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Ep. 38 - Advantage, Clemson: Inside Tennis Culture with Annabelle Davis · Beyond the Paw - Clemson Athletics

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome back to another episode of Beyond the Paw.
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  Speaker 1: Today we have guests annabel Davis from women's tennis, super
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  Speaker 1: excited to get into her being an athlete at Clemson,
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  Speaker 1: her journey from England, and a little bit about pickleball.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go Beyond the Paw.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Wait, Annabelle, do you guys just finish season?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Almost?
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  Speaker 3: Almost? So you're still going okay?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So we have the selection show on Monday for
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  Speaker 2: the tournament and then we'll find out who we play
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  Speaker 2: and then that will be next Friday.
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  Speaker 3: Next Friday.
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  Speaker 1: So you guys just had a CC's.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we just had a CC's. We had a tough loss.
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  Speaker 2: It was super tight, but on the whole, like, it's
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  Speaker 2: been an awesome season and yeah, we're kind of making
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  Speaker 2: right now for Clemson women's tennis.
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  Speaker 4: So I feel like I've seen you guys do so well,
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  Speaker 4: Like you're always posted on the Instagram like everywhere. I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: oh my gosh, I need to go to a tennis match, Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I think I've only ever been to one, and I
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  Speaker 4: was like so appalled by how quiet it was. Like
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  Speaker 4: you guys like like they cheer when you like make
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  Speaker 4: a point that's probably I butchered that.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, you said it right. But yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: funny because in tennis you have to be very quiet,
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  Speaker 2: like during the point. Uh, like you can't cheer before
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  Speaker 2: like first and second stuff and then. But college tennis
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  Speaker 2: is kind of different because it's super rowdy, so every
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  Speaker 2: time during the point, everyone just has to go crazy,
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  Speaker 2: and then when the point starts, it's like, right, okay,
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  Speaker 2: let's resume, let's be quiet.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you have to like settle, like I could hear
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  Speaker 4: a pin trop before someone serves.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh, that's why I love to call tennis though,
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  Speaker 2: compared to kind of pro tennis, because you can express
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  Speaker 2: yourself and be loud and cheer for your teammates, whereas
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  Speaker 2: traditionally tennis is very quiet and formal. So I like that.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think it's awesome when like you're playing
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  Speaker 1: tennis and all like the grunts and.
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  Speaker 5: Like yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Noise.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's so fun. Yeah, it's fun only
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  Speaker 2: in college tennis too, because there's so many internationals so
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  Speaker 2: and you don't know who you're going to play until
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  Speaker 2: you walk out there, so you can play anyone in
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  Speaker 2: first point, you know, you could be playing someone from
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  Speaker 2: anywhere in the world and they had the craziest grunt
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  Speaker 2: and you're like, why, I just have to deal with
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  Speaker 2: this now, Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Do you make a grunt sound?
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  Speaker 2: Not really. I'd say if the if the rally is over,
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  Speaker 2: like ten shots, maybe I start pulling the grunt out,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and or if I hit a really you know,
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  Speaker 2: a good shot, I'm like, oh, yeah, let's go.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like the grunts like make you do better
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  Speaker 4: almost right, Oh yeah for sure? Power Like is that yeah,
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  Speaker 4: correlate or you.
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  Speaker 2: Got to let it out? I mean the matches where
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  Speaker 2: I played well and definitely the loudest, I feel like
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  Speaker 2: that correlates true across like you guys are sports as well.
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  Speaker 2: Louder the better sometimes, yeah for sure. So yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: love college tennis. I'm gonna miss it.
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  Speaker 4: What would you say is like the biggest difference between
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  Speaker 4: like college and pro tennis besides like the grunting and
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  Speaker 4: stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the main thing is you're playing not just for yourself,
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  Speaker 2: like you're playing for a team. And that's why I
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  Speaker 2: knew that I wanted to come to college and play
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  Speaker 2: sports because growing up, like I always played team sports
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  Speaker 2: and that was super important to me. Being part of
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  Speaker 2: a team and the result myself didn't really matter, but
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  Speaker 2: being surrounded by people that I want to work for
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  Speaker 2: was way more important. So yeah, i'd say your point
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  Speaker 2: matters for the team. You're not just You're not just
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  Speaker 2: playing for your own glory. So that's been really fun.
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  Speaker 1: What was something about Clemson that drew you here?
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  Speaker 2: I mean I always tell the coaches this, but when
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  Speaker 2: I came on my on my visit, it was around
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  Speaker 2: this time last year, and before it even like got
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  Speaker 2: to the campus, I was like, I'm coming to Climbstone.
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  Speaker 2: The three of them are amazing. They're so unique, and
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  Speaker 2: they just bring this kind of energy that just inspires
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  Speaker 2: you and it makes you. It makes you want to
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  Speaker 2: give your best every single day. And yeah, before we
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  Speaker 2: even got to the campus, I was like, Wow, I
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  Speaker 2: love these people. I want these people to be part
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  Speaker 2: of my life. And then arriving on campus, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: even know somewhere like this could exist. I mean even today,
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  Speaker 2: I come in a campus and it feels like the
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  Speaker 2: first day when I got here. I see the big
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  Speaker 2: football stadium walking up to it, and I feel like
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  Speaker 2: I'm in a movie.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, No, Clemson is like literally a fake believe, fake believe,
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  Speaker 4: like fairy tale end world, Like it's not real.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I tell my friends.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I feel like everyone has like like a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people say like, oh, it's like the Clemson feeling,
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  Speaker 1: like when they get here, it's like, yes, like I
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  Speaker 1: want to actually.
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  Speaker 2: Real, Yeah, it is real. I mean, it's amazing to
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  Speaker 2: have facilities like this, and I mean it was a
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  Speaker 2: great experience coming from in mid major because you really
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  Speaker 2: do appreciate what you have every single day. But I'd
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  Speaker 2: say too, like, it's not only the facilities here, but
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  Speaker 2: it was really the people because everyone is so family
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  Speaker 2: oriented and Clemson is just like one big family. So
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  Speaker 2: I really I just love that about this place. And
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm always gonna be part of the
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  Speaker 2: Clemson family and I want to come back and see
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  Speaker 2: my teammates do well in the future.
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  Speaker 6: I think that's so cool.
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  Speaker 5: Even after one year, you already feel that most people,
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  Speaker 5: i mean get other schools.
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  Speaker 6: Even after four years you're like, hm, it was great.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, I don't want to leave.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 4: I understand that I'm taking another year because I don't
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  Speaker 4: want to leave.
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  Speaker 2: We were talking about that, how there's so many sixth
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  Speaker 2: years in college now, and it's just a whole nother landscape.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm yeah Grandma's season for real.
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  Speaker 1: I'm clear going to be one of the last six
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  Speaker 1: years I am.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, yeah I will be because the class after me
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  Speaker 4: they don't have like a COVID year or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I'll be old, I'll be uncle. I don't
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  Speaker 3: want to go grandma status.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's how you called it, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, me and me and my doubles pont No Sophia
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  Speaker 2: Haddan with both the grandmas this year and the freshman
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  Speaker 2: let us know that from earlier, but we kind of
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  Speaker 2: like being the Grandmas because we can look over them and.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, watch over the younger some respect exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you want to show them the way. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I really couldn't have asked for a better year, honestly.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a bitter sweet that it's coming to an end.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm grateful that I'm still graduating in Christmas and
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  Speaker 2: I can still be surrounded by them until the end
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  Speaker 2: of this year. So you stick around the program through
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  Speaker 2: the fall too, then, Yeah, I'm really excited to just
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  Speaker 2: keep training with them, and I don't want my tennis
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  Speaker 2: career to come to an end. And I think throughout
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  Speaker 2: my college journey, I've always been asking myself that question,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that's an that's a fear that a
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  Speaker 2: lot of athletes have, is how am I going to
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  Speaker 2: transition away from my identity as an athlete? But I'm
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  Speaker 2: really just trying to take it one step at a time,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm just I just love the sport and I
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  Speaker 2: love to compete, So I don't want it to end
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  Speaker 2: just yet.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and you're training under a coach who's like won
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  Speaker 4: a national championship.
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  Speaker 2: How is that? Yeah? I mean, Boomer is an amazing
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  Speaker 2: and something that he preaches to us a lot about
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  Speaker 2: just showing up every day regardless of how you're feeling.
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  Speaker 2: And that's something that I've really learned this year is
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter whether you're having a good day a
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  Speaker 2: bad day. It's like you have to show up for
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  Speaker 2: your teammates. And he doesn't want us to hide it
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  Speaker 2: when we're having a bad day, but he really just
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  Speaker 2: draws the best out of us. And something he always
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  Speaker 2: says is every day's a great day to be a Tiger,
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  Speaker 2: but it's true. It is. And he brings this sense
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  Speaker 2: of gratitude to the team, which I just love. And
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  Speaker 2: you know those people where they just have this energy
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  Speaker 2: that's infectious. Yeah, he brings that to our team. And
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  Speaker 2: I can really see how he turned the program around
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  Speaker 2: at Iowa State. And I mean, I have no doubt
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  Speaker 2: that after this season him and him and Ashley and
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  Speaker 2: Tom and the rest of the team are going to
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  Speaker 2: go on and do amazing things. So I'm excited to
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  Speaker 2: see that.
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  Speaker 1: So you're super far from home, and you kind of
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  Speaker 1: explained like the transition like coming to the US and
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  Speaker 1: how different tennis maybe for you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was definitely a big transition. I
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  Speaker 2: think I decided when I was around sixteen that I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to come over to the US. I had some
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  Speaker 2: older friends that had done that too, and at the time,
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't I wasn't amazing at tennis. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: played lots of different sports, tennis was always my favorite.
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  Speaker 2: But I knew that I could I could pursue that dream.
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  Speaker 2: So I actually had a broken leg too when I
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  Speaker 2: was sixteen, so that, Yeah, I mean, you're a gymnast,
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  Speaker 2: so you must be dealing with stuff like this a
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  Speaker 2: lot but.
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  Speaker 3: Similar, but never a broken leg.
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  Speaker 6: How did you break your leg?
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  Speaker 2: I just fell over on the court. It was I
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  Speaker 2: feel like I must be clmsy. I have big feet,
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  Speaker 2: so I guess that doesn't help because I fell over
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  Speaker 2: on the court last season and broke my wrist. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but we've been good year. But yeah. So I brew
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  Speaker 2: my leg when I was sixteen, and that was probably
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  Speaker 2: the hardest thing I've had to go through, but also
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  Speaker 2: maybe the best thing at the same time, because I
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  Speaker 2: had to work so hard to get my fitness up
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  Speaker 2: and really just prove to myself, like, no, you can
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  Speaker 2: do this. You have two years, let's let's do this.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go. So I mean after I came back from
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  Speaker 2: the broken leg, I was actually better and fitter than
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  Speaker 2: I was before. Yeah, so it's awesome. Yeah, it was
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  Speaker 2: that really made me believe that anything is possible.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like it's kind of like a deciding factor,
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  Speaker 4: like am I going to actually pursue this, Like I've
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  Speaker 4: gone through this trauma, Like is this something I really
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  Speaker 4: want to do? And that kind of just shows you
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  Speaker 4: whether or not you're going to stick with it or
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  Speaker 4: like let the broken leg get to you and you didn't,
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  Speaker 4: so that's really cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent. It was like the hours in
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  Speaker 2: the gym, and I mean I just remember lying there
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  Speaker 2: in my bed just thinking, Oh, my goodness is this
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  Speaker 2: Am I doing this for a reason? Is this going
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  Speaker 2: to pay off? I don't know, but I have to
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  Speaker 2: keep trying. And then when I eventually signed for the
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  Speaker 2: I mean it was really my dream school, University of
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  Speaker 2: North Florida in Jacksonville. I was able to go on
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  Speaker 2: a visit there right before the pandemic, and I remember
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  Speaker 2: driving onto that campus and I was in paradise and
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  Speaker 2: I just loved the school so much. I loved the
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  Speaker 2: coaches and the people there, and I had an awesome experience.
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  Speaker 2: But it was a big adjustment getting to Florida for sure,
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  Speaker 2: because gosh, it was so hot that first all day
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  Speaker 2: I was going outside. I was trying to do my
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  Speaker 2: homework in tan my teammates are like, no, you you
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  Speaker 2: have to stay inside here yea and humid. It's a
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  Speaker 2: hot So yeah. It was funny too, coming from the
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  Speaker 2: UK and just learning all the different lingo. I would
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  Speaker 2: I would say some things and people think, what is
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  Speaker 2: this girl saying? I don't understand her.
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  Speaker 3: I love the action, Like I could listen to you
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  Speaker 3: talk all day.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you York.
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  Speaker 6: Where are you exactly from in the UK?
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  Speaker 2: So? I grew up just outside of London and then
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  Speaker 2: I went to a sports kind of boarding school when
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  Speaker 2: I was eleven, So I guess I've been doing the
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  Speaker 2: sort of student athlete things since I was eleven. But
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  Speaker 2: that was an awesome opportunity. And my younger sister followed
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  Speaker 2: me there a couple of years later and she got
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  Speaker 2: the same opportunity, and then my parents decided that they
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  Speaker 2: wanted to move down. We lived closer to Wales, so
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  Speaker 2: sort of in the southwest now. But it's beautiful. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's very similar to the landscape here and I think
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of what drew me to Clencern, that it
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  Speaker 2: really does for like a home away from home.
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  Speaker 3: So you went to boarding school?
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  Speaker 2: What was that?
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  Speaker 5: Like?
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  Speaker 3: Are you living at school?
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  Speaker 4: That's what I think about when you say boarding school,
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  Speaker 4: Like you're living at school. You're basically like in college,
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  Speaker 4: but you started that at eleven.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean it's funny because a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: in the US are like, you went to boarding school?
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  Speaker 2: Is that like Hogwarts? I mean no, it's it's similar
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  Speaker 2: to college where you lived there and you do all
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  Speaker 2: your training there, you have all your meals. Some people
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  Speaker 2: at that school they could go in every day. I
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  Speaker 2: mean once I was fifteen, my parents moved there. I
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  Speaker 2: would commute every day, which was nice, but yeah, it
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  Speaker 2: was I mean I remember showing up when I was
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  Speaker 2: eleven and I was on a scholarship for field hockey
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  Speaker 2: and tennis and multi sports, and I met my roommate
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  Speaker 2: who she never she didn't speak English and she's from Spain,
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  Speaker 2: but I mean we became amazing friends in her English
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  Speaker 2: just improved exponentially and whistling contact now and I went
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  Speaker 2: to visit her in Spain, So that's awesome.
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  Speaker 6: That's so cool.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like you would meet like a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people there, and then you have a lot of
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  Speaker 4: internationals on your team. Now, how has that been with
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  Speaker 4: like trying to communicate like are there different languages?
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  Speaker 3: Like what's that look like?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this year's been an adjustment for sure,
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  Speaker 2: because Sophia was the only returner from last year, so
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  Speaker 2: we have ten on our team, so that was nine
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  Speaker 2: new people. Wow. And yeah, I mean I'm obviously from England.
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  Speaker 2: We have a girl from Slovakia, Czech Republic, Italy, Spain.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you name it Greece. So but I feel
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  Speaker 2: like it it actually brings us together more in a
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  Speaker 2: way because everybody's going through the same thing that are
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: away from their family. They're making that sacrifice. And I
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  Speaker 2: think with tennis two, because it is so individual. Outside
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  Speaker 2: of college, you sort of learn how to how to
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  Speaker 2: meet new people and bring that out of yourself.
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  Speaker 1: So it's definitely like the beauty of sports too, Like
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  Speaker 1: no matter where you're from or like what you do, Like,
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  Speaker 1: we're all kind of in the same boat no matter what.
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  Speaker 1: We're all homesick a little bit, so we kind of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, get that bod from there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and people always ask me if I'm if I'm
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  Speaker 2: homesick and stuff like that, but I guess you just
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  Speaker 2: you just learn to do your best every day and
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  Speaker 2: you know that everything that your parents sacrificed was worth it.
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  Speaker 2: And it was super nice because both my parents got
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  Speaker 2: to come visit this semester. Yeah, so fun. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: that was the first time that they got to see
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  Speaker 2: me play a college match in person.
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  Speaker 6: Wow my god.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just with the pandemic and everything. It was tough
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  Speaker 2: to visit, but yeah, seeing them standing there in the
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  Speaker 2: stands and watching me, Yeah, that was an amazing moment
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  Speaker 2: for me, knowing that my hard work paid off, and
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  Speaker 2: for them too, because I'm disgrateful for a reading they
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  Speaker 2: sacrificed for me to be here.
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  Speaker 4: What did they think of Clemson when they came on
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  Speaker 4: campus to watch you? They were blown away, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the facilities at my boarding school and Millfield
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  Speaker 2: were amazing, but when they got here, I mean, I'm
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: not gonna lie. The first place I took them was
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: the Army. It kind of has to be.
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  Speaker 6: I had to like peel my parents out of them
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  Speaker 6: last year.
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  Speaker 2: My mom was like, how much of these red light
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  Speaker 2: pods I could really do? But I don't think we
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: can have one of.
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  Speaker 6: Those at homew again.
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: But I mean, the facilities like that just the reason
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  Speaker 2: why Clemson athletics does so well. And I just love
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: how much they care and invest in the athletes here
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: because it is important and it gives athletes everything they
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: need to thrive, like on and off the sports field.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, I was gonna ask about the tennis courts.
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  Speaker 4: Actually I don't know in England, but I read this
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  Speaker 4: book and they were talking about like grass courts, clay courts,
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: and then hard courts, which is your favorite and can
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: you kind of explain each one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so in college we play on the hard courts,
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  Speaker 2: and that's what the US Open and the Australian Open
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  Speaker 2: is played on. So those two Grand Slams and then
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: the Grand Slam that's in England. Wimbledon is played on
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: the grass, and that's traditionally a summer surface, especially in England.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: It rains a lot, so you can only really play
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: on that in the summer months. But the grass is
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: difficult because the wall doesn't really bounce that well.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: I feel like you would have no bounce at all
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: long grass.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sometimes you'll like go for a shot and you're
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: swing and you're just completely with it and you just
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: have to you just have to move on and laugh
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: it off. But a lot of my teammates love playing
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: on the clay, and that's what Roland Garros in Paris
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: is played on. So yeah, we have a Spanish go
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: on our team. And if I played her on the clay,
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: I think I think she would be me six love,
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: six love, because she would just be sliding around and
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: him drop shots, And.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: Wait, what's different about the clay the clay is, does
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: it make it bouncier, Like it's a.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: Little bounce here, but it slows the points down, so
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: the rallies are typically much longer. And obviously you have
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: to slide to move around on the surface, which doesn't
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: really come naturally if you haven't grown up on the clay.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I definitely like the hard courts a lot,
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: and that's why college tennis was a big appeal two,
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: because you're going to play on the same surface all
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: the time. But yeah, I mean, I guess in the
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: future maybe I'll play on different surfaces too, depending where
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: I travel.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: So wait, I was gonna ask to you about the
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: scores to you said six love, Like, can you explain
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: to the non tennis watcher how the scoring works and
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: how the scoring works in college too.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So the scoring is so you play two sets
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: in singles and each set is to six, but then
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: if you split sets and the college match is still live,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: then you would play a third set also, So I mean,
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm always playing third sets. I kind
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: of love it, but it's tough at the same time.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: But then in college is different in doubles. So we
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: actually start with the doubles and it's the best of
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: two out of three matches, so there's three pairs playing,
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: and then you have to win two out of the
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: three to get that doubles point. That's something I love
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: about college tennis is the double because that really sets
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: the stage for the rest of the match for sure.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: And it's not necessarily about who's playing the better tennis.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, you guys know this too as athletes. It's
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: kind of about what you bring and the attitude you
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: bring and the energy that you bring to the court
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: that day. And I mean, yeah, walking out for doubles,
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: I remember the first match this season, I alterally had
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: goosebumps because they just go all out here. I mean
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: we have like the sirens blowing, and we have running
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: out onto the court and high five and everyone, and
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: it's a lot of fun. Yeah. But I mean, the
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: doubles point is pretty crucial because you have to get
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: to four points total to win the match. So if
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: you get that doubles point, you only need three out
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: of six of the singles, which is still a lot,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: but it's it really gives you the momentum boost that
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: you need.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: So do you play both doubles and singles?
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can change it up in your lineup. You
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: can have people play just doubles, just singles both, So
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: it kind of depends on who's healthy and just what
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: skills you have. But I do like being able to
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: play both because then you're kind of warm and ready
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: to go in singles. And it's been really fun as
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: well to play with different partners over the years and
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: just yeah, kind of find out what your strengths are
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: and what you bring to the team.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Do you ever like try and get into the other
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: person's head, like when you're playing singles? Like, I don't know,
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: I feel like tennis is such a mental game, Like
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: you're literally staring at the person across from you. So
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: I'm wondering, like, do you ever try to get in
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: their head and like pseg them out? Or is that
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: like not a thing in tennis at all?
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Oh? No, that's a thing for sure. I mean, as
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: you can probably tell, I'm quite polite and things like
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: that off the court, but then when I go onto
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: the court, you're a different beast. I'm a different beast.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: I'm a b on the court and about off the court, yeah,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: but yeah, I would say a big thing that I've
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: learned throughout college is the power of body language and
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: really just even if you're not feeling it, you know,
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: you could be losing a set and five.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: But the great thing about tennis is never over until
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: it's over. We're not playing now o'clock, so you can
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: really come back from anywhere in the match. So something
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: that we've been doing as a team that's been super
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: fun this semester is the power pose.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: That I think I heard about that from Grey's Anatomy
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: before they went into like surgery, they would.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Do this post.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: You heard about it from Power and I heard about
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: it from Power as well.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, we learned like matches and stuff.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was funny. We learned about it in Power
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: right before the spring semester started, and then we did
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: a team building with a company driven leadership and we decided, okay,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: how do we want to set the tone going into
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: every match and we came up with a power post
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: circle so we all stand there. It did traditionally start
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: as a little bit more of a power post hands
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: on hips, but it's naturally evolved to where I mean
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: I sometimes do the worm.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Everyone's just powered dance circle.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: It's more of a powered dance circle. Yeah, but I
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: mean it's so much fun because a lot of times,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: you know, we'll do something to sort of show that
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: we're going to be the other team, you know, for
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: a certain dominance. Dominance exactly. So I think sometimes the
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: teams look over and they get a little confused what
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: we're doing. But to us, I mean it fires us up.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: We're ready to go. And that's everybody does something right.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Everybody does something. Boomer tends to do the same thing.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: He tends to jump in the circle. And oh the
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: coaches do it too. Yeah, we are all in, oh yeah,
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: we what.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Does Boom we do?
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Sorry, no, no, he like jumps in the cycle and
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: like pushes his hands out. Ash likes the Irish dance.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: That's always a good one. But yeah, we come up
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: with all kinds of all kinds of slogans, like we
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: have the orange Blooded slogan, which sort of means, you know,
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: we're tigers through and through and we got that like mentality.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: So there's been a lot of things like that that
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: I've really seen come to Fruition this season. And it's
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: so cool.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: It's cool, is there like a pregame hype song that
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: you guys listen to or like, I know you guys
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: do like the dance circle, but it's some song that
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: maybe you guys.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: I guess it's kind of similar to you guys. We
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: just have a running playlist. Are you guys allowed to
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: submit songs to your playlist or.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah we have that you are, Yeah, we have like
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: we have like a Google form. We like filled it out,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: but it's for practice.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: It's oh, I like that.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh, for practice, we're allowed to choose. But I
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: thought you meant like during the competition. It's like a
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: set playlist I think from DJ Shay, but he.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Gets U hyped up. We should invite DJ Shane next year.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys would be fun.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: It would be fun.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: It is silent, like would music kind of distract you
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: guys while you're playing.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: I mean they play music sometimes between singles and doubles,
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: like before we start and stuff. But but yeah, there's
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: not really any music during But I mean, I'm I
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: like Drake, So anytime Drake's playing in the warm up,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: I'm kind of bomping and getting ready to go.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: What about in your headphones? Is like Drake playing in
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: your headphones, like when you're by yourself.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Usually before I walk out there, I try and have
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: some in a piece, Like I'm very interested in mindfulness
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: and meditation, so I tend to try and calm it
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: down before and then when I get out there, it's
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: sort of like I hit the green light and it's
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: all just go. Maybe we exactly.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: We heard your health and wellness coach as well?
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: No, yes, yeah, So before I gave to Clemson, I
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: was studying health science and I got a certification in
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: health coaching, which is kind of a new field because
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of health coaches out there on social
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: media but not necessarily certified. So that's something I'm really
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: passionate about, is educating people about how to make healthy
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: lifestyle changes. But it's not necessarily telling people, Okay, here's
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: what you need to do, but actually sitting down with
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: them and listening to their needs and just helping them
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: feel support. So that's been It's been something that I've
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: learned a lot through my psychology masters as well. And yeah,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I mean I would love to go back into sports
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: and mental performance and kind of be able to feedback
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: in and help younger athletes to learn about themselves and
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: to have a healthy lifestyle throughout college and beyond.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: So I feel like that's so beneficial, Like that's something
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: I would want one of my teammates to have too.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: So if I ever have a problem, help me next time,
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: I'll come to you.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Still learning, still learning, But yeah, I definitely think the
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: mindfulness and meditation has really helped just just keep me
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: grounded throughout college. And there's been so many ups and downs.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: I mean this time last year, like entering the transfer
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: portal with a broken wrist, I didn't know what to expect.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: I'm sure like any other transfer can relate, you're kind
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: of going into the deep end. But just being able
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: to take each day at a time, And like I
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: said a pre Shia, every day that I've had here
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: has been really special.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: Speaking of life, you had a big life event.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: I got married. Congratulations, thank you. Yeah, I mean so fun. Yeah,
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: it was difficult. We were trying to plan it for
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: ages and then we kind of just said, you know what,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: he lives in, like Jacksonville, Florida, where we both went
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: to school. We met there my freshman year. He was
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: he transferred in and we pretty much met like the
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: first week that he got there. And I'm not like
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: a super romantic person, but you.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Got to tell us like little story.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, we went on a date and I think
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: by the end of that day, I think we both
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: knew that. Yeah, I just I knew he was the one.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, sometime deep but it's true. And yeah,
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: he's an amazing person and he's been a big part
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: of the reason why I'm here today and throughout the
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: ups and downs of college, like on and off the court,
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: he's always been there. He's a track and field athlete.
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: Oh cool.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so now he coaches pro track and field athletes.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Oh awesome.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but he's traveling a lot, so hence the reason
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: why we decided, let's go ahead, let's get married. We're ready,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: and then we're gonna have a bigger celebration once my
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: family can come over and we can go to England
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: too and do something there. But but yeah, he I mean,
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: he's my biggest supporter, and I'm excited for that next
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: chapter in my life for sure.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: I love that you like knew right away. Yeah, like
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: love at first sight, like that exists, Like that makes me.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Hopefully, I know, I didn't think that was going to
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: be my story, but I mean it was kind of
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: just we met and everything seemed to click. And I mean,
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: don't get me wrong, it's been We've had ups and downs,
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: just like any other couple, but I just feel like
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: he's very grounded too, and he he really just understands
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: that he understands I don't know, just he understands you,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: he understands me, and yeah, we just make it work.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: And I'm I'm really grateful that he's been here on
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: my journey and it's been nice too to I miss
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: watching him compete. He ran the four hundred hurdles and
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: he did the high jump. Yeah, and I mean track
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: and field is no joke. So but he's he's a
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: big tennis fan. Now, yeah, that's good. I think he
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: knows more about me than like what's going on in
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: the tennis. Well, he's sending me all these tweets and stats.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Like okay, thank you, yes, even up to coms in.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he has. It's been it's been difficult being away
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: from each other this year, but it was I mean,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: he was the one that told me, look, you've worked
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: so hard for four years, why not enter the transfer portal?
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: And and really see what you could do with your
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: final year of eligibility. So being able to hear that
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: from him and just take the leap of faith and
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: have his support through the whole thing, and yeah, he's
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: meant art to watch matches and yeah it's been it's
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: been hard, but I mean, I know that the future
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: is bright.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: We have someone else about to get married too.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Any somewhere in coming.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, any words.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Of advice, Not for me, I went, I don't have advice,
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: but I'm excited for you. I'm excited you can let
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: me know how to plan the big day because that's
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: something I didn't want to deal with while I was
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: studying for masters.
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, like your idea, just go and get married that way.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Just wing it.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: You've also been a part of Power this year. Can
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: you explain a little bit about that?
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Amazing. The thing that I've loved so much about Power
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: is just getting to know so many of the other
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: female Tune athletes. I mean, I feel like we spend
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: a lot of time with our teammates in our little
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: bubble here because there's so many people here at Clemson.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: But yeah, being able to meet new athletes and see
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: them around campus has been really special and also just
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: learning about our strengths. I feel like that's not talked
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: about enough. Especially as women, we tend to sort of
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: downplay our strengths and really critical of ourselves. So I
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: think just owning our strengths and learning more about how
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: to leverage that has been has been really helpful. So yeah,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: I'm definitely excited to use the skills I've learned and
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: whatever field I go into, I want to share that.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: That's awesome. You guys are going on a trip this year.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's a Kansas city.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: What are they going to do there?
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: A surprise?
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: Oh, half over to the other side of the state
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: and help me with my wedding.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: No, it's a surprise though, No.
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: I mean it'll be visiting companies and networking with people
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: and seeing different things, and just like you did in Chicago,
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: being able to I mean we tend to network with
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: like fifty to sixty people.
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: While we're in the city. So we've got some fun
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: things planned.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm excited for you.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the Power trip is so fun.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: I know, I was telling people about power and they're like, wow,
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: this is so unique. I mean, Clemson really does do
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: it on I mean that's credit to people like you, Tory,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: but also every run across the athletics to Palmer, I
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: feel like no idea is too small. They make it happen,
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: like want big ideas.
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: I think that's what I enjoy about Clemson.
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: It's like, what's the biggest, craziest thing that we can do,
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: and then let's actually do it, Like.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: The Savannah Banana's game right now this weekend.
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: I mean, crazy idea, We're doing it.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: We're doing it. It's happening. So and it's sold out
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: People.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: I like tried to look at tickets the other day
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: and it was like, yeah, you can get one one
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars in the little tiniest corner at the very
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: top RL Yeah right, I don't field looks so cool.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: So it does look amazing, like looking at the football
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: field that you see all the time and then it's
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: a baseball field and the netting and like, oh, this
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: is awesome.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: It's so weird that they turn the football stadium into
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: a baseball arena, like.
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: Crazy, the idea can be done that.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, But that's like the thing about club st is
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: like we just do it all. Yeah, Like there's really
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: nothing that yeah, not shutting down any ideas.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: So yeah, that first football game day in the fall
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: that I went to, I never realized that there was
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: that many people in a college town, and so you
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: can't you can't see a blade of grass right in
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: the whole campus.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Yea.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: And I just love the tradition's hit too. I mean,
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: I feel like there's a tradition for everything, and I
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: like that it's really grounded in history.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, some people are like, oh, clubs, it's like a
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: small town and then you come game day.
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: I don't like.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: Nope, it's like Los Angeles traffic on Higer Boulevard.
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: You have to time it just right, don't get stuck
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: in it, which is so cool. It's like one hundred
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: and ten, one hundred and twenty thousand people come in
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: for a game day, even though only eighty three thousand
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: fit in the stadium, which is wild.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: I love families too. Everyone has that matching tiger fit.
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: It's like generations have been coming to that park lot
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: to tailgate, like so cool. I remember the very first
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: time I went to I worked at a different school
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: and it was football game day.
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: I had to be on campus early.
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: I left so early to avoid the traffic and there
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: was nothing, And I was like, did I.
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: Get it wrong with everybody? Like don't you all tailgate?
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: Because all was used to was Clemson, right, And they
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: were like, no, the game is still happening.
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: I'm like, where is everybody? This is weird.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Have you ever been to a football game before coming
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: to the US?
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: No? I hadn't, So I mean, I'll move back to
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Jacksonville and Florida. Maybe I'll go to a Jack's game
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: next year. I think they got a pretty good draft
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: pick yesterday they did, so that might that might help things.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: And I mean, I guess Trevor Lawrence is kind of
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: a cool connection to Clemson too. But I know my
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: dad definitely wants to come back to the US and
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: go to a football game. But I mean I talked
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: to people back home about football and they're just asking
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: me about the Premier League, So yeah, you have to
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: kind of explain it was. It was a landing cup
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: for me, for sure.
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: Have you been to a secure football game, like it's soccer.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Soccer, not a professional one.
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: I seem crazy too.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's a whole nother environment too. I guess. Yeah,
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: I feel like I went to more like other sporting
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: events growing up, but not necessarily football. So were you.
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: Ever wanting to play like any other sport besides tennis,
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: like in college or what?
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: What sports did you play growing up?
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Well, field hockey was a big one for me, and
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: I do miss it a lot. It was so much fun.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: I was I would always play on the on the wing,
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: so I basically just was the runner, and I think
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: that kind of summarizes my personality now. I just I
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: feel like I'm always just running around. They gave me
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: the motor I needed, for sure. But yeah, I did
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: so many random sports. Have you guys ever heard of
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: tech trathlon?
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: No?
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Explain it's like running, swimming, shooting, and fencing. Oh wow,
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: yeah I really did. It was like, yeah, a little
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: sort of pellets. It was hard because you had to
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: run and then you had to calm yourself and choot
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: and then it was difficult. But I mean, I used
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: to love running to like track and field. The I
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: don't know why I used to love the mile. I
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: feel like that's everyone's nightmare and I'm like, oh, sign
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: me up, like it's a.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: Race, let's go. That is my personal nightmare.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Wait, so you did fencing too.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah that I honestly, I didn't do fencing for that long,
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: but I feel like just kind of trying every different
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: sport is so good and I really, I mean, I'm
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: such a big I would vouch for doing multi sports
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: growing up, and that's something I do miss a little
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: in college, just playing different sports. So I'm excited for
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: life after college. I want to keep playing tennis, but
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: I feel like maybe in ten years time my goal
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: is to be on the iron Man Prodium or something
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: like that.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: I feel like tennis too, like you can always like
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: go to a park and play like it's always something
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: like you can always have forever, which is really cool too.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. And it's been nice too because my
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: parents didn't play before me and my sister started, and
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: now it's like, yeah, basically running the tennis club, and
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: I mean they love every weekend they get to sit
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: down and watch some college tennis matches from home, and yeah,
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: it's really special being able to see them their love
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: for tennis. And I know that when I'm eighteen ninety,
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: I'm going to be out there in fun's back.
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: Have you played pickleball?
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: I have, Yes, I do. Yeah, Pickaball's my second favorite
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: racket school. I think I've tried some other ones like
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: platform tennis and padal and I think pickleball is pretty good.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: It's just slightly annoying that sound.
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I feel like it's going to be a
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: college sport pretty soon. Really, I can see that coming. Wow,
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: they were talking about it becoming an old people, right, Oh,
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: it is for sure. Yeah, it's a big deal. Yeah.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't want to put pickable lower than tennis,
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: but a lot of tennis players do become pickable players
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: if it doesn't work out, So I mean never say
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: nother right.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: I grew up playing like a little bit of tennis,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: like just for fun. So like at first when I
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: tried pickleballs, like why is it not like bouncing off,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Like I'm so used to the racket so that was
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: like a funny transition.
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: But pickleball's fun.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: It definitely helps with the hand eye. Maybe it's a
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: good starter into tennis.
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: Who knows, But yeah, I feel like tennis players almost
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: get like offended. I'm like, if I asked, do you
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: play pickleball, because they're like no, Like the difference, it's
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: so different.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: It's definitely a rivalry. I feel like there's competing worlds
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: right now, so everyone's just trying to prove who the
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: best racket sport is. But I mean in both.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Extense, is your all time favorite tennis player? All time favorite? Well,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: I mean one of the great's Billy Jean King for sure,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: But more recently, I think my favorite player is someone
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: called Jessica Bgoula. She's an American player, and I just
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: love her demeanor and attitude on and off the court.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, she comes from a wealthy background, but you
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: would never know that. And I just feel like everything
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: she pours into tennis and she donates a lot of
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: her earnings to charity.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: And I really respect that. And I mean, she doesn't
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: have to be out there grinding for hours every day,
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: but she just does it because she loves the sport.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: So that's something I try and bring myself back to.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: Is just for the love of the game.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: It's awesome.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: Do you ever see yourself like playing pro?
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah? I would love to keep playing. I'm going to
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: be part of a league this summer which is a
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: time based league, So they're trying to revolutionize tennis where
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: instead of playing the traditional like we talked about, you know,
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: six six love whatever sets, You're going to be playing
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: for time, so it's going to be more fast paced. Yeah.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: I just I'm excited to be part of something new
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: and kind of see where that can go. But yeah,
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: I'm definitely not ready to put the racket down yet.
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: I think that's cool.
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: There's so many sports that are changing up, just little
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: things to make it more exciting or different, or create
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: a pro league, like even seeing how basketball volleyball like,
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: There's been so many new leagues and ideas, which is
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: really cool.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, like we said, just big ideas and
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: why not try something new? And I mean, yeah, I
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: think tennis is grounded in history, but it really could
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: take off with a time based league. And I think
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: that engaging the community is a big thing that's going
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: to be important for the sport as well. And going
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: back to Jacksonville and playing representing where I've spent so
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: much time will be really special.
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: Will you be playing in Jacksonville then traveling to different places.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: I think the goal long term is for it to
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: expand across the US, but most of the matches are
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: going to be in Atlanta, So yeah, so I think
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: I'm going to meet a lot of new people and
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: I'm excited for that. And also just I want to
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: stay connected to the tennis the college tennis world too,
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: because yeah, it's going to be amazing to see what
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: clemsone with tennis can do moving forward. And yeah, it's
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: just given me so much in my life.
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: Wait, I also wanted to ask you about how is
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: it having a men's tennis team, Like right there, I
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: feel like you guys can support each other and like,
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: good y'all's matches and all of that stuff.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: How is that? Yeah, I forgot you guys, Like volleyball
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: gymnastics is no men's team. And I think this year
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: has been cool because the men's team have just done
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: insane and I think both teams sort of coming on
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: the up and really just pushing to kind of put
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Clemson tennis back on the map has been cool. And
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: it was funny when my dad here because we walk
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: past the men's practice and they are so loud, I
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: mean talking about the grunting and the chairing. They do
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: not hold back. So I think the guys definitely bring
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: a lot of energy to the stands and they bring
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: a lot of fans in and being able to kind
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: of feed off of that is cool.
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's so fun. I feel like you have like
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: instant best friends kind of. I mean they're from all
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: over the world as well, so that's cool.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: And yeah, I just think that, Yeah, it's special to
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: have people that coming together and just being able to
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: make Clemson their home no matter where they're from.
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: Inn A Bell.
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: Do you have any hobbies or things outside of tennis
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: that you want to share with us?
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: Hobbies? I mean, I love to cook. I think I'm
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: going to pour more into that after the student athlete life.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: As you guys know, it's a little chaotic on the
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: daily basis. But I like photography as well. Really yeah,
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: I love green spaces and going on walks and just
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: appreciating nature. So I mean, a better place to do that.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: Right, Annabelle, thank you for coming on.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me. This has been great.
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: And when where excuse me, Trey cut that. Where can
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: people find you on social media?
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: I was dormant on social media for a while, but
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: now I relaunched my Instagram, So relaunch, relaunch ab dot Davis.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: So yeah, thank you so much for having me. Guys
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: appreciate it. Thank you for coming on,