Hello and welcome to one of All We Hear is Purple’s bi-annual better-than-normal episodes.

That’s because today we’re joined by a certified cool person. What makes their coolness certifiable?

Well when you’re a former All-Pac-10 infielder, the all-time winningest UW coach across all sports, a national champion, the head coach for Team USA, and a general Redmond #icon (go Mustangs amiright?), that’s certifiably kickass. It’s basically science.

If you hadn’t figured it out by now, we’re talking about Washington Softball Head Coach Heather Tarr.

We talk about:

The human component of managing a program

Husky Softball Stadium concession stand hot dogs

Team America (and Seattle U) and coaching against former players and assistants

Chris Petersen being a wise, Gandalf-like figure

The evolution of recruiting the last 15 years

The evolution of batting the last 15 years

The psychology of going from high school depth player to college star

What do Gabbie Plain and Danielle Lawrie have in common in their ass-kickingness despite them being, from the outside looking in, complete opposites?

Differences offensively between ‘22 Washington and ‘21 Washington

Becoming a head coach before turning 30

Andrew’s favorite author of late

Ozark. Also Clueless.

Plus, a cameo from Cat Tarr — the tragedy of this episode being that podcasting is sadly an auditory medium and thus none of you get to see him. So you’ll have to just trust us, he was a great cat right there.

Enjoy!

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