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Hannah Flippen on the Utah Talons, Inaugural season in Utah, Athletes Unlimited Softball League + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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Speaker 1: Your tune to The Sean O'Connell Show for the Murdoch
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Speaker 2: M all right, going a little bit off the beaten
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Speaker 2: path of what we usually talk about with NBA, NHL,
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Speaker 2: college football, etc.
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Speaker 1: Here on The Shan O'Connell Show, the Utah Talents Athletes
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Speaker 1: Unlimited Softball League are defending champions in this fledgling league,
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Speaker 1: this brand new league. Hannah Flipping happens to be one
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Speaker 1: of their best players, former ute, former PAC twelve Player
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Speaker 1: of the Year, former Defensive Player of the Year in
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Speaker 1: the PAC twelve and last year's Defensive Player of the
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Speaker 1: Year and Athletes Unlimited Softball League, and she's kind of
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Speaker 1: enough right now to talk to us ahead of the
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Speaker 1: Utah Talents beginning their season in early June. Opening day
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Speaker 1: is Tuesday, June ninth against the Rosemont Bandits. They play
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Speaker 1: at the University of Utah Dunkey Family Stadium.
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Speaker 3: Hannah Flippin', welcome to the show. How are you hi?
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Speaker 4: Thanks for having me. Super excited to talk about the
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Speaker 4: talents in the AUSL.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're excited.
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Speaker 1: I happen to also be involved with like a kind
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Speaker 1: of a startup professional athletics endeavor.
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Speaker 3: It's in the MMA space.
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Speaker 1: We're trying to compete with the UFC, and so I'm
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Speaker 1: really really fascinated with all of these like startup leagues.
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Speaker 1: And so if you don't mind me rewinding all the
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Speaker 1: way back to before the inaugural season and you know,
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Speaker 1: the phone calls, you're getting the sort of opportunity presented
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Speaker 1: to yourself when you're you find out that not only
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Speaker 1: is Athletes Unlimited going to have a team in Utah,
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Speaker 1: but they want you to play for Utah, a place
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Speaker 1: where obviously you're very familiar with the softball scene here
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Speaker 1: and you played your college ball here. Tell me what
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Speaker 1: that process was like for you, What was going through
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Speaker 1: your mind as this opportunity presented itself.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Athletes Unlimited has evolved over the last five or
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Speaker 4: six years now. I think this is the sixth year
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Speaker 4: that the business has been up and running. So we
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Speaker 4: started off as kind of like a fantasy softball league
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Speaker 4: where you played on a different team every weekend, and
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Speaker 4: the idea was for that league to be supplemental to
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Speaker 4: a traditional league. And unfortunately that time, at that time,
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Speaker 4: COVID had folded the NPSF, the National Profastage League, which
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Speaker 4: so there's just been a long tradition of the softball
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Speaker 4: league starting up and then folding because they don't have
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Speaker 4: the financial backing and the business side of things kind
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Speaker 4: of nailed down. And so now we're here some years
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Speaker 4: later and Athletes Unlimited as put together a traditional league
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Speaker 4: where we have sixteen six home locations, and that is
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Speaker 4: something that we've been missing for the last ten years
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Speaker 4: probably of some really solid foundation in a professional softball league.
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Speaker 4: So I'm so excited to have a traditional league back.
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Speaker 4: And then on top of that, for it to be
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Speaker 4: in Utah, it's just in my wildest rooms, I never
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Speaker 4: would have wrote this, and so for that to be
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Speaker 4: the true statement that's going to happen is I'm going
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Speaker 4: to be a Utah talent and play at my alma mater.
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Speaker 4: So grateful. I feel so lucky to not only play
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Speaker 4: in Utah, but be one of three alumni in the
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Speaker 4: league that's going to play at the alma mater. So
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Speaker 4: I'm like double lucky on top of lucky, and so
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Speaker 4: super excited for Salt Lake City to have a pro
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Speaker 4: softball team.
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Speaker 1: So women's athletics is obviously not only it's not only
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Speaker 1: a business on the rise, but participation for young girls.
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Speaker 1: I'm a father of three girls. Participation in all sports
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Speaker 1: is increasing for young women, and softball has had this
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Speaker 1: long standing sort of place as a great option for
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Speaker 1: women's participation. The women's College World Series gets really good
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Speaker 1: ratings now and a lot of hype and a lot
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Speaker 1: of attendance. I think they do a good job with
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Speaker 1: the broadcast and things like that. And you know, you've
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Speaker 1: seen the growth of your own sport, you've seen the
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Speaker 1: growth of other women's sports, especially in kind of the
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Speaker 1: pop culture and business space. Do you feel like softball
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Speaker 1: can carve out a nice sustainable spot in the professional
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Speaker 1: ranks now the same way they have with college sport.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely, I think that we will do that. We were,
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Speaker 4: we are going to carve our spot, just like women's
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Speaker 4: basketball has, just like women's soccer has. I mean, they
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Speaker 4: are kind of the models for us and the inspiration
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Speaker 4: for us. Like they did it, we can do it too.
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Speaker 4: So to have those women fight for their sport just
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Speaker 4: like we're going to, it's been a real inspiration and
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Speaker 4: just like a model of hope almost that we can
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Speaker 4: be that and we are trending in the right direction.
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Speaker 4: You're right, the women's called College World Series and the
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Speaker 4: college game in general is booming right now, and so
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Speaker 4: we're definitely trying to steal a little bit of that
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Speaker 4: thunder and take those big names out of that lead
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Speaker 4: once they come out of college into our league and
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Speaker 4: hope continue, hope we continue to grow and kind of
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Speaker 4: roll off the college season's back and create some of
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Speaker 4: that momentum in our own league, which we saw last
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Speaker 4: year tenfold. Like are we had sold out stadiums ever
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Speaker 4: where we went. It was truly truly amazing. I've never
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Speaker 4: played in the professional league that had that many fans
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Speaker 4: consistently all summer long. So I'm super excited for what
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Speaker 4: the summer is going to look like and how much
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Speaker 4: it's going to be showing growth from last year to
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Speaker 4: this year.
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Speaker 1: How much do you appreciate, you know, playing the role
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Speaker 1: of pioneer. There's people who are just like, look, just
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Speaker 1: give me a chance to play the game.
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Speaker 3: I love the sport, I love.
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Speaker 1: You're obviously willing to come talk about it, so I
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Speaker 1: imagine you don't mind being a mouthpiece, right, But like,
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Speaker 1: how important is the pioneer role for you, to the
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Speaker 1: trailblazer in this sport for women who have Like like
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Speaker 1: you mentioned, there's been plenty of attempts to make something
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Speaker 1: like this work long term for softball and for other
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Speaker 1: women's sports, but now feels like the time where it'll
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Speaker 1: actually work, if that makes sense. How important is that
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Speaker 1: pioneer role for you?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean getting into it, never thought I would
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Speaker 4: be a pioneer. I was just wanted to be wanted
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Speaker 4: to keep playing, And so I think now I'm in
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Speaker 4: a place where when I got into the league, I
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Speaker 4: was like, oh, I'm playing to grow the sport. I'm
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Speaker 4: playing to grow the sport, and didn't really know what
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Speaker 4: that meant. And to where I am now as a
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Speaker 4: pioneer as we're moving this league forward, I can truly
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Speaker 4: say that like I am playing to grow the sport
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Speaker 4: and grow the league. And when I was a young kid,
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Speaker 4: I wasn't looking up to softball players. I was looking
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Speaker 4: up to MLB players. The San Diego Padres were my
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Speaker 4: favorite team. And so now to be a team that
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Speaker 4: this young generation can look up to and dream to
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Speaker 4: be exactly what we are is so exciting and I
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Speaker 4: almost wish that I can be a little kid again
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Speaker 4: and go to all these pro softball games because I
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Speaker 4: am such a fan of the sport, and so to
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Speaker 4: have this be a dream for athletes now is I
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Speaker 4: think the most important part and the coolest part about
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Speaker 4: it is that these little girls have a dream to
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Speaker 4: be pro softball players. They don't have to dream to
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Speaker 4: be MLB baseball players. They can be pro softball players.
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Speaker 4: So I think that's really special. And being a pioneer
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Speaker 4: of the league is just kind of fallen into place.
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Speaker 4: It's nothing that I sought out to do, but I
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Speaker 4: just wanted to play softball for as long as I can,
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Speaker 4: and this is where it's led me, and I'm so
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Speaker 4: I'm grateful and I'm happy to be a pioneer of
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Speaker 4: this league because I truly believe in it, and I
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Speaker 4: believe that all little girls and little athletes should have
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Speaker 4: the dream to play pro softball.
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Speaker 1: There was a time in my life where I was
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Speaker 1: a professional fighter and when I told my parents I
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Speaker 1: was going to pursue this thing that the first time
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Speaker 1: I did it was going to pay me one hundred
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Speaker 1: dollars to go get punched in the face.
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Speaker 3: My parents were just like, what are you doing?
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Speaker 1: But my parents were never all American softball players.
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Speaker 3: Your mom was what is.
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Speaker 1: Your fam What was the conversation with your family like
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Speaker 1: when you're like, yeah, I'm going to spend a significant
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Speaker 1: amount of time and effort on pro softball, which didn't
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Speaker 1: have an obvious and viable path when you started.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think that they saw me as
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Speaker 4: a young athlete, and they saw how much I loved softball,
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Speaker 4: and so thankfully I have the best parents and the
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Speaker 4: best support system in the world to where they're like, heck, yeah, play,
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Speaker 4: we want to follow you, and we want you to
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Speaker 4: keep playing. And I joke that my mom lives vicariously
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Speaker 4: through me because because she was a softball player and
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Speaker 4: there was a pro league when she was around, but
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Speaker 4: it was nothing like this, And so for her to
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Speaker 4: see what we're doing now, I know that she's so
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Speaker 4: proud of where softball is now and so proud of
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Speaker 4: me to be a pioneer of the league. And it
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Speaker 4: is crazy when I tell people that aren't my family
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Speaker 4: that don't get it, They're like, you're a professional softball player.
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Speaker 4: I didn't know that was the thing. Well, so then
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Speaker 4: I educate them, and that's part of the pioneering, and
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Speaker 4: part of the storytelling is trying to get the word
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Speaker 4: out that there's professional softball and it is a real
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Speaker 4: career path. It is a real dream that people can have.
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Speaker 4: But if you're around long enough, you get it and
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Speaker 4: you see it and you're like, totally this makes sense.
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Speaker 4: But if you're just new here, then get on board
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Speaker 4: because we're going fast and we're going far and it's
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Speaker 4: going to be really exciting to watch. So yes, super
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Speaker 4: grateful to have awesome parents that have never doubted this
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Speaker 4: dream of line, that have just continued to support me
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Speaker 4: all the way through.
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Speaker 1: Anna Flipping is our guest right now on the Sean
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Speaker 1: O'Connell show, former Utah Softball all everything infielder and now
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Speaker 1: she's with the Utah Talons, are all very own professional
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Speaker 1: softball team here. Their first game is Tuesday, June ninth,
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Speaker 1: up there at the Dunky Family Stadium on the campus
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Speaker 1: of the University of Utah, and as Hannah mentioned, the
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Speaker 1: same place she played her college ball. She's playing as
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Speaker 1: a pro, which is really cool and really unique. Going
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Speaker 1: back to the College conversation, we talk a lot of
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Speaker 1: Utes where the home of the Utes on this station,
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Speaker 1: we talk a lot about college sports, and as you
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Speaker 1: are well aware, the landscape has changed very, very drastically
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Speaker 1: in all college sports, and we focus heavily on the
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Speaker 1: revenue producing stuff, but even in softball, if you're a
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Speaker 1: top flight player now in college softball, that comes with money. Now,
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Speaker 1: you didn't graduate long enough ago to be like, the
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Speaker 1: folks in my generation are just like, oh man, we
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Speaker 1: were there one hundred years ago, and so none of
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Speaker 1: this was even a possibility. You finished at the University
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Speaker 1: of You talked like not so long before. These conversations
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Speaker 1: about paying athletes started in earnest and people like you
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Speaker 1: are now making money even in college softball, and it
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Speaker 1: doesn't have to be millions of dollars to make it relevant,
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Speaker 1: because the life of a college athlete is not always
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Speaker 1: super glamorous when you're just on scholarship. So I wanted
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Speaker 1: to get your thoughts on how you've seen the college
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Speaker 1: game change since you left.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's crazy, I don't We could sit here and
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Speaker 4: talk hours about how the college game has changed. That
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Speaker 4: I do get asked the question because I missed that
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Speaker 4: window of like, well, what would you do if you
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Speaker 4: got offered X amount of dollars? And I just I
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Speaker 4: can't even imagine being a college athlete right now because
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Speaker 4: I loved my time at You Talk so much, and
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Speaker 4: I loved my coaching staff and my teammates that I
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Speaker 4: don't know if there was a dollar sign put in
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Speaker 4: front of me, if I would jump ship or not.
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Speaker 4: But that's something that kids are having to make that
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Speaker 4: decision on and sometimes it's life changing money, but I
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Speaker 4: don't know, it's it's a totally different world, and I
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Speaker 4: feel for the college athletes that are trying to make
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Speaker 4: the best decisions for themselves and do what they can.
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Speaker 4: But it is crazy times and I'm happy to be
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Speaker 4: out of it and happy that I don't have to
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Speaker 4: make those decisions. But at the same time, I'm so
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Speaker 4: grateful for the experience that I had. And I think
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Speaker 4: any time you can go play college a college sport
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Speaker 4: at any level, regardless of if you're making money, if
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Speaker 4: you're a walk on, it is such an unreal experience
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Speaker 4: and I think everybody should go and find their spot
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Speaker 4: and find their home and play college sports because it
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Speaker 4: really does change your life and help you grow as
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Speaker 4: a human. And at the end of the day, like
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Speaker 4: I think college sports are like what shapes my life
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Speaker 4: and what teaches me life lessons. I always say, like,
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Speaker 4: I have no idea how people learn things without sports,
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Speaker 4: Like how do you learn something if you don't have teammates,
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Speaker 4: And so I'm so grateful for my experience and wouldn't
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Speaker 4: change it for the world.
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Speaker 1: When I was trying to be a professional fighter, I
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Speaker 1: always had a day job. Now my day job was
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Speaker 1: this was in sports media, but professional softball is not
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Speaker 1: yet a lucrative and glamorous endeavor.
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Speaker 3: Do you have a day job.
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Speaker 4: I don't this year, actually last year I did. I
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Speaker 4: had a part time job as a neuropsychologist or sorry,
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Speaker 4: not a neuropsychologist, a neurotechnician for a neuropsychologist, which is
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Speaker 4: a lot of fancy words just to say that I
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Speaker 4: helped a doctor test patients coming in with memory loss,
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Speaker 4: brain injuries, Alzheimer's dementia, things like that. So that was
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Speaker 4: my part time job. And I was working for a
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Speaker 4: teammate's mom who owned the practice. And so it's all
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Speaker 4: about connections. But a lot of the athletes in our
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Speaker 4: league either coach in the collegiate level or give lessons
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Speaker 4: or coach high school teams, and so we just kind
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Speaker 4: of all find the ways to make bands meet and
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Speaker 4: get to continue living this stream that we all want
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Speaker 4: so badly.
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Speaker 1: That sounds like a fascinating part time job you had.
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Speaker 1: Was that your field of study in school?
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Speaker 4: It was I studied psychology and family studies in school.
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Speaker 4: I thought it was going to be a teacher, an
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Speaker 4: elementary school teacher coming out of school. It's what my
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Speaker 4: mom did. I'm really passionate about teaching and about kids
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Speaker 4: and youth, and so that's kind of where my college
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Speaker 4: studies were, and so psychology not too far off. And
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Speaker 4: it is really interesting. You meet so many different people,
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Speaker 4: so many walks of life that come in and they
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Speaker 4: are they're just there to get help and try and
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Speaker 4: figure out how they can make their lives better. And
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Speaker 4: it's it's been really fun and really humbling to be
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Speaker 4: in an office with four head lights from nine to five.
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Speaker 4: And it's a lot different than being out of the
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Speaker 4: softball field. So I appreciate the experience.
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Speaker 1: What is the what is the Utah Talent's practice schedule? Like,
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Speaker 1: give us give me a sense of just how much
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Speaker 1: of this how much of your life this pursuit is
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Speaker 1: consuming right now with practice and you know, BP and
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Speaker 1: all these things.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the pro sooffall world only happens kind of over
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Speaker 4: the summer right now because we're such a short season
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Speaker 4: because they can't support us year round financially, and so
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Speaker 4: a lot of the training and the off season is
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Speaker 4: individual and so I'm my base. My home base is
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Speaker 4: in Tucson right now. I go work out at the
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Speaker 4: University of Arizona. Thankfully they let me kind of tag
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Speaker 4: along to some of their things and work out in
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Speaker 4: the weight room there. So for about nine months of
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Speaker 4: the year, everybody is kind of on their own, or
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Speaker 4: if they live around people in our leagues, then they
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Speaker 4: kind of train together. But the real grind happens when
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Speaker 4: we get together. Starting now, for the next ten days,
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Speaker 4: we're in Vero Beach, Florida. We're at the Jackie Robinson
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Speaker 4: Training Center, and we're going to do two days. We're
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Speaker 4: hitting in the morning, hitting on the fields, and evenings
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Speaker 4: doing weight training in between having team meetings and so
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Speaker 4: these next ten days are really where we're going to
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Speaker 4: try and come together as a team and bond and
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Speaker 4: gel so that we can and start our run to
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Speaker 4: winning another championship.
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Speaker 1: How well do you know Cindy Baum alone, She's going
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Speaker 1: to be our guest at about noon, So at about
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Speaker 1: fifteen minutes, the new Utah Talents head coach, How well
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Speaker 1: do you know her already?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Coach Bear. I have a good relationship with her.
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Speaker 4: She's coached a couple of the USA women's softball teams
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Speaker 4: that I've been on, and I've been fortunate enough to
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Speaker 4: go out to UCF where she coaches now and works
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Speaker 4: some camps with her, and so I have a good
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Speaker 4: relationship with her, and I think she's great. I think
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Speaker 4: she's exactly what the Talents made this year, somebody who
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Speaker 4: coaches at a high level already and just is intelligent
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Speaker 4: and all facets of the game. She was a pitcher
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Speaker 4: who also hit, and so she kind of can de
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Speaker 4: bertel into both sides of the game and just is
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Speaker 4: a really mature coach as far as what she asks
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Speaker 4: from her current team, and so I think she's going
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Speaker 4: to transition really well into the pro side. A lot
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Speaker 4: of the coaches kind of struggle with like, well, it's
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Speaker 4: professional softball now, and I don't want to treat them
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Speaker 4: like kids. I don't want to treat them like my team.
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Speaker 4: But there's a fine line between how do we treat
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Speaker 4: them like professionals, but still be able to coach them,
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Speaker 4: because that's something that a lot of players in our
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Speaker 4: league are looking for because we trained so individually for
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Speaker 4: nine months out of the year, We're looking for somebody
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Speaker 4: to come in and say, hey, you can do that better,
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Speaker 4: or hey, here's what I'm seeing. Try this out. And
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Speaker 4: so I think they try and walk that fine line
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Speaker 4: of not stepping on our toes because we are professionals,
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Speaker 4: because we are adults, but kind of dipping our toe
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Speaker 4: into we still want to be developed. And so I
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Speaker 4: think Coach Bear is going to really walk that line perfectly,
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Speaker 4: and I'm excited to spend a whole summer with us.
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Speaker 1: We're going we might have a problem because we already
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Speaker 1: there's now two coach Bears in the professional ranks here
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Speaker 1: in the state of Utah, the Utah Mammoth Head Coach.
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Speaker 3: His nickname is Bear Bear Tourney.
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Speaker 4: Wow, it's perfect. It's like it's meant to be.
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Speaker 3: So we got two Bears, this is going to be.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to only you know what, only one
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Speaker 1: gets to keep the nickname. We're gonna have a competition
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Speaker 1: between the two and we'll figure out who.
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Speaker 3: Gets to keep the nickname.
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Speaker 4: I love it. I love it.
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Speaker 1: Before I let you go, what about your own individual
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Speaker 1: goals for the season. What do you have in your
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Speaker 1: mind that you want to accomplish this year?
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Speaker 4: Yeah? I mean always in my head, the team comes first, right.
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Speaker 4: I want to win back to back, back to back
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Speaker 4: championships with this team. I think it'd be really cool.
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Speaker 4: We've already cemented ourselves in the history books as being
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Speaker 4: the first team to do it, and so why not
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Speaker 4: continue to do it and continue to put our name
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Speaker 4: in the history books. So back to back champions But individually,
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Speaker 4: I just I want to be the best shortstop in
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Speaker 4: the league, even I don't even know if that's what
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Speaker 4: position I'm going to play. We have an even practice
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Speaker 4: one day as a team, but played shorts up last
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Speaker 4: year for the talent. So just want to be the
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Speaker 4: best player I can for my team. And I also
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Speaker 4: have been like putting my own tangible or like accountable
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Speaker 4: goals in the future. I said, I want to lead
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Speaker 4: the league in doubles this year, And that Dunky Family
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Speaker 4: Football Stadium's got some pretty good gaps in it, and
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Speaker 4: so I think I got a good shot at that.
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Speaker 1: Little home field advantage because you know this field better
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Speaker 1: than anyone else in the league, probably exactly.
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Speaker 4: And it's so fun because the field is so big
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Speaker 4: and so there's plenty of places to get some doubles,
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Speaker 4: and so I'm excited to play at home.
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Speaker 1: Well, Hannah, very much appreciate you giving us your time today.
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Speaker 1: Good luck with the camp, good luck with the upcoming opener.
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Speaker 3: You know what I like. I said, I got three daughters.
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Speaker 1: There's no reason I shouldn't be out there Tuesday, June
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Speaker 1: ninth against the Rosemont Bandits to support former utes like
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Speaker 1: Hannah Flipping and of course the defending champions, the Utah Talents.
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Speaker 3: Thanks again for joining us, Hannah, have a good season.
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Speaker 4: Thank you to you guys.
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Speaker 3: Do ninth Hannah Flippin'. Maybe your shortstop.
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Speaker 1: Maybe she'll play second, maybe she'll play third base, whatever
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Speaker 1: you probably want to keep her where. She was the
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Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Year, PAC twelve Player of the Year.
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Speaker 1: She is an incredible softball player. A former ute,