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🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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0:00.0 | Right. Okay, Betsy, I'm so excited to talk to you today. I, my daughter and I got to watch you on YouTube last week it was thrilling was it |
0:16.2 | last week or two weeks ago yeah last week last week yeah it was so fun but for |
0:21.9 | anyone who is not familiar with you can you tell us a little bit about who you are and what you do? |
0:27.0 | Yeah, I'm Betsy Flint and I play Beach Volleyball professionally for Team USA internationally and then on the AVP which is a domestic tour and I'm also a mom to a three year old so between the two I'm super busy just trying to be my best in both areas. |
0:47.0 | Yeah, well that's amazing and I feel like you totally downplayed how incredible you are as an athlete like I mean you mentioned |
0:54.5 | professional athlete but you have on your Instagram profile right now that you are |
0:59.8 | an Olympic hopeful can you tell me about that what does? What does that mean and what does it look like currently? |
1:05.9 | Yeah, we have been competing around the world. |
1:10.0 | Over a year and a half is the Olympic qualification process and |
1:13.8 | your best 12 finishes. |
1:16.0 | So it's being down to the end here we will be the third team |
1:21.6 | out of all the US teams and we only get two teams in the Olympics. |
1:25.8 | So unfortunately we'll be alternates for the Olympics. |
1:29.6 | We had a really like just crazy, wild, fun year last year competing in a ton of tournaments, |
1:37.0 | dealing with adversity. My partner had really bad injury, but we just had to keep pushing and |
1:41.6 | pushing. And then towards World Championships, |
1:45.0 | we got a ninth, which is great in World Championships, |
1:48.0 | but our other two teams had done well, |
1:50.0 | so we kind of knew we weren't going to make it and it was a good time for her to go through some |
1:55.2 | knee surgeries and some recovery so yeah it was a grind but yeah an amazing experience just all so hard to be away as a mom too and |
2:06.7 | when we're going to these tournaments we're gone for a week sometimes two or three depending on if they're back to back. |
2:13.7 | So I think that's one of the biggest challenges now |
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