Speaker 1 Not fifties and mentally to think back when I was in high school, I. I don't know. I know what happened in my life, but I don't know the way that I saw it or was thinking, you know, I don't really remember having a ton of conversations with even teachers to remember that to think, but a lot to say. Speaker 1 And I know the reason I started with that is I know we seem quite old and like maybe I don't relate with us or whatever, but we actually play volleyball and I play volleyball. She played college volleyball at a. Speaker 2 Midwestern state. Speaker 1 Midwestern. Speaker 3 State. So fun. Speaker 1 So we have a love for volleyball, and so we were excited about having a very excited. Speaker 2 You know, it's talking to my parents this morning and I was like, yes, we were interviewing today on our podcast. We get to talk all things volleyball and like they still just live in that world too, of like just can't get enough. We love it. Yeah, and. Speaker 1 It was fun. Kelsey, you're not getting ready for this one. Started talking a lot about volleyball and the differences between when I was in sports and when she was in sports. And, you know, I come from a. Speaker 2 Time. Speaker 1 It sounds so old, but I come we did not have AC in our in our gyms whenever we play. I don't know what in the world and we even played with these, Oh, I got to find it for y'all. We played with bloomers. So y'all play with one mouth. Speaker 3 Okay. Speaker 1 And at short, Yes. And we played with what, cheerleaders? Well, cheerleaders, even. Speaker 2 Girls. Speaker 1 Like to wear long sleeved shirts and bloomers. Speaker 2 Really strange or different to like we were talking about. Not like those scoring and all that. And you played a 15? Speaker 1 Yeah, we played a 15 year. Didn't even we didn't even have a I always want to say bolero. Speaker 2 But that's not right around the the aloe vera. Speaker 1 Love area. We didn't even have a libero. That was I even coached volleyball. We never had a libero even when I coached. Speaker 2 And I was playing when the they started to allow. Speaker 3 To double. Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah. Speaker 3 I don't think they don't let it in high school like roles but in club they do allow. Speaker 4 Yeah. Speaker 2 Oh really. Oh right. Yeah. Speaker 4 It's crazy to see like how much it's changed. Like, I think anything it's crazy. See how much It's just. Speaker 1 You change anything. I don't think a lot of sports have changed. Look at a lot of different sports. Speaker 4 And I think some things that they're wearing have changed though, like cheerleading. I mean, it used to be the long skirts, and now it's the short. Speaker 3 Short skirts. Speaker 1 Yeah. But I do find it interesting that volleyball rules have feel like, you. Speaker 2 Know, the sports. Speaker 3 Where, like, the rules have changed. Speaker 1 I don't know what I don't know kind of what that's about. Speaker 2 Because it's not like one would argue the football rules have changed in that they're no longer allowed to be quite as violent as you would like. Yeah. Speaker 1 That's true. I guess those those rules changing. Speaker 2 Like, I don't know if that's changed at all, but like volleyball scoring has really changed. Speaker 4 For baseball. Yeah, I don't think football does. Speaker 3 Even now, they're trying to get rid of where you can't like when you're setting. They can't call doubles against you. They're trying to legalize like they're still trying to modernize the game. Speaker 2 Yeah, Really? Yeah. That would be a huge. Speaker 4 Huge game changer. Speaker 3 I think in clubs like the club, officials have had to be like pickier, like it has to be a really bad double to call it. But I think they're trying to completely get rid of that, at least in the club game. So yeah. Speaker 4 Sometimes I felt like they wouldn't call it Oh, I was like, Oh no, yeah. Speaker 2 Holy moly. It just like hit off the top of her head to like, what? What are we going to call it? Speaker 1 Okay. Yeah. So welcome to season three. Episode five of Feisty is the podcast where Kelsey Gold. Speaker 2 That's me. Speaker 1 And Dana. Oh, and that's me. Have the pleasure of interviewing interesting people and discussing anything and everything. Friends with Ice-T today. Our special guest are two incredibly talented seniors from Friendswood High School Stink ranked volleyball team Alex Garcia and anti-violence. Unknown Me guys, welcome. So glad you're here. Speaker 1 Yeah, so we kicked off our podcast with just a little bit of talking about volleyball. Kelsey and I both played volleyball. We love sports. We love girl athletes, strong girls and. Speaker 2 Built like a linebacker. So there's always like. Speaker 1 Yeah, people don't ever ask me, what position did you play? I mean, it's just kind of given like, I didn't, you know, I wouldn't be, I was not back row, let's just say that. Speaker 4 I mean. Speaker 1 Hey that's weird. Definitely would be background for I might even be the setter today. I mean, it's just girls are getting stronger and taller and faster and quicker. And volleyball is an incredible sport. So let's just start with first of all. Oh, my gosh. I'm so sorry. Which of you is Alex? Speaker 2 I'm sorry. I'm Andy. Speaker 1 Okay, Alex. Good. I know we all introduced herself in the very beginning, but now we're together. Speaker 2 Yes. Speaker 1 Oh, Sandy, it is true. Too strong names, too, right? Yeah. Alex and Andy. I mean. Speaker 2 Gender neutral names. Speaker 1 For the gender. No, that's really beautiful, girls. So let's just start with telling us a little bit about yourself. Speaker 4 Would you like to go first? Speaker 3 Sure. Hi, I'm Andy. I'm a senior. Like you said, I am a Diaz on the volleyball team as well as a captain. And we are so excited to be in playoffs. Speaker 4 Oh, all right. Well, I'm Alex. I'm a senior and I'm a middle blocker, and I really just love friends of volleyball. We're both involved in a lot, too, like throughout the school, and we're both in a lot of clubs and honor societies. Speaker 1 So it's a little bit about what you're involved with outside of volleyball. Speaker 4 Outside of volleyball. I have a job at a boutique. I am on the varsity debate team. I'm I run two clubs called Model United Nations and also Equality Now Club. It's two really important clubs throughout the high school that volunteer and also go compete at colleges for kind of like debate events like you go and represent a country and kind of talk about that. Speaker 2 So I did not tell you if you did it. Yeah, you just brought it to Friendswood. Speaker 4 Yeah, it's been amazing and when you. Speaker 1 Go to New. Speaker 2 York. Yeah, I went to New York for the big conference there. Yeah, I was so jealous. It was awesome. Next limerick, to be honest. Like, that's the only reason I did it. Whenever my professor approached me about being a part of it, I was like, I'm in communications. Why would you want me to be part of Model U? Speaker 2 It looks like everyone brings different strengths and she's like, And you get to spend a week in New York City, all expenses paid and like, I'm out of here. I'm so, yeah, I did that. I was like, So whenever I tell people about colleges, I'd probably the nerdiest thing I did in college was Model U in, but it actually ended up being one of my favorite courses. Speaker 2 Yes. So who's country or which country are y'all representing? Speaker 4 We don't know yet. We're about to find that out. Like in the next few weeks. We're about to start deciding that and start looking up about that. So that's exciting. Speaker 2 We're excited. We did Peru my first year and then Iceland my second year. So two totally different. Speaker 4 Countries, wholly different ones. But yeah. Speaker 1 So tell us a little bit about what you're involved with outside of Iowa. Speaker 3 Well, besides volleyball, I'm in like National Honor Society and then outside of school, I'm a camp counselor during the Summers. Speaker 1 School Women. Speaker 3 Camp Longhorn. Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, Yeah. Speaker 3 So fun. And then I'm in in Seattle, which is a mother daughter charity organization. And I'm the president. And my costs are I was last year. Now I'm in charge of our senior EC event. Speaker 1 Oh, that's so what is your event this year? Speaker 3 Senior rec. So, like our seniors, we have like a big celebration. It's almost like throwing a wedding for 12 girls. It's a ton of planning. So we've been with a couple other moms. We've been planning that for early January. Speaker 1 So that's what I was wondering. So that happens early January is, Oh wow, that's awesome. Speaker 2 Now is this like, okay, And so is that National Charity League? Yes, ma'am. Is that like, oh, my gosh, I just watched a show that my friends recommended. It was the summer I turn pretty. Oh, my God. Speaker 4 It's so good. What team are you on? Speaker 2 Conrad? Speaker 4 Oh, okay, good. I haven't. Speaker 2 I haven't seen the team. Conrad Oh, you're going to have to watch every other watch. Speaker 4 You don't need to watch. It's adorable. I love it so much because it's so fun. I love, like, the little just there's a little romance and a little drama. Like, it's also got a. Speaker 2 Lot of drama. Speaker 4 And drama, actually. Speaker 2 Okay. So whatever they're doing in that show, what's that? What is it called? The Deb's. Speaker 1 Like, debutante? Speaker 2 Is it like that or is that totally different? Speaker 4 It's like, okay, it is kind of like they like the wedding, like the white dresses and they're doing the dance and everything like that. Speaker 3 There's like, I think 15 girls in our class and 15 moms and we each month we have like meetings or there's like different roles. We kind of just like run a meeting. And then outside of our class with by ourselves, we do like volunteer events and just other stuff like that. So it's super fun. Speaker 2 Yeah, that's, that's on with the, the show. Speaker 4 The show. Speaker 1 So Monday was your first playoff game? Yes. Okay. So Friendswood High School, girls volleyball, they've made it into playoffs. You're actually state ranked right Do you know the ranking at this quarter? Fourth or fifth. Wow. Okay. That's not a check. Speaker 2 Yeah. Speaker 4 But it's up there. Speaker 1 Before they're finished. I mean, that's both great. Speaker 4 And we have a lot of talent on our team and we're just ready to compete. I think we've worked so hard in the preseason and during the season and even in off season this past year. I mean, we were dying of sweat and the heat and we were just really working and ready to get to where we are. Speaker 4 And I think we're excited and ready to just take off. Speaker 1 Yeah, well, that's that's awesome. I mean, you know, overall, if you think about it, all the volleyball teams are working really hard and our seniors, they've worked most of their life to get to their senior year, right. To get into playoffs, too. So just want to stop and just quickly say where y'all are at right now. Just great job. Speaker 1 It's incredible that you so much, you know, made it to playoffs. I know you want to go much further and I'm sure this team will. Y'all are super talented now. Speaker 2 Are y'all both so playing club this year? No, ma'am. So this will be a yes. Speaker 4 Yes. I stopped playing last year. I got a job, and I'm a model for Paige Park, so there is a lot of things that I had to do and club was awesome. I really did love it. And I think as we both played it, it was a lot. And balancing that with school, high school, volleyball and just extracurriculars, we were both kind of struggling in that aspect. Speaker 4 But what I do, I say, I got it. I do not regret it at all. Like, I think it was an amazing time in my life and I wish I still the time to play it. But yeah, I mean, there's only so much. I love. Speaker 3 The club. I was so fun, but it's like once you made that decision to where, you know, you don't think you want to play volleyball in college or at the next level. It's almost just like so much and it's so easy to get burnt out if you don't like. Absolutely love it. And I loved club volleyball for like the friendship aspects, but towards the end of my club volleyball career, like just became like so much where I decided to just stick with school. Speaker 2 Yeah, that's why I ask. Because I know a lot of girls. If you if you decide you're not going to go play in college, like they will not play club their last year and then just kind of enjoy that senior year. But, but it definitely makes the stakes higher for this play. Speaker 3 Right now we have nine seniors, so I also had 18 girls on our team. Nine were seniors and nine are a mix of, you know, junior sophomores. And we have a freshman too. So it's wild that like next year, half of us are going to be gone. So it's just really senior driven. Speaker 4 So you're going to have to do a. Speaker 3 Senior driven team. So we're super excited and eager to keep going. Speaker 4 I know. Speaker 2 Also. Speaker 4 We don't want it to end. Speaker 2 No? Yeah, we don't want it to end for y'all. Speaker 1 Yeah, we don't want to get it going. You've got a lot of games to go. So you just played Baytown Sterling yesterday and then tell us when your next game. Speaker 3 Tomorrow at 5 p.m.. Hobson Field House we play Randle so we're super excited. Speaker 1 Okay, good. Yeah. And then so like with baseball, it seems to go on forever. It does. Do you have like. Speaker 3 Just thinking about this? So baseball and softball, they play one round a week, so it goes on for five or six weeks. The best starting year we've played, I think. Speaker 4 Yeah, something like that. Speaker 3 And then we played two rounds a week and then next week it's round three is Monday or Tuesday. Round four is Friday and round five is Saturday. And the week after that state is that Friday are Friday and Saturday. So we. Speaker 1 Have a quick turnaround and. Speaker 3 Next week is three rounds and the week after that is round six and seven for state. So it's just like all combined into three weeks. Speaker 1 Okay. Speaker 2 Wow that's that's fast announce a lot of I mean of course physically demanding but like the emotions and those high stakes games. Yeah. Just to be able to bounce back and like go into the next. Speaker 3 100%. Speaker 1 And what kind of so what does that look like for you all like Monday night? When did your deal leave school? Early, do you. Speaker 3 We don't. Our Monday night we played at 630 at Dobie High School, so it's closed. So we just left seventh period, but we play 5 p.m. at Hobson, which is a little bit farther drive. So we might have to leave a little bit early, but it's kind of the deeper you get into. Speaker 4 Playoffs, you leave early, which is. Speaker 3 Usually because then we get to. Speaker 2 Yeah, and we think. Speaker 4 We'll get like food. So it's fun to just sort of go get food together, go talk before like, yeah, kind of like a moment of just being calm. And then you're like, okay, let's turn on the mindset of like, let's go. Like we're ready to compete. So. Speaker 1 So what does that look like for y'all? Walk us through like, you're getting ready for a game. So I think about, well, does it matter what I think about? Yeah, yeah, what? How do you get ready? I imagine you all have earpods in or. Speaker 4 We actually have a really high dance party. Well, it's. Speaker 3 Like a superstition. Pre-game routine. We had. Speaker 4 A dance party, and, like, we have to just, like, blare the music. Speaker 1 In the lobby room. Speaker 4 Yes, ma'am. Everybody's dancing, screaming, And they're like, It's just a way to get us your blood going. You're getting excited. Speaker 1 Like, is it always the same song? Oh. Speaker 2 There's like, there's one. Speaker 4 Song that we play over. Speaker 2 And over. Speaker 3 Again, and there's a mix of some of those songs. Honestly, I feel like that's what gets us so locked in for the games because like if you have your headphones and your everybody's listening to a different song and everyone's kind of like on different pages to where we're all listening to the same thing and all kind of like locking in together in like a fun way before we like, go out and then are all still on the same page. Speaker 1 Does someone like a deejay, like. Speaker 4 I tell you, my friend Holly. Speaker 1 Holly's the one she controls the music. Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. Speaker 1 Yes. And you feel comfortable with the music that she's going to choose because. Okay. All right, good. Speaker 2 We used to. We used to do that when I was in college. And the song we would always get like the most hype two was the year 3000. By gosh, I love that song. Speaker 4 We saw them in concert too. Speaker 2 It it's like, okay, I pity the year 3000. Now much has changed, right? They live under water. Oh, my gosh. I don't know how long it all like you would have people like on the drums. Unknown So drums, air guitar. But also. Speaker 1 Have you ever heard of the Go-Go's? I love the Go-Go's. Speaker 2 We got to be we got to meet everyone. Speaker 1 Okay, Now we're talking about music. Unknown You know, so that offers acid. Speaker 1 You know, we had spoons and we were just kidding. Speaker 2 About, you know, you we actually do that sometimes to ourselves. Speaker 1 Up we get ourselves. She's from Alvin. I'm from Pasadena, so we'll go for it. Speaker 2 So you have to be that. You have to be. Speaker 1 There to be there. So we are superstitious in any sort of way. Like do you have to not step on lines or anything like that? Speaker 3 By the time I'm extremely superstitious, these. Speaker 1 Are same thing before. Speaker 4 All of us are very superstitious. Speaker 3 Honestly, less superstitious when I'm playing. But like during hitting lines were always in the same order. Speaker 2 All always in the same. Speaker 3 When I'm watching the Astros or like watching college football, if I'm sitting in a spot and they're doing bad, I'll move. If they do good, I won't move until the game's over. I'm like, I'm super, super superstitious, so. Speaker 1 Do not wash clothes. You know, that's a change. Speaker 2 That's. Speaker 1 Taking it too far. Speaker 2 Yes. Okay. Speaker 4 Some people do that on our. Speaker 3 Girls, on our need, on our team, whose knee pads smell horrendous. Oh, it's so bad. Speaker 4 Like you could smell it. Speaker 2 Oh, my. My sister. That was hurt. Yeah, she's so. I'm a twin. So we played all together through whatever junior high school she had this pair. It was white knee pads. Suicide made it even worse. She like Buster knee up. So, yeah, it was like, what, All in the knee pad. And she, like, still refused to. Speaker 1 I Right. Okay. Speaker 2 It was like I swear like, like moldy. It was bad. Really hated it. Like, yeah, she would not let her off so. Speaker 1 That's so funny. I mean, excuse me. You know, everybody has their different superstitions and it, it gets back to really what works for you, right, in just your mental mindset of, you know, making sure that you kind of are just in the right mindset. And speaking of, let's talk about that. So if things start to go wrong for you in a game which listen, happens every game, right? Speaker 1 Yeah, you don't just do perfectly every single game, what is that like for for both of you, talk us through how you mentally set your mind back to getting straight so you can get back into the game and kind of into a more of a positive routine. Speaker 3 Yeah, volleyball is just like so different because every single point ends in someone making a mistake. So it's just like it took me a while to realize that, like, one mistake doesn't lead to the end of the game because there's you have to the other team has to make 25 point mistakes for you to win. So I struggled with that for a long time. Speaker 3 Being able to just like brush off my mistakes and like whenever I was down. And honestly, it just really depends on your teammates. Like for me, there's everybody like reacts differently on a team. Like some people need to be like, pushed really hard, like be told, Let's go, let's go. And like for me that doesn't work. And so just like having teammates, I know that like, people just will come over to me and be like, Hey, breathe, you're fine. Speaker 3 Next ball. Like, that's what helps me. And that doesn't work for some people, but that's just kind of how I like to remember, like take a breath and just keep going through that. Speaker 1 But that's what's so great about knowing your team members is not the same thing. Doesn't work for everyone, right? And figuring out who they are and what works with them. And listen, that's the deal with being a coach too. You better know what works for your athletes, you know, and just because you like to, you are wanting to fire someone up with a pep talk. Speaker 1 So it sets you back, you know, quickly with what you thought was one of your best pep talks ever. I think she's. Speaker 2 Speaking it's speaking. Speaker 1 From some experience here. We can. Speaker 2 Relate. They were fired. Speaker 4 Up by that pep. Speaker 1 Crying in the corner and. Speaker 3 The horrible pep talks. I like. Speaker 2 Snowball. It was so funny. Speaker 3 I'll be like in the middle of a sentence. That doesn't make any sense. Speaker 4 Never mind. Like something else. Our biggest thing, we says, Don't get complacent. Speaker 3 Yeah, it's nothing little, but. Speaker 4 Every time is don't get complacent. Yeah, I think that really helps a lot of us. Like, I mean, sometimes, like whenever our coaches are yelling at us, especially since don't take this personally, but when they're yelling at us, it doesn't really help us. It's kind of like what helps us is just like a, Hey, let's turn this around. Speaker 4 Like we can we can do this like it's it's all about encouragement. And I think that's how it is in any real world situation is encouragement not to the negative yelling and saying this isn't what you do, this is what you should be doing. You need to lift them up to be able to do that. And that goes along for your teammates also, as well as your coaches. Speaker 4 If they're getting upset, you need to just kind of look it up and be like, It's okay, it's okay. Like, I remember one time Coach Paul was like freaking out and I was like, It's okay. Like, we got this. Like, okay. Speaker 1 Well, as a coach, a lot of times I think I talked to Jordan about this. My biggest pet peeve watching men in particular coach like little baseball players, right? They would yell in my mind, stupid things like, what are you doing out there? And it's like, well, hold on. That's not right. Like, you're not you're not saying what needs to be done. Speaker 1 Hey, you got to move your feet. You got to get back. You like coaching should be in sometimes. Listen, it doesn't matter. You're just they didn't get it. They're not, you know, it's just the way that it went, You know what I'm saying? I'm not saying I did it right. I'm just saying sometimes as coaches, we tend to yell some things that don't really make sense. Speaker 1 And, you know, yeah. Speaker 4 I also think that, like women coaching in male coaching are like it's total different atmosphere. It's like I walked out to I was on the sidelines for football because I report for some games for five and I'm just hearing the things that these coaches are saying to these kids and it fires them up. But like I know that was said to me. Speaker 2 Look. Speaker 4 I'm like, Did you just like, shoot my dog? Like you would be like, what is going on? And it's just it's so different to see that because now you understand like how different people react to that. Like we react to like the let's go, let's move our feet, let's do this. And they're like, Hey, I'm like, okay, I could not do that. Speaker 3 I feel like that's something we also tried to like work on as a team this year. Like, yeah, in the past I feel like we've had some of those just like problems with like some girls, just like, you know, they want to yell and they want to scream. And I yes, everybody else reacted well to. So if like something we really worked on this year, just like as a program was just positive, they policies have been positive. Speaker 4 I think. Speaker 2 Our team. Speaker 4 Our program has did a whole 360. I think our program has changed so much. We we did have a lot of negativity, as Andy said. And I think there was a way that all the seniors just stepped up and said, hey, like, let's just let's change this. And that's a lot on all of our part because we're like 17 years old. Speaker 4 So it's a lot to flip a whole kind of feel because we've gone through it, we've seen it, and it's finally took us to just stand up. And so let's change this and let's better this. So I think that with that positivity, we can go far with it and being able to help others. Like I know a lot of girls who are younger are more timid and are more kind of terrified of what they're going to walk into because the stories they've heard. Speaker 4 And I think that when they just saw how positive they were, they felt safe, like they felt like this is a sisterhood, this this is a family. And I think that's a really big thing that all of us partook in and were able to change that. Speaker 3 Yeah, I agree. Sometimes we're like reflect on like our younger years, like our freshman year, remember, like sprinting down the hallway because we were scared to like, not be the first one downstairs ready, like putting up that. Yeah. And we just, like, remember, like that fear and, you know, sometimes, like, like we kind of wish some of the. Speaker 2 Younger guys say we wanted to hurry. Speaker 3 Back the same time. Like, we remember just being, like, terrified 24 seven and we're like, you know, it's a volleyball. It's supposed to be fun. This isn't supposed to be like, kind of like mental torture. 24 seven It's nice to be. We want the girls to come back to our program. We want the girls to keep wanting to play volleyball. Speaker 3 And so just like being nice, you know, is just really helps that a lot. Speaker 1 Well, ladies, what you just described and talked about, that's the leadership. You know, you saw something that needed to be changed. And I think so often in this world, kids say, well, that's up to somebody else to change, you know, not us. But you decided as seniors, that's leadership. You turn your program around that, you know, not everybody gets a lot. Speaker 1 It does take a lot. It takes your team and good job. That's awesome. And that has I'm sure that has something to do with your success, You know, And luckily. Speaker 3 A lot of the younger girls on our team are, you know, bought into this idea, too. So they're going to carry it out for the next year and hopefully keep that chain going. Speaker 2 Makes it so much more enjoyable. I mean, this is the time, one of the first. Speaker 4 Years that I've actually enjoyed the sport. Like I really just loved standing by these people and just being, like, relieved to not live in a fear of I'm doing something wrong. If I'm going to mess up, are they going to get mad at me if I'm if I don't have the right shirt on, am I going to get screamed. Speaker 2 Out like. Speaker 4 It was like a fearful thing? Yeah. And just to walk and this you're relaxed and not stress and just knowing like, hey, we're all in this together. Like we're giving each other our all and we're all here to just support and love each other, which is how a team should work, right? Yes, That's how it's supposed to be. Speaker 4 And I feel like there's been years where there was just like a divide and just negativity flowing through out people and that this year we don't see that at all. It's just something that is going to only help our success moving forward. Speaker 3 Yeah, in the past year I've had like horrible, just like performance saying performance anxiety out of just a fear of messing up. And it's like this year it's just like gone. It's kind of crazy how like the people that are on your team and the energy on the team can just like completely make or break. Speaker 2 Someone's season or, oh, 100. Speaker 3 Percent, 100%. Speaker 2 You're not like if you're not playing with fear as the lead and instead more of the excitement for it like. Speaker 3 100%. Speaker 2 Different. Speaker 3 Right now when we're down, it just feels like, you know, like it's not urgent. It felt like obviously, like urgent, like we want to do better, but it doesn't feel like stressed. It feels like, hey, we got this. Like, it's fine. Just breathe. You know, if we don't get this set, we'll get the next set. If we don't get this point, we'll get the next point. Speaker 3 It just kind of feels like, you know, less stressful all around from. Speaker 4 Like 7.0, like the. Speaker 3 Biggest game. What was our biggest district component is Man Bobble. We were down, I think by seven or eight points and then the third set and they won the first two and we came back, Oh wow, a third set like 27, 25. Yeah. I think. And then managed to win the fourth and fifth set like pretty breezy. So it was, you know, just like been all bought into the same thing. Speaker 3 We haven't beat them since October of 20 2020 2020. Speaker 2 Really. I mean, y'all know Coach Park used to coach at Marvel? Speaker 4 Oh, yes. Speaker 3 100%. Speaker 4 So that's like the super. We are going in for. Speaker 2 So I played, I played against her. Yeah, that was yes, we used to play Manvel. They were in our district. So I actually competed against us. Yeah, we got out of the same thing, rivalry between Alvin and Mabel because it was like they called it the Battle of Highway six. Right. But Oh yeah, awesome. Yeah. So when I first started working here and I saw her, it was like, Oh my God. Speaker 3 So you said you're in eighth grade. This was a varsity team that went to State when we were in eighth grade. So round five, which is the winner goes to stay friends played Manvel and Friendswood one to go to state. So then the next year was super competitive. Friendswood won the first time and then the second time Manvel beat Friendswood in five at home and they beat us both times. Speaker 3 I was my sophomore year, both times our junior year. So this is every single girl that was on our team, but one who was Isabella Thompson, who was a freshman on varsity. None of us had ever beaten Manvel. So that was just like, you know, like so, like, cool. Speaker 4 It was exciting made it was so great. Yeah. Moment like, I was just like, screaming on the side, like, on the bench. Just like, what's got, like, it was always like, super fun. There was never a dull moment and it like, there was not one second that none of us really lost faith in each other. I think that's also like how we've matured as a team is that we know. Speaker 3 That we have each other's backs. Speaker 2 That thing is possible, and. Speaker 4 The confidence that we have on the court and off the court is what is allowing us to keep pushing through and pushing through competition. Speaker 3 Yeah. Speaker 1 Well, you talked about a couple of great things. You know, every in and outside of volleyball moving on with your life and all through life, you're going to face challenges. And and fear is always a part of challenges. It's just it's human nature, you know? And what you're teaching yourself over and over and you're kind of building these muscles of, okay, I feel fear, but I've learned that we can go negative and go become afraid and scared, or we can stick with positives and support people around us and have them support us. Speaker 1 And and also one of the things you touched on, which I love, is you're teaching yourself that even though you're down, it's not over. You can come back from that, which let me tell you. So, I mean, sports is huge. Yes. It's they say the difference between an average golfer and a pro golfer is, is whoever can turn that last bad shot around. Speaker 1 Right. You've got to let that last thing go clean slate, start new and fresh moving forward. And that's a mental that's a mental game. Now, you've got to just, you know, keep doing and keep leaning in to that and building those muscles. Speaker 4 So not only is that used in sports, but I mean, in any real world situation, your life is like, that's everything. So that's also why volleyball so important to all these girls is because it's teaching us lessons in life, like it's teaching us how to communicate, how to be a leader, how to be, how to have a relationship with people like it's going to volleyball's going to pay off in the future for all these girls that play in our world today. Speaker 4 Yeah, because walking into a business or a company or just a job, you mean you have to have all of those skills. So whenever I know that like from adult speaking, like a lot of people look for people that played sports because they know how to communicate, have a relationship and know how to be a leader. So honestly, it's good that we learn it now while we can. Speaker 3 Yeah, and I've like even just seen like some things that I've had to, like, teach myself through volleyball, like been useful in other aspects of my life. And so that's been cool. Like whenever I like, you know, like I'm laying down and I'm like, Huh, Like, I'm glad I stuck through with this. Like, I'm glad I ended up doing that. Speaker 3 Well, let's. Speaker 1 Do some of those. What what are some things that you think that athletics or sports volleyball has brought to your life that would transition and lead on lead into the rest of your life? What are some of those characteristics? Speaker 4 Honestly, a lot. I think communication like being able to communicate with others and also be able to just stand by somebody that you may have had, just like an incident with and being able to just say, Hey, let's pull this off. Like let's work like I mean, not everybody has a good day. And sometimes there might be something that you go through with somebody like a little just a little argument, and you have to just say like, hey, we're playing volleyball. Speaker 4 Like, just put it all aside. And like, when you step on the court, everything's gone. Like, you're not worried about anything else. So that's a really big thing, like moving forward in my job, like even in my job, I use this like if I sometimes, like, don't really want to be around somebody, I'm like, Hey, I'm at my work. Speaker 4 Like, I got to process off Like, this is anything else. Like I'm working at my job. This is what I'm being paid for by law. This is what I'm meant to do. So I feel like you have to have that respect for others and just being able to communicate and just kind of have a relationship with people is really big. Speaker 1 Good for you. That's maturity, right? Yeah, yeah. Speaker 3 Yeah. Even just like, you know, like perseverance and determination. Like you don't always want to do something like, I mean, I'm not the biggest fan of school. Like, I mean, don't get me wrong, a. Speaker 4 Saturday morning waitress. Speaker 3 Honestly, just waking up at 8 a.m., time to be at the school at 815 to lift weights on a Sunday. Speaker 4 Morning that's making us. Speaker 3 Better. Wants to do it, you know, but just going in there, like having a good attitude, making the best out of it, it's just like, you know what? Like it doesn't matter whether I know I want to do this like I have to. So just like kind of that perseverance of even, like, you know, like, oh, I know practice is going to be hard or something. Speaker 3 We started doing this here to make ourselves mentally tougher is at the end of every practice, no matter if we have the best practice or the worst practice we run, we do sprints at the end of every single practice, and honestly, it's more possible we're all out of prep for all day. You know, we can. Speaker 2 Win it so. Speaker 3 We can have an easy walk through practice like the team we play the next day. Like hasn't won a game yet. Like we, you know, probably we know we're probably going to win this game and we're running at the end of practice. But, you know, whenever we get into these first sets of these games where it's tiring, it's exhausted, everyone is tired, you know, we're more mentally tough than the team on the other side of the net because at the end of every practice, no matter how tired we are from that practice, we're running and they're not. Speaker 3 So that's something that's just built us on. Speaker 1 But that's what it's about. You know, it doesn't matter the team that you play tomorrow, right? You're really preparing for the day where you are now. Speaker 3 The hardest. Speaker 2 Play off any team in. Speaker 4 The competition. It doesn't matter. Any team could just say we want to be friends because we're a flagship school. A lot of people want to be us. Everybody's looking to see what we do, What are we winning? Who are we losing to? What? What was the score of that? What's their stats? Everybody's looking to see what football is doing. Speaker 4 Well, volleyball, seeing what baseball is doing, anything, friends, what does. It's what other schools are looking at. And I've noticed this through reporting for other high schools that what are the Woodlands doing? What is friends were doing. So having a lot of people look at us. There's a big weight on our backs like we have pressure on us, but we know how to succumb to that. Speaker 4 Like we know how to just be fine. We know how to handle it. Well. But honestly, it helps a lot knowing that, like we every game is competition. Like knowing that we're not walking into this thinking, Oh, it's going to be a breeze. Because even on those games when we walk in, it's like, Oh, it's going to be a breeze. Speaker 4 They'll still work their butts off. Like we just have to be ready. Now. Speaker 3 Not every game is our biggest game, but we are every team's biggest game is baseball. The game of mistakes. Like, you know, every no matter the way you earn a point is by the other team messing up. You know it could be you know we get a really good hit and they just you know, mess up and aren't there or it could be we hit 25 balls out of the net and are in the net or out of the court. Speaker 3 And, you know, that's how the other team wins. So, yeah, you just have to treat every game like it is our biggest game because you use it as a practice uses as practice for that preparation for that big game. Speaker 1 So let's talk about sideline reporting. Tell us a little bit about that. Speaker 4 So I went to be a news reporter or sports broadcaster when I'm older. Yeah, and I recently made an internship with a Vibe Houston, they're a reporting kind of they report high school sports in Houston and it's something I've always been really interested in through debate. I do persuasive speaking on informational topics around the world, so I think it's really cool that I can do that with sports, but also no information about the world. Speaker 4 So that's kind of where I'm like, Don't be a news porter or be a sports broadcaster because it's like, I love both of those things. But honestly, it's taught me so much about football because I sit there and just report live on my phone. I'll record games, I'll even report for volleyball games, what's going on. And as the seasons are going forward, I'll do basketball, softball, baseball and probably like track, I think. Speaker 4 But it's really, really interesting and it's helping me build my journalism portfolio. Yeah, that's. Speaker 1 Amazing. So that's awesome. So the first time that you had to do it, were you like, So you're getting stuff on your phone and you're reporting on social media and. Speaker 4 Writing this for myself? Speaker 1 You're writing it? Yes, ma'am. Are you speaking at all. Speaker 4 Like I do? I have like a little microphone. I do interviews with the coaches postgame. Like I'll do a little post-game interview with the winning coach and maybe a player that might be committed or is looking to go play college football. So I do a little interview with them and it's honestly really helped me speaking wise with debate too, because that's what I that's what I for debate. Speaker 4 I speak in front of three judges and sometimes it's hard because they're looking at you like, what are you saying? But they also might love your speech to kind of like throw you off. So it's really helped me in both of those aspects, being able to just talk to people. Speaker 1 So how do you research your questions? How do you come up with questions on the spot right there. Speaker 4 Questions on the spot. I would be like, how do you think your team offensively executed the game tonight, or how did our defense do? Well, like something kind of just like along the lines of how did our team manage to do that? And sometimes I'll even ask like a coaching question, like I know when Coach Johnson got here, I was kind of like, What are you planning to look at in the future? Speaker 4 Like, how have you enjoyed, like making an impact on this team? Like you're doing an amazing job and we've seen a lot of growth and change from you. Speaker 2 In just watching all of that. Like if you watch games on TV, like to be able to just kind of take notes and think through like what the other reporters are saying and doing and questions ask, I mean, like amazing, right? I mean, that's amazing. It is so like, that's such a cool thing that you're doing that because so much. Speaker 1 Yeah, it is. Who is the the is it Aaron? Who is the female sports reporter that's so popular? I think it's. Speaker 2 Aaron. Speaker 1 It's Aaron and I just put in female Aaron I'm sorry female sports for, you know, this sounds crazy but you may. Erin Andrews Yeah, yes. You should reach out to her. You should tag her in some things that you do and just. Speaker 2 Yeah. Speaker 1 Just, you know, let her know that you're aspiring to be what she is and that you would love an opportunity to. What bad could come of that? Speaker 4 That's. I'm going to try to intern with the news reporting. Yeah. Channel the gas station in Houston this summer. So I'm looking to do that when I have some free time. Speaker 2 But definitely enjoy which I'm sure you're already like thinking through that. Are you going to take I see your sweatshirt. Speaker 4 I just have it on because it's really comfy. I don't know where I'm going yet. Speaker 2 Okay. So wherever you go, I'm gonna get plugged in immediately to like the video and audio classes, journalism, whatever. And and try to get. Speaker 4 Yes, ma'am. Speaker 2 I mean, as soon as you can, like. Speaker 4 Majoring in journalism. I'm so excited. Speaker 2 Yay! So. Speaker 1 So if you could go anywhere, where would you like to go? Speaker 4 I would really like to go to the University of Texas. Speaker 1 Okay. I really want to go. Okay, good. Now, would you want to play volleyball or you're. Speaker 4 No, ma'am. You're done. I'm done after this. I would love to focus on my career moving forward with academics and just business. Speaker 2 And they have a huge journalism Freedom Network. So they you know this did you know this? The students actually run like a It's a channel. It's a channel. Yeah. And so they do like NCIS. Speaker 1 No, like bigger scale. Speaker 2 Like u cable. Yeah, well, like it's like a full I mean, it's really amazing what they do, but they yeah, it's, it's an awesome program. And then you might get to meet Matthew McConaughey. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I was. Speaker 1 I Where would you like to go? And what what do you think you want to study? Speaker 3 I honestly have no idea. Speaker 1 I That's okay. Speaker 3 I want to are the University of Texas in NTU. But I, I want to major in marketing with a minor in fashion design, but I don't want to do it that I just. I don't know. I have, like, so many, like, little interests that I like. And I. I see myself working like a cool, like 9 to 5 job and like going to parties before my work and like, coming home and like, you know, going to, like coming home and like, going on a little walk and cooking dinner and going to bed. Speaker 3 So, you know, something Corporate? Yeah, something fun like that. But I really, like, know, just like, marketing and like, I don't know, like for our volleyball games, whenever we, like, send out the uniforms instead of like, sending out a type to, like, make a little. Speaker 4 Marketing. Speaker 3 Graphic. Here, let me show you one. Speaker 1 Oh, my gosh. Speaker 4 Yes, it's a dope. I love it. Speaker 1 I'll tell you what, kids, today I'm going to start crying again. Speaker 3 I said marketing. Sometimes I feel like what we're wearing, you know, like all our little jersey combos. So I like little, like esthetically pleasing things. Speaker 1 Yes, it makes a difference. Speaker 2 Yeah. Speaker 4 But also in the fashion industry that is so big right now, all the like with really big brands like working with an agency, you see. Yeah. How much marketing and fashion is growing and it's only just going up. So you're going to have a bright future with that. Speaker 1 Yeah, well, I mean, should I follow so many? I don't even think they're influencers. There's just women that post a lot of outfits and stuff like that. What I love today on social media is when you like something, you literally you get more and more and then, well, all the things that they have a right there where you can click by like that's really dangerous. Speaker 4 It is so algorithm it's just so superficial. Speaker 3 Online shopping and she does. I do. Speaker 1 And how do you support that online addiction? I mean I have a feeling mom and dad are buying through for you. Speaker 3 My poor mother. Speaker 1 Dad. Speaker 3 I am a camp counselor, so I do have a little bit of money on myself, but. Speaker 1 Oh, you have your own money. Yeah. Okay. Speaker 3 I try it honestly. Like I do a lot more shopping than I do buying. Speaker 1 But so what do you love to do? You love makeup more or do you love clothes more? Speaker 3 Definitely clothes. Definitely clothes. Since I was like whenever I was in eighth grade, I got really into shoes. So like, I've been really into shoes and I've been. Speaker 2 What are your shoes today? Speaker 3 I'm wearing these cute little like, Oh, yes. Oh. Speaker 1 So I just super cute. You know. Speaker 3 Some mornings I do wake up and just put on leggings and a t shirt, but other I always have like outfits envisioning in my head if I actually wake up and get ready to put them together. Speaker 4 Yeah. Speaker 2 But very cool. Speaker 1 That is cool. I have to say I love, I love clothes and fashion. It can really make a difference on how it makes you feel. Speaker 3 Yeah, it's 100%. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a big believer in look good. Play good. I mean, especially for volleyball. Like, one of my superstitions is I have, like, slicked back my hair with a cute little bow in it, like, you know, in the locker room before games. You see girls, like, doing their mascara and it's like, you know, people could look, I'd be like, Oh, why are they doing their makeup before I get like super super? Speaker 3 They play God, if you like, the better you feel, the better you're going to play 100%. Speaker 4 I like touch up my makeup before I'll make my hair. Like I'll see I'm in a hair like it's it's that helps us like you. Good. You feel you don't feel sluggish. Like if you just woke up out of bed and. Speaker 3 There's like a tick tock trend where it's like, you know, kind of like from the bar movie and it's like, this is girlhood and it's just like the locker room, like tying bows in your hair. Speaker 4 And makeup, for example. So, you know, this is why. Speaker 3 I love being a woman. Yes. Speaker 1 That is such a good thing to say that we have. Yeah. There are great things about being a woman. Yeah. Speaker 4 So many amazing. Speaker 1 There are so many amazing things and that that's okay. And it's the feminine side of all of that is a beautiful. Speaker 2 Yes one. Speaker 3 Hundred percent. Speaker 4 Is still things that women can do, that men can do. So I mean, it's 2023. We can do anything. Speaker 1 That's right. Amen. Go, girl. Okay. All right, so you'll both have your phones. Do me a favor. Grab your phone. I need you to go to your settings. You know. Speaker 2 I know what you're doing. Speaker 3 Potential screen time. So what would you want to. Speaker 1 Tell a close Go to screen time. Speaker 4 Oh, God. I go. Speaker 1 Down. Wait, Kelsey, did I do that right? Oh, yeah. See, all activity. Speaker 4 My screen time. So get me. Speaker 1 Oh, see all activity. Okay. Okay, then scroll down. Then you're going to see pick ups. I want you to go to last week, and I want you to choose the bar. That's the highest. Oh, wow. And I want you to me your number. Speaker 4 Mine's Snapchat. Speaker 1 No, just your number. Speaker 4 Oh, my number. Like, of how many I picked up weekly or per day. Speaker 2 Last week's. Is it last week's average. Speaker 4 Like this. Speaker 1 See all activity under that. Then you can scroll down to pick ups Then I want you to go last week and I want to know what's your highest. So click on that bar. That's the highest. Speaker 4 600 x. Speaker 3-230. Speaker 2 30. Right. Speaker 1 Okay. Excuse me, young lady. You say on a Friday you picked up you were four and this means you opened it at 600. I knew it would be. I knew it would be this for this age. Wow. Tell us what you're this. Oh, 99 was priceless. Speaker 4 And I like to play music. And if the music is not good, I will literally pick up. I could cut it down. Pick it up? Yeah. And also, I don't know why I. I think it's just because of having a phone and just don't pick it up. Look at it, put it right back out, like I won't even open it. Speaker 3 Sometimes. Speaker 4 I'll else pick it up. Okay. Speaker 1 But that's opening. It is that you actually open it. Speaker 4 Yeah. I'll actually like, like my face and then I'll just put it right back down. Like, I don't know why. I'll just look at the notification to put it down. Speaker 3 Yeah. Speaker 1 So what, this. Oh, so guilty. Well, don't feel guilty, but like. Speaker 4 Doing a crime. No. Speaker 1 What I want you to be aware of, though, is. Which is why I saw this entire. Speaker 4 It's very unhealthy. Speaker 1 I know. Well, what it starts to do is you're not. You can't concentrate. And so when you can't just concentrate long terms on a thing, problem, situation, they're finding that, you know, our attention is going down. Yeah. And so what we do a lot of we make a lot of videos. We do a lot we do all the videos, social media posts, all of those sort of things for our school, our entire school district. Speaker 1 And what we're really well, we've known this, but what we're really seeing is people are clicking off after about 45 seconds. Speaker 3 100% with like I haven't a horrible attention span. It's actually horrible. Like, I cannot stay focused on something. But like, you know, even just like with Tik Tok, if like the first 5 seconds of the clip, is it interesting or isn't engaging, you're not going to sit there and watch like 3 minutes? Speaker 1 It's like, no, because you're teaching the algorithm. You like it, right? So you can't sit there and watch it because. Speaker 3 If might watch something that I'm not really interested in for 3 minutes, the next thing you know, my whole entire feed is going to be these things that I'm not interested in. Speaker 1 Totally. The other night they asked me which Christmas tree would you want decorated in your house? I don't know why I entertained it. I did. I even commented what number I would use. Oh my God, I have 50 now in my Christmas. Speaker 3 Oh yeah. It's like the same thing where if you're talking about something like this morning, I went to parties with my mom and we were. She was someone asked her what sweatshirt she was wearing and she started talking about this brand and I opened up Instagram right after we finish and buy brands on my Instagram feed. It's like Instagram ads. Speaker 3 It's like crazy. They definitely listen to what you say. Speaker 2 You're going into market. So that's my that's my background, too. If you're going into marketing, you're going to be doing all those things that were being. Speaker 3 I find that like so interesting. I was going to. Speaker 2 Say, That's all right. Speaker 1 It's fascinating. Speaker 2 Yes. Speaker 3 And so like, love psychology, like that's what I thought I wanted to do before I got into marketing. So there's like a degree that's like psychological marketing. You know, if you use primary colors on a billboard, like, people are more likely to look at it versus like pastel colors, just like all those. So interesting. Speaker 2 Hopefully, I mean, all marketing pretty much is psychological. Yeah. Speaker 1 Yeah. Human behavior. Yeah, human behavior and market that's marketing is. And by the way, like, you're. Speaker 2 One of the most fascinating things. We did a case study whenever I was in my master's program, and it was over the sale of SUVs and how SUVs skyrocketed in popularity after 911. Speaker 3 Trust. Speaker 2 Has they really sold the idea of safety. Speaker 4 Bigger. Speaker 2 In a time where people did not feel safe? And if you start paying attention to I'm sorry, I like nerd out on this, if you start paying attention to like every commercial, almost everything plays off of some sort of fear. Yeah. So even if it's like something like a like Botox, right? It's playing on the fear of reaching. Speaker 2 Yes, mouthwash. They actually coined the term. What's what do they use for the for the bad breath Like, oh. Speaker 1 I say ptosis or something. Speaker 2 Something like that. Yeah. That was that was coined by the marketing agents of Listerine. Speaker 3 Interesting. Speaker 2 Listerine was used as a cleaning products originally, and they had horrible sales. They started thinking, oh, this could be used as hygiene. They coined this term, started using it in their ads. People became fearful of having bad breath, started buying Listerine. I mean, it was all. Speaker 3 Like, that's crazy. Speaker 2 They can't increase in sales. So it's like this guy saying to myself. Speaker 1 Well, it is a mind game. And they're really good at knowing about what makes you tick. Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, right. Speaker 1 Especially young kids. And that's why I'm a mom here for a second. And it sounds like you turned your you know, you decided you want positivity on your volleyball team. Ladies, you're going to have to do the exact same thing moving forward with your phones and comparing yourself to other girls. Oh, yeah. Thinking that you're important because you're more beautiful or you're. Speaker 1 That's not where we get our worth, you know? That's not who we are. That's not what it's about. It's fun. It's great. It can be a hobby. It can be a business, a job. Right? But that's not what because those things go away at times in our lives. So that can't be what we just hold on to of what makes us who we are. Speaker 3 Yeah, but we struggle. Speaker 1 I mean, women, we've got it hard in this world because we're told to be sweet, We're told to be nice, we're told to serve, right? Yeah. But we also need to stand up for what's important. I agree. We are right. We were capable of doing anything and everything that we want to. Speaker 3 Social media can be a it can be so, like, horrible. Speaker 1 Just like it's it's so hard. Speaker 3 Just like, you know, being comfortable with where you are. But then you open up social media and then you see where everybody else is. Just comparison and FOMO and all of that. Like, Oh, that's where I like Nadal. It's just like, that's how like, I mean, I'm not one to talk because I could talk about how horrible social media is, but then I also. Speaker 1 Talk about. Speaker 4 How bad it is too. But like I'm on it 24/7. Speaker 3 So I was talking to my mom about this and she's like, well, then deleted. I was like. Speaker 2 Oh, maybe not. Yeah, you can't. It's like a drug. Speaker 1 You drug where it's so that's what's important. You can be on it, but be aware of if you're starting to feel down or if you're starting to compare yourself to others, it's like, Wait, I need to get outside, I need to get sun, I need to put this down for a while. Speaker 2 Yeah. So, like, it kind of makes you think there was it was actually a sermon in church and was talking about, like, just respecting God's power like that. We talk about like God is good, but also that you have to respect God and there's also a healthy fear, right? And so there was a comparison to electricity. And I feel like that can be made in a lot of aspects, including social media. Speaker 2 It's like, well, electricity provides a lot of great things for us. Like it makes us easier in a lot of ways. But we have a healthy respect and we have a knowledge of the dangers that it could have. Speaker 1 That's right. That's what's important. Speaker 2 Yeah. And I think you could say that with social media, it's like there are a lot of I think there's a lot of benefits. You know, I think there's people who try to go to one extreme or the other and say all social media is about, well, first of all, social media is such a broad term. It's so broad. Speaker 2 I mean, so I think like that has to be understood. But really just that you can as long as you have that healthy respect for what can happen and the awareness that there are dangers and how to navigate and avoid those dangers, then I mean, it's a great tool. It's a great thing. Speaker 3 Right There is like this. It's not really like a trending TikTok thing, but there's this a lot of my feed is like running and all that. And there's this thing called 75 hard for 75 days. You have to do an indoor workout, an outdoor workout, read ten pages of a book, drink like a liter of water, and then it's supposed to be like like no cheat days as far as eating. Speaker 3 And I obviously I have the biggest sweet tooth, so I haven't been able to really stay on track with that one. But just like literally, like working out twice a day, it can literally be like a 15 minute like stretch video because that's like, you know, on days we have volleyball games. I can't go outside and run, obviously. Speaker 3 So just like honestly, like literally reading ten pages of some random book before I go to bed instead of being on my phone like I just found, like, I don't know, so much more like and so, like, I don't know how to explain this stuff. Speaker 4 Yeah, like this. I started, like, reading the news. Find out about. Speaker 3 This thing. Speaker 2 On TikTok. I don't know that that would bring me like, Well, she's doing much more than that. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's, that's. Yeah, I should be quiet on TikTok. Speaker 3 I don't know how I saw, but it was like, try to. Whenever you wake up, don't get on your phone for at least 30 minutes. It's like don't obsess over other people's lives or don't check in on other people's days before you even start your own. Something like that. So I've been trying to do that, just like start my day before I get on social media and see compare my day so far to others. Speaker 2 That's a great I love that quote. That's awesome. Speaker 1 It's great. Listen, that's something that you have control over, right? And so that's a choice, right? Speaker 3 It's hard. But yeah. Speaker 1 It's it's hard, but it's a choice. You know. Speaker 3 It's like I also can't wake up to my alarm. So I put my alarm on my phone on the opposite side of my room. So I have no other choice but to get up and turn it off. It's just like kind of mind training. Speaker 1 Or even on Saturdays when you don't want to work out. Speaker 2 Yes, yes, yes. Speaker 3 I set my first alarm at 7 a.m. and I have an alarm every 5 minutes until eight. Speaker 1 Okay, listen, I want you to try something. I want you to try when your alarm goes off, I want you to get up. Speaker 3 I know. Speaker 4 It's. Speaker 1 So dark. Oh, back. Don't get back in. Speaker 3 That bad snooze button is my biggest enemy. Speaker 4 Oh, me too. Speaker 1 It's really not getting more aggressive. Sleep. I know it's hard. Speaker 3 It is so hard. Speaker 2 Listen to. I'm going to. Speaker 1 Ask around questions and you're going to say that player on the team that you think that's okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Let's try this one who's most likely to be late? Speaker 4 Not only will you lose. Speaker 3 100%, but we have a rule. Speaker 4 Where we tell. Speaker 3 Them it's 15 if you're not 15 minutes early or late. But whenever it comes to Natalie, our role is if she's on time, if she's just there, it's okay. You know, we've lowered the specially sat weight rooms. It's like you have to be that 815 If we're like, if Natalie is here by 831, it's a miracle. It is a miracle of her. Speaker 1 Oh, that's great. Her most likely to get kicked out of the game. Speaker 3 Caroline of Sight Adams. She is the sweetest little firecracker. But whenever it comes to, like the refs calling points like our calls, that shouldn't be happening. She will sit up there and she will argue and she will not let it go. Speaker 1 Is she right? Most of the time, yes. Oh. Speaker 3 Sometimes refs don't like it when players are. Speaker 1 I know. I would think they never like it. But So who has the worst? Dirtiest, nastiest locker? Speaker 4 I think. I don't know. I don't really look at anybody. Speaker 3 I'm going to go Olivia Thompson Just because her locker is next to mine, so. And you. Speaker 1 See it? Yeah. And. Speaker 3 And if you like, more than yours. Right. She likes to put a lot of her stuff in my locker because she can't fit it all in hers. Speaker 2 Oh, my gosh. Speaker 4 Yeah. Speaker 3 And then she also, like, three weeks ago, I don't know. If you were in the locker room, Alex, I don't know. You crawling out of her locker. Speaker 2 And has her hair? Oh, yeah, she was. You know, it was actually. Speaker 1 Her hair, which was her hair, like, in her. Speaker 3 It was like, no. And then I had, like, jumped off my pants like that. I don't. Speaker 1 Know. It's just it was. Speaker 3 Honestly, it was terrifying. But so funny. But yes, her locker just always has stuff in it. Speaker 4 Where protocols matter. So you know. Speaker 1 Who is the cutest locker? Speaker 3 So our little stuff create our lockers. So I honestly. Speaker 4 Think I'm trying to think. Speaker 3 I feel like it was pretty cool. Speaker 4 Alex I think I'm pretty clean. Speaker 3 Yeah. You have a really few one. Speaker 4 Your mind's pretty cool. I just keep it clean. Like, I don't like. I don't like my stuff to be all over. I keep it like I don't even in my locker. Speaker 2 Yeah. Speaker 1 Okay. Who looks the best for every game? Speaker 3 Alex? Speaker 4 I do do my makeup. And like, on the court, though, I feel like you look like I'm just like you. I just. Speaker 3 Yeah, I like my hair back, but by the end of the game, like, pieces are, like, falling out, and, like. Speaker 4 Haley always looks pretty good. Haley really painting like she sweats, but. Speaker 3 Like, yeah, she's everywhere. And she, like, is running all 20. She does every single point. And by the end of the game, her hair looks perfect. Speaker 1 Oh, wow. Okay. Goes out of her way like she's the, the best team player in that she always is helping or serving other people. Speaker 3 Okay, I'm going to go Caroline. Speaker 4 Adams and I go, Carol, to. Speaker 1 Least likely to argue with the ref. Speaker 4 And evolve. And he doesn't like competition at all. Speaker 1 Competition? Speaker 4 Yeah, whatever. Speaker 3 Of commandeering our man, picking Caroline, who's our other captain. She got a yellow card, which means she she can talk to the ref. But if she talks the ref and it's a red card, she's kicked out and she's our only setter. So. Speaker 1 Yeah, that's a problem. Speaker 2 Yeah, that. Speaker 3 Was tasked with having to have all the conversations with the ref. And I was like, Oh, you know, wasn't this a double? And they were like, No. And I was like, okay. Speaker 1 Next time I'm going to go like to choose. I'm listening. Can we? Speaker 3 Yeah, it's up to the refs. Speaker 4 And I'm hair color. I just like a. Speaker 3 Little wink before I go. Speaker 2 There. Speaker 1 Okay, so if either of you could change places with one teammate for a day, who would you want to change places with? Speaker 4 Like, can I change my, like, athletic abilities to it? Speaker 3 Or is there something in their body? You have to. Speaker 1 Change? Yeah. Yeah, I'm in your body. You go in there body for one day. Speaker 4 Oh, I'll take care of it. I would say, my dear Shelby. Speaker 3 Oh yeah, those are both good ones. Speaker 4 I feel like there's a lot of pressure on them and I just would love to see how they deal with it all at once. Yeah. Speaker 1 Or how they talk to them. So I. Speaker 3 Feel like. Speaker 1 Mean be fun to see how you talk to. Speaker 3 Them. So my second life, I feel like I would have been a setter. Like I wish I was a set, like I can set. It's like I feel like that would be fun, but like also I can't jump and Nadia can just jump out of the room and slam the ball and. Speaker 4 She's. Speaker 3 So much fun to watch my feelings. I would love to just be able to like, play like her. Speaker 4 Yeah. Speaker 1 Awesome. Okay. Do you all have boyfriends. Speaker 4 Without, you know. Speaker 1 To see who's the cutest guy at Friendswood High School? Yeah, well, nine you. Although that boyfriend's. Who would you say is your favorite teacher of all time? Speaker 3 Okay, I'm going to go against Parnell. Speaker 1 Miss Parnell? Speaker 3 Yes. Oh, my gosh. Four year math teacher. And I've been stuck in her room ever since. She's. I am her like t teacher aide, kind of. I have like a free period where I just sit in her room and she I mean, now I'm, I guess like I'm bored to the point where, like, she's more of, like, a mentor and a friend than like a teacher because I had her, like, my sophomore year. Speaker 3 But I love her. She's awesome. Speaker 4 I would have to say I like to like I've grown to one teacher this year that I talk about all the time, like it's Mrs. Carol Jeffries. Carol. Speaker 1 I love her history. Speaker 4 But yes, she says economics, history. Speaker 1 And history. Speaker 4 And also probably Laura malone. Miss Malone, she was the English department. And then Mallory Clingan used to be my girl, but she just left. She was my debate. Speaker 2 Coach after. Speaker 4 This calling in was I told her everything she knew, everything about me. I loved her so much. And I feel like have a good relationship with all of the teachers at apps. Like I go and they just sitting there, all of this kind of just wander around. So I just feel like I would have to say like I miss was calling at a bunch, but like I love a lot of teachers and that like. Speaker 3 I don't remember the last time I felt like a bad teacher. Speaker 4 I don't either. Speaker 3 I really do like all my teachers. That's great. You know, like teacher. It's so hard because like, you know, like what? You know, but like, maybe some time someone else would pick it and it's like, who do I pick? You know, it kind of comes down to, like, has it been picked? Yeah. Speaker 1 Well, I listen, I wanted to get into some debate topics and kind of. Speaker 2 But you're going. Speaker 3 To take all. Speaker 1 The time that I hold you girls. And I know you'll both have schedules with very important classes. Speaker 3 Oh, it's okay. It's okay. We'll skip it in a day for. Speaker 1 You. Speaker 4 Any day. Speaker 1 But listen, What? Is there anything else you don't want to talk about? So remind everybody, win the game. Where you win the game is tomorrow. Speaker 3 At 5 p.m.. Hobson Field House, which is by Hightower High School, I believe, but thinks Hobson Field House against Randolph High School. Speaker 1 And do they need to wear anything in particular? They all do like white out, black out. Speaker 3 The school know is red, so just. Speaker 4 Come a little led by. Speaker 1 My friends with blue. Speaker 2 I mean, just as I know people will be curious about this, Are they livestreaming the game? Speaker 4 I'm pretty sure they will. Facebook Livestream. I know one of our moms does do Facebook lives for the games. So yeah. Speaker 3 I think she will be on maxpreps. They have like live links there too. Actually. Honestly, they did do our last commercials and say usually they only livestream like the bigger, more popular games. But I do believe that tomorrow will be livestream. Speaker 1 Well, if we find it and we'll get that out so people see on social media and if. Speaker 2 We're the ones sharing the link, it's valid. If there's someone commenting below on any of our posts tagging a million people, it is a scam. We get them all the time is on it. Ridiculous. Yeah. Like links commented. Yes. Speaker 1 Yeah. Speaker 3 No initial scams whenever they have mercy, whenever baseball. I went to state my sophomore year. I try to watch it live because my boyfriend was playing at the time and I try to watch it live and we were out of town and I for I don't know how I fell for this. It said, It's free, but put your credit card number in and I got scared. Speaker 1 Oh, no. Speaker 2 Don't be like, I mean, it's free. Speaker 4 But let's just pay your credit card number. Speaker 1 Just in case. I just know. Speaker 3 What I was thinking. Speaker 1 Well, that's okay. Listen, lady, so glad you came. Today was so good. Speaker 2 So good. Speaker 1 So proud of you. I'll go and get them. Speaker 2 Yes, ma'am.