Courtney Thompson featured on this week’s The Net Live podcast

USA Olympian and documentary guide Thompson talks volleyball

Courtney Thompson, the central figure in the upcoming documentary Court & Spark, is a guest on this week’s The Net Live podcast.

Courtney Thompson, on the team bus in Poland
-Volleyblog Seattle photo by Brett Hamann

Among the topics covered:

• What it’s like to work with new head coach Karch Kiraly
• Lessons learned from winning the silver medal at the London Olympics
• Her growth as a team leader
• Her interest in coaching some day

Courtney surprises the hosts when she g

ives a shout-out to fellow Washington alum and new US National Team member Jenna Hagglund. “But she’s a setter, your own position!” they said.

It’s an interesting dynamic on the National Team. We’re all good friends, but we’re also competing.
You want everyone to play their best. Obviously, I want to be the one playing and getting playing time. But I want to beat people out when they’re at their best. Because it makes the program better.
We’ve all kind of bought into that. USA Volleyball’s bigger than all of us. And we’re fortunate to be part of it. And, of course, I want to be the one running the team in 2016, and every tournament up until that. But I also want us to be the best in the world.

The Net Live is a weekly volleyball radio broadcast, hosted this week by Olympian Kevin Barnett, with AVP broadcasters Chris McGee and DJ Roueche.

You can listen to each week’s podcast at the Volleyball Magazine website. Courtney’s interview begins at (83.07) on the 6/10/13 podcast.