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so the first time i played rugby i was

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actually 18 it was the year before i

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went to west point and i was walking

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across the gonzaga university campus and

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i saw a group of people playing a sport

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that was unlike anything i'd seen there

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was a lot of tackling i couldn't figure

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out what was going on

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and one of them asked me if i was

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interested in trying it out and the very

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next day i started in my first game of

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rugby

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i played throughout my time at west

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point and then when i was a marshall

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scholar i was fortunate to study

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postgraduate in england and there i

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started playing at a higher level in

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2004 i was selected to the u.s national

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team i was fortunate to play a lot of

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rugby and then i also coached a little

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bit right before

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i went to test pilot school

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my last weekend playing rugby was the

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weekend prior to finding out i became an

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astronaut

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so rugby has surprisingly helped me a

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lot as an astronaut and when i'm

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training in the spacesuit in the emu and

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we're working in our in our large pool

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the neutral buoyancy lab underwater

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we're under there for six hours at a

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time and you really work yourself to

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physical and mental exhaustion the only

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other time that i've hit that point of

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exhaustion is the 60th minute of a rugby

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match when your body gets that

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physically tired you can't mentally give

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up you actually have to

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think about things more deliberately

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with more clarity because you're more

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prone to mistakes and it's the people

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that can overcome that physical and keep

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going with the clarity of mind that win

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both rugby matches and that find

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themselves successful trading in the

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spacesuit

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i am ann mclean and i am an astronaut