Hour 1 - August 4, Amy Garelick

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Who are you.

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I'm not quite sure. I guess I'm here today.

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Some guy, you guy recognized me. So that's cool because
you think about it, you know you guys. Well, no,
not this place, but one of the other radio conglomerates
here in town. We used to be tied in with them,
m kagan. So there was a little bit of radio
TV crossover. Oh did you do.

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Some reports or something?

Speaker 4 (00:46):
Yeah, they dragged me upstairs every one second while I
come in and which one. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
I would do some talk shows when you were at
the old West East building.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
Yeah, so that radio there, So yeah, there's there's some
radio connections. Never figured out that side of the business.

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You're here, Ray, don't screw this up.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
I try my best not to.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Because if I do guess who's going to be blamed me.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
I'll take it. I'll bear the load.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Hey, Welcome to Monday. It's going to be a kind
of an emotional day, at least in the first hour.
We all know that we heard the news, right, Kelly Pierce,
the great Kelly Pearce winning Kelly Pierce passed away over
the weekend surprisingly obviously just forty four south Point State
champion times six right two as a player for as

(01:36):
a coach. So we'll talk about her with Amy Girlik,
one of her former mentors at FC Tucson, a former
coach with the FC two soon.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
Yeah. I mean she's been part of the Tucson youth
soccer scene really, like you said, as a player in
the late nineties, so really twenty five plus years. Yeah,
part a round and think of all the players that
you know she's been around and coached and helped them.
Oh yeah, this worries have been coming in all, you know,
all weekend long since this news broke.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Right right, unbelievable the news that early Saturday morning, and
everybody writing their tributes and thoughts. So we'll talk to
talk to Amy about her at three seventeen and then
at four seventeen, we're going to have Lamont love it
obviously one of the analysts for you a football on
the radio on the other side by the same station

(02:25):
you you were doing your stuff for the other one,
really fourteen ninety yeah, okay, oh ESPN okay, cool. So
he's going to be on talking about his thoughts about
this year's season. I haven't done to practice. But also
I have no idea just reading what other people are writing,
and you know, it is what it is.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
Yeah, and how much are they letting the media see Well,
apparently apparently they're letting them see it all. They're going
to get to stay and watch, but you can't. You
can't tweet her film.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Really, I guess maybe you can the first part first,
you know them do and jumping jecks or whatever. Yeah,
but that's that's an improvement from the years past, you know,
not for full chance transparency, but at least you'd get
to see what you know, what your eyes tell you.
And I say that because sometimes who who knows what
they're doing right? They're tackling and hitting and.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
Yeah, that was always one of the great mysteries for
us is we would get you know, limited access in
that you know, we don't even know what we're shooting. Well,
we want to do a story on one person, and
we're gonna shoot one part of his workout, and you know,
we don't know if you guys are doing a trick play,
and even if we do, I don't know. It was different.
It was interesting balance trying to get something out of

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those practices.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
I saw today. I don't know who tweeted it. Maybe
he was justin or somebody that that Noah had his
best workout of the so far of the week.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
I guess I.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Said, Okay, what's today? What does it mean today? You
could have twenty of them and you play against teams, right,
you play against teams you're gonna play against on the roster,
and that's when you have to worry about it. And
we all know he's good. What's the point that we're
doing really well here? Yeah, tell tell us how he's doing,
you know. August twenty fifth, Yeah, he's the week of

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the week of and everything. It is what everybody's grasping
for something.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
Well that's sells tickets and there's interest. This is the
time of year where that all kind of comes into
play too. So they need to have you know, a
good positive coverage.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, well, which brings your tickets a statement to me
that I need to ask about what's the tickets situation like,
which means that I have to get a hold of
an administrator. We've had them in the past to talk
about fan engagement, what they have planned, although they've sent
some issues, but they haven't talked about tickets, right, And
nothing says success other than how many tickets you've sold

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and how many people will be in the building.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
I'm you know, they would give us that number usually
like this time of year. Oh you know, we've sold
twenty five thousand. Oh you know, we're hoping to get
thirty I mean that kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
So I don't know, you know, yeah, we'll find out soon.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
They've got seven home games, they've got you know, yeah,
a bunch early on, So it's going to be an
interesting barometer. See who's who shows up.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
So let me ask you, because you're you've transitioned a
long time ago, in fact, because you're I don't are
you a fan? Yeah, of course I've asked you that before.
I just wanted to make sure I'm not speaking out
of turn. When you and you go to the games, right,
you have seasons occasionally, I don't.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
I do not. Well, you know, she go to you know,
three four a year.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Okay, so when you go, you, you and and whomever
goes with you. Are you a fan? One and two?

Speaker 4 (05:26):
What are you looking for? Competitive game? Okay? It's really
you know, I'm I'm a fan for sure. I'm looking
to see how the fans are engaging reacting to it.
I like just to see how the UFA presents the
whole night, whether it's you know, with a band or
with you know, the goofy promotions, you know, the PA announcer.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
So on a scale of one to ten, if they win,
how happy are you?

Speaker 4 (05:52):
I'm happy to ten, sir. Yeah, you're listening to my question.
When they win, you know, I ten, it's good, Okay,
it's always, especially now that there's only nothing I have
to do about it.

Speaker 5 (06:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
And when they lose just one to ten.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
It's kind of embarrassing because then all of a sudden,
I'll start getting, you know, the text from my friends
out of town, like what's wrong with that team? How
come they can't beat you know, NAU stuff like that.
So that's where you have to start defending the place, right, So,
I mean I'm still you know, and even when I
was doing the TV thing, that's kind of how you felt.
You felt more positive after a win.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
Sure, but you have nothing to do with that, have
nothing to do with it but now but now, and
you work for them, so that kind of had some kind.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
Of baby yeah for sure. And you run into people
and that's all they want to talk about, is you
know what's wrong with the football team? Right, they're great
or you know there's a new coach going to be
So that was but that's coming from a distance when
people aren't in town and they don't get to But
nowadays you can really follow It doesn't matter where you are.
You can follow the news pretty much, I mean, because
none of us are there right instantly. Right.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
So and Ray, Ray, you're a you're you're a student,
so you can be a fan. You're allowed to. You
don't see way here, which is great for you because
I know, how was a saw Quan says, says, we
every now not as much as you did when you
first started working here. When they win, how high, Well
you kind of work in the building too.

Speaker 6 (07:10):
Yeah, I'd say, yeah, when they win, it's like definitely
an eight or above.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
Obviously, you know there's teams that you're supposed.

Speaker 6 (07:16):
To be like, uh kind of you talk about that
New Mexico game a lot, I think, and it's it
was similar to that where it's like, I mean they won,
so like you're happy, but it's like you could see
the problem like issues starting to kind.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Of bubble up, right, and then when they lose.

Speaker 6 (07:30):
It just depends on how they lose. Colorado Colorado, Oh yeah,
that was a tough one. But I think about Washington
is like, well that wasn't you know right right?

Speaker 2 (07:38):
No, it gave you hope, that was but that was
two different teams too.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
Yes, yeah, for sure.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Colorado last year like, oh yeah that was and you
were done. You were done in the first fifteen second. Yeah,
that was a tough one. That was a tough one
to sit there.

Speaker 7 (07:49):
One.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
I'm sure you went to Colorado.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
No you didn't, did I don't.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
It was a big kid too.

Speaker 4 (07:54):
I just you know, I just like, like I said,
if it's not competitive and the defense isn't stopping anybody,
and you know, like that New Mexico game, you know
what was the final sixty two to forty or something,
it was like is the defense going to stop anybody.
You know, I don't know those those games bother me
or you know, when you're the favorite and you just
don't play up to your potential, right right. That's kind
of just been sports in general too.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
And that was kind of the precursion to the whole season.
You know, you're gonna have the squad of points to win,
and if you don't, you're not gonna win a lot
of games.

Speaker 4 (08:22):
Where is the team the year before that, kids score
a lot of points.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
It's much more balanced, right right, So we'll talk a
lot about that with Lamont. I love it. Here on
the other side of four o'clock, we have breaking news too, right,
there's some stuff going on as well. Oh yeah, yeah,
what else going on?

Speaker 4 (08:38):
And the hang with you me? Yeah, summers almost coming down. Yeah,
schools are starting, the kids are all going back to school.
The grand kids. Oh yeah, kind of a sad time.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
It's empty, empty tests, but you already have empty desks,
but you yeah, yeah, the grand kids locally. Yeah, two, here,
I guess what you're you're you're freeing up your time
for me, you bet you?

Speaker 4 (08:57):
Yeah, still got to do that pick up even left. No,
that's good I'm looking forward to. You know, it's it
is kind of just a refreshing time of year too,
where except for the hundred refreshing in terms of the
sports kind of restarting. There's football coming, you know, there's
gonna be a game every day pretty much the summer.
I mean, there's high schools to think about. We'll have

(09:19):
more interesting guests for this show. Mister mister Atlas here,
he's already melting. Yeah, it's uh yeah, it's rough outside.
Well I don't go out, yeah, you know, yeah, we
don't have a toll. We don't have a tunnel for her.
The pools are the pools still works? Well, yeah, good
for you. No, I'm looking forward to him. But I
I even watched some of that Hall of Fame game

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the other night, just just because and it was on,
and you know, there's nothing else on that night. There
was only one baseball game. So I don't know.

Speaker 6 (09:48):
It's a time of year, right, good, good time, get
exciting stuff. I mean, I'm definitely looking forward to that,
to that week zero, those matchups.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
The thirtieth I think it is, right August three week
for twenty third twenty.

Speaker 6 (10:02):
I think, so, yeah, that's when the Dublin game happens
between Iowa and k State because I think the week before,
like that same week that Iowa State in Kansas State
plays Stanford and Hawaii, you're going to play too, okay,
So I mean, you know.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
And then there's gotta place Hawaii the next week.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
Yes, okay, get a little early look at them. M hm.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
That'll be good for Arizona. I gotta get a chance
to see what.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
Yeah, well, I don't know. I always think it's you know, being.

Speaker 6 (10:28):
A fan of like like you know, San Francisco teams
for the most part, So like when the NFL comes around,
you know, it's kind of nice one of your team's
on the bye week because then you have to worry.

Speaker 4 (10:37):
You don't have to worry about anything. You know, you
could just really just watch in peace.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh, I forget. You're one of those You're one of
those guys that gotta worry about my team. You know what,
I don't worry about my team.

Speaker 4 (10:49):
Just have a team to worry about, which yourself. Just
go no Cowboys, No, I don't.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
I've lost faith nineteen ninety seven?

Speaker 4 (10:58):
Was I lost faith in that? Yeah? At first game,
Like you mentioned the Dublin game, that's the first one.
Nine o'clock Tucson time. Iowa say k State, and there's
a game in Vegas. There's a game in Lawrence, Kansas.
The president of state in Kansas. Who's the Vegas game?
Uhus Idaho State and un l V. So it's the

(11:18):
UNLV home opener. I guess obviously. But yeah, then you're right. Stanford,
Hawaii is like the afternoon game. Did you follow munch
of the Stanford coach what's his name?

Speaker 2 (11:28):
He was fired? Eventually, there's a lot of changes at Stanford.
I've given the head coach the A D. Luck is known,
is it Luck? No?

Speaker 4 (11:37):
No, But then they just hired the new athletic director
had a Nike.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Business baby, you know, some business acumen. Well, didn't the
PAC twelve hire the guy from Vegas? And he was
like an MGM guy like Scott Yeah, no, no, no,
the ore the guy his replacement, Larry is from the
International Tennis Foundations. Yeah, what was his name?

Speaker 4 (11:56):
His name?

Speaker 3 (11:58):
That guy.

Speaker 4 (11:59):
Yeah, he's gonna go down in history unfortunately, both of them.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah, Larry is the one that kind of uh shot
the body and George is gonna buried the body in
the woods.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
Ack it up.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Oh God, not to laugh, but you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
crazy time, crazy time time.

Speaker 4 (12:18):
There's a bunch of games on Thursday that week too. Yeah,
I mean my SDSU astexts were playing even Stony Brook, Okay,
whatever that is.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, it's a small small town, small school San Diego
status or who is?

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (12:31):
Yeah, why is SDSU playing that early.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
And against that team? I guess give him breakfast pay
got a payday.

Speaker 4 (12:39):
And Missouri plays that day, Oklahoma State plays Houston. So
a bunch of big there's always that's only gonna be
Big twelve games since it's like how many teams three
weeks to getting away almost in August twenty exciting eighth
the things that excite the kids these days, looking ahead,
we could start previewing those games.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yes, yes, in fact, we'll start doing some of that
with although I realize why, I started to really really
get some of the the opponents, the beat writer people. Yeah,
so start talking about what's coming up from the Big twelve.

Speaker 6 (13:09):
We'll see it's gonna be good stuff right around the corner.

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Speaker 1 (17:31):
Steve Rivera He's got his eye on the ball on
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Speaker 2 (17:40):
Hey, welcome back to my I'm the Ball here on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Roverta. In today with
me is Dave Silver.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
Now on the phone.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
We have Amy Girlik former FC two soon soccer coach,
uh for the women. Amy. How are you?

Speaker 14 (17:55):
I'm good?

Speaker 7 (17:56):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (17:56):
We're fine? Thank you? Thanks for joining us. Pably heck
of a tough weekend for everybody who knew Kelly. Kelly Pearce.

Speaker 10 (18:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (18:06):
Her, her legacy and.

Speaker 7 (18:13):
Connection to the Chuson community.

Speaker 14 (18:16):
Is wide and deep and high.

Speaker 7 (18:21):
It is She's she grew up She's a Tuson kids.
She grew up here and transitioned from a player to
a coach and.

Speaker 14 (18:33):
And has beyond impacted probably even what she bought. Her
impact to the Chuson community, not just even the soccer community,
but the Tucson community at large.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
So many kids came came across her, her leadership, her style,
What what made her so special? In your opinion?

Speaker 7 (18:57):
I think her love of the game and ultimately her
love of people.

Speaker 14 (19:04):
And she was a spirit competitor, and and that bled
into how she loved people and kids, especially players of hers.
They they were they were just her, her next of kin,
and she had their three boys, and and.

Speaker 7 (19:24):
Then her players were her the rest of her family.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Did you listen to the thing I sent you earlier
her last show?

Speaker 3 (19:33):
I did? You did?

Speaker 14 (19:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (19:36):
So I asked her, I asked.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
Her what David said just now, like what her secret sauces.
And I said to her, and you're a coach, because
I'll ask you if you were one of her mentors,
if not the mentor, because you she took over for you,
right or f she Tucson, but that her championships were
not by accident. I mean, you win one, okay, whatever,
but she won a number of them, and that doesn't
happen by accident. So the people who played for her,

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the girls who played for must have either respected the
hell out of her, trusted her, or or afraid of
her or whatever, you know, because what she had was
honestly magical but kind of.

Speaker 14 (20:12):
Yeah, you know. And I think there's a combination of
all of those. And I certainly don't think fear was
a factor of that. I think her players played for
her because.

Speaker 7 (20:23):
They loved her, and it was just a reciprocal relationship
that you know.

Speaker 14 (20:30):
They knew how much she loved them, and they wanted
just to play their hearts out for her. And and
as you said, you know, one championship is great. When
you win six, it's certainly going on the realm of
a dynasty.

Speaker 7 (20:49):
And that's what she created. And to be a coach
and to win so consistently.

Speaker 14 (20:54):
And successfully as a testament to her coaching ability and
the way the players just wanted to play for her.
And what you saw with her teams is minute her
style as a player. I got to coach her for several.

Speaker 7 (21:12):
Seasons with St. Twos on Women's team, and.

Speaker 14 (21:18):
I will say that the success of St. Twos on
Women is largely dependent on on Kelly's stamp of that program.
And as she began as a player, her tenacity, her competitiveness.

Speaker 7 (21:34):
And her will to never give up and set the
tone for our program.

Speaker 14 (21:43):
And uh, and here we are. You know, ten years
later you have players playing for St. Twos on women,
players playing.

Speaker 7 (21:50):
At style point.

Speaker 14 (21:52):
But she impacted not just as a coach, but out
from her playing ability.

Speaker 4 (21:57):
It's hard to believe. I keep thinking about the numbers
of the numbers of players and how you know, things
probably started for a lot of these girls when they
were freshmen, or even before they even got to sell Point.
But to go that run of like you said, the
six championships over what was it seven years or eight years?

Speaker 2 (22:12):
In fact, that she's in her last just a couple
of months ago. And I'm sure you heard this because
she won't fit a second the year before, I'm singing
she probably missed us because she always wins, always said
she's always winning, and she hit the skipper year because
she didn't.

Speaker 4 (22:24):
She didn't, which is amazing. You know, the system that's
there at soell Point, it's able to you know, is
able to put that together. I guess you have to
give her a lot of credit for just keep it
going because a lot of coaches, some coaches may want
to retire or leave or whatever. But she was there,
you know, through thick and thin. The credit to her,
no question, you know.

Speaker 7 (22:42):
And I think as a coach, a lot of it
is staying out of.

Speaker 14 (22:46):
The way of the success of players. And she had
great players that played for her. But when you are
coaching young women, there is a tendency to have a
lot of egos and personalities and at and Kelly was
able to mold that in one direction and it was

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for and you know, winning a state championship, playing for
each other, playing for something bigger than themselves. And you know,
I think that's a testament if you look at her
GoFundMe and the community wants to support her, they want
to support her family, her boys, and she touched so
many people's lives.

Speaker 7 (23:28):
It's incredible.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
It's I'm sure you follow her on Instagram, right, you probably? Yeah,
I guess you know, we started following each other maybe
a few months maybe after the interview, and just today,
Today's Monday. It had to be today, this morning, if
not last night. Her one of her things popped up,
like you know, and it was it was be grateful
for what you have, and and it was just like

(23:52):
eerie that you know, she was always she loved those boys.
She loved those boys, and she was working her butt
off on the field. And then we're that it was
just like how ironic. Just take take advantage of the
things you have and and be grateful for what you have.

Speaker 10 (24:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (24:09):
I think that the legacy that that she is going
to leave is leave everything better than you found it.

Speaker 7 (24:19):
And and that's what Kelly did.

Speaker 14 (24:20):
I mean, just with her work ethic and.

Speaker 7 (24:25):
Just her her sheer will to to overcome.

Speaker 14 (24:30):
Obstacles in life and be the absolute best that she
could be. And whether that was a coach, a mom,
a mentor, and a daughter, that's what she did and
it's pretty phenomenal just as a colleague to watch her

(24:51):
stamp and on the community.

Speaker 4 (24:55):
She has set an amazing example. You know, it's going
to be hard to follow her, and she's somebody were
all going to remember and look up to. But I mean,
what an incredible short life she had.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
Them right well, you know, if you listen to the
thing today, she talked about her mom and obviously they
must have a great relationship because I guess her mom
was cooking for the team and doing some things when
she was, you know, for the girls. I don't know,
she was must have been a great cook because she'd
had the meal before the game.

Speaker 14 (25:22):
Yeah, you know, her mom and grandmother were at every game,
just even from her playing days to coaching, her mom
was at every game, her biggest fan. Her family was
such a huge part of her life and who she was,
and she just included everyone in that family. So it
wasn't just blood, it was whoever she came in contact

(25:43):
with became a part of her family. And that's the
that's the testimony.

Speaker 8 (25:50):
To who she was.

Speaker 14 (25:51):
And obviously the way her family, her mom and dad
brought her up to just a veella and embrace so
many young women.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
One of the things that I noticed after all these years,
because she was almost a reluctant success. And I say this,
she loved success, but kind of like almost our shucks,
you know, because she she she came on the on
the on the show because it helped promote women's soccer,
YadA YadA, and we'd joke back and forth. But she
was almost to a shy of being dry, you know.

(26:26):
And and I was told that sometimes she didn't like
her picture taken or doing interviews because it wasn't about her.
So me knowing that, I like the needle even more
because she felt uncomfortable. But she's had a dry sense
of humor, correct.

Speaker 7 (26:41):
She sure did that.

Speaker 14 (26:42):
She had an amazing sense of humor.

Speaker 7 (26:45):
And you know, I think it goes back to humility.
I don't.

Speaker 14 (26:49):
I don't think it's you know that she didn't want
I think it was just just her humility and and
being thankful and grateful for every opportunity that came her way.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
So you coached her in the past and she took
over for if she two sons for you? Correct?

Speaker 7 (27:09):
Yeah, so yes, she did.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
So were you a mentor for her? Or how did
she think of you?

Speaker 10 (27:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (27:17):
I would think so, yeah, I yeah, we coached together
and had lots of you know, lots of conversations about
players and teams. And but Kelly surpassed me long ago
in her success and her ability to impact the game,

(27:40):
her tactical knowledge.

Speaker 10 (27:42):
She yeah, she I.

Speaker 14 (27:47):
Would say that she probably now would would have been
a mentor to.

Speaker 4 (27:51):
Me, Dave.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
So if you coached her a number of years ago,
and she was very successful as a player, obviously we
know that went to Pieman had success there too. Uh
did you see I don't sure you did her becoming
a coach because of what what did you see in
her back then? That would make her a good coach?

Speaker 15 (28:11):
Uh?

Speaker 14 (28:13):
She was a leader, not by what she said all
the time, which she was a very vocal leader, but
her example. She was the mama, and everyone followed her
and everyone wanted to be a part of Kelly's world.

(28:33):
And uh, and then you you couple that with her experience,
her love of the game. She was always playing always learning,
getting better, and and so that she was a natural
leader and a natural it was a natural transition from

(28:55):
player to coach.

Speaker 7 (28:56):
And she really still always played. But yeah, she has
you know, a couple.

Speaker 14 (29:02):
Of club teams that she was coaching this year. I
know those girls all devastated. Her high school team is
its heartbroken and uh and then her boys and family,
and it's she She will be truly missed and there's

(29:23):
a huge hole in in those boys lives and girls lives.
And yeah, for for the Tuston community to come around
and rally her, you know, around her and her boys.
You know, it's I don't think there's anything that she
would have wanted more.

Speaker 4 (29:44):
It's gonna be tough. I mean school starting has literally
like this week or has started. So I'm sure it's
going to be a tough time at South Point.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Can you can you talk about the gofund me? Where
can they find it? Where can people find it?

Speaker 14 (29:57):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 7 (30:00):
If you put in a in the search.

Speaker 14 (30:03):
Bar Kelly Pierce, go fund me, you'll be able to
find that. I think it's sitting just at thirty thousand
dollars right now. It's in a trust for the boys
for younger minor boys. And so yeah, it's on gofund
me Kelly Pierce. And right now we're sitting just at

(30:25):
twenty nine thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
No fantastic, and that party was just started today. It's
even going up as we're sitting here.

Speaker 13 (30:30):
It's yeah.

Speaker 7 (30:37):
Yeah, so.

Speaker 14 (30:40):
Yeah, just praying for coaches, teachers, people to come alongside
the boys. They're gonna they have now become men before
they their time, right and uh right, and so.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
Yeah, okay, well we appreciate your time. Thanks for talking
so much about her, so highly about her too, and
we'll keep an eye on the school fund me a
situation and and and pray for the sons and the family.

Speaker 14 (31:12):
All right, awesome, thanks, you know what, thank you for
the opportunity to just speak about her and her impact
within the community.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Yes, of course, of course, thank you, Thank you, Amy.

Speaker 14 (31:23):
All right, sounds good.

Speaker 4 (31:24):
Have a great one to thank you.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
Amy, Gary a former two son coach, high school coach,
A very good coach. In fact, I'll we talked to
Kelly a few things as she grew up.

Speaker 4 (31:33):
Yeah, yeah, like I said, you know, schools are just
now getting away and you know, it's a shocking news
story over the weekend. So I feel I feel for
those kids as they come back, and you know, maybe
it's a good thing. At least they're going to be
together as teammates and classmates and they can kind of,
you know, cope.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
So you google it pretty easy and it came up
pretty quickly.

Speaker 4 (31:51):
I mean literally type in her name and go fund me,
and it's the first.

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Speaker 2 (36:09):
And welcome back to why on the Ball here on
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got ready at the control here, so he's ready for
some phone calls if you want to send him, If
you have any Kelly Pure stories, that'd be great to
kind of reminisce and to pay.

Speaker 4 (36:24):
Tribute, and then goes, did you you didn't she was?
She was after me.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
Yeah, I was gonna say so.

Speaker 4 (36:31):
I mean I didn't. I didn't have a chance to cover.
I mean I just basically was a spectator throughout these
last fifteen years of her career. So unfortunately I did not.
But obviously the impact she had, and I kept trying
to bring it up, was my gosh, the players that
she has impacted and programs that she's impacted is it's
gonna be hard to replace.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
Right right, And like you were talking about with up point,
what a successful and very successful boys and girls soccer
programs with Wolfgang and h and Kelly and the previous
coaches before Kelly Friedman, I can't remember her first name.
They've had a.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
Lot, yeah, I mean, you know, and it's just all
alongside football success there. I mean, obviously it's a great
sports school and they've had you know, wonderful successes in championships,
and you know, they were just kind of in the
mixture of all that for quite a run.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (37:19):
Yeah, it's pretty impressive, right right.

Speaker 6 (37:22):
Yeah, crazy stuff, crazy stuff I haven't I don't know,
I've never really been around success like that, so I
don't think I get to really speak on it too much.
But yeah, you would imagine that the players that played
for her, the players that were going to play for
her this year, probably are just like you know, one devastated,
but too probably like reminiscing, like.

Speaker 4 (37:42):
Like you know.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
Well, she talked about this in our last interview here
on the show right after they won the title, because
she had won five or six whatever it was six total,
but they had finished second last year, and I was
giving her a little grief about that, because you know,
she's always on after a victory, after a title, and
she says, well, they're going to be young, but very
very good next year because a lot of the girls

(38:04):
came or to be back, so she was looking forward
to that. She was always she was always knocking on
wood because she didn't want to jinx herself. In fact,
she I asked her what about next year? She says,
can we just enjoy this one for out? Well?

Speaker 4 (38:14):
I mean, you know, talk about just the run that
they had. There were just about everybody's winning a state
championship every year you go through your goals high school career. There,
I'm sure there were some players obviously some players who
won four straight. Right, he's winning you know, six out
of seven?

Speaker 2 (38:27):
Yeah, yeah, And I could talk about secret sauce all
the time. You could tell that she's fair, tough, and
UH had them hard, working hard, because that's kind of
who she was.

Speaker 4 (38:40):
And you want to keep that thing going, you know,
you don't want to be at school or that team
that loses, you know, loses the streak like sometimes you know,
the Wildcat basketball falls into that situation.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
Not to put these to make the apples to apples,
because it's not. Because I asked the question of Amy,
just what do you.

Speaker 4 (39:00):
Bind me? Try a little conclusion or analogy? Uh for Loot?

Speaker 2 (39:04):
When when when you cover Loot? I cover Loot for
a long time. What do you think his six secret
sauce was. And I'm gonna try to circle back. His
system was so set in stone, if you will.

Speaker 4 (39:20):
And I always joked that, like, you know, he would
always go get the person he needed to get to
keep it going.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
And didn't have to be this five star dude. He
could just the guy who fit.

Speaker 4 (39:30):
Yeah, he would go get I Like we've joked even
on this show a few times. So you know, he
needed that six foot six forward who'd get some rebounds
but didn't need to score, and he would go find him.
And he was such an amazing recruiter that way.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
Like the Rayo is the Michael Wright, the guy who's
like undersized but off.

Speaker 4 (39:45):
It never dropped off, it really didn't. I mean every
year they have, you know, the top five recruiting class
in the country, and let's just see how it works.
Here's here's where I was gonna go with it.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
Uh And a number of people pull that I interviewed
for the books and stuff in the store was that
you played hard for Luke because it was like playing
for your grandfather and the one you got, the one
guy you don't want to disappoint is your grandfather. You
know what I'm saying, or your dad. You know what
I'm saying, you play hard. That's why so many good
kids with who are sons of coaches, know so much

(40:17):
because they know so they're around the game. I think
with Kelly it's the same type of thing that they
respected her so much, and Amy kind of talked about
that that you don't want to disappoint the coach, and
they didn't want to disappoint her.

Speaker 4 (40:30):
Well, and I guess maybe certainly back to the wildcat
story with basketball is you don't want to disappoint the
guys from the past. You don't want to be you know,
you know, hear it from Pete Williams or somebody from
the you know, the eighties.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
Not that I want to bring this up because the
littles keeps coming here pretty soon. But so in your
time and in my time was two thousand and one,
every four years at least one team got to the
Final fourt you know, eighty seven, eighty eight, two eighty eight.

Speaker 4 (40:58):
To ninety four, ninety four, ninety seven one.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
Yeah, there was something there was you know, it was close.
It was basically with five or six years. Yeah, and
then then in two thousand and it broke it stopped,
you know, sadly, but it was always that turn of success.

Speaker 4 (41:14):
Yeah, well, not that it's not successful now, but to
that success, I mean, I'll ask you the same question,
what do you think the key to his continued success
was a consistency?

Speaker 2 (41:25):
Well to your point, I think you started from day
one fundamentals. You started with the fundamentals. You didn't have
all this stuff, you know, you were doing fancy stuff.

Speaker 13 (41:34):
He had.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
He had ros, he had great assistants who kind of
worked things that he didn't want to do, you know.
And and he was the figurehead, your grandfather, the guy
who knew they's like playing for Dean Smith. It was
Dean Smith, and here it was Ludelson. You don't wanted
to disappoint these guys.

Speaker 4 (41:52):
And he was he could.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
He could make him play how he wanted to play
because he had that in him and just a very
smart guy. I kind of said this all the time
in the stories I've written and when people ask me
about it for stories. He had this presence. You walk
into a room and you knew it was Ludelson, right
and you and he could command the room without even
saying anything. I think that's how the players looked at

(42:15):
him too.

Speaker 4 (42:16):
One thing I remember, you know, he's a coach, but
even before that, he was a teacher. And I had
a chance. I had a chance good way back when
late in his career, when they were playing in Orange
County for I can't remember what even what year, maybe anyway,
two thousand and one or and we went to the
school that he taught at and I got to meet

(42:37):
some of some of the teachers are still there that
he taught with, like in nineteen sixty or something, and
they had a book and they had a scrap book
of him. But I'm thinking it all started here. He
was like twenty three years old coming out of you know, Minnesota.
How old were those teachers. Yeah, yeah, it was pretty
It was pretty cool. And that thing, you know what
he's I mean, the bottom line was a teacher and

(42:58):
he was really good at it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
It was not to the degree of wooden word they
put on the socks, you know, everything was same, same
type of thing, uh if you if the really But
the guys talked about him having his little paper of
the schedule of to the minute to the minute, very
punctual on everything they do. And they say after a loss,
oh did they regret that. Oh no, it wasn't gonna

(43:21):
be fun.

Speaker 3 (43:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
And it wasn't so much that he was tough on him.
He just made him do the jewels even better, you know,
he was he was.

Speaker 4 (43:30):
A master with that and that was kind of again,
what made him so consistently good was he didn't, you know,
veer off that system too often.

Speaker 2 (43:38):
Right. I think one of the things that she also
said Kelly did is I think inherent And I didn't
talk to Amy about this now, but and you know
these coaches, probably the Cantreas and the Lopuses, they feel
worse or how is that? How's that phrase? When they lose,
they feel worse than they are happy for a victory, victory,
whatever that phrase is. You know what I'm saying, It's

(44:00):
almost like you don't want to play because you're afraid
to lose, and then when you win, okay, we want
let's move on.

Speaker 4 (44:04):
But those losses just eat at you. That's why they
didn't have very many of them though her You know
what I mean, lou would have those seasons where they
lose you know, five games, and you know he probably
remembered all those, surely remembered. You know, the twenty five.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
You know, as Sean Elliott would say, there was no
guy that he knew, no coach that he knew in
his time who knew exactly what happened during a play
or during a practice that he would throw that back
at you because he would he had a mind of
his when he was coaching. He would say that time
when you know, Sean, I.

Speaker 4 (44:41):
Remember that practice, you know, in December of nineteen eighty five,
My gosh, it was really he would bring up.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
But you know, kind of if it if you know
Sewan had messed up, it didn't happen, probably very much.
So you remember when he messed up. And then one
of the things that he got on the like the
Shawn's one time. I guess he was in the locker
room love got on Sean and the guys. He did
it kind of purposely because if this guy's gonna be
mad at Sean, what about the rest of us?

Speaker 4 (45:09):
That was you must have written that. I remember reading
that story somewhere. There was a quote somewhere along the
line where that story came up. Right, you're right, what
you're gonna pick on your superstar?

Speaker 3 (45:19):
Got it?

Speaker 4 (45:20):
He's gonna really pick on me?

Speaker 2 (45:21):
Then right, But like Sean said, if he stopped picking
on you, you knew you were in trouble because then
that he would kind of like show that he didn't care.
And actually Pete Williams has that. When Pete Williams, if
you probably remember this, got sent home after the Washington
trip when they broke curfew on the verge of winning
the Pac twin for the first time and they lost
on their trip to UC how I think it was

(45:42):
and he said it was the worst feeling ever because
when they had to explain what had happened, Luke didn't
look at him, you know, he didn't look at him,
and it was like the worst feeling. It was like
when you have to explain to your grandfather, I screwed up.
I'm glad I didn't have to do that.

Speaker 4 (46:01):
Those coaches, they demand respect, and you know when they
start winning and producing, like the coaches were just talking about,
that's what they have. They just keep getting good players
and bringing in new talent year after year.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
Yeah, I'm not to compare the two too. It's like
I think Patino has that.

Speaker 4 (46:18):
Where you know they.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
Him, Yeah, yeah, there's a there's a I better not better,
not mess up, better not mess up. And you saw
them tournament last You remember the best shooter or whatever
that guy went to for whatever it wasn't now he's
no longer there. Yeah, party for both sides. Yeah, yeah,
one of those guys. I love you young guys because
you remember names. Yeah, but that guy who are we talking?

Speaker 4 (46:41):
Patino? Patino?

Speaker 2 (46:43):
Yeah, And they had that horrible game and.

Speaker 4 (46:45):
He just had him for the second, like the whole
second half, and they asked him, well, why did you
do that? You guys know why I did it? You know.

Speaker 2 (46:51):
No, he's no longer there, and where do you go?
He went somewhere pretty.

Speaker 4 (46:55):
Good, Yeah he did. Man, you have to google it.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
But you don't kind of like that. You just don't
want to mess up. I gotta keep it rolling that way.
And David, it was a different era. It was a
different generation, you know, the Loots and the Patinos. Because
Patino's like seventy two streets. Ye.

Speaker 4 (47:14):
Well, I mean nowadays you don't like it, get up
and go right, and the coaches are a lot younger.
In the old days, you had to sit out for
a year. He didn't just he didn't just know move
like they do now. It's not even the same. No, no, okay,
went to the Jazz on a two way count.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
Oh really, yeah, he was drafted. God, I thought he left.
He declared to leave, and then he decided to stay.
You say, in the draft. Yeah yeah, okay, So he's
really that's how good, that's how difficult it is to
get into the NBA, right, He's the Caleb Love this dude.

Speaker 7 (47:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (47:48):
Yeah, I mean it's just like, you know, you think,
you know, maybe not like Patino, like maybe like saying
anything about his character or anything like that, but you know,
you have a bad show and then like what you
would think is like one of the biggest games of
his career at this point, and uh yeah, still got
the looks like you know, yeah for.

Speaker 4 (48:06):
So okay, So Caleb Love is going to be, you know,
going to training camp as far as we know.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
Yeah, apparently. I talked to their agent last week. I
asked him if if he could come on and uh,
this is who were you again? This well, this is
how it was put to be. He declined the offer.
Caleb declined the offer, but he's going to revisit it
before the training camp starts. And I said, okay, I hope.
I asked I have enough, not where withal, but let

(48:31):
me see if I care.

Speaker 4 (48:32):
Then I wonder when's that ceremony going to be they're
going to do?

Speaker 2 (48:36):
Oh yeah, the kid put them up in the Ring
of honor. Yeah, I think probably not tell sometime in
the when season Portland comes to play Phoenix. Maybe probably Yeah,
it's him and somebody else. If there's somebody else too,
I don't want to break your news from football. But
but it was somebody else, I think. So I can't
remember Caleb on somebody.

Speaker 4 (48:52):
We'll figure we'll figure out. Ok, Yeah, that's that'll be good.
Maybe that'd be a good time for him to have
some Tucson media time.

Speaker 1 (48:59):
Well.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
I also reached out to a TJ mccallough too, so
we'll see.

Speaker 4 (49:02):
That'd be great.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
Last week so I haven't heard from the pr PR guy. Yeah,
he's always good. Yeah, just a good You could come here,
he could be a co host. I wish, yes, yeah,
only wait from Indianapolis.

Speaker 4 (49:16):
Does he did he marry you a woman?

Speaker 2 (49:20):
I'm not sure he didn't get married, but I'm not sure.

Speaker 4 (49:22):
Yeah, I can't remember if she's a vague girl too,
So we could have some reason to come home, come back.
He's going to be been a dig mathroom. Oh no,
that was yeah, that was two years ago. It wasn't
cook either then.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
No, No, I think there was a second guy, wasn't there.
Maybe we're wrong. What do we know? A bunch of
old dudes.

Speaker 4 (49:40):
What's your name again? We're trying to remember what was
his name again? That's going to be I think, I mean,
you know they brought in with Damian Lillard back to yeah,
the Blazers. But he's going to be some general manager
of Weber State I saw yesterday. Yeah, he's going to
do that now too. So bring what does that mean
for his his day job with the Blazers. Well, he

(50:01):
may not even be ready to do. He's injured for
the year with his with his achilles.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
Yeah, and they're bringing all these look at the Bibby.
Guess who is this guy? Whose guy is Shack? Shack?
All these guys are coming back.

Speaker 4 (50:12):
I got a lot of mileage out of that might
Bibby interview a couple of weeks ago, and.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
Here he's gonna be on again. Really Yeah, because he uh,
he said he was because I talked to him ten
days ago or so.

Speaker 4 (50:23):
He was in Greece.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
I guess doing something, maybe a recruiting, but he was
out in Greece and his daughter, his sister, his daughter,
his daughter, Yeah, god, uh committed to play here at
you a So I asked her to come on. She
said yes, and he said yes, that he'll do that.
But she was too shy to come on by herself.
So he's going to come on with her. And I said,
the apple doesn't fall far from the tree because back

(50:45):
when he was that age, he never talked to anybody.

Speaker 4 (50:47):
He never said a word for like three years, and
then all of a sudden he goes to pros and
you have.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
To answer questions all the time, right right now. He
was terrific on the show, right right, right right, And
we talked about that game right a game that they're
talking about or trying to maybe possibly put the gear.

Speaker 4 (51:00):
Yeah, that would be neat.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
That would be neat, and I would hope they do
it here Vegas. I guess that would be a joshing
if they got the Loudelsen Classic Lose Elves and something.
You saw what they're doing in La right with the
high school team the Ludelsen.

Speaker 7 (51:13):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
Yes, last week high school teams like four teams are
gonna have a you're gonna name it for him or yeah,
Ludelsen Ludelson Classic or whatever in the South South California,
Southern California.

Speaker 4 (51:28):
Really that was, like I mean, as I think about
stories that I covered from the past that kind of
came out of nowhere, that story at his elementary school
was really cool, just to see the impact that he had.
And then there were, like I said, there were like
two or three other you know, teachers who were still there. Yeah,
it's THEE.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
Loud Olsen Legacy Classic Saturday, January tenth, Long Beach City College,
a bunch of high school teams. Yeah, you know, in
his honor. Okay, we got to go right, Yeah, you're
giving me the look. Let's go and come back with
some breaking news.