Above the Tape: An All Access FEVA Podcast
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15 Brittany Taking Care of Bidness at ASICS
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Join us for a special episode with the 5th team to win a bid this season at FEVA!
Welcome to Above the Tape, an all-access even a 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. We are coming to you on location from the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando at the ASICs Florida Regional Qualifier. We do not have our normal co-host of Elise on the podcast, but instead, we have our newest director at FIVA. She is the head coach of one of our 15 elite teams as well as a coach of our 13 national teams. She is also the head coach of the Wesley Chapel High School Wildcats where she is a two-time coach of the year. She is also a two-time national champion and now a two-time bid winner at FIVA, which means she has just earned a bid a few minutes ago with her 15s team. All right. Please welcome to the podcast, Britney Collison. Yes, thanks, Davis. You're very welcome. Um, and if you did hear those cheers in the background, that is not a sound effect. We have our amazing athletes from Britney's teams, all the ones that could make it. Um, thank you guys for joining us. So happy to have you guys here. We'll talk to you guys in a minute. Um, I'm gonna talk to Britney as well, but before we do anything, I do have a joke. So, are you guys ready? Everybody ready for the joke? All right, okay. So, what do you call a teacher that is afraid to pass gas in public?
SPEAKER_04What do you call it, Davis? Ready? Are you guys ready?
SPEAKER_05No, don't, don't. You got like three more seconds. Are you ready? A private tutor.
SPEAKER_04Let's go.
SPEAKER_06All right. Wait, why is it always like a bathroom joke when I'm on here?
SPEAKER_05It's because it's you, coach. Come on, don't leave it. I'm trying to be I'm trying to be appropriate here for you. Um, before we do that, real quick, don't forget to subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen to your podcast. Review us while you're there. Give us five stars. If you don't give us five stars, myself, as well as the 15s team, we are inclined to believe that you are a hater. Um, here we go. Coach, have you calmed down yet? Yes, I have.
SPEAKER_06I am crashing and burning at the moment.
SPEAKER_05It was great. Go ahead and just talk about your team, how it went today, how you feel about them.
SPEAKER_06I mean, I'm so incredibly proud of this team. Um, we are the first twos team in the club to earn a bid. And that is something that is something that nobody can ever take away from these girls, so I'm super proud of them. Um, it definitely was not easy. We started off the day with a three-setter, um, came back, blew them out in the second set, third set, came out confident again, took it from them. Our second match, we just came out on fire. I mean, these girls wanted it, you could tell. Took that team in two, and then before the bid-winning game, we came out again on fire.
SPEAKER_05Fire again.
SPEAKER_06Just to give you some background. We did have to play the number one seed in the whole tournament in the uh in that game. So uh, and they were a great team. But I really feel like we rose to the occasion. We came out there super strong in the first set. We had a lot of energy, and I think that really uh pushed us to compete at the level that we competed at. And I mean, everybody was on fire. My defense was laying out for balls, we were flying across the court. My hitters were mixing it up, they were hitting seams, they were using the block. It was great. We were getting massive blocks, we had great serves from the service line, so we were able to put them out of system a lot of the match. Um, we ended up going three and we came out super strong in the third set. We were up 12 to 8, and then we kind of fumbled a little bit, and all of a sudden we were down 12 to 13. But uh the girls really locked in. We focused and we came out there and we pulled it out, man. It was honestly I think I kind of blacked out a little bit. It was great, it was so awesome.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, it it was it was so much fun. I mean, I I like you said you s we started out with the third set. I'm like, oh we're we're gonna we're gonna take this, and then when it was 1213, I was like, Well, you know, we almost got there. Yeah, and then they did they did great. They pulled it out. I don't I was I was so nervous. There's no way I would have been able to do that, but they did. So really, really happy for them. I was very nervous too. Yeah, it was great. All right, who wants to go first? Who we got first? We got Leela Leela and Harper. Alright, so we got Leela and Harper.
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SPEAKER_05Is that right? You have the microphone, so that's you. All right, let's do it. Congratulations. How are you guys? How are you guys feeling?
SPEAKER_10Um, ecstatic, honestly. Like absolutely ecstatic. A whole team, really.
SPEAKER_02I'm just very proud of my whole team. I think we like actually pulled it out today. The best we've ever played.
SPEAKER_05So I just I have a serious question. This is I want you to be honest. If you had to put a percentage on it, how much credit would I get for my 100%. 100%. I'll give you guys, I mean, I was thinking more like 70%. Zero.
SPEAKER_02Zero.
SPEAKER_05Wow. Zero.
SPEAKER_06No, I'm kidding. You can true. I do remember he left us after that first set. Yeah, I didn't know. Yeah, and he missed the first point, and I know that's why we lost the second episode.
SPEAKER_05I I made the mistake. I thought I was fast enough to run to the other courts and check the score, but I'm getting old and I just don't run I don't run the way I used to. So um, so I have another question for you guys is do you guys feel like it's you have to go three sets every single match?
SPEAKER_10We like we really like doing that. We really enjoy it, obviously.
SPEAKER_02I don't I don't think we have to go three sets every single game. Preferably we shouldn't, but I mean it gives us a lot of adrenaline in the third set, and yeah, we really do really push harder once we know that like a lot of things.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, that was that was one thing I said, like after the second set. I'm like, we've been here a million times. It feels like every single game we go to three sets. So yeah, we do have a lot of experience. I mean, were you guys nervous?
SPEAKER_10Oh, that was the most nervous I've ever been in a game, I think.
SPEAKER_02Very nervous.
SPEAKER_10Um I was kind of flipping out, but it's okay. I had confidence though. I knew my team would have a lot of confidence.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah. All right, who's next? Who's who are we going to? All right, we got Hattie and Lila up next. So Lila's our setter, Hattie's our DS, Hattie's our our our serve master today. Yeah, right, right. Yeah, Hattie put some heat on those serves. So how you guys feeling?
SPEAKER_12Good. In shock. Yeah, I'm just so in shock. I feel like it hasn't hit me yet.
SPEAKER_06Like, I feel like I'm what do you mean, Lila? You just cried for like 10 minutes.
SPEAKER_12No, but like no, but I mean like it hasn't like set in. Like I'm not there yet.
SPEAKER_02Like, I'm still like oh, we gotta book a flight. Yeah, at a hotel.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, they're gonna be walking along. Yeah, but just to let you guys know ahead of time, when you when you do qualify this late in the season, that means you're gonna be staying um out like in you know 30 minutes out. So it's kind of but you can tell your parents that you you only fly first class as bid winners, as the first two steam to win a bid that you should, you know, you're gonna you're gonna fly. For mid history, you're gonna fly first class. So yeah. So uh, but yeah, I thought, I mean, as far as Hattie goes, you being able to serve the way you did, um, I think that was that was that was clutch.
SPEAKER_06And then you were putting them out of system right away.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, and then I have never seen Lila move as fast as she did the last game. The whole team.
SPEAKER_06Lila came from the back corner and like dug a ball that was basically falling from the tape. I don't even know how you got there.
SPEAKER_12I don't know, I like blacked out too.
SPEAKER_05Honestly, I was like and and you know, uh fun fact, Lila um got a bid last year on our on our 14th team. So she is one of I guess two girls, her and Cali. No, Lila too. Oh, Lela, Leela, and you got a bid with them too?
SPEAKER_12And Ess too. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, so we have some we have some bid winners. And again, I and I don't like to call, as I say, I don't like to call this a 15-2s. I call them like a 15-1A. Um because they are they are they are still because we're awesome. A for awesome, right? Exactly. They're too good to be a twos team. Um, so we're you know, really, really proud of them. Um you guys got any plans for Indy? Have you looked anything up? No. You don't want to jinx it. You've never been? I've never been either. You've never been? No, because they got good food. Not really. Well, okay. Do you like um steak? Yes, yes, yes. So they have one of the most famous uh steakhouses in the in the world.
SPEAKER_06So you're gonna take me because I gotta take it.
SPEAKER_05It's about it's it's like a burns, but it's theirs. So just tell your parents they gotta you gotta take you gotta take me. They also have a um a shrimp cocktail, they're famous for their shrimp cocktail because it's Indiana, so of course there's shrimp everywhere. But no, they have these huge shrimp cocktails, so make sure you do that. But um, yeah, other than that, there's not really a whole lot to do. Except except when I like shrimp.
SPEAKER_12I do shrimp on seafood in my salad. So I used to do it.
SPEAKER_06It's real, these are huge shrimp too. How do you just stop liking seafood?
SPEAKER_12I yeah, what you used to like it and now you don't? I'm not quite sure.
SPEAKER_05Usually it's the other way around. Usually you don't like it and then you start to like it. So no, I've been a seafood. Yeah. So um, were you two both crying?
SPEAKER_12Oh, yeah. We were both falling eyes. Oh my fucked each other, and I was just like, it just felt so surreal.
SPEAKER_05So who do you think of the team? Who do you think cried the full cried the most?
SPEAKER_12Yeah, but I'm just like I'm an emotional person. I'm a crier.
SPEAKER_05And last year Lila did it as a as a DS slash Libero. So this year it's a setter.
SPEAKER_12So I I mean I cried when I watched my old team get the bid in many Minnesota. I started crying then too. I just like I'm always crying. I don't know.
SPEAKER_06They even made me cry today. I started crying. Yes, even coached the bid. I did.
SPEAKER_03It was it was like game point, and I was we were all holding hands on the sidelines, and I was just getting teary eyed.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, it was very emotional. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Well, that was that was great.
SPEAKER_06Hattie's actually the one that made me cry. I don't know. I saw you crying and then it made me start crying, and then I looked and I saw Harper crying, and then everybody was crying, and I'm like, all right, here comes yeah.
SPEAKER_05But you know, for for a team that was that I mean, were you guys nervous as well?
SPEAKER_12I mean, really, I wasn't just as nervous as I would think.
SPEAKER_05Really?
SPEAKER_03No, no, no, I just had confidence in us.
SPEAKER_06That is I was nervous, I'm not gonna lie. I knew we could do it though. That team was totally beatable. Obviously, we did do it. Um at 1312, you guys were good? No, then I started to double thing.
SPEAKER_03I was on the sidelines and I was questioning. I think we were on the sidelines together and we realized what's happening.
SPEAKER_06Everybody was in full panic mode at that time.
SPEAKER_03But when the ball got on our side, I had the confidence in us.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, good job. All right, who's next? Gonna give it to Kaylin. Alright. Hey. Hi. How are we doing? Good. Alright. Kalen! How's it feel to be the the to get the last two points of the game?
SPEAKER_11It was it was really fun. Um I was for the last two points, like they were saying about blacking out, I like just wasn't in it. I was like, just get the ball over. And then when I finally hit it on like the game point, it went over and I was like, Okay, next point. Then I was like, wait, no, we gotta finish. Wait. So it all just hit me really hard then and yeah, so it was really were you nervous? I was nervous, not I knew we could beat them. I had a lot of confidence in us beating them, but I got really nervous that third set. Um especially when it got to 13-12. I was kinda I was really nervous, but it worked out.
SPEAKER_06So look, you you didn't let up though. I mean you could have reverted back to tipping, and I'm really proud of you for not doing that. You you still swung and you know, swinging that that was what was gonna win the game, right? We weren't gonna go down by tipping a ball on that team. We were gonna we were gonna win if we were swinging hard. Yeah, we continue to do that. So that was awesome.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, we did did my um we started chest bumping a couple times. We did chest bumping. Um how much did that help? Oh, that helped a lot. Right.
SPEAKER_11That helps a lot. That was keeps you. That was my motivation. Right, right, right. Cool. I need another chest bump. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05You have to earn those. So all right, we got Rylan here as well. How you feeling?
SPEAKER_07I it hasn't hit one bit.
SPEAKER_05Like put the mic closer to you, right?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, it's been crazy today. Like I I lost my voice completely. I can't even talk.
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SPEAKER_05We saw you uh you even showed off your setting skills today a couple days ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's pretty good.
SPEAKER_07It's from all that beach volleyball Coach Fernando has me doing, you know. Hey, beach helps. Seriously, you have to do all things. Coach Brick and vouch too.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I went and watched uh Caitlin and Rylan play this last week at their beach tournament. They did great. I got fried. Um on top of my already really bad sunburn, I got fried again. So it was it was fun. And you I can see that you guys are using those skills that you're learning in beach and applying it to indoor as well. So super awesome.
SPEAKER_05Um are you the first of your sisters to get a bid? Yes, I am. How many sisters?
SPEAKER_07Uh I have two sisters.
SPEAKER_05One is a twin.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I have my twin sister Avon, and then I have my older sister, Elena.
SPEAKER_05Have you uh rubbed it into her yet?
SPEAKER_07No, but they're they're going to be able to do it. They're gonna hear it. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05As as they should. You guys are you're definitely you know definitely have that that honor. Uh who else we got?
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SPEAKER_05Molly and is Gabby here. Gabby. Oh, Gabby's gonna be Gabby's gonna be shy. Alright, you can stay, you can stay. Yeah, oh Lita's back. Are you coming, Gabby? I'm back. All right. So so Molly was is not normally on this team. However, how'd you get to be on this team?
SPEAKER_00Um, so I actually was at practice. I was at the clinic because I'm off on my break, and I was talking to Coach Monica, and we were talking about um what we're doing for ASICs, because I heard that she might be going, and we were just talking about it, and I was like, Oh, I'm going, but I'm I'm just watching my friends, I'm not actually playing. And then Coach Britt and Katia walked up to me and they were like, Oh, would you want to be on my roster? And I was like, Oh, like, yeah. And then she was like she was like just telling me about how I wouldn't get any guaranteed playing time, but just to be on her roster just in case anything happened. And yeah, that's how I got on the roster.
SPEAKER_05So so the moral of the story is girls, if you show up to the clinics, good things happen. Good things happen. So but Molly was great. Molly, obviously, as you knew, you weren't gonna play a whole lot, but when you played, you played hard, you cheered hard.
SPEAKER_06Oh, game changer for sure. Like, I'm I'm really happy that I overheard that conversation and had you come play with us because there were some moments that we really needed you and you stepped up. So I really appreciate it. It was really fun, and you have bragging rights now on all the yeah, you get to go back to your team and be like, Oh, bid winner. Right, bid winner.
SPEAKER_05All right, and we got Gabby here. Gabby? Hi, hi Gabby. Gabby Gabby was late to the party. She said she wasn't gonna come, but you know.
SPEAKER_06I think Gabby's exhausted.
SPEAKER_05Gabby, are you exhausted or are you are you scared to be on the podcast?
SPEAKER_06Um, I'm ready to go.
SPEAKER_05You're ready to go.
SPEAKER_06My feet are burning. Well, she's kind of got a little injury right now.
SPEAKER_05Gabby got a little injury that she kind of pushed through, but uh Gabby did really good. So, Gabby, were you nervous? When during the game.
SPEAKER_07Um don't lie. Yes and no. I feel like I feel like we could have. I mean, not we could have.
SPEAKER_10We already did win. But yes.
SPEAKER_05Maybe you could have won in maybe could have won in two.
SPEAKER_06Yes.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_06But I think we could have won in two. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05I think it just wasn't it would just, it's so much more dramatic when you do it in three. It makes for better sets.
SPEAKER_06You guys love to play every single possible point, so we just had to go to three sets. It wouldn't have been great if we won and two. I mean, it would have been for me, but yeah, this was on par for you guys.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, and I also hear um that Coach Brady has promised you guys ice cream party!
SPEAKER_06Yes! I'm gonna be so broke. I owe them so many candy bars from this weekend. That is ten can not ten. That is not I'm gonna have to go back because I think you earned like three or so. I'm gonna just get one of those like giant ones.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, that that's not a FIFA authorized ice cream party, so you guys can ring up, just charge her up, charge it up. Charge it up on her. Yeah, she's gonna have to have to work a few extra clinics to pay for that.
SPEAKER_06I'm gonna have to get a second job.
SPEAKER_05I know, I know. And Coach Brittany was already gonna go up. Um, she was gonna go up with to help out with Codia. Uh Coach Cadia has both their teams there, but now I guess we gotta find somebody else.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I'm actually very excited that I'm going with my own team. I love Coach Cadia's team, and it would have been very fun with them too. But uh, this is just really special to be bringing my own team up there. So I'm super happy about that.
SPEAKER_05And one of the one of the things that was really cool too was um after right after they won, our 15 Cadia team, who was playing on the court maybe like six or seven courts down. Oh my god! I had to throw that in. They um they came running down after you guys got the bid and gave them a huge congratulations and hugs and everything. And um, then we actually went and took some pictures. Um so that was I thought that was really cool. Did you guys enjoy that?
SPEAKER_02Yes, it was oh my gosh. I think it's really special. It was so special, especially I think for me and Lila, it like hit hard because she played with them last season and I played with them two years ago. Yeah. And like they're still our best friends, and like I love them so much, and they it give so much support to us, and they're like the sweetest girls ever. I love them so much.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, it was really I mean, that's really special because there are a lot of clubs where the ones and the twos are not necessarily the greatest of friends because you know the twos want to be on the ones and the ones think they're better than the twos. And I I've never seen that from you guys, and so it's been it was really cool to see that. Those make some also makes her some good social media pictures for us later, which is obviously what I what I care about, you know. Um, girls, any any parting words? Anybody? Harper, you look like I've got something. Okay.
SPEAKER_06Um are we gonna get a bazookie to celebrate?
SPEAKER_05Do you guys know what's is anybody who's not had a bazookie in here? Oh my gosh. Okay. Strawberry shortcake. Strawberry shortcake. So and if you okay it's so good. It's so good. So there is different sizes, but they have this big, huge, like it's like this big around. And it's that's off the menu. What?
SPEAKER_06I think I thought it was like this big. It may have been that it was huge. It was like a large pizza. Yes.
SPEAKER_05Okay, but you can you can get up to like four different flavors. I'm gonna tell you right now, just just strawberry shortcuts. All the way. All the way.
SPEAKER_06We devoured that thing and like we could have ordered them now. We could have ordered two or three of them and we would have devoured.
SPEAKER_05Trust me, you will see why I have this big ab muscle. It's it's all from Pazookis. It used to be the the chili's chocolate molten cake, but uh, I'm sorry, it beats it. BJs, give us a call.
SPEAKER_06Come on, yes, come on, sponsor us. It's quick. I need to do that.
SPEAKER_05We'll put you on the jersey. So let's let's go. So yeah, Pazookie's on Brittany. That's your ice cream scoop that you get on there. Yeah. Anybody else have any parting words?
SPEAKER_10I just wanted to say about how proud I am of this team. Like, honestly, like for the first twos team to ever oh shut, stop. Yeah, I know it was bad. For the first team ever, like Tuesday to get a bid, I think it's especially with this team. Yeah. Um, girls who've played ones previously and now are here, I think it's such like such a special occasion, especially for a team like New Wave, who was excellent. They were excellent, and we really pulled it out. I was just really proud of us.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I think, I think, um, there, like I said, there's a several girls. Callie's not here. Callie's not here, but you know, she was also on our ones team a few years ago. Um but to be able to have you girls who who were on the ones, to be able to kind of humble yourself to come on this team, never complained, um, and have worked hard and have earned earned this bid. And you know, and then of course the new girls who have never gotten a bid to earn a bid, how special is that? Um, but we definitely couldn't have done it without. I don't think there's one player that wasn't on this team that we wouldn't have we would have. I think you take one off this roster, yeah, it's a whole different thing.
SPEAKER_06Every single one of them, all 12 of them have speaking it.
SPEAKER_05And really stepped up. And we also, you know, you gotta give a little bit of credit to your parents. Um yeah, they were they were behind you guys the whole way. Um, you know, they we definitely have the louder, we definitely had the louder crowd. Would you guys would you guys agree? It was electric, yeah.
SPEAKER_02They add so much energy. It's it's it helps us so much. So much.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, so that's that's awesome. And then one more thing. Um uh Carly, who's also not here, she is the third. There's there's three um Danielson girls. She was the last one that had not gotten a bid. So now all three Jordan, Chloe, and now Carly have all gotten a bid. So that's that's kind of cool.
SPEAKER_06So and I gotta give a sh a shout-out to Tina because uh is she here?
SPEAKER_05Tina left.
SPEAKER_06Okay. Well, Tina is my girl, she's my assistant coach for Chapel. You know, I've coached all three of her kids, and I honestly don't think I could stay sane without her. Um, she assists us on this team and that is my girl. That's my go to. So uh she's great. And you know, it's just that's a special moment for for her, especially 'cause that's her children, but for me too to have coached all of them to get her third kid to have a bid now is is awesome.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Truly, truly great. So Um amazing. Thank you, Lady. Congratulations again on an amazing accomplishment. Can't wait to see you guys again. We're gonna take a couple weeks off on the podcast, maybe because I really don't have much content. I mean I can figure and talk about the zoofies for an hour. I don't know if that's what we're trying to do. We will be back. We gotta I got a couple really cool things planned. Get back to work in a few weeks. You guys I don't think we have to go to AU Nationals.
SPEAKER_02Unfortunately we don't have a Indianapolis.
SPEAKER_05You're gonna do US AV National. Anybody can play AU National. You guys get to do that. So everybody start looking up what you want what you want to do in Indianapolis. Um it's gonna be a lot of fun.
SPEAKER_10Evo play Volta.
SPEAKER_05St. Elmo's. Just remember that. Just remember St. Elmo's. Um your parents will not thank you for that one. Just make sure you guys go. Thanks again, ladies. We'll see you guys soon. Thank you, David.
SPEAKER_04Thank you, David.
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