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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the studio from Racing Louisville's midfielder Taylor Jacqueline Flint.
Oh that is your middle name, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yep? I just changed my name. So when I hear Flint,
I'm like, oh.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Flint, Oh, you just officially changed a while, but you
officially flipped the mat.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
That was very hard.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Do you have to go somewhere and do that or
can you do that online? No?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
You have to go all over the city like I
just couldn't find I couldn't get it. It was just so irritating.
But I finally did it. Everything's good, got my passport
ready to go?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
And do they have to take your picture all over
again and do all that business?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yep, hours in the DMV.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
You need a passport because you're kind of a citizen
of the globe. You've been a little bit here there
as your mom's German. No, she played play Germany in Germany. Yeah,
she's a volleyball player. But didn't you play. I played
a little bit and on a German team there I did.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, I played in Dusburg, Germany for a year.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Language situation very hard, Yeah, because you're like, well, my
mom lived here, but she didn't learn anything except beer cheese,
one of the.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Hardest languages I've ever even tried to learn, so I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
It is horrible. Yeah, it's just one of those tough things.
Your racing Louisville experience has been good thus far.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, it's been amazing. STI lago played there for two years,
so coming here it's just.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
What what was your notion of Louisville before you came here?
Had you been here to play before or this was
all new?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, I've been here to play a couple of times.
I actually scored my first NWSL goal here, so that
was cool. So I was I had a little love
for the city. But from what I've just strictly farmed
town and I'm just completely not familiar with that at all.
But yeah, I love it so far. Me and my
husband are settling in really nicely.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Is there grass in Nevada? I don't even know.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Rarely it's fake grass.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah. My wife ran the Las Vegas Marathon and anything
alive in the ground the whole time.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
All desert and palm trees.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yeah, so any Yeah, they're good at they're good at
that as well. One of your friends was telling me
about a goal you scored here where you bent the
ball or you did something just amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah, that was from pretty far out. Yeah, I was
happy about that one. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Did you do you get an inkling that there's an
opening or is there some freak luck involved.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I've hit that shot a few times in practice, and
I've never found myself that high up in the field
to even think about. When I got it, I looked
up and I had no defenders in front of me,
and I was like, why not. I just launched it.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah, it was beautiful, the highways open.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Literally, that was my favorite shot I've ever taken in
my life.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So how'd you find your love for soccer?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I am part of a really athletic fan. My mom
put me in all sorts of sports. You put me
in volleyball, flag, football, tennis. I was dancing for a
little bit, like I was, I was everywhere, but soccer
just it was. It just spoke to me in a
different way, like being a part of a team. And
I knew I was going to be tall, and I
think I wanted to use that as an advantage. I'm
(03:02):
pretty sure I'm like one of the tallest players in
the world in my position. So just being that aerial
threat on the field and and you know, just having
that presence out there, it just brings me a lot
of confidence.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah, no doubt. Yeah, let's go back there a second.
Did you say dancing? Oh yeah, did you mean that
she was on what were you thinking, like the rockets
or you're going to do a Broadway show?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
No, I was, you know, I I tried tap, I
tried jazz, a little contemporary action in there. It wasn't
for me. I grew out of it literally.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yeah, but still, I mean that's a that's a completely
different than sports.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
But also my mom knew I was going to be tall,
so I think that was more of like a let's
make sure she's coordinated with her feet ballet. That was
a huge thing.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, because you rarely kick another dancer in the ship. Yeah,
now that's not that's a that's a different, different thing,
a different mindset. But when you're on that field, we're
here Lynn families, you can block out everything and you're
completely focused on this game.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Oh yeah, it's if you can't, it's gonna you're gonna struggle. Yeah,
that's the mental side is crazy.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, you can't think did I leave the eggs on
the You can't do any of that.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Stuff the stove on.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, no, your husband has to gettle the game now.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah. Yeah, he just he was at Saskatchewan playing in
the CFL. He's a punter, so we're both familiar with
kicking balls.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
That's a pretty good gig in football though, if you
if you're good at it, if you can was he
one of those guys who can spot it right in
the corner of the field.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
He was very accurate.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
It was like a lot of bounds on the one.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah. Oh, he had a couple of those in college.
It was It's like really impressive. But I I never
really thought anything before I met him of like special
teams kickers and punters. I just didn't. I didn't see
like the how like specific you have to be an
accurate and everything. It's so particular. But he always says
little sport like it. Had just not familiar with that.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
And what's amazing is a guy will kick a punt
in a football game and it's perfect, it's high, which
of course takes up time so the defenders can get
down there, and then it goes out on the four
yard line and the coach still yells at him because
you've been going on a one.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah, it's always something. He's like, I just learned to
just not look at anybody, just wait for my next job.
Like that's funny, it is.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
That's what happens sometimes in soccer too, though. If you
mess up something, you don't and you don't want to
make eye contact with anybody because you feel like you
let everybody down. But it's a frenetic pace thing.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
It's like you make a mistake and you're like, oh,
that's gonna be in film tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you did mention college? Are you a
prime time fan? Now you've got that your college.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Isn't yeah, oh yeah. This is when I leave everything
pops off.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Of course you leave Colorado. Now everybody's just they're just
throwing money at all.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah, athletes, the bandwagoners are wearing their cu buff stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
And my, what did you guys get for playing soccer
at Colorado?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
What do we get? Like?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
What cheeseburger? I mean, I mean that was Now.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
We got a small corner in the cafeteria just for us.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
You know. Right now they've got a fire hose blowing
one hundred dollars bills at people.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Like five chefs just cooking up filelets and lobster.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I'm like, well, the prominence for that school now because
of Dion Sanders is astounding.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah. No, I'm so happy for them. I talked to
my soccer coaches there. They keep in touch with me
all the time, and they're just like, it's a different
world over here. Imagine.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
All right, how's it feeling for Racing Louisville. You guys,
You guys are feeling pretty good about that.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
These past few games, we've been killing it and you
can see the group come together and we're kind of
developing this sisterhood and it's it's really good as a team.
If you don't have that, you don't play well, you're
gonna lose every game. It's like that is something you
can't teach. And we've developed such a relationship with everybody,
and you can see the trajectory is just exciting.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
See if you could get in the locker room and
tap dance and show everybody.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Saying, oh god, I don't know that too late. Oh jeez.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
If I only knew how to edit these conversations, I
post them raw. That's how that goes.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Clip it and put it all over.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
So so what do you do for the collegiality? I mean,
does everybody go to the movies together? Sometimes? Do you do?
What do you do?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
We have a lot of team bonding activities, and honestly,
we spend a lot of time at facility in general,
so I mean I'm with them for our good six
seven hours a day just chit chat. And sometimes we
just were sitting at lunch together just for hours. So
we get a lot of time together. And then when
we're on the road, I mean we're together twenty four seven.
It's like we have roommates on the road, and we
(07:40):
get a lot of we spend a lot of time together.
But we usually have like certain times of the year
where we do like this huge team bonding thing. Like
we went to the hotel down in New lou I
forgot what it's called, Hotel Genevieve. I think, yeah, okay,
I'm new here, that's all. It's all good. Yeah, we
went there and I think we're just going to do
(08:01):
some fun activities.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
And that's good. Yeah, that's important. And then you make friends.
They make an indelible mark on you, so they're gonna
be there forever for it. But like you know, when
you're in San Diego. You've been traded. How does that work?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
So we actually we have a great CBA within the
players Union and we are not allowed to be traded
without player consent. Okay, so that's like really big for
the women's game. I think we're the only professional team
that does that. So that's good. Like if you if
you want, if I want, Like there's no until my
obviously the end of my contract. But yeah, that helps
(08:35):
a lot with with the But.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
You get torn away from friends, I mean, because you
have to make that call yourself. But still it's like niche,
I got to give up my friendship here and there,
or at least go long distance with it.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, it's kind of like the name of the game.
It's like, you know what you're getting into with professional sports.
We always keep in touch, Like I have so many
friends from San Diego that I'm just I see them
twice a year. It's like, honestly, I'm at home doing
nothing anyway, so at least I get to click. I
just I see all my friends if they come into
town and play us, like we'll have them over for dinner.
(09:08):
But yeah, that's that's.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Kind of a friendly. We always call those other matches friendlies.
We're gonna have a friendly but but so it is,
you know, people from the other teams and yeah, and
then like this Orlando squad coming in. What are we
looking for on Friday night?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
A win?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, I know we need a win.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
They are they're incredible. They won the league last year.
Really good team. I know the coach. The coach was
I was out our rapid there, so their head coach
was the assistant when I was there, and he's a
great guy and knows how to run a team. They're
they're really good. But we're prepared. I mean, we went
on such a good run. I think we're we've fueled
the fire from last weekend we lost, but yeah, we're
(09:46):
we're excited.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Your third in the draft. Yeah, well that felt good.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
That felt really good.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah, and what do they do text you in advance
and say it's coming up? Or is it a surprise?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
So actually I signed with an agent couple a couple
of weeks before the draft, and he was going, yeah,
this was a different agent, so I can say it.
But he was like, yeah, you're gonna go twelve, Like okay.
So I'm just sitting there like hands crossed, like just
waiting and then they called my name and I'm looking
at my mom.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Like what what what?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
What?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
What? Great agent?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I'm looking at him like, oh, thank you for that. Like,
but yeah, that was a a real experience. Got drafted Orlando,
played there for two years, and then San Diego.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
For two years.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Louisville.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I wonder if that agent's still working. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I think he is. You don't talk about him.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
It all feels good here though. This is comfortable, fitting
like a glove here in Louisville for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah. My husband likes it too, and it's that's important
to me obviously. But we're both making our making a
little homie.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
All right, maybe you can help coach the punters over Louisville. Yeah,
we're glad to have you here, Taylor. Glad you're enjoying
your experience, and I hope it's a you know, long
lasting relationship with the racing Louisville. Great to talk to
you and your teammates. It's been fun having you on.
All right, it is Friday night. What do we start
at eight o'clock?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yep? Game?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
That's it rafec dot com and that's where you can
go find ticket information. And more about racing Louisville's next
blast and have a ball and hope, hope you make
a great run here postseason. Thank you so much, Taylor Flint.
We're coming right back on news radio eight forty w
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