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Courtney Thompson

Courtney Thompson

American former volleyball player

Aug 30, 2026

6:15
And then you have other people who have a really awful experience.
6:18
Yeah, yeah.
6:18
I mean, even somebody that did do elective egg freezing is Brooke Boney.
6:24
She is the former presenter of The Today Show.
6:28
She did it at 33 after a breakup.
6:30
She did two cycles, and she's now 39, and she's happily paying her storage fees for her eggs with no plans to use them currently.
6:39
But she loved it.

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12:04
And it's incredibly disappointing, it's disheartening when these women go back and try and use their frozen eggs and they can't.
9:35
[laughs]
9:36
I guess the other side that I was thinking was, I think if you...
9:44
A, a really good team is able to, to get into it and fight and disagree.
9:48
So I'm with you there, Nick.
9:50
I was just thinking if you're sa- if the group's, like, safe enough to do that, right? In kind of that, "Hey, I'm gonna be mad at you, but we're gonna get over it and stay connected," then I think you've really hit the magic.
10:03
I agree if it's too kumbaya, that's not good either.
10:06
Um, and I was only a five because at the end of the day, you're, you are stuck with your family for better or for worse.
14:13
So Courtney, you're gonna steel man why you would strongly disagree that a healthy team culture will lead to more wins.
17:59
Correct.
18:00
But I would also argue to that point, like, if you can find a way to play club volleyball and do school basketball, school tennis, or whatever, the experiences that you learn from an individual sport ... or a different coach or team dynamic, I think all plays into you as an athlete, as a human.
18:21
And if we're specifically talking about the Olympics, it is a long game to make an Olympic team, and your career on the USA team isn't defined by your first season at all, and it takes a long time to...
18:34
There's, like, a big runway for most people trying to figure out the international world, how to train at that level, how to take care of their body.
18:42
So I just think you have time.
18:44
So if you're, you're gaining all this experience, physically you're not as broken down, you aren't resentful, the psychology piece, you're still loving the game in some way, I think all of that would outweigh whatever you would get from the societal pressure to do one.

6 MINS LATER

24:58
[laughs]
24:58
And so we wanna give them the best chance to be the best that they can be.

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