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Utah Talons star Jadelyn Allchin on their AUSL championship, MVP of the Championship series + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 2: always have that. Jalonalchin joins us from the Utah Talents, UH,
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  Speaker 2: the leading hitter on the team this year, the MVP
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  Speaker 2: of the Championship series, and of course the Utah Talent
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  Speaker 2: their first year in Utah. One it all. Jalen, Welcome
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  Speaker 2: to the show.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, thank you for having.
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  Speaker 2: Me, appreciate you giving us some time. Has it sunk
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  Speaker 2: in yet that you guys are league champions? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it happened just this past weekend, and sometimes it takes
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  Speaker 2: a minute to really absorb the impact.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I'm still in the settling down environment
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  Speaker 4: right now. It's kind of crazy that it all happened.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like it happened so quickly, and now we
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  Speaker 4: kind of just dispersed and kind of go our own
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  Speaker 4: ways for a little bit. But it definitely was a
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  Speaker 4: great experience, and just being able to go back to
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  Speaker 4: back with the talents has been something that we kind
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  Speaker 4: of hoped for in the beginning of the season and
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  Speaker 4: then just worked our way through it and about what
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  Speaker 4: we wanted.
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  Speaker 2: So, you had a great year at the plate, but
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  Speaker 2: got even hotter in the Championship Series. Five hundred right
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  Speaker 2: in the Championship Series. So to what do you attribute that?
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  Speaker 2: Was it like just in a groove? Did you do
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  Speaker 2: extra study on the pitching matchups? Cause if you're hitting
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  Speaker 2: five hundred, you're well above the pace.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd say the night before the first game, I
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  Speaker 4: kind of sat down, and I want to say I
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  Speaker 4: spent an hour hour and a half just going through
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  Speaker 4: my whole year of film of my own apats and
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  Speaker 4: then going into the film of the pitchers that we
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  Speaker 4: were planning on facing in the next two to three games.
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  Speaker 4: So I kind of just sat there in the hotel
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  Speaker 4: room studying my own film and then going into the game.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like I always wanted to compete for another inning,
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  Speaker 4: compete for another pitch. So once it was over, I
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  Speaker 4: was like, wait, don't we have another game tomorrow?
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  Speaker 3: But no, like we won it all.
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  Speaker 4: So it was fun just keeping the momentum throughout the
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  Speaker 4: game and just building off of each.
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  Speaker 3: Other's energy too.
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  Speaker 2: You had some familiarity, if I'm not mistaken with Dunky,
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  Speaker 2: with your home field because of your time in the
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  Speaker 2: PAC twelve.
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  Speaker 4: Is that right?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: So I was able to play here previously both at
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  Speaker 4: University of Washington, and I didn't get the chance to
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  Speaker 4: come during my UCLA year.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I've visited here a.
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  Speaker 4: Few times from University of Washington, but being in a
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  Speaker 4: professional setting is a whole different world. And it was
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  Speaker 4: just the most amazing atmosphere and the fans showing up
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  Speaker 4: this year, it's been amazing.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean that's kind of what I was getting
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  Speaker 2: to here because we've for whatever reason today, we've talked
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  Speaker 2: a lot of professional women's sports. We've had you on,
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  Speaker 2: We've had a couple of your teammates on, we just
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  Speaker 2: had the GM of the NWSL team here in Utah.
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  Speaker 2: We've been talking a little WNBA, and obviously women's professional
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  Speaker 2: sports are finally getting some exposure, finally getting their due,
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  Speaker 2: finally getting a little bit more attention, and Athletes Unlimited
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  Speaker 2: is taking advantage of this. And you're in your second season,
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  Speaker 2: first year, obviously settled down at the arena here in Utah,
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  Speaker 2: but you've been part of this league and you've been
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  Speaker 2: part of the growth of a sport that I think
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  Speaker 2: is trying to capture some of this moment. And I
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  Speaker 2: just want to get your thoughts on kind of like
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  Speaker 2: the responsibility of that. You got to be a good player.
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  Speaker 2: You got to do the first thing first and go
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  Speaker 2: out and get hits and catch fly balls and all that,
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  Speaker 2: But it seems like everyone we talked to there's also
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  Speaker 2: a sort of extra homework where you've got to build
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  Speaker 2: this thing, and you got to be an ambassador in
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  Speaker 2: the community, and you've got to probably sign autographs in
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  Speaker 2: ways that maybe other players in other sports don't have
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  Speaker 2: to pay as much attention to. How do you view
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  Speaker 2: that you, how are you taking it in and what
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  Speaker 2: do you think the future looks like?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the future looks right from where we
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  Speaker 4: are right now. And the growth of it and just
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  Speaker 4: the growth that we've had from this year to this
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  Speaker 4: year or last year to this year has been exponential.
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  Speaker 3: I mean.
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  Speaker 4: Part of it it is signing autographs for until the
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  Speaker 4: last person gets the ball signed, and just staying afterwards.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes we're there for maybe up to an hour, just
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  Speaker 4: talking through and like getting to know the fan base
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  Speaker 4: and seeing frequent faces like oh, we came to the
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  Speaker 4: game last weekend, We'll be here again tomorrow. So just
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  Speaker 4: having that connection with our fans and just we're able
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  Speaker 4: to build our energy off of them too. When it
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  Speaker 4: comes down to the two strikes, like having the crowd
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  Speaker 4: get involved in that, and then at the end of
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  Speaker 4: the game, if we win, we get the crowd involved
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  Speaker 4: too and we do a U coach here with them.
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  Speaker 4: So I think it definitely is as much as we're
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  Speaker 4: buying into the growth of it, like we're also wanting
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  Speaker 4: to buy into our home, and being gracious enough to
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  Speaker 4: allow us to be here and like allow us to
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  Speaker 4: continue to grow in.
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  Speaker 3: This city has been amazing, and I think.
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  Speaker 4: We've had great feedback from both sides and just continuing
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  Speaker 4: to grow, like within our community and just being involved
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  Speaker 4: in our.
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  Speaker 3: Community, I feel like does take us a long way.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm just grateful for the opportunity and enjoy every
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  Speaker 4: second of like the autograph afterwards, and just being involved
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  Speaker 4: in that aspect.
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  Speaker 2: So when you guys were heading into the Championship series,
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  Speaker 2: we looked up what the rings looked like from the
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  Speaker 2: first championship and those are just pretty sweet hardware. It's
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  Speaker 2: a good looking championship ring. Do you know anything about
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  Speaker 2: the design on the second? Who gets to be involved?
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  Speaker 2: It usually takes like months and months for those things
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  Speaker 2: to actually get minted and handed out. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: when you're collecting a championship ring, that's like, that's the
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  Speaker 2: cherry on top of the championship cake. So do you
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  Speaker 2: know what those rings? That process is going to look like?
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  Speaker 4: Getting the rings this year, I really had no idea
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  Speaker 4: what it was going to look like. So getting them
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  Speaker 4: at Donkey was special within itself, but it was an.
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  Speaker 3: Absolute surprise to what they looked like.
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  Speaker 4: I know that our GM coach Lisa is involved in
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  Speaker 4: it and a lot some of our coaching staff, and
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  Speaker 4: then we also had one of our players, Sharpelassios.
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  Speaker 3: Get involved in the design of it.
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  Speaker 4: So I really don't know what it's going to look
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  Speaker 4: like next year, but I'm really excited for what's to
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  Speaker 4: come of it and what new says we might have
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  Speaker 4: in it, or what just the overall looks gonna be
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  Speaker 4: of it.
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  Speaker 2: So what's the what's the goal for you in this offseason?
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  Speaker 2: It's such a sprint of a season, it's so condensed,
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  Speaker 2: and you got a long time off as far as
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  Speaker 2: the AUSL goes. What do you want to improve on
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  Speaker 2: before next year? What's the main goal in that regard?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, thankfully I'm I'm involved with the All Star Cup
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  Speaker 4: this year, so I'll have one more month of softball
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  Speaker 4: until the end of August. After that, I think sticking
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  Speaker 4: to the training.
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  Speaker 3: That I do have.
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  Speaker 4: I live close enough to UCLA, so being able to
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  Speaker 4: kind of be close to coach Lisa in that aspect
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  Speaker 4: and just train with them, train with her individually and separately,
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  Speaker 4: and then I mean, hopefully more softball. I'm looking into
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  Speaker 4: potentially going into the international pool, so we'll see where
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  Speaker 4: that leads. I still got to do some hard work
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  Speaker 4: on that one. So I think just enjoying the time
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  Speaker 4: for a little bit of no softball, but knowing like
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  Speaker 4: when it's go time, it's go time.
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  Speaker 2: Jadlyn, congratulations on the success on the MVP of the
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  Speaker 2: Championship Series on such a great year, especially at the plate,
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  Speaker 2: and we hope we get a chance to talk to
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  Speaker 2: you before next season rolls around.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for your time, awesome, Thank you so much for
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  Speaker 4: having me.
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  Speaker 2: Jason Alchin is indeed the MVP of the Utah Talents
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  Speaker 2: Championship run and we'll be collecting another ring for back
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  Speaker 2: to back Utah Talents Championships, So congrats to her, big
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  Speaker 2: thanks her her teammates who joined us on the show today.