ILONA MAHER, TEAM USA WOMEN'S RUGBY, & WINNING BRONZE STOLE THE OLYMPICS! SAMMY SULLIVAN INTERVIEW!!
Lightweights Podcast
Joe Vulpis
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Sammy Sullivan is an American rugby sevens player and a captain in the U.S. Army. She graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 2020, where she was a three-time All-American rugby sevens player and received the 2019 Prusmack Award for the top female collegiate rugby sevens player. In the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, Sullivan played a pivotal role in helping the U.S. Women's Rugby Sevens team secure their first Olympic medal, a bronze, by defeating Australia 14-12. Throughout the tournament, she scored three tries, contributing significantly to the team's success
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| 0:00.0 | I feel like it's a little different with team sports versus individual sports, because I feel like you can pretty objectively pick the best of the best in an individual sport, whereas team sport, it's a lot to do with team chemistry. |
| 0:12.6 | Welcome to the Lightways podcast. My name's Joe. Today's guest, Sammy Sullivan of the USA Olympic women's rugby team. |
| 0:18.6 | Sammy is an Olympic medalist of the USA Rugby Sevens. |
| 0:21.1 | She speaks on competing in Paris at this past Olympics as well as the LA 2028. |
| 0:25.1 | What I find so fascinating is how they select the team and how long everyone trains together |
| 0:28.7 | to do this for the entire world stage. It's crazy. Not only having this crazy rugby career, |
| 0:33.6 | she is active in the US Army. Plus we talk about my favorite thing dancing with the star. She gives her a little because then I can get more guests, more people that you guys might be interested in. So please enjoy Sammy Sullivan. |
| 0:55.9 | Have you interviewed Lowe? |
| 0:56.3 | No. |
| 0:58.9 | Yeah, because I was like looking at your channel. |
| 1:00.1 | I was like, whoa, Lo is not here. |
| 1:01.0 | Have you tried? |
| 1:02.0 | And she's just like... She hasn't responded to my DM. |
| 1:03.4 | Oh, what? |
| 1:04.2 | I'm not a billionaire NFL player. |
| 1:06.0 | Oh, my gosh. |
| 1:07.4 | Okay. |
| 1:08.5 | She honestly, does she follow you? |
| 1:11.2 | No. |
| 1:12.7 | She hasn't seen it then. |
| 1:16.0 | But I'm going to see my first show Tuesday next week. |
| 1:16.7 | You're going? |
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