.680 That's all I know is Vancouver on the west. That's 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:12.280 all obviously. 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:13.120 Yeah, that's me. 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:17.040 And you don't speak French. I do not know zero 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:19.320 because the other side people speak French. Yeah, because when 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:22.520 you have teammates on my team, Yeah, she'd be speaking French. 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:22.839 Yeah. 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:24.360 Why is it not a thing for you? Why don't 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:25.679 you not speak French? As your family? 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:29.600 You don't really hear it around like in the community 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:31.600 at all. No, it's just not really normal. And we 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.000 learned it in school, learned. 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:35.880 It, but barly not much. 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:38.880 Yeah, so did you cheat in your French classes is 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:39.600 what you're telling us. 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:43.160 I definitely had some answer keys given to me at times. 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:51.320 Yeah, oh man, okay. So you're from Langley, British Columbia. 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:55.720 You led Canada to three Northsyca Championship bronze medals twenty nineteen, 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.720 twenty twenty one, twenty twenty three Best setter twenty twenty three, 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:05.560 giving me okay, And you played pro in Germany and Brazil. 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.520 Yes, and France and athletes unlimited one. 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:11.080 Season, okay, athletes limited early and then you've been with 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:14.720 the national team since twenty nineteen. Yeah, you took last 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:15.119 year off. 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:18.120 I played a month like the first week of VNL, 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:20.360 and then got injured and was going to kind of rest. 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.760 Okay, okay, good time to do that. 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.360 Really good time. Yeah, it was actually perfect. 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:28.720 There was a time to get injured, was yeah, what'd 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:29.000 you do? 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.800 I Well, my husband's a fisherman, so I went to 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:36.720 Alaska with him to fish. That was the month of 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:42.760 July and then August we got engaged and and I 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.040 was planning a wedding for two months. 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:47.480 Okay, nice and like. 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:51.560 Family niece's nephew's beach. You know, it's like the really 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:53.320 nice time of the year to live in Vancouver. So 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:55.280 I enjoyed all of that. 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:59.200 Yeah, that's amazing, okay, and you can also sing. 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:01.760 In fact, apparently I didn't even know that. 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:04.560 I know, I didn't know that. Such a well kept 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:06.720 secret on our team. No, no one really knows. Kind 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:07.080 of fun. 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.200 But didn't you release some music at one point? 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:11.000 Yeah? I did. 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:13.760 You don't even know your teaving. 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:15.560 I don't even know that. 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:18.480 I mean, honestly, I hear her Maddie like sing sometimes 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:20.559 I'm like they actually sound like good together. 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:22.560 Like okay, I know it was like a real thing, 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:23.560 So I know. 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:27.880 Yeah, I've released two different like projects like little little 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:31.760 albums basically, but I don't really at by them that much. 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.720 Not a song songs lightly. 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:37.320 Oh my gosh, I'm gonna do some research and like 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:38.320 ad your music too. 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:43.080 Are you on Spotify? 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:48.000 Mm hmm, oh yeah, we're finding it. We're finding it. 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:52.040 Oh my gosh. Yeah, we gotta get that all right. 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:55.640 And then volleyball wise, you put up fifty two assists 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:59.400 against Nebraska in the opening game of the season. Can 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.119 you just talk about popping off? 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:07.000 I guess, oh boy, Well, yeah, we really loved playing long, 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:08.000 five set games. 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:13.240 So that's fun. That was a fun game. It was exciting. 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:14.560 It's fun to play in the US. 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:16.440 It's fun to play a bunch against a bunch of 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.760 people that you're friends with. It's like, I don't know, 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:23.679 totally different, and that was so fun. Our crowd was awesome. 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:25.680 I feel so close to home here, so it just 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:27.159 feels like really nice. 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.800 Yeah, and you have Cat on your team, that's yeah, 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.080 it's perfect good energy. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:36.599 Yeah. 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:39.400 Well, speaking of, you know, having fun and enjoying volleyball, 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:40.440 what brought you into the sport. 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:43.320 I was really little. I'm the youngest of five kids, 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:48.080 so it was I was in the volleyball gym all 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:51.160 the time. My older sisters both played, my older brother played, 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:56.040 so I think it was like third grade or something 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:59.839 that I was like on a team, so super little, 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:02.800 and I was like probably in kindergarten. I'm like, why 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:03.640 am I not on a team? 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:10.719 I'm ready for sure, gives energy, I'm going to run this, 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:12.880 yes exactly. 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:16.360 So yeah, I was I wanted to play because I 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:18.760 saw my sister play and watched her and thought it 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:19.159 was cool. 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:21.839 So really, little little Brie was playing volleyball. 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.320 Do you think that obviously your sister playing has a 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:27.880 huge part in why you play, and then like you 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:29.920 can make that connection maybe to kind of what we're 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:34.000 doing with the youth to prove. 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:39.080 I remember being like a club athlete and thinking it 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:42.000 was the coolest thing ever to watch like women play 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:44.599 and adults. My sister also played for Canada as well, 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:48.440 so I have like very clear memories of watching Canada 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:53.920 play as a little kid, and it absolutely like you 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:55.919 don't know what you don't know right, So then as 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:57.320 soon as you see it in front of you, it's 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:00.800 like whoa, Like this is bigger and bigger than I 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.560 ever could have imagined. It was on in my own 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.560 little brain. So that's I think such a special thing 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:09.440 about Like when I look out into a crowd of 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:11.880 our games, I'm always like it what fires me up 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.800 the most is the young girls because I'm like, yes, 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:17.200 like and now you see it, and now you know 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.880 what's possible, you know, And I feel like, until you 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:24.080 see it, it's kind of just ideas and I love 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.800 when you can like see it in their eyes, like, 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:30.120 oh my gosh, maybe you know, maybe one day. 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:41.320 Yeah, you walk around, but he was like licking his Okay, 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:43.440 I'm so sorry. 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:44.719 I think it's amazing. 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.359 I love meeting the kids and seeing them kind of 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:48.760 get it for the first time. 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:53.960 Yeah, it's so special for them. Okay. So then you 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.479 went to college in Canada. Do you call it college 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:57.240 or university? 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:01.599 We call it university one university. 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:05.920 How was the university volleyball scene in Canada, like, were 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:09.240 you I don't know, comparative, I don't I know nothing 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:11.239 about it compared to like collegiate volleyball. 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:15.760 Yeah, it's very different. It's much much smaller scale. Canada 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.880 is a really big country. We have very few people. 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:21.960 We have like our population is ten percent of the 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:25.160 population of the US, so just not a lot of 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.480 people to begin with. And volleyball is really not a 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:30.680 popular sport yet in. 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:32.880 Canada, so very few teams. 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:38.280 Like in the entire Canadian University League there was thirteen 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:42.880 teams I think, like that was it. Yeah, and all 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:46.200 across Canada. So there's really like one or maybe two 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:51.320 major schools per province. We call them like states. Okay, 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:56.560 So it was like a very very small scale college 0:07:56.640 --> 0:08:01.760 volleyball nothing like like I remember seeing American club tournament 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.160 for the first time and there was like a zillion 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:06.520 courts and it's like, what is going on? 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.200 Were playing with the club team from Canada when you 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:10.360 saw that? Okay? 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:12.920 Yes, I was. We like went down to Washington State 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:16.200 and played tournament of like wide. I like, this is there's. 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:20.120 A lot of girls who are good from there's two 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:23.880 you know, like just so yeah, because in comparison, what 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:28.360 the US has like over three hundred Division IE volleyball programs, 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:30.280 So it's that is pretty crazy. 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:32.079 All the girls that were like really good your sport, 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:35.720 you knew all of them were D one out of school. 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:39.480 I felt like I knew everyone that played volleyball in Canada. 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.080 Like at high level. It's like there's not that many 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:42.560 of us. 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:46.480 And even now, like pro athletes, Canadian pro athletes like 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:48.560 overseas play right now, it's like I don't know. 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:50.560 Thirty maybe total. 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.000 Wow, like really not a lot. 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:55.520 So it's just very different and. 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:01.200 It is mind blowing here seeing like club, the world 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.440 of club, the world of college even like we did 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:07.080 brackets for like the NCAA Championship and I am like 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:11.520 so lost, Like I can't even fathom how many teams 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:14.320 are we're in this tournament. I'm like, wow, it's just 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:18.360 very different, very small, like small town feel it feels 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:19.920 like in Canada. 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.559 Yeah, So then how did you go from your university 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:25.880 then to going pro? Like how did that? Did you 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:26.240 know that? 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:26.560 Yeah? 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:27.120 Was a thing. 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.240 I knew pro was a thing because my sister played 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:34.160 one year, and so I was like aware, I didn't 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.160 really have a desire. I was like, I'm kind of 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:39.800 good just you know, finishing college and that being it. 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:44.200 And then I tried out for Team Canada in my 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:49.480 let me use American lingo June after my junior year 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:56.280 of college year three year and started and again there's 0:09:56.280 --> 0:10:01.120 just not that many athletes in Canada in that system 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.439 at all. So it was kind of a very quick 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:07.920 ramp up for me from like young, brand new, learning everything, 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:12.920 learning what like international volleyball really was in a practical sense, 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:14.920 and then and we think you. 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:17.640 Can maybe like help us sooner than you think. 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:19.840 And then it was a very like quick ramp up 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:24.040 to being the in the main squad I guess for Canada. 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:28.520 And then I very quickly realized like going back to 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:33.720 play Canadian college volleyball is not going to develop me 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:36.720 as a player in the same way that going overseas 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:37.480 is going to it. 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.760 Those are just on kind of different planets, I would say. Right, 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:45.559 So I got in touch with an agent and I 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.760 got really lucky and got a great first contract in 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.320 Germany on a good team, and then it was kind 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.640 of like, Okay, how quickly I felt like I was 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:54.400 kind of catching up. 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:57.880 I'm like, man, I feel like behind a lot of 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:01.640 the world in terms of how a lot of teenagers 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:07.559 or college age athletes are like already very like in 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:10.240 that zone you know, of like pro at least in 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.520 like a filter of a pro team whatever in Europe. 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:15.199 That happened yet and I was not. I was learning 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.720 a lot at one time. So that was kind of 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:20.160 my and then I just never looked back and kept 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:24.439 playing overseas and national team in the summers. 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.200 Wow. So like mentally going through that, like how did 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:30.920 you if you felt like you were behind, how did 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:32.680 you like fight kind of day by day or like 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:34.680 what did you do that kept you going? It was 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:36.520 it like the little wins of like, Okay, I see 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:39.160 myself improving, so yeah, let me see where I can 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:39.560 get too. 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:41.760 I think it helped that there was quite a few 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.480 girls on Team Canada at the same time as me, 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:47.480 all kind of starting out, that were young and had 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:50.800 a lot of potential, and we were in the similar 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:52.680 boat of sort of like we feel a little bit 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:56.800 underprepared for the position that we're in, but let's kind 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:58.640 of go see what we can do and how good 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:03.199 we can get. So there was a very like unified mindset, 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:06.200 I would say, from myself and some of the other 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.800 girls my age on the national team and together it 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:13.840 was kind of like, how can we, like, can we 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:18.080 get good enough to maybe compete at an international level 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:21.480 and maybe go to the Olympics. And that was like 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:23.680 very much still in the forefront of all of our minds, 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:27.440 like how good can we get as fast as possible, 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:30.199 with the huge bonus of the fact that we were 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:34.720 all playing a lot of volleyball four team Canada because 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:37.319 we just don't have a huge pool of athletes to 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.440 choose from. So even though we weren't maybe I was 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:44.440 very unrefined when I was on the court playing for 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.920 Canada in my first couple of years, and but there 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:51.079 was there wasn't really I just that was this spot 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.719 I was in and you kind of learned by I 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:56.240 don't know, doing it, and that helped us a lot. 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:57.920 I think like putting ourselves in those spots. 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:01.480 So I think, yeah, players here, we have the luxury 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:03.640 now be able to come out of college and still 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:05.320 play at home and be part of the Love League 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:08.840 or the other league that's also in play. But what's 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:10.280 some of the advice that you would give to, like 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:12.400 athletes who aren't going to stay at home, who are 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:14.120 going to go overseas abroad the first year and going 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:15.839 to get kind of dive right into a different culture. 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:17.000 Shock would be some of your vices. 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.640 Yeah, it's such a good question because there's such a 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:22.480 big part of me that's like, oh, man, I would 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:27.200 never have left if I'm a huge homebody. I'm like, 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:29.680 this is so amazing. But then at the same time, 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.640 it's very hard for me to ignore the fact that 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:33.880 I'm like, I don't I don't know if I would 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.320 be the player I am today had I not been 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:40.560 through it overseas, because you are like there's a lot 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.240 of pressure, there's a lot expected of you as a foreigner, 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:51.040 and it's like the importance of succeeding and winning overseas 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:54.440 is way way more extreme than what we experience in 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:59.120 like the culture of North America, at least what I've experienced. 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:00.280 So there's it. 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:02.480 I'm like, oh man, I love being thrown into that, 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:04.960 and like, you have to figure this out, like you don't. 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.440 There's no other option, there's no complaining, there's no like, 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:12.720 there's just make it happen. And I think for girls 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:17.280 that are considering what to do, there's a bazillion factors 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:19.560 that obviously would affect my what kind of. 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:20.680 Advice I would give for a girl. 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.240 But I just think there is value in going overseas still, 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.560 and there is like a grit I think that you 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:31.760 develop that is much harder to develop if you stay, 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:36.920 I guess in the comfortable home experience. However, that being said, 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:40.400 I'm like, there's also so so much beauty. 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:41.520 Obviously, I'm in it. I'm here. 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.200 I'm I chose not to be overseas right now because 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:46.560 I love being home and I love all the. 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:48.360 Pros that come with that. So just there's pros on 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:48.880 both sides. 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:57.000 How's it going with the Austin team, And I don't know, 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:58.840 just like what's all the stuff that's up with your 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:05.440 guys's team, And yeah, back up and tell me all 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:06.240 the team secrets. 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:07.920 Yeah yeah, we have so many. 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:09.840 Oh my gosh, we have all these secret plays that 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:11.000 we haven't shown anyone yet. 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:12.880 I know this week. 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:19.120 Oh wow, you went there this week. 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:24.000 I'm just kidding you, guys. Let us have our first. 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:25.720 They need a win, so you know. 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:29.080 They heard that. I didn't realize that. I just heard 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:30.880 that today and I was like, that's tough. 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:34.760 She needed that, you know, that need that. 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:36.720 Thank you guys so much. 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:38.840 We're all big, one big happy family here, right. 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:42.920 But it was cool playing in the Spurs arena. 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:45.560 Yes, that was amazing. I was so impressed. Like the 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:49.000 crowds in general here have been like texts loves volleyball, 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:52.200 and I love that it makes such a difference for us, Like, 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:54.520 I don't know, it's been so fun. Our team is 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:55.440 such a good time. 0:15:55.600 --> 0:16:02.040 I really really love like our I don't know culture, 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:07.200 Like it's really easy to be around every day like it, 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:09.840 I don't know, it's like such a good balance of 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:13.240 like this matters, so like let's give one hundred percent 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:15.560 and then also but like but we're people and let's 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:20.000 really invest into that. I find that's been amazing, really fun. 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:23.960 I'm laughing all the time. We're really goofy and goofy 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:25.080 and gritty at the same time. 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:26.520 Like it's it's really fun. 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:29.160 Yeah, and you guys have the top to bottom just 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:32.360 so many pieces, Like you have so much talent on 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.240 your team. I can imagine practice has just got to 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:36.880 be like a dog fight every day, which is so great. 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:38.960 Yeah, it's so good to your environment. 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:42.080 I think also, just like speaking of last year, the 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:44.480 vallball piece of it for us last year was big, 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.880 but it was like almost overwhelming to think about because. 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:48.920 We weren't here. But Maddy knows that our season last 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:50.280 year was kind of very up and down to the 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:52.440 very last second of the. 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:55.320 Season, of the very last championship last. 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.480 Like, you know, I think now volleyball is still like 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:01.760 a big peace of our gym. But it's like we 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:03.320 welcome like that part of it. 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:03.560 You know. 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:06.200 It's like now it's like to practice. It's not like yeah, 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:08.240 like I want to practice day, like I feel good 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:11.880 about going in every day. I was almost like, yeah, 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:13.560 there's a lot of beeping right now. 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:14.840 But you're beeping out everyone. 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:17.399 There's a lot of all all all, but like I 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:19.160 agree with you. Our camaraderie and just like come into 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:21.520 the gym. It's just it's a healthy space. It's so healthy, 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:22.040 it's real. 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:23.879 I agree. 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:28.040 What's the most surprising thing about having Kat as a teammate? 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:33.159 Great question. I think, like, I don't know. 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:36.760 I've had lots of teammates who are like hype man 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:39.239 and like so fun and goofy, and then I've had 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:43.159 lots of teammates who are like locked in and really 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:49.040 like helping the tactical side of like volleyball, very rarely 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:53.239 to get both, and that's been like very surprisingly in 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:56.800 an amazing way, Like wow, you can, Kat can really 0:17:56.840 --> 0:18:00.840 do both, almost like simultaneously, which is crazy. I'm like, okay, 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:03.320 it's not even like ones turning off and ones on. 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:06.480 It's like, no, you're just like equally hype man, goofy, 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:10.680 silly making it light as like but like protect. 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:15.320 Your yeah, yeah, I'm just coasting. I was one thing 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:16.399 I saw my mom of the day. I was like, 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:18.280 for me, I'm like my feelings, I'm so in tune 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:19.679 with them. It's like I don't try to fight off 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:21.280 how I'm feeling. If I'm in a really good mood. 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:23.600 I want everyone up around me to very like in 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:25.399 a good move. I'm in a really bad mood. I 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:27.480 have to be extra more happy to make sure that 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:31.919 I'm not, you know what I mean. So I'm having 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:34.240 a really day, a really bad day. 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:37.640 But like if I'm like cool happy, yeah, I'm actually 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:40.840 thank you. That was really nice. Thank you? 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:42.479 Yeah, that was really sweet. 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:47.080 Wow, I was kidding justly nice about me. 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:49.600 Now let's just go around the circle. 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:54.000 Okay, what are some off the court habits that you've 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:55.840 developed that help you on the court? 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:56.800 Good question. 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:03.400 I love life outside of volleyball. I'm not like an 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:09.280 obsessive person at all. So the things I love like being, 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:11.880 I love practice, I love being there, and then as 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:14.760 soon as I'm out of there, I'm like not, I'm 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:16.920 not like a think about practice kind of girl. 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:18.280 Doesn't affect my day at all. 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:24.560 I'm like ready to like be normal, normal life, bree 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:29.760 So habits like I think that's the best version of me. 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:33.080 If I feel like things are lingering, I think the 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:35.919 habit that I've developed is like, then just go address 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:38.480 it right away, like what is it? And either I'm 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:40.879 talking to my husband about it or I'm journaling about 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:43.320 it or I'm talking to a teammate, whatever it is, 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:46.960 like kind of like clearing it up so that I 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:48.880 can get to a point where I'm like, Okay, I'm 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:51.440 good and now I can reset. And if I don't 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:54.080 do that, I can I feel it becoming exactly what 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:56.199 Kat said, like this is a drag, this is. 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:56.960 Weighing me down. 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:00.080 I feel foggy, I don't feel light, and so so 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:02.760 I think the biggest thing for me is, I guess, yeah, 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:06.480 just like letting practice be practice or game be game, 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:10.879