Dare to Compete with Ilona Maher
The Bobby Bones Show
Premiere Networks
4.8 • 10.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone and welcome back to Unfiltered the JBL podcast and I heart radio production |
| 0:09.2 | in partnership with JBL. I'm your host Betty who. I'm so glad to have you here with me |
| 0:13.8 | on this journey. I've gotten to talk to so many amazing people and I really leave these |
| 0:17.5 | conversations so inspired so I hope you are too. I feel like I've spoken to some incredible |
| 0:23.2 | young people and today's conversation is absolutely no exception. Our guest today is not just |
| 0:29.6 | an impressive athlete but she is also a literal Olympian. I am joined by Alona Ma, a professional |
| 0:36.9 | rugby player who is unapologetic on and off the pitch. It's deeper than when a lose though. |
| 0:42.2 | Rugby helped Alona find the confidence in herself and her game. Spreading her love for rugby, |
| 0:48.1 | Alona documents the behind the scenes of her life as an elite athlete with her almost |
| 0:52.2 | 1 million TikTok followers. Undeniably Alona is a big personality and a powerhouse athlete. |
| 0:58.8 | So why don't we get right into it? So I'm so glad you're here. I have so many questions for you |
| 1:06.2 | obviously but the first thing I want to kind of start with is obviously it's I'm Australian so I |
| 1:12.0 | know all about rugby but it's not a particularly American like cultured sport so I want to know like |
| 1:17.4 | how you found it or maybe how it found you. I know you played a bunch of different sports in high |
| 1:21.3 | school like tell me a little bit about how it all got started for you. Yeah well my dad's actually a rugby |
| 1:25.9 | guy. He's been playing like rugby for 30 years but he always encouraged us to play so many other |
| 1:30.6 | sports so you know whether a softball basketball feel lucky we just played all these sports because he |
| 1:35.1 | saw the benefits of playing sports especially in girls and being these team activities so I played a |
| 1:40.5 | lot of sports and I think I was just kind of made to be an athlete honestly whether it's genetics or |
| 1:44.5 | whatnot you know sports was my social life it was my club and whatever sport I was in that was my |
| 1:49.6 | friend group I didn't you know I didn't wasn't cool didn't really go to parties or anything like |
| 1:53.0 | that but I went to basketball games and then I tried out rugby and it like literally fit my body |
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