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Welcome to Students Incorporated, a podcast where we dive into relevant topics and issues

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related to the world of business, technology, education and design.

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I'm your host, Mr. Jason.

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Episodes include student conversations, interviews with thought leaders, and inspirational stories

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with an international flavor.

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This podcast is created and produced with the help of students from the International

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Community School of Bangkok.

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In today's episode, we'll be interviewing a few members of our local athletic department,

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one coach and two student athletes.

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We'll be asking them about the role sports plays in their lives and how it has impacted

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them.

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Before we begin our conversation with our guest, let's hear the quote of the day in

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the headline news.

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Our quote of the day comes from basketball legend Michael Jordan.

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He said,

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I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career.

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I've lost almost 300 games.

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26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed.

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I've failed over and over and over again in my life.

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And that is why I succeed.

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This is a great quote, not only to apply to playing sports, but also to life in general.

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Success can only be achieved from learning from failures.

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And the fundamental thing to do is never give up.

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Michael Jordan is called the best basketball player of all time.

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His team, the Chicago Bulls, were the best team in early to mid 90s.

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Not only is he an accomplished basketball player, he is also a successful businessman,

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as his brand Air Jordans brought in 5.1 billion US dollars.

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Currently it's March and that means that it's the season of March madness.

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It's time to pick your favorite team and bet on them to win.

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Currently the Houston Cougars seem to have the best odds.

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After them are the Alabama Crimson Tide, the Arizona Wildcats, and the Kansas Jayhawks.

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Manchester United also just won its first trophy in the Kerr-Bowl Cup since 2017.

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They won 2-0 against Newcastle.

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Sadly Newcastle United hasn't won any major trophies in the last 54 years.

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There were thousands of fans watching the match and that really gave the feeling of

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a final cup match.

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Staying on topic, Manchester United recently lost 7-0 to Liverpool.

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This was their biggest defeat in 92 years, especially against their biggest rival, Liverpool.

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The Manchester United manager, Eric Ten Hag, was very disappointed and stated that they

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lost their heads and did not play as a team.

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Our second question for you is, did you play sports in high school or university?

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Both.

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I played two years in high school, my high school in the US.

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I played JV and varsity football.

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I also played JV basketball and varsity baseball.

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Then in college, my senior year I returned to Bangladesh and played for a semi-pro team

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for about half the year.

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And then when I went to university, I played my junior and senior year varsity football.

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I didn't play a lot, but I got a lot of valuable experience of understanding and watching the

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game and seeing how it flows out, learn different strategies and things like that.

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I think that's where my love of coaching started.

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How did that experience differ from ICS?

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This question was a little bit tougher because it's such a, I've not played for ICS.

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I've coached almost my entire time here, but one of the biggest differences that I've noticed

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from the very beginning was the amount of practices we had.

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In high school, I practiced five days a week and then you had games into that.

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And then when I was in college, there's a lot of times where we trained, especially

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pre-season, we trained two to three times a day.

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You'd get up at six o'clock in the morning, do a mini practice, then you'd train a nine

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o'clock session after breakfast.

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And then you'd have an afternoon session, sometimes an evening session of two or three

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hours each.

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And then once school started, then you're practicing every day for two to three hours

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every day.

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I guess the biggest difference that I noticed is the amount of practice that we do.

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And here I'd only train three times a week.

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What are your favorite parts about coaching?

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One of the big things I like is I love the in-game strategy when you're managing a game

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and you have to make adjustments, try and outsmart the other coach or figure out what

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he's doing so you can counter it.

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I love that kind of stuff.

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But I also love the interactions I get to have with my players, helping them become

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not only better players on the pitch, but also better young men.

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And that's the, I think to me, sports is a microcosm of life.

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There's so many things you learn about yourself when you're on the field, how you, when situations

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come up, how you react to those situations.

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And that can, those are situations that come up when you get a job, when you're working

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with other people, you have those things that come up and you have to learn how to react.

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And the opportunity I have to build into the lives of my players and encourage them and

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challenge them and make them and help them grow as young men.

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And I do hope my guys know how much I care about them.

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I think they do, but it's always good to have that reassurance.

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I also love seeing success stories of my players.

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And currently I love having the fact that I have two of my former athletes working with

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me.

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You may know them, Mr. Tent and Mr. Zach have followed in my footsteps and it is so encouraging

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and it's so great to have them here back with us.

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I coached Mr. Tent for all of his high school and Mr. Zach I coached when he was in sixth

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grade, but interacted with him throughout his entire high school career.

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So it's been, it's great having them back with me now working with me.

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What are some challenges that comes with coaching a team of yellow men?

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People and their different personalities.

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Anytime you work with like 20 to 30 different personalities, you're going to have challenges

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that come up.

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Things like you don't always see eye to eye.

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They may not agree with the formation that we're playing or the system that we're running

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or what I asked them to do on offense or defense.

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So you're trying to manage that playing time.

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One guy may think he deserves more playing time, but as a coach you see, well, you're

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not working hard enough in practice.

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I have to manage that.

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At the varsity level, playing time isn't guaranteed.

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And so helping them understand that you may not be guaranteed playing time.

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So that's another managing how they deal with that.

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And then decisions that they make.

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There's been some of my players that have made outside of football have made very poor

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decisions and then you deal with the consequences of that, which not only affect them, affect

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them, but affect the team because they may be suspended from the team for a certain amount

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of time or, or whatnot.

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So those are the, those are some of the challenges that you have to face.

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But how you react to those challenges.

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Are you going to come down hard on them as far as like be a monster or an overlord or

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something like that?

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Or do you say, Hey, we all make mistakes.

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You try and learn from those mistakes and encourage them to be, to be better.

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So those are some of the challenges I facing.

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What are the benefits of playing sports, especially on a team?

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Oh, there's, there's just so many.

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I did a little research on this question, but there's just so many benefits.

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One of the biggest benefits of being on a team is a sense of belonging that you get.

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You're a part, I mean, you guys are a team for here for this podcast.

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You work together, you learn how to play off each other in your conversations.

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You learn how to use each other's strengths and weaknesses.

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Same thing, same thing for a sports team.

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You learn how to work with each other and that can translate again into down the road

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as you get a job.

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Like now I'm not on a team per se like a sports team, but I have a team that I work with in

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the PE department and we learn how to work together and those different challenges that

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come with that.

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You're part of a family.

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Like my guys know that they can come to me with anything and talk to me about anything.

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And hopefully I'm there to be, I'm there for them to encourage them and challenge them.

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You learn how to win together.

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You learn how to lose together.

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You go through the ups and downs of life.

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And that's something that can translate again into real life.

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In life, you're going to have ups and downs and learning how to manage those, learning

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to lean on the people that are close to you.

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You learn your family.

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Those are important things that you can benefit from.

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Those are some of the benefits, but there's also like physical benefits such as you're

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fitter because you're exercising all the time, which then affects your mental health.

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You are healthier.

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It can be fun.

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I'm always trying to tell my players, if you don't enjoy it, why are you doing it?

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There's no point if you don't enjoy it.

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If you're here to have fun and learn, great, let's do that.

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But if you're not enjoying it, if you're not having fun, then don't do it.

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It's a waste of your time.

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It's a waste of my time.

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I'm just lots of different things that you can benefit from from playing sports.

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Following up from that question, in what ways do the students grow from it?

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Learning how to interact with people.

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I think I mentioned that a little bit ago, but you learn how to interact with people

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that are different from you.

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I mean, on a team, you're going to have, like I think said earlier, there's lots of different

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personalities.

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You have the quiet people, you have the vocal people, you're going to have the guys that

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are just phenomenal athletes down to the average athlete.

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You learn how to just interact with the different people in the squad.

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You learn how to face adversity.

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Every game you go through adversity, whether you're winning or losing, you go through adversity.

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You go through adversity in practice at times.

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So you learn how to face that and deal with it and handle that.

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You learn how to manage your time.

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Playing a varsity sport is a huge commitment.

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And you guys as high schoolers have homework to manage.

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You have to learn how to really take advantage of those times that you have to do that homework

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and work on your practice as well.

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With exercise, you sleep better.

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You honestly do.

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You really do sleep better.

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You learn how to lead.

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We went through a whole thing with my guys this year about leadership and not just the

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captains, but all your players, all your athletes, whatever sport it is, whether it's football,

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basketball, volleyball, whatever it is, that you're leaders.

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People know you're on the team and they look up to you.

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So learning how to lead.

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Your cardiovascular health improves.

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You gain confidence.

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It reduces stress.

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Exercise is known to reduce stress and you have more energy.

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I exercise on a regular basis.

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I run every morning just about three to five kilometers every morning.

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While somebody's like, aren't you really tired of that?

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Well, immediately after I run, yes, I'm tired.

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But as the day goes on, I have more energy later in the day because of that.

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Being on a team because you're going to exercise regularly is definitely a benefit.

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And there's just so many more.

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There's just too many to list them all.

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What have been some of your favorite memories from through the years coaching the soccer

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team at ICS?

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Oh man, I have a lot.

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I think my overall favorite was in 2013 when we won ACSC.

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We went with a team that we had maybe trained one time for 11-a-side football and we went

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up and won the whole thing as the only team that didn't play 11-a-side regular regularly.

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And that was super exciting.

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Yeah, and that was a fun team to coach.

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Also we won BISAC in 2015, which is the league we used to be in.

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The next year we won the ISB tournament, which we beat a team from Perquette, which was an

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academy team.

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We were the only team to beat them that year in a tournament.

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We also, my first championship was in 2008.

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We won a Pouquette 7s tournament.

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In 2000, I want to say 2012, it was coach 10th senior year, we won.

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We got second at the Pouquette tournament, but it was one of those teams that were just,

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they were so fun to coach.

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We worked really hard and we lost to this team that was just, the team that beat us

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deserved to win.

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They were the best team there by a long shot.

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And we got beat, but it was a fun team to coach.

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And they just, it was really, they're the only team that's gotten me to cry after the

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end of the season.

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This year's team was pretty close.

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This year's was fun too.

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It was pretty close.

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I got choked up, but yeah, there was, and this year, obviously this year, being second

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and being able to host ACSC and then doing as well as we did and finishing second and

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having all of the students and teachers come out and support us, that was so fun.

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That was one of the most memorable, probably one of the most memorable times I've had here

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at ICS.

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Our final question for you is, how do you motivate players who might be nervous or unsure

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about their abilities?

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I try to tell, encourage players to have, like I said earlier, have fun.

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If you're not having fun, then why are you there?

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There's no point, right?

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And that's the biggest thing.

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Most of us do something, do sports or do something that we do because we enjoy it, not because

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we're forced to.

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If we're forced to do it, you're not going to like it.

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So I don't want to twist anybody's arm or force them to do if they don't like it.

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There's no point.

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So one, do it because you have fun.

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And then I've seen players play at lunchtime, say, hey, why don't you try out for the team?

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And they look at me like, I'm not good enough.

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Well, and then I kind of give them that little, well, why don't you let the coach make that

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decision?

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And sometimes they make it, sometimes they don't.

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Because once you put them with the better players, the team guys that are already on

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the team, they may not be able to make the team, but at least they took the risk and

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took that challenge.

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If they don't make the team, I try to encourage them, here's what you can work on.

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Maybe you can make, especially the younger players, maybe you can work on this part of

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your game, get a little more fit, work on your ball skills, work on your shooting, different

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aspects of the game that will help them improve if I see the potential there.

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I'm trying to encourage them to not give up.

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But again, to go back earlier, have fun, right?

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There's no point, like I said, no point in doing if you're not having fun.

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The one thing I always ask my PE classes and my players, if you've been in my PE class,

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you know what I always say, Lion, what do I always say about what is my one expectation

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of you in PE class?

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Try your, try your best, try your best.

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I always ask my students to try their best.

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That's all you can do.

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You can't do any more than that.

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All right?

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And it's going to look different for everybody.

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So encourage kids to just do your best.

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Don't do Lion's best, don't do Pucca's best, don't do my best, do your best.

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And that's, and that's the thing that I try and encourage them to do.

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And also, like I said, encouraging those kids from like lunchtime soccer or PE soccer to

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go out there and they let me look halfway decent in PE, but you got to challenge yourself

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against the better players.

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And if you can compete and hang with them, then you have a better chance of making the

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team.

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So don't just sit back and, oh, I'm not that good.

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Well, you don't know that you're not that good until you challenge yourself.

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Any words of encouragement or advices?

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Famous basketball coach, Jimmy Valvano, coached in the 80s, won the NCAA national tournament

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in 1983 with a very much an underdog team.

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And he ended up dying.

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He died of cancer in 93, but two months before he died, he gave a speech at the ESPYs, which

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is a big sports award ceremony in the U.S.

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And the part of his speech that everybody remembers, I don't think people remember

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most of the speech, but the one part they remember, he said, and this is it became the

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the motto for his foundation for cancer research.

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He said, don't give up.

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Don't ever give up.

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You see this all the time at the beginning of the tournament.

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They'll start playing his picture, him cheering, and then you'll see him say this quote, don't

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give up, don't ever give up.

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And that is what I try and encourage my players to don't give up.

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If you enjoy it, if you want it bad enough, just do it.

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Don't give up trying.

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You may not make it then, but down the road, you may make it.

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My little personal story, my first two years in college, I didn't make the soccer team.

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And it was frustrating because there was like, especially in my sophomore year, there was

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four guys that I knew I was better than that made it.

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And I was really frustrated.

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So I was like, I'm not going to try out the next year.

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And then someone came up to me says, George, why aren't you trying out?

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Well, I want to get one more shot.

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So I did.

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And I made the team.

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And because the head varsity coach finally got to see me play.

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It was great.

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It was a good experience.

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I didn't necessarily play a lot, but it was good.

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I didn't give up.

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I look back to that as a time like, man, I could have given up right then and there and

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be done with it.

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But I didn't.

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And I'm so glad I didn't because I learned so much after that.

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And then I guess the last thing would be find something that you're passionate about, whatever

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that is.

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It can be sports.

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It can be radio.

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It can be science, math, whatever.

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If you're passionate about it, you can pursue it and do it to the best of your ability and

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don't give up.

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I love sports.

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I played high school sports.

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I played college sports.

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I still play soccer right now as an old man.

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I love it.

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But I also love teaching it.

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And I found my passion in teaching and teaching sports, coaching and all that.

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I may not make a lot of money teaching.

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Teaching is not you don't go into teaching to get rich, but there's so much other rewards

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that you get from teaching.

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Seeing students become successful later on in life.

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And that's that right there is the reward.

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Seeing people how their lives change for the better.

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Seeing them come back to you.

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Either you're working with you or they just come back and say, hey, Mr. George, how you

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doing?

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And just that that that love that they have for you, the impact you've had on their life.

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And so that's the rewards I get.

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Pursue what you're passionate about and do it to the best of your ability.

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OK, with that great advice, we will be right back after this short PSA.

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Sports have been a part of life for more than three thousand years.

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In the past, though, sports were primarily used as preparation for hunting or war.

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The oldest sports came from Greece and included wrestling, discus, javelin throwing, chariot

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racing and jumping.

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The winner would receive a crown of olive leaves and have a statue made of himself on

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Olympia.

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These would occur during the Olympics and would be watched by many people from all around

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Greece.

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Ball related sports are way more recent, though.

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Golf originated in the 15th century.

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Cricket was created in the 16th century.

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Baseball, softball, hockey and basketball all were first played in the 1800s.

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We are back with part two of our episode.

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We will be interviewing two student athletes about the sports they play and what they believe

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are the benefits of playing team sports.

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Lyon will start us off with our first question.

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Can you please introduce yourself and state what sport you play?

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Hello, my name is Dylan Nishiyoko and I am 17 years old and I am a senior.

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I am currently playing for ICS's varsity soccer team.

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Hello, I'm Nattyrannanthakun and I'm also a senior.

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I'm currently 17 years old and I play for the varsity girls volleyball team.

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How was your first experience playing sport?

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Well, my first experience playing sport was pretty fun and interesting because one of

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the first activities I did in ICS was actually joining the sport teams.

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I joined many sport teams as an eighth grader because that was when I first joined ICS.

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Volleyball was one of it and it definitely left a really good impression to me.

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That's why I continued it for like the next five years.

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When I did my first few games, I thought I knew what I was doing, but in reality, I was

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not.

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When I rewatched my performance from around 2013, I was embarrassed.

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It looked like a bunch of kids running around and taking a ball back and forth.

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So yeah, in the moment of playing, I had fun.

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Back then, my stamina was crazy.

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I remember I could run a six minute mile and that I would not get tired from playing soccer.

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To this day, I still cannot figure out why I lost my stamina when I have been constantly

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playing this sport to this day.

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What would you say are the benefits of playing on a team?

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I think that when someone plays on a team for a very long time, you build these new

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and stronger relationships with your friends and other people.

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As time goes on and you play with these people, you start to naturally feel like they are

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somewhat family to you.

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Once you're like family with these people, you feel like you could be more open with

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the people who are willing to listen and help you whenever you need.

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And another benefit is that you can practice your social skills with your teammates.

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If you're a shy and introverted person and you play in a team, you are somewhat forced

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to talk with your teammates.

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Stepping out of the comfort zone is a step closer to improved lived.

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I gotta agree with Dino because as I said in the beginning, I love playing sports, but

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then it was really hard for me to adjust with the new school since I joined kinda late in

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middle school.

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And playing in the sport team has definitely made it so much easier for me to adjust with

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in terms of friends and teachers and just getting to know a lot more people, which I

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think I would have to suggest to all the new kids out there who will be joining sport teams

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next year or have not had a chance to join any sport team if you want to make new friends

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or grow a stronger connection with someone you just want to be close to.

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You should definitely join any sport team you want.

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Do you have any memorable moments from playing on your team?

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The most memorable moments I had was definitely going to the ACSC tournament.

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The first one I went to was in 2019 when I was in my freshman year.

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We went to Taiwan.

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It was really the best time of my life because I never really thought that I would have the

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chance to travel abroad to go compete in a sport that I really enjoy.

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But sadly, COVID hit, so it stopped for two years.

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My junior year and my sophomore year was just kinda sad.

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It was really sad because the tournament we had were just only in school and somewhere

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in Bangkok, but then we were lucky enough that the countries are actually reopening

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now.

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As a senior, I get to go on my last ACSC trip with my teammates to the Philippines this

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year.

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The most memorable moment from playing on my team was playing in the ACSC tournament.

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In this tournament, there were ups and downs for the team.

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We won some, lost some, and most importantly, we lost in the finals.

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After the game, our whole team was at our lowest.

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While there were tears coming down some of our faces, we heard the crowd supporting us

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and cheering us on.

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Even though we had lost in the finals, the community was proud of us and still supported

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us.

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This shows that the community will support us till the end even if we lose.

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This also shows that school is more than just like education, it's more of like building

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relationships and having a new family here.

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Here's our next question.

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What was your proudest achievement in sports?

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I wouldn't say I'm most proud of any particular achievement, but a cool achievement I made

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was scoring a free kick against Mr. Tim Baumgartner in a 7-a-side goal.

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As you may know, Mr. Tim, a huge man, a good goalkeeper, big biceps, big body.

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Even though he is huge and covers the goal well, he could not save my shot.

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Sorry, Mr. Tim, too good.

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The shot was too fast and too strong for him to reach and dive for it.

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My experience has to be definitely really similar to Dino.

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It happened in the ACSC that took place this year at the Philippines.

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We were against a team called Delat from Malaysia and they had this really tall girl who went

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taller than me because I'm actually pretty tall.

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I'm like 177 centimeters and for me to see someone taller than me was definitely fascinating.

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She's definitely a great hitter.

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But I thought that with my height, I just wanted to block her.

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So in one of her hits, I kind of blocked her and we got a point from that.

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So I was definitely really, really proud of that.

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How would you say leadership plays a role in your sport?

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It plays a really, really big role in my sport because if not, a lot of people might know

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is that volleyball is a really mental sport since you play as a team.

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If whoever on the team is just sad or down or their mentality is just really low, everyone

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on the court could sense it and somehow everyone will absorb that energy and take that energy

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in which obviously will cause a really bad effect to our team.

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So for someone or maybe more than one person to actually bring the team up and lead the

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other teammates through the hardship is just really, really important.

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So I guess that's how I would describe leadership in volleyball.

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For me personally, leadership is one of the most important things a player must have.

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By being a leader, you are seen as a person who others should look up to.

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If you have a bad character, you say a lot of profanity, you do these bad actions.

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These younger players will learn from that and they will start to develop those traits.

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So it is important to show the qualities of a leader.

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Thank you for sharing everybody.

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And finally, as you both are seniors, firstly, what advice would you give to up and coming

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athletes?

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And what's next for you?

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Are you going to continue playing the sport in university?

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An advice I would give to the up and coming athletes is that I recommend you not to do

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any type of drugs because they will lower your performance significantly and that it

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also ruins your mental health and everything and that like all the hard work you have been

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working for, it just goes down the drain.

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And what's next for me?

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I think that I will still play in this sport in like some Sunday deep type thing with some

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old men.

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I'm like, yeah, it's pretty fun.

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I get to play with other people.

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I get to train.

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I get to still stay fit.

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And why do you continue playing this sport in university?

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Me going to Japan, I think the competition there is insane.

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I don't think I can keep up with that, but I will try to join a school team in university

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because I still want to play this sport and stay fit when I am older.

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An advice I would love to give to the up and coming athlete would definitely be to have

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a lot of discipline because I've been on the city team for quite a while.

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And one thing I definitely regretted on was going to practice really, really late.

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I used to see that as something really funny.

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But one thing I realized is that it sets an example to the younger underclassmen.

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And once you become the oldest on the team, you're kind of put to the blame on it.

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So it's not always nice.

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And you obviously want to get the most out of practice.

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So always be sure to be on time.

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And for me, I'm still not really sure where I will end up in uni yet.

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Hopefully I have the chance to play the sport and continue it because I just really love

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it.

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And it depends on where I end up too, so hopefully I might join a fun club or maybe the school

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team.

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Who knows?

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Thank you for sharing some advice with some of our younger and up and coming athletes.

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I hope our listeners have gotten to see a small glimpse of the positive benefits sports

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can add to their lives.

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As we end this episode, we'd like to thank our guests for sharing about their experiences

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with us.

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For our next episode, we'll be featuring the art and design department and we'll be discussing

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the industry and business of art.

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Again, this podcast would not be possible without the hard work and support of our international

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student production team.

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And we are signing off until next time.

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