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Ep. 46 - The Art of Composure with Juju Harris · Beyond the Paw - Clemson Athletics

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of Beyond the Paw.
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  Speaker 1: Today we have Clemson women's soccer player Juju Harris, where
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  Speaker 1: she talks about her love of soccer, growing up in
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  Speaker 1: the sport, and her international experience. Let's go beyond the
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  Speaker 1: pop all right, Juju, Your ACC's All Freshmen team made
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  Speaker 1: third team All ACC. On top of that, you've led
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  Speaker 1: the ACC freshmen in goals seven seven assists, tied for twelve,
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  Speaker 1: most game winning goals in the country, five in Clemson goals,
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  Speaker 1: and twenty one points and average one point three to
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  Speaker 1: one points per game. This is an insane roster of
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  Speaker 1: goals that you have. How have you done this? How
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  Speaker 1: have you felt coming to Clemson? Like, what's it like
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  Speaker 1: being here so far and having so many accomplishments already?
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  Speaker 2: I would say just coming in as a freshman, it's
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  Speaker 2: just like everything's new. So it's like just doing going
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  Speaker 2: out there and doing what I do and just being
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  Speaker 2: me And yeah, I didn't know it was all of that.
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  Speaker 3: But.
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  Speaker 2: Hearing it, it's kind of cool because you know, when
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  Speaker 2: we're going through it doesn't really feel like that you're
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  Speaker 2: just going into the games just trying to win. But
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  Speaker 2: it's been great. Yeah, it's been really great hearing all
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  Speaker 2: that stuff come out.
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  Speaker 1: But I feel like every other week I see you
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  Speaker 1: post it on Clemson Looking soccer, it's like juju Harris
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  Speaker 1: another goal, Like it's so cool to see.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean, obviously I get the credit for
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  Speaker 2: it on social media and stuff, but it's like I
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  Speaker 2: just do my job out there and I happen to
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  Speaker 2: be the one scoring. But it's really like everybody else
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  Speaker 2: out there doing their job.
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  Speaker 4: And you've been a part of some like huge wins too.
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  Speaker 4: Upset number seventeen Week four US. How was that?
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  Speaker 2: That was crazy? And that was a really fun game
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  Speaker 2: to play in just because they're ranked and that was
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  Speaker 2: our first like big big win in the ACC. So
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  Speaker 2: it's just a fun night. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like you've also played. I feel like you've
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  Speaker 1: played on the international stage, so this has kind of
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  Speaker 1: prepared you for pressure sets. How do you think that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of transferred over to Clemson?
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  Speaker 2: Definitely. I Mean people like act me before games if
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  Speaker 2: I get nervous, and at this why I never get
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  Speaker 2: nervous anymore.
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  Speaker 4: I don't get nervous all.
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  Speaker 2: Even like my first game here at Rigs, I was
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  Speaker 2: like it felt normal. I felt like I've been here
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  Speaker 2: before and I've played here before. Yeah, but yeah, definitely
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  Speaker 2: playing you know all around the world has like really
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  Speaker 2: prepared me for stepping on the stage here.
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  Speaker 3: Is there anything that you're thinking about when you're going
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  Speaker 3: into it, Like you've been here before, You've played soccer
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  Speaker 3: at all these different levels?
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  Speaker 2: Like what are you?
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  Speaker 4: What's your inner talk?
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  Speaker 2: Kind of just like go out there and be me,
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  Speaker 2: Like I don't have to try and be somebody else
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  Speaker 2: or try to play like a different style. Just go
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  Speaker 2: out there and do what I do. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: like routine at this point, so I just have to
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  Speaker 2: keep telling myself that it's nothing different.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like that's pretty rare for me, to be honest.
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  Speaker 4: Like I feel like even me as a senior like
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  Speaker 4: working through that and like trying to find like a
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  Speaker 4: balance of like Okay, let's just go out there and
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  Speaker 4: you know, be me and be the team that we are.
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  Speaker 4: But also like there is some type of pressure sometimes,
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  Speaker 4: so like how do you balance that? But I mean
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  Speaker 4: you seem to get out how.
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  Speaker 1: Do you keep your composure? Is there a game you
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  Speaker 1: ever get nervous for? There's just no game anymore at
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  Speaker 1: this point.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm not gonna lie. When we played Stanford, that
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  Speaker 2: was our first I'm pretty sure that was our first
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  Speaker 2: ACC game. And I was a little bit nervous for
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  Speaker 2: that one just because they were like number had a
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  Speaker 2: little shit, that's just a little nerves just because they're
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  Speaker 2: the number one team in the country. Oh wow. So
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  Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, and they're playing like their whole
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  Speaker 2: starting eleven is probably seniors or like fifth years. So
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  Speaker 2: I was a little bit. But then once the game started,
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  Speaker 2: I was fine.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, do you guys ever like research the other
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  Speaker 1: team and see who's playing and like who's starting and
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I know they we all know already, but we.
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  Speaker 1: Do, okay, because I feel like sometimes I see girls
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  Speaker 1: on other teams and they're like large humans, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and like a small freshman trying to play against them,
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  Speaker 1: Like I feel like that would be terrifying for me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's definitely terrifying because they're like grown women too, Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're eighteen as freshmen, but they're like twenty two, twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: It's a bit different.
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  Speaker 4: They're like fit years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they've been lifting for four or five years. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: good point. Different.
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  Speaker 1: They know how to ram through someone.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, stuff like that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but you're crushing it.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, you're doing good.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, what's the you have twenty one points? That's not
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  Speaker 3: just twenty one goals. How does points work in soccer?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, Okay, yeah, I think it's like things
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  Speaker 2: you do in a game or like assist goal too. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: stuff like that. I don't want to see.
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  Speaker 4: Have no idea, you're just truly out there playing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I love that. Yeah, Okay, that's a great mindset to have. Though,
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  Speaker 4: Like sometimes when you have like too much like external
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  Speaker 4: factors going on, like it's hard to like be focused
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  Speaker 4: on like what you're doing. But like you're obviously just
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  Speaker 4: here playing soccer, competing, like you're trying to do something here.
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  Speaker 4: So that's a great mindset to have.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of nerves come with adrenaline too,
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  Speaker 1: which makes you kind of change the way you play.
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  Speaker 1: So it's good to be like in a calm headspace
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  Speaker 1: like you said you are. I feel like that makes
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  Speaker 1: you play a little better.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's what I have to like keep in mind,
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  Speaker 2: is like because once I start getting really like anxious,
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  Speaker 2: that's when it goes like downhill from there. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: I just have to make sure that I keep myself
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  Speaker 2: composed because that's when I played my best too.
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  Speaker 4: Right, is that something that you've always like had growing
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  Speaker 4: up as a soccer player. Is that something that you've
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  Speaker 4: kind of like learned how to do like throughout your career.
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  Speaker 2: I would say it kind of came natural. I mean
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  Speaker 2: my dad was a former pro athlete too, so when
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  Speaker 2: I was young, he would teach me like ways to
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  Speaker 2: stay composed on the field and like, but obviously, growing
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  Speaker 2: up I had to find my own ways because obviously
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  Speaker 2: I'm different than him. But I think it's just as
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  Speaker 2: I grew up, it just like started become easier to
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  Speaker 2: find ways to stay poised on the field.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, talked about talk to us about how you grew
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  Speaker 1: up in soccer.
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  Speaker 4: How was that?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 1: What did you know that soccer was going to be
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  Speaker 1: your sport? I didn't immediately click? Or did you start
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  Speaker 1: with any other sports before that?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 2: I once I started playing soccer I was four, I
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  Speaker 2: played with my brothers. Wow, they stopped playing and want
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  Speaker 2: to go play basketball because I was my dad played,
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  Speaker 2: But soccer just always stuck with me, even when I
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  Speaker 2: was like eight, I started playing with boys, and I
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  Speaker 2: just started playing up two ages. I just never went
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  Speaker 2: to another sport. It just always clicked naturally for me.
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  Speaker 1: What about your position. Was there any other position that
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  Speaker 1: you started with?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was a center back. A lot of that
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  Speaker 2: happens a lot, though, like forards to start at center backs,
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  Speaker 2: or sometimes center backs start as forwards.
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  Speaker 1: Why is that?
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  Speaker 2: I honestly don't know, but I just hated defending. When
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  Speaker 2: I was like twelve, I was like, I'm not it's
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  Speaker 2: not my specialty.
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  Speaker 4: You wanted me to score?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I love it.
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  Speaker 3: Where are you from. What was it like, you have brothers? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it sounds like a very athletic household.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So I was originally born in Virginia, but my
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  Speaker 2: family moved to Miami when I was like like five.
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  Speaker 2: But my brothers grew up, Like I said, they were
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  Speaker 2: playing soccer, but they stopped after like a year. They
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  Speaker 2: started playing basketball and my dad started coaching them. So
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  Speaker 2: I was kind of like on the outskirts at that point,
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  Speaker 2: like my dad wasn't coaching me or anything. But then
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  Speaker 2: it got to a point where my brothers stopped playing basketball,
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  Speaker 2: and then I was the only athlete in the family.
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  Speaker 2: So then Dad was just like super hard. But I
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  Speaker 2: love him to death and I'm very grateful that he
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  Speaker 2: did all that for me because it's like maybe who
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  Speaker 2: I am now and I'm lucky to have that too.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean still now, he continues coaching, he
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  Speaker 2: still puts his input and everything into my every day.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm just happy he's there.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like Florida is a very like soccer state,
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  Speaker 1: like you can go to did you grow up going
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  Speaker 1: to games or anything like that too?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's like South Florida, especially where I'm from,
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  Speaker 2: it's like straight Hispanics and they love soccer. Yeah, Colombians,
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  Speaker 2: the Venezuelan's all of them. It's like they will like
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  Speaker 2: hill for soccer, so it's very very like important to them.
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  Speaker 2: It's like you go down there and there's like kids
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  Speaker 2: playing on like a little grass field or like playing
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  Speaker 2: futsal under a bridge or stuff like. So it's just
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  Speaker 2: crazy though.
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  Speaker 1: The FIFA World Cup too is gonna be one of
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  Speaker 1: the host cities is Miami too.
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  Speaker 4: Are you gonna go?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? And Eddie's always like, hey, like you get your tickets.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, no, not yet, but I will by way.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's gonna be insane.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that'll be crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Talk to us ahead, No, you go ahead, you go ahead. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I was going to ask you to talk to us
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  Speaker 1: about your international playing. You played for team Brazil. I oh, okay,
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  Speaker 1: what made you choose Brazil rather than the US to
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  Speaker 1: play for?
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  Speaker 3: So?
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  Speaker 2: I actually started out in the US under fifteen. I
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  Speaker 2: actually went to like my first camp was with one
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  Speaker 2: of our teammates here, Maddie Costello, were actually roommates. Cool,
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  Speaker 2: So I started out. I went to that camp, and
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  Speaker 2: then I just never really clicked with them. Like the
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  Speaker 2: way I play it's completely different than the way they
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  Speaker 2: like the way they play. So there's nothing like bad there,
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  Speaker 2: It's just we just don't like your style. Different. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: And then like the year after that, like Brazil saw
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  Speaker 2: me play here and they were like, can we have her?
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  Speaker 2: And I was like sure. I mean I'm young. I'm
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  Speaker 2: fifteen at the time, so I didn't know like what
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  Speaker 2: was happening.
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  Speaker 1: We have heard.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, I'll go. I ended up going
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  Speaker 2: to Brazil.
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  Speaker 1: And was that your first time ever?
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  Speaker 2: No? No, no, but it was my first time like
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  Speaker 2: playing another by myself and playing with chach okay, but
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  Speaker 2: ever since that first camp, they just wanted me back
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  Speaker 2: every single time after that, and I was there for
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  Speaker 2: two weeks at a time. I would come home for
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  Speaker 2: two weeks, go back for two weeks for training camp.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of crazy, super fun.
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  Speaker 4: Still, right, yeah, right.
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  Speaker 2: And I was playing with you seventeens in Brazil, so
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  Speaker 2: a little bit older, but it was still Ever since
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  Speaker 2: that first camp, I've never gone back to the US,
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  Speaker 2: And it's just they just appreciate the way I play
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  Speaker 2: and like who I am, So that's like all I
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  Speaker 2: can ask for from them, rather than me trying to
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  Speaker 2: change who I am.
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  Speaker 1: For the US talked about talk to us about like
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  Speaker 1: the difference of styles, Like what do you mean by that?
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  Speaker 2: So like the US style, it's more of like no,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to say kick and run because everybody
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  Speaker 2: says that, but it's more of like a physical game
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  Speaker 2: rather than actually like trying to play soccer and like
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  Speaker 2: pass to each other and like connect and like go
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  Speaker 2: up the field instead of just kicking it from your
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  Speaker 2: center back up to the forward.
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  Speaker 4: Gotcha.
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  Speaker 2: And like in Brazil, they play more of like a
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  Speaker 2: I like to say, entertaining style. It's like people are
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  Speaker 2: doing tricks and stuff on the field. I don't be
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  Speaker 2: doing that, but it's fun watching my teammates do it.
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  Speaker 2: So that's like mostly the main difference there.
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  Speaker 1: You see, they would have like a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a more of a flair.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely sure.
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  Speaker 1: Did you grow up watching Brazilian soccer players? Do you
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  Speaker 1: have any idols?
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  Speaker 2: I mean neymar Is like, okay, like everybody's idle, but
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  Speaker 2: I'd say on the women's side, definitely Marks. I've actually
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  Speaker 2: met her before and she's just like super cool person
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  Speaker 2: down on Earth and you can tell, like why she's
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  Speaker 2: still playing at like forty or whatever she is. It's
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  Speaker 2: because she really like loves the game and it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of crazy what she's doing now.
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  Speaker 4: But is that something you would want to do, like
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  Speaker 4: continue to play until then?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe not till four. It's a long time. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: really long. Thirties thirty's good, it'd be cool.
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  Speaker 3: What's your favorite international playing memory? Any cool games moments
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  Speaker 3: to stand out?
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  Speaker 2: That's a good question. Actually, we beat Mexico. I think
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  Speaker 2: it was like five two or something, But it was
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  Speaker 2: a really like tough game where like girls were throwing
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  Speaker 2: their bodies on the line, like full on slide tackling
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  Speaker 2: and stuff. So it was a very like gritty game.
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  Speaker 2: But then we went so it was fun because they
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  Speaker 2: were very like annoying.
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  Speaker 4: I always wanted to beat them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's always fun when those types of games.
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  Speaker 1: In Brazil, they speak Portuguese.
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  Speaker 4: Do you speak any Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: So actually before my first camp when I was fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: I never really like spoke it. Like my mom wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: really speak to us in the house. My dad's American, okay,
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  Speaker 2: but like I would still know the language, but it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't like we were speaking in it every single day.
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  Speaker 2: So when I went there, I was kind of like,
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  Speaker 2: oh my god, like what is this. But then after
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  Speaker 2: the like those camps, after like my mom would start
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  Speaker 2: talking to me when I go home, and then like
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  Speaker 2: in the camps, I would obviously speak it, so I
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  Speaker 2: kind of just like naturally happened. Yeah, definitely was hard.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like that'd be hard because like some
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  Speaker 1: people are speaking different languages on the team and you
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  Speaker 1: have to communicate with your teammates to make good plays,
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  Speaker 1: we have to know the language.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's crazy. What do you like doing outside of soccer?
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  Speaker 2: Oh see, I'm kind of trying to figure that out
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  Speaker 2: now too. Yeah, because.
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  Speaker 4: There's been a lot of soccer in your life.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I still don't. I still don't know really what
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  Speaker 2: I like to do. I mean, I like to shop,
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  Speaker 2: but that's not good. I feel like the balance. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: But honestly, besides that, I'm either playing soccer. I'm not.
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  Speaker 4: You're not allowed to play soccer. What are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: If she says playing soccer, I still might go to
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  Speaker 2: the fielder the workout.
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  Speaker 3: There's no work available, there's no workouts available, everything's shut down.
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  Speaker 4: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: That's a tough one over you days in COVID, Like
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  Speaker 1: I'd go out for runs okay, soccer.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, well the fields were closed back then, so I
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  Speaker 2: literally just got a run or like just kicked the
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  Speaker 2: ball on a wall or something.
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  Speaker 3: I like fishing, Okay, okay, you know what, There's been
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  Speaker 3: a lot of talk of fishing on this Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Like, also, you're at a perfect place for it. Have
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  Speaker 4: you been fishing on the here?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you've really only been training ur in season since
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  Speaker 3: you've been here.
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  Speaker 1: When did you guys get here? Can you talk to
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  Speaker 1: us about like your schedule kind of getting here super
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  Speaker 1: early and what the training looks like and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 1: and then we can get back to not soccer because
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  Speaker 1: you need to think about that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we got here, I want to say, middle end
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  Speaker 2: of June, and then there was just like summer training
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  Speaker 2: wake up early six seven. We had our around like seven,
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  Speaker 2: we had our like running and conditioning on the field,
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  Speaker 2: and then we would have our captains practice right after
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  Speaker 2: and then like the new the summer kids that came
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  Speaker 2: in the freshman had class. After that, we would have
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  Speaker 2: our like off feat conditioning as what they call it,
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  Speaker 2: and then that was kind of the rest of our day.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we didn't have practice anything after that. And
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  Speaker 2: then July. End of July is when official preseason started,
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  Speaker 2: so like our coaches were out did the beep test,
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  Speaker 2: and then we would practice. Yeah, we'd practice in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: some of us had class, and that was kind of
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  Speaker 2: how the day was until the season started in August.
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  Speaker 2: That was our first preseason game in like August fourth
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  Speaker 2: or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone talks about the beep test. How hard is it?
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  Speaker 4: Actually?
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  Speaker 1: For you?
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: It's hard, but it's just it's just like annoying because
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: it's like you're just running twenty meters or twenty feet
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: whatever it is, and back like as many times as possible.
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: So it's like it gets annoying, but it is a
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: hard test.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: I would say, me and Tory are supposed to be
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: doing it.
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: Oh, I've been supposed to be doing this for like
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: three years now. So beep test is like in my
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: diamares guys, it truly is.
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, but like as a volleyball.
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: It's not like you need to do sprints, like that's
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: like your conditioning. It's like sprints, but like the long
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: distance of it, like the test, like trying to stay
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: as long as you can. Like I wouldn't say we're
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: like the most equipped for it, but like soccer players,
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: you guys are running like your entire game, so like
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: it kind of makes more sense for you, guys.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: How did they make you guys do it?
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: I don't know, probably just like one of those things
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: mental challenge directive. Yeah, so you got you've never run
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: the beep test. You've never Okay, you guys should totally
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: do it. I'm scared.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: Didn't you have to go like faster each time it.
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: Gets faster, and the guy like talks to you and
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: it's like this is the Nike spark And then it's
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: like one go and then you go, and then it's
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: like it counts down.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: How many times total?
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: Is it?
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: Again?
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: It goes.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: Entire stoff.
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: What's the highest someone on your team has gone this year?
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: I think Renee got fifty. I have no idea. I
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: think she got fifty or fifty two or good from her.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: She's coming off of an ACM injury too.
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, wow, that's crazy.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and so fifty is really really good.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: And so what's like the worst?
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: The worst?
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: I don't name names, no, no, no, I wasn't saying the
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: worst person number.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: Worst number. I mean I feel like if you don't
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: make it past fifteen at least, like that's pretty bad
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: because that's still like a slight jog kind of you
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: start running at probably twenty.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Okay, really running okay, So I just have to get
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: a fifteen. And I don't say, yeah, you can do.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Gymnastics is not like a sport where we run a lot.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: We do like quick bursts like sprint or something like that.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: And like our floor I would say, is more like
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: endurance related, but.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: It's not the same. What is your fitness test? Running?
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Ours is more like strength. Yeah, So it's like how
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: many pull ups can you do? How many leglifts can
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: you do? Like? And then also flexibility tests stuff like that,
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: like if you like put When I was younger, it
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: used to be like put two boards together like this,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: and you would have to like do an oversplit and
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: so you would have to split like past one hundred
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: and eighty degrees what yeah, stuff.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: Like that and hold up for how long? I don't know.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Sometimes my coach used to put like weights on me too.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: I I don't remember. I think I blocked it out
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: as a trauma response, but it was.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: It was terrible.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: And then like rope climbs, and it's more like gymnastics
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: related like strength and stuff that nobody would ever really
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: think of. But it's weird and it's hard, but we
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: have to do it, and like how long you can
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: hold a hand? Sand you have to hold a handsand
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: like free standing for a minute, which is actually like
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: way harder than it seems.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: It's hard to know. We never think about okay.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Because I I can't. I still can't do it. So
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: I can do thirty seconds max. But it's terrible. But
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: the beep tests I have to do that I don't
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: think it's got on and off day when I'm not
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: doing the hands in for sixty seconds. Then yeah, the
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: beep test, that sounds like my dream day, dream date date,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: just running. No, Yeah, but gymnastics physical ability is testing.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: It's it's like more mentally challenging too. I mean, actually
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: the beep test is mentally challenging as well. I would say,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: but yeah, it's it's hard. I don't want to talk
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: about it.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: It's like it's all in your mind and like my
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: legs are gone. Yeah, it's all in my mind, right,
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess it is.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: There's like strategy to like I'll like count my stuff
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: sometimes of like when I should cut. I don't know
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: if you can see that I do that. I'm like
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: trying to figure out like the best way I can
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: get there the fastest. Yeah, it's definitely physically challenging. Do
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: you run the beep test on the court? Always? In
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: the I've done both, so I've done turf and the court.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Which when do you go faster on?
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: I feel like the court you just have more attraction.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: But and like we're used to that, we cut on
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: the court all the time, so it's definitely probably easier
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: for us. But I don't know about y'all.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: I like it depends.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: I feel like turf is hard to cut on it
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: in general.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, but we actually did it on our
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: field on our practice. Okay, it was better.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: That makes sense.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Do you like playing on turf for grass grass?
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: I hate turf hurts. I'm only eighteen. But the knees
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: in the ankle, oh, it hurts a lot. Like we
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: just played at we play our Boston college. Oh my god, it.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Was awful horrible, like the burns like when you fall,
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: not just that, just.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Like it's just hard. Yeah. So it's like running on
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: concrete and like cutting on it. It's just it's not
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: good for the joint.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: And like what if your cleat gets like stuck in
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: the turf too, right.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you wear different cleats for turf.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: No, you're the same mon, Yeah, but it's just awful.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: It's like literally plastic no.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And like I still feel it in the
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: knees and the ankles today and we played that game
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: probably three weeks ago.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: What's the optimal weather that you like playing in?
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: See some of my teammates are like, I like playing
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: in the sun when it's hot. I'm like, I don't.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: I needed to be sixty night game perfect.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: What about when it rains?
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Do you like it?
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: A little light missed? Not likeful on pouring, but like
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: a little drizzles. It was fine.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: I feel like I watched one game where it was
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: down pouring and there were puddles in this in the
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: ground our games. Yes, it was a long time ago
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: before time.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: Okay, yeah it was. I feel like those games are
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: only fun if you win. Yeah, they're like more fun.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Because then you get to like slide in the stuff
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: like that.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: That's so fun.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: How long do you guys say you run per game?
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Well, Renee runs like nine miles every game. How she
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: just likes running.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: She energized her bunny, right, she.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Just is instead of walking. She's like, why I can run?
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: So she just runs. On the other hand, then again
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: we're different positions, right, So I probably run like seven
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: miles seven and a half max.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: That's still that's crazy.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's insane, like crazy for me to think about.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I can barely run a mile.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: I remember the last time I even tried to run
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: a mile? Yeah, or like anything.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: You could just go like go for a run for
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: seven miles, like what would be Yeah?
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: No, in Soccersay, and I just get bored, Like running
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: for seven miles probably takes an hour or like forty
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: five minutes. That's just like boring to me. I just
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: don't want to do that.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: I guess on the field you won't be you wouldn't
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: be able to notice like how long you're running.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're like stopping and walking and cutting and stuff,
• 21:41
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  Speaker 4: Now back to the show.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: All right, in soccer, do you ever try and like
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: get like actually try and.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Get a foul?
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Sometimes? Yeah, Okay, it depends on like the moment in
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: the game, Like if it's like really like back and forth,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: and it's like really heated, somebody like touched slightly touches,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: so you'll want to go down and get a foul.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, And is that like a tactic to breathe?
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: And sometimes Eddie's like our coaches like just go down,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: like even you're not hurt or anything. He's like, just
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: go down, go down, Oh really yeah, just like to
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: stop the game or like pause it. It's a tactic.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Because sometimes like not Clemson, but sometimes I watch the
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: other teams go down for no reason. Yeah, they were
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: barely touched, and I'm like, what are you doing?
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Especially guys they have got a whole bunch.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: So over dramatic, Like I'm like, are they actually hurt?
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Because there are times where they're actually hurt, But then
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: other times it's like.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: The majority of the time they're not need to breath, yeah.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Or they're like fidgeting with their socks or some like
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: so much.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: See there's no time out oh in soccer.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, So like I don't blame that strategy, Like
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: I would need to breathe too.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: They have water breaks now only if.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: It's like super hot, right, yeah, at least it's like
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: above like eighty or ninety or something.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I knew there was something going on with the
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: tying of the I'm like, why are they sitting down
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: on the grass?
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Doesn't take that?
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And the guys when they do it, they fall
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: and they'll just sit there for like two three minutes.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: They just won't get up.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Is there like a time limit on when you have
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: to get up after you've been fouled? Or no, okay,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: there as long as you want, gotcha.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: Do you ever like talk to the other team, like
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: to get heated?
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Like yeah?
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Sometimes?
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Like one of our midfielders we played Duke last
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: week or two weeks ago, and she was getting into
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: it with this, with this all, and they almost started,
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: you know, it almost escalated where they started throwing hands,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: but it didn't get there. But it was so close.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: It was so close.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: I feel like it's hard because you can actually like
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: talk to the person.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: Am I standing right next to them? Yeah?
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: In my sport, you cannot go over and like distract
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: someone be like hey, get off the beam, you suck.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Like we can't do that.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: That would be very dangerous, that.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Would be awful.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: But like, I think it's so fun to have that
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: little like mischief, like it's competitive.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Basketball too, Like you're just right next to each other
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: and people chirp at each.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Other to really a lot.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, especially if it's like a girl, you know, but
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: it's not like you know who they are and you're
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: you're like trying to show them up. It's like it
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: gets pretty so fun.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: Like low key, we've This is like the most I've
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: seen it, like in the season. See, like not in
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: a bad way, just like it's such a competitive way
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: that it's like like banter like across the net, and
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: it's like sometimes it's like and will like laugh about it.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: I just feel like that.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: I'm just thinking like in soccer or basketball and you're
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: like body to body, you know, you can maybe say something,
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: but like.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: You're staring at someone across the I know, and like
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: when it goes silent, like when someone's about to serve,
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: it's like dead silent. And so like if you're talking
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: to someone, like it's not quiet and like everyone here
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: you can hear, yeah, or it's just like really awkward
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: because like no one else is talking.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Can you guys both give me like a G thirteen example?
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, please don't incriminate anybody something and from someone from
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: another team.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: Okay, from another team.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: You don't have to name the team.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: PG thirteen. I just this whole volleyball This is so funny.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: It's so fun like it's competitive.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: It's great.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: When I watch you guys, like on TV or something
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: and I see someone's mouth something, I'm like, ooh, yeah,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: it's getting spicy.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: Like I like this. There's a lot of like sit
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: down or like okay, like set this person setter, setter,
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: So like it's just like baiting to like you know,
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: have that like moment of like yeah if like they
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: do setter and like she gets blocked or something, which
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: I love. Like, I think it's so fun because it's
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: just like you have to back it up and it
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: makes it more like competitives. Like when you're talking, you're
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: like you block her. Yeah, the block has got to
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: be like the best feeling.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Okay, then what do you say back? They were chirping
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: at you. You got set you hit it? Point me
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: my grath.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: Personally, like I wouldn't say anything to her. I would
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: either probably like look at her like maybe like look
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: at it for a second and then go back to
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: my team and like in the huddle we talk about it.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: I like it, So it's like more of like calm
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: for me. I'm going to yeah, you should pay attention
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: to it. Okay, funny because sometimes people don't know like
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: what's going on, but until it's like really heated, and
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: I feel like that's kind of how it is for like, Okay,
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: that's fun.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's fun.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch you chirping. Do you are you the tripper.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: Or stare down or more of like the quiet like actual.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, sometimes I'll throw a couple of words here and there,
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: but it's not like it's super intense. But there are
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: definitely some players out there that are like in the net,
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: like you can tell it's crazy.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: I was just talking at the football game this weekend.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: When they like.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: Recover a fumble or like jump on the ball and
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: then there's like eight bodies.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: I'm like, what do you think they're saying down there?
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: Because you know they're saying something, and I feel like
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: it has to be like get off of me, right,
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: some didn't, Like I wonder what they're saying to each
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: other through their helmets all dogpiled.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder what the ref's here during a whole
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: bunch of There was a ref on top this weekend.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: In there, I just jumped in the in the dog pile.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: I was like, what are you doing?
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: What was at the bottom of that?
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: It's got to be and you just have to lay there.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: I'm sure likent.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Guys, No, but the rest of gotta hear some wild things.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: What about you, guys, what's your example of PG. Thirteen chirping?
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: That's it. I honestly don't really get talked to that much,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: so I wouldn't really.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: Know because you're doing the chirping.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no, my actions do the chirping.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: Gotcha? Yeah, good.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: I don't. I don't even talk to my own teammates
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: on the field, Like I don't really live voice. I
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: just kind of like point and like tell them where
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: I want the wall and stuff. But I don't know.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: I've heard like I'm gonna pull your hair or like
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna somebody This is very like mean, but somebody's
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: like I'm gonna take your knees out, and you know how.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: Soccer, I don't play about that. No, that's too far.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's way too far.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: Like when you like talk about that like injuries and
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: stuff like that's not that's not what it's about. Like
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: you can be a competitive and stuff, but like y, yeah,
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: that is the line.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: I wonder if I was wondering if it was similar
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: to baseball, because I feel like baseball like they look
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: up their family on the roster, like they look they
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: research them and go into depth. So I wonder if
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: it was like personal attacks like that or if it
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: was just like nah.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: Like the players, the players, Well, can they do that
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: in volleyball too? Really like they'll I don't know what
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: they'll what they'll say, but like just like something about
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: like oh, your boyfriend or like whatever, like about certain people.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: So like to get other players that like fans, yeah, fans,
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: and they'll like up yeah people.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: I guess that's more fans too.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: With baseball, that'd be crazy like players, Yeah.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I don't. I feel like they don't have time into
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: that at all.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: It'd be crazy. Like in the moment.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: There's sometimes when I'm like watching a girl on another team,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: this is maybe really bad to think, I'm like fall like,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: don't make it.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: You don't want her to get hurt, but you want
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: to points wise, right, that makes sense.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: No, I don't want anyone to get hurt ever, No, never,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: never never.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: If you fall fall safely.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's like if they're on the beam, I'm
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: like wall off, all off, you know, like if I
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: don't wait.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: Know, maybe like you know, a penalty kick.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Or yeah, like I don't wish harm on anyone ever.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: And we're not even supposed to watch the other team,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: So I retract everything that I just said.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: If you were to watch, if I were to watch,
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: you're locked in.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah right yeah.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: AnyWho. Going back to like your journey from like playing
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: international to Clemson, Like what was something about Clemson where
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: you were like, I have to go here.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: So it's it's kind of funny how it all happened.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: I'm still mad at myself for like not doing my
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: due diligence when my like recruiting starts, recruiting cycles started,
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: but I wasn't gonna I never looked here. And my
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: best friend reeseho's on the team, was like when she
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: came here, shut out. When she came here, she was
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: like she fell in love with it. And then once
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: I came here eventually took an official here, I was like, yeah,
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: why didn't I come here two years ago? And make
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: this decision. But then I'm glad I came here, and like,
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: once I got here, I was literally like wow, like
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: I fit. I fit here, Like it's like right at home.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: And I just think the whole international thing, not only
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: on like the soccer side of things, but playing internationally,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: I had to do a lot of things on my own,
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: like travel my own, like go different places on my own.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Even here in the US, I have to go play
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: on my own. So I think it kind of prepared
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: me a lot, like being away from family kind of
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: growing up. I had to grow up a lot faster.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: So I think that helped because now I'm like, this
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: is like nothing new to me. I feel like which
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: grateful I had that experience prior.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Were there any other schools that you were looking at
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: before Clemson?
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Well, so I was originally committed to Florida State two
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: years ago, gotcha? Okay? Yeah, And then it was actually
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: the beginning of this year where I was like, Florida
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: State isn't really the vibe anymore.
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: Did you guys get to play them this year yet?
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: No?
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I couldn't wait to hear your tripping.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: That game. I probably would have talked a little bit okay,
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: but I think we'll play them in the tournament. Have
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: to play them one tournament, so selection shows today. Yeah,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: are you excited? Yeah, yeah, I'm really excited. Chat said
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: we're going to play a high Point in Yeah, that's funny.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: That's smart to ask that tatgy B T.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so it has Chatgypt said you're going to play
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: high Point in the first round. Yeah.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: Did I give you a seed?
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: Eight seed?
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, that's exactly.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: See.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like the tournament is crazy because you
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: can just play literally anyone that you've ever played from
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: any different conference. So I feel like the playing level
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: is sometimes even, but sometimes it's like very not.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't play an ACC team in the first round,
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: so that's good. You can't play your same conference in
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: the first round, gotcha. Yeah, so somebody else. It's most
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: like it's going to.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Be an SEC team though, hm ACC is the best
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: for soccer though, right, sure you would think it's like
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: SEC sometimes too though, because they're very good at other sports.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, soccer for sure. Yeah.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Who has been like the most dominant ACC team normally.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Lately? It's honestly the Stanford, Florida State or UNC. UNC
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: has kind of fell off a little bit lately Florida
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: State slightly. I mean Stanford just won the ACC championship
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: wy yesterday.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: Oh wow.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so they're doing good this year. But normally it's
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: M three.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: It's crazy to me that Stanford is in the ACC.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna have to go all the way out
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: there next year. Yeah, we're gonna have to go to Stanford.
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: This it's not that hard going there, it's more hard
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: coming back. Yeah, because when you get there, Like I
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: think our flight was at like six am, but we
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: got there at like noon, so like we still had
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: like our whole day, but like going back, we lost
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: like all this time. Yeah, so like it.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Won't be that bad.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: So what about Clemson. You said you just loved it
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: when you came here, rees came here. What is it
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: that you loved?
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: I just the first thing that like stuck out to
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: me was how much people like appreciate you and like
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: value you and like take care of you, Like they
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: want to take care of you and make sure you're okay.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: That was the first thing that really stuck out to me.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: And then the second thing, obviously, like the soccer facility,
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: all the athletic facility and everything they have here for us.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: But the most important thing for me was to make
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: sure I'm looked at, like as a person first and
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: make sure I'm taken care of, because that's like a
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: big personal thing for me. What does that look like
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: for you, whether that's just people like checking in, like
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: even random people doesn't have to be like my friends.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: It could be anybody that works here in nearie or
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: like at the wh just like making not friends with
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: like older people, but just having conversation with them and
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: like getting to know people that I would never talk to,
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: and especially being young, like I need to learn how
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: to have conversations and like grow up. So I think
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: that's like important to me. And the fact that all
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: the older people here are willing to sit down and
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: talk and actually have a decent conversation with you, it's
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: like really like heartwarming for me.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: Love that even though you're like locked in on me,
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: like you said, older people you know.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Definitely not.
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: I think that's what does make Clemson special is there's
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: so many people that care and it can probably be
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: overwhelming at times, like why does everybody know my life?
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: And checking in? But I think that's a strength of.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Ours, right, and especially you know, being a D one athletes.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: Like I'm sure you guys know it's like everybody thinks
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: it's like glitter and glam all the time. We all
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: know it's not. I mean, you know too. But so
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: I think it's important to like come back to reality,
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: you know, in your day to day rather than like
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: obviously I'm on the Instagram a lot, or you know,
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: I'm out there on social media or whatever, but in reality,
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: it's like the days could be hard, right, so you
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: still have to look after yourself.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Talk to me a little bit about your team culture
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: this year.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Honestly, it's great. It's really good. We have eleven freshmens
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: that's half our team.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, jender classmen.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yeah. And the fact that like the upperclassmen,
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: like even from the beginning kind of accepted us, like
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: because you know, it's easy for upperclassmens just like stay
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: in there little zone and the underclassmen is stay in there.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: But the fact that they accepted us early on, like
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: in the summer, it was like we felt connected in
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: a way, and it just got even better, like as
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: preseason went on and as the season started, So like
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: I give them big props because I know how hard
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: it is talk you being twenty two to twenty three
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: and talking to an eighteen year old. It's not always
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: the best thing. But they did a great job with
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: like just making sure we we were okay and like
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: looking after us. And then on the field, I felt
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: like we just clicked from day one. To be honest,
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: it was never really like a learning period obviously us
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: freshmen playing It's like we had to get over that,
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: like to not get nervous and stuff games. Yeah, but
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: off the field, I just think it's we've clicked. We've
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: clicked a lot.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: I feel like you have to click as a team
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: in soccer. Yeah, it's such a team sport, Like me
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: coming from an individual sport, like you're it's all on
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: you for some aspects, but as a team like you
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: guys all have to make a connection because you have
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: to make connections on the field right as well to
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: do well. Yeah, So that's good that they kind of
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: brought you in and made you feel comfortable, made you
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: feel safe, like gave you time to learn what you
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: needed to learn.
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: Like that's very important definitely, And like as an upperclassman,
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: like to make your freshmen feel like they're at home
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: and like they're in a in a space where like
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: they can be themselves too. It's like super important and
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: definitely like helps like your team and like everyone like
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: be on the same page too. So that's definitely like
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: a cool thing about about your team.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Eleven underclassmen is crazy, that's insane.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: That's fun.
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: Though.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: We'll have sixteen next year because we'll all be sophomores.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: But we have five, five or six flashmen coming in.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: That's good for like building up. Yeah. Yeah, three years
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: from now we'll be back in the college.
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: I love that.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: You mentioned Reese, would you say she your closest with her.
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: On the team.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: What is your guys' dynamic like on and off the field.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Well, people, it's kind of funny. People look at us
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: as like we're like a married couple, like the way
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: we argue and stuff. But it's just when you're friends
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: with somebody for nine or ten years, it's like we
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: know each other so well. It's like, yeah, we fight,
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: but it's not like it's not like we hate each other. No, yeah,
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: but we fight about petty things.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: I watch you guys interact and I'm like, what is
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: going on? This is like the odd couple.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it was.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: It was so interesting, but I knew it came from
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: a place of like love.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. And there's like a lot of history with
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: us too, I mean us going through things. We've always
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: been there for each other. We've played on the same
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: team for not a time, We've known each other for
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: nine years.
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: Basically, do you guys grow up together?
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: Well, I would say, like grow up together, but we
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: actually played on the same team, and then like as
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: we got like closer and closer, we did everything together.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: Like even when we go back home, it's like we're
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: still with each other every day. We do everything together.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: So it's just like best friends definition best friends.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: That the same high school team, same club.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Well I actually didn't go to high school like in person,
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: but same club. We played for the same club for
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: the whole time. Very cool.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: Okay, no high school in person?
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, hold on, I just straight online.
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: For four years. Wow, how was that?
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: It's hard not gonna lie just because I didn't have
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: like a social life. Soccer was the only thing. So
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: when you tell me that, when you ask me, like
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: one of my hobbies outside of soccer, it's like it's
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: always been soccer. But it was I did that just
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: because I was going back and forth with Brazil, so
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: I couldn't be in person. Yeah, but it was hard.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: I would say the school part was easy because it
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: was online, but yeah, everything besides that was pretty hard
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: to do. But I enjoyed it. I was glad that
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: I didn't have to go to in person school every day.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: It was hard.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: I went to in person school for elementary school, middle school,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: and then high school. Is when you started traveling for
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: international competitions and stuff like that. Okay, I see that's insane.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: That reminds me of like one of my teammates when
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: she did like worlds and stuff. She had to she
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: had to be homeschool, Like you can't do both, Like
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: it's too much. Traveling from different country, different country every
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: two weeks, like that is a lot as a high
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: school student.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: It was hard, but she did did.
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: How has the transition been from now you're full time
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: student in college? How's that going?
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: Actually, everybody is mad at me because apparently I have
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: one of the best schedules as a freshman. I only
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: have a class on I have class on Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: but I don't have class on Tuesday Thursday, and everybody's like,
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: how did you do that? And I have four online classes,
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: I only have two in persons, so it's like it's
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: not too much. I did that on purpose because I
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: was like, I knew if I had a lot of
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: in person classes, I would struggle.
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: Especially in season two. Yeah, it's not what you're used to.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, and nobody but nobody really understands that. Yeah,
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, guys, if I was in in person,
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: I would have straight f's or straight c's, Like it'd
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: be really bad. So I did it on purpose. But
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: I mean it's it's actually been kind of easy. The transition.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: I would say, yeah, it's really hard.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, going from online to like online even more. Yeah,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: I feel like that's going to make it a little
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: bit less difficult. Yeah, what's your major?
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Business management? Fun, classic old business degree, never hurts, I.
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: Mean great business school.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, not a bad place to go
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: in person, Yeah, definitely there.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's nice there.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so the business building is really nice and they
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: have good snacks.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: I've had their snacks.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: They have like they have like a whole coffee shop.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: Like the cafe, the cafe.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: Are you a coffee drinker sometimes. I mean being Brazilian,
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: it's like I started drinking coffee was fourteen, no way,
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: yeah obviously not just like straight yeah coffee. But yeah,
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: I do like coffee, but I have to stop drinking
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: like the whole sugar filled ones. Like there's just outsiders.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: It's like a cake batter one I get extra sprinkles.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: There is one that Ashley was telling me about. It
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: was like a bourbon latte. She said it was sweet, though,
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: and I think that I don't know what the bourbon is.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: I'm sure it's not alcohol, but I think it's just
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: like the flavoring or something. And I need to try
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: that because she said it was so good.
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: But yeah, it was. It was amazing. But something that
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: you would want clubs advance to know about you that
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: they might not know about you.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: That's a good question. I feel like I'm very quiet
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: whenever I'm out and about, and people think that I
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: don't talk a lot, but like, once you get to
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: know me, I can I can yap a little bit. Yeah. Yeah,
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: I'm just I'm very guarded, so I don't really let
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: people in easily. Yeah, but once I do, it's like
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: it's a new person.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: Kind of Yeah, what's something Reese would have told us
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: before this podcast?
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I honestly have no idea what she
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: would have said. Oh man, you should have asked her.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: Actually no, I'm glad you didn't.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what's something that you would say about Reese? I
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: know we haven't had her, Maybe love to have her
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: on the podcast, But what's something you think people don't
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: know about her?
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: She's a very caring person. I feel like that's easy
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: for me to say being her best friend. But even
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: if it's just like anybody on our team or even
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: people she doesn't really know, she will go out of
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: her way to do anything for them. And that's like,
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: I appreciate it a lot. I appreciate that quality. Yeah,
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: I could see that. I saw her drop you off
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: this morning too, and I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, the.
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: Parking.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: No, what do you want your legacy at Clemson to
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: be when you leave here? When you do great things
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: with soccer? What do you want people to remember.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: You by that? I always did everything for my team
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: and my coaches and the athletic apartment here because I
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: hate when people look, I mean, it's like they think
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: I'm just doing it just for the accolades and the
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: stats and everything, because it's easy, especially as a as
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: a goal scorer, to say, hey, like she just wants
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: to score and assists just to get the stats to
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: win acc whatever. Yeah, but at the end of the day,
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: I could care less about that stuff. Like, as long
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: as my team's winning, I would do literally whatever it takes.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: So I'd rather than like see me as somebody who
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: will play center back if I have to or have
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: to defend the whole game and not score, rather than
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: just going out there and just trying to score just
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: to rack up goals or assists.
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: It's great, it's a great.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And having that mindset, those accolades just come too. You know,
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: you're not trying for them. They just happen. Yeah, it's awesome.
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: You do.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: Where can people find you on social media?
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: Instagram?
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: Okay, Instagram?
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: What is it?
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: Jud dot Harris, no TikTok no linked linked No, We'll
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  Speaker 1: get you started.
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: We'll get you started, to start an business, business story.
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  Speaker 4: We'll get you started for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you guys. H m hmmm,