April 8, 2025 • 13 mins
Meet Arin Wright from Racing Louisville. Born on Christmas. Never stopped celebrating life since.
A University of Kentucky grad now enjoying her pro soccer career, Arin's a mom, wife, and team captain helping the younger players navigate NWSL challenges and joys.
But she still finds time for a nap and awakens ready to tackle the world with infectious energy.
A University of Kentucky grad now enjoying her pro soccer career, Arin's a mom, wife, and team captain helping the younger players navigate NWSL challenges and joys.
But she still finds time for a nap and awakens ready to tackle the world with infectious energy.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here when news Radio eight forty whs Terry miners here.
We have a Kentuckian, a member of Racing Louisville, and
her name is Aaron A R. I M right, Hi, Aaron, Hi, guys,
it's so good to see you.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yes, good to see you.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
I know you're a talented player and we're all excited
to have you here. But I want to talk with
you about your roots a little bit too. You were
a Kentucky and I like that that you're here. You
grew up in Is it will Moore, Kentucky?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I started out in Gary County, lancasterire area, and then
I moved to Wilmore for middle school in high school?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Is that also? Where is Asbury around there too? Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeah, that was right.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
There's a neighborhood right there off of Asbury and we're
right behind it.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Okay, that's all good. That's not high Bridge? Is that
somewhere Rose? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Oh yeah, we can drive down to Highbridge in like
five minutes.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I saw a picture and I wonder if the water's
touching the underside of high Bridge right now?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Honestly maybe, with how much water we have here, I
can only imagine.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
So tell me about your soccer travels. You played for UK,
which you had to play somewhere before in order to
get a college scholarship d one sec scholarship, So you
had to be pretty good as a kid, like knocking
people down good.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, I mean I was decent.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I actually played for lexingn FC. It was where where
did it? Actually lycense where I started Lexing U Soccer
Association got to give him a shout out. Started there.
Then I went to lexingon FC and I actually played
with boys until I was ten, So I think, honestly
that's what did it for me, is up until ten
and then they were like listen, Aaron, you're gonna have
to go play with girls now. They stut they weren't
gonna let me continue on with the boys team, and
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I was like what he come on? So then I
moved to the girls team and I was there until
I was sixteen, and then my team actually folded because
at that time in Kentucky there were not enough girls
playing soccer. No. Yeah, So I ended up going and
playing for Ohio Elite because Mockingbird at the time was
full and they couldn't take any more people. So for
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U seventeen and U eighteen, I played. I drove all
the way to Ohio and played for them.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
For two years, like every Saturday or something.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Well, they had practiced three days a week and I
went to and when it was snowing and they said
bring your shovel.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I maybe only went like one day that week.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
That's insane. Yeah, you travel it far for practice, yep.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I mean my dad's the one who deserves the metal
and the other parents who did the car pulling, because
there were two other girls on my team at the
time that had to do it as well.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
But yeah, we drove. It was about two hours.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Anyway, along comes the University of Kentucky. They realize you're good,
You're getting the d one. It was a full ride.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, full ride, full ride.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So your parents are.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Like, yeah, they were excited. Well, they did tell me
if I got a full ride, I was gonna get
a car. So I feel like that at the end
of the day. That was the motivation. But then the
car never came in.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Oh cars, it never does. We always dangle these things
in front of our kids because you buy it fish
hook in mouth, gotcha.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yeah, So I actually I looked at the University of Wouisville,
which is funny because we trained there today because our field,
oh not accessible. And I saw the coach there at
the time, and it's still the same coach that was
recruiting me, and she gave me, how I still forgive
you for not coming.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Oh those coaches all get there.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, but it was between Kentucky and levelle at the time.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
That's cool. So the speed level gets a lot different,
doesn't it. I mean obviously from college to yes. I mean,
you know, college is tough enough. You're you're in a
Power five conference, you're playing great talent against great talent,
and then you move up to something like racing Louisville
and it's like what.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah, it's just like it's not just the ball speed,
it's the soccer IQ. The NWSL is probably one of
the most athletic leagues you're gonna find in the world.
All the best athletes come to this league and then
the soccer IQ bumps up from college and it's so
being able to keep up while running physically but also
mentally in the game. So if you're not a student
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of the game and watching it, you're really going to
struggle once you get here.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah. Well, I mean that's just the challenge is as
you move up each levels, like you got to be
good or they just till you get on the sidelines. Yeah, yeah,
you've you know, you've reached the beyond your peak.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Yeah, and then you have and it's like a game
of chess, like there's always new moves, new strategies to
come up with. Really, yeah, that's I mean, that's how
I view soccer. I've kind of navigated all different positions.
I went from forward, I played a little bit of midfield,
I played outside back. Now I'm a center back, and
every single position has had a new adventure to teach me.
And I feel like I've developed to my game because
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of that.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Did you learn from other people on your squad? I
mean there's somebody that you're like, this is somebody I
can learn from. Here you just doing it by watching.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Every single team that I've been on, there's been a
player that might they might not embody everything that I
want to emulate, but there will be something. For example,
at Kentucky, there was a girl named Melissa Tlang. She
was shifty with her hips man, and I used to
watch her and be like, man, how she pull that
move off? So I would practice it, and every now
and then I find myself doing that. And every time
i'm every team I'm on, I try and find a
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player that has something in their toolbox that I don't,
and I try and add it to my toolbox and
I'll practice that craft and fine tune it, and same
thing with like leadership skills. I've been on teams with
players at the US women's national team, some of the
best players in the world, and just to sit there
and learn from them and then add it to your game,
it just makes you that much better.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, And we've had exhibitions here with some of the
greatest of the world too, And that's a nice little
feather in Louisville's cap.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's nice to have those players
come here, yeah, to Kentucky and let them see what
it's all about. Because I've told people since day one,
because people always sleep on Kentucky people, they always do,
especially in sports. I was the only Kentucky player for
a long time to join the NWASL and we had
Amina Ekh.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
We've had Ali George.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Now and there's not that many and so now to
have a professional sports team in this state, like the
people in the state really rally behind their sports.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Do you think though, it has to do with like
they think it's too cold too much of the year.
What are the no cold?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I just feel like people only like I feel like
they associate us with bourbon and horses, horses, and they
think that there's nothing else to come here for. But
there's so much more. And I'm sorry, but why wouldn't
you want to come for those two things? Too? Right?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
And chicken?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Oh wait they left? But yeah, were you born on Christmas?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Such, that's such a cheat.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
It's a blessing and a curse.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I'll tell you it is. I know the curse part
of it. I know somebody who's a Christmas baby too,
and it's like, I feel bad for you.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I know. See, it was great when you're younger, right,
My parents did a birthday tree and a Christmas tree
is awesome. It was great until I left the house
and all of a sudden, I started getting joint gifts
and I was like, what is this?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I was like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
But you know what, I will say the best thing
about it is you always have your family near you
and your loved ones on your birthday.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah, so that is one good thing about a Christmas birthday.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Going forward, Oh, be home for Aaron's birthday, so you
could make your own carols.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Honestly, you don't want to hear me seeing though. That's
one thing I was not blessed with. I might be
good at soccer, but these vocal chords horrible, horrible. You're
not shy, I'm not shy, but don't want to hear
me sing.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
About our racing Louisville squad this year doing okay, right,
We're feeling pretty good about life.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I'm liking the trajectory we're on right now. I think
we are moving in the right trajectory. We are building
and putting the pieces in place that we need to
to get where we want to go. So I'm happy
with the start, and I'm excited to see these next
few games because we're good.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I can see it.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
What time we go on Saturday?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
What times?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Oh gosh, Jonathan, you know that sort of thing. Jonathan,
I knew. I knew he would know the.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Age and ask me. I'm just I'm working about I'm
working on the game tactics.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yeah, so I want to ask you about that too.
On match day, you you obviously have a certain regimen
you have to go through to make sure you're ready,
You're nourished, properly, hydrated, properly, all the other things that
go into it, and then the mind games that go
into it too. So tell me about your rituals.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Oh man, So I'm not really a very regimented person.
My friends will tell you. I'm really fly by the
seat of my pants.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Is that the phrase people say?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Sure, So I have one thing that I really like
to do, and that's sleep in. So I do have
a little one. He'll be five on April twentieth. So
I look at my husband and I'm like, if there's
one thing you do for me on game day, it's
you allow me to sleep in as late as physically possible.
So I'll sleep probably until nowadays, probably about ten on
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game day, and then I get up. I have a
big I like to have a big brunch. That's like
my thing. That's if there's one ritual, that's it.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Yeah, But what's on the plate that's on the plate?
Is it a omelet? Is it? I mean?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
What do you? I mean? I like spicy food, so
It's usually an omelet with like maybe some chariso in it,
some hot sauce.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I'm not picky. I can mix it up.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Sometimes I'll do pancakes, you know, I'll do I'll do
it all, and then I gotta have a coffee.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I have to have maybe.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Three cups of coffee, and then I think building out
throughout the day. I like to have a little bit
of alone time, just to like watch a show by myself.
So I lock locked the door to our movie room
and I'm like, okay, boys can't come in. So my
son and my husband they are out and I watched one
forty five bum Bum Bum and I act like I'm
not there.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I am not there. But other than that, I can
do anything.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
They my husband and son like to play a little
bit of pickleball on the day of game days. Game
days sometimes, so we'll go to Seneca Park. I watch
him jump on the playground play some pickleball. But that's
about it for me. I'm not a big music person.
I don't have like any set things, but once I
do start warm up, I'm pretty regimented there.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
You'd have to be. Yeah, you don't play pickleball though,
on game day.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
No, I sit there on the fence and I watch.
Of course I do. I would never pick up the
pick a ball paddle on game day.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Are you blinking right now? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I think there's not a camera on me.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I love that. Yeah. What's the plan for five years,
for years from now for you?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I don't want to tell you you'll have a ten
year old, you'll have.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
A ten year old.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I haven't really planned out. I feel like when you're younger.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I'm at that age right where you start thinking about
life after soccer a little bit. But at the same time,
I'm thirty two and you see people playing till they're forty.
So for me that five year looking out, I'm not
really sure. Right, it looks like it's still a bit
gray and hazy, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
So we'll see what's to come. I'm still got some
fuel in.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
The tank, so no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, I'm not sure yet. I do. I did get
my real estate license.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I haven't done much with it yet, just because season's
been crazy and now the captain so there's a lot
more roles to fill within that. But you know, I
love interior design. I could maybe see myself dabbling a
bit in that, so.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
I don't know a lot of buildings that need to
go on the market around here.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I know I've been seeing so now that I'm telling everyone.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
As a captain, are you listening the sounding board the listener? Yeah,
when people come to you and you're like, dude, you're
and they're twenty one years old or whatever and they're
like telling you things, you're like and you'll get through that.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I know that is one hard things, Like you got
to listen to it all and it's like, man, I
remember actually saying that about ten years ago, but.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
It's kind of great, you know.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I think my team really trusts me and they know
I'm going to advocate for and that's one thing I
really that's a big aspect of my game, is I
like to advocate for my teammates. I think when I
was growing up playing in the beginning of this league
ten years ago, there were a lot of things that
we didn't have and it's been a grind to get
the things that we deserve as players. And so anytime
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I can do that for my teammates, I really take
a lot of pride.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
In that they send you in to go see the suit.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Oh yeah, I love I love it. I'm like, Okay,
what do you got to send me in there for?
I'm ready, guns a blazing.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
She's wearing boxing gloves. The owner's like, okay, whatever you
want erin.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah. But the thing is is like they all they
all know that, you know, I want what's best for
this club. And at the end of the day, too,
there is some times where you got to go back
to your teammates and you're like, guys are being a
little unreasonable here, Like you got to look at it
from the other side, and so it's a little bit
of playing that dance between both of them.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Racing Louisville Saturday at five at Lynn Family Stadium, And
I know it's going to be exciting just to have
you guys out there. You know, I know it was
going to be fireworks staying all It doesn't matter. You
guys are loved in this community. Just been a great
showcase place. So go out and have a ball and
keep this season rolling forward.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
We will Thanks so much for having me, Aaron.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
It's great to talk to you. Next time we'll have
to talk about our UK experience.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Oh I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Oh my goodness, and the garbage dorms we lived in,
and now you go there and they're so spoiled. It's
like a five star.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Oh I know.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
I think the basketball players they've got their their sinks
and everything in their dorm built to fit their size.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yeah, that's even better. That is. It's all customs. It's
all customized for everybody. Now exactly all right, we'll do
it this Saturday, taking on the Washington spirit. That sounds right,
doesn't it? Five o'clock here at our famous bourbon shaped stadium,
Bourbon barrel shaped stadium. And I just appreciate all you
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bring to this team.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Of course, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
I'm excited and this has been a great you know city,
and I'm excited to continue to play here and continue
to bring in more fans.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Aaron right, we're coming right back on news RADIOA forty
whas
Here when news Radio eight forty whs Terry miners here.
We have a Kentuckian, a member of Racing Louisville, and
her name is Aaron A R. I M right, Hi, Aaron, Hi, guys,
it's so good to see you.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yes, good to see you.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
I know you're a talented player and we're all excited
to have you here. But I want to talk with
you about your roots a little bit too. You were
a Kentucky and I like that that you're here. You
grew up in Is it will Moore, Kentucky?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I started out in Gary County, lancasterire area, and then
I moved to Wilmore for middle school in high school?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Is that also? Where is Asbury around there too? Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeah, that was right.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
There's a neighborhood right there off of Asbury and we're
right behind it.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Okay, that's all good. That's not high Bridge? Is that
somewhere Rose? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Oh yeah, we can drive down to Highbridge in like
five minutes.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I saw a picture and I wonder if the water's
touching the underside of high Bridge right now?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Honestly maybe, with how much water we have here, I
can only imagine.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
So tell me about your soccer travels. You played for UK,
which you had to play somewhere before in order to
get a college scholarship d one sec scholarship, So you
had to be pretty good as a kid, like knocking
people down good.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, I mean I was decent.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I actually played for lexingn FC. It was where where
did it? Actually lycense where I started Lexing U Soccer
Association got to give him a shout out. Started there.
Then I went to lexingon FC and I actually played
with boys until I was ten, So I think, honestly
that's what did it for me, is up until ten
and then they were like listen, Aaron, you're gonna have
to go play with girls now. They stut they weren't
gonna let me continue on with the boys team, and
(01:37):
I was like what he come on? So then I
moved to the girls team and I was there until
I was sixteen, and then my team actually folded because
at that time in Kentucky there were not enough girls
playing soccer. No. Yeah, So I ended up going and
playing for Ohio Elite because Mockingbird at the time was
full and they couldn't take any more people. So for
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U seventeen and U eighteen, I played. I drove all
the way to Ohio and played for them.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
For two years, like every Saturday or something.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Well, they had practiced three days a week and I
went to and when it was snowing and they said
bring your shovel.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I maybe only went like one day that week.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
That's insane. Yeah, you travel it far for practice, yep.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I mean my dad's the one who deserves the metal
and the other parents who did the car pulling, because
there were two other girls on my team at the
time that had to do it as well.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
But yeah, we drove. It was about two hours.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Anyway, along comes the University of Kentucky. They realize you're good,
You're getting the d one. It was a full ride.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, full ride, full ride.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So your parents are.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Like, yeah, they were excited. Well, they did tell me
if I got a full ride, I was gonna get
a car. So I feel like that at the end
of the day. That was the motivation. But then the
car never came in.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Oh cars, it never does. We always dangle these things
in front of our kids because you buy it fish
hook in mouth, gotcha.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yeah, So I actually I looked at the University of Wouisville,
which is funny because we trained there today because our field,
oh not accessible. And I saw the coach there at
the time, and it's still the same coach that was
recruiting me, and she gave me, how I still forgive
you for not coming.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Oh those coaches all get there.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, but it was between Kentucky and levelle at the time.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
That's cool. So the speed level gets a lot different,
doesn't it. I mean obviously from college to yes. I mean,
you know, college is tough enough. You're you're in a
Power five conference, you're playing great talent against great talent,
and then you move up to something like racing Louisville
and it's like what.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah, it's just like it's not just the ball speed,
it's the soccer IQ. The NWSL is probably one of
the most athletic leagues you're gonna find in the world.
All the best athletes come to this league and then
the soccer IQ bumps up from college and it's so
being able to keep up while running physically but also
mentally in the game. So if you're not a student
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of the game and watching it, you're really going to
struggle once you get here.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah. Well, I mean that's just the challenge is as
you move up each levels, like you got to be
good or they just till you get on the sidelines. Yeah, yeah,
you've you know, you've reached the beyond your peak.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Yeah, and then you have and it's like a game
of chess, like there's always new moves, new strategies to
come up with. Really, yeah, that's I mean, that's how
I view soccer. I've kind of navigated all different positions.
I went from forward, I played a little bit of midfield,
I played outside back. Now I'm a center back, and
every single position has had a new adventure to teach me.
And I feel like I've developed to my game because
(04:30):
of that.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Did you learn from other people on your squad? I
mean there's somebody that you're like, this is somebody I
can learn from. Here you just doing it by watching.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Every single team that I've been on, there's been a
player that might they might not embody everything that I
want to emulate, but there will be something. For example,
at Kentucky, there was a girl named Melissa Tlang. She
was shifty with her hips man, and I used to
watch her and be like, man, how she pull that
move off? So I would practice it, and every now
and then I find myself doing that. And every time
i'm every team I'm on, I try and find a
(05:01):
player that has something in their toolbox that I don't,
and I try and add it to my toolbox and
I'll practice that craft and fine tune it, and same
thing with like leadership skills. I've been on teams with
players at the US women's national team, some of the
best players in the world, and just to sit there
and learn from them and then add it to your game,
it just makes you that much better.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, And we've had exhibitions here with some of the
greatest of the world too, And that's a nice little
feather in Louisville's cap.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's nice to have those players
come here, yeah, to Kentucky and let them see what
it's all about. Because I've told people since day one,
because people always sleep on Kentucky people, they always do,
especially in sports. I was the only Kentucky player for
a long time to join the NWASL and we had
Amina Ekh.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
We've had Ali George.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Now and there's not that many and so now to
have a professional sports team in this state, like the
people in the state really rally behind their sports.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Do you think though, it has to do with like
they think it's too cold too much of the year.
What are the no cold?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I just feel like people only like I feel like
they associate us with bourbon and horses, horses, and they
think that there's nothing else to come here for. But
there's so much more. And I'm sorry, but why wouldn't
you want to come for those two things? Too? Right?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
And chicken?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Oh wait they left? But yeah, were you born on Christmas?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Such, that's such a cheat.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
It's a blessing and a curse.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I'll tell you it is. I know the curse part
of it. I know somebody who's a Christmas baby too,
and it's like, I feel bad for you.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I know. See, it was great when you're younger, right,
My parents did a birthday tree and a Christmas tree
is awesome. It was great until I left the house
and all of a sudden, I started getting joint gifts
and I was like, what is this?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I was like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
But you know what, I will say the best thing
about it is you always have your family near you
and your loved ones on your birthday.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah, so that is one good thing about a Christmas birthday.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Going forward, Oh, be home for Aaron's birthday, so you
could make your own carols.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Honestly, you don't want to hear me seeing though. That's
one thing I was not blessed with. I might be
good at soccer, but these vocal chords horrible, horrible. You're
not shy, I'm not shy, but don't want to hear
me sing.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
About our racing Louisville squad this year doing okay, right,
We're feeling pretty good about life.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I'm liking the trajectory we're on right now. I think
we are moving in the right trajectory. We are building
and putting the pieces in place that we need to
to get where we want to go. So I'm happy
with the start, and I'm excited to see these next
few games because we're good.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I can see it.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
What time we go on Saturday?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
What times?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Oh gosh, Jonathan, you know that sort of thing. Jonathan,
I knew. I knew he would know the.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Age and ask me. I'm just I'm working about I'm
working on the game tactics.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yeah, so I want to ask you about that too.
On match day, you you obviously have a certain regimen
you have to go through to make sure you're ready,
You're nourished, properly, hydrated, properly, all the other things that
go into it, and then the mind games that go
into it too. So tell me about your rituals.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Oh man, So I'm not really a very regimented person.
My friends will tell you. I'm really fly by the
seat of my pants.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Is that the phrase people say?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Sure, So I have one thing that I really like
to do, and that's sleep in. So I do have
a little one. He'll be five on April twentieth. So
I look at my husband and I'm like, if there's
one thing you do for me on game day, it's
you allow me to sleep in as late as physically possible.
So I'll sleep probably until nowadays, probably about ten on
(08:47):
game day, and then I get up. I have a
big I like to have a big brunch. That's like
my thing. That's if there's one ritual, that's it.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Yeah, But what's on the plate that's on the plate?
Is it a omelet? Is it? I mean?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
What do you? I mean? I like spicy food, so
It's usually an omelet with like maybe some chariso in it,
some hot sauce.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I'm not picky. I can mix it up.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Sometimes I'll do pancakes, you know, I'll do I'll do
it all, and then I gotta have a coffee.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I have to have maybe.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Three cups of coffee, and then I think building out
throughout the day. I like to have a little bit
of alone time, just to like watch a show by myself.
So I lock locked the door to our movie room
and I'm like, okay, boys can't come in. So my
son and my husband they are out and I watched one
forty five bum Bum Bum and I act like I'm
not there.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I am not there. But other than that, I can
do anything.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
They my husband and son like to play a little
bit of pickleball on the day of game days. Game
days sometimes, so we'll go to Seneca Park. I watch
him jump on the playground play some pickleball. But that's
about it for me. I'm not a big music person.
I don't have like any set things, but once I
do start warm up, I'm pretty regimented there.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
You'd have to be. Yeah, you don't play pickleball though,
on game day.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
No, I sit there on the fence and I watch.
Of course I do. I would never pick up the
pick a ball paddle on game day.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Are you blinking right now? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I think there's not a camera on me.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I love that. Yeah. What's the plan for five years,
for years from now for you?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I don't want to tell you you'll have a ten
year old, you'll have.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
A ten year old.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I haven't really planned out. I feel like when you're younger.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I'm at that age right where you start thinking about
life after soccer a little bit. But at the same time,
I'm thirty two and you see people playing till they're forty.
So for me that five year looking out, I'm not
really sure. Right, it looks like it's still a bit
gray and hazy, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
So we'll see what's to come. I'm still got some
fuel in.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
The tank, so no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, I'm not sure yet. I do. I did get
my real estate license.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I haven't done much with it yet, just because season's
been crazy and now the captain so there's a lot
more roles to fill within that. But you know, I
love interior design. I could maybe see myself dabbling a
bit in that, so.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
I don't know a lot of buildings that need to
go on the market around here.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I know I've been seeing so now that I'm telling everyone.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
As a captain, are you listening the sounding board the listener? Yeah,
when people come to you and you're like, dude, you're
and they're twenty one years old or whatever and they're
like telling you things, you're like and you'll get through that.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I know that is one hard things, Like you got
to listen to it all and it's like, man, I
remember actually saying that about ten years ago, but.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
It's kind of great, you know.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I think my team really trusts me and they know
I'm going to advocate for and that's one thing I
really that's a big aspect of my game, is I
like to advocate for my teammates. I think when I
was growing up playing in the beginning of this league
ten years ago, there were a lot of things that
we didn't have and it's been a grind to get
the things that we deserve as players. And so anytime
(11:55):
I can do that for my teammates, I really take
a lot of pride.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
In that they send you in to go see the suit.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Oh yeah, I love I love it. I'm like, Okay,
what do you got to send me in there for?
I'm ready, guns a blazing.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
She's wearing boxing gloves. The owner's like, okay, whatever you
want erin.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah. But the thing is is like they all they
all know that, you know, I want what's best for
this club. And at the end of the day, too,
there is some times where you got to go back
to your teammates and you're like, guys are being a
little unreasonable here, Like you got to look at it
from the other side, and so it's a little bit
of playing that dance between both of them.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Racing Louisville Saturday at five at Lynn Family Stadium, And
I know it's going to be exciting just to have
you guys out there. You know, I know it was
going to be fireworks staying all It doesn't matter. You
guys are loved in this community. Just been a great
showcase place. So go out and have a ball and
keep this season rolling forward.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
We will Thanks so much for having me, Aaron.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
It's great to talk to you. Next time we'll have
to talk about our UK experience.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Oh I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Oh my goodness, and the garbage dorms we lived in,
and now you go there and they're so spoiled. It's
like a five star.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Oh I know.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
I think the basketball players they've got their their sinks
and everything in their dorm built to fit their size.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yeah, that's even better. That is. It's all customs. It's
all customized for everybody. Now exactly all right, we'll do
it this Saturday, taking on the Washington spirit. That sounds right,
doesn't it? Five o'clock here at our famous bourbon shaped stadium,
Bourbon barrel shaped stadium. And I just appreciate all you
(13:29):
bring to this team.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Of course, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
I'm excited and this has been a great you know city,
and I'm excited to continue to play here and continue
to bring in more fans.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Aaron right, we're coming right back on news RADIOA forty
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