Conqu'ring Heroes 35 - Kelli Gannon
MGoBlue Podcasts with Jon Jansen
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4.8 • 754 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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In advance of the Hall of Honor induction ceremony later this month, Jon chats with former field hockey star Kelli Gannon, one of the six honorees. Gannon reflects on some of the key moments of her Wolverines career (2:00), talks about playing with and following the coaching career of her sister and Michigan assistant Kristi Gannon Fisher (6:30), and rehashes some of her great memories in Ann Arbor (9:30).
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on October 22nd, Michigan will finally be able to induct the 2020 class into the Hall of Honor. |
| 0:08.2 | There are six members going in, Sarah Kane from Women's Gymnastics, Jim Pachoric of Michigan's baseball, Lexi Zimmerman of volleyball, Thai law, and Trip Wellborn from football, and today's guest here on Conquering Heroes, Kelly Gannon. |
| 0:27.3 | Welcome to your one-stop podcast for all things, Michigan Athletics. |
| 0:32.2 | Updates on every team on campus and interviews with players and coaches are all on the way. |
| 0:39.0 | This is Conquering Heroes. |
| 0:47.3 | Here's your host, John Jansen. Well, I'm pleased to be joined by one of the inductees into the 2020 Hall of Honor. It is set to be, the ceremonies are set to be October 22, and it is Kelly Gannon. |
| 0:55.5 | Kelly, first of all, before I run through your list of accomplishments, I want to say, |
| 1:00.3 | hello, and thank you for joining me. |
| 1:03.7 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:04.8 | Glad to be here. |
| 1:06.3 | And just so our listeners know, Kelly Gannon was the second field hockey representative to be |
| 1:11.7 | inducted into the Hall of Honor. First three-time All-American in program history. She was a first |
| 1:18.3 | teamer as a junior and senior. Wolverine's leading score in each of her final three seasons, |
| 1:23.3 | helped Michigan win two Big Ten regular season titles, two Big Ten tournament titles, |
| 1:28.2 | and a national runner-up finish in 1999. |
| 1:31.5 | And before 1997, which was a Big Ten title, Michigan Field Hockey had never won a Big Ten title. |
| 1:38.9 | When you think about everything that you were able to accomplish in Ann Arbor. What type of memories, what type of |
| 1:46.1 | feeling does it give you this many years later? Oh, it just takes me back. In the same time, |
| 1:55.6 | it feels like forever ago, and it also feels like it was yesterday, you know. |
| 2:10.7 | But just the camaraderie with my teammates and that just everybody going towards the same goal and fighting hard and the blood, sweat and tears, it just reminds me of all of that. |
| 2:18.6 | What were some of the challenges, if you can take us back to 97, that first Big Ten title? |
| 2:26.4 | What were some of the challenges you guys faced that season and had to overcome to get to that title? |
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