Hello everyone, welcome back to another episode of Go Big with B. I'm your host,

Bela Ortega, and I have a very, very, very exciting guest on the podcast today, who I've

been wanting to get on the podcast ever since I started it, but I've also been saving it for the end of season to end everything off with a bang. So I'm here with my best friend, one of my favorite teammates, Maddie Martin. Maddie, how are you doing? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. I'm so happy to be here. I have done lots of episodes with my teammates, but again, Maddie has been a pivotal part of the reason why I came to LSU and a huge, huge leader and just an amazing human for the LSU volleyball team.

And so very, very excited to have her on the podcast today.

So, Maddie, just tell me a bit about yourself, all the basics.

All right.

So my name's Maddie, obviously. I'm from Ormond Beach, Florida. I'm a pre-med major. I'm majoring in biology and in Spanish for fun. For fun, yeah, same. I do the same. And I'm a DS Libero on the LSU the Live-Bal team. So why pre-med? What's your plan with that? Where are you going with that? My plan is to go to medical school. My Y pre-med, it starts a really, really long time ago. But for me, the Y was always my mom. My mom is a stage four breast cancer survivor. And her doctors became my heroes, and what little kid

doesn't want to be a hero when they're older? So since I was 11, that's kind of been my dream.

And then as I got older, I got more into it. And I just realized this is what I want to do.

So that's what I'm doing. So something that I went through with my brother that I'm now obviously seeing you go through

is medical school applications and interviews. And I think that's something that you don't hear

talked about a lot in general, but especially as an athlete. And seeing you go through that

firsthand has definitely been a lot as your teammate, as your friend. So I'd love to hear you talk about that process how

it's been doing both and just kind of for those people who don't know how that process works just

kind of take them through that so it's a very very long process so I guess you could say my process

started when I took the MCAT back in April and then you apply in May.

But nobody can read your application until July.

So it's a very, very long process.

And then from there you get put in this queue and you might get a phone interview.

But if not, then you don't.

If you get the phone interview, you might get a video interview.

If you get the video, you might get the in person. So it's a very,

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