 Hey Cal fans, you're watching CalTV Sports behind the height season finale. That means it's the last time you're going to be seeing me here at the new team with Brandon Lee. My last guest is Elle Woods, and no, not the Harvard grad in Legally Blonde. She's Elle Woods from our own California women's growing team, fingers up. All right, Elle, thank you so much for joining me today and being my last guest here on CalTV Sports. So can you tell us what a typical day looks like for you and the team? Because I know you all have to wake up really early before sunrise. Yeah, so a typical day is waking up at 5.45, getting picked up at 6 in the team vans. We have teammates drive the vans to either the estuary on the Oakland estuary or Brandy's Reservoir in Orinda. And then, you know, we'll practice anywhere from 16 to 22K. We get back to campus around 9.30, and that's when we can have our first class of the day. Wow, I'm so happy that you can squeeze some time to sit down and talk with us. Oh, of course. It's a pleasure. You train usually in Orinda or Oakland. Where are the team matches or regattas? We're usually up in Sacramento a lot because that's where Lake Natoma is, and it's a pretty big venue for regattas for junior level and collegiate level throughout the year. And then we also race in Redwood Shores a lot. That's kind of our home course. When we race duels with Washington or whoever, that's our home because we can't race on either of our practice on either of the bodies of water we practice on because there's no actual race course. If anything, be sure to follow updates on Twitter at CalW rowing. So the team just won the Simpson Cup for the fifth year in a row. What would you say contributed to your team's success? So everyone kind of experiences the team differently. It's such a big team. There's 60-something girls, which is I think it's one of the biggest rosters on campus. And so obviously there's kind of like different tiers of the team. There's the girls who are going to race at NCAAs or the girls who are kind of like in the middle fighting for a seat. And then the girls like towards the bottom like the walk-ons and everything. But I'd say like within each tier, they're really strong leaders. And that's something that's really unique about our team is everyone is so strong because it's such a prestigious team to be on. And everyone wants to be there and give 110. Great. Yeah. Brilliant, actually. Didn't know that team was 60 girls, you said? Yes. I think we have like 65-something girls. Nine or so of them are coxons and so like 55 rowers. And then the rest are coxons. But yeah. That's still a lot because like there's eight people on one row. Yeah. And even with whatever it is, 11 workouts a week, girls still go beyond that. And we'll do like an hour of spinning before weights and go on runs on Sundays. And we're just all crazy and super competitive. And I think that's kind of like what helps us stand out in the field. The trophies help, too. Yeah, trophies help, too. Every, sorry, I'm going on. But at the reservoir, the little pebble gravel on the ground and we get our trophies like our Pac-12 trophy or our Simpson Cup trophy. And girls will put a rock in the trophy for a girl who's been killing it that week. And that also builds a lot of team dynamic and everyone's so support. Like a girl at the absolute top, number one on the team, will notice some girl at the bottom working extra hard or doing super well in school. And everyone is so supportive of each other. It's very cohesive. Great, yeah, I think it's important to have that team support, too. It's more about you. I know you're a sophomore. What are you studying? So I just recently declared public health. Congratulations. Thank you. That was exciting. And I'm hoping to minor in global poverty and practice and interning in Cape Town this summer doing social work and youth development. So that'll be cool. Is law school at Harvard in the picture? Miss Elwood? That was in the back of my mind. If rowing wasn't going to work out, it's going to take the LSAT maybe head on over to Cambridge. But anything's possible. We'll see. Thank you so much. But before we go, I usually row at the RSF. So I'm going to challenge you right now. Oh, man. OK. To do this. Hope I'm ready for it. All right. Ready? Ready? One, two, three. Hey, Cal fans. As you can tell, I'm getting too old for this stuff. For the very last time, thank you for joining me on these afternoon teas with Brandon Lee. Let me introduce you to my successor. So now it's afternoon tea with Brooklasowski. Think he's up. Go Bears.