Conqu'ring Heroes 210 - Andrea Joyce Transcript
10/8/2026 8:43:00 AM | MGoBlue Podcasts
Brian Boesch • 00:00
Let's give you another weekly Michigan athletics update here on Conqu'ring Heroes. We start with Michigan hockey. The Wolverines took care of business in a home and home with Bowling Green to begin the campaign. Smooth sailing on Friday night at Yost to the tune of a seven two victory. Michael Hage, Jayden Perron with three points a piece. Hage two goals, Perron two assists. Then down at BG on Saturday was much more of a challenge. Bowling Green dominated the first period, outscoring the Wolverines two zip. The shot discrepancy was twenty three. Seven in favor of the Falcons. But then Perron stepped up. He notched Michigan's first goal thirteen seconds into period. Number two, Perron would have the go ahead goal with eight minutes left to play in the third period, Michigan wins it four to three. Here's head coach Brandon Naurato after the Saturday night rally.
Brandon Naurato • 00:47
What a great college hockey atmosphere it was. It was packed. They took it to us in the first period. Yeah. And all credit to them, I thought. The way that we responded in the third, the way that we responded when they tied it three to three scoring that next shift. There was no panic in the group and just really proud of them for that.
Brian Boesch • 01:07
Coach Naurato his one hundredth victory, leading the Michigan program in front of a sellout crowd down in northwest Ohio. So Michigan two zero with wins over the Falcons. They return to Yost this weekend, seven o'clock clashes with Alaska Anchorage Friday and Saturday. Women's soccer, now the Wolverines bounce back with a critical three to two road win at Indiana over the weekend to get back to. Five hundred in Big Ten play. At three, three and oh, three different Wolverines scored, including Lilley Bosley. Her seventy third minute goal at the time gave Michigan some insurance at three to one. It proved to be the difference in a three to two victory. Here is Bosley on the win.
Lilley Bosley • 01:44
Every win is very important in the Big Ten. You only play so many conference games and we have the goals to go to the Big Ten tournament and go to the NCAA tournament. So this win just gets us one step closer to, you know, achieving those goals. Know, we've lost a couple games recently, close games that, that we weren't able to, you know, get any points out of. And like coach Diani always says that, you know, when you, when you don't get any points out of some of these games, you gotta, you gotta find points elsewhere in, in your upcoming games. And I think, you know, that's what we did.
Brian Boesch • 02:20
The Wolverines, with another road trip on the horizon on the women's soccer side.
Brian Boesch • 02:24
They play at Purdue Thursday at seven.
Brian Boesch • 02:27
Men's soccer, a narrow loss on Sunday to Portland two to one. Alex Gimple the lone goal for three, four and two. Wolverines After a non conference week last week, Michigan back at a Big Ten play on Friday at home against Penn State. Seven o' clock start at the U M Soccer stadium. Volleyball Earned a split out west knocking off USC three sets to one in a nationally televised game Friday night. Late night on the eastern time zone. The usual suspect shine for the Maize in blue, Ella Demetrician with seventeen kills, Cymarah Gordon added sixteen and Morgan Burke with thirty three assists plus a couple of serve aces. Less than twenty four hours later, Michigan fell across town to UCLA. So the Wolverines, now ten and five on the season, return home for two more Big Ten matches Friday at seven against Iowa, Saturday at seven against Oregon. Both inside Crisler Center.
Brian Boesch • 03:18
Tickets at mgoblue dot com tickets. Field Hockey, a tough weekend against two of the best teams in the country. Last Friday Michigan outshot sixth ranked Iowa fourteen to six in regulation. But it was just a one one score and in time ten and a half minutes in Iowa found the cage to deal Michigan a hard fought loss Sunday. The top team in the nation came to town and handed Michigan a six to one loss. That was Northwestern does not get any easier for the Wolverines on Friday. Eleven and oh Maryland coming to town four o' clock start in that one. Men's and women's golf competed at the Barbara Nicholas cup down in Dublin, Ohio after dropping both match play decisions to Clemson and Ohio State on Monday. On both sides, the women bounced back with a win over Charlotte while the men fought to a draw with those forty nine ers who went two zero on Monday. Softball A strong weekend in fall action as the Wolverines defeated Toledo twenty five to four on Friday, then blanked U of D fourteen zip and thirteen zip on a double header Saturday.
Brian Boesch • 04:17
One more fall game this Friday in Ann Arbor. Bowling Green the opponent five o' clock start in that one. Baseball Split a pair of seven inning games in fall action with Michigan State up north in Traverse City. A six nothing win then a six four loss. So that's the update on what's happening around campus, between the lines, on the fields or on the courts. But we've got something to talk about today as our spotlight that impacts the entire athletic community here at Michigan. The women in sports elevate her summit is a week away. It is Thursday, October fifteenth. It is designed to promote the importance and value of creating opportunities for women in athletics to bring our community back together, to hear from industry leaders and alumni and to create meaningful professional development, networking and mentorship opportunities for student athletes, alumni and community members.
Brian Boesch • 05:03
And we have the emcee for this event who used her Michigan education to become a Sports Broadcasting hall of Famer. And as you'll hear, one heck of a storyteller, too. Andrea Joyce joins us to talk about the Summit, how she got involved, which involved one word. She'll share that with you momentarily. You can get your tickets at mgo blue dot com tickets. That's mgoblue dot com tickets. Plus Andrea talks about her broadcast career, her time at Michigan, and a whole lot more. Really excited to share with you this conversation with Andrea Joyce on Conqu'ring Heroes.
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Jeff Laurence • 05:39
Welcome to your One Stop podcast for all things Michigan athletics. Updates on every team on campus and interviews with players and coaches are all on the way. This is Conqu'ring Heroes. Here's your host, Brian Boesch.
Brian Boesch • 05:53
An absolute treat here on Conqu'ring Heroes.
Brian Boesch • 05:56
To have a Hall of Famer, to have a Michigan alum, and to have the soon to be emcee of a really exciting event coming up in Ann Arbor. In just about a week or so, the women in sports elevate her summit. It's the great Andrea Joyce. Andrea, thank you so much for joining us.
Andrea Joyce • 06:14
My pleasure, My pleasure.
Brian Boesch • 06:16
Can you tell our listeners how it came to be that you would be a part of this, which is an
Brian Boesch • 06:21
event to bring together high profile, powerful
Brian Boesch • 06:24
women in the sports industry for a night of storytelling, leadership development and networking.
Andrea Joyce • 06:31
One word. Hutch. Right.
Brian Boesch • 06:34
That tends to be enough around here.
Andrea Joyce • 06:36
No. Carol Hutchins, like, you cannot say no to her. You cannot help but get caught up in her enthusiasm for anything. If she called me tomorrow and said, Andrea, go run out into traffic on Central park west in front of your apartment right now and scream, go blue. I would probably do it, you know, because she, there's, she's, she's so important for our community and for and for all women, for everyone truly like men and women alike. I think that when you look at all of the coaches in Michigan's history, I think that you would put Carol up in the top three. If not, I mean, Bo is a friend of mine. You know, we've had a lot of great coaches. But there's something about Hutch that is her enthusiasm is infectious and what she stands for and what she believes in is so important, really hard to say no to her. So when she came up with this idea and she said, would you consider, and I said, Consider, you know, of course, you know, I'll do anything.
Andrea Joyce • 07:34
I mean, I will set up the chairs. You know, I would have done anything. I didn't need to lead the summit. You know, I would have set up the chairs if I. If I had to.
Brian Boesch • 07:42
When did you first meet and get to know Carol Hutchins?
Andrea Joyce • 07:47
So I think I first met her several years ago at a football game. And we were upstairs, we were at Chrysler, and we were at a reception. And it was very interesting because I knew who she was, but she knew who I was, which to me is always surprising when people know, because I'm not a big star. I'm not, you know, I did a lot of. I've worked in television for, you know, many decades, but, you know, I did a lot of dog shows and I did a lot of, you know, I was like, never the A team. And I did, you know, a lot of Olympics. I did sports that maybe people didn't see as often, or if you're just watching the Olympics, you see, you know, every couple of years. But I'm always surprised when someone knows who I am. But she did, and we had a great conversation. She came to visit my husband and I here in New York and every. And, you know, it was great. Like, I was in Ann Arbor for a game last week, and she's walking around through the tailgates and she's got cards for the elevate her event.
Andrea Joyce • 08:51
Now it's twenty, twenty six. Ninety percent of all promotion is done online, right? Through social media and everything else. She's walking around with cards and she's handing them out to everybody. And guess what? That matters. That makes a difference. That personal connection that she has and the way that she is with people. And she's walking up and down the rows and telling people about the summit and how it is and handing out these cards, which I thought was brilliant, right? You don't see that very often.
Brian Boesch • 09:20
Not at all.
Brian Boesch • 09:20
And when you have an interaction with a legend like Hutch, it matters. The event is coming up on October fifteenth. That is a Thursday at Chrysler Center. Full details at mgo blue dot com TICKETS what do you hope to accomplish, to convey, to try to spark in your role at this summit?
Andrea Joyce • 09:40
Well, we have an incredible panel. I mean, the women on this panel are just incredible. And so my first job is to not fangirl too much, you know, over this group and not to be like, whoa, you know, because they are there, you know, And I actually have worked, you know, closely with one of them, with Lili Leung, when she was the head of USA Gymnastics. But I think that more than anything, I think that this is an opportunity to remind people, we. We sort of know this in our heads, how important sports are for women, for young girls, for women in general. We know how important it is for health, for well being, for all kinds of reasons. But I think that this is an opportunity for us to remind people of how important it is and also to keep women's sports in the forefront of people's minds. Because especially in this era with NIL and the way that the landscape is now for sports, it's so, I think, confusing for a lot of people, for me included.
Andrea Joyce • 10:38
But I think that this is our opportunity to remind people that you need to pay attention to women. You need to pay attention to this, support these programs, support these women. When you look at all of the women in the C suites in the world, especially in the US and the number of them, like ninety percent of them participated in some kind of sports, whether it's high school or college, they were part of team sports or individual sports. That's what people are looking for. They learn leadership. You know, it's all. All of the things that women gain from being in sports. So I think that it's just, it's to put a spotlight on all of that.
Brian Boesch • 11:14
Yeah. And you mentioned the four participants on the panel, Li Li Leung, who's the former CEO and president of USA Gymnastics. She's also been involved at a high, high level in the NBA. Kate Johnson, global marketing director and head of global sports and entertainment partnerships with Google. Estee Portnoy, senior VP at Jump Management llc.
Andrea Joyce • 11:35
Basically, Michael Jordan would not be, you know, as successful as a business person today if it weren't for Esti. Right. And then you also have Casey Taylor, you know, it's incredible.
Brian Boesch • 11:45
And all of them.
Andrea Joyce • 11:46
But that's Hutch, though. Again, that's Hutch. Like Hutch makes a phone call and says, come and do this, you know, and everyone knows, we all know how important this is, but it's her. You know, Hutch is the one who said, we need to do this and we need to do this now. And when she first brought it up, when we were first talking about this last spring, I thought, it's so hard to get anything these days, to get anything organized and to get people to be able to come together, you know, financially and, you know, just with time, commitments and everything else. And for her to just sort of say, no, we're going to do this, she persists. You know, there's persistence which is one of the things we will talk a lot about at the summit, you know, is about how persistence really matters, one hundred percent.
Brian Boesch • 12:26
And you mentioned the stats about, you
Brian Boesch • 12:28
know, former student athletes. One hundred percent of the panel are Michigan alums, which is a really special element to this. As you think back to where you are now, how did Michigan help lay a foundation or spark something that ultimately led you to all the success you've had in your life?
Andrea Joyce • 12:44
Well, you know, it's interesting because I'm very proud of my age. I'm seventy two, and I. I think I'm. I think I'm always waiting for someone to say, what, you don't look seventy two. So. But.
Brian Boesch • 12:55
But, I mean, I. I didn't want to interrupt, but I agree.
Brian Boesch • 12:57
And again, as we talked about before we started recording, part of it is
Brian Boesch • 13:00
you have the best logo at the University of Michigan and the athletic department on. That's the best one.
Andrea Joyce • 13:05
Thank you. But. So I was pre-title nine, so I never got to be an athlete. I never. I never got to compete in college. I never got to be on any teams. Not that I would have had the skills or, you know, the coordination to do anything, but. But I. But I didn't have the opportunity because it was before Title ix. In high school, we just played against each other. We didn't even have. We didn't even play against other high schools because there was no opportunity for that. But what Michigan did for me, I mean, I come out of, you know, I grew up outside of Detroit in Dearborn Heights, and kind of grew up thinking that I was a pretty regular teenager. I had just turned eighteen when I started my freshman year, and I did not go to Ann Arbor for my freshman year. I went to U of M Dearborn for a variety of reasons, but ended up, you know, in Ann Arbor my sophomore year. And the thing that I realized very, very quickly being on campus was that your life doesn't.
Andrea Joyce • 14:02
You're not ordinary. Nobody is just ordinary. You know, you're. You know, you couldn't. You know, your life should not be ordinary. Your life. Your life can be anything you want it to be. There was this wave of sort of curiosity and people just doing interesting things, and you get caught up in that, and you're surrounded by that. And I think that the environment at Michigan, even though, listen, I never had a class that put me in front of a camera ever. I was always behind the camera. I was in production. I did a lot of directing, a lot of producing, and I was never in front of the camera. And so when I decided to be in front, people said, well, did you get that training at Michigan? And I said, no, I didn't get the training for that specifically. But what Michigan taught me and showed me is that I could try anything and why not? You know, it was sort of that why not attitude and why not me?
Andrea Joyce • 14:51
And what's the worst thing that can happen? You try and you put yourself out there. I just gave a speech last week in Ann Arbor and I talked a lot about that, about facing your fears and about how every world class athlete, you know, that's what they do, they face their fears. And so we all have something in common with them when we can do that. And I think that's what Michigan gave me.
Brian Boesch • 15:11
You alluded to title nine on the broadcasting side of things when you were a young professional. There was nothing along those lines and there wasn't the representation that there is now. How did you overcome some of those obstacles? And what does it mean to you that you are one of many who helped pave the way for a much different look at sports, perspective on sports now than what you were when you were growing up watching Lions games as a kid?
Andrea Joyce • 15:38
You know, it's interesting because my career started, you know, and went like this in so many different paths and ways. And my mantra was always just say yes and just take the job. Even though my first job in TV coming out of I was a grad school dropout at Michigan. I was a teaching assistant. And I thought, gee, I just want to try and be in front of the camera. And back then in nineteen seventy seven, the only jobs for women on television and local television were to do the weather. And so I had three job offers to do the weather. And so my first job in tv, I was the weather girl in Colorado Springs. And then went from that to being an anchor woman in Wichita, Kansas, and then. And ended up back in Detroit at wdiv. And I anchored the news on the weekends. But whenever there was a sports story, because they knew that I knew a lot about sports and I cared about it, I was passionate about it, passionate about Michigan.
Andrea Joyce • 16:33
Whenever there was something extra to do at a sporting event, they would send me to go do it. And so I went out to the Rose bowl with Jimmy Brandstatter. He would cover the game, I would cover the parade and the Beef bowl and all those other things. But I always had my toes in like a little bit in sports. And as I. My path took me then to Denver, where I met my husband, and then we ended up in Dallas and it was just a fluky, one of those fluky things that I ended up in sports. You know, they needed extra help one day because somebody was sick in the sports department. I did a live shot at Reunion arena. And the next thing you know, my boss was offering me the weekend sports shop. And not as a gimmick and not as anything that, you know, like, oh, let's be the first ones in Texas to have a woman anchoring the. Anchoring the sports. Because there were no women. There were only a couple back.
Andrea Joyce • 17:24
Leslie Visser was working already, I think, you know, back on the East Coast, a couple of women. But in Texas, there were no women doing sports on tv. And my boss was an incredible guy. It was the ABC affiliate in Dallas. And he basically said, this was the station. You're too young to remember, but this was the station that had led the investigation that resulted in SMU getting the death penalty in football. Like, you know, this is years ago in the eighties, I guess. And so his idea was to have journalists in the sports department, to not have all former athletes, you know, back slapping in the locker room and, you know, not. And that's not to. That's not like throwing shade on anybody who came from the sports world and ended up a broadcaster. I mean, you know, there are millions that are terrific, right. But he wanted to try something different.
Andrea Joyce • 18:12
He wanted to try and say, listen, we're going to approach this. And I wasn't the main sport, you know, I was the weekend anchor and during the week I did reports. But he wanted to approach it more from a journalistic point of view. So that's how I got my. So it was fluky the way that I got my start. And I do think often, though, about especially, you know, the older I get, the, you know, how. What, what kind of impact. Those of us who've been around, Lesley Visser, Mary Carillo, myself, like what kind of impact we've had on young women. And I'll just tell you this very quick story that just. This was so emotional for me when I gave this speech last week. This young woman came up to me afterwards and she said that when she wrote, when she was filling out her application for Michigan, and there's a question, why Michigan? And she wrote about me. And I'm getting goosebumps now just thinking about it.
Andrea Joyce • 19:09
And I started to cry because I never ever in a million years, you know, you don't think that you're going to have that kind of impact on somebody. Like that's so tangible like that, like, oh, yeah, she helped open doors, but, you know, but here's this woman, she said, I wrote my essay about you and about what you did in your career. And I thought, you know, so. So, yeah, it's, you know, it's a, It's a cool position to be in.
Brian Boesch • 19:34
We are with Andrea Joyce here on Conqu'ring Heroes. I want to get into the Olympic career because that is, I mean, the, the length of time that you had, the staying power is rem. But, you know, at my core here with Michigan, my most high profile role is with Michigan men's basketball. And nineteen eighty nine was obviously a special year for Michigan.
Brian Boesch • 19:56
It was extra special for you.
Brian Boesch • 19:57
I believe that was your first year covering the NCAA tournament, correct?
Andrea Joyce • 20:01
It was for cbs, yes.
Brian Boesch • 20:03
Now, was that the same year as your interactions with Bob Knight, or was that a different year?
Brian Boesch • 20:07
No, no, that was your year one.
Andrea Joyce • 20:10
I had. I had interactions with Coach Knight. It felt like a lifetime of interactions, but it was maybe three or four years in a row. Every time we would get the schedule. This is before, you know, everything was on a computer and you'd get your schedule in the mail. And I'd go, oh, God, I can't believe, like, I'm going to be with Indiana the first round of the tournament. Because, you know, quite honestly, like, he, he was, he was a bully. And, you know, at least I felt like, to me, he was. He tried to intimidate me and he succeeded. I was, I was afraid of him. I, you know, I got nervous around him. He was not particularly nice to me. But we had a full circle kind of a thing, like where he, he, he came to respect what I did and what I was doing and who I was and how I carried myself and how I conducted myself at these events. That this wasn't a gimmick, that I was just a woman just, you know, out there having fun.
Andrea Joyce • 21:03
I mean, I was there to do a job and he came full circle. Our relationship came full circle. And the last year that I did the tournament, which was probably ten years after that, after eighty nine, and, you know, we were best of friends.
Brian Boesch • 21:18
Not many people can say that with.
Andrea Joyce • 21:20
No, I know. No, he was. It was incredible. I mean, you know what. Because for several years in a row, I always felt like, you know, like my shoulders would go up like this every time I'd be, you know, I was afraid, you know, of what? Because sometimes I felt like his interaction with. And quite honestly, I'm not that important. You know, when you think back on these things, you're really not that Important, Important. He wasn't spent. He wasn't sitting there at night thinking of ways to make my life miserable. Of course that was the way I had it in my head. But I think that those interactions, what it really helped me realize is that you stay true to your school. You trust your gut, you trust your instincts. Your integrity is the most important thing that you have in your toolkit. And if you hang on to all of that, you're going to be okay, no matter what, no matter who you're running into.
Andrea Joyce • 22:12
But I am happy to say, though, that our, you know, ours went full
Brian Boesch • 22:15
circle, and that's an accomplishment in this career. There's no doubt. Obviously, every sports casting assignment is unique. I think one of the more challenging ones is for a national reporter or play by play broadcaster, analyst. The first and second day of the NCAA tournament, you're preparing for four games. The other one is the Olympics. You covered eighteen of them. Did you have certain core principles, non negotiables in your preparation for and then coverage of the Olympics that help carry you through? Because you, you are spanning different sports locations, countries, storylines. There's so much that can be different. Olympics to Olympics, sport to sport. How did you try to center and learn from one Olympic Games to the next?
Andrea Joyce • 23:08
I think that what was always, you know, in my gut and in my core was always about the fact that this is not about you. This is not, it's not about me. It could never be about me. In fact, you know, when I was speaking last week, I'm talking to all these young women and one of them, I think, is working for Big Ten Network and somebody else is doing stuff for Wolf tv and they were talking about how do you dress, how do you know what to wear? You know, it was something that seems so minor and so small, but, but I said, you know, basically from, from the day I started at cbs, well, I was, had been in sports for a while before that, but I only wore black and brown and navy. I never wore a color. I never wore a hat. I never, I never did anything to call attention to myself because I already felt like I was standing out like a sore thumb. It was like, what's that woman doing out there?
Andrea Joyce • 23:56
So I felt like if I can just blend into the background and just do my job, and my job is to talk to people and to get them to tell us how they feel, tell us, you know, their story, tell us why this is important to them, tell us about their heartbreak and about their joy and everything else. And the only way that you can do that is if you always, always remember that they are the story, you are not the story. And so I think that that was one of the principles that kind of guided me always. And you talked about preparation. I'm a lunatic when it comes to preparing. I mean, I, you know, I show up at a figure skating event and I'm. I'm the sideline running reporter. I'm on maybe four times in a broadcast for two minutes each time, and, you know, we're on for a couple of hours. I come in with stacks and stacks of books like this, you know, because I still have everything written down.
Andrea Joyce • 24:43
And I have, you know, you told me ten years ago that, well, you know, like, I have it all written down. I suppose I could put it into a computer. But now I'm thinking, I've got it all. I know where it is and I know how to find it. And I've got a file on every single person. So, you know, obviously when you do a new sport, you know, it's a challenge. I just did para track for the first time this summer. I was filling in for Louis Johnson and. And it was just, it was so much fun to be with, like a brand new group of people and start from scratch. And remember, this is how I have always operated. You know, my husband said, this is. You're doing this for one day, for two hours, and you're making yourself crazy. And I said, but I'm. I, I want to know more about these athletes and I want to be. I want to make sure that they know that I've done the homework and that I care about them.
Andrea Joyce • 25:31
That's the other thing that I think that they deserve, that athletes deserve that more than anything they deserve. We owe it to them to do our homework and to know about them and to know about their struggles and to know about their triumphs and to really, really, really make sure that they know that we care, that we're not out there just exploiting this. Because, hey, it's sports, you know, it's the Super Bowl. Yay. You know, when I'm coaching, I coach young people sometimes, young athletes who are maybe retiring and getting into the broadcasting world. And that's one of the things that I always tell them, is that when the athlete knows that you care about them, they're much more likely to open up and to really tell you what's going on in their heart. And so that's kind of what has always guided me.
Brian Boesch • 26:21
I don't want to hold you to.
Brian Boesch • 26:22
What is your favorite story from the Olympics but if I were to ask for one that comes to mind, when you think back, is there something, whether it was athletic amazement or emotion or something personal for you, Would love to have you share a story of something that stands out.
Andrea Joyce • 26:41
I have so many, but one of my absolute favorites came from Lillehammer in nineteen ninety four. Of course, this was before nine eleven. So the way that we covered the Olympics and the way the atmosphere in these towns, it was completely different than it is now. The security wasn't. There was security, but it wasn't. You could go out in Norway, in Lillehammer, the main street was called the Storgata, and athletes would just come out and they would go to the restaurants and you'd be mingling with them. You could go to the Heineken house, which back then was the Holland House, and. And you can just walk right in. And nothing like that can happen anymore. I mean, there's so much more security, and there has to be. But in nineteen ninety four, try to make this story brief. But basically it was a Monday night, and they called it Black Monday. CBS was covering ninety four, and they called it Black Monday because there was no figure skating.
Andrea Joyce • 27:33
So the ratings always took a big dip. So we get off the air, Jim Nantz and I get off the air doing the weekend coverage Sunday night. And they said, okay. They said, tomorrow, supposed to be our day off. Tomorrow is the cross country relay, which in Norway is like their Super Bowl. It's like their Super Bowl. And they said, we're going to cover it like a Super Bowl. So they sent us all out into all different parts of. You know, I was over in the tent village where people had been camping out, waiting for a great spot by the finish line. Fast forward they go. They race for three hours, and Norway's supposed to win. And there's hundreds of thousands of people out there, and. And Italy. Italy comes in at the very, very end and edges out Norway by like, this much of a ski, right? And it's silent. Like, people are just in shock. But then it's Norway and everybody's very nice, and so it's, yay, you know, whatever.
Andrea Joyce • 28:25
Fast forward that night. Harry, my husband, and I are in a restaurant in the Storgata filled with locals. Filled with locals. It's, you know, all Norwegian people. And in walks the Italian cross country team. Now, that would be like the Boston Red Sox showing up at a Yankee bar. You know, I mean, it was just. It was like unheard. And I went, oh, my God. It was silent for about five seconds. And then the Entire restaurant stood up and cheered for the Italian team that had just broken their hearts. To me, that was such an Olympic moment. It was such a. One of the reasons why I love the Olympics so much. It's that it brings us together. It reminds us that we have more in common than. Than we have differences. And it's special, you know, so that, so that's something, you know, it's not really like a. Like a moment, like a sports moment, but it was overall like an Olympic moment.
Brian Boesch • 29:25
I don't remember being applauded while the team was leaving in Columbus in twenty four, in football or in basketball at Breslin center in twenty.
Brian Boesch • 29:34
So credit the Norwegians.
Andrea Joyce • 29:36
And quite honestly, I can't imagine ever doing it either, you know, in that situation. But no, it was, it was quite a remarkable moment. And I think that we've seen that. You know, I remember, I remember when Dan Jansen finally won his gold medal, you know, and that was, that was so special. I think that a lot of the figure skating that I've done this last year in Milan was just. We had the highest of highs and the lowest of lows and shocking results and spectacular results and all wrapped up into. Into ten days. And it was that. I think professionally for me, that was one of my. One of my favorite Olympics.
Brian Boesch • 30:14
Well, Andrew, we could talk for hours. This has been awesome. But we, we do hope that fans will come out to the elevate her summit Coming up Thursday, october fifteenth. Tickets available MGO blue dot com tickets and it is complimentary for varsity student athletes by showing their M card MGO blue dot com TICKETS I'll get you out on this just excitement level, the honor that it is for you.
Brian Boesch • 30:37
We alluded to it off the top, but to be able to be a
Brian Boesch • 30:39
part of this and to come back, because anytime you get back to Ann Arbor, I'm sure it's special.
Andrea Joyce • 30:44
I, I am always, always so happy to be back on campus. And I, you know, last week when I was, when I was in town, I had a couple of extra days and I just walked and, you know, and it's emotional. I think it's emotional for a lot of alums. You know, when you, when you walk past a classroom building where you had a triumph or a tragedy or whatever, you know, and just to see. I'm shocked and concerned at how young students look today. I don't know that I looked that young, but I think that more than anything, to be able to come back and it's not the cliche of, oh, I'm giving back so much as it's to be part of something that is so meaningful. You know, this summit is so meaningful. And I think that I can't wait to hear the stories of these panelists. You know, they have so many incredible stories to tell. And I think that it's not just about being inspired. It's about a movement, you know, that it's something that we need to continue.
Andrea Joyce • 31:41
Title IX is in danger, you know, like all kinds of things going on in our country now that we need to pay attention to this. And I'm excited to be part of it.
Brian Boesch • 31:49
Wonderful stuff. Andrea Joyce, again, can't thank you so much.
Andrea Joyce • 31:52
Go Blue.
Brian Boesch • 31:53
And we look forward to seeing you here. Summit.
Andrea Joyce • 31:55
Yeah. Thank you.
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Brian Boesch • 32:03
Great stuff with Andrea Joyce.
Brian Boesch • 32:05
Incredibly thankful for all the time she gave and she's obviously giving a lot of time to the university, to the community with her visit next week for the elevate her summit focusing on women in sports. Mgoblue dot com tickets to join. All right, for Andrea Joyce, for everybody who joined us earlier, Coach Nerado, Lily Bosley, and thanks to Sydney Miller and Kristy McNeil and all those who helped make this possible. Kelly Bates, Shout out her for what she's doing with the Summit. I'm Brian Boesch. Appreciate you listening and following along here on Conqu'ring Heroes, Go blue.
Jeff Laurence • 32:37
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