Sara Hughes - On Resilience & Overcoming Adversity as an Athlete

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🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Sara Hughes is one of beach volleyball's most historic college players. Winning multiple NCAA Championships, multiple PAC-12 Championships, and setting countless records at USC, she has made her mark in the sand and has been continuing to do the same at the professional level. After peaking at No. 9 in the world beach volleyball rankings with her partner Summer Ross, a heartbreaking injury stopped their climb to the olympics. Sara had to pick up the pieces to figure out how she would qualify before time ran out. To hear her story of resilience and why she's never giving up, listen to this episode!

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0:00.0	Now I know what it really takes to be the best in the world and I still want that.
0:05.8	I still want Olympic gold.
0:07.1	But sometimes you really have to go through something hard to figure out who you truly are as a person
0:14.2	and how hard you need to work to be able to accomplish something like that.
0:23.5	Hey everybody and welcome to RealPod.
0:25.9	I'm Victoria Garrick, former D1 athlete and mental health and body image advocate and I'll be your host.
0:31.7	We've got awesome guests, weekly inspiration in our brief, you've re-list conversations about everything and anything.
0:38.9	Now let's get real.
0:42.3	Welcome back to RealPod.
0:44.0	Thanks for clicking on this episode today.
0:45.7	We are joined by a very special and talented athlete.
0:49.8	Her name is Sarah Hughes and she is a professional beach volleyball player.
0:55.3	Sarah is best known for her historic career as a collegiate volleyball player.
1:01.3	One of the best of all time.
1:03.7	She paved the way for the program to become what it is now leading them to multiple national championships
1:09.8	and multiple packed 12 championships and setting records left and right.
1:14.4	She continued her career as a professional beach volleyball player where this past season
1:19.7	her and her partner peaked at number nine in the world rankings on their way to hopefully the 2020 Olympic Games.
1:30.0	However, Sarah's partner got injured and Sarah and her partner had to pull out of multiple tournaments
1:38.4	and got to a point where Sarah was also having to think about finding other partners
1:43.8	or how she was going to figure this out.
1:45.4	So it's really powerful and inspiring what she's been through, a situation where you work with one person
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