Speaker 1: We are live today at the Dumkey Family Stadium on
Speaker 1: the campus of the University of Utah. It is the
Speaker 1: return a professional softball to our great city in this
Speaker 1: great venue here in Salt Lake, right outside well, right
Speaker 1: on campus. Essentially, we're giving away tickets for the game tonight.
Speaker 1: Also have a grip of t shirts I'm giving away
Speaker 1: as well. All you have to do is come on
Speaker 1: buy and say what's up. Easiest thing to do is
Speaker 1: just search Dumkey Family Field on your Google Maps or
Speaker 1: Ways or whatever you use, and then just follow that.
Speaker 1: It's right on campus. It's super close. Come on buy
Speaker 1: and say hello. And we have a celebrity siding sitting
Speaker 1: next to me, the head coach of the Utah women's
Speaker 1: softball team and Utah Athletics Hall of Famer Amy ho Aamy.
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 3: I'm great, I'm glad to be here with you.
Speaker 2: Are you really It's really hot?
Speaker 3: It is hot. I'm wondering why they put you out here.
Speaker 2: Do you know? I am acting like a diva today.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: When I walked up and saw the tent and said,
Speaker 1: like Porter, my producer is probably so sick of me.
Speaker 1: I am stunned that we're outside, But hey, I'm a
Speaker 1: man of the people. Amy, I'm gonna make it to
Speaker 1: six o'clock. Okay, I'm in a grind, That's what I do.
Speaker 3: It was grass.
Speaker 4: At least putting it on the grass and sent the
Speaker 4: pavement could have been easy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, seg Well, if you would like to run
Speaker 1: our promotions department in addition to your duties coaching the
Speaker 1: softball team, please let me know. But it was great
Speaker 1: to meet you in person. I've interviewed you before, but
Speaker 1: we've never met.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was amazing to me when I just sug
Speaker 4: your hand and hadn't met you before.
Speaker 2: That's crazy, But it's great to meet you.
Speaker 1: So tell me the significance of an event like this
Speaker 1: for somebody like you who coaches softball.
Speaker 2: Here to you?
Speaker 4: Well, I was telling them last night when they interviewed
Speaker 4: me on ESPN two when the game was on, that
Speaker 4: I couldn't have even dreamed this up. I mean, I
Speaker 4: grew up here, and I played high school here, in
Speaker 4: college here, and started coaching here, and none of this
Speaker 4: was even in our brains as a possibility. So overwhelmed
Speaker 4: is probably one of the words I would think of
Speaker 4: but it's just getting better all the time because now
Speaker 4: we can see what it can become and getting really
Speaker 4: excited for the future of this sport.
Speaker 1: And you have some former players playing in the game tonight.
Speaker 1: Tell us about the players positions and kind of your
Speaker 1: relationship with them.
Speaker 4: Yes, we have three two on one team. The talents
Speaker 4: have Hannah Flipping and Mariah Lopez both played for me.
Speaker 3: Mariah just last year and.
Speaker 2: She's a remember Mariah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she's starting the game tomorrow nights. If you want
Speaker 4: to come see your pitch, show up tomorrow night. And
Speaker 4: then Hannah Flipping started every day at second base for
Speaker 4: me for four years. And then on the other team,
Speaker 4: the Blaze, we have Anissa Ortez and she was my
Speaker 4: shortstop alongside of Hannah.
Speaker 3: For all four years.
Speaker 4: So the two of them are both shortstops playing against
Speaker 4: each other for this series. So it's pretty fun to
Speaker 4: see them on both sides.
Speaker 2: So I asked you this off air.
Speaker 1: Outside of being the unofficial mayor of everything softball here
Speaker 1: on campus, what are your official duties with an event
Speaker 1: such as this tonight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of fun.
Speaker 4: Like showing up the day before everyone came, I found
Speaker 4: myself just like if you're having your in laws visit,
Speaker 4: cleaning that house and making.
Speaker 3: Sure it's just right.
Speaker 4: And then I've tried to stay out of their way
Speaker 4: because an event like this needs a lot of people
Speaker 4: and a lot of work, and I knew that the
Speaker 4: way they run, they just want us out of the way.
Speaker 4: They want us open the door and let them do
Speaker 4: their things. So they've been doing a great job. We
Speaker 4: have a lot of our staff helping and our players helping.
Speaker 4: But I've just gotten to walk around and enjoy being
Speaker 4: at the stadium and not feel like I was in
Speaker 4: charge of pretty much anything.
Speaker 2: So it's nice to relax a little bit, is what
Speaker 2: you're saying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they said they were going to sell alcohol and
Speaker 4: they blew that, so that's happening, but relaxing nonetheless.
Speaker 2: Okay, good for you. So you were a student athlete here?
Speaker 2: Where'd you go to high school? By the way, I'm talta,
Speaker 2: you're an outsit girl.
Speaker 1: Okay, And then you tell what positions or position.
Speaker 2: Did you play?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I played second base for both high school and
Speaker 4: second base for high school.
Speaker 3: I'm for the college here, so every day second base.
Speaker 2: Very nice? How have you?
Speaker 1: I know you reference that you look around and your
Speaker 1: mind is blown that we're doing what we're doing tonight.
Speaker 2: But how has the sport grown?
Speaker 1: I was part of the group that brought real Salt
Speaker 1: Lake care right, and so I understand the challenge of
Speaker 1: bringing a sport that isn't necessarily familiar to the masses
Speaker 1: and trying to grow it and trying to sell it.
Speaker 1: And quite frankly, it's an ever you know, changing landscape
Speaker 1: and the destination is never fully reached. But from you know,
Speaker 1: your time at ALTA and then at the U as
Speaker 1: a player and you're twenty seven years affiliated with the
Speaker 1: program as a coach, how have you seen the sport
Speaker 1: grow both here locally.
Speaker 2: And then nationally.
Speaker 1: I mean, the ratings for the Softball World Series are
Speaker 1: through the roof.
Speaker 2: ESPN gets a lot of eyes on that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all those things that you set are through, including
Speaker 4: all of the parallels with all the other sports that
Speaker 4: have been ahead of us in doing professional level stuff
Speaker 4: and bringing it into cities like ours. I'm really impressed
Speaker 4: with what it is. Not only that profession all sports
Speaker 4: is happening for the like WNBA and those that are
Speaker 4: coming out with with soccer, like you said, but what
Speaker 4: I love is just the people that are coming out,
Speaker 4: Like I just saw people stand in another tree. I
Speaker 4: swear they're waiting for to get in. And it's the
Speaker 4: games at seven thirty tonight. So that's that's why it's
Speaker 4: gonna work is because of those people, and also because
Speaker 4: you know, there's a lot of times we've started this up.
Speaker 4: I actually played professional softball, so and you know it
Speaker 4: was on and then off, and on and then off.
Speaker 4: So they've tried it a lot of times, but they
Speaker 4: didn't have kim Ing. Kim Ing as our commissioner of
Speaker 4: I say ours as if I'm part of the league.
Speaker 2: And you're all part of the ecosystem.
Speaker 4: She's gonna make it go. She's got it figured out.
Speaker 4: She came over and brought Major League Baseball with her,
Speaker 4: and you know, the game tonight is on MLB Networks,
Speaker 4: and I think it's really important that we understand that
Speaker 4: that's what's been missing, and we have her now and
Speaker 4: she's gonna make it go. I talked to her for
Speaker 4: a good forty five minutes for the game yesterday and
Speaker 4: have never been more impressed with someone.
Speaker 3: And I've seen a lot that have tried tried to
Speaker 3: get this to go.
Speaker 4: Our sport's too good for it to not go at
Speaker 4: some point, and I like that she's the leader of this.
Speaker 1: Tell me about your squad this year. What are you expecting?
Speaker 1: Give me, Give me some names to watch out for.
Speaker 1: Give me, give me some storylines for your team this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 4: We had a lot of new kids last year on
Speaker 4: our team, so we had a backwards step as far
Speaker 4: as wins and losses. And this year we have a
Speaker 4: incoming freshmen. We have two senior pitchers that haven't thrown
Speaker 4: in inn for me, and I think it's really important
Speaker 4: that we make steps forward, even as we had a
Speaker 4: cremmy year last year. I think that some names are
Speaker 4: some freshmen names. Actually, we have some hitters. So it's
Speaker 4: been fun to watch them this summer because I signed
Speaker 4: them obviously last year and committed them the year before,
Speaker 4: and to go out a couple of weeks ago and
Speaker 4: watch them and say, yes, they're the ones coming in
Speaker 4: putting a lot of pressure on them if I throw
Speaker 4: some names down.
Speaker 3: So I won't do too much of it.
Speaker 2: Oh, I like it.
Speaker 4: But we have some returning kids that I think have
Speaker 4: some some growth that we need from them, including our
Speaker 4: starting shortstop I'm.
Speaker 1: Going to ask my program director to get me back online,
Speaker 1: as my computer just refreshed as I was looking up
Speaker 1: some information because where I wanted.
Speaker 2: To go next.
Speaker 1: Is it Texas Tech who just paid a softball player
Speaker 1: million dollars a year?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3: That's good investment, That's what I thought.
Speaker 2: So I wonder Amy.
Speaker 1: Of course, we talked about this through the prism of
Speaker 1: NIL collectives and football and basketball and what it means
Speaker 1: for you know, the sports that people kind of know about.
Speaker 1: How has the changing landscape, includion athletics affected your job
Speaker 1: in your program.
Speaker 4: Well, here's what's happened. There's women that are getting scholarships
Speaker 4: that didn't used to get them. So the increase in
Speaker 4: the roster size and the scholarship numbers that just changed
Speaker 4: is going to benefit these women, and that's what I'm
Speaker 4: all about.
Speaker 2: Good.
Speaker 3: So there's a few obviously that are paying.
Speaker 4: Beyond that, there's you know that that was life changing
Speaker 4: money for that young woman that was in a wonderful
Speaker 4: program in a wonderful situation at Stanford, who now they
Speaker 4: paid off mom's house and all the things. So there's
Speaker 4: no way I'm not going to believe that that's good
Speaker 4: thing for sure. But our scholarship numbers improved, and I
Speaker 4: think there's a lot of programs in the country that
Speaker 4: are in the same boat. Hopefully they're as supported as
Speaker 4: I am here at Utah and got a bump in
Speaker 4: scholarships so that we're just giving more young women scholarship
Speaker 4: money and getting their college done.
Speaker 1: Does it change anything as far as the ability to
Speaker 1: go out and pitch your program when you're on the
Speaker 1: recruiting recruiting trail a little bit?
Speaker 4: You know, we had to be pretty creative with twelve
Speaker 4: that was the max for anybody in softball, and we
Speaker 4: took a lot of kids from the West because it
Speaker 4: was cheaper for them to come to school here with
Speaker 4: that scholarship we get from a Western school or a
Speaker 4: Western state. So now my footprints beer with big twelve.
Speaker 4: So getting a Texas kid is easier with the scholarship
Speaker 4: money that I've got.
Speaker 3: I don't have the only recruit from the.
Speaker 1: West so much so, and you reference the conference change,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you that I'm overly educated
Speaker 1: on this dynamic of yours. It feels like maybe it's
Speaker 1: a bigger challenge though the softball competition of the Big
Speaker 1: twelve is probably a little stiffer.
Speaker 2: Is that fair to say?
Speaker 3: It's actually not?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 4: The Pac twelve is historically much tougher. Of recent we
Speaker 4: had some of the you know, Texas Tech improve their
Speaker 4: program and some others are paying.
Speaker 3: Some big numbers.
Speaker 4: But RPI wise as a conference, Pack twelve has always
Speaker 4: been bigger.
Speaker 3: But it's quite a.
Speaker 4: Different type of a game. They play more of the
Speaker 4: long ball. The pack was a little more of a
Speaker 4: speed game, which is kind of what we did. So
Speaker 4: we'll acclimate see what it is we need to do
Speaker 4: to win.
Speaker 1: So as far as long ball versus speed game, how
Speaker 1: would you articulate what you anticipate with your team this year?
Speaker 2: Is it maybe a little bit of both.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a little more of a long ball than I'm
Speaker 4: used to. I like the speed game. I think we're
Speaker 4: a little slow. I'd like us to pick that up
Speaker 4: a little bit. Our park's the biggest one in the
Speaker 4: entire country.
Speaker 2: Oh is it really?
Speaker 4: So you can't just put a hitter out and right
Speaker 4: field and think you're not going to.
Speaker 3: Pay for it.
Speaker 4: So so yeah, I mean we added late and the
Speaker 4: kids that I'm recruiting that are showing up today are
Speaker 4: a little quicker, so we got a little lot of balance,
Speaker 4: But we also had a really speedy team when we
Speaker 4: went to the World Series in twenty three. So for me,
Speaker 4: it feels like whiplash, but we'll get more balanced by
Speaker 4: the end.
Speaker 2: It was what was twenty three like for you?
Speaker 1: I mean it really I think introduced your program to
Speaker 1: a lot of people around here that maybe didn't necessarily
Speaker 1: have the familiar relationship. So what did that year do
Speaker 1: for you your program and just kind of the exposure
Speaker 1: that you get here locally and then maybe they're a
Speaker 1: recruiting footprint that maybe feels a little bit bigger.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was fun because last night it was reminiscent
Speaker 4: of twenty three. We hosted supers here and won it
Speaker 4: and went to the World Series, but this Donkey Stadium
Speaker 4: was lit up, and that's how it felt, you know,
Speaker 4: last night with the pro game, and you know, there
Speaker 4: are a lot of contributing factors to that, but what
Speaker 4: I mostly realized is there's a lot of fans in
Speaker 4: this state, and if we're putting a good product on
Speaker 4: the field, they're going to show up, and if we're not,
Speaker 4: they might not. Unless the weather's pretty crummy then really
Speaker 4: nobody's coming but sure, which is tough.
Speaker 3: We play early March and it's cold.
Speaker 4: So when they bought season tickets at the end of
Speaker 4: the spring in twenty three, it was eighty degrees and
Speaker 4: we were playing under the lights, and they bought season
Speaker 4: tickets and I told them it needs to come with
Speaker 4: a football sized puffy coat because it's a little chilly.
Speaker 4: But you know, I think, if anything, and open their
Speaker 4: eyes to what we have going over here. And we've
Speaker 4: had more people ever since.
Speaker 1: Does it feel like I don't know, the US women's
Speaker 1: national team in soccer when I was kind of growing up,
Speaker 1: was very popular. Popularity has continued to grow and they're
Speaker 1: still you know, they win in a way that our
Speaker 1: men's team doesn't. The WNBA is certainly having a moment
Speaker 1: with Kaitlyn Clark and Angel Reese and you know they're
Speaker 1: flying private. Their salaries have jumped through the roof. I mean,
Speaker 1: I could give you stat after stat after stat, and
Speaker 1: I do think it's a Kaitlin Clark effect. I know
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't like that opinion, but she
Speaker 1: feels like Tiger Woods. She feels like Lino Messi and
Speaker 1: women's sports feels like it's having more than a moment.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Utah Royals are back. I could remember
Speaker 1: during their introductory press conference. I think it was Lindsay
Speaker 1: Vaughn who said, this is not a moment, it is
Speaker 1: a movement. Of course, we're honed in on softball at
Speaker 1: this point, But does it feel like women's sports across
Speaker 1: the board is maybe in a place now that it
Speaker 1: hasn't been potentially ever?
Speaker 3: It doesn't feel like that. It is.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 3: Okay, you nailed it.
Speaker 4: I mean, and it doesn't matter if I'm softball, I'm
Speaker 4: talking about basketball. I'm talking about Lindsay Vaughn and what
Speaker 4: she did. I'm talking about we support each other, which
Speaker 4: is why all of the women's sports are continuing to
Speaker 4: go up. And if we continue to, you know, champion
Speaker 4: each other. And you know, even I talked with our commissioner,
Speaker 4: and you know, they have ideas of expanding this league
Speaker 4: and copying some of the things that the WNBA is doing.
Speaker 4: So we're learning from each other and we're all growing.
Speaker 2: Well, that's that's excellent. Here.
Speaker 1: Let me go back to nil for a moment, just
Speaker 1: because I find it so fascinating to talk to college
Speaker 1: coaches with his landscape, what sort of.
Speaker 2: Endeavors are you undertake?
Speaker 1: Because it's one thing, you know, the school now has
Speaker 1: the twenty point five mil. The splits are the splits
Speaker 1: when it comes to football, basketball, and then what's left
Speaker 1: over for everybody else?
Speaker 2: Actually, let me ask you that, how does that land
Speaker 2: with you?
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's always a sticky, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of tricky conversation about revenue generation and then okay, are
Speaker 1: they revenue generating sports because they've received coverage and exposure
Speaker 1: for thirty forty fifty years or whatever it is. We
Speaker 1: haven't had that exposure. If we had the exposure, maybe
Speaker 1: we'd be generating revenue. I mean, I do understand all
Speaker 1: the levels. But when the twenty point five mili becomes
Speaker 1: the reality and you see the pie split the way
Speaker 1: that it is, tell me how that lands with you.
Speaker 3: It's great, all of it's great.
Speaker 4: I think everyone's trying to get a hot take on that,
Speaker 4: and some of them are biting on it.
Speaker 3: And I'm a half glass fool.
Speaker 4: I like the attitude for person, and I'm not in
Speaker 4: charge of the split.
Speaker 3: Their job's really hard.
Speaker 4: And I was just in my boss's office and what
Speaker 4: they do is ridiculous as far as stress and trying
Speaker 4: to figure out how to be equitable. And if they
Speaker 4: didn't care about that, then I'd probably be a little
Speaker 4: bit more worried about trying to champion my young ladies.
Speaker 3: But they are.
Speaker 4: They do care about that, and they think about it
Speaker 4: and talk about it all the time. Yea, And so
Speaker 4: I trust them and I get to let them stay
Speaker 4: in there lane, and I'm going to stay in mine
Speaker 4: and be grateful for the fact that they just gave
Speaker 4: me a whole lot more than I had before.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a great attitude to have. How much interaction
Speaker 1: do you have with the other coaches on campus or
Speaker 1: are you pretty insulated or does it feel like the
Speaker 1: athletic department is under one umbrella and is a big family.
Speaker 4: I think it's like every area probably of anyone's job.
Speaker 4: You can keep yourself to yourself. I mean, my stadium's
Speaker 4: over here, a office over here, a lot. But just
Speaker 4: like I was saying about the women's sports supporting each other,
Speaker 4: I tap into them. I tap into all those other
Speaker 4: coaches because they help me become better with my program.
Speaker 4: So that's for me to do, and I do it.
Speaker 4: Because I want to get better all the time, and
Speaker 4: those that want to get better, we collaborate. And I
Speaker 4: have some of the best coaches around. So I'm in
Speaker 4: Beth's here all the time. I'm like, Beth helped me
Speaker 4: with this, so I mean, she's been here longer than anybody.
Speaker 1: So I know some dumkies. I went to the you
Speaker 1: in the nineties, signa Kai Okay in Hokee. I know
Speaker 1: you're impressed with that. The dumkies. You know, ultimately there's
Speaker 1: some in our fraturnity. I don't know all the family.
Speaker 1: What does their contribution mean to your program? What does
Speaker 1: this facility mean your program?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I remember riding in a golf cart up that ramp
Speaker 4: with Zeke Zeke yeah, yea. And he first asked me,
Speaker 4: you know, how good is the baseball team? And I
Speaker 4: said they're good, you know, like he was so lovely,
Speaker 4: and he talked about his desire to put his entire
Speaker 4: family's name on this place.
Speaker 3: And I just listened to him talk that.
Speaker 4: Day and it was fun because a lot of times
Speaker 4: you don't get as much time as I got that
Speaker 4: day with someone who has their name on it. And
Speaker 4: I asked him why not Zeke on the stadium because
Speaker 4: he was the one that was the big presence for us,
Speaker 4: and he said he wanted his family on it. So
Speaker 4: I think what's fun is that's what started this place.
Speaker 4: You know, we were in the Mountain West and moved
Speaker 4: from a field across the way that we built when
Speaker 4: I was a senior here in nineteen ninety four and
Speaker 4: clearly needed an upgrade to move over here, and he
Speaker 4: was the beginning of that.
Speaker 3: And to hear his story and.
Speaker 4: Be there for all of that, still be here and
Speaker 4: be able to tell my team about him and about
Speaker 4: what he started. There's been a lot money since then,
Speaker 4: but it was pretty special. And when people try to
Speaker 4: figure out, you know, how to say their name, I
Speaker 4: make sure they know the story.
Speaker 1: We all know how to say it around here. If
Speaker 1: you're connected to the University of Utah, you know the
Speaker 1: Donkey family.
Speaker 2: What's the capacity?
Speaker 3: That's a good question, Okay. I know we had over
Speaker 3: two thousand here.
Speaker 4: They said it was sellout, but I think we had
Speaker 4: closer to three thousand when we had the I mean
Speaker 4: using the entire birm and we had the supers here.
Speaker 4: All I know is that there's there's plenty more grass
Speaker 4: up there. We keep bringing them, they said, with fire code,
Speaker 4: we might need to knock down a fence or two
Speaker 4: to call it an exit, you know, and then we
Speaker 4: can add in another three hundred or five hundred. I'm like,
Speaker 4: we'll be ready with a bulldozer. We want to blow
Speaker 4: this place up. So I know we've had, you know,
Speaker 4: upwards of close to three thousand.
Speaker 1: I'm going to ask your question I know the answer to,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna ask you anyway, because there's this like, uh,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't want to say movement, but there's
Speaker 1: some conversation about college football in the future, not including
Speaker 1: school like at all.
Speaker 2: You don't know, you don't need to go to class,
Speaker 2: you know, if you want to play.
Speaker 1: College football, because it is such a big business, it's
Speaker 1: going to look like the NFL. How do you balance
Speaker 1: your the asks that you have of your athletes with
Speaker 1: their their schoolwork.
Speaker 2: How important is that to you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it changed a lot since COVID.
Speaker 4: I mean we've asked the same all the time, but
Speaker 4: nowadays they can take so many classes online that traveling
Speaker 4: during a midweek to wherever we want to go is
Speaker 4: actually possible. But I think the balance and the health
Speaker 4: side of it is important to me. So one hundred
Speaker 4: percent of the student athletes that have played for me
Speaker 4: for four years have graduated.
Speaker 2: Hundred percent of.
Speaker 4: The kids that have played four years, and most of
Speaker 4: the transfers as well. But I think it's really important
Speaker 4: to have that continue to be first students first, That's
Speaker 4: why it's student athlete. And there's some majors that since
Speaker 4: COVID have put some of their in person classes, like
Speaker 4: some of the health science stuff in the middle of
Speaker 4: the day.
Speaker 3: That's when we practice.
Speaker 4: And if they want to tackle that, come late to
Speaker 4: practice or leave early. That's what they're going to do
Speaker 4: for the rest of a light so for their life hopefully,
Speaker 4: and we'll accommodate that. But you know, I think that
Speaker 4: balance is something that allow these young kids that are
Speaker 4: competing at the highest level they don't know anything about.
Speaker 4: So I think I'm a good mentor for that. Iving
Speaker 4: three kids and doing this job for as long as
Speaker 4: I have, for sure, it is really important to be
Speaker 4: a model for them.
Speaker 1: I did want to ask you about how you handle
Speaker 1: nil and what does that look like for you. I mean,
Speaker 1: do your players come to you and say, hey, I
Speaker 1: just found out that I can do this.
Speaker 2: Now, what do I do?
Speaker 1: Or do you have connections in the community where you say,
Speaker 1: here's a number you can call and they'll pay you
Speaker 1: one hundred bucks to go.
Speaker 2: I don't know. How does that space look like? What
Speaker 2: does that space look like for you?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we have someone in the department that handles out thankfully,
Speaker 4: and they have training, they learn how to do it.
Speaker 4: They all get set up early in the year so
Speaker 4: that they know exactly how they can do it if
Speaker 4: they want to pursue a lot. Some of them do
Speaker 4: absolutely nothing with it, and others show up every day
Speaker 4: with these bags of treats and said, hey, let's take
Speaker 4: pictures eating these, and then I get X, Y and
Speaker 4: Z money and that benefits all of us. Some of
Speaker 4: those treats are really good.
Speaker 1: Is a lot of its social media? Is it the
Speaker 1: TikTok and Instagram?
Speaker 4: And yeah, okay, yeah, it seems like the ones getting
Speaker 4: the best deals are the ones with the biggest numbers.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you use any social media? Are you on
Speaker 1: any of the platforms? No?
Speaker 4: It's funny because yesterday I did my first TikTok of
Speaker 4: my all like, how to do is stand there? So
Speaker 4: maybe I'll do more because I just had to stand
Speaker 4: next to Hannah and Mariah as they did one. I
Speaker 4: don't know how to look and see if it did
Speaker 4: well or whatever that means, but I know it's important.
Speaker 4: So I hired some young people on my staff there
Speaker 4: you go, and they're really good at it, and they'll
Speaker 4: let me know that it's important to like this and
Speaker 4: add this person or you know, and and if I
Speaker 4: didn't have them, we'd be behind because that's part of
Speaker 4: what we need to do and I want to do
Speaker 4: it right.
Speaker 2: So outsourcing, yes, that's the way to do it. You know.
Speaker 2: I kind of have to have it for the job,
Speaker 2: but I don't enjoy it.
Speaker 1: And so anybody that wants to post for me, please
Speaker 1: go right ahead, because it's just it's not my world.
Speaker 1: Think probably close to the same age didn't grow up
Speaker 1: with this being part of a reality. All right, Amy,
Speaker 1: before I say you lose, tell us about what's happening
Speaker 1: here tonight. Give our listeners the reasons why they need
Speaker 1: to come show up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we need to sell this place out. We sold
Speaker 4: it out last night. We have three more nights of this.
Speaker 4: We're not sold out. That's disappointing. I know that last night.
Speaker 4: We sold out a little easier because some of the
Speaker 4: young teams around here weren't playing ballgames and there's tournaments
Speaker 4: starting today, so none of those young kids know their
Speaker 4: schedule yet. Hopefully they're done and they can still come back.
Speaker 4: We start seven thirty tonight up here and seven tomorrow
Speaker 4: and I think four on Saturday, So selling out would
Speaker 4: be a big deal. You know, we're in the chance
Speaker 4: to maybe host a team one day and that's part
Speaker 4: of how we get so but the i'd even come
Speaker 4: right when we open the gates nineteen minutes before. You'll
Speaker 4: watch the end of the pregame, watch them hit, watch
Speaker 4: them play defense.
Speaker 2: Is that six o'clock?
Speaker 3: It is ok, And you can.
Speaker 4: Get in the gate and pick a shady seat because
Speaker 4: those are hard to come by today, and I think
Speaker 4: it's important to watch. Even I watched the pre game
Speaker 4: and see if I need to tweak some things. But
Speaker 4: coaches around here, I offer a clinic in January for
Speaker 4: coaches and they're so thankful every time. But all you
Speaker 4: need to do is come out, watch them do their
Speaker 4: pregame and take notes because even though your kids are
Speaker 4: only ten years old, and these kids out here, you know,
Speaker 4: twenty five. They're doing the same thing you needed to
Speaker 4: be doing, just at a higher, faster, stronger level. But
Speaker 4: come out and take notes. And if you're a coach,
Speaker 4: and if not, bring your kids, bring your girls.
Speaker 3: And it was a good time last night for sure.
Speaker 4: So and it won't be as hot because it'll be
Speaker 4: starting at seven thirty.
Speaker 2: Exactly when's opening day for you guys.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: We play eight games in the fall that don't really count,
Speaker 4: but the spring starts quick second week of February usually,
Speaker 4: and we usually have our first twenty five games on
Speaker 4: the road.
Speaker 3: So we'll be back in Salt Lake March fifteen days.
Speaker 1: Okay, Amy, thank you for stopping by. It's great to
Speaker 1: meet you in person. Enjoy the festiv Is festivies tonight.
Speaker 1: And if we could ever do anything for you, please
Speaker 1: reach out.
Speaker 3: Okay, and if I could get you some Americ condition
Speaker 3: and I'll get the.
Speaker 1: Man I had forgotten because we were having such a
Speaker 1: lovely conversation.
Speaker 2: Amy, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: All right, go all right.
Speaker 1: Amy hug the head coach of the Utah softball team.
Speaker 1: She's been a part of the program for twenty seven years.
Speaker 1: She was inducted into the Utah Sports Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: Utah Athletics Hall of Fame in twenty twenty two, and
Speaker 1: we are live today at the Dumkey Family Stadium in
Speaker 1: preparation for tonight's game.
Speaker 2: Come on buy and say hello.
Speaker 1: It starts at seven thirty, but as Amy said, you
Speaker 1: can get here at six o'clock when the gates open
Speaker 1: and watch warm ups. It is the return of professional
Speaker 1: softball to Salt Lake City the Dunkey Family Stadium, and
Speaker 1: we are just right on campus. The best thing for
Speaker 1: you to do is just pull up your Google Maps
Speaker 1: or your Ways or whatever you use Apple Maps and
Speaker 1: search Dumkey Family Stadium and just follow the directions. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're right on campus. You can't miss us. And we
Speaker 1: do have some tickets for the game tonight. If you
Speaker 1: want to come, bring the family. I'll hook you up
Speaker 1: with a bunch of tickets, and we have T shirts
Speaker 1: to give away as well, some ESPN kind of like
Speaker 1: Sports Center t shirts and say sports Forever with a
Speaker 1: good ESPN logo on it. So come on buy and
Speaker 1: say what's up. We'll reward you with a T shirt
Speaker 1: and some tickets for it tonight's game.