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And it's not just cause she's six, four, right? Like it's no, like, like it's not the just weird tall person walking around.

It's, she's who she is and and she's a big deal and big name it's it's comparable um to jordan larson or uh jordan hooper at alliance like those kind of big where like they are the community like you say those towns and you think instantly oh yeah that's where that girl's from right um so it i that's that's the feeling that i get um with talking to her and and she's great i think she's handled it really really well and again super humble um and she's just trying to have fun right like it's it's hard to do as a kid especially with that amount of pressure um And when I say pressure, I mean, like, she was on USA Volleyball, like, traveled twice, you know, was gone this year from her team for a little bit.

And assimilating back, that can be hard.

There can be some jealousy stuff or, like, you know, oh, of course she'd play more and she wasn't playing and all of that.

in a row! Rio, Tokyo, and now Paris! USA!

Coming to you from the Olympic City, Colorado Springs, Colorado, this is the USA Volleyball Show.

And here's your host,

Hello and

welcome to the USA Volleyball Show, the official

podcast of USA Volleyball.

I'm your host, Stephen Munson.

And today we have a very exciting guest for you lined up.

You know, we were talking about this as we were watching the match.

And I think one thing to point out, and I think this makes a big difference is Jamie was the head coach of Netherlands I believe so he has quite a bit of international experience and he was a scout for USA Volleyball and I think that international experience in terms of developing players and just seeing the game in a different way.

has really helped him bring that to his college team.

Yeah.

The new card, I believe, I'm not sure exactly when it started.

It was pretty recently that it was added with USA Volleyball.

But the new card is the purple card.

And the purple card is actually for spectators and for parents.

John helped coach Team USA to Olympic gold in Beijing and later as head coach, led the US men to bronze in Rio and Paris.

Today, He is the president and CEO of USA Volleyball, leading our sport into what could be one of its most exciting moments yet, the 2028 Olympic Games right here in Los Angeles.

What's the most absolutely craziest rally you've either seen or been a part of? What are the top three women's volleyball names that come to mind that we should all be looking out for? So, John, welcome to the Amy Plus Podcast.

Thanks for having me, Amy.

Just for the listeners out here, before we get into it, you are now equivalent to the commissioner of LA.

the NBA, Adam Silver, the commissioner of the NFL, Roger Goodell, the commissioner of Major League Baseball is Rob Manfred.

And now I'm literally sitting here across from the president and CEO of USA Volleyball.

And it is an absolute honor for you to be here.

There's things that AAUs or the Positive Coaching Alliance puts out.

USA Volleyball puts out a lot of things, but One thing I want to mention that you were kind of talking about just a minute ago was I think as coaches we have to build our range.

We have to build our ability to coach skills across a wide range.

We also have to build a wide range of emotional intelligence.

in a row! Rio, Tokyo, and now Paris! USA! Coming to

you from the Olympic City, Colorado Springs, Colorado, this is the USA Volleyball Show.

And here's your host,

Hello and welcome to the USA Volleyball Show, the official podcast of USA Volleyball.

I'm your host, Stephen Munson, back from paternity leave, and it's really good to be back.

Thank you to Curtis and Laura and Bree for holding down the fort with the podcast, and especially a big shout out to Curtis for just... crushing it, filling in as the host, uh, for a few episodes there while I was out.

Anytime.

Yeah.

Um, and I just, I didn't put all the time and energy into, into her and that.

But, uh, um, yeah, I volunteered at USA Volleyball tryouts.

I volunteered to, uh, run clinics and do anything.

Like I d- I just grinded for a long time, and then finally got...

Yeah.

Great stuff.

And now you've coached multiple levels with USA Volleyball.

What does coaching a Team USA mean, T- Team USA team mean to you personally?