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Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Louisville Fall Sports Media Day -- TUESDAY CARDINAL COUPLE


VOLLEYBALL, FIELD HOCKEY AND CROSS COUNTRY REPRESENTED AT LOUISVILLE FALL SPORTS MEDIA DAY

Three fall sports answered questions and discussed their upcoming seasons at the Fall Sports Media, held in the first floor press conference room of the Kueber Center Planet Fitness building on Floyd Street yesterday. 



Aiko Jones
Volleyball went first and the "wide net" Cards were represented by head coach Dani Busboom Kelly, defensive setter/libero Alexis Hamilton and opp. Aiko Jones. Below you'll find (2) links for hearing the Volleyball (as well as the other two sports....one audio only and one video/audio. The questions (mostly presented by me) are hard to hear on the video version. 

Sorry that I couldn't do anything about the commercials that precede the video versions  in all three. Google and the other mega-million corporations gotta rake in them dollars, right? 

AUDIO LINK:  VOLLEYBALL AT FALL SPORTS MEDIA DAY

VIDEO LINK:  VOLLEYBALL AT FALL SPORTS MEDIA DAY



Carter Ayars
After Volleyball, Field Hockey's head coach Justine Sowry and student-athletes Bethany Russ and Carter Ayars took the chairs and answered questions on the "Stick Girls" upcoming schedule and season. 

AUDIO LINK:   FIELD HOCKEY AT FALL SPORTS MEDIA DAY

VIDEO LINK:   FIELD HOCKEY AT FALL SPORTS MEDIA DAY 

Maybe the most interesting aspect of the video link for Field Hockey is a 30 second commercial for Chromebook and only 56 seconds of an over six minute actual player and coach question and answer session. 

I guess I didn't do a very good job on this one. 



Cross Country's head coach Dale Cowper was the third speaker. Cowper coaches both men and women's cross country. He did not bring any student-athletes

AUDIO LINK:  CROSS COUNTRY AT FALL SPORTS MEDIA DAY




( I could not find any video of Cowper's remarks) 


It's always great to catch up with the coaches and student-athletes at events such as these. It is a mystery to me why more media don't attend them.


After the Media Day, I sauntered upstairs to say "Hi" to any coaches around from the Louisville women's basketball and Louisville Lacrosse programs. I hit pay-dirt in that journey...talking briefly to Jeff Walz, Sam Purcell, Jonneisha Pineda, operations director Kate Tucker, associate strength and conditioning coach Beth Burns and director of player relations Adrienne Johnson for hoops and Scott Teeter and Kay Morissette on the Lacrosse side of the building. 

No recordings on those chats. Highlights of the journey upstairs included meeting Coach J.P. for the first time (a delightful young woman!), presenting Coach Sam a bag of chips, discussing with Coach Walz his travels over the summer and reviewing the Canada trip with Kay and Teeter.  We definitely need to set up a Cardinal Couple interview with coach J.P...and have set those wheels in motion. 

Have a terrific Tuesday!

paulie
xxxxx

  

4 comments:

  1. Thanks for covering Paulie.

    I'll put this one in the "WTF" category for the Field Hockey segment.

    They show a picture of a local television stations camera, a quick pan of attendees that doesn't include you and the infomercial, as you mentioned.

    Is that the best you can produce, UofL? Who's in charge of these things?

    Curtis "Listen to the audio, skip the video" Franklin

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    1. Curtis, it's not about me, it's about the student-athletes and coaches. I did find the Field Hockey video "interesting" though.

      Paulie

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  2. Man, you had an eventful day yesterday! Glad to hear everything is going well on campus with the coaches. Looks like it’s going to be a good fall sports season!

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  3. Overheard from Paulie while leaving the presser.

    "Me and a few of the 'boys' paid a few visits and you might not see some of these guys around anymore. Forget-about-it".

    Edward G. Robinson

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