#109 April Ross | Beach Volleyball Olympic Medalist Shares Strategies on Training for Gold and a Winning Mindset
The Gabby Reece Show
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4.8 • 954 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2022
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Beach Volleyball Olympian April Ross. You know how much fun this conversation was for me.
April shares her journey from winning in high school, multiple national championships with USC and now 3 Olympic medals as a professional. Her ability to set goals and win is stunning, but there is so much more.
April understands what works for her, but simultaneously keeps a growth mindset and stays open to learning. She also shared what it was like as a 19 year old college sophomore athlete to lose her mom to breast cancer.
We discussed the process of re-examining everything even though something worked for a while. Covid has been difficult on so many levels for so many people, but April and her partner shared how that extra year of training and time was instrumental in helping them win the gold.
She is experienced, strong, and isn’t looking to retire. April discusses her excitement about what other things there are for her to learn and experience as an athlete and a person. This is a woman who has such an interesting balance of relaxed,calm, and “chill” with relentless intensity and focus. There is a lot to learn from April Ross
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Gabby Reese Show. It's all an experiment. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi everyone, welcome to the show. My guest today is Olympic champion, Beach volleyball player April Ross. |
| 0:14.4 | April has won at every level. |
| 0:16.8 | She won at high school. |
| 0:18.0 | She won two national championships with USC indoor. |
| 0:21.9 | One year they went undefeated. mean that is very hard to do |
| 0:26.2 | then she redirected her energy decided she would play beach volleyball she since |
| 0:30.9 | has won a bronze medal, |
| 0:32.6 | silver medal, and now a gold medal. |
| 0:34.9 | And we had a wonderful conversation. |
| 0:36.4 | For me, it was such a treat because I don't know April |
| 0:39.3 | were from different generations. |
| 0:41.2 | And so to hear from her journey was, it was just a, it was a real honor and a treat to just have that time with her. |
| 0:49.0 | And we talked about, you know, all that she's been through, you change partners, her sophomore year of college, |
| 0:56.4 | she lost her mother to breast cancer, and how do you show up for school and you're expected |
| 1:02.2 | to play and perform and grieve at the same time. |
| 1:06.0 | How do you navigate that at 19 years old? |
| 1:08.9 | How do you switch partners and even take a chance? |
| 1:12.0 | She won the gold with Alex Kliman who was a very |
| 1:14.8 | accomplished indoor player but hadn't really played much beach volleyball and |
| 1:18.1 | April decided to go for the Olympics with her in 2020, which obviously was 21, and they did it. |
| 1:26.2 | And so what did that look like? |
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