Volleyball legend Jordan Larson’s quest for peace

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🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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From a national title with the legendary Nebraska Huskers to bronze, silver and gold with Team USA in the Olympics, Jordan Larson has won every volleyball honor imaginable. For many people that is a complete resume, but for Larson that was never enough. What she sought from the game was an emotional connection to her peers, her hometown and her family. And as her career winds down she often finds herself reflecting on those lost connections of what could have been and – since the loss of her mother – what should have been. Today, Aishwarya Kumar shares the time she spent with Jordan Larson and reveals an intimate portrait on one Team USA’s Olympic legends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Iish Kamar, what does women's volleyball mean to the people of the great state of Nebraska?
0:06.0	Oh my God, it's everything.
0:08.0	Back in August of 2023, a record 92,000, three people showed up to Memorial Stadium where they usually play football
0:16.4	to watch Nebraska play Omaha in an outdoor volleyball match and it was the largest crowd to ever witness a woman's sporting event.
0:25.0	Thousands of girls dream of playing volleyball in Nebraska.
0:29.0	The University of Nebraska is like one of the most decorated programs in the country.
0:33.5	They have five national titles.
0:35.6	It's also a springboard for the national team.
0:37.9	So it's a big deal.
0:39.8	Volleywell is a big deal in Nebraska.
0:42.0	I say this all the time. Nebraska is no longer a
0:44.4	football school. It's a volleyball school, which leads you to my next question.
0:48.6	What took you to Hooper, Nebraska, where the population is less than 900 people about a month ago.
0:55.0	Okay, so they make it a point to tell me that it's Hopper Nebraska.
0:59.4	My bad.
1:01.4	Um, so Hopper Nebraska is where Jordan Larson, the four-time Olympian is from.
1:08.4	I was in Happer, Nebraska because I literally asked Jordan Larson, who is the goat of
1:19.3	Volleyball.
1:20.3	Jordan, can I come just be a part of your life for a few days like I do with a lot of the subjects that I'm trying to understand deeply for a long form story?
1:30.0	And you know, one of the things that really stuck with me was the access she gave me.
1:34.8	She just basically brought me with her to everything that she did.
1:38.8	We would go have brunch with her dad.
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