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Senior Night Showdowns: Comebacks, Hecklers, and PK Prep · The BIG LIFE

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  Hello everyone and welcome back to the Big Life Podcast. I'm Leah Klinke.
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  And I'm Kate Phillips and we're so excited to be here today for episode 13.
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  Yes, it's an exciting time in women's soccer. Lots of games have been played.
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  We've got a lot more to go.
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  But let's first talk about just how our games went this week.
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  So Kate, how was your game this week?
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  It was alright. We played Vanderbilt. We ended up losing 2-0.
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  Vanderbilt's actually a really, really good team.
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  I honestly I think they're one of the best teams
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  we've played so far very disciplined they I mean they take shots from everywhere
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  but they're a good team we we haven't found the back of the net in a while which
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  is kind of unfortunate but you know still have three games left so so how are your games this week,
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  They were good. Well, first off, I know one of my best friends from club plays
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  on Vanderbilt. She's like their center back. Her name is Margo Matula.
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  She's blonde. She's very good.
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  But yeah, the goals would come for sure. I mean, still like three,
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  four games left. So you guys still have some time.
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  For our games, we did very good this week. We beat FSU.
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  And then on Sunday, we played SMU and we beat them as well.
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  For our FSU game, we beat them 4-2. But we were down 2-0.
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  And so we came back and scored four unanswered goals, which was just amazing
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  to see. And, like, just the fight, like, from my team.
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  Like, I'm so proud of everyone. And so just proud of kind of how we,
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  like, never gave up, stayed determined, and just, like, fought till the end.
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  So, yeah, it was 2-0. And then with five minutes left in the first half,
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  we scored. So it was 2-1. So that was good going into half. We kind of had the momentum.
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  And then I think at that halftime talk, we just knew.
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  We are like we are not like losing this game like it's there
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  for us to take and I mean we did just that
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  and scoring more goals I mean that game was so much
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  fun obviously we have a lot to improve on and
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  FSU is such a good team they have
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  like really great players all their two goals were really great
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  but we've gotten scored on a lot
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  so we we definitely have some things to work on
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  but yeah credit to fsu they were good and
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  then we played smu on sunday they're a very good
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  team defensively they're very organized we were able to beat them three to zero
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  so that was also another good game for us and it was senior night so that was
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  fun but also kind of sad for me but just super exciting to see kind of what's
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  ahead but yeah that was like our last game at home i mean hopefully we'll.
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  Hopefully we'll host some more games at home, like, once it comes to the tournament.
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  But definitely, like, crazy that that was senior night for me. So, yeah.
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  Yeah, did your entire family, like, come up and come and stuff?
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  Yeah, so my brother wasn't able to make it. He had work, but my younger sister
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  came and then both my parents.
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  So it was super fun to see them the entire week. And they stayed Thursday through
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  Sunday, so they got to watch both games. And then we got to hang out a lot and
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  do all the senior night fun stuff.
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  And then all my, like, my best friends are also seniors.
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  So all of our families, like, got together a bunch. And it was a good family
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  weekend for sure. And good soccer, too, because we were able to win. So...
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  Yeah, a good weekend overall for Notre Dame, for sure.
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  Yeah, sounds like it. It's always fun also, like, having your parents.
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  You had two home games, so having your parents there for the whole, like, week.
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  It's always, like, fun to just hang out with them. Especially,
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  like, getting a little bit of a break.
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  Yes, so much fun. Yeah, and there was a football game, too. So my parents were
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  able to, like, we went to the football game for a little, too.
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  So, I mean, the whole experience this weekend. But, yeah, super fun.
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  I'm sad they're all gone it's like weird because
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  I'm like so excited for these things like oh so excited for
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  senior night like so excited for this game that game and then it just
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  like comes and goes so fast I'm like oh
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  my gosh like it's I'm like trying to stay in the present but it's
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  hard because I'm just like it's just gonna come and go and now
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  it's gone and three more games left for us
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  and then we're to postseason so I
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  mean things are almost coming to an end which is exciting but also like nerve-wracking
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  and scary because I mean got to keep winning got to win the last few games to
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  have a good position a good place to even qualify and get in for postseason so yeah.
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  It's so we say
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  this like pretty often though like it just
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  flies by like season flies by just because it's
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  like you get in your little routine like every
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  week and then you're just like I don't know every
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  day like seems slow the days seem
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  slow the weeks fly by yes and you're
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  just like oh my gosh this whole week like
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  get by this fast even though like your days
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  are long they just fly fly right by yeah no I would totally agree for us this
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  next week in school is like our fall break so we actually get the whole week
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  off which is really nice but yeah that means it's like the Semester's already
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  halfway over and season is like more than halfway over. So, I mean, that's kind of crazy.
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  But for us, it's nice to have...
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  Fall break off we do have like all of our midterms this week so
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  i have so much work and midterm stuff this week but then after that we'll be
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  off of school which is nice and then we have our big we have a big away trip
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  to the east coast where we'll play virginia tech in wake forest so we'll be
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  gone like thursday through sunday playing or i guess we'll travel wednesday
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  so wednesday through sunday.
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  During fall break but then before fall break we're just training
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  hanging out and resting from school which is a really
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  good break that we'll have so we're excited for that yeah
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  getting a we don't have fall break i think
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  our we were talking about this a little bit before but i
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  think our fall break goes into thanksgiving i don't
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  know something wish missouri had fall break because i
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  could use a break from school but no
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  having like a week off of just like school is like
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  so nice of just like a liftoff of
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  like just focusing on soccer
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  and like getting relaxed during the day obviously you'll
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  have practice and like treatment and film and whatnot but just like
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  not worrying about school is like actually the best feeling ever like that's
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  about also pre-season is like you're literally just focusing on soccer and it's
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  like I don't even need like I don't know your brain is just focused on soccer
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  and then it's like I guess the fact that comes with school.
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  Yeah. Right. No, it's so nice to just have soccer and then like the rest of
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  the time it's just like fun with teammates.
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  I think this fall break we're going to go shopping in Chicago one day.
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  We're going to go just for the day to Chicago and get brunch and go shopping like on our off day.
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  So that'll be fun for us. And then we're going to have like a Halloween fall
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  like pumpkin movie night or something.
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  One of the days of fall break also. So just fun things to do, I guess.
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  Everyone's like going to be gone. Everyone will go home like from campus.
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  So it's just going to be our team, I guess, and some other athletes.
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  But it's definitely nice to have a break from school just because it is so busy.
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  And I mean, we always talk about soccer on this podcast, but it's,
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  I mean, we talked about school last week a lot, but I mean, school is such a big part of it.
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  Just the whole experience of being a student-athlete, it's not just about soccer.
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  Like, that's not even half of it. Like, school is just as important,
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  or more important, in my opinion.
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  So, yeah, it's going to be nice to have a break for us, for sure.
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  Who are you guys playing this next week?
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  We play Texas A&M on Thursday, and then senior night, last home game, Arkansas on Sunday.
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  Sorry, I'm getting like, my days are all like, that's what I was saying. the
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  weeks I get confused with all my days but yeah
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  we go to A&M we leave tomorrow which is
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  Wednesday and then we'll get down there and then play on Thursday I'm excited
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  to play there though I've heard the environment I don't know if you've ever
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  played at A&M probably seen like the environment or whatever but I've just heard
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  that the fans are like crazy and like on top of the goal and like on top of
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  you so I'm kind of excited for that I think yeah,
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  So, Texas A&M, I live in Houston, so Texas A&M is like an hour away.
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  So, we've had like a bunch of club things there. Like, I've gone to a bunch
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  to like see their games and stuff there too.
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  It is such a nice field and it is a great environment to play at.
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  But yeah, there's definitely going to be some heckling, I'm sure.
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  I mean, they're like big stadium like all around with, yeah,
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  a bunch of fans that can be like right behind the goal.
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  So, for sure, they're definitely like right on top of you. But it's a really fun environment.
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  And that's exciting. You guys are going to Texas. I wish we played in Texas.
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  Yeah, that'll be our only Texas trip this year. But no, I'm actually excited. I think it's fun.
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  The fans are heckling you. I don't know. I think it's fun. It's fun. Yeah, for sure.
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  I think when we played at Tennessee this year, there was guys behind the goal,
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  and they were messing with me the whole game.
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  I bet they've messed with you so much, especially. I know.
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  It's not funny, though. but like they're like they pull
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  up your instagram they'll like they do like the whole
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  thing of course i think it's actually hilarious like
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  they like make me laugh obviously during the
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  game like i'm like acting like they're not like when my
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  back is like to obviously to them like i'm like laughing at them just yeah like
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  i don't know i just yeah yeah no there's definitely like a lot of like heckling
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  and stuff i feel like in college soccer just from the fans on the sideline and
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  even like Like, we've had some, like.
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  Not bad—I mean, I guess kind of bad experiences, but, like, even,
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  like, the bench of the other team is sometimes, like, heckling or,
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  like, mean to the field players.
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  Like, we've had instances where, like, refs have to have—like,
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  have to get involved, um—.
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  So, I mean, it's something you just kind of got to deal with and, like, ignore.
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  It's funny, but then it can also get in your head, too. So how do you kind of handle that?
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  I honestly, I don't really, like, I don't know. I don't really let it get in
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  my head. I honestly think they're funny.
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  Like, whoever is back there, like, they're always just, it's always some guy.
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  Like, it's never, like, a girl. It's always, like, some guy is just back there,
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  like, heckling. I don't know. I just think it's funny. Like, I just laugh.
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  Because I haven't had anybody, like, say anything, like, mean.
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  Or like out of pocket thing or something.
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  Maybe if somebody was, I would say something to the ref if it was like bothering me.
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  But no, I just kind of like let it brush off and like laugh.
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  It's just like the moment. I think the worst I've probably had isn't even during
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  college. It was like for summer league.
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  We were playing for like USL.
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  We were playing in Detroit for a USL. like it
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  was like uslw league but i forget what exactly it
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  was like one of the conference things to make it to the
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  finals and they had these fans like grown older men and they were like saying
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  some like very crazy stuff and the ref was like you guys need to like cut it
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  out like and we had people like obviously on our team that were like older as well like,
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  This was, like, two years ago. I was going into my sophomore year.
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  And we had, like, older girls.
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  And they were, like, telling the ref, they're like, these guys cannot be saying that.
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  But, like, that's the only time I've ever, like, had an incident.
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  Besides that, like, people just say funny things. Yeah.
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  Yeah. I don't know if you've had, like. That's kind of crazy for a summer league.
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  No, they take it very serious. Because they travel with, like,
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  the USL, like, men's teams.
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  So, like, when it's. Oh, like, their fans travel?
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  Yes. like we'll have fans like that at our yeah
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  wow like our fans are
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  kind of like out of they say stuff too that i'm just yeah but
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  yeah they because they're like the fans for the men's teams and
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  then they'll come to the women's games too and
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  they do like drums and like yeah wow smoke
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  when the goals are scored like there's like a lot of people there i remember
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  right one and they're like on the field like it's like a bowl
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  so they're like oh I see yeah that's kind
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  of a fun environment though yeah but I haven't had any bad
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  experiences I don't know have you had any like bad experiences um
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  I'd say yes like I can't even like pick out any specific places or anything
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  but there's definitely been some like places where there's just like people
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  saying not nice things to people on our field just like pulling up their social
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  medias and like commenting on,
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  things which don't even relate to soccer or like
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  we've had problems with like the
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  benches of other teams too like not even
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  chirping but like just like doing saying
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  like just like mean things to you like right on the field like if you're throwing
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  in the ball like right next to them or something and it's like yeah I mean like
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  it is just part of the game like you just have to deal with that like people
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  are going to chirp you but especially like our coaches are big about like having
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  class Like, always being humble,
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  having humility, and just, like, having class. So, like—.
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  Where our coaches are always, like, reminding everyone on the bench and stuff,
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  like, we're only cheering for our team.
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  Like, we're not saying anything about the other team. So, if we,
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  like, get in a good tackle or something or play good defense and we're,
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  like, our bench goes crazy. Our bench is actually insane.
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  Then they're, like, super loud about that. But it's, like, only cheering,
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  like, what we do. Like, not commenting on anything they do.
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  So, yeah. I feel like that's a good rule to keep in mind.
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  But it's also, like, when you're, like, getting in the game or when you're,
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  like, so, like, into the game, it's so easy to just, like, say,
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  like, chirpy things to the other team.
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  I definitely have before. So I'm, like, not one to, like, be preaching all this.
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  But, I mean, it gets intense.
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  But I guess it's just part of the game. Yeah, I think it is.
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  I don't really say. I don't know. I don't, like, say. I only get mad if there's,
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  like, moments of somebody's just, like, doing stuff.
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  Like yeah it's always like for me when i get mad is like on like corner kicks or something.
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  And just something's happening and players
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  not getting out of my way and like it's like not fair yeah i'll get mad but
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  besides that i'm just kind of like i don't know i'm kind of like low-key about
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  that i don't know i don't really care yeah that's good that's the way to be
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  but i also can't hear things like on the field like over by the benches and
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  stuff but like i've definitely had like,
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  I don't know, like, teams. Like, Mississippi State has, like,
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  a thing, and they'll, like, bark at you. Oh, yeah.
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  Yes. Laughing! I'm, like, why are you just barking?
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  It's funny, yeah. Sometimes I'll turn around and just be, like,
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  what the heck, like, what? Like, something like that. Just, like, yeah.
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  It's so interesting. But, yeah, definitely a part of the game.
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  And I think it makes it, like, it makes the environment fun.
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  Yeah, it does. It, like, brings up the energy, for sure. And it makes you,
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  like, want to, like, get back at them. Yeah. Yeah.
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  That's funny. Let's talk kind of a little bit about Some of the games this past week.
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  So what caught my eye was Virginia was number one and they Flew all the way
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  coast to coast to california.
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  They played cal and stanford And they tied cal and then they lost to stanford two to one.
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  I'm I thought that was Interesting. I mean all those three teams are very good
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  virginia, especially really good. They were tied number one but.
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  I think it's interesting how, like, I wonder what the results would be if they
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  were home instead of away.
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  Like, I think really traveling, especially coast to coast, that's like,
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  what, a four, five-hour flight probably?
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  Like, even more, six hours? Like, that really takes a toll on you,
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  especially when you're in the middle of school and everything else.
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  So, that was kind of interesting to me.
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  I mean, obviously, selfishly, that was good for our team that they tied and lost.
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  But, yeah, no, that's interesting. It's definitely hard to play away,
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  especially if it's super far away like that.
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  Yeah, I would love to, like, obviously you guys, your, like,
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  conference is, like, completely across the country, literally coast to coast. Same with Big Ten.
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  We're fortunate that it's, like, not that for us.
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  But I would just love to see, like, the results for teams when they are,
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  we've talked about this, I mean, away games are hard.
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  But just traveling like from east
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  coast west coast west coast east coast time change too is yeah so crazy because
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  when you're going west coast or east coast to west coast like your time change
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  is like crazy off you could be playing like 6 p.m game and it could be what like 9,
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  yeah it was like 9 p.m yeah yeah.
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  Yeah it's like i don't know obviously this has been talked about a lot with
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  different sports teams um but for soccer it's just hard because it's like one
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  game and quick turnaround.
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  Right yeah it's kind of i
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  wonder when they like flew up or flew to california probably
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  i'm guessing on like tuesday when they played on thursday yeah
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  i think it was interesting i mean if you of two games
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  like you kind of have to adjust to the time so we played but we
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  played stanford last year and we just flew for one
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  game then flew back and we did
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  it where our coaches and everyone i mean they got this information from like
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  all the health our doctors and stuff behind it but we like stayed since it's
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  three-hour time change we stayed on eastern time so like our coaches were telling
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  us like when we get there like it's like try to go to bed at like 8 p.m.
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  Or like whatever because that's like 11 p.m. our time and our breakfast was at like 6 a.m.
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  California time because it like was like 9 a.m. our time so we like tried to
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  stay on our time because it was such a like a quick turnaround and only like
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  a one-day thing so that was kind of interesting that's what we did but
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  since they stayed there longer I'm sure they were adjusting to the time and everything,
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  But yeah, no, it's definitely hard to play away.
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  Yeah, definitely. Another game that was pretty interesting was Florida upset Mississippi State.
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  And I know in that game, I didn't watch it because it was the same time as our game, but,
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  Both teams had a red card. And I don't know exactly what happened,
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  but I've heard kind of people talk about what have happened,
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  but that's not the point.
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  But both of them played with 10 players at some point in the second half and
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  then ended up scoring late in the second half, which, I mean,
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  I think it was like one of their first.
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  Upsets of a ranked team.
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  I don't know. Something like that. Oh, nice.
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  That's crazy Both teams playing with 10 players I mean I guess that's better
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  Than one team playing with one player down Yeah,
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  And then both those players are out Then for the next game I'm pretty sure Yeah.
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  For Mississippi State I know that the player that got the red For them was Allie
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  Perry Who is their Like engine in their midfield Really good player So that'll
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  be interesting to see how that works for them.
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  I mean, they have a lot of good players on their team, but she's really good, so.
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  Yeah, yeah. I didn't really see what happened, or I didn't get a chance to watch
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  that game either, but that's crazy.
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  Two red cards. I haven't really heard of many red cards this season at all, so that's kind of crazy.
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  And then the other game that stuck out to me was Duke played UNC,
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  so that's always a rivalry. And Duke won 3-2.
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  I wasn't able to watch much of this game either, but it seems very back and forth.
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  But that seems like a fair score. Both those teams are really good.
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  Duke just pulled away with the win.
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  Yeah, they're playing great teams.
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  Not great, but they've just had a tough schedule so far. Yeah, for sure.
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  I saw the Duke, one of their... I don't know if it was their last goal or one
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  of their goals, but it was a banger. And I...
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  I think from the video, I don't know if it actually happened,
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  but I think the ball like hit the crossbar, hit the goalkeeper and went in,
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  which is just like, you're just like, whatever.
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  In that point, I mean, it was a great strike. Yeah.
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  I'm pretty sure how it looked. It hit her, came off, hit her and went in,
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  which is just like, yeah, dang.
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  Yeah, that's so unfortunate. Really unfortunate. Okay, so how many games do
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  you guys have left this season?
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  We have three, guaranteed. We need to win two of them, make the SEC tournament,
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  and then obviously chances for NCAA tournament.
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  But yeah, three, guaranteed.
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  Yeah. Ours is three, too. So that's crazy. So like three weeks from now, like over half of,
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  The teams for NCAA Division of Women's Soccer will be done with their season.
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  That's crazy to think about. Yeah.
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  But yeah. So it's really, I feel like in these last three games,
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  people are going to be fighting.
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  Fighting to stay in. Fighting for their seniors. Fighting for their team.
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  Just everyone to get one last game of the season. Because you never know.
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  Once you get into these tournaments, you never know when the last game is going
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  to be. So everyone's going to be fighting.
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  Yeah, teams are definitely trying to just do the best they can in these last three games too.
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  Yeah. The best chances of making tournaments and getting good seeds and stuff like that.
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  One thing that we work on a little bit once we start getting near the end of
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  the season a lot is penalties. And just if we get into that scenario,
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  who takes them, kind of what we do.
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  Do you kind of have a routine with that? do
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  you take a penalty like what's your kind of thoughts on
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  that yeah so kind of
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  like your team we definitely once we get into these tournaments like we start
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  practicing pks and it's crazy because once you get into the tournaments and
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  you tie like can't end in a tie anymore so you go into overtime I think it's
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  two periods of 10 minutes I think or 15 is it 10 yeah,
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  I think it's 10 and then you'll go into PKs after that.
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  So yeah, definitely once we get into the tournaments, we'll be practicing PKs
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  like probably almost after almost every practice.
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  Personally, I like taking PKs. I definitely take a PK.
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  I feel like I definitely I have the routine. I have a routine that I do every
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  time and I feel like it's just confidence is the main,
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  thing that I try to focus on and just like staying in the
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  present moment for each like step of my routine I
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  guess and then just making like
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  putting the ball in a place and hitting it with enough power so
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  that I have to make the keeper like make
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  a save so and then
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  if they make a great save then like I did all I can so
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  it's like that's if I made it or if I hit a good shot and they
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  made a great save then I'm like okay well that's I
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  tried my best so but yeah I feel like it's just important to
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  have a routine stick to the routine and like hit the
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  ball hard so yeah that's kind of what I
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  try to focus on when taking PKs but
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  obviously have not gotten there yet or have experience with that so far you
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  haven't at all in your college career oh I was thinking this year no we have
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  we've had some games that I've gone to PKs I think we've been in multiple the
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  The most notable that I remember is it was my...
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  Freshman year, I think. Yeah, freshman year.
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  We played FSU. We tied. We went into, it was the ACC tournament semifinals.
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  Then we went into PKs. And it was also a crazy game.
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  Like, we would get down a goal and then we would score a goal.
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  We would get down and then we would score.
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  And Corbin Albert, like, she's amazing, was on her team at the time.
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  And she kept scoring and like doing these crazy shots and everything.
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  She actually had the game of her life. It's crazy. but yeah
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  no she's great obviously such a great player but
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  we went into pk's and we ended up losing that shootout yeah
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  i don't think i took one then i can't
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  remember though i don't really remember i think
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  i remember watching that because z mackenzie you
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  guys a goalkeeper at the time didn't because you had this is interesting for
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  people out there too like i'm pretty sure you guys would take her out she was
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  their starter and you guys would take her out right for penalties and you'd
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  put the your back yeah yeah we Ashley Naylor wait yes yes yes because that is just you're right,
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  Like, that's just, like, so interesting because, so for goalkeepers,
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  a lot of the time, I don't know, was that goal, was she really tall?
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  Yeah, she was not, like, really, really tall. Like, she was just as tall as Z.
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  Maybe, like, a little bit taller, but we had, like, she's a great player,
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  Ashley. Her name is, she went on to play her fifth year.
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  But she, and she had, like, started the year before, but then Z came in and
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  was playing a lot that year. They, like, switched off at the beginning,
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  but then Z came in and was playing a lot.
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  But Ashley's, like, known for, I guess, being really good at PKs.
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  Like, she was really, really good.
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  So I guess our goalkeeper coach just decided that she would be the PK goalie,
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  I guess. I forgot about that. I can't believe you remember that.
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  Yeah, no, I remember watching it because it's just, like, so interesting.
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  Because some goalkeepers are
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  really good at penalties and reading them and just, like, getting there.
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  And then some people are just like I
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  don't know not the greatest at them not that they're like a
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  bad goalkeeper at all which Mackenzie would
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  who we're talking about literally plays for the Chicago yes
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  she's amazing but yeah it's
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  just like interesting because the only penalty shootout I've been in was for
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  this sounds so funny but for college I've been in others for stuff but we played
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  Michigan State in the spring of my freshman year. And we were in like this tournament thing.
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  And then if you hide, you end up going in penalties.
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  And our other goalkeeper, like I played the whole game and then our backup goalkeeper,
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  she's just really, really good at penalties.
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  And so they put her in. But it's just like interesting because that's not something like,
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  you normally see besides in that situation is they'll bring in like a different goalkeeper. Yeah.
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  It's actually insane to me. Penalties is like these players have been sitting on the bend.
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  Like a lot of them like don't play and they come in and just under pressure
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  they're able to and they just take one kick and it's crazy. Yeah.
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  Wait, I think we were in that same tournament that spring because we were in
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  some random tournament too. It was at Grand Park.
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  Yes! Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. We played there. We were like,
• 27:41
  what is this club field that we're playing at?
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  That's where my club plays at. That's where I play club. Oh,
• 27:46
  my gosh, really? I mean, it was such a nice club field. Wow, that's insane.
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  Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, that was fun. We played, like, Xavier,
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  and I think we played them then. I don't know. I can't remember. Yeah.
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  But since from college. But, yeah. It's going to be super exciting.
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  Like, penalties coming soon.
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  Once we get into the tournaments, yeah. Also, a few other games next week that
• 28:15
  are going to be really good games that I'm looking forward to see is Stanford versus FSU.
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  They're playing next week. They're both...
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  The rankings came out this week, but I think they're both probably top five
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  now. Stanford's two. I can't remember what FSU is. Probably five or six.
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  So that's going to be a really good game. I'm excited to watch that one.
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  And then also another ranked game, I think TCU is 14 versus Baylor, who's number 10.
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  And Baylor's doing really, really well this year. They're like ranked really
• 28:43
  high in the RPI and everyone's rankings too.
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  So that's kind of interesting to me. I was like, oh, I didn't expect to see
• 28:52
  Baylor, I guess, up there.
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  But they're having a great year so far. So that's good for them.
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  Do you know a lot of people on that team? I actually don't. I think I know a couple.
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  But being from Texas, you'd think I'd know more. But I really don't.
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  We didn't have—no girls from my club went to Baylor that I can remember.
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  Was TCU too. Yeah, two Texas teams there.
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  Yeah. Yeah, I know more people on TCU for sure. Yeah. Yeah.
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  I'd seen them play Kansas. They're a good team a couple of weeks ago.
• 29:22
  They score a lot of goals. I remember the Kansas game, they were just like the
• 29:28
  last 15 minutes, I think they scored like three goals or something.
• 29:31
  Oh, wow. That's insane. Really going off.
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  And Kansas is a good team, too. Yeah. Kansas has been doing good, too. Yeah.
• 29:39
  All right. Well, next week, we actually have a really exciting guest coming on.
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• 29:58
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