It's all a team sport and making coming in to a pitching staff that has done that has been so cool to see of all of us working together and using different strengths to putting on a great performance . I am majoring in elementary education in early childhood and managing academics and athletics has been uh challenging at some points but for me it's been easy to time manage and block off times in my schedules that I can study . I have we are required eight um study hours a week and that has definitely helped me time manage of going and doing my study hours and getting all of my schoolwork done so that when I go back to the dorm I can shut down for the night and relax and then get up the next morning and lift and practice and so it's been a bit of a challenge but making sure that you're time managing and um balancing everything has been important so in the NIL space I have definitely seen a lot of um big impact that people have had .
Um, it was definitely a great experience and I wouldn't have exchanged it for the world because it allowed me to open so many doors in the state of Wisconsin and put me on a platform that I wouldn't expect to be on . Definitely a challenge that I had was focusing on and putting on putting work in all the time just because as a student in high school and as a teenager, you want to go hang out with your friends and you want to not miss out on homecoming and all these different events . But there was weekends that I was gone and I would miss out on a bunch of things .
checked all those boxes for me . Practicing and scrimmaging in this past fall has taught me so many things . I have learned to that it's easy to dwell on the mistakes, but you got to move past it right away .
and being a good teammate is the number one reason um to play and just making sure you're supporting one another and growing such a close community is something that's been very repeated by my coaches and it's something that I will take with me after softball because it's good to make connections with the people that you're working with playing with and yeah for me as a pitcher I focus on um making sure I am working on my power and my speed during practice . ractice . I do a lot of drill work with um different power drills off of like one leg um repeated pitching .
I have learned to that it's easy to dwell on the mistakes, but you got to move past it right away . Uh college level moves so fast-paced compared to some of like high school games or travel ball and being able to clean the slate and making to move on to the next play is something that I've learned here . And also just the camaraderie and teamwork that you have to put in um has definitely been a big thing that I've learned that you can't win a game with one person or two people .
