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Sarah Strong - BE Media Day Oct 21 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: All right, all right, Robin Ben, I'm here with the
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  Speaker 1: All American Sarah Strung.
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  Speaker 2: How is your summer?
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  Speaker 1: How'd you spend it getting ready for another season at Yukon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I spent.
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  Speaker 3: Where did I go? I went to Spain with my
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  Speaker 3: family vacation. I spent most of my my whole time
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  Speaker 3: a pretty much at home with Ice, my teammate. She
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  Speaker 3: came down and we worked out together. I just looked
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  Speaker 3: together with a lot of fun and yeah, just enjoying
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  Speaker 3: North Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: How did you get ready for the season in the
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  Speaker 1: weight room? I mean they spent you spend a lot
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  Speaker 1: of time in the weight room.
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  Speaker 2: When you're playing at Yukon, you look a little more chiseled.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, yeah, I feel like I've been taking
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  Speaker 3: care of my eating, focusing on what I put into
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  Speaker 3: my body, and just trying to lift every day and
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  Speaker 3: do whatever who he tells me to do.
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  Speaker 2: Are you in the best shape you've ever been in?
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  Speaker 3: I would say, I mean I feel good, So I
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  Speaker 3: mean I'm sure I can get in better shape. So
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited for that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, coach told us so lot a week
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  Speaker 1: ago before the exhibition game. He's excited every day of
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  Speaker 1: practice to see what you're going to do next.
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  Speaker 2: How do you feel you've gotten better?
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  Speaker 3: I would say I've guy more confident. Yeah, playing well
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  Speaker 3: I've played last year and having one year under my belt,
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I came back more confident because I
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  Speaker 3: know what to expect and what's expected of me.
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  Speaker 1: Sarah, you had great chemistry with Page. How do you
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  Speaker 1: develop that with some of your current teammates now?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just keep going out in practice. Communication. I feel
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  Speaker 3: like that's the biggest part for us, and just understanding
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  Speaker 3: what they like to do when they like to do it,
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  Speaker 3: and just pretty much talking through everything.
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  Speaker 1: Are you more vocal on the floor? I would say yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: are you?
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  Speaker 2: And I know your competitive is all get out.
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  Speaker 1: This team has a lot of depth though, and it
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  Speaker 1: sounds like the competition is there daily at practice.
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  Speaker 2: What's it like.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's great to have. I feel like competition makes
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  Speaker 3: everyone better, so just bes out the best of everyone.
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  Speaker 3: So it's just really great to see.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: I have to ask what changed after Tennessee to South
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  Speaker 1: Carolina because I had I interviewed coach for a coach
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  Speaker 1: a show. He was pretty down and then he comes
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  Speaker 1: up pregame on ESPN, says I feel good about this
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  Speaker 1: team in March, and then you go out and beat
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  Speaker 1: up on South Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: What changed?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, something everything just shifted kind of for us.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like our practices started picking up. We started
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  Speaker 3: really focusing on the little things that coaches were telling us.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know I noticed it because obviously everyone
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  Speaker 3: was down off of Tennessee. And then coach came in
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  Speaker 3: He's like, we're gonna win. We're gonna win on whatever
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  Speaker 3: whatever day you play on Thursday or whatever Sunday. So
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  Speaker 3: I was just like, oh wow, he's like seeing him confident,
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  Speaker 3: I feel like made us confident as well.
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  Speaker 2: So just yeah, that all right?
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  Speaker 1: And what's it feel like to be a national champ?
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  Speaker 1: I mean and Mayam War giving you a hugs on
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  Speaker 1: the floor.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, being a champion was well, it is, it's great.
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  Speaker 3: I mean yeah, it was cool in the moment, but
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  Speaker 3: I feel like it doesn't really do anything for me now,
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  Speaker 3: and just focus on this year's team and how how
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  Speaker 3: much work we need to do.
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  Speaker 2: All right, good luck, We'll see us soon.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much.