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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gerald. All right, well we're gonna have to go back
to the drawing board on that one. That's that's an
interesting one. But congrats name. Congrats to Garrett Garrett Old
Gere who it's not Harold, Garyld. It's GARYLD Garold, so
congratulations to him. He's gonna go check out the Good
Guys Car Show. I got two more tickets that I'm
(00:20):
going to give away today four o'clock hour. Don't let
me forget please? Can you? Can you make sure that
I give away those in the four o'clock hour. I
will ask Clippy to send me a reminder in about
thirty four minutes on your netscape. Yeah, okay, that sounds fine,
and we're talking out of you, all right. It is
three thirty nine. Cool thing that's happening now until Sunday
and counts of bluffs right across the river. This is
(00:41):
deyonyx Us Open for Badminton. And this is the second
time I've had a chance to talk about this because
when I first got hired here a couple of years ago,
this was one of the first awesome, big events that
I wanted to talk about as soon as it happened.
And I'm happy to be joined here in the studio
by one of the competitors, Caitlin. Now, it was joining
us here in the studio. Caitlin, thanks so much for
(01:02):
stopping in and talking to us today.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Hi am Marie, thank you for bringing me on. This
is definitely an honor to be on your talk show.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yere, thank you all.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Now, Almaha, Nebraska. You came a couple years ago, right,
and you were here for the US Open. What it
was here before?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Correct, back in twenty twenty three. That was my first
time playing the US Open and that was right here
in Council Bluffs.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, So, I guess my big question for you is
where are you from and did you have kind of
knowledge of kind of what Omaha or Council Bluffs was
like before you actually came and visited.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
So I'm from San Jose in California, near San Francisco,
and the only thing I heard about from Iowa is
that it's in the Midwest and it's not a very
big city. So I wasn't sure what to expect. But
when I came here two years ago, I was glad
that I had the chance to experience Omaha and Council
Bluffs for the first time.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, and you're getting a little bit more of a flavor. Now.
You had to drive all the way down here to done,
so you got away from Council Bluffs a little bit.
The US Open, there's a lot of great players here.
These are players that you'll also see kind of in
the Olympic Games, right, And I'll talk a bit about
that competition. But badman is just an interesting sport to like,
how do you get to a level like this? Right?
(02:16):
Like do you just start playing in gym class one
day and you're just like you fall in love with it?
What was that journey for you, like Caitlin when you decided, Hey,
I think I actually am pretty good at this badminton game.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
To be honest, I was not good when I first started.
I was absolutely terrible, not athletic in terms of badminton
technique or hand eye like coordination, none of that. But
luckily in California and in Northern California, we have a
very big Asian community, so badminton is a very popular
sport amongst like the Chinese and Indians and all the
(02:50):
Southeast Asians as well. So I started when my mom
took our whole family to a local gym because she
was introduced to the sport from her coworker, and so
me and my two other siblings we tried playing for
the first time, and I decided, you know, missing the shuttle,
that's frustrating, but it's challenging, and I think I took
that challenge up and I asked my parents to enroll
(03:12):
me into the sport. And that was when I was
around eight or nine. Oh okay, yeah, so many years back.
But then I think as I started to get more
into training and tried competing for the first few times,
I decided, oh, this is really fun, you know, like
even though I'm not necessarily winning or you know, winning
championships or all that, Like just the excitement of the sport,
(03:33):
see like playing it, you know, experiencing the competition that
made me fall in love with the sport and want
to keep going.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
That is super cool. We're joined by kateln No, who
is a competitor in the US Open Badminton Championships, which
is happening in Council Bluffs, and I gotta be honest,
this was you know, this is at the Mid America
Center and they have four courts set up, so there's
action happening NonStop, and the tickets are really affordable, and
you can find more information online USA Badminton dot org
(04:03):
and they're available on Ticketmaster. Honestly, I think you can
just walk into the Mid America Center while these matches
are happening and get yourself some tickets as well, and
I'll get those times for you when the action begins,
because sometimes you know it's during the day, during the week,
but we'll get you that information. To compete in the
US Open, I feel like you'd have to be really good, right,
So you know, at what point did you start noticing
(04:25):
for yourself in your personal journey that hey, I'm actually
getting much better at this and this is something I'm
going to pursue, and I'm going to travel all over
the United States and maybe even the world to compete
against the best that there is in this sport.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
To be honest, I was ready. I was able to
say like, oh, I wanted to keep playing badminton when
I was in middle school. But being the young little
middle school I was, I was saying that without truly
realizing how much sacrifice I had to put into the sport.
As I grew older, we had a lot of great
role models that you know, competed and rep ended USA
(05:00):
at the Olympics and other big events, and I think
seeing them up there made me realize, you know, like
maybe this is possible for a youngster like me. And
I'm very fortunate to have had parents who support me
even until now, like financially and emotionally, and so I
think once I guarded got like a taste of traveling
(05:21):
for these tournaments, also backed by my personal badminton club
and all that, Like getting a taste for these bigger tournaments,
it made me want to improve more and I think
that helped me break the next level. When I was
a junior player, when I was like fifteen sixteen, that
was when I think I started to see those results.
And then when I was able to get the opportunity
(05:42):
to train overseas in Asia and really see the dominant
countries there and how they train and approach the sport,
I think that was also very inspirational for me.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I gotta tell you, I watched the Olympic badminton stuff
because it's really fascinating, but seeing it in person is
just a completely different experience in general, just to see
the athleticism that's required and the amount of power that
you see a lot of the players hit the shuttlecock
with right. So, you know, I love tennis, I love
(06:14):
racket sports. I watched some paddle. I don't know if
you ever watched some paddle before. It's like super European,
but it's like, man, it's weird. They're in like this
glass box and like they're able to play this sport
against each other. To think that you were just like, Hey,
I'm going to do this and I'm going to try
to be a professional. I'm going to travel around and compete.
Was there a moment also for you where you knew
(06:36):
that you belonged right Because you talk about your journey
getting better having that support system, but at some point
that part of your game, right, like the hand eye coordination,
the power, the athleticism, you have to you know, kind
of develop that to be at this level. So at
what age did you really feel like, all of a sudden,
I feel like I can belong with some of these
top players. And what was that like when you started
(06:58):
to give that confidence and turn that corner for you
in your career.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Honestly speaking, I don't think I even like to this day,
I don't think I'm at that level yet, but like,
for example, when I first started playing international tournaments, I
was probably seventeen or eighteen, and I would get whooped.
So seeing that difference in level really made me motivated
to go back and train harder. And it's not until
(07:22):
recently that probably the past couple of years, one or
two years, where I started to really understand what it
took to compete at the highest level in the sport
and I truly like dedicated mentally, physically, emotionally into the sport,
that I started to really see different results maybe in
terms of like score line and like results. Wise I
(07:45):
wasn't producing those of like a higher caliber, but I
could tell that probably in like game style, our technique,
our strategy. It's not that I'm that far apart. It's
just I need that kind of refinement that the other
players who have played it and competed in the sports
as there were like six or five yeah, have the
I don't.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, it's interesting. Can you stick it? I want to
stick around. We'll do another segment here with Kaitlyn no.
She is a badminton player competing in the US Open Championships,
which is taking place at the mid America or Mid
America Center over there across the river and Council Bluffs.
More on that coming up on news Radio eleven ten
Kfab and Marie Sungner on News Radio eleven ten Kfab
(08:25):
joined by Kaitlin Know who's one of the competitors in
the US Open Badminton Championships that are taking place in
Council Bluffs and is going all the way through Sunday.
And Caitlyn, I appreciate you for being a part of
the show today. I need to ask you know, we
talked about and I asked over the break that you've
been to Russia, you've been to China, You've competed around
the world with some of these players. But you know,
(08:46):
we have almost three hundred people here that are competing.
For people who haven't seen a tournament like this, you know,
how'd you describe what it's like to watch this thing
live and in person?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Oh, it's very different, even for a competitor myself when
I watch it online like on a video stream, compared
to watching it in person. It's completely different in person,
like seeing five hundred kilometer per hourro smashes in person
that shakes you to your bones. That's for sure, very
different in person.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah, I thought at firsthand, and I was super impressed
by just how different that velocity fell and the athleticism
that you would see. I do have the times here today.
The action is continuing now they'll probably go into the
early evening, but if you're interested tomorrow, the action begins
at noon and on Friday it's three pm. Saturday and
(09:34):
Sunday both are scheduled to start at noon. As we
get deeper and deeper into these brackets for the US
Open over there in Council Bluffs. Who are some of
the players, right, Like, you know, you played doubles here
and you know I had a Vincent Chew I believe
was the male's name in Jenny Jenny Guy who was here. Yeah,
(09:54):
and I know that Genny actually ended up making it
to the Olympics right in twenty twenty four. Who are
some of the names that you would think that, hey,
you know, keep an eye on these people if you
want to go and see some really high level badminton.
These are the people that you can go check out.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, for sure. So Jenny Guy you just mentioned, she
just played our most recent Olympics. She's with the new
Mixed doubles partner now Presley Smith, also an American. They're
playing in the mixed doubles event this time. We also
have bab and Jong, who represented Team USA for the
women's singles event. She's definitely an exciting player to watch
(10:29):
as well. She's definitely a role model for all of
us young Americans out there.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
That's so cool that you have the opportunity to kind
of see a lot of these people, and you mentioned
like role model. You're competing in the same bracket as
a lot of these people as well. Is there some
camaraderie there with some of the more experienced and accomplished players,
with some people like yourself who are kind of rising
up the ranks as you try to kind of break
through into that kind of elite status in the sport.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah. I think what makes it gives us that sense
of camaraderie is when we practice together at the tournaments.
Badminton doesn't have a national team and so we only
truly work together as a team and we're out for
these tournaments, so we make sure we watch out for
each other's backs. And I think having the older, more
experienced players who show that and initiate that makes a
(11:17):
difference for us, especially when we're in a foreign country
or in a foreign state. You know, just knowing that, oh,
we have the more experienced players here with us. That
gives us younger ones a sense of security as well
as a sense of confidence that we can play our
game and we can practice and prepare well for the
tournament with someone watching.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Us Kaitlin no who is one of the competitors' US
Open Badminton Championships. If you're in Omaha, you have a
few days that you know there's still going to be action.
I know you're going to be down there. You're going
to be watching a lot of the action down there
in Council Bluffs. But there are some things that you
want to check out, are you You're kind of like
surveying and scott and now some stuff that you can
do here in Omaha the next couple of days.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah. So I was talking with Lizzie of our executive
director of Omaha Sports about what to do in Omaha
and Council Bluffs, and she was giving me a rundown
of the diversity and the culture as well as the
different kind of districts in Omaha. So if I had
the chance, I would love to do like a little
bit of like district topping just or like a little
foodie tour, you know, try to what you guys have here.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah, Lindsay Tousson Brown of course with the Oma Sports Commission,
and they do such great work. The reason we have
the US Open for Badminton is the effect that the
great work of the Omaha Sports Commission here in town
and Caitlin, you being here, I'll give you kind of
an idea just like a last couple of weeks of
college World Series here, and I know baseball is obviously
(12:41):
huge in you know, California also, but to have you know,
all of those people here for that and hearing how
people talk about Omaha, I'm always super fascinating fascinated by
people from far away and they have all this world
experience and they get to come here and get to
kind of get a little bit of that Midwestern vibe.
So for anybody one more last you know, kind of
plug here, we have you know, the rest of today
(13:03):
and they'll probably play for a few more hours today,
but then they're going to have, you know, four more
days of action of the US Open Championships. What would
be your elevator pitch to the people who are out there.
It's just like, you know, really affordable way to kind
of get into some air conditioning, to stay dry and
get a chance to see some elite Olympic level athletes.
What would be your you know kind of pitch to
people and why they should you know, make it out
(13:25):
to check things out at the Mid America Center and
Council Bluffs.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah. So, in from California where I'm from, bampton is
a really big sport and so we truly appreciate baminton
events at this kind of level that is in the US,
especially because you know we're in the Midwest and we
have such a big convention center to host so many
players from so many countries. We have players from China,
from India, Chinese Taipei who have signed up and some
(13:52):
who are here in person. And these players have been
around the world as well, you know, traveling and playing
the sport for a long time. So seeing these this
kind of high competition in like your own Mid American
Center here in Omaha and Council Bluffs, like, I think
that's an opportunity that people should not miss out.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
On one hundred percent. Kaylen, thanks so much for coming in.
This is so awesome. Congratulations that we've done so far,
and good luck with the rest of your career and
it's gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Thank you very much, Emory, all of us for you
in the radio station.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I really appreciate that. All right, And how about that.
Tickets available Ticketmaster. You can just look it up in
the US Open Badminton. It's happening in Council Bluffs through Sunday.
Go check it out. It's an amazing time. Next half hour,
we'll have Senator Deb Fisher joining us on news radio
eleven to ten kfab
Gerald. All right, well we're gonna have to go back
to the drawing board on that one. That's that's an
interesting one. But congrats name. Congrats to Garrett Garrett Old
Gere who it's not Harold, Garyld. It's GARYLD Garold, so
congratulations to him. He's gonna go check out the Good
Guys Car Show. I got two more tickets that I'm
(00:20):
going to give away today four o'clock hour. Don't let
me forget please? Can you? Can you make sure that
I give away those in the four o'clock hour. I
will ask Clippy to send me a reminder in about
thirty four minutes on your netscape. Yeah, okay, that sounds fine,
and we're talking out of you, all right. It is
three thirty nine. Cool thing that's happening now until Sunday
and counts of bluffs right across the river. This is
(00:41):
deyonyx Us Open for Badminton. And this is the second
time I've had a chance to talk about this because
when I first got hired here a couple of years ago,
this was one of the first awesome, big events that
I wanted to talk about as soon as it happened.
And I'm happy to be joined here in the studio
by one of the competitors, Caitlin. Now, it was joining
us here in the studio. Caitlin, thanks so much for
(01:02):
stopping in and talking to us today.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Hi am Marie, thank you for bringing me on. This
is definitely an honor to be on your talk show.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yere, thank you all.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Now, Almaha, Nebraska. You came a couple years ago, right,
and you were here for the US Open. What it
was here before?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Correct, back in twenty twenty three. That was my first
time playing the US Open and that was right here
in Council Bluffs.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, So, I guess my big question for you is
where are you from and did you have kind of
knowledge of kind of what Omaha or Council Bluffs was
like before you actually came and visited.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
So I'm from San Jose in California, near San Francisco,
and the only thing I heard about from Iowa is
that it's in the Midwest and it's not a very
big city. So I wasn't sure what to expect. But
when I came here two years ago, I was glad
that I had the chance to experience Omaha and Council
Bluffs for the first time.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, and you're getting a little bit more of a flavor. Now.
You had to drive all the way down here to done,
so you got away from Council Bluffs a little bit.
The US Open, there's a lot of great players here.
These are players that you'll also see kind of in
the Olympic Games, right, And I'll talk a bit about
that competition. But badman is just an interesting sport to like,
how do you get to a level like this? Right?
(02:16):
Like do you just start playing in gym class one
day and you're just like you fall in love with it?
What was that journey for you, like Caitlin when you decided, Hey,
I think I actually am pretty good at this badminton game.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
To be honest, I was not good when I first started.
I was absolutely terrible, not athletic in terms of badminton
technique or hand eye like coordination, none of that. But
luckily in California and in Northern California, we have a
very big Asian community, so badminton is a very popular
sport amongst like the Chinese and Indians and all the
(02:50):
Southeast Asians as well. So I started when my mom
took our whole family to a local gym because she
was introduced to the sport from her coworker, and so
me and my two other siblings we tried playing for
the first time, and I decided, you know, missing the shuttle,
that's frustrating, but it's challenging, and I think I took
that challenge up and I asked my parents to enroll
(03:12):
me into the sport. And that was when I was
around eight or nine. Oh okay, yeah, so many years back.
But then I think as I started to get more
into training and tried competing for the first few times,
I decided, oh, this is really fun, you know, like
even though I'm not necessarily winning or you know, winning
championships or all that, Like just the excitement of the sport,
(03:33):
see like playing it, you know, experiencing the competition that
made me fall in love with the sport and want
to keep going.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
That is super cool. We're joined by kateln No, who
is a competitor in the US Open Badminton Championships, which
is happening in Council Bluffs, and I gotta be honest,
this was you know, this is at the Mid America
Center and they have four courts set up, so there's
action happening NonStop, and the tickets are really affordable, and
you can find more information online USA Badminton dot org
(04:03):
and they're available on Ticketmaster. Honestly, I think you can
just walk into the Mid America Center while these matches
are happening and get yourself some tickets as well, and
I'll get those times for you when the action begins,
because sometimes you know it's during the day, during the week,
but we'll get you that information. To compete in the
US Open, I feel like you'd have to be really good, right,
So you know, at what point did you start noticing
(04:25):
for yourself in your personal journey that hey, I'm actually
getting much better at this and this is something I'm
going to pursue, and I'm going to travel all over
the United States and maybe even the world to compete
against the best that there is in this sport.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
To be honest, I was ready. I was able to
say like, oh, I wanted to keep playing badminton when
I was in middle school. But being the young little
middle school I was, I was saying that without truly
realizing how much sacrifice I had to put into the sport.
As I grew older, we had a lot of great
role models that you know, competed and rep ended USA
(05:00):
at the Olympics and other big events, and I think
seeing them up there made me realize, you know, like
maybe this is possible for a youngster like me. And
I'm very fortunate to have had parents who support me
even until now, like financially and emotionally, and so I
think once I guarded got like a taste of traveling
(05:21):
for these tournaments, also backed by my personal badminton club
and all that, Like getting a taste for these bigger tournaments,
it made me want to improve more and I think
that helped me break the next level. When I was
a junior player, when I was like fifteen sixteen, that
was when I think I started to see those results.
And then when I was able to get the opportunity
(05:42):
to train overseas in Asia and really see the dominant
countries there and how they train and approach the sport,
I think that was also very inspirational for me.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I gotta tell you, I watched the Olympic badminton stuff
because it's really fascinating, but seeing it in person is
just a completely different experience in general, just to see
the athleticism that's required and the amount of power that
you see a lot of the players hit the shuttlecock
with right. So, you know, I love tennis, I love
(06:14):
racket sports. I watched some paddle. I don't know if
you ever watched some paddle before. It's like super European,
but it's like, man, it's weird. They're in like this
glass box and like they're able to play this sport
against each other. To think that you were just like, Hey,
I'm going to do this and I'm going to try
to be a professional. I'm going to travel around and compete.
Was there a moment also for you where you knew
(06:36):
that you belonged right Because you talk about your journey
getting better having that support system, but at some point
that part of your game, right, like the hand eye coordination,
the power, the athleticism, you have to you know, kind
of develop that to be at this level. So at
what age did you really feel like, all of a sudden,
I feel like I can belong with some of these
top players. And what was that like when you started
(06:58):
to give that confidence and turn that corner for you
in your career.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Honestly speaking, I don't think I even like to this day,
I don't think I'm at that level yet, but like,
for example, when I first started playing international tournaments, I
was probably seventeen or eighteen, and I would get whooped.
So seeing that difference in level really made me motivated
to go back and train harder. And it's not until
(07:22):
recently that probably the past couple of years, one or
two years, where I started to really understand what it
took to compete at the highest level in the sport
and I truly like dedicated mentally, physically, emotionally into the sport,
that I started to really see different results maybe in
terms of like score line and like results. Wise I
(07:45):
wasn't producing those of like a higher caliber, but I
could tell that probably in like game style, our technique,
our strategy. It's not that I'm that far apart. It's
just I need that kind of refinement that the other
players who have played it and competed in the sports
as there were like six or five yeah, have the
I don't.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, it's interesting. Can you stick it? I want to
stick around. We'll do another segment here with Kaitlyn no.
She is a badminton player competing in the US Open Championships,
which is taking place at the mid America or Mid
America Center over there across the river and Council Bluffs.
More on that coming up on news Radio eleven ten
Kfab and Marie Sungner on News Radio eleven ten Kfab
(08:25):
joined by Kaitlin Know who's one of the competitors in
the US Open Badminton Championships that are taking place in
Council Bluffs and is going all the way through Sunday.
And Caitlyn, I appreciate you for being a part of
the show today. I need to ask you know, we
talked about and I asked over the break that you've
been to Russia, you've been to China, You've competed around
the world with some of these players. But you know,
(08:46):
we have almost three hundred people here that are competing.
For people who haven't seen a tournament like this, you know,
how'd you describe what it's like to watch this thing
live and in person?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Oh, it's very different, even for a competitor myself when
I watch it online like on a video stream, compared
to watching it in person. It's completely different in person,
like seeing five hundred kilometer per hourro smashes in person
that shakes you to your bones. That's for sure, very
different in person.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah, I thought at firsthand, and I was super impressed
by just how different that velocity fell and the athleticism
that you would see. I do have the times here today.
The action is continuing now they'll probably go into the
early evening, but if you're interested tomorrow, the action begins
at noon and on Friday it's three pm. Saturday and
(09:34):
Sunday both are scheduled to start at noon. As we
get deeper and deeper into these brackets for the US
Open over there in Council Bluffs. Who are some of
the players, right, Like, you know, you played doubles here
and you know I had a Vincent Chew I believe
was the male's name in Jenny Jenny Guy who was here. Yeah,
(09:54):
and I know that Genny actually ended up making it
to the Olympics right in twenty twenty four. Who are
some of the names that you would think that, hey,
you know, keep an eye on these people if you
want to go and see some really high level badminton.
These are the people that you can go check out.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, for sure. So Jenny Guy you just mentioned, she
just played our most recent Olympics. She's with the new
Mixed doubles partner now Presley Smith, also an American. They're
playing in the mixed doubles event this time. We also
have bab and Jong, who represented Team USA for the
women's singles event. She's definitely an exciting player to watch
(10:29):
as well. She's definitely a role model for all of
us young Americans out there.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
That's so cool that you have the opportunity to kind
of see a lot of these people, and you mentioned
like role model. You're competing in the same bracket as
a lot of these people as well. Is there some
camaraderie there with some of the more experienced and accomplished players,
with some people like yourself who are kind of rising
up the ranks as you try to kind of break
through into that kind of elite status in the sport.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah. I think what makes it gives us that sense
of camaraderie is when we practice together at the tournaments.
Badminton doesn't have a national team and so we only
truly work together as a team and we're out for
these tournaments, so we make sure we watch out for
each other's backs. And I think having the older, more
experienced players who show that and initiate that makes a
(11:17):
difference for us, especially when we're in a foreign country
or in a foreign state. You know, just knowing that, oh,
we have the more experienced players here with us. That
gives us younger ones a sense of security as well
as a sense of confidence that we can play our
game and we can practice and prepare well for the
tournament with someone watching.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Us Kaitlin no who is one of the competitors' US
Open Badminton Championships. If you're in Omaha, you have a
few days that you know there's still going to be action.
I know you're going to be down there. You're going
to be watching a lot of the action down there
in Council Bluffs. But there are some things that you
want to check out, are you You're kind of like
surveying and scott and now some stuff that you can
do here in Omaha the next couple of days.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah. So I was talking with Lizzie of our executive
director of Omaha Sports about what to do in Omaha
and Council Bluffs, and she was giving me a rundown
of the diversity and the culture as well as the
different kind of districts in Omaha. So if I had
the chance, I would love to do like a little
bit of like district topping just or like a little
foodie tour, you know, try to what you guys have here.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah, Lindsay Tousson Brown of course with the Oma Sports Commission,
and they do such great work. The reason we have
the US Open for Badminton is the effect that the
great work of the Omaha Sports Commission here in town
and Caitlin, you being here, I'll give you kind of
an idea just like a last couple of weeks of
college World Series here, and I know baseball is obviously
(12:41):
huge in you know, California also, but to have you know,
all of those people here for that and hearing how
people talk about Omaha, I'm always super fascinating fascinated by
people from far away and they have all this world
experience and they get to come here and get to
kind of get a little bit of that Midwestern vibe.
So for anybody one more last you know, kind of
plug here, we have you know, the rest of today
(13:03):
and they'll probably play for a few more hours today,
but then they're going to have, you know, four more
days of action of the US Open Championships. What would
be your elevator pitch to the people who are out there.
It's just like, you know, really affordable way to kind
of get into some air conditioning, to stay dry and
get a chance to see some elite Olympic level athletes.
What would be your you know kind of pitch to
people and why they should you know, make it out
(13:25):
to check things out at the Mid America Center and
Council Bluffs.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah. So, in from California where I'm from, bampton is
a really big sport and so we truly appreciate baminton
events at this kind of level that is in the US,
especially because you know we're in the Midwest and we
have such a big convention center to host so many
players from so many countries. We have players from China,
from India, Chinese Taipei who have signed up and some
(13:52):
who are here in person. And these players have been
around the world as well, you know, traveling and playing
the sport for a long time. So seeing these this
kind of high competition in like your own Mid American
Center here in Omaha and Council Bluffs, like, I think
that's an opportunity that people should not miss out.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
On one hundred percent. Kaylen, thanks so much for coming in.
This is so awesome. Congratulations that we've done so far,
and good luck with the rest of your career and
it's gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Thank you very much, Emory, all of us for you
in the radio station.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I really appreciate that. All right, And how about that.
Tickets available Ticketmaster. You can just look it up in
the US Open Badminton. It's happening in Council Bluffs through Sunday.
Go check it out. It's an amazing time. Next half hour,
we'll have Senator Deb Fisher joining us on news radio
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