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🗓️ 4 March 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Today on the podcast we have defender Arin Wright. Arin tells us about what it has been like to be a professional athlete while also being a mom. She gives great advice to other athletes who are becoming parents. We also discuss the grieving process for athletes and techniques that can be helpful during it.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, ladyballers. Welcome back. We're soccer props in its game time. |
| 0:09.0 | I was training going. I was preseason. It's been good. It's just like a brand new team. There's |
| 0:14.0 | like half and half. There's like half newbies and half oldies. So it's just like, it's just |
| 0:18.8 | reinventing ourselves really. Because I mean, I feel like we've been kind of the same |
| 0:22.8 | red stars for the past eight years and now that's not going to be the case. |
| 0:28.4 | Do you feel like there's like a divide at first when it's two different groups? Or does |
| 0:32.9 | your team mesh right away? And like, you know, sometimes it's even a whole knowledge |
| 0:37.4 | of freshmen. It was always like an awkward little huddle of all the newbies together. |
| 0:40.8 | But yeah, no, no, that's definitely. I feel like that's still the case, but it's more |
| 0:44.9 | on like the younger ones. Like they're not really sure. I mean, you look at our team |
| 0:48.3 | we're pretty old. Like a lot of us are approaching, well, older soccer years, but we're |
| 0:53.2 | approaching our 30s. A lot of people, there's got a bunch in our 30s. So I feel like they're |
| 0:57.4 | coming in 22 and they're like, oh my gosh, like, who are these girls? They've been around, |
| 1:02.1 | you know, they probably watched the league, you know, who we are. But I feel like that |
| 1:05.8 | breaks the then like the first week or two. Like I feel like everything's totally normal |
| 1:09.1 | now. Like do you have conversations with them? Like you've known them for a whole season |
| 1:13.6 | at this point. It doesn't take long to break in to that. Isn't that funny? How that happens |
| 1:18.3 | with soccer teams? Like you cannot know anyone. And then you become weirdos and best friends |
| 1:24.3 | in like seven days. Exactly. It just takes like one thing that you're like, oh shit, |
| 1:30.0 | we have that in common. And you're like, yep, okay, we're best friends now. I swear |
| 1:34.6 | soccer players are a different breed. Like you can just mesh, you know, it's right now. |
| 1:39.9 | All time, like my mate of honor. And then basically everyone of my, all my bridesmaids |
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