Well, it's time to check in with the second year head coach.

That's the water polo coach.

Cassie Churnside.

We'll talk with her next on Conquering Heroes.

Welcome to your one-stop podcast for all things Michigan Athletics.

Updates on every team on campus and interviews with players and coaches are all on the way.

This is Conquering Heroes.

Here's your host, John Chanson.

Now I can get a chance to talk to a head coach in her second year here at Michigan.

That's the Water Polo Head Coach, Cassie Churnside and Cassie.

First of all, thanks for joining me.

What's different for you

year two over year one? Oh, wow, what isn't different? I think coming back this year, there was a

sense of familiarity that I didn't have, you know, in past years. Coming, Michigan was such a big

change coming from an Ivy League school, and so everything was just so new for me.

And coming back this year, you know, even though I have freshman, sophomore, juniors and seniors,

it's kind of like I have this like whole group of sophomores, which might have a negative sound to it.

But it's really nice. Like these girls have had the first year of learning this system. And so there's just a lot more leadership that has developed this year that I didn't have last year because nobody, everyone was learning the system.

Everything was so new.

So it's been really fun this year.

It's been pretty cool seeing the development in these girls' confidence, they're playing style, everything.

So it's been really, really cool.

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