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Preseason Vibes: Heat, Hustle & Huddles · The BIG LIFE

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I'm Leah Klinke and I'm Kate Phillips and welcome back to the Big Life Podcast.
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We're so excited to be back with all of you guys after our first week of preseason.
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Yes, we have so much to catch up on this week. It's been so exciting finally
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getting back together with our teams.
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We can't wait to share all of the behind the scenes of this first week. So exciting.
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Okay, so Kate, how are you feeling after your very first week of preseason back at Mizzou?
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I am like so excited
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like this first week was a lot obviously preseason
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like the very first week is always just a
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lot getting used to like whatever two practices a
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day the heat but it's been so fun
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and like this team this year is like it's
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just it like we're our team's awesome like team connection we
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have two new coaches which has made it like very
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different in a great way so I
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think it's it's different but in a in a
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good way and I think everybody's kind of embracing that
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and embracing that like we're not the
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same team as before which I think's for us
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has been like a big deal and
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kind of getting past like past years and not getting
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caught up in old results or like
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things we used to do so I think
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that's been like a big thing for our team and just seeing
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the change I love it like it's been so fun how's
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your first week been at Notre Dame it's been really
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good I mean I'm super tired it's been definitely a lot but it's really been
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great our team is we're doing good we have a lot of team chemistry we always
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hang out together we're having fun with each other so it's super fun but again
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it's just pretty exhausting with like double days we have a bunch of lifts.
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Like meetings, and everything else that we do as a team on and off the field.
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So definitely exhausting is one word to describe it, but also super fun.
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And I'm getting super close to everyone on the team. And it's great to be back with everyone.
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Yeah. How do you feel about it being your last preseason in college?
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It's actually crazy. It's crazy how fast the time goes by.
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And this year, I'm really just trying to focus on staying in the present and
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soaking it all up because it is my last preseason.
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But it really is. It's super scary, but also exciting.
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And I'm just really excited to see what this season has in store for me and
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our team, because I think our team is very good and we should have a good season. So we'll see,
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Kind of just take it day by day, work hard every day, get closer with each other,
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and hopefully we'll get the results in the end.
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Our first couple days, I feel like those first couple days of preseason,
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you forget how tiring it is.
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And for us, it's been really hot these first couple of weeks.
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Oh, really? Yeah. And so dealing with that has been...
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Like it's always difficult but just
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like figuring out like everybody else has to be dealing with this too
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so just like kind of getting past that like we do i don't know
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if you guys do this but we do like hydration testing every morning
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oh we don't so yeah you
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have to we like do hydration testing if like
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pee in a cup get tested because if not like
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it's actually insane like how hot is
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it today like today.
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It's right now it's like 8am it's like
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75 but it like to the today
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during training we were we trained from like 8 to
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10 and it was like it felt like like 90 degrees oh
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wow just like getting past that and dealing with that a
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little bit i mean always like we always talk about like
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a mentality mentality that we have and it's
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like everybody's dealing with this so let's like just
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kind of get past that yeah and you
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guys are training early 8 a.m to 10 is that like normal for
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you guys yeah during like fall we
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usually train in the morning and then like obviously would have
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classes after but right now yeah we'll train in
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the morning and then usually yeah train in
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the morning then we'll have lunch together have
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a little break if we have two practices we'll
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have a break come back practice dinner
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and like treatments and whatnot in between
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and then if not we'll have like practice lift
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break team building something yeah busy busy days the schedules are packed especially
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this first week I feel like like we come back and it's like we're waiting waiting
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waiting until July 29th when you can finally get with your coaches and And then when you can,
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it's like nonstop, like throughout the day,
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whether you have practices, lifts, like meetings.
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Something that my team's been doing a lot is we've had a bunch of meetings with
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our sports psychologists, which is it's been very helpful for us and very good
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for us, especially early in the season.
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As we are kind of she does a lot for us and she helps us a lot,
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a lot about mentality, like staying in the present, how to keep your confidence.
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She talks also about how to deal with like your role on the team because some
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people start some people don't some people play some people don't so she talks
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a lot about that and then we also go over with her a lot of like common team
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issues that we might face throughout the season and kind of how we would,
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like solve that, I guess, if it happens. Like there's no, there's no team issues
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and hopefully we won't have any team issues throughout the season,
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but sometimes it happens.
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So it's helpful to kind of know how we're going to deal with it before that even happens.
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Yeah. We have somebody, his name's Dr. Pim. He's, he's worked with us,
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which is, it's actually crazy.
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He's worked with us for four years, but my class,
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when we were going into our senior year of high school,
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they told us all to like come if we
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could come to like the overnight id camp so we got to know each other and like
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be around the coaches and we met him then and like he'll do like report we'll
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do like confidence things and like he has like all these papers and everything
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so he has ours from senior year of high school to like now and we actually just
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like talk a couple of us like.
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Had talked in front of the team about like our past like
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i guess my past three years and like he was talking about like
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from senior year to now of like
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how much we've gone through and like how much
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our confidence we talk about confidence all the time our roles
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have changed um you're kind of giving like
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advice a little bit to like younger players on like
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how to deal with like setbacks injuries
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your role changing yeah that's
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like one thing we like really also like hone
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in on just because I mean you never
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know how many minutes you're gonna play what
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role you're gonna have on the team you get injured like it
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things can change in like seconds so I think like talking to people and like
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having a team conversation about that is like huge yes yeah I agree I think
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being open about that is really important because it is hard especially I think
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it's important for like the freshmen just coming in,
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like coming from high school soccer or like club soccer to especially like if
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you go to division one, two or three, it's a big step up.
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Everyone playing college soccer at the collegiate level is really good.
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So you're usually one of the best on your teams going into college.
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And then you get to college and there's a team of 30 girls who are all the superstars
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from wherever they're from.
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So it's just hard to adjust to your role of maybe playing a lot for your club,
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but then maybe you get to college and don't play as much. And...
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Just adjusting to it all. And it's important that my team really stresses the
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importance of just coming together as one team, no matter your role.
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We always are cheering for each other, helping each other out,
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and just challenging each other, no matter what role you're in,
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just to contribute to the better of the team in general, which I think is really
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important. But it's hard.
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It's way easier said than done too, because in the moment,
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it's just, you don't know like what's coming
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until you actually experience it yourself so that's hard and
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injuries too are a big part of that you may be a starter playing
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all the games and then you get injured like early in the season and see like
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that's that's really hard on you but it's important to just kind of always have
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a team first mentality because you just want to do everything for your team
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so that your team has the best chance of doing as well as they can throughout the season.
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Yeah what would you say is like team camaraderie has
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been like probably so far during preseason
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you said it was like good but like
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how did that happen yeah we're like really good
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it's been super fun with everyone like our
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days are pretty filled besides our off days which we have nothing which
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is nice so on our off day like today for
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example we had an off day and we all went to the pool so we
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went to one of our teammates apartments pools and we
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just hung out there as a team we just love hanging out with each other no one
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else is really on campus now because we're the only
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sport that kind of starts this early so we're just
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kind of forced to hang out with each other but we love hanging out
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with each other so we do that and then we always are running out to get ice
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cream after like all of our meetings and meals for the day which is fun we're
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just I feel like this is the closest I've ever been with any of my teammates
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and it's just super fun they're all my best friends And we just love,
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love, love hanging out with each other, both on and off the field.
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So it's really been great. And I think like team culture and team camaraderie
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really goes a long way throughout the season.
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You always think of like soccer, it's like, oh, the best players on the best team are going to win.
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But it's really more about a lot.
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I mean, it's like probably half and half. You have to have the team chemistry.
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You have to be able to like get through some adversity and just be able to do it all together.
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Together and with no team separation because that can really make or break a
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season yeah I think for yeah for us too like we're always hanging out together
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obviously like nobody's here so we're like always together I mean you guys are
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in the dorms yeah here's my dorm dorm tour.
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Very simple yeah so my team stays and we're
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all staying in the dorms for like the first three week
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so until August 19th August 19th we'll be in the dorms all together so we live
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together we play together we hang out together we have like one hallway where
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all of us are so we always just hang out in the common room at the end of the
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hallway like after practices and stuff we watch shows together.
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A bunch of us like to read. So we'll be like reading on the couch together,
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like just all the time, always hanging out.
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But it's fun being in the dorms with all of my teammates for sure.
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Yeah that's so fun we just actually so
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our dining hall is like across from our locker room
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and they have a ping pong table in there and like since nobody's obviously in
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there besides us and i think volleyball got there today but we took the ping
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pong table into our locker room and that's what we've been doing like because
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we always have like breaks and like a weird hour break in between.
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Lift or practice or whatever and so people have
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been getting like really intense in our in ping
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pong and like our coaches and like playing
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so that's so fun yeah it's been
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so fun like it's just funny and then now we're like trying to buy it go and
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like ask if they can buy us a ping pong table just because like that's one thing
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that we've been just like doing like I feel like in preseason you always just
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like I don't know find something fun to do in that like couple of hours just because you're, like,
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sitting around and then funny stuff always just, like, starts happening just
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because you're all sitting there.
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I mean, there's, like, 30 girls in a locker room. Yeah, yeah.
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That's... It's so funny you bring up your, like, funny stuff just starts to happen.
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What my team's been doing... Because, yeah, you get, like, you have training
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and then a meeting and then lunch and then, like, you have an hour or so,
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like, random breaks until, like, your lift or something, for example.
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Or at least that's how ours goes, and I assume. You guys, it's kind of similar, but...
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Some things that my team have been doing is we'll randomly start,
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like, rapping together.
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So weird, but we'll, like, make a beat, and then we'll start literally,
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like, rapping around the classroom, or around the locker room.
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And then just, like, rhyming random words. I don't know. It's,
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like, weird. We're all, like, super tired, exhausted.
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And then also we have, like, dance parties all the time. So do you know Calabria?
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Is that a song? It's, like, a song, yeah. Yeah. Well, it's like a song where
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you like each have your own dance move and then you, it's like a game kind of,
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but you have your own dance move.
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My team does that all the time in our locker room, like before practices and
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stuff and before games too, to get us kind of ready to play.
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So we've been dancing and rapping a lot, I guess.
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That's hilarious. Yeah. A soccer team full of some singers and dancers.
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We're all serious. You go. You guys get some celebrations ready for goals.
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We actually have been. We've been mentioning that. Someone will do something
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cool. We're like, you have to do that when you score.
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Yeah, we've been coming up with celebrations. And like half the time,
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I'm like, guys, like half the time people forget about it.
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But like, it's a great idea in the moment until somebody forgets about. Yeah, exactly.
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Yeah. So you talked a lot about kind of earlier on about how your team is like
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kind of almost, it seemed like starting over, like forgetting about the past or anything,
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just rebuilding and kind of starting this season fresh, not thinking about anything
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else except looking forward. So talk a little more about that.
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Yeah, I think that was something like we had brought up like early on,
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just because we, we obviously like have two new coaches.
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So our head, my, so our head coach is like still there.
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And then my goalkeeping coach from the last two years, she took a new role as
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our associate, one of the associate
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head coaches so she's not with the goalkeepers anymore which I think.
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Her name's Kelsey Weiss, but she's she played at Florida State,
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like all American goalkeeper, played in the NWSL. She's awesome.
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And she just wanted to take a new role because she wants to become a head coach one day.
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And like, I'm so like, we're all so happy because she's awesome.
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And like, I think her job, like now she works a lot with the back line.
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Which she had before, but she can like focus more with them.
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And then we got a new goal I got a new goalkeeping coach and
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so that's like his name's Austin but we've been.
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Kind of like it's it's different obviously so
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just like embracing that a little bit has been
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something new and I like it just because you kind
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of like I don't know for goal keeping having somebody different like
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talking seeing different things I think
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has been really good for like our goalkeeper group yeah
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and then we also have another associate head coach Renee
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Horton and she came with like a ton
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of experience she was at USC for a
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while in Georgia and she
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brings like such a fun energy like she's
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always like celebrating us but also like holding
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us like accountable which is something that
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I love just because she like holds us to a high standard
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but then like you do something well and she's the first person like
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jumping down like screaming celebrating but i
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just think like the whole new like coaching staff has really
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like been like we aren't what the
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past used to be so like no reason to
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like look on that dwell on that like last year we didn't
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make the sec tournament from like one game we had
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to win our last game win our tie we didn't so i
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think is like not like looking at that and like leaving like
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this season like thinking about that just because we
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aren't that team whole new team new coaches
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so I think just like not be dwelling on what we I guess once were or like what.
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We could have been because we're not that anymore yeah and it's helped a ton.
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Like I don't know these past week this past week is like.
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Been so huge for us and i'm so excited
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to like we play our first exhibition game tomorrow so
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it'll be really exciting to see everything like
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kind of go into that game and
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how like yeah everything we've worked
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on yeah that's awesome that's awesome
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that you guys have that mentality and you guys are all
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on the same page moving forward so yeah sounds like
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it's gonna be a great start to the season and good luck in your game
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yes how was your first exhibition game actually
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it was played yeah yeah so we
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played we played northwestern it was it
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was okay we definitely first pre-season
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game i feel like is always a little bit rough we were just kind
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of with everyone new and getting like the system
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down and how we're gonna play and stuff we did okay
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we tied them they're a very good team all the
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credit to them but we definitely had
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a lot to take from it and we're gonna learn a lot from it
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and definitely just move forward flip that page and
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get ready for our next game which is against indiana
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this saturday but these preseason
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games are all about just kind of getting your feet wet and a lot of people get
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a lot of minutes which is really cool a lot of people get experience and just
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really see kind of how i mean it's the very first game so it's gonna to be a
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little bit like rusty but kind of just seeing the potential of the team is great and.
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We're just excited to move forward and do hopefully better in the next game
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but it was it was good definitely a good learning experience and it was a good
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game for sure good game yeah yeah i think those exhibition games are always
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like i don't know you go in with some type of expectation,
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usually doesn't go that way just right you're
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playing your own team for like so long like well so
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far i think we've played like 11 v 11 maybe like three times but it's like you're
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playing the same people so like going into those exhibition games you know nothing
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about the other team first off because you can't watch like any film because
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i mean their teams change um so it's He's always just kind of going in,
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like, just open for anything.
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Yes. And then, like, what I love about him, though, is that you kind of have
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to, like, work on the fly a little bit.
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Like, corner kicks, you have no clue what the other team's doing.
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Like, your team just has to figure it out. Like, that was something we were talking about today.
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Like, we have no clue what—we play K-State, but we have no clue what they're going to do.
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So, like, it's your guys' job on the field to figure it out,
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and that's going to happen in a game. So, like—.
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Just being able to, like, work it fast and, like, efficient in those moments.
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Yeah. And, like, being able to do it. Like, the first week is always good,
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just getting a little bit under your belt, just being ready for anything.
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Yeah, right. And then you can really hone in on, like, exactly what you need
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to work on and how to move forward from there.
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So, I feel like this is kind of always how it is, these preseason games.
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Like a little bit messy but you get through it and you learn a lot and your
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team really grows a lot after them yeah definitely how are practices like different
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for you guys in preseason than.
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Like during season I think
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for us they're kind of similar
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but a bit different in the same way they're definitely harder in
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preseason just because we're not in our
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full routine yet we don't have as many like games I guess so
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the coaches aren't trying to like save our legs or
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anything so they're definitely harder we do more like
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scrimmaging with each other because the coaches are evaluating us
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trying to see who they're gonna play and it's
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just more practice so sometimes we'll have double days
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or we'll have lifts and practice at the same day
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so just harder I feel like
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but pretty similar at the
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same time yeah besides like just more scrimmaging and
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like mixing around people mixing around positions just
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to kind of test everything out to see what's going to work in the
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future what about you guys yeah I
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would say pretty similar like a lot of playing bigger I
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feel like we don't do that as much in season just
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because it's like quick turnaround like with
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your off day or whatever it's pretty quick turnaround so just
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yeah lots of playing bigger for
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people coaches to evaluate we also play we do a lot
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of like we call them like mentality drills so.
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Like a lot of like super close
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goals crossing in like who's gonna
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who's gonna finish it like yeah we play drill we
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call it because my coach kelsey was at florida state so
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call it the florida state we call it the florida state drill um she
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doesn't call it that but we we do the goals are
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like five maybe like
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seven yards apart and then it's like three it's
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like goalkeeper needs to go three three and it's like just
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crossing in and if your mark gets scored on
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you're off and so it's just like just
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sort of just straight mentality yeah yeah um just.
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Like kind of gritty drills like that just because in season sometimes
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you can't really be we can't really like push it like
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you were saying with like legs yeah right yeah like that yeah that's actually
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so funny we have this thing we call them grit games and it seems like a very
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similar thing yes just like mentality things it's like who's just gonna dig
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deep and like get it done and like do their role like yeah on some of the things
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like we do like this heading thing where it's like.
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It's almost like a punt and like two people are just like fighting to like head the ball first.
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So it's like, it's just really gonna throw themselves out there kind of and
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be the grittiest person, I guess.
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So we do kind of a lot of those things, but yeah, in season,
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you have to be kind of more careful, careful with that because you're playing
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or you don't, you want to limit the injuries in practice and yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. Lots of small sided, which I love, but sometimes
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it's like the field players are like oh so many
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1v1s or like 2v2 drill which us
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goalkeepers love just because you're getting so many shots no but
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it's yeah i like preseason with the two days
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and we've been a lot like the guys said stuff's
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different this year a lot of like our later practices have
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been a little bit like more functional so
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we're like working on set pieces lower
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load stuff yeah which has been like great and i
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think all of our bodies are feeling a lot
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better this preseason than they have in past years so
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that's something that i've really enjoyed yeah
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right that's important but you're yeah more
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of a mental doable but hard it's important to
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like go into the season pretty fresh i'd say my team like
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does very similar to like i say
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like double days but it's like we'll have a real like a
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hard practice in the morning for example and then our afternoon will
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be like set pieces or yes yeah just
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like stuff like that so I don't think we've had a maybe the very
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first day was like a actual like two a day but other than that it's either a
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practice and then a lift or a practice and then like a set pieces thing or but
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still with that a bunch of meetings and stuff so the whole day is pretty much
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filled up but it's not I mean it's not anything crazy but it's definitely tiring and.
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Yeah, for sure. Yeah. What have you guys? Oh, yeah.
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What have you guys been doing like outside of soccer? You talked about like
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going to get ice cream, just like different things that you've done with your team.
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So we went to get ice cream. We have been to the movies.
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We went to the pool today. That was super fun. Let's see what else.
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Oh, we went to get coffee like almost every day.
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That's pretty much it. We had like our game night, which was super fun within our teams.
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So we did some skits and had played
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a bunch of games I don't want to talk about it though my
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team did not very good what did you dress up as
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oh we did like a skit with
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like our coaches kind of so we were like dressing up
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as our coaches oh that's funny yeah it was it was
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really funny so that was fun that's kind of what we've done outside what
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about you guys we've done yeah ice cream runs
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I feel like that's always something we'll do and
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then we did a one day for a team building we
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did a scavenger hunt around campus because our campus is
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like pretty close so we walked into team
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building and usually it's like all of our coaches in there
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and i was just like our head coach and she was like okay like we were put into
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summer teams like over the summer just to check in and stuff so they were like
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okay you guys are gonna be in your summer teams like we're giving you you start
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off you just read a clue and it was like places around campus,
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and so we were like,
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we were like all sprinting around campus it was like different spots and people
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were there we had to take a picture and then give you like a new clue and then
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when you would get there you have to like do something like one of them was like do a handstand.
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Or like just different things it was so fun though but it was so annoying because
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our team like some teams had like different routes like easier routes oh yeah.
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And, like, our team was, like, sprinting this whole rough thing.
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And then, like, the team that came in first was, like, their stuff was,
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like, so close. Oh, yeah.
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We got back and we were, like, drenched in sweat. And we were,
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like, you guys are already back.
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Like, we were on, like, our eighth one and they were, like, heading back.
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And we were, like, all so confused.
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We were, like, how are they already done? We were, like, we were so.
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Oh, gosh. Yeah. I bet that gets so competitive.
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Yes. Yeah. that was our first time doing it was so fun though we were like we
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need to do something else like this yeah it was so competitive like you are
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one team would be walking and then,
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people would be sprinting past like just like talking like okay like why are you guys walking,
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that's so fun that seems really fun that's a good idea yes
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it was so much fun i i really enjoyed it even
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though we were like i think we ended up running like
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four miles or something just like back and forth i'm sure
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yeah yeah but it was intense because everybody
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like wanted to get back and win and then when we
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got back we did like this was funny there's some
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random game our coaches came up with it was like they had to give you a word
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and then you had to go give like a speech about it they got really out of hand
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but people were just doing like funny stuff but we just do like yeah like we
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were saying we just come up with like fun stuff on the fly yeah right the past time,
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But it's been, yeah, so many fun memories, like, already made. Yeah, for sure, yeah.
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I feel like the days go by kind of slow, but then, like, we're already a week
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done. Like, it feels like it goes by, like, really fast.
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See, I would say the opposite. I feel like days go by fast. Well,
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during the day, it doesn't.
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But they do, like, once you get back home, I'm like, oh, my gosh,
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I'm already, like, done for the day.
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But the week i i can't tell you like what day of the week it is half the time
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yes yes you like lose track it was like i don't even know what day it is today
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but like it was monday one of the days
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we were like wait it doesn't feel like a monday like you completely like lose
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track because it doesn't matter like you're not in school you're not doing anything
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besides like just being with your team the whole day you just like lose track
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of everything and it's like it's almost like you're at camp like it's not like
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real life no it isn't and then you'll like forget about it
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And then, like, the next year comes around, you're like, oh, my gosh.
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Yeah. This is how, like, preseason was. Yes. It just flies by.
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Yes, it flies by, yeah. And that's what, like, makes me kind of,
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like, sad, I guess, because I'm like, it's my senior season,
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and I'm already done with the first week of preseason.
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Like, I'm never going to have that again. Yeah.
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But, I mean, it is what it is. Got to just stay in the moment and take in everything.
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How would you say how are
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your like new freshmen doing or any transfers and just like integrating
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with the team and the style of play and everything yeah
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I think that our freshmen have been like really
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like receptive and like good with like how everything is obviously it's like
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pretty big jump I would say we talked about this in the last episode but yeah
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they're doing well obviously the first weeks a lot but
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But they seem like they're like enjoying it, having fun. Our freshmen are so
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outgoing, so it's like easy to get along with all of them. How many are there?
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There's six of them. Oh, okay. Cool. That's a good number. Yeah.
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I'm like, am I right? Yeah, six. No, but they're, yeah.
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They've been awesome so far and so fun.
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But yeah. and then we had one transfer and she
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was from scott or she had
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played like in scott gallagher so a lot of the girls from
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our team play there i played out there so she like knew a lot of people so it's
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been easy for her i think gotcha yeah but no yeah everybody's been like like
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i was saying like everybody's been on the same page and i think it's made like
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this first week so easy yeah.
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In like past years i wouldn't say like
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our team has been like yeah i think
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it's like awesome seeing it and like how
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close everybody like already is like it's so
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cool to see like i love seeing the freshmen just like like
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interacting like with different grades and like
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like when we go to lunch or dinner
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or something like you don't see like classes sitting together like
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you just see like anybody like you wouldn't you
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wouldn't even know yeah and I think that's something
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like our coaches have been really big on the past
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year and like this this past spring and like seeing
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it is just like so cool yeah that's great and
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that's like totally going to translate into the field when you guys start playing
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yeah what's underrated and
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that people don't think about maybe going into college is like team culture
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is so important yeah you could have the best team but if the people don't get
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along and they're not happy for each other and they're mad that so-and-so is
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playing over so-and-so or whatever like you're just not going to be good like
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that's just and you'll get fights off the field and that will take plates on
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the field to how you guys are playing so.
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I feel like people don't realize that but it is such a huge part of a college
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soccer team how has your team like been with that freshmen and transfers good
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so we don't have we're like pretty much the same team we have well we have three
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new freshmen a transfer goalkeeper and then a grad transfer,
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and they're all integrating so greatly.
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Our grad transfer was here in the spring, so she's already been in with the team.
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So I guess we have four new faces, but they're all doing great. Our freshmen are...
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They all have different personalities and they're some loud,
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some quiet, but they're all so great. Everyone loves them and they fit right in. So it's been great.
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We just try to make sure like they're comfortable with everything and like,
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I don't know, it can be scary just coming in as a freshman.
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So just making sure, always checking on them, giving them rides and making sure
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they're happy, which they seem to be.
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So it just can be a big transition freshman year. So, but like looking back at it, I'm like, oh,
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like I liked when my upperclassmen would ask me how I'm doing and
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like talk to me and stuff so that's what we just try
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to do to help keep them included and making sure
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they're doing good but yeah no it's been great and
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they're great great players great people on and off the field so
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really good yeah that's awesome I like
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yeah I think for the freshmen like making sure that
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like I feel like it can be really easy to like
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think oh like they're okay or whatever but like
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especially if you guys have three like that
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can be hard with such a big team and like your guys
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sophomore class was so big uh-huh yeah yeah
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that's good that you guys are like really on top
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of that too yeah yeah and i feel like like you can just like make their day
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by asking them how they're doing or like be like oh like if you're going out
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with some people to get ice cream like come with us just include them in everything
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i think that's so important well guys that's a wrap on the first week of pre-season
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thank you so much for listening and following along with this journey.
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