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00:00Okay, we talk about prep. Hard work. Being in the water at any at any point for me

00:07is it can be a difficult thing. Not throw a water polo in there. What is your prep

00:12like just outside of you know Olympic season and what is your prep like been

00:16now knowing Paris is in your future? Outside of the Olympic season for our

00:21team in general we typically like if you're outside of college you play a

00:25season abroad and for me the past I played three seasons abroad. I played

00:30twice in Greece and once in Italy so that you're kind of contracted to a

00:35international team and you're just playing for them and just doing your

00:39best to stay in shape doing your best to compete and learn your opponents once

00:43you get to the Olympics and then while I've been in the Olympic year with this

00:47team it's just been full-on. We have about six hours of practice a day. We

00:53lift in the mornings. We condition in the mornings and then in the afternoons

00:56it's like more pure water polo so it's a lot. It's biking. It's running. It's

01:01swimming. It's water polo. It's legs. For goalies it's a lot of legs and just

01:08doing everything we can putting everything and leaving no stone unturned

01:11so that I'm the best that I can be when I get there and that our team is the

01:15best that we can be.