Conqu'ring Heroes 153 - Bonnie Tholl
MGoBlue Podcasts with Jon Jansen
The Varsity Podcast Network
4.8 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
With winter sports in full swing and spring sports quickly approaching, Conqu'ring Heroes is back! We begin another season of our all-encompassing Michigan Athletics episodes with Softball Head Coach Bonnie Tholl, who reflects on last year's run to the Big Ten Tournament title, shares some thoughts on the team's talented roster, and looks ahead to the start of the season. The Wolverines open the season with a doubleheader on February 7, and their first home game is scheduled for March 25 against Western Michigan.
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| 0:00.0 | The 2025 softball season here at Michigan is about to get underway. |
| 0:04.6 | It will kick off February 7 down in Tampa. |
| 0:08.7 | We're all excited about that. |
| 0:10.0 | It's a great recruiting class, and they headed into the last year's offseason with a lot of steam. |
| 0:15.8 | We're going to get a chance to talk to Bonnie Thall, head coach of the program here at Michigan in just a moment on |
| 0:21.4 | Conquering Heroes. |
| 0:25.4 | Welcome to your one-stop podcast for all things Michigan Athletics. |
| 0:30.3 | Updates on every team on campus and interviews with players and coaches are all on the way. |
| 0:35.6 | This is Conquering Heroes. |
| 0:39.7 | Here's your host, John Jansen. We're pleased to be joined on Conquering Heroes today as we kick off the new year here with the head |
| 0:45.4 | coach of our softball program. That's Bonnie Thall. Bonnie, thanks for joining me. And third year as head |
| 0:53.2 | coach last year, you guys started off 10 and 9 and then finished the season with the flurry. |
| 0:59.4 | Obviously, a Big 10 tournament title. |
| 1:01.4 | What did you learn about that team, that season that you're carrying over to this year's team? |
| 1:09.6 | You know, this is a process. |
| 1:12.3 | That's what we learned. |
| 1:13.4 | That the process we, at times as coaches, we try to speed it up and we had to have the |
| 1:19.7 | right pieces in the right place and give them time to develop, not just physically, emotionally, |
| 1:26.5 | but I will tell you that we did develop |
| 1:28.3 | incredibly. We got so much stronger in the weight room, thanks to our strength and conditioning |
| 1:32.5 | Coach Lou, in the commitment of the kids to get better and get stronger. And then, you know, |
| 1:40.2 | it transferred over to the ball field. We were able to run better, hit with more power. And then when |
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