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Sophie
It's episode two, episode two right here in Indy. Live from the bracket.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Games from coast to coast. All the crazy twists and turns and unforgettable stories captured right behind us.
Sophie
And we have a super, super cool guest today. She was my teammate from last year, one of my best girls, Lexi Hole.
Lexi Hol
It was a very unique final four.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
That is such wild times.
Lexi Hol
The roof blew off.
Sophie
You did cry.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Let's head up to the studio and check it out. How's my hair look?
Lexi Hol
Great.
Sophie
Come on, let's go.
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Sophie
So good.
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Has a good night's sleep helped you maintain your game day routine while on the road? Westin part of Myriad Bonvoy where game day checks in. I'll start this off. I love this look at Lexi and I's chemistry right off the jump.
Lexi Hol
Unplanned.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Unplanned. Pure. Just a nice mocha brown and denim.
Lexi Hol
Does that make us best friends?
Sophie
Yeah.
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Sit out.
Sophie
I know. But the bad thing is I'm not kidding. When I walked out my closet, I had that same exact thing on today. I could have been a triplet.
Lexi Hol
But it's tragic.
Sophie
You're used to being A twin.
Lexi Hol
So now that is true. Are you identical twin.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Whoa.
Lexi Hol
She's going to be jealous.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Is she? Is she going to be jealous? Is she a Hooper?
Lexi Hol
Yeah, we played together at Stanford.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Whoa.
Lexi Hol
Yeah. But now she just is a pickup at the Y. She's come to games, and people go up to her during the game and ask, like, why aren't you on the court?
Sophie
Can I get a picture?
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
No way. Sometimes people with twins either, like, not, like, steer clear of each other, but, like, very much. Separate identities or best friends.
Lexi Hol
Same friends, same teams, all of it.
Sophie
All right, I want to get in because I'm sure everyone knows, but if you don't. Our guest today is a professional basketball player in the wnba. You know her as a guard for the Indiana Fever, where she's built a reputation as one of the league's toughest defenders, which is so on cue, I've had to play against it. And then also being on the team now we're like, Lexi, you take it. Before turning pro, she started at Stanford University. Whoop, whoop. Helping lead the Cardinals to a national championship in 2021 with her twin, Lacey, and finishing her career as one of the most decor players in program history, which that. If you guys know anything about Stanford basketball, that is a huge accomplishment. Along the way, she earned multiple all pack 12 honors and became known for her versatility in leadership. High basketball iq. And I will say, I feel like. Were you on, like, any of the academic. Yeah, yeah, this isn't on there, but just knowing you, I feel like you should.
Lexi Hol
Most of them, humble queen.
Sophie
Well, we're gonna get into it, but she's, like, starting her own business and everything, but everyone, please welcome Lexi Hall.
Lexi Hol
This is good. I'm so happy to be here. This is so fun.
Sophie
I know this has been a long time coming.
Lexi Hol
Like, we.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Oh, ye.
Sophie
We've been like, we need Lexi on here so bad. And so it, like, finally works out. March Madness.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
I've been pitching it for weeks, obviously,
Lexi Hol
and it's here to get her figured out.
Sophie
No, I feel like our first episode, you're like, hey, can we get Lexi?
Lexi Hol
I'm like, dude, she's getting married in November. Jill.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
No, I clocked that. I clocked it. Are you gonna tell her how to say Cardinal, not the Cardinals?
Lexi Hol
No, I was gonna say. I was gonna interrupt you, but I didn't really want to. It's Cardinal. There's no s. I tried. I tried.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Did you play Montana State in the first round ever?
Lexi Hol
I feel like we did.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
And someone on your team dunked that game, Fran.
Lexi Hol
Yes. Wow, good to know.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
I watched. I obviously watched that game and so I've. I watched one of your college games.
Lexi Hol
Cuz I'm running, I'm on the court when that happened. Craziest moment.
Sophie
Were you watching her or Lacy? Cuz you didn't know they were twins.
Lexi Hol
True.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Good call.
Sophie
Thanks.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Wouldn't have even thought of it.
Lexi Hol
Well, his reality, the glasses actually work.
Colgate Women's Games Narrator
Dang.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
So Montana State, obviously. Sophie, some geography for you. Close to the state of Washington, where Lexi's from.
Sophie
Thanks.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
In Spokane. So a lot of the girls I went to college with are all Spokane girls. Love that Gonzaga prep. And is there one called Mead?
Lexi Hol
Yes.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Okay. Yeah.
Lexi Hol
Wow. It's like you're a Spokane native.
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I've done Dick's Drive in for burgers before.
Lexi Hol
Classic. A downtown classic.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Because I went to Lindsey Stockton's wedding in Spokane.
Lexi Hol
Wow.
Sophie
Do you know who are friends? How old is she?
Lexi Hol
She's older. Okay, got you.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Laura's closer to my John Stockton's daughters are all played in Spokane too. It's like such a basketball city.
Lexi Hol
It is. Have you ever heard of Hoopfest?
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Yeah. Three on three outside.
Lexi Hol
Yep. Biggest three on three tournament in the world.
Sophie
Did you ever play in it?
Lexi Hol
Yeah, up until like seventh grade. But our A. It's on like the concrete, so it's kind of dangerous. But it was so fun growing up.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Did you ever consider Gonzaga or was it.
Lexi Hol
Yeah, it was. That was a hard no because I grew up going to their camps and obviously going up. Grew up going to games and stuff and love their coaching staff. So it was hard, but it was too close to home for me.
Sophie
Was it always west coast schools?
Lexi Hol
Yeah. Yeah.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Was it anywhere? Like, did you visit anywhere else besides Stanford?
Lexi Hol
Yeah, Visited like a lot of the schools. But when Stanford offered, it was like for both my sister and I. Yeah.
Sophie
Because it is March Madness. You guys clearly won a national championship. But like why?
Lexi Hol
Why Stanford school was always number one. Okay. Like my parents instilled in that. That into us really young, but.
Sophie
And what did you major in?
Lexi Hol
Management science and engineering. Okay. When I visited the school, the campus is like the most beautiful place on earth. I think we took that for granted during our time there. Every time I go back I'm like, this is so beautiful and the weather's always good. And then the coaching staff like Tara Vanderveer. So there are so many things that worked.
Sophie
Do you know that actually when we I think made it Sweet 16, almost Elite 8, we actually played in Stanford. So we were supposed to play, you Guys. But we freaking lost. Oh, yeah.
Lexi Hol
Wait, that would have been so fun.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
I know.
Sophie
I think you. I was my senior year, so you would have been a freshman.
Lexi Hol
Yeah.
Sophie
Or so. Yeah.
Lexi Hol
Yeah.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
The women's tournament is home. It's home games, right. For a round or two, and then it gets into.
Lexi Hol
I think the first two are home.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
And then you get into, like, cities where you travel, regionals.
Lexi Hol
It's such an advantage, especially for girls. I feel like. Yeah, having a home game is huge.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
You feel like home field advantage with women's basketball is better.
Sophie
I feel like it's. I feel like that's with any sport, though, if you really think about it. Like, if you have a great crowd, which if you're good, you have a
Lexi Hol
good hosting, you have a good crowd,
Sophie
so it just makes sense. Yeah, Yeah.
Lexi Hol
I just think, like, girls versus guys basketball, the 16 versus the 1 seed is like a big difference. So I also don't know if, like, they could have played anywhere and likely the one scene's going to win.
Sophie
Wait, when you think back to, like, your college days, did you guys charter
Lexi Hol
some games after Covid, we chartered all the time, which, like, it should have been that way.
Sophie
Well, yeah, I'm surprised that you guys didn't. I feel like we chartered since my freshman year to senior year.
Lexi Hol
We would fly commercial probably half the time.
Sophie
Huh.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
And just walking around the airport, just tall and in our matching. In your matching sweatsuits?
Sophie
Yeah. You knew we were coming. I love it. Well, when you think about, like, your college days. I know, like when I'm with my teammates and you just had kind of a reunion. You were just like, just back there after season. Right. And like, you reminisce on all the good times. What are. What do you miss the most about, like, the traveling and the nights in the hotel? Like, what. What comes to mind?
Lexi Hol
I feel like you are with each other 24 7. Like, once you get to the WNBA, like, people kind of do their own thing. People have lives and families and kids and like all the things. But when you're in college, that's all you have. And so it's so fun to go get every meal together and like, you can go and you're sitting in a room and you're working on homework together, because that's something else you have to focus on. Maybe that's just saying that's a huge. Maybe just a standard home.
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Like, wait, you guys did work?
Sophie
You guys went to school?
Lexi Hol
No, but did you guys have, like,
Sophie
mandatory study halls and stuff like that on the road?
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
If you had good enough grades, you could get out of it by sophomore year. But you're in it as a freshman and then you had to stay out.
Sophie
I think on the, on the road we, everyone had to be there. Like it didn't matter.
Lexi Hol
Your grades we did not have. Man, people just.
Sophie
Oh, you just did it. Oh, that's nice.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Also, football team is so much bigger that you can never like study together.
Lexi Hol
Are you friends with everyone on your team if it's that big?
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
This is a really interesting question. I mean, yeah, but you certainly have pockets of people that you're closer with. You'll always be closest to your position group because that's who you have film in like every meeting ever with. Originally the in state kids versus out of state kids kind of all stuck together cuz the insane kids know each other. Then everyone who's new kind of really.
Sophie
See, I feel like we intermingled so well.
Lexi Hol
Well, because there's only like 15 of you met. Like everyone was close.
Sophie
True.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Yeah. Football is weird though because you like, you show up with 20 kids in a class like for fall camp and you can't be best friends with everybody.
Sophie
Would you like that? I don't know.
Lexi Hol
I mean it's so different. I feel like you would just find your best friends. You find your like group of 15 or whatever.
Sophie
But like think about how close and I get it size but like how close knit we are with. It doesn't matter who's on the court. Like you're. You have a chemistry, you have a.
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You guys had roommates in college, obviously right when you traveled. Not anymore.
Sophie
Or you do actually. Fun fact.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Have you guys, have you guys ever roomed together?
Lexi Hol
No. No. On the road.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
I'm staying on the road.
Lexi Hol
Yeah.
Sophie
But no, me and Lexi just regularly choose to stay.
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Put our luggage on one bed and then we stay in the other. Queen.
Sophie
We're dependent on each other. My first three, four years in the league, we actually had a share. Yeah.
Lexi Hol
That's so crazy.
Sophie
Which is weird because people had significant others, people had kids.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
That is so interesting.
Lexi Hol
What's crazier is that that was only like a few, few years ago.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
So you're drafted to Indiana. So you've only played in the WNBA here.
Sophie
She's a loyalist.
Lexi Hol
Yeah.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Loyalist.
Lexi Hol
Yeah. Loyalist. People think I'm from the Midwest now. And I'm like, no, but you can.
Sophie
You give total Midwest vibes though. Just like the friendly, the lake, the sun. Just like who you are to the core. We have such a special guest and a lot of People, we don't get national championships on here or national champions. Take us through the mindset of going to, like, the Final Four, traveling fans, maybe the pressure a little bit, and then, like, just making it all the way.
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Which city was your Final Four in?
Lexi Hol
San Antonio. But it was a very unique Final Four because we were in San Antonio. It was Covid year, so we were in San antonio for, like, 30 days straight.
Sophie
30 days in a hotel.
Lexi Hol
We couldn't see anyone. They had, like, a path outside that you could go on a walk. No, but you couldn't go. You couldn't. Yeah, we were in a bubble. We were getting tested two times a day. Still. It was a very unique experience. But still, I think that honestly made us winning, like, that much more amazing, because I remember after we won, we finally got to go into this huge conference room, and our family's there for the first time in, like, eight months because we couldn't be around them.
Sophie
Could they be in the arena when you played?
Lexi Hol
Yes. Only in. Only in San Antonio. And we. So there was, like, cutouts. I had Libby a cutout.
Sophie
Will was a cutout.
Lexi Hol
Like, it was really cute. But there was, like, hardly anybody there, and they had to sit four seats apart.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
That is such wild times.
Lexi Hol
But still. Still going to the national championship. Can't take that away. No, but the basketball part still the same, obviously.
Sophie
Y.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Was that your senior year?
Lexi Hol
Junior year. Senior year we made it to the final Four in Minneapolis, which finally got a play in front of.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
People say, that would have been a real crowd. Did you beat Yukon your junior year to win, or did someone else.
Lexi Hol
No, I don't. I don't think we played Yukon that year. We played Arizona in the championship. That was, like, our fourth time playing them.
Sophie
But the. But that was the South Carolina.
Lexi Hol
Yes, that was in the Final Four. Yeah. Yeah. Ab. She. We still talk about that.
Sophie
Oh, really? You guys? Really? So, AB Aliyah Boston. She's our teammate. Yeah.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Yeah.
Sophie
But I didn't know you guys still talk about.
Lexi Hol
Yeah, I mean, it's like they went on to win the next year or whatever, but, like, it's. Yeah, it's fun. And then Arie, too, she was in the championship game, so it's just.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
It's funny to reminisce, play with was. I'm recalling all of this from the first round game that I watched.
Lexi Hol
This is still a lot. I don't even know if I remember.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Is there an NFL player's sister on your team?
Lexi Hol
Anna Wilson?
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Russell Wilson sister.
Lexi Hol
Yes. She's the best.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Yeah.
Lexi Hol
Yeah.
Sophie
Where's she at now?
Lexi Hol
Living in la. Yeah. Yeah, Thriving.
Sophie
Wait, who's the one who dunked? Fran.
Lexi Hol
Fran.
Sophie
Where. Where is she?
Lexi Hol
She's in the bay still. Oh, really? Around Stanford? No, not playing.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
I remember being like, ah, yeah. I hope Montana State can just like hang for a little bit. Like all those games. Every team hangs for like the. A little bit in the first half and then you guys ran away with it and right when you guys went on a run, she dunked. And I was like, you guys can have it.
Lexi Hol
Night night. It was. It was crazy.
Sophie
The room.
Lexi Hol
Yeah.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
That's sick.
Sophie
During that run, how did like hotels make you, like, how did it feel being in that? Did they make it homey?
Lexi Hol
Well, in San Antonio they like decorated all the walls and they made it. They made it cute. But I think they do that any all the time for the final Four. But yeah, it was like. It felt. Still felt special. Still not the same sister though.
Sophie
Didn't win any national championship. I played with my sister in college and now she's like something that is so cool.
Lexi Hol
That's like everyone that went through the COVID year playing basketball, like you're away from your family and it's so hard in homesick and like having her there. And we also live together.
Sophie
Yep.
Lexi Hol
So it felt like a little bit like home.
Sophie
That's good.
Lexi Hol
At the same time.
Sophie
So we had anything.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Think both of you got to play with your sisters in college.
Sophie
Mizzou actually had three sets of sisters on the team my freshman year. Like, it was insane. But there's nothing like being with your
Lexi Hol
sister like having a twin. And we. We come into the room and we think the same thing and like we pick up cues and we have the same reaction. So to be in practice and be able to look at her and be like, oh, this is so annoying her. This is so hard. It's nice to have someone you like.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Didn't probably like, you only know basketball with your sister. Like, I'm sure you guys played on the same team for your whole life and like learned to love the sport together.
Lexi Hol
For sure.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Your parents Hoopers too?
Lexi Hol
My dad played in college and he's also a twin dude.
Sophie
They. She has some of the best parents. They're fun, they're a good time, they're random.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Was talking to my parents over Christmas. They were. I have a little brother. They were going to go for three, but my mom's dad's a twin and my mom. My mom had a dream that she had twins. My dad said done. I don't want four, Lindsey.
Sophie
One of us are supposed to. It's like in our. It's our generation.
Lexi Hol
I have twins. You do?
Sophie
Yes. How many kids do you want?
Lexi Hol
3. I want a boy and a girl twin and then the third can be anything. Okay, we're going to get like triple.
Sophie
Oh my gosh. Maybe not in college. Like after a long season when you just are like ready for a break kind of. Where's like your perfect like vacation spot?
Lexi Hol
Honestly? Anywhere with like a beach or like, like being by the water, on the water in the sun.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Sophie like, yeah, she acts like she's this big beach girl, but doesn't love sand.
Lexi Hol
I get that.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
I love like the sun is your is part of your personality.
Lexi Hol
I am 100% happier with a tan. Yeah, with a little bit of a tan.
Sophie
My confident like when I pale, I'm like walking like this and I'm like, what's up everybody?
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Okay. You know what's actually so funny? I don't even think we've talked about on this podcast is when I must think it was you two posted like you guys were like tanning in some city. You guys are playing basketball. Caitlin commented like, do you guys even play basketball or like focus on basketball.
Sophie
So when you travel to different cities, what is your go to meal or like what's your favorite thing to go out and try to like find Honestly, like anything.
Lexi Hol
Like finding like the high rated places that people are talking about in that city. Like I love sushi. So somewhere by the water I always try to get like sushi or something nice Italian steak. Like really anything.
Sophie
I do not know how your body is like this, but you eat candy and ice cream.
Lexi Hol
I have a sweetie.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
You're a sweetie rule.
Colgate Women's Games Narrator
Like, no.
Lexi Hol
My God.
Sophie
Wow.
Lexi Hol
I can't go to bed without dessert.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
So that's actually a really interesting point. Some people and I think it's the way like, did you grow up in a dessert household?
Lexi Hol
Yes.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Okay. I think when you're little, if you eat sweets like after dinner until the day you die, you will like crave sugar after dinner. Because my dad is that way. But my brother and I aren't really. My dad, like, can't not have like brownies after dinner. But my brother and I don't crave it.
Lexi Hol
I got sent to the principal's office in middle school for having candy at breakfast.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Have you do you ever like go looking for ice cream spots in different cities or anything?
Lexi Hol
Yes.
Sophie
And cookies.
Lexi Hol
Like literally, I will be like, let's go. We need to get something literally or
Sophie
she'll, like, send in the group text, like, hey, getting insomnia? Who wants cookies?
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Or stick out.
Lexi Hol
There's just too many good places recently at Unrivaled, There's. We stay in Doral and there's this ice cream place.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
This can be for both of you when you are on the road. What's something about a hotel or wherever you're staying that makes you feel right at home? Like, you know it's going to be. You know it's going to be a good night.
Lexi Hol
I feel like the bed. You can tell if it's like a comfy, soft bed and like the comforter.
Sophie
Yes. And a good, like the pillows. Just like that whole. Just hopping into bed and if you're like.
Lexi Hol
And blackout. If there's like electric blackout curtains.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Has your time in Indianapolis been special? Like, having talked to Sophie about the different, I guess, teams and communities in the wnba, there's a pretty wide spectrum on, like, how special some of them are. Everything she tells me about playing here is, like, incredible. It is great fan support. The community loves you guys. What's your time in Indy been like?
Lexi Hol
It's. I mean, it's grown so much. Like, my rookie year, we probably had a couple thousand people coming to games. We won five games that whole year.
Sophie
I think that's doing it justice, too.
Lexi Hol
It might be. It might be. Yeah. But it's like, that's hard. I think, like, once you start winning and once more people start showing up, like, your experience changes. Yeah, completely. So the last couple years have been a full 180. Like, it's it. We've changed. People are showing up. People know about the fever. Like, if we were to be walking in the airport, like, the story I just said that would never happen today, so it's been awesome.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Do you almost cherish it more because you got to be here when things were clearly not as special?
Lexi Hol
I think, like, it gives you perspective. Perspective on what it could be like.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Right.
Lexi Hol
And when you see it and you actually have fun doing it, and you love coming to the gym every day and you love the staff that's there and you love your teammates. Like, it's important to be, like, very grateful. And I do feel grateful to be here.
Sophie
And I think Lex and I are a lot alike because we are very much do the dirty work and, like, the energy players. And so when you do have a fan base like the fever, it just. It makes it so much easier because they appreciate.
Lexi Hol
They see it. They see you. Yeah.
Sophie
And like, you. You have Kelsey Mitchell, you Have Aaliyah, you have Caitlin, that of course they're going to go do their thing. But when you have players that are going to go take the charge, like, you're just so tough and they're just like, people appreciate it. And when you have sold out crowds everywhere you go, it's just appreciated. It feels good as players. You talked about in the intro that, like, you are inspiring the next generation where you come from around the country with the eyes that you have on you, like, what is something that you cherish or, like, gives you chills when you think about you're still early in your career, but, like, your career overall,
Lexi Hol
I think it's just really cool to see. To be at games and obviously, like, you have the Caitlins and the Ilias and the Kelsey's and you see their jerseys in the stands. Then when you see like a 10 out there, yeah, like, it's so special because people, like, are watching and supporting and growing up, I didn't have someone in the W that I saw myself as or like, that I wanted to reach for. And I feel like now with the social media and just even, like, TV and the accessibility for people, like, they see us and they can actually, like, have these dreams so much earlier. And to be one of those people is really special.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
I think it's really cool to watch all types of people ask you for pictures or to say hi, but when you see a little girl come up to you and, like, you can just clearly see yourself, what they see in you and, like, how cool that is, that's been a fun part of, like, getting to be around you more is seeing, like, little girls look up to you guys. It's so dope.
Lexi Hol
It's cool also because it's not just little girls now. It's little boys, too. Like, it's. It's insane.
Sophie
Well, I think that's what's really cool and unique about the WNBA is that we are so diverse amongst our league that every kid, boy or girl, they can look at the TV and watch someone play and, like, find themselves in one of the players playing. It's funny because when we watch film together, sometimes we can't tell each other apart. Oh, if someone messes up, it's like, oh, that was Lexi. You know what I mean? And so we can't even tell each other apart.
Lexi Hol
We're sprinting and our hair looks like it's hard.
Sophie
Are those my shoes or are those Lacey's shoes?
Lexi Hol
That was the same way in college. It was Lacey. Was it me?
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
College basketball has Always been bigger than the games themselves. What part of the culture around the sport stands out to you guys the most?
Sophie
Something that I love about the culture is like, I love the rivalries.
Colgate Women's Games Narrator
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Lexi Hol
to
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Sophie
Like I love, I love when people go back and forth. Like sometimes it can get a little spicy. But like that's what makes college sports so fun to me. And I love a die hard fan.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Like the kids crying on TV or people's face painted and stuff.
Lexi Hol
It's so cute.
Sophie
Or the, the fans that their team hasn't made it ever and they make it far and they're just like crying because of the ha. You know what I mean?
Lexi Hol
Like that is like, or they fight. They won their, their, their league championship and it's their first time in the NCAA tournament. Like it's so special. And then you get a fall.
Sophie
It's just like the chills. Like I, I love that stuff. I love that type of sports.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
My answer would have been small schools and Cinderella's winning. Obviously. As someone who underdog who went to a smaller school, I, yeah, like you always like, I love Selection Sunday just
Sophie
because you did cry when, when the football team won.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Yeah, of course.
Sophie
He's a doctor fan.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Yeah. I also, all three of us went to one school. I think the weirdest thing now is all these kids when they're 27 and at work or a party or whatever and someone says, where'd you go to school? Like what do they say?
Lexi Hol
I'm still playing to four schools.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
We had a quarterback, went to five, it was like his fifth. I was like, why?
Lexi Hol
No allegiance, no sad.
Sophie
Yeah. What would be yours?
Lexi Hol
I feel like I like the storylines of the, of like the teams that have been together for four years and it's their senior's last chance at like finally getting a championship for their school.
Sophie
Okay, I have a question for us and all of us can answer this. What would be like your ideal travel day in your ideal city to go play in a way game, our biggest
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
rival, University of Montana. Then like Saturdays when you play arrival, there's nothing like it get out.
Lexi Hol
I love it. And you get booed because it's like this late afternoon.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Yeah, I'd say an away game against a rival.
Sophie
But what like, what was your game day routine? Did you guys like get up? Do you guys have walkthrough or like
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
walk you at the hotel? You do breakfast, hotel walk through.
Sophie
Wait, is walkthrough football though? Like in your place? Like, what do you do?
Lexi Hol
Okay. Only with your like small group. Like.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
No, you would do like put small position and then do it one time. Yeah, that's perfect. That's what a walker is. Body slam. Night games actually are the weirdest because you just kind of sit in your hotel all day and like it get. You get like a little bit antsy. You have a few meetings, but I don't know what you guys versa kind of.
Sophie
I feel like we're used to playing. You have to be at like peak around 7. So like day games, like I gotta get up early, you know, like.
Lexi Hol
But I do like day games because then you don't have shoot around. Yeah, I don't need.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
I. I don't want shoot around you though a lot. Right. So that's never gonna be like one o'.
Sophie
Clock. I can clip that, send it to people. Wait, tell me about your. Your ideal.
Lexi Hol
My ideal would be we get in like late ish the night before. Time for dinner.
Sophie
Yep.
Lexi Hol
Like a nice dinner. I like to go to get like try a new place.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Yeah.
Sophie
Wait, did you guys not have like team dinners at restaurants?
Lexi Hol
I guess college. Oh, yes.
Sophie
You can mix the 2W and college for sure.
Lexi Hol
Tara was like very much routine. So game day, we would have shoot around and then everyone would come back. We'd have lunch maybe. And then four hours before the game we have pregame meal. Same meal every time.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Pasta.
Lexi Hol
I've had pasta.
Sophie
Yeah.
Lexi Hol
With marinara sauce, salmon and maybe some like steamed broccoli and then rolls all
Sophie
four years, like every day. But who would you like, who was like your favorite team or like favorite city to play in college?
Lexi Hol
Washington State or Washington just because it's home. Like when we played at wsu, my family would come down, bring the dogs.
Sophie
Oh yeah.
Lexi Hol
And I had a lot of People there and also they didn't get a lot of fans. So it was majority of my family and friends that would like sell us. It was so fun.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
We played in Pullman my senior year too actually. Yeah, there's like a lot of schools in that little pocket.
Lexi Hol
Was team good that when you played?
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Not special. It was week one. So you never really like know how good anyone is.
Sophie
I was nowhere near actually. We had, we played like.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Well, you're not big. You. You never played in the.
Sophie
No, my, my first year, my freshman year, it was like the second year with the sec. Yeah, but it was, I mean I enjoyed the sec.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Favorite city town slash town.
Sophie
I do think though, just like the history behind it. I think like playing Tennessee. That's dope.
Lexi Hol
It was just so cool.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
That's dope.
Sophie
Yeah, that was fun.
Lexi Hol
But.
Sophie
But South Carolina had a great crowd.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
I do think basketball would be. I, I never envied the basketball players. Because you miss Christmas or you miss Thanksgiving, Christmas and spring break.
Sophie
Can we just say basketball is probably the worst sport to choose because it is both seasons,
Lexi Hol
but this spring, best time of the year because you're on like 12 hour week instead of 20 hour week.
Sophie
No, a thousand percent. But I'm just saying like, you know, like it's like they had spring, they had all the entire time. And I'm like, oh, we still.
Lexi Hol
Yeah, still.
Sophie
You can talk about college, you can talk about wnba, but like what is something doesn't matter if you're here at home, if you're on the road, that like pre game, post game, that like keeps you grounded or keeps you in routine? Because I think that is something. Like as much as you're not routine, you also have to be routine and so kind of take us through what keeps you grounded.
Lexi Hol
I think just doing like having a routine is the most important part. Like you can, whatever you want to do, just do it consistently. Because I feel like by that time of the season, like sure the pressure is higher and like you really only have this one chance at winning a game or you're done. But focusing like you've built these habits over the course of tens of games. That's the time to rely on those habits and not change up what you've been doing. Because what you've been doing has worked. So for me, that's like making sure I get my pregame nap, making sure I watched film the night before, making sure I'm locked in during shoot around. Just the little things that you've done so much like don't change It.
Sophie
Do you still use that and do that in the. Wow.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
And so that can be pre game, like fully basketball related, but also night before, like, brush your teeth, take a shower, get in bed. Really?
Sophie
Are you that I'm not that in the cd?
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
No, no, no. I'm saying it can.
Sophie
It can be vague.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
They say baseball players are the worst.
Colgate Women's Games Narrator
Really?
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
With. Yeah, with routine.
Sophie
Can you think about how you know Will, like, her fiance was drafted and whatnot. But, like, they play so many games too. Like, that gets so.
Lexi Hol
I've sat through so many games. What a wag. I'm just such a wag. I know. They play six games a week.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Is your pregame playlist bangers.
Lexi Hol
I don't really h. Like, listen to a lot of music.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
I feel like your Instagram song choice. I'm always like, Lexi's throwing hitters on.
Lexi Hol
That's Will.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Is it?
Sophie
What?
Lexi Hol
That's Will.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
He chooses the songs.
Sophie
Stop it. I thought that was you.
Lexi Hol
So happy.
Sophie
Are you kidding? I thought that was you.
Lexi Hol
He helps me on my captions and my. He's my social media manager.
Sophie
Stop it. Not really.
Lexi Hol
But like, like, thank you.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Of course. Of course.
Sophie
We have a segment we're going to do, so let's grab these cards. Wes, game time. Yeah. Not for you. This is. You're. You're on the hot seat, sister. So this is called pack it or pass it. Here are the rules.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Okay.
Sophie
Yes. We're going to throw you every travel essential that we can think of. And you tell us from the opinion of a professional athlete what has to come with you and what you're leaving at home.
Lexi Hol
Got it? Okay.
Sophie
West, you can go first.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Portable phone charger packet. So I'm gonna take some space, but little one. Yeah. Yeah, baby.
Lexi Hol
Powerful one.
Sophie
I'm gonna go white noise machine.
Lexi Hol
Pass it.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Neck pillow.
Lexi Hol
Pass it.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Some people are loyal to neck pillows.
Lexi Hol
I can sleep just about anywhere.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Nice. Good trait.
Lexi Hol
Yeah. Give me the window. Preferably.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Yeah. So you can rest.
Sophie
Yes.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Yeah.
Sophie
Noise canceling headphones packet.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
I can't. Like, if I wear headphones on a flight, it makes it harder to, like, lay my head down to sleep. The buds. So I do buds.
Lexi Hol
You can. They have noise canceling buds.
Sophie
Where are you? What do you mean? How do you not know that?
Lexi Hol
He's living in 2015.
Sophie
Yeah.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Okay, so it says headphones. So I'm thinking big, bulky, make it hard to sleep.
Sophie
Headphones just like anything.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
I call those earphones.
Lexi Hol
Whatever.
Sophie
Do you not like any type of headphones?
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Extra pair of socks.
Lexi Hol
Pass it.
Sophie
Okay. This one's good because I feel like you're a dweeb. Compression socks.
Lexi Hol
Pass it.
Sophie
No, I've totally seen you wear. You wear. I had a hurt knee.
Lexi Hol
Lexi. Okay. Yes. Good job.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Sleep mask.
Lexi Hol
Typically Pass. But my sister gave me one, like, two weeks ago. It's a game changer.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
No, it's nice. I used to make fun of people who did them, but, like, it works.
Lexi Hol
It does.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
It works.
Lexi Hol
So now I'm gonna say pack it. Okay.
Sophie
Packing cubes.
Lexi Hol
Pass it. I want to be someone that uses them.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Was it packing cube?
Lexi Hol
What?
Sophie
You guys all use those?
Lexi Hol
I love the idea.
Sophie
Very organized.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
You, like, zip it. It makes it so it's like all
Sophie
your socks and, like, underwear. So when you.
Lexi Hol
You know where everything is, like, in
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
theory, it's a great.
Sophie
Just not thrown in your suitcase.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Travel blanket.
Lexi Hol
Pass it.
Sophie
Lint roller.
Lexi Hol
Pass it.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Your own pillow.
Sophie
Pass it.
Lexi Hol
My grandma does that.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
That's cute.
Sophie
Electrolyte packets.
Lexi Hol
Packet. Yeah. I also don't drink water unless it's flavored, so. Really? I mean it.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Yeah, that's not good.
Lexi Hol
I'm hydrated, though, because I'll just put
Sophie
a. I can't hydrate water either. I just saw you pound a freaking cheeseburger with greasy fries, and you're worried about sugar?
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
I'm not. I'm not. I don't have a big game coming up.
Lexi Hol
Up. But wouldn't you rather have electrolytes?
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Yeah.
Sophie
Hand sany.
Lexi Hol
Pass. I should again, like, backpack.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Do you.
Sophie
I have a lot of hand sanitizer, immune support, vitamins.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
This makes me think maybe, like, an. An emergency.
Lexi Hol
Pass. I'm not patching that.
Sophie
Okay, this one I kind of know the answer to, but multiple books. Paperback.
Lexi Hol
Pass. Okay. I'm a Kindle girl.
Sophie
Yes. Yeah.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
She's got film to watch.
Lexi Hol
No, not a Kindle.
Sophie
Kindle.
Lexi Hol
Oh, my God.
Sophie
Do you know what a Kindle is?
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Yeah, it's for books.
Sophie
A book?
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
No, I was thinking of, like, an iPad thing.
Sophie
I know. I hate to pick it up, but that's not a Kindle.
Lexi Hol
Wes. When was the last time you read a book?
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
I'm currently reading a book called Sapiens. It's about the development of human beings on planet Earth.
Sophie
I need the physical book.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
I feel that.
Sophie
Like, I can't. I just can't.
Lexi Hol
It's not the same. I just love. The thing about the Kindle that I love the most is once you finish a book, the next one's ready to go.
Sophie
I know.
Lexi Hol
You don't have to go buy it. Doesn't get crinkled in your bag.
Sophie
Thousand percent.
Lexi Hol
I think there's something special about the crinkles.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
I do think, though, book, like, books are such a massive part of home decor that now, like your apartment or house or wherever, it just. They look so good and studious and like, they're all that you have a story to tell about when you read
Sophie
it and tells a story. Your book tells a story. Because mine is like at the pool. Mine has like water on it. It's all crinkled. Like, I like that food from the
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
destination you were just at.
Lexi Hol
Pack it.
Sophie
More outfits than days.
Lexi Hol
Pack it.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Pack.
Lexi Hol
I always overpack.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
That was Pack it or pass it with Lexi Hole.
Lexi Hol
Okay.
Sophie
So we talked a lot about just like basketball in college travel. But I think that you have something really special coming out that kind of fits the lifestyle of someone who's crazy busy. And so I want you to hit on that.
Lexi Hol
So I'm starting a makeup brand with my Stanford roommate, Sarah. It's coming out end of this month, so we're so excited. It's called Forta for the Active Love.
Sophie
Yeah.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Congrats.
Lexi Hol
Thank you. We're so excited. It's like something that I'll be using, but also like just all the active people that are running around want their makeup to last.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
So as someone who's not super fluent in makeup, I'm assuming water resistant.
Lexi Hol
Water resistant. Sweat resistant. Wear.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Nice.
Lexi Hol
All the things. We're checking all the boxes.
Sophie
Yeah. What products, like, do you have?
Lexi Hol
So we're starting with the setting spray. That's what's going to launch. Yeah. And then we have two more coming out. So then we're going to do like a drop drop model. So we'll drop one at a time.
Sophie
Wow. And then you have an event coming up in April.
Lexi Hol
Yep. We have a launch party in New York.
Sophie
Wow.
Lexi Hol
So excited.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Friends, family, If I'm in town, I'm gonna slide.
Lexi Hol
Yes. We'd love that.
Sophie
That is.
Lexi Hol
It's gonna be so fun. It's like, it's so nice to have something outside of sports to work on. Focus on. Yeah.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
So what's Sarah do?
Lexi Hol
So she used to be in private equity, but now she's full time. Florida.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Oh, really?
Lexi Hol
Yeah.
Sophie
Full time.
Lexi Hol
Yeah. So we raised a little bit of money and now we can finally pay her a little bit. But it's not like she gave up a lot to do this full time. And she's really smart.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Yeah. I have to put makeup on sometimes.
Lexi Hol
Actually, this is a funny story. We went and talked at a college and like, there were these college Kids and they had asked questions of Sarah and I and one of them was like, I play on the football team and we wear eye black and it's always running down our face by the end of the game. Like, can we use your setting spurs? Like, yes, we will send it to you.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
What goes into your makeup routine before a game? Because obviously that's not the priority. No, but you still. I'm sure there's a little something.
Sophie
Can I just say, though, you're on tv. Yeah, but the walk ins.
Lexi Hol
Yes.
Sophie
The evolution, though, like, I'm not kidding. Like, when you were in college. I feel like it's such a different time even when I was in college. And like, you didn't wear makeup. Like, that wasn't. That was not a thing. And like, now people have like a. I've seen.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Yeah, I've seen pictures.
Sophie
Like, you don't really do that. But we could totally walk through our makeup routine.
Lexi Hol
I have worn makeup, like, since high school when I played.
Sophie
Really?
Lexi Hol
But you love that stuff. I love it. Like, I love makeup, I love beauty, I love cosmetic, like, products. I love all of that.
Sophie
Which is funny because, like, like, you're one that doesn't need any of it.
Lexi Hol
Thanks. So you know what I'm saying? But I do love it, like, for sports versus, like, a normal day. Like, I'm wearing less, but I'm still, like, using, like, going through the whole routine. Concealer, blush, mascara, eyebrow gel, setting, spray. Like it is. And that's also, like, back to the routine. That's part of my pregame routine that I enjoy.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
You've done it forever.
Lexi Hol
Yeah. And, like, if I'm not wearing my hair in a braid, I might curl my hair. I might crimp my hair.
Sophie
Ooh, watch out, watch out.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Yeah.
Lexi Hol
So I give myself some time to like.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Like, do you put on a fit for, like, walk ins every single game or only when the mood strikes?
Lexi Hol
I mean, like, I try to.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Yeah.
Lexi Hol
On the road it's like, easier to just throw on, like, a workout, like, outfit.
Sophie
But even your work outfits are, like, super cute. It's not like she never looks. You know how I look? I look like trash.
Lexi Hol
Well, like, I wear Athleta and like, their travel sets are. I feel like anytime you have a matching set, you look more put together.
Sophie
Anyway, I was just saying that last night I said I'm gonna order a bunch of matching sets because even when I just want to go somewhere, I want to look a little bit more put together this year. And I'm matching sets, like, sweat sets.
Lexi Hol
That are the same color automatically elevated.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
My hot take is that with tunnel fits. NFL, NBA, wnba, all sports. I think the art of team matching sweatsuits is like, is lost.
Lexi Hol
It's gone. You like that?
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
I think when you're. When you have like a fresh team jumpsuit and you all like get off the bus and walk in together and it's the same fit. Like it's.
Lexi Hol
I get that.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
I think it looks good.
Lexi Hol
It looks more put together.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
Yeah.
Sophie
Well, Lex, I think that you are doing stuff that's super special on the court, clearly. But off court, like, I think it's so smart of you to like start getting your feet wet and other things. And Florida is going to take off. So everyone, if you wear that type of stuff, get on Florida, buy it.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
This is so fun, actually.
Lexi Hol
This was fun. Yeah, we love the wrecks.
Unidentified Host (possibly a sports commentator or co-host)
I'm glad you're here.
Sophie
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The Herd with Colin Cowherd (iHeartPodcasts and The Volume)
Date: April 1, 2026
Recorded Live at the Westin Hotel, Indianapolis
This episode, part of the "Live from the Bracket" limited series, takes listeners behind the scenes of March Madness, exploring the off-court lives of college and professional basketball players. Special guest Lexie Hull (Indiana Fever guard, Stanford alum, 2021 national champion) joins host Sophie and a co-host (unidentified, sports commentator vibe) for a candid, laughter-filled conversation about sisterhood, road trips, memorable travel stories, the evolution of women's basketball, and Lexie's upcoming business venture.
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This episode delivers an authentic look into the camaraderie, quirks, and challenges of women’s college and professional basketball, especially through the lens of travel and teamwork. Lexie Hull shines as both a humble champion and an emerging entrepreneur. With engaging games, personal anecdotes, and honest conversations, the podcast is a celebration of the journeys and off-court lives of athletes—a must-listen for fans of women’s sports, travel stories, and ambitious dream-chasing.