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The BIG LIFE: Melina Rebimbas on Transfers, Injuries & Finding Joy Again · The BIG LIFE

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  Welcome back to the big life podcast it's week eight and jayden and i are experiencing
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  this part of the season at very different places i'm currently playing and jayden
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  has been navigating an injury,
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  dude not funny but instead of doing the same game recap we always do we're going
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  to talk about what a week in college soccer looks like when you're playing and
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  when you're working towards getting back and then we're going to be bringing
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  on page's teammate melina rembimbas
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  we'll talk about her time at UNC, her move to Alabama, navigating injuries,
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  her experiences within the U.S.
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  National team, and what might come next with her. So do you want to start with
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  our roseblood thorn, and then we can go into the college week?
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  Let's do the thorn myself, bro.
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  I might want to do the thorn. Why? I'm just like, I don't know.
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  I just keep bringing myself down during games and like kind of hiding,
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  and I feel like that's a thorn, but it's not because of anyone else it's just
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  like it's something I can control and I just haven't been controlling it
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  I would say a rose is I've gotten 90s on all three of my exams nice that's good my bud
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  is our ranking it keeps going we are four right nice,
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  okay my rose.
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  I can play limited minutes so that's pretty cool I can play around 15 that's
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  all I'm cleared to play though right now My thorn is that I have freaking rehab.
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  And thorn is that I can play soon and I can help my teen out.
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  One word to describe your week.
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  This is the first word that came to mind. This is the first word.
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  Okay, go. Chad Maxick. Yes.
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  Oh, no one knows what that is. That was such a Gen Z turk.
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  Basically, I've been really lazy. And we also like, we were on an away trip
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  for five days. So I would generally play soccer, eat food and lay in my hotel bed.
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  The first word that came to my mind was fun, even though we lost two games. I had fun.
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  Me and my friend Allie, we were exploring. We were going everywhere.
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  We rented like scooters and we were just touring because we're at Ohio and Penn
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  State. So like we were just everywhere, like literally everywhere.
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  We were in, like, right outside downtown Ohio or Columbus.
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  Okay, what's been taking the most energy out of you?
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  Probably traveling, actually. That has been taking the most energy.
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  That is part of this. But, like, we...
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  We chartered to, who do we play first? A&M.
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  And then we took a five-hour bus ride to OU. That was miserable.
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  Loki's same. But we had our charter back from Penn State, and it was nice because
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  literally everyone had their own row. And I just slept and played Sudoku.
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  And the flight attendants were so chill. We just had to lock in for takeoff
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  and landing. But then after that, you could just lay down and do nothing.
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  And everybody was vibing on the plane. But definitely the bus from Ohio to Penn
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  State was slow-key horror. It was literally super cool.
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  Playing. Yeah. Well, I went to training one day, and I had no shin guards in,
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  and I had my earrings in. Which, if I'm on reserves, you don't have to do that.
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  I just go and do my rehab over in the corner. No one cares about me.
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  But then my trainer was like, you can try that.
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  You can do that, see how it feels. So I was going in, but I was scared the whole
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  time because I didn't have my shin guards on.
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  And our coach is like, you need shin guards, and you need your earrings.
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  Like everything's you like you're ready to play so like i was not tape nothing
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  like whatever and then i went in and i was like oh okay i'm still cooking like
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  so whatever but obviously it's different like you still have to get used to speed play but but,
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  that's my win was actually integrating back which is nice and i'm still dude
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  it's i don't know what's wrong with me but i still am getting frustrated with
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  the fact that i cannot play like but i'm happy that i can play so i'm trying
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  to take a little win but yeah.
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  We do play quality soccer we just the issue with my team is We cannot score.
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  We don't create chances.
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  So obviously, given a good team you're playing against, they're going to punish
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  you. Like, that's just how it goes.
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  And that's literally the definition of our season. It's like,
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  we do play quality soccer, so it's hard to, when you're in the game, it's like frustrating.
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  But from the outside, it's like, well, we don't create anything.
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  You're watching, like, I'm not dissing on no one on either any team.
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  Just, there's no, like, desire to, like, kill a team. Like, other teams have
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  that, and we just don't have that out there. So, like, I guess that's all I
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  really noticed is, like.
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  We don't create at all. Like when I am in, I definitely feel like I do a little
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  more because that's my specialty, which is just attacking, like never not defending.
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  So like, it's definitely like different watching my team up.
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  Struggle with things that I know I could help at. Okay, wait.
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  How do you stay connected to the team when your routine looks different for everyone else?
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  I mean, I feel like everyone has like a different routine, I feel like,
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  but our team culture is just so good.
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  I feel like even if I'm doing something different throughout the day,
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  like I am the last person in the locker room almost every day just because I
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  don't really, I just like to show up and then be ready to go.
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  Like I don't like to be sitting in the locker room waiting, you know,
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  chatting. I just get there and I'm like, all right, let's go.
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  But I feel like it doesn't really matter if I do that because we're still like
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  a team and we're still going to play together. Yeah, you're nice.
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  Okay, what's something you noticed
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  about Alabama's play this week that you couldn't fully see in the moment?
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  I would say like you talk about with your team how there's not really like a
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  drive to like score or whatever.
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  I feel like my team, we have, like, a drive to win. Like, I don't know how to
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  explain it. Like, even when we played Texas A&M, like, we didn't really play that well that game.
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  But we still managed to get a goal. Even when they had all the momentum and
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  everything, like, we just wanted to win more.
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  And, I mean, we have 11 wins right now and one loss. So, like,
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  we've found our ways to score. We've found our ways to win games that have been hard.
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  And I feel like sometimes, like, I don't really see that. But as I was on,
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  like, the sideline, I could see, like, I was on the sideline on some of the
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  goals that were scored. And I was like, wow, like, we want to score.
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  We want to win. Yeah, that's true.
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  And that speaks to why you guys have won so many games. Yes,
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  that is true. I saw that stat that one of your coaches posted.
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  Yeah. Most NCAA wins or whatever. Yeah, because I don't think I've played 12 games.
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  Talk about kind of like, you know, what is like a good day been looking like since you've been hurt?
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  Since more recently, we got him back, back to campus, because obviously,
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  I get hurt. I don't know if I'm
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  going to travel. They end up traveling everyone, so I did make the list.
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  But a good day for me would probably wake up being productive,
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  like productive as hell.
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  Like recently, I've been getting up really early. I've been trying to stay on
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  East Coast time so that I go to sleep really early, wake up really early.
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  Then I'd be like lift done early in the morning, going to film training,
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  whatever team issued stuff.
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  And then I would do rehab while team lifts so that I'm still making like time
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  and then class. But low-key is just like making sure I push everything out that
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  I have in my rehab because that's literally all I could do.
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  Like before I was able to train, all I could do was rehab and like every day
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  I would honestly cry because like I'm just frustrated with the fact that it's.
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  Like conference started and I got injured.
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  Like out of my look, like that would only happen to me.
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  So a good day is like just pushing myself in things that I don't,
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  like to do which is rehab and lift and being happy when I'm sad so okay what
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  part of your game feels like it's growing right now even if it isn't showing
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  up in your stats because it's hard to get stats especially as a six so
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  I feel like something that's growing is is how much I'm on our team we're very
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  we're we go direct and then we possess the ball,
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  I wouldn't say like we're like a clear direct team or a clear possession team
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  we're like kind of in the middle,
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  I want to get on the ball more I need to get on the ball more and I feel like
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  I'm just trying to figure out ways that I can and control it myself and it still
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  is taking time but I feel like.
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  I am doing better at it in practices and I'm really working towards that hopefully
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  in our next game against Ole Miss on Friday like I'll be able to be on the ball
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  more and be more effective but you can't really see that in the stats,
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  yeah like touches and stuff it's not it does not take on it,
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  yeah well next we have my teammate Melina coming in.
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  Okay, now we're bringing on someone I get to see every day, my Alabama teammate, Melina Rabimbis.
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  Melina is a senior who started her college career at UNC before coming to Bama,
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  and she's also been involved in the U.S.
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  Youth National Team, including the U-17 World Cup roster and some U-20 training
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  camps. Melina, thank you for coming on. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited.
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  Okay, to start off, I heard you transferred from North Carolina,
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  So what made you choose North Carolina originally and what were you expecting
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  the college soccer to be like?
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  Yeah, so originally I chose North Carolina because obviously the history,
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  everything is just so awesome. You go on campus and you get to just see so many
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  different unbelievable past players playing through that program.
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  And you're just like, I want to be that.
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  So when you go on a visit and you see all those faces in the locker room just
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  kind of hanging around campus, you're like, holy cow, this is something I could definitely be a part of.
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  And it's a once in a lifetime opportunity so getting to do that was definitely
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  really cool extremely grateful for my time there,
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  what I expected college soccer to be like was definitely not what it was I think
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  everyone tries to prepare you and it's like it's so much faster like you're
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  not going to be ready for it and you don't really know until you're in it
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  and you don't actually know how fast it is until you're in it luckily enough I got to
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  start in the ACC and then come to the SEC.
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  So I had a little bit of a buffer, but so it was definitely,
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  the SEC was definitely a little bit more tactical.
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  I just got to use a lot more of my technical skills. And then coming over to
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  the SEC was definitely a good prep for that.
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  I had the absolute time of my life. I mean, I think getting to play,
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  live out my dream of playing college soccer, an unbelievable program at an unbelievable
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  school was definitely an experience I always cherish.
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  Definitely like the speed of play, like you could not prepare for it.
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  I mean, you know, you live and you learn, right?
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  You get figured out. Yeah. What did you learn while you were there?
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  Like about soccer and like about yourself?
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  I think I went through a lot more self-growth my freshman fall being there.
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  I had a lot of great role models that were seniors when I was a freshman who
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  just kind of showed me what I wanted to become and how I could get there.
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  So I think being able to learn from them, to take from them,
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  and also my coaching staff obviously get to learn a lot from Anson's experiences and Damon's as well.
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  I think that's probably what I took away the most. Their experiences,
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  how I can apply them to my life on and off the field, I think is what I took away the most.
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  And also the relationships. I think I've met a lot of really cool people that
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  I still keep in contact with just like for life things that you never know when
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  you may need them and you never know when they can update you on their lives
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  or when you can update them on your lives.
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  And just to share that experience because we did go through a lot that year
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  there. So I think that's something that I always take away.
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  Yeah. When did you start like with those awesome like experiences that you had there?
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  When did you start experiencing or like feeling like you needed change or like
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  there was a you needed to change schools I think towards the end of the year
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  I think I was just looking at my future and what,
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  I wanted myself to kind of experience on and off the field I think on the field
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  they had every tool I needed to become what I wanted to become but I kind of
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  wanted that off the field experience as well in a sense of being able to grow as a person
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  and a player at the same time I just felt like I wasn't really going to get that there.
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  Towards the end of the year when I just did a lot of self-reflecting on how
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  I wanted to grow and who I wanted to become.
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  I think me and my parents kind of decided that it wasn't the place for me to
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  be able to grow off the field.
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  In the speech world because that's what I want to do post-soccer and just kind
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  of like in life spiritually and like friendship wise besides soccer.
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  When you were looking for your next school then is that like some of the factors
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  that you put into your decision and like what made Alabama specifically the right fit?
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  Yeah so that's actually a question I did ask. How do your players grow off the
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  field when I went to the portal?
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  Obviously everyone's going to give this similar or the same spiel about on the field.
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  We're all going to work hard. We're all going to help develop you.
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  We're all going to do all these things.
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  Like every coach is going to say the same thing because they want to help you.
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  So my big question was always, what do you do to help your players off the fields?
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  Whether that was film, self-development, psychology related,
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  sports psych related, like mental health, things like that.
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  You could really tell what a program values. And I got the chance to talk to Wes pretty early on.
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  And I just was like, hey, what do you want to know? Like kind of I opened up
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  the floor for him to kind of ask me questions first. And he was the only one
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  that asked me what I like to do off the field.
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  And at that point, like that was literally what I was looking for,
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  everything off the field.
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  And with the combination of everything that he had to offer on the field,
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  with our support staff, with his coaching staff, the combination of those,
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  I think, was just the perfect fit for me.
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  Also, a lot of people talk about the vibe, the feeling that you get when you
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  step onto a college campus.
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  And if you've never had that feeling, you wouldn't think it exists.
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  And I literally was like, okay, it's not real. That feeling doesn't actually
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  happen. and then I came on to campus and I was like, oh my gosh,
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  this is what everyone was talking about.
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  Like I got the feeling, I got the vibe. I just knew that I was supposed to be
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  here. I didn't know what for, I didn't know why, but I knew that there was something
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  telling me to come here and that I was going to be able to make an impact.
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  Nice. Yeah. I also agree. Your coach is very like, he was a nice guy.
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  But for listeners who haven't been through it, what was the transfer process
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  like from your perspective so.
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  I decided to enter the portal after my season was over so after we had lost
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  i had no idea what i wanted so i talked to everybody i'm talking like i talked
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  to schools close to home so much california i talked down south like i talked
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  to in-state schools in north carolina,
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  and i just like did not know what i wanted at all process is pretty much you
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  enter and then as soon as you enter,
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  and you like click you can contact me they normally email you and say Hey, we're interested.
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  Do you either have a highlight tape or can we talk to you?
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  I was lucky enough where I they no one really asked you for a highlight tape
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  They just said hey, can we get on the phone?
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  So I just scheduled a bunch of calls Literally kid, you know,
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  I was if I wasn't in class I was on the phone with like different coaches just
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  trying to figure out what the heck I wanted That's when nil started getting
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  big and coaches were like, hey, is that important to you?
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  Because we haven't figured that out yet and I was like no tbh.
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  I just want to love soccer and,
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  And I just want to grow off the field. So those are my two things.
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  I want to fall in love with soccer again. And I want to grow off the field.
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  Moving into the next thing, we're going to talk about like kind of some injuries
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  you've had and how you've had to navigate like returning to play.
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  What injuries have you had and like when? What part of that experience do you
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  think that people watching games don't kind of get to see?
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  My first practice here in Alabama, I got hurt. I tore my ab off the bone.
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  All my injuries were overuse injuries. let's keep that in mind so the first
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  time I tore my ab I just tore like there's different layers to your ab I tore
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  the sheet that's the most like the one that's in the front so like the thing
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  that connects everything was the thing that I tore first,
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  then I also got hip surgery in March of 2024 so I was out basically from January 5th until,
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  September 1st was when I played in my first game and then at the end of my sophomore
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  year I found out my other hip was torn,
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  so I rehabbed that and then I didn't get surgery on I just did rehab and I was
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  fine this past spring I at some point in the fall season in the winter I managed
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  to tear my ab off the bone like my lower most,
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  off it it was not attached anymore.
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  So what do people not know about that injury when I play? Your abs are everything.
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  I legitimately could not take a deep breath. I could not use the bathroom.
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  I couldn't talk and walk. It was so painful.
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  So I spent all spring rehabbing that. And now I think I wouldn't change a singular
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  thing. I think I was meant to be able to take time away from.
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  Soccer in the spring to just figure out who I wanted to be what I thought was
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  important in my life so going back to the self-growth and all that that I could
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  do off the field at a program like this things like that I think I wish people
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  kind of knew and that there was like more,
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  awareness and also the rehab process like nobody really knows how to rehab an
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  app in a female I was literally gonna ask it's the hardest like what was the
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  hardest part like the physical rehab or like was it also,
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  the fact that you just couldn't play like you transferred and then I would say
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  the first time the hardest part was not being able to even practice with my
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  new team ever and being hurt I said I would definitely think that was the hardest part,
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  the second time I would say It's rehabbing the same thing twice.
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  And then not really knowing how to advocate for such an interesting injury that
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  there isn't a lot of research on.
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  I, luckily enough, met someone over the summer that's close.
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  Or I know her a little bit. But over the summer, I got to meet with her.
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  And I basically had to do C-section therapy, PT, like I had had to.
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  How has going through injury changed how you kind of approach trainings now
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  in recovery? What do you consider a good day?
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  I would say I have a lot of good days. I think this is being able to like say
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  I'm everything in my body is kind of fully healthy
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  again as healthy as it can be is really satisfying to like feel and to experience
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  or just to be able to say honestly I get to focus more on joy and being extremely present
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  with me being hurt a lot of my college career like in season this is the first
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  time where I really haven't been I get to do what I love after it's been taken
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  away from me twice now like.
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  I don't think there's many people get to say that and get to experience that.
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  So my focus a lot has been on just being super joyful and how can I spread joy.
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  And obviously there's a lot of pressure. I'm a senior. What's coming next?
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  I don't know. But I think because I've been through those things,
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  I don't necessarily feel that pressure because I'm so confident and content
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  in who I am and what I want to be that I get to just focus on how I can spread
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  joy and help my teammates.
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  And I think that's That's the best thing about where I am right now.
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  Yeah, especially with a lot of our pros going to the World Cup for the U20s,
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  I want to take it back to your U.S.
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  National team, youth national team experiences. So take us back to the first
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  time you got involved with the U.S., the national team, and what do you remember about that feeling?
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  Yeah, so I'd actually been called up my whole life, all that I can remember,
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  starting at literally the little baby age when you don't know the difference
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  between your right foot and your left foot.
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  It's literally that I was really lucky enough to get to experience kind of the
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  different ebbs and flows U.S. soccer's had.
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  When you get to the U-17 level, knowing that there's a little bit more something
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  on the line, there's a team on the line, there's an event on the line.
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  It's a little different. I got really lucky. I had a great coach. I had a great team.
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  We were as successful as we were because of the environment we created and how close we were.
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  It was right after covid so we like were speed speed dating pretty much to figure
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  out who we were putting on this team before like world cup qualifying and like
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  that was all within the same year just trying to figure it out and.
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  I like vividly remember i would be
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  at a camp for like 10 days seven to 10 days and i would have like four to six
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  weeks off and i'd be at another one like we were rapid firing these camps just
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  because like we needed to figure it out but i had so much fun and I like truly that's
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  just a testament to who our coach was and just what she prioritized
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  like I enjoyed going to camps and I enjoyed playing,
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  yeah well we've seen that you've been in with the U20 training camps in 2025
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  so what is different about going into national team environment now compared
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  to when you were younger I would say now at least in my camp experiences it was,
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  you were all in the club environment before and you pretty much got to control
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  the narrative you controlled how you did how you played when you were in your
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  club level and then when you would come to,
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  college like you then have to play in these different styles and then when you
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  come together you have so many different styles and I think that's the hardest part
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  of all of us being in college moving on to kind of like now where you're at
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  like it's senior year like it's your last year unless you decide to take a fifth year but like,
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  being a senior like and being healthy like how does this season feel different
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  for you and obviously we're doing pretty well too so yeah doing pretty damn good,
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  I think it feels different in the sense that I think we're having so much fun.
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  I think if you were to look at our locker room, I think if you were to look
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  at our bench, you would have no idea how good we are. And I don't even think
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  we scratched the surface on how good we can be.
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  I think the closest we've gotten was this weekend on Sunday.
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  I think that's the closest we've been all year to like really being ourselves.
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  And I just think that's so exciting because a lot of people say like their biggest
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  fear is like failing. But I genuinely think our team's biggest fear is how good we can be.
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  And I think that is so big to have that. So I think that's been the biggest change this year.
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  When you think about your whole college journey, what are you most proud of
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  that has nothing to do with stats? No goals, no assists. Like, what are you?
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  I think I'm most proud creating the culture in our locker room.
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  If I remove myself and I look at the way our team is, it's a bigger version of me and how I am.
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  Last thing to wrap it up, like, after you're done with this year, like,
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  do you want to go professional like do you want to have a fifth year like grad
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  school like what like what is after look like if you have any idea at all it's
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  a million dollar question i would love to i would love to go pro i would love
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  to live out my childhood dream of playing soccer,
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  and just kind of just showcase myself on a different platform and get to like
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  grow my platform i think would be the coolest thing but also at the same time
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  like there's no pressure on it.
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  If that's not what God has in store for me, I'm okay with it.
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  I'm so content with going to get my master's and being a speech therapist too.
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  I think I'm at the utmost peace knowing that it's out of my control and that
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  I can only control what I can control. It's my effort, my energy, and my energy.
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  That's all I can do. Hey, nice. If you could tell a freshman year Molina one
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  thing, what would you tell her?
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  I wouldn't change a thing, but I would probably tell her to stay the course,
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  and to not give up on herself and to not be afraid of herself
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  because I think I put a lot of pressure on what I wanted to be
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  and what I could be instead of just understanding that it was about the everyday
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  the little things every day it was about the people that I got to talk to the
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  things that I got to do and
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  the people I got in impact it wasn't about the stats the goals the minutes it's
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  never about that well thank you so much for being honest with us and sharing
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  your kind of experience and journey um it's been really cool to hear like
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  some things I probably wouldn't have asked you like as a teammate but like thank
• 23:41
  you so much for being on with us yeah of course yes yes thank you,
• 23:46
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