I'm Lauren Tomes. Thank you so much for hanging out. I am so excited about our guest this week.

It's great when you have the opportunity to talk to excellence and find out how excellence works because we're all trying to figure it out in our own lives.

Kelly Amante Hiller, the head coach of Northwestern's national championship lacrosse team is my guest on the pod and we're going to get to her and her story in just a minute.

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So Northwestern hit me up and said, hey, do you want to talk with our lacrosse coach? And I'm like, yeah, I very much want to talk about Northwestern lacrosse.

And I want to talk specifically with Kelly because and we'll get into it's like kind of where the interview starts.

Like most people who were watching the 2022 final four in lacrosse, seeing Northwestern there was like, it was really cool to see that.

I've been seeing how they lost. They lost a game to to North Carolina that was heartbreaking was soul crushing.

I think they had a six goal lead with nine and a half minutes left to go in the game. And North Carolina stormed back.

And it was one of those things where it's not often that you feel the the shift that you feel the momentum change and you're right.

Like a lot of times we we think we're writing those moments and then a team settles down and everything's fine.

This was one of those moments where you're watching that game and you see it slip away and you see the title like slipping away the opportunity to win a title like slipping away.

And it felt like there was nothing that Northwestern can do that North Carolina was just not going to be denied.

Seeing Northwestern's team bounce back from that, giving themselves in another position and win a championship and getting the job done in dominant fashion was extremely impressive, just like the resume of Kelly and Monty Hiller.

This is their eighth national championship.

Eighth as a head coach, she also is two as a player when she played at Maryland. So she's got ten national championship.

This is one of the most accomplished coaches in America period. And her team this year, they lost the first match of the season and then won every one after that.

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