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[Scott Golden]: Hey everybody, this is Scott Golden. I am being joined today on this live interview by none other than up and coming rising star Anna Bright. Anna, what's going on today?
[Anna Bright]: Hey Scott, I'm doing great. How are you? So glad to be here.
[Scott Golden]: Yeah, so you are a normal human being. You work a job, you have, you know, nine to five hours, is that right?
[Anna Bright]: I'm lucky; I'm like nine to four or four thirty, which is a little bit better, so that's plenty of time for pickleball.
[Scott Golden]: Yeah, for pickleball. There could always still make the afternoon sessions.
[Anna Bright]: Yes, I'm not doing two days, but I'm doing one a day. I love it.
[Scott Golden]: Yeah, I remember we talked recently, and you said something like, "I can do the interview, but I definitely don't want to miss my afternoon session or something like that. You want to make sure you've got your pickleball."
[Anna Bright]: No, I have to. I even... I went to play yesterday, which was probably a mistake. I went and I played like three rec games, and I was like, "I'm done. I'm so tired." But I just... I still wanted to play. I can't believe you even thought about playing at that point. That's ridiculous. As many games as you played over the weekend.
[Scott Golden]: That's insane. I didn't just think about playing; I drove to Davy, which is like 45 minutes away, and I played three games, and I lost the last one, and I was like, "I think I'm done. I'm sorry, guys. I'm out. I'm out."
[Scott Golden]: Well, let's talk about that. Let's start with the basics, though. Let's start with this. How old is Anna Bright? How old are you?
[Anna Bright]: Anna Bright is 22 years old.
[Scott Golden]: 22 years old. So you're on the, I would say, the young side of pickleball. We're going to get into your partners as well because your partners have a little bit even more of a young edge on you than yourself, but I would say 22 is pretty young. And then your pickleball career is also pretty young, is that fair to say?
[Anna Bright]: Yeah, my pickleball career is still measured in months. I started playing like, I started getting into it on October 23rd. I know the day. I had played a few times, like a handful of times while I was in college, just with my family. But October 23rd, I picked up a paddle at the park by my house, and that's when it all began. The next day, I went and I bought a legit paddle, and then I was going to a plantation, and that's... Yeah, that's how it all started for me.
[Scott Golden]: But let's be clear for the viewers watching, I started five years ago, and so this is... I didn't tell you I was going to bring this up, but you'll remember this very vividly. We're going to talk about it. You played in a small tournament against me in a 4.5 mixed gold. You were, what, three, four weeks into the play, maybe? I don't know. I think that tournament happened around November 1st, around November 7th. I think I was about two weeks, two weeks into play.
[Anna Bright]: Yeah, I think I was a little over two weeks at that point. And I had never seen anything like Scott Golden. I was like, "What is this man doing right now?" He's like... It's like if anyone's seen how he gets... So he's like, "This guy's got tentacles for arms," and he was earning. And I was so frazzled. That's the part that I remember the most. I remember the ernies that you kept hitting down the line on me, and I kept earning you. And you kept saying out loud, "Why are you earning? Why are you earning me over and over? Why am I hitting down the line over and over?" Like, I just didn't know what to do. I had no idea what to do out there.
[Scott Golden]: I feel like I was part of your success because I taught you early on that you just can't go down the line on high-level players. It doesn't work. Oh, I don't know about high-level players. Just kidding. Just kidding. I love it. Well, wait. But who won that gold? I think it was me. I think I won that gold. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, you won it. You won it. Who cares if it was two weeks and Karina got me? It was pretty... It was pretty handy. It was like 15-7 or something like... Who cares if you haven't been playing two weeks? I don't know. A win is a win. When I found out it was two weeks, though, Anna, I was... I almost threw up. I was like, "What? I barely beat her." Not barely, but... But thank you. But you've gone uphill since then. You've gone straight up to the pro level.
[Anna Bright]: So let's... But let's start with your actual pickleball journey. I want you to tell people how you got to pickleball. So, like, what was your journey leading up to that? You obviously come from tennis. Is that fair to say? So start there. Start with your background growing up and how you got into sports and all that.
[Anna Bright]: Okay. So, um, my dad was, uh... My dad was a college tennis player at a small school in Tennessee, and I am the oldest. I have two little sisters, and so I was destined to be a tennis player. There was no ifs, ands, or buts about it. I have photos of myself being like two or three years old with, like, a racket in my hand and stuff. It was always going to happen. It was just in the cards. So I started playing really young, and I was... I grew up in Texas till I was about 12. Been in Florida since. So I was a really, really good junior tennis player, and then got recruited for college. And so I played at Cal, which a lot of people now know, played tennis at Cal. Had a really, really good career there. My style in tennis is a little different from the style you guys see me playing pickleball. In pickleball, I just rip everything. I know I'll never be the best dinker, but I'm gonna hit hard. Whereas in tennis, I was a pretty patient and smart player. I was pretty good at the bottom half of a college lineup. And then, so come May, I was done with college tennis, and I only got back home to Florida mid-September because after college, I wanted to do something kind of crazy, and if anybody else has heard of the Appalachian Trail, that one is more popular on the West Coast. There's something called the Pacific Crest Trail, which is a hiking and backpacking trail that goes from Mexico to Canada. It's 2,650 miles, and I spent a few months doing that. So that's what I did from about mid-May to mid-September. I was just walking. I was walking for a long time, and then I got home, and actually, I got into pickleball.
[Scott Golden]: So I actually did a little homework on you, just to try to catch up to speed on everything, and I looked at your Instagram, which is Anna Not So Bright, which I think is a very clever name on there. But if you guys go on there and follow her, you'll see her journey through the trail that she's talking about. How long did that take you?
[Anna Bright]: It took 113 days, I think.
[Scott Golden]: And, also, right, you guys gotta hit me up. You guys gotta become my friend to get on and out. But I'll start putting some more content on my pickleball account. But, yeah, 113 days. We took, like, 13 showers in that time. It was a pretty gnarly experience. That's gnarly. And I remember you, uh, one of the videos, you guys... There were some big fires at that time, right?
[Anna Bright]: Yeah, so this was a really bad year for fires. And at one point, uh, we were just past Truckee, we were in Northern California. Truckee's near South Lake Tahoe. And we were just a couple of miles from, like, a fire that just lit up that day. So that was a really, really scary experience. Um, I could talk about the trail for a long time, but yeah, it's a crazy thing I did, and it kind of feels like a different person did that. It doesn't even feel like I did it. That's why my tattoo is... Anyone who saw the little tree on my leg, a lot of people asked if it's an arrowhead. It's... It's the tree, which is the symbol of the trail. And that's awesome, for sure.
[Scott Golden]: Yeah, I asked you about that when I met you. I said, "Hey, what's that?" Somebody called me there. So, what, but that, that experience, um, just that rugged type of experience, is that kind of a... a foreshadowing of your mental toughness and your capacity to, to do well in sports? I mean, would you credit, um, that mentality, that toughness, um, with your ability to have success in sports, say, tennis or pickleball?
[Anna Bright]: Yeah, I would say it's everything, especially in junior tennis. It's unfortunate, but you really just can't, uh, can our mom need it, okay? Um, but especially in junior tennis, you really just can't succeed, unfortunately, no matter how talented you are if you're not really tough mentally. Because in junior tennis, it's not like in pickleball, but you have to be tough in tennis because there's a lot of cheating, there aren't refs, and so you have to be really competitive, and tennis, you know, you're the only person out there. In pickleball, you're usually the only one out there, but you can still get coached on your timeouts, but in tennis, it's really just you that you have to rely on and count on, and bad things are going to happen. So I'm lucky that I've always been really tough, really a competitor, and that I've just loved... I've just loved competing, which I think you guys saw this weekend. I have fun out there too.
[Scott Golden]: Yeah. Would you say that your extensive background in tennis has helped you translate over to pickleball very quickly? I think a lot of debate goes on about who makes the best pickleball players at the top level, and I don't think there's any argument that tennis players translate very well. Would you agree?
[Anna Bright]: I would agree. I think tennis is... Uh, I've met a lot of good, uh, pickleball players who come from racquetball, but I feel like tennis is just... I feel like tennis is just... You know, pickleball is essentially played on a mini tennis court. I think tennis is probably the best background. That's definitely, you know, the only reason that I've gotten as good as I have in so short a time, with all the... The 20 years ago, um, for sure.
[Scott Golden]: So my question to you now is, do you... I mean, people want to know this. I mean, you work a job, you're 22 years old, you have a life, but are you taking pickleball serious now? Like, is this something where you feel... I mean, are you starting to train? Are you... Are you looking to maybe make a career change? I think people want to know what your mindset is. Do you see a future with pickleball?
[Anna Bright]: Oh my goodness, I would love to know too. Like, I have always made a lot of jokes about myself in pickleball, you know, it's like this thing I do. I kind of joke about it to my friends, you know. But obviously, I am really serious about it, and I love it. I play all the time, um, but after this weekend, you know, I've just been inundated with messages and people wanting to talk to me and all this stuff, and it's just like, "Wow." Like, my life has really changed in just the last three days. I don't feel like there's never been a time in my life where it's like... I've had a pretty short life, I'm not trying to stay, like, I'm so experienced or whatever, but it's just in the flip, like, just in a day, it's like everything changed. And so, yeah, I only started working early January, and now I was actually supposed to have a conversation with my boss at 11, you know, a check-in, and I was going to be like, "I know I just started working, but can I work less and, you know, have a lot more flexibility on Fridays and on some Thursdays?" But unfortunately, last minute, he couldn't make it, so I think I get... I'll have a little more time to think about that conversation, but that is a conversation I'm gonna have because I do like having a job. I don't want pickleball to be my entire life because I think that just knowing myself, I might burn out, and I think that would be, like, the saddest thing would be to get burnt out if pickleball was everything for me. So I love it, I love practicing, I love playing, and I do want to take it seriously, and I do want to be able to play a lot more tournaments, but that's going to require, you know, a change in my work situation, which, hopefully, I think it'll be okay. I did send my boss an article about me, and he responded very positively, so everyone, have your fingers crossed for me.
[Scott Golden]: Yeah, and I mean, there's several stories in pickleball where people graduated from college, got a degree, went to work, and then found themselves getting more and more immersed into the sport. For example, Zane Navratil, Cassandra Gerke, Scott Golden. Um, I used to be in landscaping for a long time, and I realized that I wanted to be a part of pickleball, in the fabric of pickleball, in so many different ways, and I have not looked back since 2018 when I quit my job. Um, I've been super excited about the growth, and it's players like you that get me really excited to see the future, and it's why I wanted to get into commentary, it's why I wanted to get into teaching because I know that as 22-year-olds and also 15 and 16-year-olds and even younger start to enter into this sport, we're going to see the game change drastically, and that's where we're going to transition into this weekend. Let's start with the least accomplished of your weekend, which was the mixed doubles, which was still a good weekend, but you didn't come out with a medal. But let's start there. You teamed up with 15-year-old phenom Gabriel Tardio, who's the number one tennis youth in the youth division. He was like the number one Bolivian player in the world or in his country, I'm sorry. Um, but talk about that experience with him real quick.
[Anna Bright]: Gabe is just a doll, uh, firstly. He is 16. I want to give him his credit. He is 16. Um, I was so excited to play with Gabe. Gabe and Jorja played together a lot, and so I think this was my... This is my second tournament that I played with Gabe, and I was really excited to play with Gabe and Jorja because in the Boca app, I just got, like, destroyed by Gabe and Jorja in the gold medal match. So obviously, they're both so incredibly talented, and they're both so good, especially considering how old they are. Um, and they're just such amazing people. So with Gabe, I... I just... I knew that, you know, we probably weren't gonna take the title, we probably weren't gonna medal, just because, you know, you have women in the draw who I know are much better at dinking with their forehand than I am, and just Gabe is so young, you know, you have names like Kyle Yates, Dekel Bar, you know, J.W. I just knew that, you know, we probably weren't going to go all the way. But I was so excited to play with him and just to see how well we could do.
[Scott Golden]: So, even though you lost, you didn't feel defeated. Like, that hunger was still 100% there, and I knew that, you know, the teams in the losers bracket, you know, we were probably going to play, uh, Maggie and Michelle again, who we had met...
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Host: Please join me Tuesday, March 1st, 2022, at 12:00 pm EST, as I sit down with rising pro pickleball player Anna Bright. She's coming fresh off a Women's Doubles...
Anna Bright: ...serves, you know, so it was a bit of a klutzy awkward initial warm-up, but I've just played so much tennis and stuff that the singles game does come pretty easily for me. I know there's so much I have to work on to really compete with the best women on the singles court, but I'm really excited to work towards getting there and to play more and to kind of just continue to absorb things by osmosis and get better.
Host: I saw Brian Levine yesterday, and he said he ran into you on Sunday morning, and you told him, "I'm not losing a damn game today," and I thought that was very telling. You go in with that confidence that you expect to win; you expect to do well. It's important for people watching that do compete at tournaments. You cannot go into the day already failing in your mind. You have to go in with the expectations of winning and that you deserve that, that you believe that you're going to do well.
Anna Bright: Thank you, Scott, and it's a fine balance because it's like, like I said, I didn't go into mixed expecting to win, you know, but I had an expectation of how well we could do, and I wanted to do really well. I don't really know how to explain my mentality, you know, but, yeah, I just think it's really important to be positive about how well you think you're going to do but also realistic, of course. You don't want to be like, in my first tournament, I never... If my first tournament ever was this event, I would have never ever thought, "Oh, I'm going to win singles." But I knew the level I'd been practicing at and what I expected of myself, and, you know, if I had lost but I had played my best, if I had played, you know, and had a good attitude, I would have been fine. I don't take losses poorly; I take losses well if I'm happy with my play and my attitude. But I just felt like, going into that, if I played my best, like, I should be able to come away with the title.
Host: Very cool. Um, I know these are two questions that everybody wants to know. First question is, between the two gold medals, how much did you bring home, cash-wise, and then do you have any plans to spend it on something? Do you want to save it, like, what are you gonna do with that?
Anna Bright: I don't really know if I should talk about how much money I made. I just... I don't... I've never really thought about whether I would talk about that, but I'll say it. I don't think it's a private thing. I think the PPA and the APP put it out there. So that's up to you if you want to answer that question or not. But I still don't... I still don't... I still don't want to, personally. I don't want people... Yeah, I know, that's no problem. But that's up to you to decide if you want to answer that question or not. But then, what are your plans with the money?
Anna Bright: I am... Okay, so not even gonna lie, ever since I started working in January, I have been thinking a lot about retiring. So, I am... I'm pretty frugal, I guess. So, I don't know, I put like 20 to 25 into an account to save for taxes, and then the rest, my credit card bill's been really high just from paying a ridiculous amount of pickleball entry fees, you know, because to play Punta Gorda, the entry fee is only like $400, and then the hotel and then just everything else. So, just kind of, you know, making sure I'm still, like, all my pickleball for the next few tournaments, I kind of use it to pay for that. And then I am obsessed with this one clothing brand. I don't know, it's the shirt I'm wearing now, so I wear the same shirt. I have the same shirt in eight colors. So, you guys saw three colors this weekend. I wore a white one, the teal one, and my pink one. I might have to add more to my collection, you know? I have eight. I might have to try to get a few more of those. I like a lot of your other 12. Yeah, no, no, this is a serious thought I've been having. Me and my best friend talk about this a lot. So, I'm also maybe try to get sponsored by them. I might just send, you know, it's hard though because it's not like a small company. It's called Outdoor Voices. So, I might try to... I've been on LinkedIn this morning, like, trying to see who I can reach out to, just be like, "Yo, I want a lot of stuff." But it's tough because I'm wearing these and I feel like I hate seeing that they show sweat so much, you know, because I'm watching it. I'm just like, "So sweaty and everything." But they're so comfortable. I feel comfortable in them. I like the way they look. So, I'll definitely be making some Outdoor Voices purchase if I can't get them to get me free stuff. But I've got clothing companies reaching out to me too. So, there's a lot to think about. But yeah, I'll spend some there, you know, do some other things. But I'm not the most exciting with money, I'm afraid. Maybe a new phone soon, but I don't really know. I love it. No, I mean, there's no right or wrong with that. It's just a question that I know people would be wondering. Also, people probably wondering, maybe somebody doesn't know you that well or hasn't seen you play much. What paddle do you use currently? What do you play with? I currently play with the Electrum Model E. Electrum Model E. Do you think after winning at this level, do you think you're going to get some opportunities to take on some sponsorship? Is that the goal of yours? Or do you not care if you get sponsored?
Anna Bright: Like I said, I have a job. Idon't really need money, so I think that puts me in a position where I can be choosy. I can be very choosy about things. But I do have some calls lined up with different paddle companies because I have to use a paddle, so I might as well. I will only use one I really like, but I've got some talks lined up, and we'll just kind of see how that ends up going. And about other companies, we'll just... I don't know. I'm always open to hearing about anything, anything that people would be interested in sponsoring me for. I will talk to them. But I'm in a position where I don't need it. Like, I can... I'll only agree to be sponsored if I like the product and what they're offering me. And yeah, so I'm in an interesting spot with that, yeah, definitely. That's a good place to be for sure.
Host: What's your next tournament?
Anna Bright: My next tournament is Plantation. This is this upcoming weekend. Yeah, man, I feel like I was so excited to play four straight weekends of pickleball tournaments, but now... Now I'm like sore. I'm like, "Shoot, I'm gonna be dead." And some people have asked me to play in the APP in Mesa, which is the weekend after, and I'm just like, "I don't think that's gonna happen." That's five straight weeks. I think that would actually be too much. But yeah, that is my next event, is Plantation. Then I have the PPA, the Port St. Lucie, the one hosted by Simone. And then after that is the Delray Tier 1 APP. Very lucky to have four straight tournaments in Florida. Very thankful for that.
Host: Are the expectations possibly gonna get to you? I mean, people are gonna expect you to do well now. Do you let that bother you? Do you think about that? Or do you just go into every tournament with the blank slate and say, "Hey, let the chips fall where they may"?
Anna Bright: I definitely do want to, you know, not do horribly after such a breakout performance. That wouldn't look good, and I wouldn't be happy with that either. But, you know, like I said, I was a really... I graduated high school the number two recruit in the country. I'm used to coming into tournaments, being expected to do well. I haven't been the underdog that much in my tennis career. So, I'm used to the pressure of having expectations, both myself and externally. So, I don't really anticipate I will play worse because of it or anything, you know? I think if I have a bad day, it'll just be I had a bad day. I don't think the mental aspect of being expected will really rattle me much. I still expect to do really well in singles. And about doubles and mixed, you know, it all just kind of depends on the day, how well you're playing, and what your partner's playing. But I'm really excited for the next few events. I'm really excited to play in the PPA and to see how I stack up, especially in the singles there, because there, you have some of the top women, and I'd just be really, really curious. I expect to get my butt whooped, but I think it'll be a great learning experience, and I hope to give some people good matches and just to kind of show what I'm capable of. And then I'll just continue to refine that over the next year.
Host: That's awesome. I think that's a great attitude. I think that's the attitude that you should go in with. And also, somebody on a side note, somebody asked the question. It says, "I see she's pairing with Tyler Loon coming up in the PPA tournament." Um, that's something I did not know. That's pretty fantastic. Tyler Loong is a phenomenal player out of Utah, one of the best Ernie machines in the game, a lefty. How did that transpire? Do you know Tyler Loong, or did that just happen organically? What's the deal there?
Anna Bright: Me and Tyler go way back... Just kidding, I don't know him. But as soon as we won the doubles, I had a Facebook message from him, like, immediately after. And I got to it that night, and he asked me to play. And I thought about it, and I was like, you know, with the new changes in my life, I was like, I will make it happen. I'll make it happen. It has to happen, you know? Such a good player asking me, someone who's left-handed, so then I can play on the left and be hitting backhands, you know? It just sounded like... And, you know, I watched some of him playing. I think his style is really exciting and dynamic, and I like that. So, I'm really excited to see how we do. You know, I don't expect to do amazingly well or anything, but I hope to play well. I'm definitely nervous about having to dink cross-court with a man because I know I'm not the best dinker, you know? That's a big area of my game that I do need to improve, and in mixed, you know, I think right now I'm a better women's player than mixed player just because in women's, you know, it's okay to rip more, you know? But in mixed, your job is more, you know, to be really steady and to set up your male partner, which is just, you know, the way the game is played. It's not like a good or a bad thing; it's just kind of the way it is. So, I know that mixed is somewhere that I'm excited to keep improving, and I'm really excited for the tournament. I think we could do really well. I'm also excited to meet him. Hopefully, we can practice a little bit before we go out there because I imagine that because of my rating, we won't have a very good draw. But I'm excited. I'm really excited for it.
Host: Very cool. As your unsolicited new pickleball manager, I think you made the right decision in teaming up with Tyler. I'm just kidding. I'm not her manager; that's a joke. Alright, here we go. Next question. Talk about the importance of footwork. How do you train that part of your body?
Anna Bright: Footwork is so important. I do not train footwork for pickleball, though. All of my footwork is just what I have from tennis and stuff. But there are a lot of things you could do to get better. There are a lot of drills you can do. It's a lot about being quick, being quick. But there's also... I don't have any specific things to talk about, but there are a lot of videos you could find on YouTube about the general patterns, you know, when to take a crossover step, when to shuffle, you know, just how to transfer your weight through the ball. So, I would definitely look up some things on YouTube for tennis footwork if you are struggling with that. And, yeah, footwork is everything. For me, when I think my opponent may be about to hit a ball really hard at me at the kitchen, I kind of start, like, bouncing a little bit, you know, so I'm really ready. So, I'm like ready to be quick. That's really important, you know. Yeah, so footwork is everything. I think in singles, of course, if you're not covering the court well, you're not going to do well. But footwork at the kitchen line is so important. That's something I'm just going to keep getting better at. But, you know, you have to be able to move and shift back and forth, so that lateral movement is so important. I think that's something that's really unique to, you know, a sport like tennis and pickleball. That's so... That's a huge area where the translation is really helpful. I haven't really had to think about my footwork on a pickleball court. But, uh, footwork is everything. I would recommend, you know, there are a lot of drills you can do to get quicker that you can time yourself. And I would... If you're struggling, if you just feel like out of place when you're hitting groundstrokes, I would look up tennis footwork videos on YouTube because there are a lot of those that teach the correct patterns of footwork.
Host: Very cool. This question has multiple parts, but you can ignore the first part because you've already covered your tennis journey. So, if anybody didn't hear that part after the interview is over, you can go back and listen to that in the beginning. But it says, "What does she do for a full-time job, and what did she study in college?"
Anna Bright: So, I went to school at the University of California, Berkeley, and I was a double major in data science and business administration. So, I set myself up well to work in tech, not because I was super passionate about it, but because it seems pretty pragmatic. So now, I work as a project manager at a small fintech company, which is a finance tech company, and I work remotely, which is why I'm in Florida, and my company is in Boston. So, that is what I do.
Host: That doesn't sound nearly as exciting as beating the number one female player in the world in pickleball, but everybody's got their thing. It's not nearly... It's not even close to as exciting, but I'm not like... I'm not like, "Gosh, no." But they're pretty flexible with me, and I actually have, like, a presentation I'm meant to give this afternoon because I have to work on it a bit after this interview. But I kind of like having, you know, some more mundane normal things in my life. Like I said, I feel like if everything was pickleball, I would get a little burnt out because that kind of happened to me with tennis when I was like...
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Host (Scott Golden): This section of the interview starts with Scott expressing how pro-level matches, whether against top players like Simone or lesser-known opponents, are challenging. He praises Anna Bright's incredible accomplishment of teaming up with Jorja Johnson, despite Anna having only played for four months. Scott highlights that even seasoned players struggle to reach the pro podium and emphasizes that Anna's achievement is substantial and shouldn't be overshadowed. He mentions that Anna will have her opportunity to shine in PPA tournaments. Then, there's a brief interruption by a question from Brian Levine about the term "fudge nuggets." Anna explains that it's her playful alternative to an expletive, sharing her college tennis origins for the phrase. She also mentions shouting it during a bronze medal match, amusingly noting the silence that followed. Anna describes "fudge nuggets" as a humorous and cute replacement for an expletive. Scott chimes in, wondering about "Hoffman's," and Anna jokes about Brian Levine not choosing the more well-known "Publix" instead.
Host (Scott Golden): In this part of the interview, Scott sums up the goals of the interview: to introduce the audience to Anna Bright, discuss her matches from the weekend, showcase her personality, and demonstrate her intelligence and athletic abilities. Scott expresses his appreciation that Anna has chosen pickleball as her sport and commends her for her achievements, concluding the segment and mentioning his attempt to keep the interview to an hour.
Host (Scott Golden): Scott continues from the previous segment by reflecting on the interview's objectives, emphasizing the audience's opportunity to know Anna Bright better, understand her recent matches, appreciate her personality, and acknowledge her intelligence and athletic talents. He praises Anna for selecting pickleball as her sport and for her accomplishments in it. Scott closes this section by mentioning his intention to maintain the interview within a reasonable time frame.
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