272: Navigating motherhood, faith and professional volleyball with Betsi Flint
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🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Betsi Flint, a 6-time AVP Champion, played at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) for both indoor and beach volleyball. She is a 2-time AVCA All-American in beach and still holds indoor records in career aces and digs. In Betsi’s rookie AVP Season in 2015, she and Kelly Kolinske were the youngest team at the time to take home an AVP Championship. Betsi was voted the AVP Newcomer of the Year. Betsi also plays on the FIVB and has earned Gold in China and Silver Medals in Canada and Australia.Betsi’s favorite career memory was winning AVP Hermosa in 2018 with Emily Day; she grew up watching this event, and in her first time playing at AVP Hermosa, she won in front of her friends and family. Her most defining moment, however, was winning AVP Cincinnati in her first year out of college. It was then that she realized she could pursue becoming a professional beach volleyball player full-time. When Betsi isn’t playing volleyball, she is spending time with her husband Chase and their daughter Cora or meal prepping. One interesting fact about Betsi is that she was born and raised in a small town in South Dakota, where she fell in love with sports. She later moved to Phoenix, AZ, with her family.
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| 0:00.0 | All right. Okay, Betsy, I'm so excited to talk to you today. I, my daughter and I got to watch |
| 0:12.6 | you on YouTube last week. It was thrilling. Was it last week or two weeks ago? Yeah, last week. |
| 0:18.8 | Last week. Yeah, it was so fun. But for anyone who is not |
| 0:23.0 | familiar with you, can you tell us a little bit about who you are and what you do? Yeah, I'm Betsy |
| 0:28.9 | Flint and I play beach volleyball professionally for Team USA internationally. And then on AVP, |
| 0:35.2 | which is a domestic tour. And I'm also a mom to a three-year-old. So between |
| 0:40.0 | the two, I'm super busy, just trying to, yeah, be my best in both areas. Yeah. Well, that's amazing. |
| 0:48.7 | And I feel like you totally downplayed how incredible you are as an athlete. Like, I mean, you |
| 0:54.1 | mentioned professional athlete, but you have on your Instagram profile, 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 an Olympic hopeful. |
| 1:01.6 | Can you tell me about that? What does that mean? What does it look like currently? |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah. We have been competing around the world over a year and a half is the Olympic qualification process. |
| 1:13.6 | Wow. |
| 1:13.9 | And then your best 12 finishes. |
| 1:16.8 | So being down to the end here, we will be the third team out of all the U.S. teams. |
| 1:24.1 | And we only get two teams in the Olympics. |
| 1:25.8 | So unfortunately, we'll be alternates for the Olympics. Okay. We had a really like just crazy, wild, fun year last |
| 1:33.9 | year competing in a ton of tournaments dealing with adversity. My partner had really bad |
| 1:39.7 | injury, but we just had to keep pushing and pushing. And then towards world Championships, we got a ninth, which is great in World Championships, |
| 1:48.3 | but our other two teams had done well. |
| 1:50.4 | So we kind of knew we weren't going to make it. |
| 1:53.5 | And it was a good time for her to go through some knee surgeries and some recovery. |
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