Our Athletes with Michael Rasile
By Michael Rasile
Our Athletes with Michael RasileOct 29, 2018
Madisyn Cox, USA Swimming, Olympic Hopeful
Madisyn Cox joins Michael Rasile to discuss postponing her enrollment to medical school for an extra year to try and compete at the 2021 Olympic Games!
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Chris Mirabelli, USA Track and Field, Javelin Thrower, Olympic Hopeful
Chris Mirabelli joins Michael Rasile to discuss his chances for the 2021 Olympic Games with the extra year of preparation!
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Monica Abbott, USA Softball, Olympic Silver Medalist
Monica Abbott joins Michael Rasile to talk about how she is dealing with this extra year Waiting For Tokyo!
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Rudy Garcia Tolson, 5x Paralympic Games Medalist, USA Swimming
Rudy Garcia Tolson joins Michael Rasile on Our Athletes to discuss his disability, what he's been up to the last few years, and why during the COVID-19 Pandemic he decided to shoot for a 5th Paralympic Game!
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Steven Benedict, Italian National Track and Field Team, Olympic Hopeful
Steven Benedict joins Michael Rasile on Our Athletes to discuss his time with the US National Team, his switch to the Italian National team, and what it has been like being a professional runner. We also discuss a bit about the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Lex Gillette, USATF, 4x Paralympic Silver Medalist
Lex joins the show to tell us about his life in the world of track and field! He lost his vision at 8 years old and had a hard time coping with it from a young age. He was able to find mentors and others who believed in him and his capabilities to the point for bringing him around the country to compete while still in high school.
Lex has gone on to compete at 4 different Paralympic Games and has a great shot at making the 2021(!) Tokyo Games.
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Steve Bitter, Athlete Branding Consultant
Steve joins the show to tell us about his life story and his new service where he helps athletes get better at social media!
Coming from the digital marketing world, Steve looks at social media from the brand and sponsor perspective to allow athletes to create better content for their fans as well as their sponsors!
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David Verburg , USATF, Olympic Gold Medalist
David joins us to tell us all about his time in the track and field sport! He got his break when he was a bit younger and took total advantage of his situation. He has some great stories on how he "got lucky" and was included in a final run for a Gold Medal.
David has a foundation where he helps students adopt turtles and tortoises to learn more about their ecosystems. He is vegan and is also in the process of writing a children's book!
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Lucas Kozeniesky, USA Shooting, 2x Olympian
Lucas has come back to tell us what he's been up to for the last 15 months! We had Lucas on the show back in November of 2018 and since then he has won a National Championship, Pan American Championship, and qualified for the 2020 Olympic Games!
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Kaito Streets, Japan National Fencing Team, Olympic Hopeful
Kaito is an Olympic Hopeful for the Japan National Fencing Team and has spent some time on Team USA as well. Kaito has 2 US National Championships AND 2 Japan National Championship! He graduated from Penn State University and while there he won an NCAA National Championship and was a 3x NCAA All American.
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Jon Fish, USRowing, 1988 Olympian
Jon talks about how he developed his inclusive leadership and decision making style as an athlete representative, elected by athletes to:
Serve as athlete liaison at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics
Work with athletes as Vice Chair of the USOC athlete’s advisory council to develop the independent doping agency
Use his financial skills to help build a high performance based, athlete focused financial distribution as USOC budget chair.
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Jon Fish, USRowing, 1988 Olympian pt. 1
Jon joins me to talk about his rowing career and how this whole crazy thing got started! After walking on at the University of Pennsylvania, Jon was able to start training with elite athletes on the Schuylkill River. He missed out on the 1984 games by a slim margin but was able to make it there in 1988.
Jon retired from the sport, but got the itch again in the early 90s where he gave it one more shot to go to the games!
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Lindsey Napela Berg, USA Volleyball, 3x Olympian, 2x Silver Medalist
Lindsey joins the show to tell us about her Volleyball career and the THREE Olympics she had the opportunity to compete in. Growing up in Hawaii, Lindsey played volleyball starting at a young age and was able to be recruited and play in college. Her story on how she made Team USA is amazing and I'm sure you'll enjoy it! She goes over the journey to each Olympic Games and what each of them was like from the atmosphere, the competition, and everything that happened while she was there. We also talk about her professional volleyball career and what her time in Italy was like
Lindsey is now working on The Cuore Project, all-digital programming network featuring films, editorials, and podcasts with the mission to share stories and information to educate and inspire the next generation of female volleyball athletes.
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Leslie Maxie, USA Track and Field, Olympian pt. 2
Leslie and I finish up her story with post career career she has made for herself! Leslie has worked on air for may years, she has been the owner of multiple businesses, and has helped build brands, stories, and athletes!
Leslie spent some time at NASCAR, she worked with Red Bull and their Formula 1 assets, and now works with incredible people to help spread their stories and speaking career.
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Leslie Maxie, USA Track and Field, Olympian
The lovely and wonderful Leslie Maxie joins me to talk about her Track and Field career! She started at the young age of 6 when her older cousins and siblings started and didn't stop until the Olympic games. She ran her first half marathon at 7, set her first World Record at 17, and made the Olympics at 21.
Leslie is a great friend of mine and it was an honor to have her on the show to be able to hear new stories and more about her life.
Look out for part 2 next week!
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Lisa Delpy Neirotti, George Washington University Professor
Lisa Delpy Neirotti joins me to discuss her life working in and being apart of the Olympic Games. Lisa has been to 19 Olympic Games and a multitude of other "mega events" giving her a unique perspective to what it takes to get these off the ground. Lisa is a professor and program director at George Washington University where she shares her experiences with students to allow them to learn through her life.
Since 1992, Lisa has been bringing select student to the Games to see what it's like at the worlds biggest stage!
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Kate Ziegler, USA Swimming, 2x Olympian
The incredible Kate Ziegler joins the show to tell us about her journey through the swimming world. Kate started her international career at the age of 15 and eventually broke the longest standing world record a few years later. Kate made multiple Olympic Games in her career and is now currently a high performance coach!
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Kris Freeman, US Ski Team, 4x Olympian
In our first episode of 2020 we are honored to have 4 time Olympian Kris Freeman on the show! Kris was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 19 and was told he would never make it to the Olympic Games. He sought out other opinions and was able to find a doctor willing to help him control his disease enough to make it to the games...4 times!
After Kris's retirement from the US Ski Team, he decided to try his luck in another endurance sport. Kris is now a professional triathlete running Full Ironman Triathlons.
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Sage Donnelly, USA Canoe & Kayak, Olympic Hopeful
The amazing Sage Donnelly joins the show to talk about her living her life out of a Canoe and a Kayak! Sage has been in in a kayak since was 2 years old and her resume reflects that. She is a multi-time national champion in Freestyle and has been competing internationally for a few years, and considering she is 19, it's been a big portion of her life.
Sage was also diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 3 and then celiacs and hypothyroidism later in her life. While she has been crushing it on the river she has had an extra obstacles that she has been able to overcome with ease!
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Hannah Roberts, USA Cycling, BMX Freestyle, Olympic Hopeful
Hannah Roberts, 18 year old BMX Freestyle phenom, joins the show to talk about how excited she is for the sport she loves to be in the 2020 Olympics! Hannah has been competing in Freestyle for over half her life and is consistently on the podium. Hannah is currently number one overall in the world and barring something unforeseen, will be going to the Olympics in July!
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Chris Helwick, USATF, Decathlete, Olympic Hopeful
Don't call it a comeback! Chris Helwick joins the show to talk about is history within the track and field space. Chris retired in 2012 from his sport, but he was able to find himself and understand what it takes to be a top level athlete. Sometimes they say youth is wasted on the young, and this may be a spot where that quote works the best. Chris is currently training for the 2020 Olympics and has a very legitimate shot to make it!
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Grant Parr, Mental Performance Consultant
Grant Parr joins the show to tell us what it's like working with some of the best athletes on earth to help improve their mental game! Understanding the things you can do better mentally when you are trying to perform your best can be what helps get you over the top!
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World Athlete Series: Ruben Gonzalez, 4x Olympic Luger
Four time Olympic Luger Ruben Gonzalez comes on the show to tell us how he was able to make the Olympic games, and how you can too! Ruben is very humble when it comes to his luge abilities and how he found a sport that is more about tenacity that he could take advantage of.
Ruben is the first athlete to make four different Olympic games in four different decades and is currently training to make five in five!
He is currently is an incredible public speaker and a best selling author of 5 books!
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Christine Reppa, Olympic Sports Agent
This episode we have Olympic Sports Agent Christine Reppa on the show to discuss the new Olympic Guidelines about how athletes can acknowledge their sponsors during the Olympics. This is a huge opportunity for athletes and brands to gain awareness.
Check out more about the rule here.
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Nina Buitrago, USA Cycling, Olympic Hopeful
The unbelievable Nina Buitrago joins the show to tell us about her life as one of the first known female BMX freestyle riders. Nina has done everything necessary to bring women to the forefront of the sport and now she has the change to go to the Olympics and show her sport to the world!
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Madisyn Cox, USA Swimming, Olympic Hopeful
The amazing and wonderful Madisyn Cox joins the show to tell us about her life in swimming! Madisyn crushed it in college at UT-Austin swimming for the Longhorns where she won 12 Big 12 Championships. Madisyn went on to win multiple international medals including a Gold at the World Championships.
In 2018 Madisyn tested positive for a banned substance and was subsequently suspended from competition for 2 years. There was a long legal battle (which is currently still going) about how this substance got into her body. Many things were tested from contact solution to water but unfortunately nothing was found and Madisyn lost. After being suspended for 6 month, they finally found out where the banned substance came from and Madisyn was allowed to compete again.
Hearing Madisyn's experience is a great story in perseverance and continuing to fight.
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Ned Lomigora, Bosnia, Luge, 1994 Olympian
The incredible story of Ned Lomigora is almost unbelievable. He did so much to make it to the Olympic Games in 1994 while his country was in civil unrest.
Please enjoy this episode where Ned tells us the story of how he was able to make it to the Olympic Games under the cover of night.
Ned also tells us a bit about the rest of his life and how he now owns a business in New York City!
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Also make sure to check out what Emma Benner as she tried to become the Best Buddies Champion of the Year!
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Chantae McMillan, USA Track and Field, 2012 Olympian
The amazing Chantae McMillan joins the show to tell us about her life in the Track world. She tells us about the event that gave her the opportunity to join track, when she felt at home in her sport, what college recruitment was like, and adding new sports after a major injury.
Chantae tells us about her experience at the 2012 Olympics and how incredible it was. She goes into the unfortunate event of not making the 2016 Games, even after posting a personal best, and what she's doing to get ready for 2020!
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Reed Trimble, IGNT Consulting, eSports in the Olympics
Reed joins me on the show to talk about the prospects of eSports in the Olympic Games. In 2020, Intel will be holding the Intel World Open the week before the Olympics in Tokyo. This is in conjunction with the IOC to see what the opportunities may be! eSports was also added as a demonstration sport for 2024 in Paris, meaning it may be a medal event in 2028 LA.
Reed and I discuss this on the heels of one of the most famous gamers, Ninja, coming out and saying that eSports will be in the Olympics!
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Roald Bradstock, The Olympic Picasso, USA Track and Field, Olympian
Roald Bradstock, the Olympic Picasso, joins the show to tell us about his incredible career in sports and the arts. Roald was dealt a poor hand from the start needing to overcome multiple ailments as a child, but he grew passed them and to multiple Olympic Games.
He has represented Great Britain and the United States in his years but has not made the Games while training in the United States. He is shooting to be the oldest athlete ever to qualify for an Olympic Trials.
Roald has practiced the arts for his whole life and it was a dream of his to combine the two things he loves the most, which he now has the opportunity to do!
If you know any Team USA members that are also artists, please reach out to Roald and let him know, or have them reach out to him!
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Santia Deck, USA Flag Football, 2020 Olympic Hopeful with USA Rugby
The master of all trades Santia Deck joins me on the show to talk about her Olympic journey! She is a TV personality, talk show host, social media influencer, fitness expert, trainer, model, and incredible Olympic Hopeful!
Santia talks about her life growing up in Houston and how she started her Flag Football career and how that lead her to Rugby!
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Kelly Claes, USA Beach Volleyball, 2020 Olympic Hopeful
The incredible and lovely Kelly Claes joins the show to tell us about her Olympic Dream! Kelly is an amazing Beach Volleyball player that won 3 national championships at USC during college and is now a professional Beach Volleyball player! We discuss everything around her Volleyball career from the crazy way she started, to her decision for college, and what her goals are moving forward.
Kelly is also an avid video game player, Comic Con Conqueror, and loves DND so we thankfully got to discuss all of this, too!
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Kyra Condie, USA Rock Climbing, 2020 Olympic Hopeful
Our first Rock Climber ever joins the show! Kyra Condie joins us to tell us what it's like for her and the rock climbing community to know that it is an Olympic sport for at least the 2020 Games and potentially further!
Kyra talks about growing up and why she loves rock climbing so much. She also talks about how she got into the sport living in Minnesota with very little mountains to think of. Kyra describes the multiple disciplines of rock climbing, how the sport will look in the Olympics, and how her training has changed since she learned the Olympic format. Kyra recently won an event that granted her the opportunity to climb for Team USA and we break down the semantics of what exactly that means.
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Amy Bilquist, USA Swimming, Olympic Hopeful
The amazing and wonderful Amy Bilquist joins the show to tell us about her life in swimming! It's been a long one to say the leas with a few ups and downs along the way. Amy is constantly getting stress fractures in her legs, but she keeps on trucking to becoming one of the best swimmers in the United States.
Amy talks about barely missing the 2016 Olympic games, what it is like swimming for Team USA, and her budding Modeling career!
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Kathleen Sharkey, USA Field Hockey, Olympian
2016 Olympian Kat Sharkey joins the show to tell us all about her life in Field Hockey! Kat does a great job at describing her sport, what she's been able to accomplish, and how much Field Hockey means to her. We go deep into her college career where she was the best Field Hockey player in the history of Princeton University! We, of course, touch upon her international career and what the Olympics were like. Kat is currently in Lima, Peru with the rest of the USWNT to try and secure their bid for the 2020 Olympic Games!
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Alyssa Manley, USA Field Hockey, Olympian
Alyssa joins the show to tell us about her life in Field Hockey and what it means to her! Alyssa has a great story about being relatively know, but once she was finally discovered she rose through the Team USA ranks quickly. She had a great career at Syracuse University where she won a National Championship, she's won multiple Gold Medals with Team USA in international competition, and was on Team USA when they placed 5th at the 2016 Olympics!
With competition a few weeks away, Team USA has their eyes set on Lima with a gold medal and automatic qualification to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on the line. With that, fans and followers can join the conversation and follow along with additional story lines with the hashtag #AllEyesOnLima on social media and usafieldhockey.com. Check back weekly for more stories around USMNT and USWNT athletes, umpires, venue, history and more as the Pan American Games excitement heats up.
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World Athlete Series: Kennedy Justinen, Canadian Snowboard Association, Boardercross, Olympic Hopeful
Our first of many World Athletes to join our show! Kennedy Justinen comes on to tell us about her amazing story and what she's up to on the other side of the world. Kennedy is an amazing athlete and I'm happy to be able to share her story. She is very in tuned with her mental side and this has helped her increase her skills much faster than most!
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Andrew Urlaub, USA Ski Jumping, Olympic Hopeful
Andrew Urlaub joins the show to tell us about his entire life spent in Ski Jumping! He's only 18 years old, but he has been ski jumping his whole life and has gotten pretty good at it!
Andrew explains what it's been like slowly raising through the ranks at USA Ski Jumping and what his plans are moving forward. Hint: it's the Olympics!
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Nahshon Garrett, USA Wrestling, #1 in the USA, Olympic Hopeful
Nahshon Garrett of USA Wrestling and number 1 in the country for his weight, joins the show to tell us all about his amazing life in the sport. Nahshon is wise beyond his years and was an absolute pleasure to have a conversation with. He knows who he is and why he's here among other things.
He tells us about how he got into wrestling, what his career has consisted of, and his Senior year of college when he went undefeated and won the NCAA Championship!
Nahshon almost made the 2016 Olympic Games but due to a slightly controversial call, he did not qualify.
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Tara Geraghty-Moats, USA Nordic Combined, #1 in the World, Olympic Hopeful
Number 1 in the World, Tara Geraghty-Moats joins the show to tell us about her incredible life in skiing. Tara started skiing at a young age and eventually made her way into 4 different disciplines. She started with Ski Jumping, but unfortunately got injured and had to switch to Cross Country Skiing and Biathlon. She then made her way back to Ski Jumping and has now become Number 1 in the world for Women's Nordic Combined.
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Ajai Dhadwal, USA Field Hockey, Olympic Hopeful
Ajai Dhadwal of USA Field Hockey joins the show to tell us about his life in a relatively unknown sport, Men's Field Hockey. He goes into his history of the game starting with his dad playing professionally, the community that has held up Field Hockey in the United States, and what it was like to play professionally for a year. He has been a coach to multiple Female Field Hockey Teams and has used those opportunities to keep himself sharp.
Ajai also explains the international circuit and tells us exactly what the US Men's team needs to do to make the 2020 Olympic Games!
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Staci Mannella, USA Skiing, 2x Paralympian
The incredible Staci Mannella joins the show to tell us about what it's like to ski down a hill visually impaired! She teaches us a lot about the Paralympic Games and tells us what it was like to go to two of them!
Staci is visually impaired and tells us how downhill skiing requires a guide who skis down the hill with her while communicating what's ahead of her and what she needs to do.
Staci teaches us about what real trust and communication is like!
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Taylor Fletcher, USA Nordic Combined, 3x Olympian
Taylor joins the show to tell us about his entire life skiing Nordic Combined. Starting both cross country and ski jumping by the age of 5, Taylor has been able to hone his skills to get him involved in 3 different Olympic Games. Taylor is a very humble and wise gentleman that tells some incredible stories throughout the show to his early days of skiing, to beating his brother for the final spot on the Olympic Team, to what he plans on doing in the future.
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Jared Shumate, USA Nordic Combined, Olympic Hopeful
Jared Shumate joins the show to tell us about his story and path in USA Nordic Combined! Jared has been ski jumping and cross country skiing for a while so he saw an opportunity to put them together! Jared is a Hopeful for the 2022 Games by following the lead of the incredible men and women currently on the team.
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Kelsey Campbell, USA Wrestling, Olympian
The wonderful Kelsey Campbell joins the show to tell us about her career and life in wrestling! Kelsey didn't start until she was 17 and it was on a bet that she couldn't. I think after winning the US Open 5x and going to the Olympics in 2012, she won the bet! Shout out to her dogs for being special guests.
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Chris Mirabelli, USA Track and Field, Javelin, Olympic Hopeful
Chris Mirabelli joins the show to tell us about his LIFE in Javelin. Chris' dad went to the Olympic Trials for Javelin and he did too! Chris suffered an injury which was compounded by finding a heart problem. He was out of the sport for 2 years but is back now and better than ever!
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Casey Larson, USA Ski Jumping, Olympian
Our friend Casey Larson joins us on the show to tell us about his life in Ski Jumping! Growing up in Illinois (with all those giant hills) Casey learned how to ski jump and cross country ski. He found he enjoyed flying through the air more than skiing for hours and hours so he stuck with jumping!
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Arielle Gold, USA Snowboarding, Olympic Bronze Medalist
The incredible Arielle Gold joins the show to tell us about her life in snowboarding, why she switched over from skiing, and what it was like to win a Bronze Medal at the Olympic Games! Arielle was a great guest and we got into a great conversation about all the fun stuff she's up to.
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Dalton Roberts, USA Wrestling, Olympic Hopeful
Dalton Roberts of USA Wrestling joins the show to tell us his unexpected jump into wrestling and his determination to make it to the top. Dalton tells us some of the differences in the sport, things we should be looking for, and some personal story of unbelievable domination and awful defeats attached to awkward car rides.
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Gia Doonan, USA Rowing, Olympic Hopeful
The fantastic Gia Doonan joins the show to tell us about her start in rowing, her time at Texas (she brought them back), and what it's been like being on the US National Team! Gia has some great stories and some long days and we're excited to help tell it all.
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