Carly Wopat is an American professional beach volleyball player, entrepreneur, and most recently, a firefighter with the Los Angeles Fire Department. Picking up the game in her early childhood, she went on to becoming a two-time first-team all American at Stanford University for their women's indoor team. Her transition to the beach was near-seamless, with multiple top-ten finishes with the AVP and on the regional scenes, including a recent finals appearance at the "Motherlode" in Aspen, Colorado.
Tune in, as we chat up her relation to Tom Wopat of "The Dukes of Hazard," he first time playing in the Motherlode tournament in Colorado, playing with Katie Spieler, cross-training in mixed martial arts, competing at beach volleyball venues in high altitude settings, understanding the mental game, mediating emotions, the importance of working through stressful patched on and off the court, romantic comedies, the process and training of being a firefighter, why beach volleyball is more "freeing," the reward of focusing on the work, and MORE!
Also available on iTunes and Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Q8qrohEfC2Fb5rq4vKeg7?si=XV0nje0fQQuRRdmk7lpNCA
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-150-carly-wopat/id1472687787?i=1000579664966
