Conqu'ring Heroes 66 - Bonnie Tholl
MGoBlue Podcasts with Jon Jansen
The Varsity Podcast Network
4.8 • 754 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
It's a new era for Michigan Softball! Jon chats with new Head Coach Bonnie Tholl, who reflects on the opportunity to take over for Carol Hutchins (2:00), breaks down her hire of Amanda Chidester to the coaching staff (11:30), and shares her early thoughts on the roster she will have in 2023 (14:00).
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| 0:00.0 | Michigan softball has a new leader, not new to the program, just new to the seat that she's now sitting in. |
| 0:06.3 | She's been here for 29 years. |
| 0:08.4 | She's been an associate head coach for 20, but she's going into her first season as head coach. |
| 0:14.0 | That's Bonnie Thole. |
| 0:15.3 | She's going to sit down with me next here on Conquering Heroes. |
| 0:21.2 | Welcome to your one-stop podcast for all things Michigan Athletics. |
| 0:26.0 | Updates on every team on campus and interviews with players and coaches are all on the way. |
| 0:31.3 | This is Conquering Heroes. |
| 0:33.3 | Here's your host, John Chanson. |
| 0:36.1 | Well, I'm now pleased to be joined by the new head coach, and it's been a long time since |
| 0:41.7 | anybody said the new head coach of Michigan Women's softball, Bonnie Thol. |
| 0:46.1 | Bonnie, first of all, thanks for joining me. |
| 0:48.8 | Second, how does it feel to be sitting in, we'll talk about Hutch in just a minute, but in that seat. |
| 0:57.3 | Well, it's an exciting time. Obviously, it's a really busy time right now with the start of |
| 1:02.8 | practice and, of course, the recruiting season in September 1st. So our staff, we really haven't |
| 1:09.4 | caught our breath yet, but we made a big step in hiring a new staff member. |
| 1:13.7 | And we're pretty excited about that. |
| 1:15.7 | She'll begin practice with us again tomorrow. |
| 1:18.3 | And it feels great. |
| 1:20.7 | It feels great. |
| 1:21.6 | I feel incredibly honored to be chosen the leader. |
| 1:27.0 | And I'm really excited to get going and to help build on this |
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