Windy City Recap and Our Unique Training System

In part 1 of a 2 part episode, we are joined by Katia to talk about how we finished up in Chicago as well as learning a little about how we do things at FEVA. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Welcome to Above the Tape, an all access FIVA podcast. We are going to do something a little bit different this episode, and we are going to split it up into two different parts, mainly because we went on for almost two hours. So, first of all, enjoy part one. Welcome to Above the Tape, an all-access FIVA podcast. My name is Davis Lauderdale, and I am your favorite director at Florida Elite Volleyball Academy. But more importantly, I am the host of this podcast. I am joined as always by my co-host, the lady who needed a week before she was ready to talk volleyball, and I still don't think she is. She is the head coach of our top 16 team as well as the two-time conference coach of the year at Sun Lake High School. Please welcome Elise Zapata.

SPEAKER_04 0:47

Good evening. How are you? You're right. I'm still not ready to talk volleyball, but I guess should I just jump right into it or we gotta introduce our guest. She is making she's the woman.

SPEAKER_01 1:00

Her first legend. She is joining us. Amazing. This is her first solo guest appearance on this podcast.

SPEAKER_04 1:09

Yeah, she doesn't deserve to be on with anyone else. She is or she deserves.

SPEAKER_01 1:13

She is the you are ruining my intro here. She is the head coach of our top 14s and 15s team, as well as the head coach of Strawberry Crest High School. She's the reason for the winner of three bids already this season. Please welcome Katia Savedra.

SPEAKER_03 1:31

Hello, hello.

SPEAKER_04 1:35

All right, guys. Remember once again. I'm gonna get myself in there. Davis keeps he's gonna hate me because I'm gonna interrupt him every time.

SPEAKER_01 1:43

I'm gonna mute her in a minute. So uh remember once again, subscribe to whenever you listen, wherever you listen to your podcast. Uh, while you're there, give us a five-star review. If you give us any less than five stars, you are a hater. So before we get started, I got a joke.

SPEAKER_03 1:58

Of course you do.

SPEAKER_01 1:59

Okay. What do you call a bear with no teeth?

SPEAKER_03 2:06

Uh huh.

SPEAKER_01 2:07

Furless. A gummy bear.

SPEAKER_03 2:12

I need a little bit more time to think about that. I might have enough one.

SPEAKER_01 2:16

I've already been traumatized because you're not going to be able to do that.

SPEAKER_03 2:17

You don't give us enough time to like think about what the answer is.

SPEAKER_01 2:20

But the last time I gave her time and she guessed it right, and it ruined the entire ruined the entire joke. It ruined the joke, and I and I guess it's a good idea.

SPEAKER_05 2:28

Yeah. That's what's too.

SPEAKER_01 2:30

So anyway, today we're going to take a little break from our normal uh blame Davis for everything, including the weather. Um, and we are going to go give you guys some really great behind-the-scenes insight on how we do things at FIVA. And of course, there's only really one person to bring in for that. Um, we're gonna kind of talk about what makes everything go here at FIVA. Um, we're gonna discuss a lot of things that I think is gonna be really informative and hopefully interesting to our parents. We shall see.

SPEAKER_04 2:56

Um The best part of this, Davis, is that we don't have to listen to you talk the whole time. Correct. You're gonna hear and hear people say, Man, Davis just knows how to continue talking. They said that on the podcast. They're like, they're like, you guys need to interrupt him more. So that's to those parents that said that, that's why I interrupted him this whole time in the beginning. And I'm gonna continue to do it when you continue to speak too much.

SPEAKER_01 3:21

The feedback that I've been given is they are so mean to you on this podcast. And I don't know how you can deal with those crazy ladies, but you know, anyway, everybody has their own perspective on things. So, anyway, uh, real quick, want to give a quick shout out to some of our teams that played this week. Um, congratulations to 11 Danny and 15 Michael. Oh, they were so fun to watch for winning first place at the April Smash Fest. Um, I'm and Danny's team is the cutest team ever.

SPEAKER_03 3:50

And they're such little ballers, it's incredible.

SPEAKER_01 3:53

I know I I've officially called they're officially in sandbagger territory because they're winning almost every two. Put them in 12. Yeah, we're gonna have to them in 12s. Put them in 12s because they're rocking it up. Yeah, they're they're killing it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 4:03

When Danny tells me about that, he's like, Yeah, you know, I called timeout, and I'm like, get it together. And they're like very and then they go out there and he's like, they're just so funny.

SPEAKER_01 4:11

They just kill it. There was one at March Mayhem where he called it, it was like the score was they were playing some team, and the score was like 18 to 2. The coach, you know, called a timeout and he came over and he's like, Girls, I don't really have anything to say. You guys are doing great.

SPEAKER_03 4:26

I think only two can reach maybe fingertips over the net anyway. Oh, yeah, yeah. But yeah, they're it's it's so cute.

SPEAKER_01 4:31

Yeah, but they're they're there.

SPEAKER_04 4:33

Let me tell you, there is times I laugh and spit out my water there. Because there's times where like another team calls a timeout. I'm like, I'm speechless because I'm like, one, I don't know why they're calling a timeout, or two, like we're on a roll and they're doing everything great. It's like how do you say something to players that are doing everything? You got this. Let's go! I'm like, I'm like, keep doing this and keep doing that. It's it's not telling them to do it again, it's just re-iterating. No, we had a good tournament this weekend.

SPEAKER_01 5:06

Yeah, and then of course, you know, Michael keeps destroying Coach Brianna's 15 team's dreams.

SPEAKER_03 5:15

Come on, the third time destroying because they've got to be plenty.

SPEAKER_01 5:18

Destroying their dreams.

SPEAKER_03 5:19

Not destroying no, the games are battling it out. And Coach Brianna's team is getting better and better. So I really love watching them play. Really, they they've done an outstanding job. But they are the threes and fours, you know. At the end of the day, if Brianna was to beat Michael, she would be talking crap for the next three months. Just like just I mean, any something. Michael can say I beat you, but you should.

SPEAKER_04 5:44

So Bree, I'm waiting for the day. You can do that. We believe in you, Bri. I'm I'm behind you 100%. I love Coach Michael. Michael, you're my guy. But my girl Bree needs to represent something a little better than that.

SPEAKER_01 6:00

Okay. I I still maintain I do not I do not like it all when our teams play each other.

SPEAKER_03 6:04

No, and they played so much. So maybe having 20 teams at a tournament is not such a good idea. Let's put that in the note taking. Put a pin in that pin in that that shows you feva's on top. Because you know, I have a little thing on notes and everything, everything, every time that something happens, I'm like, oh, gotta change this. Oh, let's make sure we change this for next year.

SPEAKER_04 6:24

It's just it, but honestly, it's just showing how FIVA's on top. You know what I mean? Like, that's yeah, but we don't want teams playing each other all the time in the tournament.

SPEAKER_01 6:33

Yeah, we had but we wrote it for next year. I think it was 16, so we had three of the final four, three of the four teams were FIBA teams. So it's like, well, we're gonna win. But you know, yeah, I know. And did you guys both go this weekend or did Davis get the weekend on? Um I went on Saturday. I did not go to Saturday.

SPEAKER_03 6:49

I took over for 14 David, which was so much fun. Such great kids. I love that. Giving you a thousand percent every single time, and you can see how the light bulb turns on, you know. So it was it was really fun because it's it's more of a a coaching moment for me. Um, you know, I I coach the ones team. So coaching David's team was definitely it's a different experience, but we really had a blast.

SPEAKER_01 7:13

Really had a blast. I I actually really enjoy that team. I've actually kind of they have so much personality, spent a lot of time on their bench, and they're and they're they're a lot of fun. So and I got my first yellow card helping coach them. So I was really proud of that. The one that doesn't coach gets a yellow card. I got a yellow card anyway. And then and then kind of going on um 17 Savannah, 16 Michaela, 14 Jenna, and then of course 15 Brianna all came in second place. Um, 16 Adara, 16 Lorenzo, and 13 Brittany all came in third place. So again, overall, good showing this weekend at the field house in Winterhaven.

SPEAKER_04 7:46

You know, I was having a little FOMO not being out there.

SPEAKER_03 7:49

It was fun. We went there were some good moments. I did enjoy my weekend off, but there was an and I don't want to say that, but there was a parent in the stands up there. Holy cannoli. I will tell you what, you know, I mean I know exactly what she said. She stood out. I don't think a single coach in that gym did not notice her. Holy cow. So it was crazy.

SPEAKER_01 8:12

I know. I heard I heard a game got a little got a little interesting today with her. And for those of you who don't know the field house, the fans are up top. So the parents sit up top.

SPEAKER_02 8:20

Goodness.

SPEAKER_01 8:20

Yeah, I think for this lady. For this one, yeah. Yes. And then yeah, so it was it was um it was pretty intense. I mean, on Saturday, it was intense. The game that you coached with that uh that one club where the two parents somehow two parents ended up on the floor in the opposite corners because they were they were there to keep the ball from rolling away, but they're like chest bumping and screaming back and forth during the middle of the game.

SPEAKER_04 8:41

And so I got them kicked out. I'm not opposed to chest bumping, but you gotta do in the right element, you gotta do in the right thing.

SPEAKER_01 8:47

So I just went and I was like, okay, if this is the case, can we go ahead and bring our parents down here too? It was the last the gym was empty. It was the only it was the only game when I was like, we'll just bring our kids, our parents down here.

SPEAKER_03 8:57

We were the last team playing last today.

SPEAKER_01 8:59

Which it is kind of silly when there's only one court, they really probably should let everybody down, but you can't let two people and have one of them stand on our side and yelling and screaming like a lunatic. You can't agree. So I titled told, and I'm not ashamed to say it. Um, that's too bad.

SPEAKER_04 9:13

Davis will let you know when you're super right and when you're super wrong, as long as he feels that you're super right and super wrong. So even if you're by the rule book and he feels like it's wrong, he'll argue it.

SPEAKER_01 9:24

Yeah. Listen, I'm all about learning the rules. But good tournament. Good tournament. Good tournament overall. Yeah, at least I'm gonna tell you right now.

SPEAKER_04 9:32

Let me hear it. Are you coming at me now? I'm ready for it.

SPEAKER_01 9:35

And and and Cadia's gonna agree. Uh-huh. This would have been a rough one for you with the officiating. The officiating was there was a lot of like newer officials. Because I and for whatever reason, and so there was a couple like we don't know the rules on this. Um, and I also want to brag. I knew a rule that Katia didn't know.

SPEAKER_03 9:54

Well, and and you know, and and we are a lot of rules.

SPEAKER_01 9:57

I want to test the lease first if she knows it. Well, let me hear it. Okay, you for U14. Uh-huh. All right. We're serving.

SPEAKER_04 10:03

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 10:04

Toss the serve. Can't land in the court. Catch the serve. Legal or illegal. It's legal. It is legal.

SPEAKER_03 10:10

14 and under can catch and let it drop.

SPEAKER_04 10:13

Then 14.

SPEAKER_03 10:14

It's it's one eighth.

SPEAKER_04 10:15

She thought it was inside the court. That's an issue. If you guys didn't know that. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 10:19

So I thought it could let it drop, but not catch. And you can do both. Yeah. You can do both. So we, of course, the referee did not know that rule and we lost that point. I want to protest.

SPEAKER_04 10:29

And no, now you can't toss and it land in the court. Did you know that? I did not. I did not know that. That's in play. I did not know that. I'm gonna do that.

SPEAKER_03 10:36

Is that high school or USAV? I want to say that it's probably high school because I I honestly don't think that that was even stated in the rule book. It wasn't. I don't think it was.

SPEAKER_01 10:48

She showed she brought the rule book out for me because I I was like, hey, I will talk to the head of ref, like, hey, I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_03 10:53

And you know, we we gotta give it to these referees. I mean, they do an awesome job. We we don't have a lot of referees, obviously. But it is very difficult when a coach knows the rule, the referee does not know the rule, and they don't even allow you to protest or even have your child go up in them and talk. And I know the you know, there were three things on the rule. That was one of them. Yeah, but one referee allowed an 18-year-old team to toss, let it drop, and serve again. I would have lose my crap. Well, the coach did lose her crap, and he just kept blowing the whistle. Yeah. The second rule was that exceptional sub the exceptional sub. So one of our setters on the 16 team got lightheaded, had to be removed, couldn't play anymore. And the referee told them that the only there was everybody else had gone in. Yeah, that the only player could be that sub was the libero and forced the libero to get out of the libero jersey and become the right side. And so we're like, no. So we had to go to the tournament director and the head official. And of course, by that time you lost your libero, we lost the game, you know, no libero, and it it's difficult, you know. So it's difficult we don't know the rules. Correct. No, they don't call doubles, judgment. Whatever. They don't call it judgment call. They're all judgment calls, and we have to live with those. Correct. We get it, we get it. The rules are the rules, but the rules are the rules, and we we have to be able to know them.

SPEAKER_04 12:18

And that's tough.

SPEAKER_03 12:19

That's tough, I guess.

SPEAKER_04 12:19

You know, and I'm gonna like interrupt. So before, like when I was in postseason with the reps here locally for high school, a lot of them do club. But the head official came up to me and said, Hey, I have a lot of new people that are trying to say from high school to club, can we come in pre-season and you guys do like a fake scrimmage between you and JV or UN varsity, whatever it is. And I can teach my people because we're trying to actually get them to know the rules. Because we're seeing a lot of the issues when now coaches, right, are getting kicked out or yellow carded or red carded or whatever. Because in high school you get red carded, it's not like a club where you could just stay there. Yeah, right. You get kicked out. You get kicked out, yeah, you could get suspended. If it's around playoff time, if this is a game that's a need, if you could lose out on a playoff game, it's you know, it's wishy-washy.

SPEAKER_03 13:13

And I think that if we were a little bit more open-minded, uh coaches could be a little bit calmer, and referees could be a little bit more open-minded to getting feedback, but we could work together. But unfortunately, coaches are not calm, and we're gonna I'll admit that. Yeah, and then referees are not open to hear the rule or even look up the rule. Correct. So if that's my problem. And and that's difficult. If you are saying that look, please, you know, this is not the rule, can you please look the rule up before you dock me a point or tell me something and it continues to happen, then it's uh hindering the support.

SPEAKER_04 13:58

100%.

SPEAKER_03 13:59

And that's that's unfortunate.

SPEAKER_04 14:00

And and I'm at the point now where before even season starts, even before preseason, this is when they want to do it. I will let 10, 12 schools come in and do an own scrimmage like on a Saturday. Like this is your time frame against your JV team. And it can't be obviously it can't be against any other team, but it can be against your own JV team just for these refs to get the actual information and I'm not gonna lie, there is some high school coaches out there that they don't know what they're doing. So it helps them learn what the the rule is and what's not.

SPEAKER_03 14:32

It helps players learn the I've always offered um new high school coaches to come in and watch practice of mine. I don't I don't mind it.

SPEAKER_04 14:39

And I've had you know some people ask me about the rule, and I explain the rule as well. Correct. And like some people feel some people are like, I'm not gonna let people see my practice, or I'm not gonna let I'm more than willing to share. I I will sit down with you and coach you, I will sit down and answer your questions. I will sit down.

SPEAKER_03 14:57

We have a clinic, don't we? We have a Mul Rennan middle school coach. He comes to every FIVA coach's clinic and he learns, and I'm happy to share everything. What's the point of us coaching? For every kid to develop to the best way of possible. If I can share every knowledge, every bit of knowledge I have with anybody else, I don't care. I don't care if you're from another club, I will share it. So anyway, all day go off topic.

SPEAKER_04 15:22

At the end of the day, I think every high school coach would agree that if we can do anything to help these coaches get better or these reps get better, or coaches even, we're gonna do it. So Sun Lake's open, Strawberry Crest is open, FIVA's open as a whole. Like, yes, absolutely, you know, yeah. We're gonna do it.

SPEAKER_01 15:39

Cool. So before we kind of get started with a little bit of, you know, like I said, some insider information here, uh, want to talk a little bit about Chicago. Um I know Elise is not looking forward to this, but we have to go through it. So I'm gonna start with Elise and her 16 team. Um, unfortunately, we did not get the results we wanted. Um they came in fifth place, you know, one game short of one game short of earning a USA bid.

SPEAKER_03 16:02

So Elise, you can say what one game away 27-25 or 28-26?

SPEAKER_01 16:06

26-24, I believe it was. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:08

I thought it would be tied at 26-26.

SPEAKER_01 16:10

It could have been. Yeah, you're right. It was 26-22. So we lost 28-26. Yeah. Elise, anything you want to say, or would you want us to take the floor? This is this is why we didn't have a podcast.

SPEAKER_03 16:20

And again, my daughter is on that team, so I I suffer.

SPEAKER_04 16:23

Like, I'm my eyes are watering again. Like, it's just um I know my team. And I know my team could have won the game. Just again, it's the things that you can control that they did not. Like serving. Like serving.

SPEAKER_03 16:40

And I always tell them, right? Communication. Three things that you can control without serving, communication, and energy. Other than that, you can't control anything else. No. You do not and you cannot control what they do to you. Correct. You can only control what you do. And we were not able to control that.

SPEAKER_04 17:00

You sit and talk to them and they understand they understand that they really do. It's just they all have very high volleyball IQ. Yes. And take it, you know, I just I hate talking about this. And and and taking I I already said it. I thought it was Danny, too. I said, we would have won that set, we wouldn't have won the game. Yeah. Like I just wish like it would be Saturday, right? It was it was a tournament, like I said, on Saturday that was we're just battling every point. We're we're doing what we have to do to get by because we know what we need to do on Sunday. And the girls did all of that on Friday and Saturday, right? They and against our, like I said, our amazing competitors, our our our local rivals, they did their job. They did everything that they control, their serves, their communication, and their serves. Right? Did I did I just answer that? It's okay because it's pretty good. It's PTSD right now. Double down on it, right? Yeah, it's like those three things they controlled, and that's why they finished the game against a very good team. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:11

So they they they came back because of their serves. Correct. And they couldn't close out because of their serves on Sunday.

SPEAKER_04 18:19

But like Saturday, they had all three of those things, and they're playing a team that is as competitive as us in an up and I'm never gonna say that Tampa United is not a good team because they're freaking fantastic. They make us they're an amazing team. They make us work for every point. But we did our job on Saturday. Yeah, if we could have brought that momentum onto Sunday, because even day like game one on Saturday or Sunday was a struggle. Like we there was it was game point, or still struggling to get our our serves in. That cannot happen. Not at 16s. You know, at this level, the things that you can control are are the things that should not be the reason why you're losing a game. And that's exactly why we lost our second game. Yeah, that's why we lost 2826.

SPEAKER_03 19:06

I'm gonna chime in on that really quick. You know, uh, yeah, Tampa United is our competitor because they're an they're they're an amazing team. But the girls do get along and they do like each other. As a matter of fact, Emma, who is the setter for our 16 team, you know, got a message from one of their um players saying, Great game, Emma. You know, it shows the classiness. Correct. That you're there to compete, but we are so happy for them when they succeed, and and I think that the players are happy for us. Do we hate losing absolutely, but that's part of competition. Yes. But we we we you know, we truly respect um the other team and the players on that team.

SPEAKER_04 19:45

And it's funny that you said that because like when I was taking Emma to our team bonding moment, you know, she was like, Hey, one of them reached out to me saying how good of a setter I was. And I said, Isn't it nice to hear that? And she's like, Yeah, I was like, I I I truly think it was one of their moms because they were in the right colors, like and who who's gonna sit there and watch a whole game if they're not a part of our team, you know, like one of the teams, but and even gave us a compliment of like on the sideline. It's just it's one of those things that you hear, right? And like Cadia says, it's like, yes, they are that, but it's a respect, it's a respecting. Like if when they beat us in Gasparella, like I said, they beat us in Gasparola, they beat us upright. Yeah. Great game.

SPEAKER_01 20:26

Every time we played them, we beat them three out of four times, but it could very easily have been the other way. Any other way. I mean, it goes to the knitting other way.

SPEAKER_04 20:32

And then I said, they didn't make it easy for us to win a championship game in O'Cala. Yeah, they didn't make it easy for us to get into gold in O'Cala. Like, like I said, and I said this on the last podcast, they are going to give their all. They're gonna go down swinging, they're gonna be playing hard, like they always do. It's just we came up top on Saturday and we played our game, what we can do and what we can control. And that's that's that's night and day.

SPEAKER_03 21:00

But you know, at the end of the day on Sunday, they didn't miss that, but that is what a part of experience is. Correct. And I it you know, it doesn't matter how good of a player you are, it doesn't matter how many experiences you have from every experience, whether you win or you lose, you have to get something out of it. Yeah, and I'm hoping that that they can remember that game on Sunday, right? So they can make those adjustments when they get to that point. Again, whether it be at ASICs, whether it be at JOs, whether it be at A Internationals, wherever they get into that situation, that they understand what needs to be done to win those points.

SPEAKER_04 21:37

And you know, on Wednesday, we had an amazing practice. We only had eight girls at practice, everyone played except for outside wise, set a rise, right side rise, like and they were they were killing it. They were putting their serves in we like Katia was getting annoyed of just like we gotta get them off the court. We gotta get them off.

SPEAKER_03 21:58

I am gonna beat the crap out of my fifty. Sorry, I love you 15s, but we were missing a couple two.

SPEAKER_04 22:03

We were missing a couple two, but they played very we were they played very missing two key players, like yeah, and it was like they got it together, and then which is gonna be a very good point for our uh uh practice thing.

SPEAKER_03 22:16

Yeah, because when our teams practice together, it is an all-out battle.

SPEAKER_04 22:20

Oh, yeah, it's an all-out battle. They the girls love each other, but they also love talking crap. They also love and they love Pedia, they love their practice. And then at the end of the day, it's like, you want to share this cookie after? Like it's stuff like that. But it was like Thursday's practice was absolute crap. Like it we played like crap. We didn't do it, and and I'm like, I don't understand how we go from Wednesday to Thursday, right? And we had practice Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. I'm I'm gonna clarify that. Just like we would play Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Yeah, and then day three, what do we start doing? Not playing the way we should play. We served the last 20 minutes of practice, and we s that's all we did. That's all they had to focus on.

SPEAKER_03 23:03

Well, you're fresh on the first day. Start getting tired on the second day. Yeah, but you really gotta pull through on that third day.

SPEAKER_04 23:10

So you gotta start telling them you guys gotta focus on what we're trying to do. Your contact, your this, your location. That's all I'm asking you to do. This is why I try to tell them stop giving teams easy points. Those are free points, those are easy points. Play hard, do what you can do, control what you can control, and everything else is going to just come into place. That's it at the end of the day. Yeah, and that's what we did not do in Chicago. That's why I was I mean, on Monday when we got back, and they played well. They played well, they did.

SPEAKER_03 23:49

Hey, there's other opportunities, yeah, and that's what we're shooting for.

SPEAKER_01 23:52

Yeah, we'll look for look to the future. We will get there. Yeah, it was it was it was obviously obviously it was it was it was sad, but you know, look, fifth in fifth in USA in a tough field. I mean, that's that's that's still a great performance.

SPEAKER_04 24:05

Yeah, and we weren't playing crap teams on Sunday.

SPEAKER_01 24:08

Like it's not like not at all.

SPEAKER_04 24:10

Here's this team that can't pass or can't serve. Like, no, we earned every point we earned on Sunday, and that's it.

SPEAKER_01 24:17

USA and a qualify USA and a qualifier is is no joke.

SPEAKER_04 24:20

You know, I I like didn't have time to kind of cope with it on Sunday. It was more one of those things of like, I gotta rep, I gotta go grab myself in the room, I gotta grab my stuff, I gotta make it to the airport, and I gotta go go. Yeah, right. But when I I didn't work Monday, so when I woke up Monday, I was like, Yeah, I it's reflection, and that's what good coaches do though, at least.

SPEAKER_03 24:39

If you reflect and you feel it, and I think every coach at FIVA does that, it means that you care. And you know, whether parents see it or not, we reflect, we watch film, we spend so many hours outside of practice that we invest in the team. But you know, it it it'll it'll never be enough, really. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 25:00

Monday, Monday was rough for me. I'm not gonna lie. I had tears coming down my face. I didn't know how to stop the tears. And then I come into practice on Sunday, and I know Davis can see this in my face. Like, how you doing? I go, you know Davis. It wasn't Monday. It wasn't Monday. Tuesday.

SPEAKER_01 25:15

Tuesday. I did not call you or text you. No, no one bothered me. I did not, I left you alone because I knew I mean I was upset too. So that's the thing is I it's it's funny.

SPEAKER_04 25:28

Yeah, we because they deserve it.

SPEAKER_03 25:30

They do.

SPEAKER_04 25:30

And I told the girls, I'm like, you can be mad, you can be upset, you could cry about it. You're gonna do that today, you're gonna do that tomorrow. But then we move this week, we're moving on, and then we're we got ASICs, we gotta go. There's no dwelling on this, right?

SPEAKER_01 25:43

Yeah, uh, friend a friend of mine, you know, played um in the NFL for the Buccaneers. Um, and I used to talk to him, you know, after a game, you know, a lot of times the fans would be like, You guys don't even care. And he's like, Yeah, they have no idea. I said, This we take this law so much harder than it than than they do. It means so much more. We work, we prep a whole week for this one game. Yeah, and just because we're not gonna visibly show the fans, it doesn't mean we don't care. Yeah, it's like you know, we it's hard. We but we got to get right back up and do it again, you know. And it's kind of the same thing with the coaches. The coach may not, you know, cry in front of the parent, like you know, but it's dead, it could be devastating. Like I remember I remember telling Kate on Tuesday, and Kate's like, How are you?

SPEAKER_04 26:21

I'm like, I'm still dealing with it. I'm still sad, like I'm still sad, I'm mad. And I I told her I'm not ready to coach today, but what do I have to do? My girls are here. We have to go and we have to do it. That's it.

SPEAKER_01 26:34

And I'm gonna say one more thing about the serving, and I'm gonna let it go. And I could be I could be wrong, but this is my thought as a non-volleyball coach.

SPEAKER_04 26:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:42

A miss serve on three to four, I can I can live with that. But man, when you've just made a huge comeback, you know, and you're the other team is reeling, the other team's starting to fall apart, and you sink one in the bottom of the net, it is just the most well, you know, it gets the kids.

SPEAKER_03 26:57

It's it's hard, you know. It is a mental game, and and that guys, uh these kids are 15, 16 years old. You have to understand that that mental aspect of the game does not come to a lot of players until they reach the college. Yeah. You know, and we when I was at UT, we had a lot of these drills where it was a mental game, and it you don't you don't reach that. That mental mindset is very difficult.

SPEAKER_01 27:25

Cadia's 14s team, they they they kind of went a little under the radar this tournament. Um and quietly, very quietly, you know, they got their second Liberty bid in a row, you know, in consecutive tournaments.

SPEAKER_03 27:37

Um not just second Liberty. I mean, we won both. They won it. Yeah, won the whole thing. So it's not like they got a bid two points in a row.

SPEAKER_01 27:44

Yeah. And this one, this one they did lose. They lost if you lost one match the first tournament, you lost on day one. You lost in in three. Yeah. But this one we did not lose a match. And and I mean, they just were rolling. Like, I mean, I I'll be completely honest, I feel kind of bad because I really didn't watch it much because every time I watch them, they look like they were just cruising. Like I I never felt like they were.

SPEAKER_03 28:03

Yeah, I mean, I sat down.

SPEAKER_01 28:05

Yeah. So there you go.

SPEAKER_03 28:06

I'll tell you, if I sit down, um I'm feeling comfortable here. And if you if you see me standing, yeah, I'm not comfortable.

SPEAKER_01 28:13

And and not that not that they played perfect, because they obviously made mistakes. But they just they just felt like they were totally in control. The whole every time I watched, they were just like, Oh, they're gonna win. They're gonna oh, you know, they lost, they dropped a couple sets, but it was just like we're the we're the better team.

SPEAKER_03 28:28

We're just kind of messing around, and you know, and you know, once we got that bid in Minneapolis, we attempted to move up to USA. So we we we did email because we you know, we see on social media, we hear parents say I'm better than well. Look, we tried. We tried to move up to USA.

SPEAKER_01 28:47

We it was not 30 minutes after you had won the bid in Minnesota. I had not already emailed Chicago saying, hey, can we go USA? And so they told us initially they're like, you're you're number one on the wait list. Um, and then they emailed back and was like, you know, we we do have a spot in in 14 open. And we decided collectively that we were just I might not be such a great idea to move them up to open.

SPEAKER_03 29:10

And again, I mean that's a big because this team's a big guy.

SPEAKER_01 29:13

Mainly because this team they're fresh and new. They hadn't even played besides three girls, they hadn't even played Liberty before. Like they were playing club in local tournaments.

SPEAKER_04 29:22

I know we talked about this like previously, how a lot of these girls haven't played really in a competitive level like this. So, like going from liberty to open is dramatic.

SPEAKER_03 29:33

However, in hindsight, yeah, we made a mistake. Yeah, so um, you know, and and and I told the parents too, you know. Your mistake. Look, I'm I'm sorry, I should have just taken them and put them in open. We already had our liberty bid. The the experience would have been better. Who cares if we lost? The the whole point is to get a faster speed of the game under our belt. Yeah. And we did not do that. And and again, we're gonna put a note next time. It doesn't matter. You get a chance to play open once you have a liberty bid or whatever, you go into the next level because there's nothing that you can lose, you can only get better. Yeah, I think um, yeah, and and and that's okay, you know. And I told the parents and they were like, Yeah, we we agree too, but we're not afraid, at least when we make those errors, we're not afraid that okay, I'm sorry, we're human. Yeah, we didn't think that was a good idea at the time, but now seeing how we did, we should have absolutely done that. So ASICs, are you in the national division? You have to be, you have to be. You have to be, right? Yeah, if you have a bid in American as low as American, American Liberty USA, you have to, if you have an open bid, you can't even be in the tournament. Yeah, so our 13s got kicked out. Yeah, our 13s got an open bid, so they got kicked out.

SPEAKER_01 30:46

Yeah. So I mean, and I think that's what she said is really important. Are they not gonna play up like we talked about? No, we haven't. Yeah, we it's it's a work in progress. We're not gonna go there yet. Um, but one one thing that she said that I think is really important. I had um, I always talked to the the director of Jordan's basketball club, and one of the one day he asked me, he's like, you know, how are you guys able to have grown so fast and been successful? And this is obviously not the only reason. One thing I told him was is that we are not afraid to make a mistake or look for ways to improve. We went from 27 teams to 34 teams. That's a huge improvement. I do think a lot of clubs would just be like, well, everything we did last year was perfect, we're gonna do it exactly the same way. Yeah, all of us, but I will give her the majority of the credit on this, we are always looking for ways to improve. How can better tournaments? How can you know how to do that?

SPEAKER_04 31:36

I do have a question though. It's so you guys said you have the you they told you we have the open, like I know what I'm thinking as a coach of saying, hey, we have the opportunity to play open Chicago. What was your mindset behind that?

SPEAKER_03 31:50

Well, we just finished Minneapolis on a high, and so it's very important. And again, these are teenage girls. Yeah, they're feeling wonderful, their confidence is up. I was scared to put them in a situation where their confidence would drop.

SPEAKER_04 32:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 32:07

And so, you know, it it's kind of like a psychiatric, psychological move, really. You know, you have to you have to make sure that your team still feels confident and they know they can do it, and you know, getting beat down, and I and I think that we would have lost significantly, but we would have also, I think, probably pulled off a couple of couple of wins, maybe gone, you know, one and two the first day, but maybe we could have gone two and one the second day, or maybe one and you know, whatever, or one and two the second day. We could have had our wins.

SPEAKER_04 32:38

Um at the end of the day, I think that probably would have been more uh productive than going, you know, eight or nine and oh if we did the and and the only reason why I asked that is because like I'm just thinking of like other coaches here and like what we're talking about, right?

SPEAKER_03 32:53

Yeah, you have you do have to keep the confidence up. Yeah. Uh to to a degree. Um, and I I think I was thinking of their, you know, mental being, like their mindset at the sign because they were they they were f feeling confident. So I I wanted them to keep that confidence.

SPEAKER_04 33:10

And like you being a director and an owner of the of the club, right? It helps make that decision. Now, what if someone that isn't a director or owner gets a bid and they're in this situation?

SPEAKER_03 33:21

Are you still looking just I would do that? Yes, yeah. I I would push them for the next one.

SPEAKER_04 33:26

I think at this point, absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 33:27

Yeah, I think that's a mistake that we made, but I think we're gonna rectify it in the future, which is awesome to hear.

SPEAKER_04 33:31

Like you're you're hearing the feedback from your players and your in your club, you know.

SPEAKER_01 33:35

Yeah, and and we I mean, honestly, we've made so many changes to our program year after year. I mean, we make drastic changes sometimes. I mean, sometimes it's little stuff like, hey, we're not gonna do this tournament or let's try this term, let's do that. You know, we're always trying to, you know, in in regards to tournaments, we're still not perfect, but we're getting a lot better. Like we've kind of figured out, okay, this out of state.

SPEAKER_03 33:56

I don't think we'll ever not change something.

SPEAKER_01 33:58

No, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 33:59

And but that's how you if you, no matter how old you are, if you are not willing to learn and change, then you are done growing. And we can't. Yeah. You know, you can't you can't grow as a person, you can't grow as a club, you can't develop if you're not willing to change.

SPEAKER_01 34:16

Yeah. And and so kind of talking about some of those, you know, changes. Like I said, there's a big there's some little changes, some big changes. Um, last year we made one huge change. Um, we basically kind of revamped the entire way we we train our kids. Um and I think it's it's very unique. Um, we're not the only person in the world that does it, but we're one of the few people that do it, you know, especially in Florida. Um we have so you know, obviously our parents, you know, we call it our master coaching system. Our parents know about it, but I'm hoping for this, they'll kind of get some, they'll kind of understand why we do it a little bit more and some of the benefits. So I'm gonna start with Katia and kind of explain what the master coaching system is for those of those of us who've never heard of it, and then kind of maybe take us back to the origin of how you learned about it and how you decided to implement it. Because that was a major change, and in my opinion, just you know, being completely honest, I was nervous. I was very nervous on board. I was very nervous because again, I always think about how the parents are gonna take it, yeah. This is gonna be something they're gonna accept, and it wasn't perfect, but I'm gonna let you take the course.

SPEAKER_03 35:26

So when you have a large amount of teams, you know, and and when I say uh a larger club, I would say that anything over 16 teams is is a large club. We had 16 teams our first team. It means you're ginormous, you know. So anything over 16 teams, I think, is a lar is a is a pretty decent sized club.

SPEAKER_01 35:42

Yeah, I think when you have when you have three or four teams in one age group.

SPEAKER_03 35:45

So Fernando and I, of course, only coach four teams, you know. So now we've we had, and I want to say we had twenty-six or thirty teams last year. Um it it was difficult in the past, we coach our teams and our teams did well. Our head coaches of our ones and twos also did well. However, what happened to our threes, fours, fives, six? A lot of these coaches are newer coaches. They're great players, they understand the game, but like everything else, they need experience. There is nobody that gets to be better without having somebody give them the opportunity to be better and teach them that experience. So um we were seeing that Fernando and I were we were being spread. We were going to everybody's practices, we'd hit every team two, three, four times a season. Well, that's not gonna help with two, three, four times a season. And now we're in the gym every single night, hopping from you know, gym to gym, trying to help out, trying to help out at the tournaments, and it just wasn't enough. So we started just doing some research. How can we contact or be a part of every team's training? And we looked into sports performance. Um, sports performance of the master coach system. There's one, two, or three coaches who basically run all the courts, they have two teams per course, and they dictate the drills that are happening throughout the whole entire practice. They come in, they gather the kids, they explain the drill, they say the next drill, they focus on the key points of what we're trying to master in this drill, and then everybody goes to their court with the coaches, the master coach takes time, everything is time that our practice. Yeah. So everything you know, the master coach takes time, we go through it, and the master coach also goes to all those courts to make sure that the drill is being run correctly, that those focal points are being, you know, um uh uh pressed on, that the coaches know exactly what's going on, their cues are being dealt with, and we started that last year. People were very tentative. We did it. Fernando and I, you know, we looked up all our drills, we had our stuff, and we also hired Coach Michaela and Coach Britney, who are our other two master coaches. So we have three gyms, we have four master coaches, we rotate. And what we have found is that my parents always say this if you go to this club, well, you can only get the first and two teams because uh you know threes or fours or fives or six or sevens. Well, not in our club, because in our club, our top coaches not only have the ones teams, even if they're not master coaches, but the master coaches coach everybody. So your kid, no matter if they're on the sevens or on the ones, they're going to be coached by a master coach. They're going to be looked after, they're going to be given feedback. Now you don't have one coach in the gym on the on or two coaches in the gym. You have five coaches in the gym. The four coaches, plus, and while your team is on, while the other team shags for that three, four, or five minutes of that drill, you have two coaches coaching your team. Yeah. Plus a master coach. So you've getting twice as much feedback, more one-on-one, more everything. And we've in my opinion, and based on our statistics, based on bids, placements, and tournaments, seeing the kids, knowing where they everybody knows where to go, everybody knows their precisions, everybody knows what red and blue are. Everybody knows that. And so we've seen a huge change and the lifting of our training because of our master coach system. And now it's what it is. You know, now now no now we don't have, you know, I remember in our first couple of years, we had issues with coaches. This coach is not doing this. Why doesn't my team know this? Why doesn't my team think this? Yeah, okay, I can be sharing that.

SPEAKER_04 39:46

We're gonna go on one side, and the other side could be now something else, and it you see one speed and you see another, and it's parents question themselves.

SPEAKER_01 39:55

As someone who's had a child um in a lower on a you know, developmental type team, you you can't help but feel like, hey, this is not fair. Why do they get the best of everything? And why do I get the the brand new coach or the coach who's you know, why do I get that? And how is my daughter gonna ever have the opportunity to make that top team if they're not given the same level of coaching?

SPEAKER_03 40:16

But now all the coaches know the drills, they know what they're doing, they know what they're called. I say, okay, we're doing Kyoshu. Let's go, you're here, you're here. We all know what Kyoshu is. They know the feedback they're supposed to be giving. Yeah, we know what dig set means, you know, down the line, cross court. They all know what that that means because they've already done it.

SPEAKER_01 40:32

And and I yeah, go ahead, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_03 40:34

One of the things that I also want to say about the master coaching is that you know, I always thought, oh, two teams on the court that kind of sucks. There's just too many kids. But let me tell you the amount of energy that is in the gym when these kids compete in team drills or even just regular drills, you get so many more touches. Yeah, because sometimes we have one team in a drill because somebody went here or somebody's not in town, or a coach canceled a practice because they just got back from a qualifier. You get this, you know, a gym with only two teams. I will tell you, it is boring.

SPEAKER_01 41:14

It's boring.

SPEAKER_03 41:15

It's boring, it's quiet. I have to ask all the parents to help shag. I can't run the drill effectively. We're not getting as many touches, it doesn't run with the intensity, it's slow. I don't like it.

SPEAKER_04 41:26

It's funny that you said that because I looked at my schedule this week today and I was like, dang, me and Katia are only the ones on Wednesday, and I really love a third team. Yeah, just like she said, even a third team is just effectively whether you're doing things by group, by position, by team, by whatever, it's effective, it's fast, it's good, it's great touches, yeah, it's great feedback because let me tell you something whether it's one coach, two coach, only, if there's only two, what's so bad about having a third or four? And at the end of the day, we end up having more feedback.

SPEAKER_03 41:58

Yeah, we we end up having a scrimmage or a playing back to back, and you've got kids sitting where you wouldn't have kids sitting otherwise. And so and a lot of the times when you only have one, you know, a lot of coaches always say, Well, I always want 12 at my practice. How many times, once January hits, kids are absent? Kids are and we don't even have 12 on our teams. We have what four or three teams, I think, or four teams in our whole entire club that have 12. Yeah, we map we try to minimize it to 11 max, you know. So 10 or 11. So we'll never have 12 on the team, which means if you're by yourself, who do you scrimmage against? Yeah, and how are they playing again? And the compet like I said, when we play 15s and 16s, it's an all-out war out there.

SPEAKER_04 42:41

Even when your 14s are there, it's an all-out war.

SPEAKER_03 42:44

I mean, Michaela's team, my 14s, they battle. Yeah, and that's what you need to get that spirit up. Yeah, that you need the real competition. It's it's a game changer.

SPEAKER_01 42:55

And to clarify one thing, too, I know you didn't mention this, but um, it's not like we put our 11s on the same four as our 18s. Yeah, but you know, the four teams that are in the gym, they're all of a similar skill level.

SPEAKER_03 43:08

So that you know, there's obviously certain drills you can't do with you know one team or the other, or you can't 15-1, 16-1, 17-1, 18-1 would usually be in the thing.

SPEAKER_04 43:15

And that's honestly, the scheduling does come down to Cadia, right? And and it's and but she takes hours looking to make sure every day weeks, weeks, weeks. Listen, I the first news to be honest, when you cut when you put all that together, right? And I don't mean to interrupt you, but when you put all that together, she is making sure every single day we're in their gym, whether that's Monday through Saturday, Monday through Friday, whatever it is, every team that's in there is competing against the team that's with them.

SPEAKER_01 43:46

Yeah. At the end of the day, that's what she's doing. Before we even had the master coaches, I spent one day trying to figure out we can I can help you with this practice schedule, no problem. We can even give you screenshots of how useful. No, we went nowhere.

SPEAKER_03 43:58

I even had. Parents. I had five parents and I'm gonna give a shout out to Holly and Heather and Jackie. And you know, I had a couple more. I'm I'm probably not remembering, but um even uh uh what's it called Letitia? We all went in there and we had like six books. Okay, these are the tournaments, these people have to be together. This person has a kid, this person has this master coach. You can only have master coach on three days. You you know, they're like, Oh my god, did you check this? Did you check that? Okay, and we had like waves. Okay, here's the schedule, now you have to double check it and triple check it and quadruple check it. Yeah, it's it's madness.

SPEAKER_04 44:33

Were you on your graph paper?

SPEAKER_03 44:35

Huh?

SPEAKER_04 44:36

Were you doing it still on your cross?

SPEAKER_03 44:38

I have to do graph paper because I need to erase, okay? You guys can all laugh at me at this, but I am a pencil and paper kind of person.

SPEAKER_01 44:47

Person that uses graph paper, not a plain white sheet.

SPEAKER_03 44:50

It is card stuck, by the way. It is card stuck. It's the best of the best.

SPEAKER_01 44:57

It's like the it's the it's the crazy game. But yeah, it's it's really, really, really difficult. It is. Um, and you know, I think it's uh I always kind of laugh when you have a parent be like, oh, can you just switch us to this practice? I love it's it's like it's kind of a it's kind of an internal joke for us, and we don't get upset about it, but it's kind of funny. It's like, oh, yeah, it's I wish it was that easy to just swap this team with that team.

SPEAKER_03 45:17

Um I'm sorry, but my player is not gonna be able to make it on Saturday. Do you think that we can just move it to Friday? Uh you do realize we have eight teams practicing on Friday. Yeah, you know, it's funny that you say that.

SPEAKER_04 45:31

So like I get like at least why do you why do you coach? You have to go coach eight to ten and you live like X amount of minutes away from the three hours away. Yeah. Like whatever, Davis, but whatever. So I was telling her, I was like, well, one, I love it. Two, like I said, there's a whole system. They're like, why can't you practice at six? Like with other teams. I'm like, oh well, because I don't want my six teams killing an 11-year-old. Like I'm somebody's gotta take that late wave.

SPEAKER_03 46:02

And just so parents know, yeah, if you have a middle school and elementary school kid, you're gonna go from six to eight. And if you have a high school kid, you're gonna go from eight to ten. Yeah. I can't put an 11-year-old at eight o'clock at night. So that's how it works. 15s and up, and there are some times that we get 15s that go the early wave. Um, but for the most part, they're gonna go on the early.

SPEAKER_04 46:25

And I think another thing to say is that if you guys have the time to do a better time for other people, you're gonna do it.

SPEAKER_03 46:32

And when we get our new facility, God willing, we will try to start a little bit earlier so we can maybe end it. That's where I was trying to get at. Absolutely, you know, but that's just not it's just not feasible right now.

SPEAKER_01 46:44

Don't say the F word yet. We're not right, we're not gonna say that. I didn't say it.

SPEAKER_04 46:47

I want to make sure one of you guys said it before I said it. But like those steps, it's not that we don't want to do it. And I and that's what I want to make clear, like clear to our listeners, right? And people that are considering Viva. It's just it's just how it's working for now, right?

SPEAKER_03 47:02

Yeah, we're gonna get many opportunities, and yet we are extremely successful. So we've gotta be doing something right. Yeah, we've gotta be doing something right.

SPEAKER_04 47:10

You we're we're doing things that people aren't doing with a facility.

SPEAKER_01 47:16

Yeah, like I I think I think it I again, a lot of uh I'm the one who's usually I'm usually the pushback guy. And I and I do think in fairness grumpy Davis. No, but I think in fairness you have to have a pushback guy because if it's just Well, he's the parent. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 47:29

While I'm a parent as well, I've always been a coach first. So I always look at what's best for training. Yeah. Davis looks at what's best for reputation or what it looks like. You know, for me is what do you mean? Why why can't we do three hour practices? But I think that's No, because I'm like, so it's training. I have an extra hour of gym. Why not make it a three-hour practice? Yeah, but it's not I'm like, I I'm just thinking, let me get these kids in more. You know, that I always it it doesn't occur to me what it looks like a half-hour practice.

SPEAKER_01 48:04

So much I want to say, but I'm not gonna say it. Oh my god. But no, I think it's but I think you have I think you have to we have to have that back and forth because there's been times where I think she's maybe gone over the edge and wanted to do too much or whatever, and I've said, oh well, no, not gonna do that. And then other times where I've been like, hey, let's not do this. And we did it like again, master coaching system. I don't want to say I was against it, but I was very, very, very skeptical and nervous about it. I was, you know, we're gonna talk about tryouts in a minute. Yeah. Again, another thing that I'm I'm very skeptical about. I have learned over the years, and this was the original agreement. Volleyball decisions are ultimately all made by them. And I think that's the best way to do it, even though I have my opinions and I will state my opinions. Sometimes before, you guys all have been allowed to take a picture.

SPEAKER_03 48:50

Yeah, okay. She's gonna be I'm not allowed to take a picture.

SPEAKER_04 48:53

So that's you guys all have your role, and I really do truly think each and one of your roles plays a significant of why FIBA is the way it is. Well, like, you know, I was texting you the other day, like we're a family for a reason, right? That's a culture that you guys set, right? Yeah. Do one of you maybe do it more than the other? Possibly, right? But we have a culture here, we have a standard here, and I think every one of you implement a different type of standard or different type of.

SPEAKER_03 49:24

Parents know that so nobody nobody texts me and asks, Coach Cadia, can you post us on social media? I wish they would. I don't even have a picture of you, you know what I mean? Like, so you know, but nobody calls and asks Davis, Davis. Um, you know, I want to know my my child isn't playing. Yeah, nobody nobody calls Davis. It's true.

SPEAKER_01 49:46

I have you know I've never had that question.

SPEAKER_04 49:48

No, I wish I think, like I said, you guys set a role, you guys set a standard, and people know who to go to and those types of things.

SPEAKER_03 49:55

They're figuring it out now because now everybody kind of knows. So even the newcomers come in, they just ask, hey, I have this question, you know what I mean? How can I do that?

SPEAKER_01 50:04

So yeah, there is a cuteness distraction in this building, by the way. Uh Leilani just walked in the door. She's so beautiful. Look at that outfit. You see that?

SPEAKER_04 50:11

That's like summertime outfit.

SPEAKER_01 50:13

The cuteness distraction is a real thing. But yeah, I I I think that's um, I think that's it, that is a really key part about us, is how we are able to kind of, you know, I I think you have to have a pushback person, and I think you also gotta have someone that's out there is like, hey, but it does keep everybody in their lane, you know.

SPEAKER_04 50:30

Yeah, checks and checks and balances, right? Yeah, like I said, I'm I'm gonna give props to all three of you of how you guys do your job, right? Now you have Brittany coming in um and doing her part of the job, and and all four of you guys do a great job respecting each other's roles, but not afraid to like give an opinion. Give an opinion. Yeah, yeah. There's and maybe no none of the things. Maybe your opinion might get to the individual.

SPEAKER_01 50:53

Yeah, maybe Britney doesn't give my. I was saying, but the three of us, we've been doing this so you know for five years together. Like, we're there's nobody holds holds their holds their tongue.

SPEAKER_03 51:02

There's way too many opinions going on around here.

SPEAKER_01 51:04

Brittany is Brittany is still not there. Sometimes, like like Britney will tell me afterwards. You're like trying to kick. Brittany would be like, Oh, I agree with you. I'm like, Brittany, why didn't you say something? She said, Well, it I don't I don't think I should say something. Yes, you should say something. Yeah, you gotta have my back here.

SPEAKER_03 51:17

But no, Brittany, you see what he's saying? Like, Brittany, you need to agree.

SPEAKER_01 51:23

I didn't I did not say she agrees every time, I said there are times one out of a hundred.

SPEAKER_04 51:28

Listen, at the end of the day, I'm I'm gonna say it on behalf of the coaches, and I think most coaches can agree is that you guys are doing a great job. We wouldn't still be here. You guys wouldn't have this assess of like, and I'll let you guys speak upon next year about our coaches, but you wouldn't have this assess if coaches continue to come back and not even think of other clubs.

SPEAKER_03 51:49

And I will give a shout out this year is the first year because every year in the last four years, this is our fifth year. In the last four years, we've lost one coach during the season. Which is not bad. This year, first year we have not lost a single coach during the season. And we typically use lose one or two, uh not because they leave, but because they're moved or whatever at the end of the year. This year we're only losing. And I love you, Coach Alexis. Coach Alexis is moving to South Carolina because her husband is in the military, but it is the only coach we are losing for next year. I I always believe that and that that for me is amazing. And that not a single other thing. What I'm trying to tell you guys.

SPEAKER_04 52:35

You guys are building a culture that people want to be a part of and that one people want success out of. Like we respect what your feedback is.

SPEAKER_01 52:45

Yeah. Well, and and I think that's a big thing, is is for us, for me, retaining our kids, retaining our coaches is the ultimate key to success. I mean, if we're just rolling through people in and out of the building, like you know, new coach, new that's not sustainable. It's absolutely it's not sustainable. So I I think I I'm really proud of that. I look at every year how many girls we bring back. Um, and that's a that's a very important part. Obviously, you want to add. We always want to, you know, improve and and address and grow every year.

SPEAKER_03 53:12

We we we add phenomenal talent.

SPEAKER_01 53:14

But yeah, and I think despite my my terrible planning of these uh these these uh these trips and the and the way I can't control blizzards, you know, I think overall that they stick with us. We need to work with that. The coaches stick with it, but I will I will definitely work. I'll talk about that later. Thank you all for joining us for episode one. Stay tuned for episode two, which will come out next week.

SPEAKER_04 53:36

Which is on Coach Elise's birthday weekend. Hey, hey, hey, hey, okay. Sorry.

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SPEAKER_00 53:44

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