Conqu'ring Heroes 22 - Dr. Marcelo Leonardi
MGoBlue Podcasts with Jon Jansen
The Varsity Podcast Network
4.8 • 754 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
This week on Conqu'ring Heroes, we preview Michigan women's water polo in the NCAA Tournament! Jon sits down with Dr. Marcelo Leonardi, the seventh-year Head Coach of the Wolverines, to discuss the team's NCAA Tournament draw (0:45), the unique journey through the regular season (4:00), his emotions after reaching the NCAA Tournament for a fifth straight time (9:15), and some of the key contributors on this year's team (14:30).
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Conquering Heroes, I'll be joined by the Michigan Water Polo coach, Dr. Marcello |
| 0:06.2 | Leonardi. |
| 0:07.5 | They are the champions of the Collegiate Water Polo Association, and they will be traveling out in just a little while to take on Arizona State in the NCAA. |
| 0:17.5 | That is going to happen out in Los Angeles on the campus of UCLA. |
| 0:21.3 | We'll talk to him next on Conquering Heroes. |
| 0:26.9 | Welcome to your one-stop podcast for all things Michigan Athletics. |
| 0:31.8 | Updates on every team on campus and interviews with players and coaches are all on the way. |
| 0:37.1 | This is Conquering Heroes. |
| 0:39.1 | Here's your host, John Janssen. |
| 0:42.1 | Today on Conquering Heroes, I'm joined by another champion and looking for a possible |
| 0:48.2 | national championship, and that's Dr. Marcello Leonardo, the head coach of Michigan |
| 0:53.2 | Water Polo. Thanks for joining us, and I know |
| 0:56.2 | that you've got some big news. We all learned it last night, but the NCAA tournament's |
| 1:01.3 | right around the corner, and you guys found out who you're playing last night. Yeah, first of all, |
| 1:05.6 | thank you for having me on your show. Super excited. The team gets an opportunity to play against Arizona State in the |
| 1:14.5 | quarterfinal match on Friday, May 14th at NCAAs. And you, this is going to be actually the third |
| 1:22.1 | time you've seen them this season. You've split the regular season matchups with a 1210 win in February, and then I guess |
| 1:30.1 | it would be just a couple days later. Maybe that's March 1st. I can't remember what day it would |
| 1:33.8 | have been with Leapier. But a 7-4 loss, what do you know about this Arizona state team and what |
| 1:39.1 | are you looking for in that quarterfinal matchup? Well, we had the opportunity to play them in Tempe, Arizona, and we were able to play them |
| 1:50.4 | when they were seated. |
| 1:51.7 | I think they were ranked number four in the country. |
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