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Frozen Four bonus episode: An interview with Patty Kaz winner Casey O'Brien of Wisconsin · The PodKaz: USCHO Women's Hockey

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  Speaker 1: Usccho dot com podcast is back here in Minneapolis at
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  Speaker 1: the Women's Frozen four with Casey O'Brien, the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five winner of the pattycasm My Award, Todd Bluski, and
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  Speaker 1: Nicole Hasey Here, Casey, can you just put this in
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  Speaker 1: the words real quick for us what winning this award
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  Speaker 1: means to you?
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  Speaker 2: It's really difficult. I mean, this is one of those
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  Speaker 2: things you dream of and you know, to actually be
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  Speaker 2: here today and hear my name was a surreal feeling.
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  Speaker 2: I do think it's more of representation of you know,
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  Speaker 2: like the whole team in the whole season. But I'm
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  Speaker 2: extremely honored to be named the recipient.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to ask you to repeat what you said
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  Speaker 3: in the media scrim about the things you have in
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  Speaker 3: your closet and what and how you've been looking ahead
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  Speaker 3: to what you could accomplish in your career.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So ever since I was younger, my closet at home,
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  Speaker 2: I put up I printed out pictures and you know,
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  Speaker 2: tape them on the inside wall of the things that
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to accomplish, just so you know, every day
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  Speaker 2: in the morning get dress, I could kind of remind myself,
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  Speaker 2: like why I'm doing this and what I hope to achieve,
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  Speaker 2: and so some things in that closet included, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the Patty Cas an Olympic Gold National Championship, and I
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  Speaker 2: think you know, as of earlier, say, there's only two
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  Speaker 2: things left in there, and it was Olympics and the
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  Speaker 2: Patty Cas. So I'm excited to go home and take
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  Speaker 2: one of those down.
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  Speaker 4: Sarah Bauer, Jesse Vetterer, Megan Doug and Brianna Decker Andray Davienn,
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  Speaker 4: Casey O'Brien. That's a pretty good list of Badgers players
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  Speaker 4: that have won this award, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's surreal to just be in the same breath
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  Speaker 2: as them. They're legends and just it's an honor.
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  Speaker 3: You often talk about the wee before me and the team.
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  Speaker 3: Can you just kind of put in perspective sort of
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  Speaker 3: like what this means. I know that the team will
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  Speaker 3: take pride in this as well, and like what it
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  Speaker 3: means for you all to have been recognized for this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's obviously this is only a one person, you know,
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  Speaker 2: receiving this award, but it is a reflection of every
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  Speaker 2: single person, Like I would not have the season that
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  Speaker 2: I've had without my linemates, without you know, like the
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  Speaker 2: d out there without Naughty that every single person out there,
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  Speaker 2: and neither would anyone else Like everyone else who was
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  Speaker 2: recognized as a finalist, sim's kk leila, like it comes
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  Speaker 2: from everybody. And so I think, no matter who it
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  Speaker 2: was going to be today, the team was going to
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  Speaker 2: be proud and extremely happy. But at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day, you know, what we came here for was
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  Speaker 2: the Natty tomorrow. So that's what the focus is on.
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  Speaker 4: I was just gonna say, you've got a game to
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  Speaker 4: play tomorrow, and this all this coach tells you all
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  Speaker 4: the time that he hates distractions. You guys are sitting
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  Speaker 4: here and it's the ultimate distraction. But how do you
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  Speaker 4: kind of refocus get this badway? And maybe does the
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  Speaker 4: experience of last year being in this you know, ceremony
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  Speaker 4: help you with that to kind of know, Okay, here's
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  Speaker 4: what we have to de turn the page and get
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  Speaker 4: ready to play tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think having gone through it last year, it was,
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  Speaker 2: you know, kind of taught me how to manage my
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  Speaker 2: emotions a little bit more like I would say last
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  Speaker 2: year was one hundred percent focused on the Natty as well,
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  Speaker 2: but it is hard to you know, kind of separate
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  Speaker 2: the two when they're back to back days and so
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  Speaker 2: I'm super excited, but you know, most of my mind
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  Speaker 2: right now is telling me Natty, like, you got to
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  Speaker 2: focus in and I think we have our team activity
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  Speaker 2: after this to get ready for tomorrow. So I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the second I walk out here, like we'll
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  Speaker 2: leave the celebrating for another day and focus on what
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  Speaker 2: we got tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: And you had said you were in a situation where
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  Speaker 3: you felt like any of the three of you you
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  Speaker 3: would be happy with whoever took home this this whole word.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, whether it was one of the three of us,
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  Speaker 2: if Sam's got in there, naughty, whoever it was, like,
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  Speaker 2: I'd be extremely happy because they'd be deserving. I think
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  Speaker 2: so many players have had exceptional seasons and they might
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  Speaker 2: not have you know, Patty next to her name this year,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't think that takes away from the seasons
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  Speaker 2: that they have, and they had one of the best
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  Speaker 2: in the country. It's phenomenal and so this shouldn't take
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  Speaker 2: away from that at all.
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  Speaker 4: This was Scott's a team has just been so incredible
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  Speaker 4: throughout the season, with you know, one loss and two
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  Speaker 4: ties and just really seeming like it's you know, sticking
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  Speaker 4: to the plan, you know, not looking too far ahead. Well,
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  Speaker 4: here you are. You can't really look too far ahead
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  Speaker 4: at all anymore. You've got one game to know what's
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  Speaker 4: been this This team's I guess defining feature of how
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  Speaker 4: it stays in that moment.
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  Speaker 2: I think we all just have so much joy, Like
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  Speaker 2: we love each other, and so it's easy I think
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  Speaker 2: for some teams to kind of panic, you know, maybe think, oh, like,
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  Speaker 2: what's gonna happen when we started playing elimination games, Like
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  Speaker 2: we're just happy to be here with each other, and
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  Speaker 2: like I've talked about before, like when we're playing, when
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  Speaker 2: we're having fun, when we're playing Freeze, when we play
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  Speaker 2: our best and so just to have that happiness, the
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  Speaker 2: laughter in the locker room, like it keeps us you know,
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  Speaker 2: where our feet are, and I think that's what gives
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  Speaker 2: us the best results in the ice.
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  Speaker 3: Did you see mary An Picard come up playing paparazzi
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  Speaker 3: for you? She was ducking around all of the photography
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  Speaker 3: rator sorry when you got up here. I feel like
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  Speaker 3: that really shows that sort of like you guys are
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  Speaker 3: all just just friends and really happy for each other,
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  Speaker 3: and like that joy really comes through it, and so
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  Speaker 3: it was so much of what you do. But that
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  Speaker 3: made me laugh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she is the best. She's one of my best
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  Speaker 2: friends in the whole world. And you know, I was
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  Speaker 2: looking for her during that speech. She's kind of a
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  Speaker 2: calming presence. But I also know, like she's also one
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  Speaker 2: of my biggest fans, So I think that's something special
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  Speaker 2: about our team too. Is like I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: you guys saw one Pick one, the Jackie or the
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  Speaker 2: Jackie Robinson nomination, or you wouldn't have seen when we
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  Speaker 2: found out Naughty was Goalie of the Year. Just the
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  Speaker 2: reactions that we all have. It's insane, Like there's every
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  Speaker 2: single person is happy for the person next to them
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  Speaker 2: and it's a really cool environment. I'm not sure every.
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  Speaker 3: Team has a twenty some girl hidespod.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah literally, Yeah case so.
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  Speaker 4: Brian twenty twenty five Patty Kazmer Award winner, Congratulations, thank
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  Speaker 4: you for joining us.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you guys,