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By the time they get here,
they're a bunch of barracudas.

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These kids have competed
all their lives.

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We offer them the chance to
play this fabulous sport, which

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is everything their
mom said don't do.

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Don't play in the mud.

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Don't hit other girls.

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Don't be too aggressive.

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They're either hooked,
or they go away.

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I think it's just so
different because it's

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demanding in the running, but
you've just never hit things

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like the way when
you play rugby.

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When I came to UVA
as my first year,

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I found this was my group
of people, a family.

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UVA really wouldn't
have been the same

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without the group of girls
that I'm playing rugby with.

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It's hard to get
closer to someone

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than hitting them three
times a week in practice.

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I remember I made
my first tackle,

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getting my shoulder
into somebody,

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and I was like, this is awesome.

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These kids are smart,
so we just tell them,

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this game is about space,
and it's about possession.

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You give them just an
open plan, and they're

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going to do something
creative with it.

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We give them the keys to the
car, and we say drive away.

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And this year they're driving
to the national championship.

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We're all very high
achieving people,

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so we come on this field.

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We just want to do
our best and excel

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at this thing that we're doing.

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The plan is to win.

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It's always to win.

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We want to continue
to go to the finals,

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continue to go to the nationals.

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I'll go home for winter break,
and I won't hit anything

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for a month and I miss it.

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And I feel like I'm not
fulfilling some purpose,

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so it's really--
it's something deep.

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And when the season
is about to begin,

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it's just the most
exciting thing.

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