Conqu'ring Heroes 94 - Keke Tholl & Lauren Derkowski
MGoBlue Podcasts with Jon Jansen
The Varsity Podcast Network
4.8 • 754 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
With the softball season approaching the stretch run, Jon catches up with a pair of Wolverines stars in catcher Keke Tholl and pitcher Lauren Derkowski. They reflect on the Head Coach transition (1:30), share their memories from the back-to-back no-hitters at Purdue (3:30), look ahead to the critical games ahead (6:00), and preview this weekend's Michigan Softball Academy (10:00).
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| 0:00.0 | Well, we're doing double time today because I've got two of the Michigan softball players, |
| 0:05.3 | Kiki Thol and Warren Derkowski, pitcher catcher combination. We got a couple of no hitters. |
| 0:11.4 | We got some great performances that we're going to catch up and talk about. |
| 0:14.8 | And they're approaching the end of the season. A couple of games left. |
| 0:19.3 | They've got a series against Indiana, a series against Minnesota |
| 0:22.3 | leading up to the Big Ten tournament. We're going to get the inside scoop on everything from both |
| 0:27.5 | of these players in just a few moments. So stay tuned right here on Conquering Heroes. |
| 0:35.6 | Welcome to your one-stop podcast for all things Michigan Athletics. |
| 0:40.4 | Updates on every team on campus and interviews with players and coaches are all on the way. |
| 0:45.6 | This is Conquering Heroes. |
| 0:47.7 | Here's your host, John Jansen. |
| 0:50.3 | Now joined by two members of the Michigan softball team, and that is catcher Kiki Thull and |
| 0:57.1 | pitcher Lauren Derkowski. |
| 0:59.9 | First of all, both thanks for joining me. |
| 1:02.4 | And Kiki, I do want to know this has been a season of transition from Hutch to |
| 1:08.3 | Coach Thall. |
| 1:09.6 | I know that you know Coach Thal extremely. Well, |
| 1:12.1 | what's the transition been like for this team? You know, the transition's been really smooth. |
| 1:18.0 | With Bonnie playing here herself and then coaching underneath Hutz for a while and we |
| 1:23.2 | essentially still have the entire team staff with bringing alumni back. It's been really smooth, and I think that's been the best part is, you know, |
| 1:31.0 | we're just keeping to the Michigan softball condition. |
| 1:34.6 | And I think this is probably one of the smoothest transitions that we've had, |
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