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Callista Balko

Sep 30, 2026

3:32
now with your own kids, but talk about those early years as a youth sports athlete and what that was and what it was in your household with your other siblings and what was that culture like?
3:43
Great question.
3:44
So I started playing around eight years old and I was the youngest of five and surprisingly not the most athletic of the five.
3:53
So I had my oldest brother, 10-year gap, played professional golf and was kind of the driving force in our family from an athletic standpoint.
4:04
So I started at eight, you know, growing up playing against my two brothers.
4:10
They never, this is not a joke, they never let me win.
4:13
So they would destroy me in basketball when we would play in the driveway.

22 MINS LATER

26:19
How does your mental performance come into play there? Overall, just your being in the U of A softball program and Coach Condrea, what's the impact?

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