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You're listening to another Thunder and Lightning exclusive here on Super Talk, Mississippi, Brian,

Hey Dad, you know, there are some coaches, you know, I talk to quite often, there are some coaches I don't get to talk to enough.

But when the coach is doing the kind of job that this lady is doing at Mississippi State, we got to get her on the podcast.

Coach Julie Dardy Dennis, head coach at Mississippi State volleyball,

one of the hottest teams in the country,

one of the biggest surprises in the SEC this year.

Coach, my first question is sort of a really big picture question

about your program, because you think about Mississippi and in Mississippi

state football taught of Mississippi kids on the roster basketball is the same way.

Baseball we all know that it's a ton of Mississippi kids. You got two on your roster.

This is not really a volleyball state. When I was in high school, there wasn't high school volleyball.

I don't know how recent it is, but it feels like a very recent addition.

How do you build a program at a place like Mississippi State

when it's difficult to find people you know just in your own backyard to play the sport?

I mean we're logging a lot of miles that's for sure with

recruiting but no I mean I'm I'm so proud that we have two in state kids on our

roster and this was the first year you are correct that they added volleyball as a high school sport.

This was the first year.

The first year. Wow. Yeah they got rid of slow pitch softball and now they have volleyball so there's a lot of softball coaches coaching volleyball. So we're trying to grow the game and teach the game and do all these things all at once. But one, it's so exciting that there's so many young girls who want to play volleyball that they're

adding the high schools. It's going to take some time to get to the level that it

needs to be at for us to recruit in state, but there's some tremendous athletes in

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