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Speaker 1: Anyways, Welcome to Seven Pancakes you guys.
Speaker 2: Today we have joining us a special guest, three times
Speaker 2: nors Saica Championship bronze medalists, Canadian team national team member
Speaker 2: love Austin Setter, Trinity Western University alumni.
Speaker 1: They're one and only three.
Speaker 4: Oh oh yeah, happy to be here.
Speaker 5: So you're from Langley, British Columbia. Can you tell me
Speaker 5: where as I'm looking at Canada?
Speaker 4: That is?
Speaker 6: Yes, far as far west as you can go, right
Speaker 6: like two hours north of Seattle.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, So I like on the Vancouver side.
Speaker 1: That's all I know is Vancouver on the west. That's
Speaker 1: all obviously.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's me.
Speaker 5: And you don't speak French. I do not know zero
Speaker 5: because the other side people speak French. Yeah, because when
Speaker 5: you have teammates on my team, Yeah, she'd be speaking French.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Why is it not a thing for you? Why don't
Speaker 2: you not speak French? As your family?
Speaker 6: You don't really hear it around like in the community
Speaker 6: at all. No, it's just not really normal. And we
Speaker 6: learned it in school, learned.
Speaker 4: It, but barly not much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so did you cheat in your French classes is
Speaker 1: what you're telling us.
Speaker 6: I definitely had some answer keys given to me at times.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh man, okay. So you're from Langley, British Columbia.
Speaker 5: You led Canada to three Northsyca Championship bronze medals twenty nineteen,
Speaker 5: twenty twenty one, twenty twenty three Best setter twenty twenty three,
Speaker 5: giving me okay, And you played pro in Germany and Brazil.
Speaker 4: Yes, and France and athletes unlimited one.
Speaker 5: Season, okay, athletes limited early and then you've been with
Speaker 5: the national team since twenty nineteen. Yeah, you took last
Speaker 5: year off.
Speaker 6: I played a month like the first week of VNL,
Speaker 6: and then got injured and was going to kind of rest.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, good time to do that.
Speaker 4: Really good time. Yeah, it was actually perfect.
Speaker 5: There was a time to get injured, was yeah, what'd
Speaker 5: you do?
Speaker 6: I Well, my husband's a fisherman, so I went to
Speaker 6: Alaska with him to fish. That was the month of
Speaker 6: July and then August we got engaged and and I
Speaker 6: was planning a wedding for two months.
Speaker 5: Okay, nice and like.
Speaker 6: Family niece's nephew's beach. You know, it's like the really
Speaker 6: nice time of the year to live in Vancouver. So
Speaker 6: I enjoyed all of that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's amazing, okay, and you can also sing.
Speaker 1: In fact, apparently I didn't even know that.
Speaker 4: I know, I didn't know that. Such a well kept
Speaker 4: secret on our team. No, no one really knows. Kind
Speaker 4: of fun.
Speaker 5: But didn't you release some music at one point?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I did.
Speaker 5: You don't even know your teaving.
Speaker 1: I don't even know that.
Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, I hear her Maddie like sing sometimes
Speaker 2: I'm like they actually sound like good together.
Speaker 1: Like okay, I know it was like a real thing,
Speaker 1: So I know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I've released two different like projects like little little
Speaker 6: albums basically, but I don't really at by them that much.
Speaker 5: Not a song songs lightly.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I'm gonna do some research and like
Speaker 2: ad your music too.
Speaker 5: Are you on Spotify?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, oh yeah, we're finding it. We're finding it.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh. Yeah, we gotta get that all right.
Speaker 5: And then volleyball wise, you put up fifty two assists
Speaker 5: against Nebraska in the opening game of the season. Can
Speaker 5: you just talk about popping off?
Speaker 6: I guess, oh boy, Well, yeah, we really loved playing long,
Speaker 6: five set games.
Speaker 4: So that's fun. That was a fun game. It was exciting.
Speaker 4: It's fun to play in the US.
Speaker 6: It's fun to play a bunch against a bunch of
Speaker 6: people that you're friends with. It's like, I don't know,
Speaker 6: totally different, and that was so fun. Our crowd was awesome.
Speaker 4: I feel so close to home here, so it just
Speaker 4: feels like really nice.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you have Cat on your team, that's yeah,
Speaker 5: it's perfect good energy.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, speaking of, you know, having fun and enjoying volleyball,
Speaker 2: what brought you into the sport.
Speaker 6: I was really little. I'm the youngest of five kids,
Speaker 6: so it was I was in the volleyball gym all
Speaker 6: the time. My older sisters both played, my older brother played,
Speaker 6: so I think it was like third grade or something
Speaker 6: that I was like on a team, so super little,
Speaker 6: and I was like probably in kindergarten. I'm like, why
Speaker 6: am I not on a team?
Speaker 5: I'm ready for sure, gives energy, I'm going to run this,
Speaker 5: yes exactly.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I was I wanted to play because I
Speaker 6: saw my sister play and watched her and thought it
Speaker 6: was cool.
Speaker 4: So really, little little Brie was playing volleyball.
Speaker 5: Do you think that obviously your sister playing has a
Speaker 5: huge part in why you play, and then like you
Speaker 5: can make that connection maybe to kind of what we're
Speaker 5: doing with the youth to prove.
Speaker 6: I remember being like a club athlete and thinking it
Speaker 6: was the coolest thing ever to watch like women play
Speaker 6: and adults. My sister also played for Canada as well,
Speaker 6: so I have like very clear memories of watching Canada
Speaker 6: play as a little kid, and it absolutely like you
Speaker 6: don't know what you don't know right, So then as
Speaker 6: soon as you see it in front of you, it's
Speaker 6: like whoa, Like this is bigger and bigger than I
Speaker 6: ever could have imagined. It was on in my own
Speaker 6: little brain. So that's I think such a special thing
Speaker 6: about Like when I look out into a crowd of
Speaker 6: our games, I'm always like it what fires me up
Speaker 6: the most is the young girls because I'm like, yes,
Speaker 6: like and now you see it, and now you know
Speaker 6: what's possible, you know, And I feel like, until you
Speaker 6: see it, it's kind of just ideas and I love
Speaker 6: when you can like see it in their eyes, like,
Speaker 6: oh my gosh, maybe you know, maybe one day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you walk around, but he was like licking his Okay,
Speaker 5: I'm so sorry.
Speaker 4: I think it's amazing.
Speaker 6: I love meeting the kids and seeing them kind of
Speaker 6: get it for the first time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's so special for them. Okay. So then you
Speaker 5: went to college in Canada. Do you call it college
Speaker 5: or university?
Speaker 6: We call it university one university.
Speaker 5: How was the university volleyball scene in Canada, like, were
Speaker 5: you I don't know, comparative, I don't I know nothing
Speaker 5: about it compared to like collegiate volleyball.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's very different. It's much much smaller scale. Canada
Speaker 6: is a really big country. We have very few people.
Speaker 6: We have like our population is ten percent of the
Speaker 6: population of the US, so just not a lot of
Speaker 6: people to begin with. And volleyball is really not a
Speaker 6: popular sport yet in.
Speaker 4: Canada, so very few teams.
Speaker 6: Like in the entire Canadian University League there was thirteen
Speaker 6: teams I think, like that was it. Yeah, and all
Speaker 6: across Canada. So there's really like one or maybe two
Speaker 6: major schools per province. We call them like states. Okay,
Speaker 6: So it was like a very very small scale college
Speaker 6: volleyball nothing like like I remember seeing American club tournament
Speaker 6: for the first time and there was like a zillion
Speaker 6: courts and it's like, what is going on?
Speaker 1: Were playing with the club team from Canada when you
Speaker 1: saw that? Okay?
Speaker 4: Yes, I was. We like went down to Washington State
Speaker 4: and played tournament of like wide. I like, this is there's.
Speaker 5: A lot of girls who are good from there's two
Speaker 5: you know, like just so yeah, because in comparison, what
Speaker 5: the US has like over three hundred Division IE volleyball programs,
Speaker 5: So it's that is pretty crazy.
Speaker 2: All the girls that were like really good your sport,
Speaker 2: you knew all of them were D one out of school.
Speaker 6: I felt like I knew everyone that played volleyball in Canada.
Speaker 4: Like at high level. It's like there's not that many
Speaker 4: of us.
Speaker 6: And even now, like pro athletes, Canadian pro athletes like
Speaker 6: overseas play right now, it's like I don't know.
Speaker 4: Thirty maybe total.
Speaker 1: Wow, like really not a lot.
Speaker 4: So it's just very different and.
Speaker 6: It is mind blowing here seeing like club, the world
Speaker 6: of club, the world of college even like we did
Speaker 6: brackets for like the NCAA Championship and I am like
Speaker 6: so lost, Like I can't even fathom how many teams
Speaker 6: are we're in this tournament. I'm like, wow, it's just
Speaker 6: very different, very small, like small town feel it feels
Speaker 6: like in Canada.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So then how did you go from your university
Speaker 5: then to going pro? Like how did that? Did you
Speaker 5: know that?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Was a thing.
Speaker 6: I knew pro was a thing because my sister played
Speaker 6: one year, and so I was like aware, I didn't
Speaker 6: really have a desire. I was like, I'm kind of
Speaker 6: good just you know, finishing college and that being it.
Speaker 6: And then I tried out for Team Canada in my
Speaker 6: let me use American lingo June after my junior year
Speaker 6: of college year three year and started and again there's
Speaker 6: just not that many athletes in Canada in that system
Speaker 6: at all. So it was kind of a very quick
Speaker 6: ramp up for me from like young, brand new, learning everything,
Speaker 6: learning what like international volleyball really was in a practical sense,
Speaker 6: and then and we think you.
Speaker 4: Can maybe like help us sooner than you think.
Speaker 6: And then it was a very like quick ramp up
Speaker 6: to being the in the main squad I guess for Canada.
Speaker 6: And then I very quickly realized like going back to
Speaker 6: play Canadian college volleyball is not going to develop me
Speaker 6: as a player in the same way that going overseas
Speaker 6: is going to it.
Speaker 4: Those are just on kind of different planets, I would say. Right,
Speaker 4: So I got in touch with an agent and I
Speaker 4: got really lucky and got a great first contract in
Speaker 4: Germany on a good team, and then it was kind
Speaker 4: of like, Okay, how quickly I felt like I was
Speaker 4: kind of catching up.
Speaker 6: I'm like, man, I feel like behind a lot of
Speaker 6: the world in terms of how a lot of teenagers
Speaker 6: or college age athletes are like already very like in
Speaker 6: that zone you know, of like pro at least in
Speaker 6: like a filter of a pro team whatever in Europe.
Speaker 6: That happened yet and I was not. I was learning
Speaker 6: a lot at one time. So that was kind of
Speaker 6: my and then I just never looked back and kept
Speaker 6: playing overseas and national team in the summers.
Speaker 5: Wow. So like mentally going through that, like how did
Speaker 5: you if you felt like you were behind, how did
Speaker 5: you like fight kind of day by day or like
Speaker 5: what did you do that kept you going? It was
Speaker 5: it like the little wins of like, Okay, I see
Speaker 5: myself improving, so yeah, let me see where I can
Speaker 5: get too.
Speaker 6: I think it helped that there was quite a few
Speaker 6: girls on Team Canada at the same time as me,
Speaker 6: all kind of starting out, that were young and had
Speaker 6: a lot of potential, and we were in the similar
Speaker 6: boat of sort of like we feel a little bit
Speaker 6: underprepared for the position that we're in, but let's kind
Speaker 6: of go see what we can do and how good
Speaker 6: we can get. So there was a very like unified mindset,
Speaker 6: I would say, from myself and some of the other
Speaker 6: girls my age on the national team and together it
Speaker 6: was kind of like, how can we, like, can we
Speaker 6: get good enough to maybe compete at an international level
Speaker 6: and maybe go to the Olympics. And that was like
Speaker 6: very much still in the forefront of all of our minds,
Speaker 6: like how good can we get as fast as possible,
Speaker 6: with the huge bonus of the fact that we were
Speaker 6: all playing a lot of volleyball four team Canada because
Speaker 6: we just don't have a huge pool of athletes to
Speaker 6: choose from. So even though we weren't maybe I was
Speaker 6: very unrefined when I was on the court playing for
Speaker 6: Canada in my first couple of years, and but there
Speaker 6: was there wasn't really I just that was this spot
Speaker 6: I was in and you kind of learned by I
Speaker 6: don't know, doing it, and that helped us a lot.
Speaker 4: I think like putting ourselves in those spots.
Speaker 2: So I think, yeah, players here, we have the luxury
Speaker 2: now be able to come out of college and still
Speaker 2: play at home and be part of the Love League
Speaker 2: or the other league that's also in play. But what's
Speaker 2: some of the advice that you would give to, like
Speaker 2: athletes who aren't going to stay at home, who are
Speaker 2: going to go overseas abroad the first year and going
Speaker 2: to get kind of dive right into a different culture.
Speaker 1: Shock would be some of your vices.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's such a good question because there's such a
Speaker 6: big part of me that's like, oh, man, I would
Speaker 6: never have left if I'm a huge homebody. I'm like,
Speaker 6: this is so amazing. But then at the same time,
Speaker 6: it's very hard for me to ignore the fact that
Speaker 6: I'm like, I don't I don't know if I would
Speaker 6: be the player I am today had I not been
Speaker 6: through it overseas, because you are like there's a lot
Speaker 6: of pressure, there's a lot expected of you as a foreigner,
Speaker 6: and it's like the importance of succeeding and winning overseas
Speaker 6: is way way more extreme than what we experience in
Speaker 6: like the culture of North America, at least what I've experienced.
Speaker 4: So there's it.
Speaker 6: I'm like, oh man, I love being thrown into that,
Speaker 6: and like, you have to figure this out, like you don't.
Speaker 6: There's no other option, there's no complaining, there's no like,
Speaker 6: there's just make it happen. And I think for girls
Speaker 6: that are considering what to do, there's a bazillion factors
Speaker 6: that obviously would affect my what kind of.
Speaker 4: Advice I would give for a girl.
Speaker 6: But I just think there is value in going overseas still,
Speaker 6: and there is like a grit I think that you
Speaker 6: develop that is much harder to develop if you stay,
Speaker 6: I guess in the comfortable home experience. However, that being said,
Speaker 6: I'm like, there's also so so much beauty.
Speaker 4: Obviously, I'm in it. I'm here.
Speaker 6: I'm I chose not to be overseas right now because
Speaker 6: I love being home and I love all the.
Speaker 4: Pros that come with that. So just there's pros on
Speaker 4: both sides.
Speaker 5: How's it going with the Austin team, And I don't know,
Speaker 5: just like what's all the stuff that's up with your
Speaker 5: guys's team, And yeah, back up and tell me all
Speaker 5: the team secrets.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, we have so many.
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, we have all these secret plays that
Speaker 6: we haven't shown anyone yet.
Speaker 5: I know this week.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, you went there this week.
Speaker 5: I'm just kidding you, guys. Let us have our first.
Speaker 1: They need a win, so you know.
Speaker 4: They heard that. I didn't realize that. I just heard
Speaker 4: that today and I was like, that's tough.
Speaker 2: She needed that, you know, that need that.
Speaker 5: Thank you guys so much.
Speaker 4: We're all big, one big happy family here, right.
Speaker 5: But it was cool playing in the Spurs arena.
Speaker 4: Yes, that was amazing. I was so impressed. Like the
Speaker 4: crowds in general here have been like texts loves volleyball,
Speaker 4: and I love that it makes such a difference for us, Like,
Speaker 4: I don't know, it's been so fun. Our team is
Speaker 4: such a good time.
Speaker 6: I really really love like our I don't know culture,
Speaker 6: Like it's really easy to be around every day like it,
Speaker 6: I don't know, it's like such a good balance of
Speaker 6: like this matters, so like let's give one hundred percent
Speaker 6: and then also but like but we're people and let's
Speaker 6: really invest into that. I find that's been amazing, really fun.
Speaker 6: I'm laughing all the time. We're really goofy and goofy
Speaker 6: and gritty at the same time.
Speaker 4: Like it's it's really fun.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you guys have the top to bottom just
Speaker 5: so many pieces, Like you have so much talent on
Speaker 5: your team. I can imagine practice has just got to
Speaker 5: be like a dog fight every day, which is so great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so good to your environment.
Speaker 2: I think also, just like speaking of last year, the
Speaker 2: vallball piece of it for us last year was big,
Speaker 2: but it was like almost overwhelming to think about because.
Speaker 1: We weren't here. But Maddy knows that our season last
Speaker 1: year was kind of very up and down to the
Speaker 1: very last second of the.
Speaker 5: Season, of the very last championship last.
Speaker 2: Like, you know, I think now volleyball is still like
Speaker 2: a big peace of our gym. But it's like we
Speaker 2: welcome like that part of it.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: It's like now it's like to practice. It's not like yeah,
Speaker 1: like I want to practice day, like I feel good
Speaker 1: about going in every day. I was almost like, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of beeping right now.
Speaker 5: But you're beeping out everyone.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of all all all, but like I
Speaker 2: agree with you. Our camaraderie and just like come into
Speaker 2: the gym. It's just it's a healthy space. It's so healthy,
Speaker 2: it's real.
Speaker 4: I agree.
Speaker 5: What's the most surprising thing about having Kat as a teammate?
Speaker 4: Great question. I think, like, I don't know.
Speaker 6: I've had lots of teammates who are like hype man
Speaker 6: and like so fun and goofy, and then I've had
Speaker 6: lots of teammates who are like locked in and really
Speaker 6: like helping the tactical side of like volleyball, very rarely
Speaker 6: to get both, and that's been like very surprisingly in
Speaker 6: an amazing way, Like wow, you can, Kat can really
Speaker 6: do both, almost like simultaneously, which is crazy. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 6: it's not even like ones turning off and ones on.
Speaker 6: It's like, no, you're just like equally hype man, goofy,
Speaker 6: silly making it light as like but like protect.
Speaker 2: Your yeah, yeah, I'm just coasting. I was one thing
Speaker 2: I saw my mom of the day. I was like,
Speaker 2: for me, I'm like my feelings, I'm so in tune
Speaker 2: with them. It's like I don't try to fight off
Speaker 2: how I'm feeling. If I'm in a really good mood.
Speaker 2: I want everyone up around me to very like in
Speaker 2: a good move. I'm in a really bad mood. I
Speaker 2: have to be extra more happy to make sure that
Speaker 2: I'm not, you know what I mean. So I'm having
Speaker 2: a really day, a really bad day.
Speaker 1: But like if I'm like cool happy, yeah, I'm actually
Speaker 1: thank you. That was really nice. Thank you?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was really sweet.
Speaker 1: Wow, I was kidding justly nice about me.
Speaker 4: Now let's just go around the circle.
Speaker 5: Okay, what are some off the court habits that you've
Speaker 5: developed that help you on the court?
Speaker 4: Good question.
Speaker 6: I love life outside of volleyball. I'm not like an
Speaker 6: obsessive person at all. So the things I love like being,
Speaker 6: I love practice, I love being there, and then as
Speaker 6: soon as I'm out of there, I'm like not, I'm
Speaker 6: not like a think about practice kind of girl.
Speaker 4: Doesn't affect my day at all.
Speaker 6: I'm like ready to like be normal, normal life, bree
Speaker 6: So habits like I think that's the best version of me.
Speaker 6: If I feel like things are lingering, I think the
Speaker 6: habit that I've developed is like, then just go address
Speaker 6: it right away, like what is it? And either I'm
Speaker 6: talking to my husband about it or I'm journaling about
Speaker 6: it or I'm talking to a teammate, whatever it is,
Speaker 6: like kind of like clearing it up so that I
Speaker 6: can get to a point where I'm like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 6: good and now I can reset. And if I don't
Speaker 6: do that, I can I feel it becoming exactly what
Speaker 6: Kat said, like this is a drag, this is.
Speaker 4: Weighing me down.
Speaker 6: I feel foggy, I don't feel light, and so so
Speaker 6: I think the biggest thing for me is, I guess, yeah,
Speaker 6: just like letting practice be practice or game be game,
Speaker 6: and then fully being free outside of volleyball and filling
Speaker 6: up that tank.
Speaker 4: In lots of ways.
Speaker 6: But yeah, that's kind of I would say the most
Speaker 6: important habit I've been developing here and as I've grown
Speaker 6: up in as an athlete.
Speaker 2: With your habits, would you say, like your biggest leadership
Speaker 2: skills that you have or how do you see yourself
Speaker 2: as a leader showing up for your team our team.
Speaker 6: I think the biggest thing is being like the same
Speaker 6: bree every day, just like consistent, reliable that people know
Speaker 6: what they're going to get.
Speaker 4: Like I don't.
Speaker 6: I really don't want to be that girl that's like, oh,
Speaker 6: you know, can't talk to her today or like you know, standoffish.
Speaker 4: I like leading from like a.
Speaker 6: Open warm like I guess friendship base, and if I'm
Speaker 6: not doing that, I'm not in a good headspace. Like
Speaker 6: so I would say that I think obviously as a setter,
Speaker 6: it really matters that I have a relationship with everyone
Speaker 6: on the team, and.
Speaker 4: That takes time.
Speaker 6: Obviously with a brand I've never played with. I've just
Speaker 6: played with Molly on this team before, so just all
Speaker 6: that like how can I make you the best.
Speaker 4: Version of yourself? Obviously in volleyball, but then emotionally all
Speaker 4: that matters a lot too.
Speaker 6: So figuring out how quickly can I figure that out
Speaker 6: about my teammates has been a big focus.
Speaker 5: Do you have like a best way of developing the
Speaker 5: relationship hitter setter connection, like something that you like to
Speaker 5: do from the beginning or throughout the season.
Speaker 6: Yes, I think number one thing is that it's like,
Speaker 6: it's not about me, And that's such a like cliche thing,
Speaker 6: but it's really hard to constantly remind yourself that, like,
Speaker 6: it's not about Brie, like I, this is about my
Speaker 6: hitters being the best that they can be.
Speaker 4: They are going to score the point.
Speaker 6: So if they're not happy, then that's my responsibility, you know,
Speaker 6: if they don't like the ball, whatever it is, and
Speaker 6: just that this like collaborative, Like we are a team,
Speaker 6: me and Kat if i'm setting her, we're a team
Speaker 6: here fully a team.
Speaker 4: It's never me against Kat. It's always Brian Kat together
Speaker 4: to score, you know.
Speaker 6: And I think that like it's just so easy to
Speaker 6: become like to get offended, and and that comes obviously
Speaker 6: there's absolutely moments where I feel like, no, that was
Speaker 6: your fault and like in my head and like figure
Speaker 6: it out. Stop stop making errors. And usually when that's
Speaker 6: my thoughts, I'm like, Bree, you're not good. This is
Speaker 6: not Brie at her best right now. And just I
Speaker 6: guess finding that like humility of like no, this is
Speaker 6: it's a collaborative thing, and it's my job to make
Speaker 6: them feel good and in rhythm. And if they don't
Speaker 6: feel in rhythm, then I need to do something different.
Speaker 6: It's not I don't know. I think that's the biggest
Speaker 6: thing that mindset.
Speaker 2: And you're really good at that, I think, and you
Speaker 2: come from the way you say it's in a way
Speaker 2: that we understand that, like you're trying to like, find
Speaker 2: what we want, what we need, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: And that's through every play. I think I get a
Speaker 2: lot from most letters. Most setters aren't at like talking
Speaker 2: to communicative that she is. And when she wants that connection,
Speaker 2: she's like, hey, what do you need.
Speaker 1: That a little harder? Okay, little higher those little bachelors.
Speaker 2: Let me know and we understand all that kind of
Speaker 2: It's such a good It's it's great to have that
Speaker 2: in the cetter as an attacker.
Speaker 1: Honestly, that's good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that feedback loop is so important.
Speaker 1: So any expectations for the season or any personal goals
Speaker 1: that you have for yourself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 6: My personal goal is I want to like help this
Speaker 6: team as much as I possibly can and be the
Speaker 6: best for the team that I am capable of being.
Speaker 4: And that is such a broad but it is. It's
Speaker 4: so many things.
Speaker 6: It's like it's on off court, buying into everything we're doing,
Speaker 6: systems and structure and game and schedule, all the things
Speaker 6: like how can bree I want to look back and
Speaker 6: be like, man, I gave my like the best effort I.
Speaker 4: Could to this team for this time. I obviously love winning,
Speaker 4: so that'd be great to do a lot of that.
Speaker 6: I also love, like, I feel like there's quite a
Speaker 6: few girls on this team that are still like fresh
Speaker 6: in their careers, and I love the thought of hopefully
Speaker 6: helping them take like that next step forward. Probably doesn't
Speaker 6: look like me like helping them, Oh here's how you
Speaker 6: you know, do this or that. That's not all what
Speaker 6: I'm saying, but just like being a part of that
Speaker 6: journey of I'm like, oh, I'd be so cool if
Speaker 6: one of them looked back and was like, oh, that
Speaker 6: season like playing with Brie, that I felt like I
Speaker 6: really took a.
Speaker 4: Step forward in my you know, who I was as
Speaker 4: a player. I think about that a lot.
Speaker 6: So that's probably on the forefront of my mind to
Speaker 6: and just being like, I don't know, we're humans and
Speaker 6: I'm married, my husband's here. We have like a space
Speaker 6: to like host and I want to be like a
Speaker 6: I don't know, if someone's in trouble that they want
Speaker 6: to be around us too. That's like always important to me.
Speaker 6: So that's so nice that he's there.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, wow, he's American, so it's really ideal for us.
Speaker 4: He's home.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, wait, that's amazing, well cool, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 5: you guys. I'm kind of jealous. You guys get to
Speaker 5: be on the same team together.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're in a good situation.
Speaker 5: Yeah, hey whatever. Well, okay, so our updated standings then
Speaker 5: of the league right now put Salt Lake in first.
Speaker 5: Then you guys, you guys got knocked off the top
Speaker 5: as Nebraska Atlanta and we're still holding it down.
Speaker 4: But.
Speaker 1: Down down.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're holding it down at the bottom. But watch
Speaker 5: out because we are climbing. Okay, believe you and Cat
Speaker 5: and Kat owes me a nice dinner because we didn't
Speaker 5: make it in the first episode. We made it that
Speaker 5: in the first episode. It's fine, Kat was talking. Sorry, bleep,
Speaker 5: it's fine, it's fine, all right, this has been serving pancakes.
Speaker 5: I'm Mattie Rischel, and I'm Kat Bell and I'm Bret
Speaker 5: or Riley. And we'll catch you on the flip side. Okay, okay,
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, that was so fun talking with Free.
Speaker 1: She's so great. She's so cute too.
Speaker 5: She seems just like a really in tune teammate and
Speaker 5: like a great person to have on your team. She's
Speaker 5: very self aware. Yeah, I would say Breeze done a
Speaker 5: really good job.
Speaker 2: Bar is like also, can I help merging the gap
Speaker 2: between like coaching and like the players and stuff. You know,
Speaker 2: Brie is a fighter, like she's the one of the
Speaker 2: rest going to talk to them now one and also
Speaker 2: like you know, she's the one that's asking the right
Speaker 2: questions when it comes to like whatever systems are running
Speaker 2: and offensive were running. So she's a great leader and
Speaker 2: a great tomate to have definitely the season.
Speaker 5: So yeah, you guys are lucky to have her. All right,
Speaker 5: do you want to like pivot into something more serious?
Speaker 5: Let's just go.
Speaker 1: Ahead and get into it.
Speaker 2: Since since we go in here, I think it's funny,
Speaker 2: how like, let's let's talk about this Texas showdown.
Speaker 5: Okay, shown at the Spurs Stadium.
Speaker 2: First of all, when the lights went out and they
Speaker 2: had that QR code that had all the lights, that
Speaker 2: was that was cool.
Speaker 5: Actually, I was like looking around, like, whoa, I feel
Speaker 5: like I'm out an NBA game right now. I'm for real.
Speaker 5: I had a lot of fans too, I.
Speaker 2: Know, surprisingly, especially with the snowstorm kind of coming and
Speaker 2: hitting us too. Like people, they showed up and showed
Speaker 2: out for us, but we didn't show up and show
Speaker 2: out for the people.
Speaker 5: That's okay, but everyone was like screaming my name at
Speaker 5: the end, and then I was like, wait, they're all
Speaker 5: screaming for Maddie's skinner. Yeah, everyone's just like Maddie, Maddie,
Speaker 5: And I'm like, I gotta leave this building.
Speaker 1: Living in a false reality.
Speaker 5: Oh dang. Okay, but like, honestly, it was a good
Speaker 5: way on.
Speaker 1: Let me get this off.
Speaker 2: I think it's so because you know, you guys if
Speaker 2: you guys don't know you guys listening and tuning in.
Speaker 2: You know, when you're at the hotel at end of
Speaker 2: the day, we're all friends, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So you're at the hotel, you're gonna go to your
Speaker 2: friend's room on different team.
Speaker 1: To talk to them. I me different coffee whatever.
Speaker 2: And like, obviously I have close relationships with JT, Micah,
Speaker 2: Jess music as well me in your team. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: obviously Maddie. Anyway, so you know I always like go
Speaker 2: hang out with them. Well, we're all to get the
Speaker 2: hotels together, so I end up going to their room.
Speaker 2: And what's funny, it's like we're all just kind of
Speaker 2: sitting sitting around catching up and they're.
Speaker 1: Like, okay, well, like now let's talk about how we
Speaker 1: suck and all started laughing. We just think we don't suck.
Speaker 5: We just we needed to build.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we all start laughing.
Speaker 2: And then somehow it got like onto something else and
Speaker 2: I came back and I was like, no, let's go
Speaker 2: back to how much we.
Speaker 1: Go and move y'all yest tomorrow, and we're all they're
Speaker 1: all like this, like you know, and we lost.
Speaker 5: There we go see you talking that and okay, I
Speaker 5: don't know. We're just gonna throw it back to the
Speaker 5: first episode that we ever did of this where Kat
Speaker 5: and I did make a bet about this game. As
Speaker 5: we recall, we made a bet that Kat or I
Speaker 5: would have to buy the other one a nice dinner
Speaker 5: depending on who won that match. And so I'm looking
Speaker 5: to go to Nobu, I'm looking to go to Carbon.
Speaker 2: We call this even since I never got my three
Speaker 2: herd dollar tomahawk steak Maselo.
Speaker 5: You didn't earn it.
Speaker 1: My god, We're not going to call this even.
Speaker 5: I'll take the meal anyway. Okay, So I'm really thankful
Speaker 5: to Jordan for just popping her.
Speaker 1: Jordan had a game. She always him, My gosh, she
Speaker 1: played well.
Speaker 5: She's playing great.
Speaker 1: Really literally.
Speaker 2: I also say we had multiple conversations about how we're
Speaker 2: supposed to be blocking JT, and we did not do
Speaker 2: what we talked about.
Speaker 5: That's okay, because you know what, but he's so she's
Speaker 5: not one dimensional, you know, of course not well this this, this, this.
Speaker 2: Particular note that we did for some what's gonna at
Speaker 2: least help us, like at least try to survive and
Speaker 2: like bandage her a little bit better. And then after
Speaker 2: a while, definitely within that third set, it was just
Speaker 2: like one on one hole in the blog. One point,
Speaker 2: j T hit like ten foot line at least like
Speaker 2: five times in a row, and I was like, come on,
Speaker 2: sign out, next ball, next ball. But okay, that's the
Speaker 2: first time we got to run for our money. Bench
Speaker 2: versus bench bench.
Speaker 5: Oh our bench was killing it. Yeah, oh hell yeah.
Speaker 2: They were getting live, they were getting roundy. But we
Speaker 2: couldn't really celebrate the way we wanted to because we
Speaker 2: really got ahead.
Speaker 1: But it's fine. Practice is perfect.
Speaker 2: Next game, Next game, February seventh, Texas, show.
Speaker 5: What's your other? You have a game before that?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but we're talking about next game versus our next game. Yea,
Speaker 1: we have two next.
Speaker 2: Games where we see you. We are heading to salt
Speaker 2: Lake this week to play salt Lake at salt Lake.
Speaker 2: Back to the cold we go. We just left Madison
Speaker 2: this past week and we're on the road for the
Speaker 2: whole week. Then we're heading up to Nebraska right off
Speaker 2: Salt Lake.
Speaker 5: So, so, what do you guys feel like after this
Speaker 5: game against us that you need to do going forward?
Speaker 1: Gold flipping around Goldfish memory for sure. Like I said,
Speaker 1: there were a lot of things I think we were
Speaker 1: a little bit confused about from a scattering port until
Speaker 1: going into the match, and we didn't know that until
Speaker 1: after the match, which was bad on us. Obviously, no excuses.
Speaker 1: Houston did, y'all won? Y'all did? Y'all's big one.
Speaker 5: Can't wait for my meal.
Speaker 1: So definitely just being more on.
Speaker 2: The same page about what we were going on scattering
Speaker 2: port and I feel like Dopus memory. You know, we're
Speaker 2: such a really good team. We want to bring that
Speaker 2: fire and that grid that we have in the gym
Speaker 2: every day onto the floor.
Speaker 1: So that's like the number one thing. But what about you?
Speaker 1: How are you gonna Are you gonna ride this high
Speaker 1: all the way?
Speaker 5: This was good energy for us. I'm telling you, we
Speaker 5: really we needed this we I think that you know, okay, okay,
Speaker 5: the energy was shifted definitely from our first being zero
Speaker 5: and three is really challenging because you're like, okay, if
Speaker 5: we lose another one, now we're four in the hole
Speaker 5: and that's just tough. So I think that we were
Speaker 5: just like the energy has to change. We knew that
Speaker 5: going forward. But then also like executing our scout I
Speaker 5: think was huge, and that was something that we talked about.
Speaker 5: So I think just energy wise and execution wise, like
Speaker 5: we were pretty on. Everyone was very locked in. I
Speaker 5: would say, for that match, I think that's the most
Speaker 5: like focus and in tune and together that we've played
Speaker 5: so far. So I think we just have to build
Speaker 5: on that.
Speaker 2: Hey, I'll see it again ten times over. No One
Speaker 2: talks a lot about your Libero. Your Libero is very
Speaker 2: very good. She's doing well, she told around. She's new,
Speaker 2: this is her first year, so like, I'm super proud
Speaker 2: of her. And then we have our other D she's
Speaker 2: playing kind of like DS position that went in and
Speaker 2: like their energy shift I think was huge, huge for us,
Speaker 2: and so yeah, we just we need to ride this
Speaker 2: momentum wave hopefully and just continue building on what we have,
Speaker 2: so yeah, hopefully good things coming. But it definitely felt
Speaker 2: nice to get one under the belt because then you're like, Okay,
Speaker 2: we have something, we can do it, and then just
Speaker 2: keep stoking the fire you guys have coming up next
Speaker 2: we go to Atlanta tomorrow and then we're back here.
Speaker 1: That gym is sick. That Atlanta gym is sick.
Speaker 5: Atlanta gym. Yeah, it looks really cool. I think we
Speaker 5: have them. And then Madison, I want to say, okay,
Speaker 5: someone can fact check me on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's.
Speaker 5: Someone producers around. Do you do you prepare differently for
Speaker 5: away games versus home games?
Speaker 2: Yes, I think now I'm I'm not doing tunnel walks
Speaker 2: if I'm if I'm not in state, I should say,
Speaker 2: or at home.
Speaker 1: So packing is a little bit lighter for sure.
Speaker 2: Preparation As far as like going into the match, No,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm still even though like I'm on the bench,
Speaker 2: I'm still getting up in the morning, working out before
Speaker 2: the serving passed, going to serving pass, trying to tack
Speaker 2: at least thirty thirty walls plus in serving pass, and
Speaker 2: then just drunk in my rhythm. But Mom always says,
Speaker 2: make sure you stay ready. So we have to get ready,
Speaker 2: but stay ready to them to get ready, Yang than that.
Speaker 5: I got to get that tatted.
Speaker 1: It on your forehead.
Speaker 5: To get ready. I feel like I'm similar home or away.
Speaker 5: I just got to make sure I got to get
Speaker 5: a good meal and then maybe a napped if that's
Speaker 5: what my body demands. If not, I don't need it.
Speaker 5: Like it really depends on the day. We're at Atlanta
Speaker 5: on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: So we're both on the road, and then we meet
Speaker 1: you at Houston.
Speaker 5: Yes, and we have some tough competition because first of all,
Speaker 5: Atlanta's pretty good and Madison, Madison is killing it right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Also really sorry on a PELGANI ar Liberro from last year,
Speaker 5: who at Madison she got and Anna, we love you,
Speaker 5: we wish you Akati speed recovery, our hardest with you.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And then you guys have salt Lake, so they're they're
Speaker 5: doing their things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you see Haiti popped off this past week too.
Speaker 5: I know there's running that offense. They're they're gonna they're
Speaker 5: forced to be reckoned with. So I hope that you
Speaker 5: guys give it your best.
Speaker 1: Did you play them?
Speaker 5: We played them twice and we lost both times, So.
Speaker 1: We can learn to watch your video of What Not
Speaker 1: to Do? Got it?
Speaker 5: We only beat you, guys, and that sweep that one
Speaker 5: time at the Spurs Stadium in front of your home crowd.
Speaker 5: That's our only win.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, on the one win that you have the
Speaker 1: entire season. That's true. Okay, yeah, yeah?
Speaker 5: Did you like how it vote? Our next home game
Speaker 5: will be against you at home, and I'm so excited
Speaker 5: about that.
Speaker 2: And that's what we'll do, a Texas showdown, and that's
Speaker 2: when we're we where our Texas showed down on outfits.
Speaker 1: And then that's where I'm gonna stay. Am I staying
Speaker 1: with you?
Speaker 5: Yeah? You can sleep over whatever. Yeah, I gotta get
Speaker 5: some boots and maybe like a hat.
Speaker 1: Are you getting a hat? Because I have a hat.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: I saw your face lighted up and I was gonna
Speaker 1: wear a cowboy hat and your face weight.
Speaker 5: Oh are you cat in the hat?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be It's okay.
Speaker 2: We're gonna need a hat anyways, because we're gonna wear
Speaker 2: the hat at night anyway, So I should wear a hat.
Speaker 5: Okay, I gotta get a hat, a.
Speaker 1: Real cowboy hat, not like the fake one.
Speaker 5: Hey, Takoba's if you're listening to this please, you.
Speaker 1: Can't put in blap bla bla bla bae blate.
Speaker 5: I'm getting a spam.
Speaker 1: Call the bill collector.
Speaker 5: It's Takoba's. They're calling me. But anyway, we are excited
Speaker 5: about the remainder of the season, what we have coming up.
Speaker 5: Let us know what you want to see next and
Speaker 5: good luck this week you too, Love you so much.
Speaker 5: I love you, Catch you.
Speaker 1: Moms in back, Love you Battie, Love you Regina.
Speaker 5: We'll catch you on the flip side.
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Speaker 1: See you on the flip side.