Catching Up With Stanford's Roisin Willis Before Preparing For A Second U.S. Olympic Trials Run This Summer
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🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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"Cherish the people around you. Coming to Stanford and having such an amazing team has made such a difference for me in the sport and just how I view it...This sport is tough. Some days it's so rewarding and you feel like you're on top of the world but then other days, it crushes you. Having that great support system and realizing that's the best thing you can gain from the sport. I've won a lot of races but at the end of the day, the people I've met and the friends I've made is most important."
Stanford sophomore Roisin Willis, the 2023 NCAA indoor 800m champion and a New Balance NIL athlete, caught up with Kyle Merber to chat about how her first two years of college have gone and her hopes for preparing for a second U.S. Olympic Trials run. She was previously a guest on the show as a high school senior when she won the 2022 New Balance Nationals indoor 800m title.
Host: Kyle Merber | @kylemerber on Instagram
Guest: Roisin Willis | @roisin.willis on Instagram
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| 0:27.0 | L'Novo Legion. And the We're here at the track for New Balance Nationals indoor and I am joined by a legend at this event. Two-time |
| 0:56.6 | National Champion High School, Roshi and Willis now joining us from |
| 1:00.4 | Stanford. Thanks for making the trip all the way out to Boston just for this. |
| 1:04.3 | Of course, I mean I had to come for New Balance Nationals. I'm here so. |
| 1:09.2 | So you're here obviously for that said to blame me. I feel like I haven't talked to in a little while, how's everything going? |
| 1:16.0 | Yeah, I mean, I've had, I've grown a lot, you know, in the past year. |
| 1:21.0 | Obviously, N2A's didn't really unfold how I wanted. You know, indoors, just |
| 1:24.8 | shuttled to get back on my feet, just had some illness and stuff like that. But, |
| 1:29.0 | you know, looking forward to outdoors and, you know, I was excited to be here and just you know go out there |
| 1:34.1 | so what's it like being back here and seeing the races we just saw alley crush |
| 1:39.3 | it in the 800 are you getting nostalgic in any way or you kind of like, oh, I want to back out there. |
| 1:46.0 | You know, it's crazy like the difference in energy. |
| 1:49.0 | Like, you know, you said it, not me. |
| 1:51.0 | A lot of people have been saying it like major difference in energy like |
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