Agostina talks about the challenges she faced when leaving her family at the age of 16 to follow her tennis! She goes into detail about battling injuries on the tennis court - how rehab & recovery are important. She touches on mental health and the importance of it in sport. In addition, her relationship with her college coach and the way they work together to ensure she gives her best effort every time she steps on-court.

Hannah talks about her different experiences at various colleges. The different living situations she went through. In addition, she dives into some of her struggles and her team cultures how they differed between one and the other.

Hugues talks about the differences he sees in the French and English tennis system, furthermore goes on to talk about his university experience how transferring to one college and actually coming back to his original college of choice which gave me a unique perspective of embracing the team and the group of teammates you have around you. He also had to deal with a young group and the leadership role he played in getting the university of North Georgia team in the top 10 for the first time. He describes seeing the other side of college tennis having become an assistant coach recently at Florida international university.

Abby explains her hard fought journey to get where she did. She tells us some of the differences between NAIA nationals and NCAA nationals. Abby talks about the progress in which south eastern university managed to reach new heights in their program. The advice she gives is very motivational to any aspiring individual wanting to go to college tennis or sport.

Millen talks about how he transferred during his college career and how the process went. He mentions the difference between the two coaches he had and how this played a factor in his great success in college. Furthermore, Millen goes into further detail about the injury he has had recently and how he has had difficulty with getting back to the level he knows he can attain. He explains his goal setting and what he wants to achieve in his professional tennis career. Finally, Millen talks about how hard it is to become a professional tennis player and what he is doing to make it work.

Mark really hones into the detail about how important strength and conditioning is to sport in general. He has worked with various kind of athletes and discusses the importance to make sure to have good foundations when do training as it will help with performing better in the gym/weight room and in your sport of choice.

Jared goes into great depth about the mental aspect of the game! His insight about how he approaches his coaching and uses the mental aspect and skills he has learned to help his players understand how much the mind plays apart in tennis! He also talks about the battles he had throughout his collegiate career! How knowing your role and providing a good culture is key to success in NCAA tennis! He mentions his celiac disease and how he had to manage that in the US and the way in it impacted him on daily basis. (Apologies for the weird mic sounds!)

Neila speaks about how she has played in different systems and the way in which it has impacted her tennis career so far. She talks about how she likes the US system for making tennis almost a team sport as you are all fighting for the same goals and trophy. She elaborates on what she is doing at the moment with studies in Spain accompanied by constant training at two tennis academies in Valencia and how they are pushing her to take that next step to next level.

Pietro talks about the impact that his teammates had on him to keep each other accountable and set very high standards for each other in training and during matches. He also goes on to talk about how the players led activities off court that helped the team bond and form chemistry between each other as for more many athletes it becomes a family away from home. Pietro also mentions how from young age growing up and being away from family made the transition to college easier. However, he did struggle when he was 16-17 years old about the belief he had in is this the right path. He turned it round and has 3 national NCAA DII titles and loads of personal accolades!

Cedric and I discussed many topics from the German Tennis Fderation to telling us about how his team has developed well overtime. He goes into depth about what he expects from himself but also his teammates! Cedric describes that feeling of hard work and overcoming injuries which makes that success is even sweeter!