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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk. I'm Anthony
White along with Larry Vaught, coming to you from clark'srom
Main Street Market Studios and beautiful downtown Lexington, Kentucky, and
we are now proud to be joined by coach Tim
Garrison of UK Gymnastics.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Good morning, coach, how's it.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Going going fantastic? How are you guys this morning?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
We're doing pretty good.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I just want to start off by telling you, Larry
Vaught and I have spent some time with your young
ladies and they are wonderful, entertaining, energetic young ladies, so
we appreciate you for sharing them with the Sunday Morning
Sports Talk team.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Absolutely, you know what. I actually I've listened to the
shows before and it's been fun listening to girls get
out there and have conversations with you guys and spread
the word about UK Gymnastics.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Hey yeah, yeah, it sure has team and hopefully we
can keep doing that with the success that we're anticipating
your team's going to have this year.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Well I like the sound of that. Welcome, welcome to
op or we're open to welcoming to that, that's for.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Sure, Coach A fourteen Jury of fourteenth season, Big home
opener the other day gives Alabama, you guys look good.
And I told Larry Vaught, I'm not making this up.
Not because she she gave you a nine to nine,
but Sharon Lee was one of my favorites. She's one
who at karaoke made sure that I got involved with
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I wanted to or not. So she was one of
my favorites. So I was ecstatic when Larry Vaught said
that she plays well.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, I tell you that was as I go through
and I review meets in my mind and go back
through the scores and just look at look at you know,
the meet event by event, that was one of the
standout routines of the meet without question, stand out stories
of the meat without questions. You're talking about a young
lady who's who's patiently waited her time. She's a sophomore.
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That was her first opportunity to compete, and she not
only goes out there in the third spot and highly
charged environment and a meet that was still in question
at that point and scores a nine to nine in
her debut in competition for UK Gymnastics. It was that
was a special moment I don't think there was a
dry eye on our team. I'm tougher than that, so
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I don't think I had to hear my of course,
but but I don't think there was a dry on
our team. And with great reasons. She's a special young
lady and she had an opportunity. She took full advantage
of it, and yeah, just just just a wonderful, wonderful time.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
You can you talk about some of the performances that
led you guys to victory over number three Alabama some
of the other performances of.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Course, of course, you know, at first, I can't say
enough about the facility we get to call home historic
Moral Colisey and really dresses up nicely. It was, my gosh,
it's just beautiful and what an environment. Obviously a big
part of that was the fan support. I can't go
much further without talking about that. Our team was treated
what was almost a capacity crowd and a highly charged
the atmosphere, and I think it gave us a sizeable
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advantage for we even competed our first rotation, you know.
Moving on to how how our team performed, I think
we had a strong home opener, you know, it came
into the meat as as the number one vault team
in the country and uh were in home rotation order.
We actually get to start on vault, which is which
is an advantage for us, but we still have to
take advantage of we did just that young lady that
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that you know, well, she's been on the show, I
believe at least twice. The Lanny Rodriguez sophomore for US
started us off with a strong performance and then we
closed the rotation with with two nine to nine plus scores,
so uh, you know, it sticks by Mackenzie Wilson and
uh and Isabella Magnelli just just did about about all
they could do well. Obviously the the judges didn't see
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that as as ten oer performances, but uh, I have
my thoughts on that, you know, and they did. They
did amazing work and and up and down the vault
rotation we did, uh, just just solid performances bars same way.
No let up two nine to nine scores, nine nine
plus scores at the end of the rotation beam. I
think we already touched on it a little bit. I
think we uh, I think we that was a that
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was the best rotation of the night. It was the
highest scoring rotation of the night. It's chock full of stories. Obviously,
Delanny Rodriguez starting us off with what was an amazing
routine in a nine to nine. Normally don't see a
nine to nine from your lead off performer. And we
talked about Sharon Uh scoring a nine to nine in
her debut. Interesting story about that that not many people
will know is that Jillian Perkaski, who is a senior
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and was in the number four spot right behind Sharon Uh.
She is she's getting married in September, and her her
mate of honor is none other than Sharon Lee. So
in the third spot we had the maid of honor.
In the fourth spot, we had the bride the bride
to be, So that was pretty cool. But then you
had you had to developed Magnelli come video to bring
us home in that that she's a being queen and
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she was in the anchor spot and she scored a
big nine point nine two five and just really put
us into Uh into a good spot. We were in
command of the meat that time. It's never over until
until the last routine, but we felt pretty good about ourselves.
But she still had to go do her job on
floor and and wow, did our team really go and
uh and perform on floor top to bottom throughout the lineup?
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But obviously Haley Davis with the Women of the Eighties
rock routine closing the show of the nine to nine
plus and at that point we clanked the meat.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Well, you know, coach, Jillian's been on with us, so
she did very very well. She was on the same
time as Sharon was if I remember right, and Mackenzie's
been on with us, So it sounds like once they
get on with us. I mean that just as on
the Great Things. So what I'm kind of what I'm
kind of hearing from.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
You, Well, okay, let's get them all on the show
with you. Then let's start let's start scheduling that right now.
How can we can we get that going?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
That's what I was like. But when you talk about
Delaney and she's in the all around, I mean, how
difficult is what she does and how talented and versatile
is she?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah, there's a lot to unpacked there she she First
of all, I think it comes it's a personality thing.
She's she's just such, she's such a pleasant young lady.
But she's just unphased, and I think that's That's the
word that comes to mind whenever I think of her
is just she's just unfazed. Big moments don't seem to
be huge moments for her. I think she enjoys them.
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I think she looks forward to them. They're not bigger
than her. And I think that's what makes a great one,
makes a great lead off to it, makes a great
all around competitor because they take it and strive, you know,
they just realize, hey, event by that I'm gonna go
out and do what I do and I'm gonna have
a good time with this, and they're not. They don't
feel the pressure as much. It feels it seems like,
I think you're always going to be nervous. That's what
I tell the team all the time. It is like
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you're never gonna not have nerves. As a matter of fact,
it's one of the most wonderful things about competitive sports
is the fact that you do get those feelings, you know,
and and I think obviously she gets those, but but
she's not. She's not overtaken by them, and so she's
just a She's a special personality anyway. She's such a
pleasant person but talent. When you talk about gymnastics and
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the ability that she has. She she has the ability.
I think it's unlimited ability and an alimited ability to compete,
to train hard and uh and just be just be
an amazing person.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
And I talked to them when they were on the
show about the balance being and just kind of the
same things you were saying. That is more just focused.
I'm like that that beam is so small off your
foot slips, so you missed it or you missed man,
it could be a heck of an injury. And that's
what they said, Uh, that is more about concentration. They
block all those things out. Is that something that that
they work on or is that what we recruit someone
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who has the inate ability to just focus on the
moment and perform well.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Since you do have a four event sport, I think
we recruit athletes that are, you know, as solid as
that can be on four events. I think Beam is
more it's more mental. It's something that obviously we look
to recruit. You know, when we see somebody that performs
well on beam, we know that they can handle pressure well.
If they've performed well in what we call the club,
that's where we recruit from club athletes. So it's it's
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just a different I think that the biggest thing that
they have to understand about beams specifically is that it
comes down to it's not the minor mistake, it's the
over correction, and that that's where the mental piece comes in,
because if you have you feel a little bit off
and you overcorrect, that's where the main major mistake is
going to happen. And I think that's the that's the
ability that great beam workers like at Delaney, like Isabella
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Magnelli and matter of fact, I can I can go
up and down our lineup and say I think they
have those types of abilities. Naturally. We train and there's
some visualization involved, there's a lot of numbers involved, there's
moving around and you know, going on different beams, going
different directions. There's different things that that you can train,
but you can only get them so far. There's a
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certain amount that they have to do on their own,
and great beam workers do that at a high level.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
And you've got one of the best in Isabella. What
what what makes her so good and so special on them?
And just what kind of expectations do you have for
her this year?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Yeah, I don't I don't think there's any limit to
the expectations of her, I think, and the most wonderful
part about that is that she she puts those expectations
on herself, not over pressure, she just puts those expectations
on herself. But at the same time, she's so good
up there, and she's so solid up there, and she's
performed so well, and there's a certain amount of you
have to prove it to yourself that's involved in anything,
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but especially in our sport and on Dean. I think
she's proven to herself time and time and time again
that she's she's one deserving and too she's great. She's
just great up there. So I think once you get
to that point, you can move on from the you know,
the possibility of over correction, and you move on to
the performance value. And I think once you get to
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that tier, when you're really thinking about how great that
the outcome I feel is known the performance value. Once
you get to where it's like, how great is this
routine going be? I think that's where she lives. I
think that's where she competes so and I think that's
what makes her special.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I was talking to Larry Vaught, and I also talk
to the girls about it when we had him on
the show, was how do you know who's going to perform?
And Larry Vaut was saying, you kind of, I guess
throughout the week you're technical. Then at the meets you
are a general manager, like you shuffling people around. And
I just want to ask. So Sharon Lee comes out
of nowhere with the nine to nine. I was she
schedule to be there? Or do you make adjustments throughout
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the meet? Is it something going on and you just
really need a number so you move somebody around or
do they know going in absolutely on Friday, this is
what it's.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Going to be. Or do you change things throughout the meet?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Both both? Actually she was scheduled. She was in the lineup.
We do lineup meetings and we had a training session
the day before in the coliseum and that's when I
think she finally stealed her spot and Rachel Garrison, who
is my wife and our associate head coach, put her
in that spot. We do our lineup meeting just before
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we come out to warm up for the competition. That's
when they know for sure when they're in. We don't
let them know prior to and I think there's there's
a lot of benefits to that. They have a good idea.
Those that are that are have on their spots and
know that they're in the lineup and have been, you know,
historically in the lineups or throughout the season, been in lineups.
They're pretty there. They know they're going to be in there.
Bill of Magnally, she knows she's going to be in bed,
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you know. But there that there are some that are
not not quite sure. They could be number you know,
they could be number three in the lineup, but they
could be our first backup number seven or second backup
number eight. So we do go in with a plan
in mind. Now during our warm up period, if something
changes and we feel like, hey, listen, there's there's something
just not going well on this event and we feel
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like we have an odd hand that we need to
put in there, you know, you know, somebody that could
switch out and and go in that spot that may
produce a better result. We'll do that, and we do
that on occasions. A matter of fact, we do it
a lot. So but that just that's what competition is.
You know, you go in and you you're going with
a plan and if if something needs to be changed,
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and then you make those changes. Sometimes they're right and
sometimes they're not. But uh, that's just the way the
games played.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Kosha had let me say this really quick, Larry, I
just wanted to ask. I know you said the associate
head coach you happen to live with. First, I got
two questions. One did she have to apply for the position?
And two, most coaches when they're when they coach, and
especially at the university level, you want to go home
and you want to you want to leave work at
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work and you want to keep home at home. Does
she have to apply for the position? And is there
a work life balance? Knowing that, Uh, your I guess
your associate head coach is your partner, your life partner.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Yeah, you know what. She she did have to apply
for the position. But I was asked when when we
first got here and we started early young show we
have we have an eleven year old son, and when
we first got here, obviously I'm going to my fourteenth season,
we had young Shows and she was not one of
our coaches. And then time passed and our female coach
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at the time, our being coach at the time moved on,
and uh, and I sat back, and I thought about it,
and I had a conversation with Sandy Bell and uh,
she said, listen, we just need to go with the
best candidate possible, you know, which obviously sounds obvious. It
sounds obvious to me also. But I sat back and
I thought about it, and I said, you know what,
I know who the best candidate possible is. So I
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asked her if she would be interested in doing it,
and she took some time, took her time to think
about it, and she said she would be interested in
doing it, and uh, and so we were able to uh,
you know, she she applied for it, and obviously she
got the job, and and our being team has been
absolutely phenomenal from that point. Not only that she's she's
our recruiting coordinator. You know, she has a great eye
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for talent. She's what I call a minor, which means
she goes out and finds those athletes that others may miss.
And there's certain things that she looks for that we
can make, uh, you know, a very successful collegiate athlete
from and and she's been very very successful in doing that.
We'll go out, we'll find somebody from the gym. I've
never heard of, you know, competing very I ob would say,
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under the radar, and we'll find that person and we'll
bring them in and just based on the tools that
they have, we're able to help them, you know, achieve
achieve their potential. And the second part of your question,
you had a second part of the question. I think
I lost myself on that one. What was the second
part of the question.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
No, it's just kind of home life work home balance,
because you your partner at work is also your partner
at home, so can you you can't really escape work?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Can you let me tell you, just let me tell
you about that. Yeah. No, I stay as far away
from Beam as I possibly can. She asks every now.
In opinion, I do not offer until she asked, And
that's it. She's Beam is a different and I think
we've talked about that at length so far. But but
Beam is just a different event. It's a very it's
very ment event. You know, it's something that you have
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to really dial in on. So I stay as far
away from that physically as I possibly can. And h
and coaching perspective, I stay as far away from that
as I possibly can. Also, she's very good and uh
and and I feel very comfortable with the decisions that
she makes over there. So uh, so I keep my
distance at home. I think it's it's only a uh,
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it's only we'll have discussions sometimes about lineups and different
things like that, but really it's more of a positive.
We get to enjoy the fact that, you know, we've
enjoyed a lot of success in this program, and uh
and we get to enjoy that. So I think it's
more of a benefit than anything. I enjoy working with her.
She has her own space, she's got her own office,
and she gets to go and do her thing, and
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uh and I get to you don't have my own office,
and we get I get to do my own thing.
And but I tell you, it's been nothing but a
positive experience, and we really enjoy working together well.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
With with Tim. You got a lot of positive experiences.
Hopefully coming up the rest of this there's some great
opportunities for fans to come out and see this team
kind of what what do you hope the next three
four weeks, hos as you start kind of getting more
into this and start kind of gearing up for what
will be here at the end of the year.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Right, Yeah, I think the first three weeks. It's always
the same for me, and I guess this year it's
it's we get a different experience because we get that,
you know. The first meet obviously was flying to Oklahoma City,
competing on a podium which is four feet up off
the ground. Basically staging has a different feel to it,
you know, and aquad meet. So there's four teams going,
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and we come back home for our soft opening and
get to open this this amazing facility and the Moral
Coliseum in front of our home crowd. And then this
next week we get to go and have an SEC
dual meet, so it's just two teams in the competition
against Missouri. So we get three completely different experiences to
open the season. And the first three meets from me
are always about discovery. You know, we talked about some
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of those lineup changes. We talked about, you know how
how things may they may stay the same, they may
move around spends. It's very situational, and that's that's what
we're looking for right now, is trying to figure out
exactly who we are. I could bring back the same lineup,
the same individuals, but but it changes year to year
based on you know, how how they're performing. So a
lot of what we're doing in the first three competitions
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is discovery, finding out who we actually are, testing our depth,
which we did, you know, with some of the exhibition
rocines this past week. I feel very strong through two
meats that we're a very solid team, that we have
death with uh with minor drop off, which means the
scores as we go to number seven and number eight
shouldn't be a huge drop off. So if we need
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to rest somebody, I'll feel comfortable doing that. So I'm
very optimistic. This team is strong, there's tremendous amount of
potential and well, we'll see what the season brings, but
but we're happy so far.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Hey coach, we we got to get to a break. Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
We We wish you all the best and we appreciate
you for joining us, and we look forward to coming
over and check you guys out at Memorial.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
We'd love to have you guys in training. Also, if
you guys would like to come over and watch your practice,
we'd love to have you there. And we'd love to
have some more folks join the ball to our brand
new booster clubs. Really, we're really excited about it and
it's got a lot of people excited, and we'd love
to have a lot more people excited about it.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
We will make those arrangements. I appreciate you, coach, Thank you,
thanks a lot, and guys, have a great day.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
We will be back after this.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
You were listening to Stockyards Banks Sunday Morning Sports Talk
on news radio six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
This is the home of the Wildcats, six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk on Anthony
White along with Larry Vaught. Thanks to UK gymnastics coach
Coach Garrison for joining us.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Great young women.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
We've worked with them on the show, we worked with
them in the w nineteen seventy four collective and they
just knocked off number three Alabama Friday in their home opener.
But so we do want to thank coach Garrison for
joining us. Thank Larry vaffas setting it up.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Well we come back. We're gonna talk about.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
The twenty twenty four Kentucky Sports Figure of the Year nominees.
And this list is long. No Mark Pope can't be
on there because he was not a Kentucky sports figure
until two thousand and twenty fourth. Twenty five season, so
they don't really count, but we're going to talk about
this list. There's some interesting names on there and there's
some interesting names that are not on there. We will
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be back after this year listening to Stockyards Bank Sunday
Morning Sports Talk on news radio six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
This is the home of the Wildcats, six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Welcome back Stockyards Banks Sunday Morning Sports Talk. I'm Anthony
White along with Larry Vault and super producer Bo Robinson. Again,
we spoke with last in the beginning to top of it,
how we spoke with Coach Garrison and he did speak
of the UK, the women, the UK Gymnastics Booster Club,
the Vault. Go head on over to UK Athletics dot
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com and you can go to the Gymnastics tab and
then there's the Vault and you can see all levels
of contributions you can make. There's all kinds of neat
gimmicks and things you can earn just from contributing to
those young ladies. Wonderful young ladies. There's tons of fun.
As Larry Vauda said, as Coach Garrison has said, they
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are very talented, they are fun to watch. Go ahead
and contribute. They do have one portion I think that
I find is very interesting because I work in the
community and I work for the school system, is that
there is an aspect of those funds that go to
educating or giving opportunities in the community for kids to
get involved in gymnastics. Gymnastics is not really open to
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a lot of different communities and demographics, so there is
some money that they can go into places that are
not aware of what gymnastics offers or even the see
if Sometimes if you've never been presented with an opportunity,
sometimes you don't know the opportunity exists, and you may
be able to excel at it, but you've just never
been pretending with the opportunity. So head over to the
vault and contribute over there, Larry Vats before we move
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on to the Kentucky Sports figures. I know I didn't
give you a chance to comment on Garrison's interview, but
I just want to give you a second before we
move on to sports figures of the Year.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Oh, just terrific. Like I think the gymnastics team is.
Like I said, we've been fortunate enough to get to
know a few of them and it's been really fun.
I hope he was a serious about I hope for
to come over and watch practice. I'd like to go
watch what a gymnastist practice is like, because I've heard
how difficult and how brutal they are that even the
football players probably couldn't handle what they have to go through.
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So I'd like to really see one just and just
kind of get an idea of what all they do
go through. And I'm hoping he's also serious about that
he would want to work with about getting a few
more of his athletes on the show with because I
think they've been really good to have on with us,
and I think they probably deserve a lot more recognition
than what they have got, and this is a good
chance for us to be able to do that. And
I already think for sure Anthony this summer when we
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have an extended period, that we need to get him
and his wife both in studio together with us.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Oh, I absolutely think so. He's a terrific talker and
I like some of the aspects he brought up, so
I think that's definitely something we have to do.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Yeah, So we'll try to work on that this summer
for sure.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
And so again, thank you coach Garrison and wish you
all the best twenty twenty four Kentucky Sports Figures of
the Year nominees. This list is long, it's back page,
front page, and it's not in alphabetic order. But some
of the names that I recognize, Lee Kiefer, Avery Skinner,
Craig Skinner of Skinner's Winners, Travis Perry, Chad Pennington, they
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did when Sayer did, when the was one A yeah,
one a state title, Trenton no, Massiah Russell obviously, Kenny
mcpeaton from the Derby, Devin Booker. It is just a
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huge long list. Larry Vaught, you get a vote? Bo
asked me something about getting a vote. I don't get
a vote.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Yeah. I think Mark's story and I've talked about this
because Mark's in charge of it at the Herald Leader.
Now I believe I have voted in every one of
these that they have had. I think this is the
forty eighth one or something like that. Wow, And I
think I have voted in every one of them. That
was right when I was starting my career, and I
thought that was such a huge honor to be asked.
I wouldn't have never thought of not voting in it.
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So it's been fun for me to do and then
to watch how the voting has grown statewide, and also
to see how much harder it is to vote. Now
I know what I went through to do my final ten.
I paired that list down the first time, I think
the seventy two. Then I think I got it down
to twenty four. And then I did my final t
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in and sent it in and I went back and
looked and thought, oh, man, I can't believe I left
this one off or cat. But then I saw who
am I going to take off? So I mean, it's
just a lot of fun. There's so many terrific athletes
all in the state of Kentucky at all levels are
connections to Kentucky, so it's really really fun. And I
think I think the winners announced this week if I
remember coming up, if I remember correctly.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
I'm not sure when the winner is announced. I know
Mark's story has his work cut out for him going
through all the ballots that we have sent in with
our selections. Larry, You're right, this is a hard, hard
task to accomplish, especially when the deadlines. I don't know
what two hours on Wednesday night, you got to get
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it in by eleven fifty nine PM and it's ten
thirty and you're like, dag gone, I've only got three
of them listed. It's like craming for an exam because
you're going through and you're reading all the accomplishments of
what these athletes did, and then you're constantly revised and
you're moving this athlete over here, and then you're moving
this one up, and then you forget about one and
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it's it's maddening in a good way. It really is,
and you don't get a grade on it. There's no
right or wrong answers, but it's a fun argument to
always have this time of year.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
And you turn in ten, you turning you guys turning
your top ten?
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Yes, turn in our top ten. Yes.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Donovan Donovan Mitchell who plays for the Calves right now,
so my mom loves him. Nick bing Jones on here, man,
it's just names I keep forgetting about. So you guys, right,
if I had to look through this list, Ree Shepherd,
I would make the list. Then I would go back
and oh, I forgot about this person. Uh, Like I said,
Tay Bridgewater, there's bow you. I guess you were really
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not gonna talk about who you you chose is there?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Then?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I didn't know you could. I didn't know that was I.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Guess we can or are we allowed to? Because I've
never public I've selected for this?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Did you either one? Did you have John Calipari on there?
Because I thought he was missing from the list?
Speaker 4 (26:08):
No, I didn't. I didn't have him, and that that
wasn't wasn't even what I thought about in my top
twenty five Anthony.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Go ahead, Larry Vaughan. Were where were you a tough on?
What did you have?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
When were your tough was somebody you had to leave
off your you had? And who did you certainly have
to have?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Well, this is an Olympic here, and that made that
a little bit more difficult too. And as I was
telling Bow, I'm a little bias toward folks that agreed
to be on radio shows that need during the year.
I mean probably shouldn't be, but when you're looking for tiebreakers,
so I went that. To me, I thought number one
was easy. And I've already had a lot of people
tell me that wasn't the case, but to me it was.
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I went with Lee Keeper of Lexington. You know she
won two more Olympic gold medals, only American ever to
win three gold medals, and when you're the only one
ever to do something, that kind of resonates with me.
So I went with Lee number one. Then I went
with Sydney mclough and Lebron number two. And certainly you
could have flipped that, And I mean, Sydney was dominanting
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her sport, there's no doubt about that. But I just thought,
what Lee became the first American ever do that. She's
right here, she's in Lexington. I went with her and
then three. This is where I probably a little bias
in her enby. You remember when Massiah Russell yep won
her Olympic gold and then two weeks later she joined
us on radio yep? How was I not going to
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put her up there? How was I not going to
put her up? So she was number three on my list?
So I went with Olympians one, two, and three.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
That makes sense.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Who is somebody you felt like you had to leave
off because they didn't come on the radio show? Now
I'm just kidding about the radio showpark, But who's somebody
felt like he had left off because the list did
not include eleven, twelve or thirteen?
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Well, It's hard because I also I try to be
a little bias toward making sure I get at least
one high school athlete on there. So I have brought
Kaufman e like since theyor on mine because I thought
what he did to help Sayah win a state championship
this year was pretty remarkable, So I've got him on there.
I thought Brooklyn Delay from the with volleyball had to
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be on there. I thought Kenny McPeek, what he did
training wise in the thoroughbred industry this year was just amazing.
Here's one I'm sure a lot of other folks don't have,
but I did. And you'll know why. You remember Julie Fullkes,
the Transylvania coach. Oh yeah, final four and you know
she happened to be on with this, so I thought,
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you know, I needed her to be in there. So
I mean, it's just it's just incredible. I mean, I'm
as then when I after I turned my ballot in
the first name, I thought of I can't believe I
don't have on there. I didn't have Nick Benjie on
and I think that's what he did last year. He
should have been on there. But I just got carried away,
and like I said, limiting to ten, that's one that
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if I could have gone back and changed it for Mark,
I would have done that, and I would have had
him on there.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
And maybe I overlooked it, and maybe and if I
haven't overlooked it, should it be remissed that I do
not see Jasper Johnson on there.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Didn't he win a gold medal?
Speaker 4 (29:11):
He did, he did, and I don't think he was
on there. I think you are right about that. But
I mean, there's so many good athletes. I mean, Zakia
Johnson of Its Sacred Heart, who's been in the state
tournament MVP the last three years. I had her on there.
I toyed with. There's some others that I thought about
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putting on there, but there's just so many good, good
ones when you look down through here, Bo, it was
just hard to come up with Timmy. I could have
probably done a top twenty and then thought, there's ten
more I would like to put on there along with
my top twenty. But it's really fun just to read
through the list and have mark the amount of time
he must spend compiling this during the year. It's just
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remarkable to me.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Bo, who did you have to have, like Larry said,
you had to have for whatever reason, personal reasons, connections
and who's a couple two or three that didn't make
it because the numbers were I mean, just a talent
with so outstanding.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
Well first of all, And I feel horrible about this.
Oh I had Messiah Russell in my top five, as
you should, and being on the air and after a
couple of revisions and shifting names around, no.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
No, don't say it, no bo show, don't say it,
bo don't say.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
She didn't the cut for me.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Oh my god.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
And I'm telling you, I feel horrible about this. I
really do. You should as you should, thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
However, coach Nick Menjeon, I did not forget you. I
put you at the top.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
That's number one.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
Yes, okay, And I'll tell you why. What's fun about
this is, Larry, I don't know exactly what you do.
But Mark's story encourages us to have a little commentary,
why did we pick this individual? Why did we do this?
And he publishes it on the Harald Later website in
the paper my reasoning for Nick Manjeon. At a time
when Kentucky basketball was in flux, there was a coach
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who kept his name amongst the two basketball coaches as
a hot topic. It's pretty hard to do in this state.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Yeah, that's true, absolutely true.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Number two, Sendy McLoughlin. No arguments there, World Track Athlete
of the Year. Read that again, too late. She beat
you to it. Go sit and go go ahead, Lee Kiefer.
She is in a class all of her own. I
think Larry and I are in total agreement on that.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Number four.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
Now you can have repeats from year to year. You
can repeat. Yes, Tim Couch won it twice, I think, right, Larry,
I think there's been one or two other people to
win it twice. But I put Travis Perry. Okay, he
thrown King Kelly Coleman's sixty seven year high school scoring record.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
And go back to the spring.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
At one point he was the only member on the
Kentucky basketball roster and he didn't bail.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I hope you don't get hate mail.
Speaker 6 (32:18):
Continue, boy, listen, I need I need to stir it
up a little bit on this show. Okay, I can
handle it. Number five Kenny McPeak. For that one weekend
in twenty twenty four, Kenny McPeak was at the peak
of the horse racing world how many people can say
they had two crowning professional achievements in about twenty four hours.
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The Lexington, Kentucky native can absolutely you got quiet.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
On man, No, no, okay, I'm letting you sink in.
I'm still I'm still stuck on the side thing.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Man.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
I want to steel horrible, want your password to your
emails because I know, man, they gonna be at your head.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
I feel horrible about it. Continue.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
But then when you realize you have to get this
turned in at like eleven thirty Tuesday night, and it's
eleven twenty and you screwed up and did not put
her name on there, it's hard to go back and
shift everything again. Number six Brian Hernandez the Kentucky Derby
dynamic duo of Brian Hernandez and Kenny McPeak. Hernandez has
placed himself among an elite class of jockey's, only being
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the ninth jockey to win both the Kentucky Oaks and
Kentucky Derby. A childhood dream for Hernandez Junior came true.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Got You.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
Number seven went with the UK Baseball again, Ryan wal
Schmidt prior to transferring to Kentucky. Ryan wals Schmidt towards
acl February of twenty twenty four, Waldy had slowly worked
his way back into the UK lineup and leading the
Cats to the College World Series and then becoming a
second round pick in the twenty twenty four Major League
Baseball Draft. Like of a comeback story. Number three m
(33:52):
Over Walker Buehler. Hang on?
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Did you hang on?
Speaker 1 (33:55):
I'm saying over because you haven't said Walker Billy yet. See,
you're going in order, so that means you having over
Walker Builder. Even if you have Walker Bueler on there,
I think you gonna get hate mail.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
Continue Walker Buehler Number eight Okay, Former Henry Clay Blue
Devil and College World Series champion with Vanderbilt battled injury
with the Dodgers over the last two seasons. Twenty twenty
four wasn't out the season he was looking for until
the postseason became rowing back in Game five to win
the World Series for the Dodgers. Buehler was the unlikely hero.
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Disney cannot produce a better script.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Yeah, I had him number four on my ballot.
Speaker 6 (34:33):
And then, just as a side note, when you think
about Walker Bueller, you also have to think about who
was the catcher on the Dodgers. No way during the
World Series Will Smith from Louisville, who was a.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Nominee, and that's who number nine is. No, I didn't
say that.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
I just said as a side note, and my point
is this is difficult to do. Number nine Shepherd. You
couldn't ask for a better player to end the Calipery
era on at Kentucky. Rea Shepherd did it all with class.
That still means something to the Big Blue Nation quite
a bit.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
I had a number seven, so we're thinking.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
Alike number ten shake gil just Alexander six man coming
off the bench at UK to become one of the
NBA's most prolific scores. If he had won the MVP,
he should have won MVP.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
You're right, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
If he won MVP, then that would have shaken up
my top five, top six.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
That is all right, That is all right, good. I'm glad.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
I don't get any arguments from you, except for Messiah Russell,
because I did talk to some friends of mine and
we had some knockout, drag down conversations about this. Yeah,
I mean brutal arguments.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
And you are great at this producing thing because you
had your picks. Go right, up against the break. So
there's no there's not a whole lot of time for rebuttal.
But are you who have rebuttal and you got something
to tell Bow? He's on Twitter X, he's at Bow
Big Blue. No I canceled. You get at Sunday Am
(36:10):
Sports and you can let us know and we will
make sure he gets it. Because I'm Larry vaughut I
have no problem with and everything makes sense because he
didn't give us a whole list. But some of the
people he added that Bow had were right, and I
think he had him in the right place. But the
top three and the people that he had to leave off,
he proved why he had to leave him off. Boat again,
that is at Bow Big Blue on Twitter. If you
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got anything to say to hey, I got to go
to a Breakussi Russell, she was three.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
B oh my god. We will be back after this year.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Listening to Stockyards Bank Sunday when Sports Talk on News
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Speaker 1 (36:52):
Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk. I'm Anthony
White along with Larry Vaught and Bo Robinson. This hour
Sunday when the sports talk has been brought to you
by a country boy brewing. I did want to ask
you really one quick question before we get out of here,
because I'm still distraught. Someone inboxed me and said Dane
(37:13):
Key was not on there as well. I think Jasper
Johnson should have been some of the names I seen, know,
I think Jasper Johnson should have been on there. Maybe
because he didn't perform in this state. Uh they didn't
count it, but y'all had Donovan Mitchell on there. So
so let me get this straight, Bawl. I just want
to get you. I just want to get you some
lee way. I want to get you to find you
an escape route. You were given this with a couple
(37:34):
hours to decide or did you have this list for
days or weeks?
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (37:39):
We've had it for a couple of weeks. I just
enjoy the pressure of cramming and trying to get it
done by the deadline.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Okay, Larry vaugh what do you gray? What do you gray? Bowl?
Speaker 1 (37:50):
You send back to you send back to it being quiet.
But you're you're a professional at this, so you you
don't typically engage in, uh that kind of shit.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Canery.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
No. I think both takes it very serious, and that's
what I said. That's a nice thing about there's not
any wrong or right answers, so to speak. I mean,
you can and Mark Story doesn't give you any definite guideline.
I mean, how you have to vote. It's all kind
of your personal preference, and I think you can go
a lot of different directions with it. You can get
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preference to professional athletes and give professional preference to college athletes,
to females to males, however you want to do it.
My only wish is I wish they had a male
and a female sporting the Year of the Year both,
but Marcus said they just like keeping it with just
a one just to make it even more prestigious. I
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think it's such a dynamic list it wouldn't hurt it
all to have a male and a female winner both.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
But that's just me.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
But I think both did.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Okay, thank you Mark's Story for doing that. That made
my day.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
It brought back the whole year and what was that
fifteen minutes? So Mark Story, we appreciate you. Nope, although
we're giving you flat for some of the names that
weren't on there. I do enjoy that. I appreciate it.
So thanks to Coach Garrison for joining us. Thanks to
Jack Pilgrim, Larry Vaught, Bo Robinson. I am Anthony White
and this has been Stockyards Bank Sunday winning sports talk
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on DWES Radio six thirty WLAP
Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk. I'm Anthony
White along with Larry Vaught, coming to you from clark'srom
Main Street Market Studios and beautiful downtown Lexington, Kentucky, and
we are now proud to be joined by coach Tim
Garrison of UK Gymnastics.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Good morning, coach, how's it.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Going going fantastic? How are you guys this morning?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
We're doing pretty good.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I just want to start off by telling you, Larry
Vaught and I have spent some time with your young
ladies and they are wonderful, entertaining, energetic young ladies, so
we appreciate you for sharing them with the Sunday Morning
Sports Talk team.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Absolutely, you know what. I actually I've listened to the
shows before and it's been fun listening to girls get
out there and have conversations with you guys and spread
the word about UK Gymnastics.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Hey yeah, yeah, it sure has team and hopefully we
can keep doing that with the success that we're anticipating
your team's going to have this year.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Well I like the sound of that. Welcome, welcome to
op or we're open to welcoming to that, that's for.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Sure, Coach A fourteen Jury of fourteenth season, Big home
opener the other day gives Alabama, you guys look good.
And I told Larry Vaught, I'm not making this up.
Not because she she gave you a nine to nine,
but Sharon Lee was one of my favorites. She's one
who at karaoke made sure that I got involved with
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I wanted to or not. So she was one of
my favorites. So I was ecstatic when Larry Vaught said
that she plays well.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, I tell you that was as I go through
and I review meets in my mind and go back
through the scores and just look at look at you know,
the meet event by event, that was one of the
standout routines of the meet without question, stand out stories
of the meat without questions. You're talking about a young
lady who's who's patiently waited her time. She's a sophomore.
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That was her first opportunity to compete, and she not
only goes out there in the third spot and highly
charged environment and a meet that was still in question
at that point and scores a nine to nine in
her debut in competition for UK Gymnastics. It was that
was a special moment I don't think there was a
dry eye on our team. I'm tougher than that, so
(02:15):
I don't think I had to hear my of course,
but but I don't think there was a dry on
our team. And with great reasons. She's a special young
lady and she had an opportunity. She took full advantage
of it, and yeah, just just just a wonderful, wonderful time.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
You can you talk about some of the performances that
led you guys to victory over number three Alabama some
of the other performances of.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Course, of course, you know, at first, I can't say
enough about the facility we get to call home historic
Moral Colisey and really dresses up nicely. It was, my gosh,
it's just beautiful and what an environment. Obviously a big
part of that was the fan support. I can't go
much further without talking about that. Our team was treated
what was almost a capacity crowd and a highly charged
the atmosphere, and I think it gave us a sizeable
(03:00):
advantage for we even competed our first rotation, you know.
Moving on to how how our team performed, I think
we had a strong home opener, you know, it came
into the meat as as the number one vault team
in the country and uh were in home rotation order.
We actually get to start on vault, which is which
is an advantage for us, but we still have to
take advantage of we did just that young lady that
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that you know, well, she's been on the show, I
believe at least twice. The Lanny Rodriguez sophomore for US
started us off with a strong performance and then we
closed the rotation with with two nine to nine plus scores,
so uh, you know, it sticks by Mackenzie Wilson and
uh and Isabella Magnelli just just did about about all
they could do well. Obviously the the judges didn't see
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that as as ten oer performances, but uh, I have
my thoughts on that, you know, and they did. They
did amazing work and and up and down the vault
rotation we did, uh, just just solid performances bars same way.
No let up two nine to nine scores, nine nine
plus scores at the end of the rotation beam. I
think we already touched on it a little bit. I
think we uh, I think we that was a that
(04:04):
was the best rotation of the night. It was the
highest scoring rotation of the night. It's chock full of stories. Obviously,
Delanny Rodriguez starting us off with what was an amazing
routine in a nine to nine. Normally don't see a
nine to nine from your lead off performer. And we
talked about Sharon Uh scoring a nine to nine in
her debut. Interesting story about that that not many people
will know is that Jillian Perkaski, who is a senior
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and was in the number four spot right behind Sharon Uh.
She is she's getting married in September, and her her
mate of honor is none other than Sharon Lee. So
in the third spot we had the maid of honor.
In the fourth spot, we had the bride the bride
to be, So that was pretty cool. But then you
had you had to developed Magnelli come video to bring
us home in that that she's a being queen and
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she was in the anchor spot and she scored a
big nine point nine two five and just really put
us into Uh into a good spot. We were in
command of the meat that time. It's never over until
until the last routine, but we felt pretty good about ourselves.
But she still had to go do her job on
floor and and wow, did our team really go and
uh and perform on floor top to bottom throughout the lineup?
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But obviously Haley Davis with the Women of the Eighties
rock routine closing the show of the nine to nine
plus and at that point we clanked the meat.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Well, you know, coach, Jillian's been on with us, so
she did very very well. She was on the same
time as Sharon was if I remember right, and Mackenzie's
been on with us, So it sounds like once they
get on with us. I mean that just as on
the Great Things. So what I'm kind of what I'm
kind of hearing from.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
You, Well, okay, let's get them all on the show
with you. Then let's start let's start scheduling that right now.
How can we can we get that going?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
That's what I was like. But when you talk about
Delaney and she's in the all around, I mean, how
difficult is what she does and how talented and versatile
is she?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah, there's a lot to unpacked there she she First
of all, I think it comes it's a personality thing.
She's she's just such, she's such a pleasant young lady.
But she's just unphased, and I think that's That's the
word that comes to mind whenever I think of her
is just she's just unfazed. Big moments don't seem to
be huge moments for her. I think she enjoys them.
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I think she looks forward to them. They're not bigger
than her. And I think that's what makes a great one,
makes a great lead off to it, makes a great
all around competitor because they take it and strive, you know,
they just realize, hey, event by that I'm gonna go
out and do what I do and I'm gonna have
a good time with this, and they're not. They don't
feel the pressure as much. It feels it seems like,
I think you're always going to be nervous. That's what
I tell the team all the time. It is like
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you're never gonna not have nerves. As a matter of fact,
it's one of the most wonderful things about competitive sports
is the fact that you do get those feelings, you know,
and and I think obviously she gets those, but but
she's not. She's not overtaken by them, and so she's
just a She's a special personality anyway. She's such a
pleasant person but talent. When you talk about gymnastics and
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the ability that she has. She she has the ability.
I think it's unlimited ability and an alimited ability to compete,
to train hard and uh and just be just be
an amazing person.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
And I talked to them when they were on the
show about the balance being and just kind of the
same things you were saying. That is more just focused.
I'm like that that beam is so small off your
foot slips, so you missed it or you missed man,
it could be a heck of an injury. And that's
what they said, Uh, that is more about concentration. They
block all those things out. Is that something that that
they work on or is that what we recruit someone
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who has the inate ability to just focus on the
moment and perform well.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Since you do have a four event sport, I think
we recruit athletes that are, you know, as solid as
that can be on four events. I think Beam is
more it's more mental. It's something that obviously we look
to recruit. You know, when we see somebody that performs
well on beam, we know that they can handle pressure well.
If they've performed well in what we call the club,
that's where we recruit from club athletes. So it's it's
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just a different I think that the biggest thing that
they have to understand about beams specifically is that it
comes down to it's not the minor mistake, it's the
over correction, and that that's where the mental piece comes in,
because if you have you feel a little bit off
and you overcorrect, that's where the main major mistake is
going to happen. And I think that's the that's the
ability that great beam workers like at Delaney, like Isabella
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Magnelli and matter of fact, I can I can go
up and down our lineup and say I think they
have those types of abilities. Naturally. We train and there's
some visualization involved, there's a lot of numbers involved, there's
moving around and you know, going on different beams, going
different directions. There's different things that that you can train,
but you can only get them so far. There's a
(08:48):
certain amount that they have to do on their own,
and great beam workers do that at a high level.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
And you've got one of the best in Isabella. What
what what makes her so good and so special on them?
And just what kind of expectations do you have for
her this year?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Yeah, I don't I don't think there's any limit to
the expectations of her, I think, and the most wonderful
part about that is that she she puts those expectations
on herself, not over pressure, she just puts those expectations
on herself. But at the same time, she's so good
up there, and she's so solid up there, and she's
performed so well, and there's a certain amount of you
have to prove it to yourself that's involved in anything,
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but especially in our sport and on Dean. I think
she's proven to herself time and time and time again
that she's she's one deserving and too she's great. She's
just great up there. So I think once you get
to that point, you can move on from the you know,
the possibility of over correction, and you move on to
the performance value. And I think once you get to
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that tier, when you're really thinking about how great that
the outcome I feel is known the performance value. Once
you get to where it's like, how great is this
routine going be? I think that's where she lives. I
think that's where she competes so and I think that's
what makes her special.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I was talking to Larry Vaught, and I also talk
to the girls about it when we had him on
the show, was how do you know who's going to perform?
And Larry Vaut was saying, you kind of, I guess
throughout the week you're technical. Then at the meets you
are a general manager, like you shuffling people around. And
I just want to ask. So Sharon Lee comes out
of nowhere with the nine to nine. I was she
schedule to be there? Or do you make adjustments throughout
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the meet? Is it something going on and you just
really need a number so you move somebody around or
do they know going in absolutely on Friday, this is
what it's.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Going to be. Or do you change things throughout the meet?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Both both? Actually she was scheduled. She was in the lineup.
We do lineup meetings and we had a training session
the day before in the coliseum and that's when I
think she finally stealed her spot and Rachel Garrison, who
is my wife and our associate head coach, put her
in that spot. We do our lineup meeting just before
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we come out to warm up for the competition. That's
when they know for sure when they're in. We don't
let them know prior to and I think there's there's
a lot of benefits to that. They have a good idea.
Those that are that are have on their spots and
know that they're in the lineup and have been, you know,
historically in the lineups or throughout the season, been in lineups.
They're pretty there. They know they're going to be in there.
Bill of Magnally, she knows she's going to be in bed,
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you know. But there that there are some that are
not not quite sure. They could be number you know,
they could be number three in the lineup, but they
could be our first backup number seven or second backup
number eight. So we do go in with a plan
in mind. Now during our warm up period, if something
changes and we feel like, hey, listen, there's there's something
just not going well on this event and we feel
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like we have an odd hand that we need to
put in there, you know, you know, somebody that could
switch out and and go in that spot that may
produce a better result. We'll do that, and we do
that on occasions. A matter of fact, we do it
a lot. So but that just that's what competition is.
You know, you go in and you you're going with
a plan and if if something needs to be changed,
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and then you make those changes. Sometimes they're right and
sometimes they're not. But uh, that's just the way the
games played.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Kosha had let me say this really quick, Larry, I
just wanted to ask. I know you said the associate
head coach you happen to live with. First, I got
two questions. One did she have to apply for the position?
And two, most coaches when they're when they coach, and
especially at the university level, you want to go home
and you want to you want to leave work at
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work and you want to keep home at home. Does
she have to apply for the position? And is there
a work life balance? Knowing that, Uh, your I guess
your associate head coach is your partner, your life partner.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Yeah, you know what. She she did have to apply
for the position. But I was asked when when we
first got here and we started early young show we
have we have an eleven year old son, and when
we first got here, obviously I'm going to my fourteenth season,
we had young Shows and she was not one of
our coaches. And then time passed and our female coach
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at the time, our being coach at the time moved on,
and uh, and I sat back, and I thought about it,
and I had a conversation with Sandy Bell and uh,
she said, listen, we just need to go with the
best candidate possible, you know, which obviously sounds obvious. It
sounds obvious to me also. But I sat back and
I thought about it, and I said, you know what,
I know who the best candidate possible is. So I
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asked her if she would be interested in doing it,
and she took some time, took her time to think
about it, and she said she would be interested in
doing it, and uh, and so we were able to uh,
you know, she she applied for it, and obviously she
got the job, and and our being team has been
absolutely phenomenal from that point. Not only that she's she's
our recruiting coordinator. You know, she has a great eye
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for talent. She's what I call a minor, which means
she goes out and finds those athletes that others may miss.
And there's certain things that she looks for that we
can make, uh, you know, a very successful collegiate athlete
from and and she's been very very successful in doing that.
We'll go out, we'll find somebody from the gym. I've
never heard of, you know, competing very I ob would say,
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under the radar, and we'll find that person and we'll
bring them in and just based on the tools that
they have, we're able to help them, you know, achieve
achieve their potential. And the second part of your question,
you had a second part of the question. I think
I lost myself on that one. What was the second
part of the question.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
No, it's just kind of home life work home balance,
because you your partner at work is also your partner
at home, so can you you can't really escape work?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Can you let me tell you, just let me tell
you about that. Yeah. No, I stay as far away
from Beam as I possibly can. She asks every now.
In opinion, I do not offer until she asked, And
that's it. She's Beam is a different and I think
we've talked about that at length so far. But but
Beam is just a different event. It's a very it's
very ment event. You know, it's something that you have
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to really dial in on. So I stay as far
away from that physically as I possibly can. And h
and coaching perspective, I stay as far away from that
as I possibly can. Also, she's very good and uh
and and I feel very comfortable with the decisions that
she makes over there. So uh, so I keep my
distance at home. I think it's it's only a uh,
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it's only we'll have discussions sometimes about lineups and different
things like that, but really it's more of a positive.
We get to enjoy the fact that, you know, we've
enjoyed a lot of success in this program, and uh
and we get to enjoy that. So I think it's
more of a benefit than anything. I enjoy working with her.
She has her own space, she's got her own office,
and she gets to go and do her thing, and
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uh and I get to you don't have my own office,
and we get I get to do my own thing.
And but I tell you, it's been nothing but a
positive experience, and we really enjoy working together well.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
With with Tim. You got a lot of positive experiences.
Hopefully coming up the rest of this there's some great
opportunities for fans to come out and see this team
kind of what what do you hope the next three
four weeks, hos as you start kind of getting more
into this and start kind of gearing up for what
will be here at the end of the year.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Right, Yeah, I think the first three weeks. It's always
the same for me, and I guess this year it's
it's we get a different experience because we get that,
you know. The first meet obviously was flying to Oklahoma City,
competing on a podium which is four feet up off
the ground. Basically staging has a different feel to it,
you know, and aquad meet. So there's four teams going,
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and we come back home for our soft opening and
get to open this this amazing facility and the Moral
Coliseum in front of our home crowd. And then this
next week we get to go and have an SEC
dual meet, so it's just two teams in the competition
against Missouri. So we get three completely different experiences to
open the season. And the first three meets from me
are always about discovery. You know, we talked about some
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of those lineup changes. We talked about, you know how
how things may they may stay the same, they may
move around spends. It's very situational, and that's that's what
we're looking for right now, is trying to figure out
exactly who we are. I could bring back the same lineup,
the same individuals, but but it changes year to year
based on you know, how how they're performing. So a
lot of what we're doing in the first three competitions
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is discovery, finding out who we actually are, testing our depth,
which we did, you know, with some of the exhibition
rocines this past week. I feel very strong through two
meats that we're a very solid team, that we have
death with uh with minor drop off, which means the
scores as we go to number seven and number eight
shouldn't be a huge drop off. So if we need
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to rest somebody, I'll feel comfortable doing that. So I'm
very optimistic. This team is strong, there's tremendous amount of
potential and well, we'll see what the season brings, but
but we're happy so far.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Hey coach, we we got to get to a break. Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
We We wish you all the best and we appreciate
you for joining us, and we look forward to coming
over and check you guys out at Memorial.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
We'd love to have you guys in training. Also, if
you guys would like to come over and watch your practice,
we'd love to have you there. And we'd love to
have some more folks join the ball to our brand
new booster clubs. Really, we're really excited about it and
it's got a lot of people excited, and we'd love
to have a lot more people excited about it.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
We will make those arrangements. I appreciate you, coach, Thank you,
thanks a lot, and guys, have a great day.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
We will be back after this.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
You were listening to Stockyards Banks Sunday Morning Sports Talk
on news radio six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
This is the home of the Wildcats, six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk on Anthony
White along with Larry Vaught. Thanks to UK gymnastics coach
Coach Garrison for joining us.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Great young women.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
We've worked with them on the show, we worked with
them in the w nineteen seventy four collective and they
just knocked off number three Alabama Friday in their home opener.
But so we do want to thank coach Garrison for
joining us. Thank Larry vaffas setting it up.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Well we come back. We're gonna talk about.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
The twenty twenty four Kentucky Sports Figure of the Year nominees.
And this list is long. No Mark Pope can't be
on there because he was not a Kentucky sports figure
until two thousand and twenty fourth. Twenty five season, so
they don't really count, but we're going to talk about
this list. There's some interesting names on there and there's
some interesting names that are not on there. We will
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be back after this year listening to Stockyards Bank Sunday
Morning Sports Talk on news radio six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
This is the home of the Wildcats, six thirty WLAP.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Welcome back Stockyards Banks Sunday Morning Sports Talk. I'm Anthony
White along with Larry Vault and super producer Bo Robinson. Again,
we spoke with last in the beginning to top of it,
how we spoke with Coach Garrison and he did speak
of the UK, the women, the UK Gymnastics Booster Club,
the Vault. Go head on over to UK Athletics dot
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com and you can go to the Gymnastics tab and
then there's the Vault and you can see all levels
of contributions you can make. There's all kinds of neat
gimmicks and things you can earn just from contributing to
those young ladies. Wonderful young ladies. There's tons of fun.
As Larry Vauda said, as Coach Garrison has said, they
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are very talented, they are fun to watch. Go ahead
and contribute. They do have one portion I think that
I find is very interesting because I work in the
community and I work for the school system, is that
there is an aspect of those funds that go to
educating or giving opportunities in the community for kids to
get involved in gymnastics. Gymnastics is not really open to
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a lot of different communities and demographics, so there is
some money that they can go into places that are
not aware of what gymnastics offers or even the see
if Sometimes if you've never been presented with an opportunity,
sometimes you don't know the opportunity exists, and you may
be able to excel at it, but you've just never
been pretending with the opportunity. So head over to the
vault and contribute over there, Larry Vats before we move
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on to the Kentucky Sports figures. I know I didn't
give you a chance to comment on Garrison's interview, but
I just want to give you a second before we
move on to sports figures of the Year.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Oh, just terrific. Like I think the gymnastics team is.
Like I said, we've been fortunate enough to get to
know a few of them and it's been really fun.
I hope he was a serious about I hope for
to come over and watch practice. I'd like to go
watch what a gymnastist practice is like, because I've heard
how difficult and how brutal they are that even the
football players probably couldn't handle what they have to go through.
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So I'd like to really see one just and just
kind of get an idea of what all they do
go through. And I'm hoping he's also serious about that
he would want to work with about getting a few
more of his athletes on the show with because I
think they've been really good to have on with us,
and I think they probably deserve a lot more recognition
than what they have got, and this is a good
chance for us to be able to do that. And
I already think for sure Anthony this summer when we
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have an extended period, that we need to get him
and his wife both in studio together with us.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Oh, I absolutely think so. He's a terrific talker and
I like some of the aspects he brought up, so
I think that's definitely something we have to do.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Yeah, So we'll try to work on that this summer
for sure.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
And so again, thank you coach Garrison and wish you
all the best twenty twenty four Kentucky Sports Figures of
the Year nominees. This list is long, it's back page,
front page, and it's not in alphabetic order. But some
of the names that I recognize, Lee Kiefer, Avery Skinner,
Craig Skinner of Skinner's Winners, Travis Perry, Chad Pennington, they
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did when Sayer did, when the was one A yeah,
one a state title, Trenton no, Massiah Russell obviously, Kenny
mcpeaton from the Derby, Devin Booker. It is just a
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huge long list. Larry Vaught, you get a vote? Bo
asked me something about getting a vote. I don't get
a vote.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Yeah. I think Mark's story and I've talked about this
because Mark's in charge of it at the Herald Leader.
Now I believe I have voted in every one of
these that they have had. I think this is the
forty eighth one or something like that. Wow, And I
think I have voted in every one of them. That
was right when I was starting my career, and I
thought that was such a huge honor to be asked.
I wouldn't have never thought of not voting in it.
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So it's been fun for me to do and then
to watch how the voting has grown statewide, and also
to see how much harder it is to vote. Now
I know what I went through to do my final ten.
I paired that list down the first time, I think
the seventy two. Then I think I got it down
to twenty four. And then I did my final t
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in and sent it in and I went back and
looked and thought, oh, man, I can't believe I left
this one off or cat. But then I saw who
am I going to take off? So I mean, it's
just a lot of fun. There's so many terrific athletes
all in the state of Kentucky at all levels are
connections to Kentucky, so it's really really fun. And I
think I think the winners announced this week if I
remember coming up, if I remember correctly.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
I'm not sure when the winner is announced. I know
Mark's story has his work cut out for him going
through all the ballots that we have sent in with
our selections. Larry, You're right, this is a hard, hard
task to accomplish, especially when the deadlines. I don't know
what two hours on Wednesday night, you got to get
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it in by eleven fifty nine PM and it's ten
thirty and you're like, dag gone, I've only got three
of them listed. It's like craming for an exam because
you're going through and you're reading all the accomplishments of
what these athletes did, and then you're constantly revised and
you're moving this athlete over here, and then you're moving
this one up, and then you forget about one and
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it's it's maddening in a good way. It really is,
and you don't get a grade on it. There's no
right or wrong answers, but it's a fun argument to
always have this time of year.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
And you turn in ten, you turning you guys turning
your top ten?
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Yes, turn in our top ten. Yes.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Donovan Donovan Mitchell who plays for the Calves right now,
so my mom loves him. Nick bing Jones on here, man,
it's just names I keep forgetting about. So you guys, right,
if I had to look through this list, Ree Shepherd,
I would make the list. Then I would go back
and oh, I forgot about this person. Uh, Like I said,
Tay Bridgewater, there's bow you. I guess you were really
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not gonna talk about who you you chose is there?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Then?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I didn't know you could. I didn't know that was I.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Guess we can or are we allowed to? Because I've
never public I've selected for this?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Did you either one? Did you have John Calipari on there?
Because I thought he was missing from the list?
Speaker 4 (26:08):
No, I didn't. I didn't have him, and that that
wasn't wasn't even what I thought about in my top
twenty five Anthony.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Go ahead, Larry Vaughan. Were where were you a tough on?
What did you have?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
When were your tough was somebody you had to leave
off your you had? And who did you certainly have
to have?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Well, this is an Olympic here, and that made that
a little bit more difficult too. And as I was
telling Bow, I'm a little bias toward folks that agreed
to be on radio shows that need during the year.
I mean probably shouldn't be, but when you're looking for tiebreakers,
so I went that. To me, I thought number one
was easy. And I've already had a lot of people
tell me that wasn't the case, but to me it was.
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I went with Lee Keeper of Lexington. You know she
won two more Olympic gold medals, only American ever to
win three gold medals, and when you're the only one
ever to do something, that kind of resonates with me.
So I went with Lee number one. Then I went
with Sydney mclough and Lebron number two. And certainly you
could have flipped that, And I mean, Sydney was dominanting
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her sport, there's no doubt about that. But I just thought,
what Lee became the first American ever do that. She's
right here, she's in Lexington. I went with her and
then three. This is where I probably a little bias
in her enby. You remember when Massiah Russell yep won
her Olympic gold and then two weeks later she joined
us on radio yep? How was I not going to
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put her up there? How was I not going to
put her up? So she was number three on my list?
So I went with Olympians one, two, and three.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
That makes sense.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Who is somebody you felt like you had to leave
off because they didn't come on the radio show? Now
I'm just kidding about the radio showpark, But who's somebody
felt like he had left off because the list did
not include eleven, twelve or thirteen?
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Well, It's hard because I also I try to be
a little bias toward making sure I get at least
one high school athlete on there. So I have brought
Kaufman e like since theyor on mine because I thought
what he did to help Sayah win a state championship
this year was pretty remarkable, So I've got him on there.
I thought Brooklyn Delay from the with volleyball had to
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be on there. I thought Kenny McPeek, what he did
training wise in the thoroughbred industry this year was just amazing.
Here's one I'm sure a lot of other folks don't have,
but I did. And you'll know why. You remember Julie Fullkes,
the Transylvania coach. Oh yeah, final four and you know
she happened to be on with this, so I thought,
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you know, I needed her to be in there. So
I mean, it's just it's just incredible. I mean, I'm
as then when I after I turned my ballot in
the first name, I thought of I can't believe I
don't have on there. I didn't have Nick Benjie on
and I think that's what he did last year. He
should have been on there. But I just got carried away,
and like I said, limiting to ten, that's one that
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if I could have gone back and changed it for Mark,
I would have done that, and I would have had
him on there.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
And maybe I overlooked it, and maybe and if I
haven't overlooked it, should it be remissed that I do
not see Jasper Johnson on there.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Didn't he win a gold medal?
Speaker 4 (29:11):
He did, he did, and I don't think he was
on there. I think you are right about that. But
I mean, there's so many good athletes. I mean, Zakia
Johnson of Its Sacred Heart, who's been in the state
tournament MVP the last three years. I had her on there.
I toyed with. There's some others that I thought about
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putting on there, but there's just so many good, good
ones when you look down through here, Bo, it was
just hard to come up with Timmy. I could have
probably done a top twenty and then thought, there's ten
more I would like to put on there along with
my top twenty. But it's really fun just to read
through the list and have mark the amount of time
he must spend compiling this during the year. It's just
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remarkable to me.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Bo, who did you have to have, like Larry said,
you had to have for whatever reason, personal reasons, connections
and who's a couple two or three that didn't make
it because the numbers were I mean, just a talent
with so outstanding.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
Well first of all, And I feel horrible about this.
Oh I had Messiah Russell in my top five, as
you should, and being on the air and after a
couple of revisions and shifting names around, no.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
No, don't say it, no bo show, don't say it,
bo don't say.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
She didn't the cut for me.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Oh my god.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
And I'm telling you, I feel horrible about this. I
really do. You should as you should, thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
However, coach Nick Menjeon, I did not forget you. I
put you at the top.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
That's number one.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
Yes, okay, And I'll tell you why. What's fun about
this is, Larry, I don't know exactly what you do.
But Mark's story encourages us to have a little commentary,
why did we pick this individual? Why did we do this?
And he publishes it on the Harald Later website in
the paper my reasoning for Nick Manjeon. At a time
when Kentucky basketball was in flux, there was a coach
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who kept his name amongst the two basketball coaches as
a hot topic. It's pretty hard to do in this state.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Yeah, that's true, absolutely true.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Number two, Sendy McLoughlin. No arguments there, World Track Athlete
of the Year. Read that again, too late. She beat
you to it. Go sit and go go ahead, Lee Kiefer.
She is in a class all of her own. I
think Larry and I are in total agreement on that.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Number four.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
Now you can have repeats from year to year. You
can repeat. Yes, Tim Couch won it twice, I think, right, Larry,
I think there's been one or two other people to
win it twice. But I put Travis Perry. Okay, he
thrown King Kelly Coleman's sixty seven year high school scoring record.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
And go back to the spring.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
At one point he was the only member on the
Kentucky basketball roster and he didn't bail.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I hope you don't get hate mail.
Speaker 6 (32:18):
Continue, boy, listen, I need I need to stir it
up a little bit on this show. Okay, I can
handle it. Number five Kenny McPeak. For that one weekend
in twenty twenty four, Kenny McPeak was at the peak
of the horse racing world how many people can say
they had two crowning professional achievements in about twenty four hours.
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The Lexington, Kentucky native can absolutely you got quiet.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
On man, No, no, okay, I'm letting you sink in.
I'm still I'm still stuck on the side thing.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Man.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
I want to steel horrible, want your password to your
emails because I know, man, they gonna be at your head.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
I feel horrible about it. Continue.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
But then when you realize you have to get this
turned in at like eleven thirty Tuesday night, and it's
eleven twenty and you screwed up and did not put
her name on there, it's hard to go back and
shift everything again. Number six Brian Hernandez the Kentucky Derby
dynamic duo of Brian Hernandez and Kenny McPeak. Hernandez has
placed himself among an elite class of jockey's, only being
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the ninth jockey to win both the Kentucky Oaks and
Kentucky Derby. A childhood dream for Hernandez Junior came true.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Got You.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
Number seven went with the UK Baseball again, Ryan wal
Schmidt prior to transferring to Kentucky. Ryan wals Schmidt towards
acl February of twenty twenty four, Waldy had slowly worked
his way back into the UK lineup and leading the
Cats to the College World Series and then becoming a
second round pick in the twenty twenty four Major League
Baseball Draft. Like of a comeback story. Number three m
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Over Walker Buehler. Hang on?
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Did you hang on?
Speaker 1 (33:55):
I'm saying over because you haven't said Walker Billy yet. See,
you're going in order, so that means you having over
Walker Builder. Even if you have Walker Bueler on there,
I think you gonna get hate mail.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
Continue Walker Buehler Number eight Okay, Former Henry Clay Blue
Devil and College World Series champion with Vanderbilt battled injury
with the Dodgers over the last two seasons. Twenty twenty
four wasn't out the season he was looking for until
the postseason became rowing back in Game five to win
the World Series for the Dodgers. Buehler was the unlikely hero.
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Disney cannot produce a better script.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Yeah, I had him number four on my ballot.
Speaker 6 (34:33):
And then, just as a side note, when you think
about Walker Bueller, you also have to think about who
was the catcher on the Dodgers. No way during the
World Series Will Smith from Louisville, who was a.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Nominee, and that's who number nine is. No, I didn't
say that.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
I just said as a side note, and my point
is this is difficult to do. Number nine Shepherd. You
couldn't ask for a better player to end the Calipery
era on at Kentucky. Rea Shepherd did it all with class.
That still means something to the Big Blue Nation quite
a bit.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
I had a number seven, so we're thinking.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
Alike number ten shake gil just Alexander six man coming
off the bench at UK to become one of the
NBA's most prolific scores. If he had won the MVP,
he should have won MVP.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
You're right, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
If he won MVP, then that would have shaken up
my top five, top six.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
That is all right, That is all right, good. I'm glad.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
I don't get any arguments from you, except for Messiah Russell,
because I did talk to some friends of mine and
we had some knockout, drag down conversations about this. Yeah,
I mean brutal arguments.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
And you are great at this producing thing because you
had your picks. Go right, up against the break. So
there's no there's not a whole lot of time for rebuttal.
But are you who have rebuttal and you got something
to tell Bow? He's on Twitter X, he's at Bow
Big Blue. No I canceled. You get at Sunday Am
(36:10):
Sports and you can let us know and we will
make sure he gets it. Because I'm Larry vaughut I
have no problem with and everything makes sense because he
didn't give us a whole list. But some of the
people he added that Bow had were right, and I
think he had him in the right place. But the
top three and the people that he had to leave off,
he proved why he had to leave him off. Boat again,
that is at Bow Big Blue on Twitter. If you
(36:33):
got anything to say to hey, I got to go
to a Breakussi Russell, she was three.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
B oh my god. We will be back after this year.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Listening to Stockyards Bank Sunday when Sports Talk on News
Radio six thirty w.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
L a P.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
This is the home of the Wildcats, six thirty w
l a P.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk. I'm Anthony
White along with Larry Vaught and Bo Robinson. This hour
Sunday when the sports talk has been brought to you
by a country boy brewing. I did want to ask
you really one quick question before we get out of here,
because I'm still distraught. Someone inboxed me and said Dane
(37:13):
Key was not on there as well. I think Jasper
Johnson should have been some of the names I seen, know,
I think Jasper Johnson should have been on there. Maybe
because he didn't perform in this state. Uh they didn't
count it, but y'all had Donovan Mitchell on there. So
so let me get this straight, Bawl. I just want
to get you. I just want to get you some
lee way. I want to get you to find you
an escape route. You were given this with a couple
(37:34):
hours to decide or did you have this list for
days or weeks?
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (37:39):
We've had it for a couple of weeks. I just
enjoy the pressure of cramming and trying to get it
done by the deadline.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Okay, Larry vaugh what do you gray? What do you gray? Bowl?
Speaker 1 (37:50):
You send back to you send back to it being quiet.
But you're you're a professional at this, so you you
don't typically engage in, uh that kind of shit.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Canery.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
No. I think both takes it very serious, and that's
what I said. That's a nice thing about there's not
any wrong or right answers, so to speak. I mean,
you can and Mark Story doesn't give you any definite guideline.
I mean, how you have to vote. It's all kind
of your personal preference, and I think you can go
a lot of different directions with it. You can get
(38:22):
preference to professional athletes and give professional preference to college athletes,
to females to males, however you want to do it.
My only wish is I wish they had a male
and a female sporting the Year of the Year both,
but Marcus said they just like keeping it with just
a one just to make it even more prestigious. I
(38:42):
think it's such a dynamic list it wouldn't hurt it
all to have a male and a female winner both.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
But that's just me.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
But I think both did.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Okay, thank you Mark's Story for doing that. That made
my day.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
It brought back the whole year and what was that
fifteen minutes? So Mark Story, we appreciate you. Nope, although
we're giving you flat for some of the names that
weren't on there. I do enjoy that. I appreciate it.
So thanks to Coach Garrison for joining us. Thanks to
Jack Pilgrim, Larry Vaught, Bo Robinson. I am Anthony White
and this has been Stockyards Bank Sunday winning sports talk
(39:14):
on DWES Radio six thirty WLAP
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