The University of Michigan and the athletic department draw the best from around the world.

And today we are going to go over to Australia and talk to Hannah Nielsen,

who is currently training for the Australian national team for lacrosse and also the Michigan women's lacrosse.

Stay tuned here 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.

I'm now joined by Hannah Nielsen, who is the women's lacrosse coach here at the University

of Michigan, who is actually in Australia right now.

Hannah, thanks for joining us.

How are things on the other side of the world?

Well, yeah, Tuesday at noon here.

So we're about a day ahead. So far, so good, doing a little quarantine. So happy to take the time to chat with you. And yeah, things are great. It's good to be on home soil. It is obviously

home soil for you.

And I'm just curious, I know that you're still compete. What is it that you're doing over in Australia right now?

Yeah, so I'm still competing for the Australian national team. This will be my fifth World Cup coming up, which is meant to happen in 2021.

But obviously, we're going to see what happens there. So I have a couple of, you know, some training down here, some training camps,

hopefully with the whole squad, we'll see what happens. And aside from that, it's just just a good

dose of summer and family time and friend time and a good little reset after a hectic year.

That's good. How, how, where do all of the players come from, obviously, Australia, but is it all over

Australia or are they mainly in one area?

Yeah, so Australian lacrosse is, it's not in every state that the hot, like kind of the

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