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Hello!

It's Julie Fowdy alongside Lynn Ozzawi. What's happening Lynn?

Hi Julie. Hey, guess what?

What?

This episode is a two-fer.

Two-fer.

A two-fer one.

And it's the first time we're featuring athletes from the sport of water polo.

A sport that I think doesn't get nearly the attention it deserves. And especially since they

are some of my favorite athletes to cover, I know yours as well in. They're funny. They're smart

as heck. They're incredibly committed to growing their sport for the next generation.

And they're absolute ballers. I know this because I have been in the water with them.

We have two of the biggest stars from that 2016 Olympic gold medal team in Ashley Johnson

and Maggie Stephens. Ashley is considered one of the best goalkeepers in the world

as she helped lead her team to gold and Rio. She then graduated the next year from Princeton

University as the all-time career saves leader. In 2016 in Rio, she became the first black woman

to compete for the U.S Olympic water polo team. Boom! We will talk about that, of course, as well.

Maggie Stephens is considered one of, if not the best, water polo player in the world.

She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, the captain of the team, and she won three national titles

while at the fine institution of Stanford University, where she also graduated in 2017.

Go Card! So get comfortable listening. It's Ashley and Maggie.

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