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Ep. 54 - Cats, Conklin Field, and Building Clemson Lacrosse with Natalie Shurtleff · Beyond the Paw - Clemson Athletics

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Welcome back to another episode of Beyon the Pod.
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  Speaker 1: Today we have a very special guest. We are joined
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  Speaker 1: by junior midfielder Natalie shirt Left, a two time All
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  Speaker 1: acc selection and one of the top players in the country.
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  Speaker 1: Last season, she earned IWLCA second Team All American honors
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  Speaker 1: along with All America thirteen recognition from both USA Lacrosse
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  Speaker 1: Magazine and Nike Lacrosse Media, and was named to the
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  Speaker 1: IWLCA All Regent South First Team. Welcome Natalie, Hi, happy
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  Speaker 1: to be here.
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  Speaker 2: There was a long list of accomplishments.
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  Speaker 3: I know, how do you feel hearing it?
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  Speaker 2: That's one of the first times I have so very nice.
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  Speaker 1: In what You're a june junior junior.
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  Speaker 2: Ye, but I'm graduating this year, so congratulations, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting it in April, I think April fourteenth, so
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to exciting. Yeah, I know. Do you
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  Speaker 2: guys both have yours?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a ride of passage. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: you definitely have to get has to get it. I
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  Speaker 1: got my master's just to get the ring.
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  Speaker 2: Really, yes, okay, I feel like you wanted to be
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  Speaker 2: a part of the Clemson All people come to Clemson
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  Speaker 2: for the rink. Yeah, it's crazy in selling factor for me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and people like will recognize it in an airport.
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  Speaker 1: I have like people come up to me and they're like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, when did you graduate? You went to Clemson,
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  Speaker 1: like so did I and they'll be wearing their ring too. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's actually crazy.
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  Speaker 4: I guess such a cool connection network like tool pretty much.
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  Speaker 2: Then I'm very excited to get it. Yeah, yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: know I got the gold. Did you guys have silver
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  Speaker 2: or gold?
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  Speaker 3: Gold? Gold? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Antique finish Okay, I think that's what I got. So perfect.
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  Speaker 2: Glad that we're on the same page.
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  Speaker 1: Did you get it engraved with anything?
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  Speaker 2: I think I did. I did my numbers and then
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  Speaker 2: my number, so I love that. I'm excited and you're
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  Speaker 2: number twenty seven. Is there any significance behind it? Not
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  Speaker 2: at all?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, I was thirteen growing up, and then I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I want to two digit number odd and it was
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  Speaker 2: the only one left.
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  Speaker 3: So I was like, okay, and you got to Clemson.
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  Speaker 1: H And what was now for thirteen when you were younger?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I wasn't really a big Taylor Swift fan.
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  Speaker 3: I am now.
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  Speaker 2: Like everyone I went to an all girls school, so
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  Speaker 2: I had to be a Taylor Swift fan. But it
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  Speaker 2: was just my number, and I was like, okay, that's
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  Speaker 2: what I am for everything now and until now, that's
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  Speaker 2: what I really I love number thirteen. I would have
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  Speaker 2: picked it at Clemson, but it was taken for Taylor
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  Speaker 2: Swift or just no.
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  Speaker 4: Well, my mom was thirteen where she played ball, so
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  Speaker 4: that was like I wanted to follow her. And then
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  Speaker 4: it was just like unlucky number thirteen, but like make
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  Speaker 4: it lucky.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know better reason than my changed the stigma
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  Speaker 2: around the night. Right, That's what my thought was.
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  Speaker 1: You said you went to an all girls private school
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  Speaker 1: or yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I did.
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  Speaker 2: For high school, it was definitely interesting. Taylor Swift played often.
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  Speaker 2: We had a lot of dance competitions, nice a good amount,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of choreographed dancing, and it was awesome. I
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  Speaker 2: loved it. It was only like ninety girls in my class.
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  Speaker 2: I would go back if I goad. It was just
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  Speaker 2: great just being in like small classrooms and everything.
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  Speaker 1: But and you grew up in Maryland, correct, Yep, what's
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  Speaker 1: the town called.
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  Speaker 2: I live in Cockeysville now, but I used to grow
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  Speaker 2: up in Howard County. I moved up there for high
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  Speaker 2: school actually because I used to live like an hour
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  Speaker 2: away from the high school I went to. And then
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  Speaker 2: when my sister, of course went we decided, okay, well
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  Speaker 2: now it's the time to move and we moved up
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  Speaker 2: to Cockeysville and we've been there for I think four
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  Speaker 2: years now. So nice.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And Maryland is like the biggest lacrosse state ever, right,
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  Speaker 4: Like that's like where the legacy forms.
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  Speaker 2: It's a crazy place to grow up. I mean it's
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  Speaker 2: very lacrosse focused, yeah, especially compared to down here. Just
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  Speaker 2: I mean, anyone I talked to, they're like, we don't
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  Speaker 2: understand anything going on out there. But we loved to
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  Speaker 2: come out and support versus there. I think we probably
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  Speaker 2: got as much as, if not more than football games
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  Speaker 2: at my high school. So we had a boys school
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  Speaker 2: right next to it, and I mean people just loved it.
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  Speaker 2: It's such a big thing of the culture in Maryland.
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  Speaker 1: Lacrosse is definitely an East Coast sport. I for sure,
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  Speaker 1: I had not really heard much about it growing up
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  Speaker 1: in West California.
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  Speaker 6: Same in Midwest. Yeah, all have you enjoyed bringing it
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  Speaker 6: down to the South, Yeah, I have it's really cute.
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  Speaker 6: The little girls who play it.
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  Speaker 2: It's just like such a niche sport, I guess down here,
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  Speaker 2: so they really care about it. So it's nice seeing
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  Speaker 2: how much they love it versus like in Maryland, it's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: everyone plays, it's fine, but they have a different appreciation
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  Speaker 2: for it down here, which is nice.
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  Speaker 3: What age did you start playing?
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  Speaker 2: I think six or seven, but my sister was laughing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not laughing My sister started playing at like five.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people like you started as soon as
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  Speaker 2: you can walk and stuff. You just kind of are
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  Speaker 2: playing for fun. Yeah, it's an intense environment. So you
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  Speaker 2: said you have a sorry younger sister. Yeah, one younger sister.
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  Speaker 2: She goes to Colby College. It's up in Maine, so
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  Speaker 2: she really loves it up there. She's a freshman right
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  Speaker 2: now and she plays lacrosse there too, so growing up
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  Speaker 2: she's very competitive. I mean, you would think she's the
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  Speaker 2: older sister by the way she acts. She's taller than me,
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  Speaker 2: has dark hair. She Yeah, she's very confident. She scares
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  Speaker 2: me sometimes, honestly, like I been to her will She's
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  Speaker 2: like Natalie, I need this. When she she had MPFL surgery.
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  Speaker 2: She had a bell in her room, a Natalie bell,
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  Speaker 2: and I would run on in and get her whatever
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  Speaker 2: she needed. No, yeah, she's a force of nature.
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  Speaker 1: But so she doesn't ask you for any words of
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  Speaker 1: wisdom or words of advice.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, no, I ask her more. Really, she's she's always
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  Speaker 2: just been very mature. Even when she was a kid,
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  Speaker 2: she grew early, she was very she's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fun. Is it just the two of you,
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  Speaker 3: just the.
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  Speaker 2: Two of us? Yeah, and my parents, So it's nice.
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  Speaker 2: Did your parents play any sports? My mom played basketball
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  Speaker 2: and soccer and lacrosse, I think all of it. Like
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  Speaker 2: a D three school in Maryland called College of Notre
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  Speaker 2: Dame of Maryland, like an all women's school, so she
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  Speaker 2: played there. And then my dad didn't play sports. But
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  Speaker 2: they both really love working out, Like every time my
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  Speaker 2: dad comes down here, he likes to do a nice
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  Speaker 2: trail run. Loves his trail runs. And yeah, they've been great.
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  Speaker 2: Are you a big runner?
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  Speaker 4: I feel like lacrosse, you're like always moving around, kind
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  Speaker 4: of like soccer. Similarly, do you like to run?
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't say I like to run, but if I
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  Speaker 2: had to choose something, it would be running. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I don't really get the runners high as much anymore,
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  Speaker 2: so it kind of takes a while, but I think
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  Speaker 2: that's what I'm gonna do postgrad. What are you guys
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  Speaker 2: gonna do for it? Like your post grad workouts?
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, like, I've been really contemplating this question a while now.
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  Speaker 1: I've been thinking about like crazy things like kickboxing I
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  Speaker 1: heard is really good for cardio, so I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: try that. I'm not a runner at all either, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't I've never gotten a runners high, so I
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  Speaker 1: have no I have no idea what that even feels like.
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  Speaker 2: It's nice, Yeah, hopefully you get it kicked. Boxing, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: maybe boxing high.
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  Speaker 1: Pilates to shout out Palate Social.
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  Speaker 4: At that it's are so good at it because you
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  Speaker 4: guys like Pike, like you're just so like naturally flexible
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  Speaker 4: that like, yeah, just you make it look so easy.
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  Speaker 1: I think the flexibility helps a lot, but still, don't
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  Speaker 1: get it wrong, was really really hard. We did like
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  Speaker 1: a tester class at Plate Social and I was able
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  Speaker 1: to bring my team and they made it was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be a beginner class, but apparently they made the
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  Speaker 1: class so much harder because they knew we were a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more advanced than than normal beginner and I
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  Speaker 1: was sweating.
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  Speaker 2: So for like two weeks afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what I did, but it was, it
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  Speaker 1: was it was very hard, so maybe that maybe you'll
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  Speaker 1: get it? What about youumya?
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  Speaker 2: I also really like plates.
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  Speaker 4: I thought the same thing with reformer plates, like it's hard,
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  Speaker 4: just like using different muscles than what you normally would.
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  Speaker 4: And then I tried mat plates, which is like ten
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  Speaker 4: times harder because it really a body weight. Yeah, like
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  Speaker 4: you're just holding yourself up, you know, like on the
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  Speaker 4: reformer you can like press on that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but like I don't know, it's just a.
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  Speaker 4: Lot harder in my opinion. But I also like hot workouts,
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  Speaker 4: so I like to sweat.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, that's my bad. What about you?
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  Speaker 6: I mean it took me a long time. I feel
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  Speaker 6: like still trying to adjust and figure out. And I'm
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  Speaker 6: ten years out. But I went through hot yoga that
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  Speaker 6: I went through like orange theory that I just now
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  Speaker 6: got back into a regular weight room and I wanted
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  Speaker 6: nothing to do with like a free weight room for
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  Speaker 6: a long time, and you teach yoga.
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  Speaker 3: I did.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I did a class with you once.
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  Speaker 1: Your voice is really smooth, snoothing. Thank you, Socome.
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  Speaker 2: You do have a soothing voice. I've always thought that.
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  Speaker 3: I enjoyed teaching it and it was fun to do
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  Speaker 3: that too.
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  Speaker 2: You never did a marathon, Absolutely not. I could have
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  Speaker 2: seen you doing one.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever ran more than three miles.
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  Speaker 1: I want to try a marathon. Can't you walk it?
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  Speaker 3: I don't. I like my knees.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't walk it.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like that would make me actually break.
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  Speaker 6: I think it's to all that people can do it,
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  Speaker 6: and I want to be a runner. Like I've set
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  Speaker 6: out and said I was going to do it and
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  Speaker 6: then I just.
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't. Yeah, I don't blame you. It's hard to get
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  Speaker 1: yourself going. I feel like once you're there, then it
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  Speaker 1: makes it so much easier. But it's hard to get started.
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  Speaker 2: Now easier when you have a friend. I just need
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  Speaker 2: to be distracted.
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  Speaker 6: Like if you're running, you're just thinking about running, and
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  Speaker 6: it's the same thing, and it's just you and your
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  Speaker 6: thoughts or whatever's playing you and your thoughts heard.
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  Speaker 4: If he's talking on the phone, Like when you run,
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  Speaker 4: like it helps a lot because it helps I.
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  Speaker 2: Want to listen and popping on the phone or podcasts.
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  Speaker 2: I have a friend, Susan, she's on our team. She
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  Speaker 2: does like ten mile runs for fun, half marathon like
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  Speaker 2: mid season or not mid season and winter but she yeah,
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  Speaker 2: she's insane.
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  Speaker 1: Different to be on the paw right.
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  Speaker 3: What a podcast to listen to on your friend?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll tell her she's going to watch it. She
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  Speaker 2: already does.
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  Speaker 3: Probably good.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So you're a midfielder, can you kind of explain,
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  Speaker 4: you know, like you're still offensive, but kind of what
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  Speaker 4: that means, you know, on the field.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm a midfielder in the sense that I do
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  Speaker 2: more attack wise that it used to originally be everyone
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  Speaker 2: like a midfielder played attack and d but lately they
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  Speaker 2: have run like run on players. So you come out,
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  Speaker 2: a defender comes down, attacker comes on, and it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of like you only play one side of the ball.
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  Speaker 2: But you're a MIDI so I switched over more to
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  Speaker 2: that role. I do the circle, which is where you know,
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  Speaker 2: the ball goes up in the air and you try
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  Speaker 2: and get it, and then I do attack and then occasionally,
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  Speaker 2: if someone's tired, I go run over and do defense.
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  Speaker 2: What does attacking entail in lacrosse. I dodge, which is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a little a little move, but I mainly
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  Speaker 2: do like cutting and stuff. So I kind of just
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  Speaker 2: run around in the middle and wait for everyone to
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  Speaker 2: get distracted, and then I run to where I'm supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be or where I want to be. But I
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  Speaker 2: kind of just wander throughout the middle and just have fun.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, you left me, Oh well, now you're here,
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  Speaker 2: and then and.
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  Speaker 3: Then you score.
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  Speaker 2: I try to, yeah, to the lost of my ability.
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  Speaker 2: Yes you do, not as much as some people do,
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  Speaker 2: but I try my best. But there's like a lot
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  Speaker 2: of strategy into like positioning. Then I guess, yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: feel like most of the reason why I am able
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  Speaker 2: to score is like the strategy part of it. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there's some girls who are just like so fast, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, insane, but yeah, I don't have that
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  Speaker 2: exactly to the same ability. But it's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: just like we have a lot of different sets. So
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  Speaker 2: we have maybe three people high, three people low, and
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna move this way, You're gonna do all these
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  Speaker 2: different type of cuts and everything, and then it's it's
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  Speaker 2: so much I can't even correctly explain it. It's it's
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  Speaker 2: a lot. I feel like.
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  Speaker 3: Lacrosse is so complex.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, like there's so many lines on the field, there's rules.
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  Speaker 6: I've heard it's a combination of like basketball and soccer.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I like to kind of just think of
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  Speaker 2: it as hockey, especially in the sense of like how
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  Speaker 2: like they like weave and stuff. But it's like hockey
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  Speaker 2: plus soccer. Yeah, I think of it as hockey, but
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  Speaker 2: like a lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: So you can like shove people.
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  Speaker 2: You can more in men's I get it easy. I
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  Speaker 2: don't get quite as had as all of them do,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, you can definitely shove.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy. I was saying earlier. I feel like lacrosse
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  Speaker 1: is like a gladiator sport. I feel like Natalie came
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  Speaker 1: in with like a bruise on her arm a stick
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  Speaker 1: what is that called a stickburn?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Stickburn? I don't know if you know the correct term.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, like a girl happen. Yeah that's super fun.
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  Speaker 2: It will heal up in a few days hopefully, so
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  Speaker 2: it should be fun.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, what do all of like the lines on
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  Speaker 1: the field mean.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so we have a little circle. You can't go
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  Speaker 2: in that one for the goalies. We have the little
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  Speaker 2: net in there. Then there's a huge box around the field,
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  Speaker 2: not supposed to go outside of that one like in soccer.
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  Speaker 2: And then we have another fun circle in the middle,
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  Speaker 2: but it's a bigger circle, and that's for one purpose,
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  Speaker 2: nothing else but that. It's just for the drawl for
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of the game. Gotcha throw it up in
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  Speaker 2: the air and you know, go get it, Yeah, go
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  Speaker 2: get it. Gladiator sport. And then there's these restraining lines
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  Speaker 2: similar to I guess what is the sport with the
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  Speaker 2: restraining lines like US? Yeah, US sport. I guess it's
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  Speaker 2: like half court and basketball. You're not supposed to go
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  Speaker 2: over it once you go back, but for us it's
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  Speaker 2: you're not supposed to go over it at all. So
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  Speaker 2: you have two restraining lines, and then you have well
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  Speaker 2: it's a lot now that I'm realizing, Okay, And then
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  Speaker 2: you have an eight meter, and not only do you
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  Speaker 2: have an eight meter, you have a twelve meter and
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know why we have the twelve meter,
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  Speaker 2: but it's there. And then the eight meter is the
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  Speaker 2: one where if you get fouled, you get to set
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  Speaker 2: up on it and get a free shot. But it's
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  Speaker 2: not really a free shot. They're actually very hard to
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  Speaker 2: make it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, not like basketball, But can you walk me through
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  Speaker 1: the mindset of how you get the ball in the
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  Speaker 1: draw and do you call it a ball?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it is the ball. It's kind of so basically
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  Speaker 2: you have the draw girls and the whole idea is
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  Speaker 2: that they dig their sticks so like they have to
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  Speaker 2: go under the ball first, and then they're chucking it
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  Speaker 2: in the air as fast as they as they can,
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  Speaker 2: so it's very like quick hand movement for them. And
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  Speaker 2: then the girls on the circle. There's all these different
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  Speaker 2: strategies and calls based off of where you are. So
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  Speaker 2: like let's say we know the girl probably will go here,
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  Speaker 2: like that's her favorite drawl to go to. Maybe we'll
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  Speaker 2: set up there and we'll set up where our favorite
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  Speaker 2: girl's draws or like something like that. And then it
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  Speaker 2: goes up in the air and you're pretty much just
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  Speaker 2: the first thing is you want to box out the
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  Speaker 2: girl near you, so you just kind of hit her
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  Speaker 2: around the way so you can be the first to
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  Speaker 2: get to the ball and then kind of just lucky
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  Speaker 2: the drawer if it bounces your way or not. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you can't really control much on the drawer besides trying
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  Speaker 2: to get in the best position you can.
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: So who is the team that's throwing the ball? Can
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: you decide?
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: Whereas for us, like the girl who's like throwing it
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: in there, we have Kara baylists, so she does it.
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: We have a draw specialist, so she does every drawer
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: and she pretty much is just like she runs out there,
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: does the draw and then heads off the field and
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: does it every single time. And it's a lot of work.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: She like all of us are playing, she's over on
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: the sidelines doing like hand strengthening drills and stuff. Oh wow,
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: that's cool. I feel like that'd be really hard. Yeah, Like,
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: i'munn't do it. I was gonna have to be taught
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: if we didn't find more draw takers. My I think
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: freshman year so very thankful because I didn't know what
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: to do.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: Why didn't you want to do it.
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: It's already a lot doing the defense and the attack
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: and all that. I don't know if I could add
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: another thing to learn. Yeah, it's a little bit too
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: much for me. But it's like a new skill, you know,
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: not my not my four session.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, So then she would run off the field and
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: then that's.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: Like that's her position. That's her position right now.
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: So cool.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they didn't originally have it as a position when
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: I started playing, they kind of it became a position
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: I would say, in like the that past five years
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: because it was the thing in the men's side. And
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: then now we have phocos, which is like I don't
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: even actually know what it means.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: But is actually the only position that she plays.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: M A lot of them do two ways, and Kira
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: sometimes does two ways too, but just because it's such
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: like a it's like you want to protect your quarterback,
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: like you don't want them doing anything else, Like you
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: just have them do the draw because it's such an
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: important part of the game. Yeah, we protect your practice
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: like a different stick than too.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: There's such like a question the game. You would never
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: think that there's like a specific player for that specific
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: job and they only do that job yecause it's so quick.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: No, it's very fast, and it's all like based off
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: of reflexes and stuff, and she's so fast so it's
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: easy for her. But yeah, she practices that all the time.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: And then we have special sticks that are strong a
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: different way for it, and it's kind of like throughout
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: all of the woman's lacrosse. They've spread, like I don't
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: know they I'm not even gonna try to explain it.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: They have different like pockets, but yeah, it's nice.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Do you guys have like sticky stuff that you can
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: use to like hold the sticks?
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe what if you like.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Let go of one of the sticks one time, well.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: When it's kind of wet, sometimes you can. Usually what
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: people do is they tape their stick. You'll just like
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: put tape on it just so you have the friction
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: stuff on your hand. But I actually don't know if
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: we can use like anything. Is that what you guys
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: do to hold the bars?
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: No, not or like bars, but like when you use
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: it on the un vault vault okay, yeah, we use
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: this thing called like attack ten and it's like basically
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know, it's almost like honey filled or honey
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: instilled within the mat or something, and so it just
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: makes us makes our hands stick to the ball rather
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: than like slip, and it's like okay, yeah, it's leather,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: so it's yeah, and if you're sweaty, you can.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: You know, it's the same thing for us, like some
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: girls use like tennis tape on the top of their
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: stick to their drawl takers to like help it go
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: up so they don't lose grip, and then tape is
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: the most common one. People just use that.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: So it's like kind of like a tennis racket. Yeah,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: pretty much like a tennis racket.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: We're just stealing from other sports at this point, it's
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: not really it's a very unique combo.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Gotcha. So you were here in twenty twenty three. How
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: has it been starting a new team, a new lacrosse team.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: It's been interesting. I mean, for sure, I didn't really know.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: I just was like, oh, cool school, very fun, and
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: then coming in, like we practiced at a different facility
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: in my freshman year and that was weird, and you
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: don't think it's weird, but once you compare your experiences
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: to other people who were like, wow, I had such
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: a different experience. But it's been really nice. I love
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: all the coaches, they're great, and I loved getting to
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: build it with my teammates and just kind of very
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: much like building my own life here because there really
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: isn't any precedent, so it's like I get to choose
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: what I want to do, what I think would be
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: a good idea and there's a lot of great leadership
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: qualities coming from it. I mean, you're learning a lot
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: just by dealing with so many different people who all
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: don't know each other, especially when it was a ton
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: of transfers. Yeah, it was just like, Wow, these are
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: thirty girls I've never met before, and now we're all
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: going to be best friends. So it's gonna be fun. Yeah.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: What was the number one thing that stuck out to
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: you about playing for Alison and your coaching staff?
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: I think for me, I just wanted someone who's calm.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: I really don't like being yelled at. So when we
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: were getting recruited, everyone said she was calm. She has
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: a very monotone voice, she's very you know, just together
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: all the time. So that's kind of what for me
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: stock out. And then she also was just very nice
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: and had it together.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: So yeah, what else about Clemson made you want to
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: come here? Because you didn't have the facility at the time?
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: No, I mean, honestly, it wasn't really even the facility.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: For me.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Part of what stuck out was I had gone to
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: other places, and I'd gone to one school and basically
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: it was like this huge, nice stadium and when my
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: dad said to me, it was like, well, like just
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: so you know, like it's not gonna be full, like
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: we're in I'm not gonna say the place, but like
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: people aren't gonna come to the games. And then versus
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: when I came here and it was kind of like
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: I knew the stands would be full, there'd be people watching,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: there'd be people who actually cared about it. So for me,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: that was one thing that really stood out for Clemson
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: cause I think it's just o rare, like lacrosse is
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: not the most known sport in the world to have
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: and especially as a woman sport, to have that come
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: up and just be able to have such an environment.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: So that for me was something that stuck out.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: But yeah, gets so cool.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, fans will definitely be there, ye sports.
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: Even just knowing like how full you're I mean all
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: three of you, like Gerby gets packed, Gymnastics your stadium,
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: and then when I'll watch you all play online like
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: at another place, I'm like, oh wait, it's not the same.
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: Especially at gymnastics meetings, I'm like where is everyone at
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: these other pieces?
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: It's so packed And it's crazy too because some of
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: these schools are so highly ranked, and you would expect
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: them to have fans that come out and support them,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: like a lot of fans like we do have here
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: at Clemson, and it's just empty.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so special at Clemson.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so you've been pretty much a starter since your
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: freshman year you got here, you kind of took on
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: that leadership role immediately. What has it been like to,
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: you know, build the program and build the culture, like
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: there was no tradition before you got to start from scratch.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean there had been one year before, so
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: they kind of had some stuff set. But I think
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: from like a field sense of like being on the field,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: it was very interesting being a freshman and having to
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: take on such a role and take on big moments.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: It's just very stressful. So I think having a lot
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: of empathy now for the freshmen who are going through
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: it as we speak, like all of them are getting
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: the brunt of it. But it was nice. I mean,
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: we had a lot of support as a freshman class.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: There was a lot of us playing, so it wasn't
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: like it was really just one of us. So I
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: think we all were able to set the precedent of
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: just having not really age based you have to do this.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: You have to do that in terms of like on
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: the field on stuff because very much like everyone's going
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: to communicate with each other, everyone wants us to win.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Kind of just having an open dialogue on the field
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: was really helpful.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: That's so cool and so important because like the worst
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: is when it's like seniors making freshmen, you know, getting
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: on them own. But like when it's a team full
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: of leaders and like you all want the same thing,
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: you're all on the same page. I feel like that's
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: what makes a great team in great culture.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: That's really cool.
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: What do you think are some of the traditions that
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: you all have started because you came in, I mean
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: one year in, but nothing was really set. You can
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: kind of set the culture set what it means to
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: be Clemson lacross.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Well, we do letters, which is something we all write
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: each other game day, like hype up letters. So you
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: get every game secret Psych. Yeah, for every game.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: That's cool.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Do you get like assigned a person or it's to
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: whoever you are.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, CALLI and Cam. I don't know if you seen that.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: They take care of it. Yeah, secret Psych.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: I love that.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you get some fun little letters you never know
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: who you're gonna get. Everyone ends up like saying who
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: they got obviously because we can't keep a secret a
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: thirty two women. But yeah, it's fun. And then we
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: do scavenger hunt. We all like do that around town.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: It's really super fun. And we have little dance parties
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: ahead of the games, which is super fun, and we
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: all just have fun together. I don't know if you
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: guys do that for your sports, you do right, like
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: damm it in the locker room. Yeah, I know. We
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: didn't really do that as much my freshman year, so
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: like to see it kind of flourish from then. And
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: we've had a lot of people from other schools bring
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: a lot of great things to the program, so it's
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: not like we're just like, Okay, a bunch of freshmen
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: being like this would sound like a good idea. We
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: have people coming from other places like Cornell especially, like
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: they had a lot of great traditions and we're able
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: to like kind of steal some of those. So it's nice, awesome.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: It's like a melting pot. Yeah, like the sport comeson
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: is a melting pot. It's great.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, So you're like halfway would you say, halfway through
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: your season or a little bit under, a little bit over,
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: actually over. Okay, so you guys played Watford last night,
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: got the win.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Yep, it was good.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: How do you feel like this season as a whole
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: is going so far? I think it's going good.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: We started out really strong in terms of the teams
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: we were playing a lot of like every team we
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: played for the first few weeks was top ten.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well accs, Yeah, the ACC is crazy for lacrosse.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: We had a big opening day in Stanford. I thought
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: we did really well there, and then since then we've
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: kind of just been trying to find our footing. We
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: had a lot of away games and a lot of
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: things back and forth and I think get really tiring.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: So I think we kind of in the past few
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: weeks have come to sort of like a Okay, we
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: got to rise above this. And I think in the
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: past week or so, I've seen a lot of positive
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: change on the team. I think we're all very much
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: ready for like, let's get these next few games, let's
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: beat the teams who need to beat upcoming, and then
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: get into postseason play.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: So you don't want to be to speak in the
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: middle of season. You want to peak in ac.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: I think hopefully we're on the track to peak postseason,
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: so fingers crossed.
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• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Can you walk me through that game against Notre Dame
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: top ten team? Going against them? How did you guys
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: feel going into it? Obviously the outcome was amazing and
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: you guys won, congratulations, But just walked me through that
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: process for you.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Let's see. So we definitely prepped for it as much
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: as we possibly could. We had I think five whole
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: days of prep for that one, which was nice. So
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: scout team did an amazing job. They really prepped us.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: We have like the best scout team in the world.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: They do so well. So they all learned their offense,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: learned their defense for us, and then did it, and
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: then I think we just really knew we wanted to
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: go in winning. Anyone who's been there since my freshman
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: year remembers when they came here and played us and
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: it was like a rain and out game and we
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: ended up losing and I think second overtime. So we
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: definitely have a one we really want to win every
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: time we play them, because that was a painful and
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: then we were able to beat him next year. I
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: think it was our first big win of last year,
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: at least to my memory, and so we always are
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: really excited to play them. It's a competitive game. I
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: feel like we match up really well against them, and
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: they're really great. So yeah, we just prepped all week
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: and we all were really excited and it was Saint
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Patrick's day.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Fighting Irish on Saint Patrick's Day.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Well yeah, yeah, I think so. So, yeah, yeah, that's amazing.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Talk to me about like a game going into overtime.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: What does that entail? Because you guys went into overtime
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: against Pitt, right, I think.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Not against Pitt. My freshman year, we went to overtime
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: against Pitt. I don't know.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Who.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know if we went into overtime this year yet,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: hopefully like your freshman year talk about Okay, so freshman year,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: it was so you pretty much you're both tied at
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: the end of the game, and then you restart with
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: a drawl. It's two minds of play pretty much kind
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: of like soccer type of like thing, and it's first
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: to score.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no like set amount of time.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Two minutes. Yeah, two minutes to score, and then if
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: you don't, then you go again, and you go again
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: and again and again. It's like the longest overtime you've
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: gone or I think is they're a cap you shually.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: I think it's I don't know. Actually, wait, I might
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: be wrong. We've last time. Okay, we scored two minutes in.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: It's ten minutes. Okay everyone everyone, Yeah, no, that was
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: my bad overtime. We scored two minutes in and it
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: was a big deal. But yes, it's ten minutes overtime. Yeah,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: my bad on the sport, I'm really bad with this.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: I just out there, Yeah, I just go out there
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: and play.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I yeah, what happened? If you go past the
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: ten minutes and no one has scored, you go again.
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: Yes, oh wow, but after you scored in two minutes,
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: it was just over because you scored.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Well, that was toking me. The second overtime against pet
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: I think, gosh, my memory is so bad. I honestly
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: to be. You don't ask me about lacrosse when I'm playing.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: I bought it, like I be there.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: I did ask you a question from your freshman year.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: No, you could ask me about Notre Dame this year.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: I was just out there running around. I kind of
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: it's like where I just kind of don't. I don't
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: think at all when I'm out there, so I like that.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: But it's free.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's nice.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Talk to us about your facility too, and what's in there.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Well, it's very nice. It's woman's only, woman's only facility,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: which is really great, not having to share it with anyone.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: And we have our locker room just beautiful.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: I see like videos on my TikTok of you guys
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: like doing tiktoks in the locker room or even in
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: the lobby with like the lights the ways.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's huge, it's huge. It's way too big. I
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: mean it feels more homie the more I've been in it.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: But I still remember the first time I walked in
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: and I was like, oh my gosh, how are we
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: how are we affording this? But we are and it's beautiful.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: We have our own kitchen, our own lounge area, and
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: then the training room's amazing. I manic our athletic trainer
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: keeps it very clean and nice, so we all love it.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: In the views, yeah, yeah, that's anything.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: No, it's awesome. And we're right next to the arc too,
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: so yeah, the athlete Recovery Center, so we get to
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: like go over there all the.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: Time, and you can go on the dikes, go to
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: the lake, like it's literally everything right there.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: I know you guys have the same luck. Your facility
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: is cooler, though.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: You have to Why do you say that.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: You have like a pit you can jump into? Yeah,
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: that is true.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: You have a trampoline going into a pit.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: Is that as fun for you as other people would think.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: You not at all? Because things get lost in the
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: pit when you go in the pit, Like if you
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: have socks on, they're gone. You lose things very easy.
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: It's very hard to get out of the pit too,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: because the way that we flip, it's with so much
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: force and so much energy, So we go a lot
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: deeper than like the average person in the dip too,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: so that means you have a lot more to climb
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: out of. And it's a workout in and of itself
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: getting out of the pit. Like sometimes I'll have one
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: of my coaches, Luke, like, hand me a stick, a
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: long stick, so pull me out, because it's harder than
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: the skill we're doing itself to get out of the pit.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: So and you're sore, you're tired, you're like, please give
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: me out.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fun for like other people to come experience
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: it and like watch them experience it and watch them
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: see how hard it is to get out.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: But I mean I went in it once and it
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: was really fun. I really liked it. We practiced charges
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: in there. Yeah that's awesome, practice heading into each other
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: and falling. I remember seeing a video of that. Yes,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: it was amazing.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: And you guys, we have spin bikes in our gym too.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Less fun, yeah, not falling into sure we share though, yeah,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: yeah you can keep them. Yeah we don't need them.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: And then your field was just renamed to Conklin Field
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: right by Dep Conklin. Thank you Clempson alumni. But she
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: made like a one gift. So she gave two point
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: five million to women's sports and then two point five
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: million to Clemson alumni.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: Too, So incredible.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: That's insane the investment in women's sports. Let's talk about it.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: Let's good.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: I know, great timing, march dep conre. She's really representing
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: we have. We're actually getting to all meter this Friday
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: at the ceremony for the field, so I'm really excited
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: we all get to say thanks, because it's really big
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: that she's helping us out. We're excited. Yeah, it's a huge,
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: huge thing, huge deal.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: And something that I feel is very special to Clemson.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: I don't see a lot of people investing in women's
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: sports at other universities, so it's very cool.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: We're all very lucky, so cool.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: So I just think it's so cool too.
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: I mean want deb Conklin to be able to make
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: that gift, but to invest it in Clemson in women's sports,
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: but also have a facility and see the person that
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: it's named after.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: Now you're calling it, you know, Conklin Field, and.
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: I just there's so many sporting venues that have a
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: name that you don't always know the history or you're
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: not really sure who the person is. Cool that we
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: get to see it in real time and there's this
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: real person that's investing.
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: I've never known any of the facilities I've played on
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: except this one. Yeah, conklin Field's so I'm excited. Yeah,
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: and we have a big ceremony I think for Virginia
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Tech too. So if you guys want to come this Saturday,
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: This Saturday, is it?
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: There's there's a spring game this Saturday too.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Yes, but there's also conklin Field. Yeah, well Clemson will
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: be busy.
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you can just have your own say in the
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: spring is the best? Can just come to campus and
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: there's like three in sports.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: All right here.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: It's like you could go to softball, baseball, across football.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: So cool.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Are you guys able to hit up any other Clemson
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: sports during the spring or two?
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: We are, but honestly not as much as we would like.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: I feel like rowing is very hard to make it
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: out too. I've been to I think one baseball game,
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: But honestly, I'm not really a big sports person. Do
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: you play I do? I do play a sport. I
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: don't really love watching sports, okay, I kind of you know,
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: I don't even like watching the cross. Really, I just
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: do it to play it. I just play it. I'm
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: not really good at sitting still and just like doing
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: something like I have to be.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Like taking it.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I play it.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: It stresses me out too much because like I can
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: relate to it, Like if I'm watching football or something,
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my gosh, I have to hold on
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: to someone. It's just it's bad I can't watch sports.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: What do you like to do that in your free time?
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: I like, I like to do other work for school.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: I like I like reading. I like spending time with
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: my cat. I love my cat. I do his name,
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: cat's name. His name is Theodore.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: I have to be the like number one pet in
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: this podcast.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to givince you to get one.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: It's not gonna happen, but I support the cat.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Well, tell your husband what I told you.
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: I mean, seriously, cats are awesome if you don't have
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: time to like walk.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: A dog or like, they're just so easy that you can.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: I know, he's super priflege. Yeah, I give him porch time.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: He loves his porch outside cat or inside cat inside.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Obviously outside's very dangerous world. He's not allowed out there. No,
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: he escaped one time. I about had a heart attack.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: It.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: It's terrible. Never again, I told him he's never allowed outside.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: He's gonna be like for Punzel in the castle. He'll
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: he'll live the rest of his days inside. And he's
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: content with that.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: But I wonder about like stray counts and cats and
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: like outside cats.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, I feed them all the time.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but they survive.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: I don't know how.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: I really don't because of good Smaritan's like me, yeah.
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, but you are a really good student, and
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: you want to be someone that makes a big difference
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: in the world through healthcare.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: Talk to us about that.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: Well, I really want to be a physician, hopefully going
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: to something with pain management and stuff. I do a
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: lot of work in the addiction space right now, which
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: I really enjoy. It's just a population that of people
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: who very much are in need of that, but also
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: need someone who would listen and stuff. So it really
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: combines a lot of the things I enjoy hearing people's stories.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: And then I took my own cat. Actually two days
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: after I lost my cat, and it was I about
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: I almost canceled it. Honestly, when I lost him, but yeah, Theodore,
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: it was panicky. But I applied this spring for medical
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: school and now next year I'm doing a master's in
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: health research. So I'm really excited. Cool congratulation. Yeah, yeah,
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: I'm really excited. I'm lucky Clemson let me take my major,
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: because a lot of schools, at least a lot of
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: the better schools, don't let you actually take the majors
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: you want, like you can't have labs. So it's nice
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: that I got to do that.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: What is your major?
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: Health Science? Yeah, it's fun. I really like it.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: What is the difference between why or why did you
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: choose health science rather than like a biology or a
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: chemistry or like something like that.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: I think I much more in like being involved with people.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: Health science is much more public health based and like
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: into hearing people's stories helping larger populations. So for me,
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: I love my major and I love being able to
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: work with people and hear their stories. And it just
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: combines a lot of the science of what you know
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: and stuff with also like anecdotal stories, so it's like
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: a lot of like quantitative research, but then you also
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: get to back it up with qualitative like hearing people
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: what they're saying and stuff. So it just offers a
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: lot of depth into what you're doing. And I feel
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: like it just adds a different approach to understanding people
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: and understanding healthcare. That is nice. I like it a lot.
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah, what would your dream path be? So obviously get
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: your masters playing, go to med school? What does that
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: look like?
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: And then what comes after med school?
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Well, it's a long path, yes, lots of school. Yeah,
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: hopefully I will get into a medical school. I think
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: hopefully in the East Coast, maybe near Boston, which is
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: where we're going for the power trip this year. Yeah,
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: and then after that it would be a four year
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: STIJA residency and then a one year addiction or a
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: one year pain management fellowship, depending on which path I
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: go into.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: So you know what's been coming on my feed recently?
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Is the match day?
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it just happened everywhere.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: It's everywhere. People are opening up these letters. They have
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: no idea where they're going to be placed for the
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: next what three to seven years?
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't like that. I think it's kind of crazy.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Isn't that insane?
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, I just yeah, it is insane. I actually
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: don't know why we're still doing that.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: But I heard you get to like choose you rank.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Your tip, they rank you.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: When you get mated, yeah, I know, and you get
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: like an email one day before they're like, hey, you
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: did actually match because some people don't match and you Yeah,
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: it's stressful.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah you're gonna be.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope so you will be. I mean, we
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: got to get through medical school first and graduate and
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: do all that. But long ways away.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so, but I am so excited for the day
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: that you get matched. I would be looking out for
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: the video.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: Five years, five years away. So have you ever thought
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: of playing pro?
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: I have.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: I would love to if I had the opportunity to
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: do it, Like on the side of medical school, it
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: just would depend on if I had the time, because
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: that would obviously have to be my number one priority,
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: which so much schooling. But yeah, I would like to.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: The leagues that they have now are fun, and I
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: like the idea of playing short sided, which is what
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: they do now. It's like very much exactly like basketball,
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: and it's what's going to be in the Olympics. So
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: I would like that. It would be fun.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: How is it different?
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: So instead I don't even know the length actually, but
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: it's like I would say the with whys of the
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: field is a smaller field. So it's like a smaller
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: field you after you get shot on, the goalie clears
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: the ball and you just keep going back and forth
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: the whole time. So the drawl it is completely taken
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: out and everyone's playing tag, everyone's playing defense. So it's
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: like a midi's sport almost, which I like, so be fun.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Does it like make it like quicker? Like is that
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: like that so much?
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Quicker?
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: Okay? Yeah, I think it's what they're going to eventually
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: shift to. I mean, it's what they're doing for the Olympics. Yeah,
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: because a lot of teams cannot feel it a huge
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: team of girls so.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: And lacrosse hasn't been in the Olympics.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's the first year. So it's really exciting
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: that one. I will watch that eight yeah mm hmm. Yeah,
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: that's so cool. Yeah, I'm excited to watch. I think
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: they have a great team put together. I mean, I
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: don't know if they're fully set with it yet, but
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: it should be nice.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Were there any lacrosse players that you looked up to
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: growing up?
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: Honestly, there was this woman. Her name is Gentile. She
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: didn't end up going pro or anything, and it was
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: a long time ago, but she grew up in the
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: same area as I did, and as like a kid,
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: I always used to look up to her. She went
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: to Maryland and stuff. She was really good. Yeah, but
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: I actually don't know where she is now, but she's awesome. Yeah,
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: she was great when I was a kid, and that's
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: the only one I've ever really looked up to. I again,
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: didn't love watching sports that much, so she was nice
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: to me. I think once at a camp and I
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: was like, Okay, you're the one one that I'm gonna love.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: So this is may We've talked about that so much.
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: But your interactions, especially with young kids, can make her
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: break their whole experience with.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: The sport or with the school or how they feel
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: about it.
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: So how cool that you had someone that and for
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: her she probably has no idea.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, definitely not.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: It was really cool.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but she was great. That was such a good memory.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: I forgot about that.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: I feel like, that's so awesome. I feel like when
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: I asked that question, like a lot of people think
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: of like, oh, like Lebron James, or like for gymnastics,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: like Simone Biles. But there are a lot of people
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: like in college growing up that I looked looked up to,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: like a lot like being able to affect that too
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: with the younger generation. That's insane.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Who was yours?
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: This This UCLA gymnast called called her name was Lachelle Wong,
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: And I grew up in Los Angeles, so UCLA was
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: very close and I was able to go to a
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: lot of those meets. There's Lachelle Wong, Vanessa Zamaipa and
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: I I loved her because the way the announcer would
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: pronounce her name would be Vanessa somebody ba like it
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: would just be so fun. And then just all of
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: the UCLA gymnasts too, like their Florentines. One girl had
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: like a cell phone call in the middle of her Floraentine,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: so like she kind of joked with the fans that
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: people someone was actually calling her and she was like,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: are you calling me? Like they were so creative with
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: their floor and their gymnastics. But all of those girls
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: for sure made me want to do gymnastics in college.
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: That's cool.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: What about Umiya?
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: I feel like, honestly it was my mom, Like she
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: played like when I was growing up, like she it
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: was like a league, like a rec league, but I
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: thought it was like the coolest, saying like could not
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: wait to join a volleyball team one day. So yeah,
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: she definitely like really helped with like just wanting to
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: play volleyball.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy, just like watching someone want like when
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: you're younger and being like I want to do that. Yeah,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: you know, And it's crazy now that we're here. It's
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: like you have that power too, to like impact someone.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: It's cool.
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: Do you feel like you like the way you approach
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: the cross like when you were younger is similar to
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: how you approach it.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: Now or do you feel like it's different. I think
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: very different.
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: I was really serious when I was a kid. I
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: like needed to control everything, so playing a team sport
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: was very difficult because you can't just move people around
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: like chess pieces. But yeah, I was very rigid with it.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: I was very serious, and I like didn't really have
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: that much fun with it, honestly. Growing up that's kind
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: of more just something I was good at. And then
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: now I've been finding a lot more joy in it,
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: which is nice, kind of letting go of it because
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: you just play so many games and realizing one game
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: really isn't going to do that much, and one mistake
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: isn't going to do anything. It's a team sport and
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: there's so many things going on and kind of just
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: going with the ebb and flow of the game instead
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: of I mean, that's why I don't remember anything now,
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: because I'm just like, okay, here I go to say here,
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: I go that way, and it's a lot more fun
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: to play that way, and finding more joy and realizing that,
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: like the reason that I play is because of my teammates,
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: not because of liking scoring or liking doing any of
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: that stuff, because I mean, it's fun, but you know,
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: I have more fun just hanging out.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: So I feel like that's such a unique experience though, too,
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: because usually I feel like sometimes people say when they
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: start a sport, they started it because it was fun,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: and then they got serious, and then they start getting
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: in their head when they're older or they come to college,
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: and then they can't find their identity. But you saying
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: it's the opposite way for you, I feel like it's
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: so much cooler to experience it, definitely healthier.
• 43:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, it seems like your identity is not wrapped
• 43:48
  Speaker 6: up in your sport, right.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's definitely not. I mean it's more wrapped
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: up than my cat than my sport. I feel it.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: You have a cat to I do every wanting to ask. Yeah,
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: I love her. She's like, I don't know.
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: I like I've said this many times, Like never thought
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: I was a cat person, but like, once you find
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: your cat, just like, I don't know, it's awesome.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: Roosevelt and then Theodore Roosevelt. There you go.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a norrible They need to have a playdate.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, THEO doesn't like other cats.
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: Theo's not leaving the house. Yeah, and on his castle.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: Theo's in his castle.
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: And THEO does not like other girl friends.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: He doesn't like anyone really that's not like approved by me,
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: and least of all cats. He got into it with
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: a cat in the neighborhood from his balcony. I just
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: not feeding the cat because of that.
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: It was terrible.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, my cat is fourteen years old, and I became
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: allergic to her after I got her, or I found
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: out I was allergic to her after I got her.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: So it's really sad story. I can't pet her that much.
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: Is she with you hair.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: No, okay, But whenever I go home and I see her,
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: I'm like, Hi, Maxie, shoo.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: Love you from a distance.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: Sorry, it's your turn, Okay, I'll get you.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: So you're a part of Power m hm. Tell me
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: what that's been like in the multiple sessions that you've
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: gone through this semester and this year.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: Well, Power is a group of women and we kind
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: of come together. It's built of athletes from all different
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: sports and we pretty much just focus on leadership and
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: finding yourself within the larger scheme of pastor sport. Recently,
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: we did a fun little session on LinkedIn, and working
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: through that, I improved my LinkedIn. We had one girl
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: make her LinkedIn, which was amazing, and overall, I would say,
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: just like to sum up the sessions, it's been very
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: much focused on me and how I can best market
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: myself to others, finding my own strengths and realizing I
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: don't need to be good at everything. I just need
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: to really come within what I am already good at
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: and then grow from there. So it's been nice. Yeah,
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: thank you Toy group effort.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, talk to us about like the selection process for
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: Power too. I heard you guys had to go through interviews, right,
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: was that a unique experience for someone who I don't
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: know if you've had a job at yet, but for
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: a lot of our student athletes, their first interview type
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: process and it could be scary and daunting.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: So well, I'll say that Clemson Athletics has very much
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: prepared me for it. I've done a few different interviews.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: It was my first video interview that I've done, so
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: that was fun.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I got the shivers.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: No, I didn't. I didn't hate it. It was nice.
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: I tried to make mine very me. It was nice.
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: I liked it.
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: I got to chat about some of the things that
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: I like to do, and it was very casual, just
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: because I feel like I know you guys. So it
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: was nice. And I think throughout the interviews that I've
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: done for different things at Clemson, it's really prepped me
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: because I also had to interview for like research positions
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: and stuff, and I feel like going into those I've
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: been very comfortable. And this is my first podcast and
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: I feel comfortable. Next will be easier.
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: So that's awesome.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great. Shout out you development. Yeah, very developed.
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: So you're also in sack too, How do you feel
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: like you know you're doing those things in Sack for leadership,
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: like has help you, like on the field and just
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: in life in general.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: I think, honestly, the main thing I've gotten out of
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: Sack has been just being used to being with so
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: many people in space and kind of just being like,
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: okay with Okay, I'm going to talk about this, I'm
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: going to talk about that, because I mean, as a kid,
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: I had really bad social anxiety and I did not
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: like public speaking at all. So I barely spoke like
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: my freshman's sophomore year of high school and kind of
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: coming out on my shell. The more I've been at
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: Clemson has been really nice. I mean, I'm very talkative now.
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: I was not. Back in the day.
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: I would have never guessed that you were.
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: Oh, I was very quiet. Yeah. I go to one
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: of the girls on my tea, she went to high
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: school with me. She was two years older, and she
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: barely heard me speak, and now she said it was
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: a shock. I was like, yes, well, shock for me too.
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's been a lot of work kind of
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: getting over that, just kind of putting yourself in uncomfortable situations,
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: and slowly it's become easier. Yeah, but now I love
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: being alone. I live alone, I have cat. It's awesome time.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but then you yap it up to your teammates.
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: Yes, I yap very frequently, especially with Tori. She's used
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: to it.
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: Is there anything else you want the Clemson fans to
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: know about you, about Clemson lacrosse, about your journey with
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: taking the m cat, anything, Well.
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: For the m CAT, it's a long process. So if
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: anyone is taking it, just don't put pressure on yourself.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: And then for everything else that comes to lacrosse again,
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: it's the same thing. Just don't take it. I'd like
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: to think, don't take things too seriously because there's so
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: much to do, and the happier you are or fun
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: it is so Yeah.
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: True, good advice.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, where can people find you on social media? Well,
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: I don't actually have social media. I bet you have
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: a LinkedIn, But I have a LinkedIn, Yes, not suret
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: left I believe is my Instagram, but I go on
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: it twice a month to check to make sure I'm
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: not ignoring people. So yeah, I love that.
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you seem like the person in the world.
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm trying to be.
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of work media. I'm like, yeah, I had.
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: Facebook for a while because I was looking for a
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: couch on Facebook marketplace, but I recently deleted everything because Yeah,
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: so the airplane thing. I found about that about like
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: an hour or two ago from one of my friends.
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: She was like, what do you mean you haven't heard
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: about that? Yeah, airplane thing, all the airports, airport. Yeah,
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: and apparently there was a crash somewhere. Yeah. I had
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: no clue, so very much offline. You really have to not.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: We did see that like a couple of days ago. Maybe, Yeah,
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: I found out.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: About it today, So good for you to just not.
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: I love social media.
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lag, but it's worth it.
• 50:02
  Speaker 5: M H.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: It's sort of like self restraint too, like wanting to like, yeah,
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: I started during my MCAT and now it's just so easy.
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: I just want your day a lot more timing. It's
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: crazy y. Yeah, Natalie, thank you, thank you so much.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: Thank you