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The Hog Pod with Bo Mattingly

239. Maddie Jones: A Balancing Act

The Hog Pod with Bo Mattingly

Sport & Story

Arkansas, Hogs, Sports, Razorbacks

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Hogs+ producer and host Tera Talmadge sat down with Razorback gymnast, Maddie Jones, to talk about her journey on The Hill and life outside the gym. From making the call to Arkansas herself as a young gymnast to becoming part of the digital staff for the Hogs football team, Maddie is pulling off a balancing act.

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0:00.0

You've branched out, but just how important is it, do you think, for other athletes to really try to find

0:05.4

their identity outside of their individual sports?

0:08.9

I think it's really important because a lot of sports, you don't go pro after college and if you do it's a very select few and I think like

0:20.8

knowing who you are outside of your sport, you know, a lot of people ask like,

0:25.0

who are you? And a couple years ago, I, the only thing I could say to that was I'm a gymnast.

0:30.0

And so that, I didn't want that to be my answer, you know, for the rest of my life.

0:35.0

And so I think that's really important for other athletes to see.

0:37.0

It's just like, you are more than your sport and your sport doesn't define who you are. Welcome into the Hog Pot. I'm Bo Mattingly and this episode is made

0:56.6

possible by our friend at Vold Vision, Saracen Resort, and South by

1:00.9

Northwest Hospitality.

1:05.0

Arkansas Gymnastics has been on fire this year,

1:11.0

setting program records under head coach Jordan Weaver.

1:15.0

They are going to set a new program record.

1:18.0

And one of the major keys to this success

1:21.0

has been the rise of Maddie Jones.

1:23.0

So nicely done.

1:25.0

What a great routine for MJ.

1:27.0

Working hard every single week to be the team that we know we can be.

1:30.0

And it's just a show like we're not done yet.

1:32.0

Who started as a walk-on, even before. This is just a show like we're not done yet.

1:33.0

Who started as a walk-on, and even before that, called Coach Weber just hoping to get a chance.

1:40.1

I had actually reached out to Chris and Jordan and then I had ended up

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