1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - 1-ON-1 with DP and Special Guest Crystal Elliott (part 2) : June 10th

Episode Date: June 10, 2025

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You're listening to one-on-one with DP. Brought you by Canopy Street Market on 937 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Oh, so funny. So funny. The thing, I have transitioned to being the old guy in the room all the time now, which hurts my soul. It hurts my soul, but I have much respect for it. I have to bring Bach in here because, okay, so Crystal, show Bach your ear. Show him.

Well, both of them are just one. Yes, yes. All right. But I have this side. Uh-huh. And then this ear is not fully decorated. I'm missing a few earrings in it. Oh, wow.

Yeah. You know, okay. That's the response I was looking for. Thank you, Jake Bach. Wait, want to know something? Yeah. I have these piercings while I lived here. I, but I'm just trying to understand.

Right down the road? like right over the right like I'm trying to figure but athletes piercings and tattoos it's a whole thing and I'm I'm old school like I really say I'm old school but then you the young ones come in and she's like no yeah how many how many ear piercings do you have back I think I got one in my life when I was too drunk to my friends did it for me I've got to scare to get anything

pierce I think I remember like there's we're playing pro softball and the team we said if we win if we win if we win the state title everybody's going to get the area of peers and i thought bach there's no chance we're going to win because we had never won to stay title before we had never won it we weren't the favorite like we would have to come from the bottom of the bracket to do it and sure enough we won it and everybody the next day, everybody went, got in a chair, and as the coach, I'm the last one in. As you notice, I have no ear piercing because everybody else went and I got in the chair and I was like, nope. That's because you were the last one to go.

Right. Like if you're, I tell people, I'm like, if you're like nervous for a piercing, you were the first one to go in that chair. Oh, no, no. So how many, how many ear pierced? What are we talking about? Oh, gosh. Well, two of them I did on my own, actually. I was in high school because I was like,

Mom! Well, it's funny because I saw now obviously the parent tramp, or wow. The parent trap with Lindsay Lohan. I was like, God, I need to do this. Well, I had already had like the fore on my lobes and I was like,

eh, I'm going to do something different. So I took the apple. I took the ice. I took the flame, the needle and went whoop in my ear. did it twice and those are two of my favorite piercings. Crystal, Crystal, Crystal. You're a professional now. You're like, you're the new face of a professional bowling, rookie of the year.

Like you wouldn't assume that like I have tattoos. Yeah, but he's the thing. Bowling. Okay. So do you, are you a fan of bowling movies? Like, do, is that a part of your, like, do you watch Kingpin? Do you watch the Big LaBasca? Like, would you?

Like, are those? I mean, I have watched them. They're not my favorite movie. What are your favorite movies? Oh my gosh. Ten things I hate about you. With Heath Ledger. With Heath Ledger.

Yep. God. I love him. Well, it's the dance scene. Yeah. In the football stadium where he has the band play for him. I mean. Right.

It's, it's, it's, you're on the road now, though. That's the thing. So, so what do you, how do you occupy time? How much time do you spend in the lanes and then working out and then. just being crystal so when tour was not happening i was in the gym about four days a week okay um now unfortunately i can't get to the gym as much just because like with roommates like you got i try to be there for my roommates and i try to like watch their squad watch their stuff just in case because they do the same for me right so uh i don't get to the gym as much as i would like to when i'm

out on the road. But when I stay in a bowling center, I normally do it for my squad or if my roommates are on a different squad and then I'm out. Like I don't want to, I don't want to spend my life in a bowling center when bowling is my job. Like this is what I do for a living. And I mean, I love bowling. But at some point, like I had to figure out how to separate myself emotionally.

from bowling and just what I do. Well, that's the conversation we had at the old station. Yep. Right? Literally just saying, Crystal, this, first of all. Yeah. That you're wired differently, and so you have to act differently. And you have to be authentically you.

Yes. Right. That you can't come in as a freshman and help win a national title and then think, hey, that's easy for everybody. No, it's not. No, it's not. The pressure that goes with it. being in a program that matters. But through that, you find out who you are and who you aren't, as we say, you know who you are until you find out who you not.

Right. And a big part of that here is when you think about a national championship and as a Husker, there are two things that I have to ask about first. That it seems that Nebraska, the workouts and the nutrition are at a higher level here than in other programs. Is that true? Yes. Right? That, that. Yeah.

So when I, so for example, my senior year, I was here. I worked out every single day except Sundays. If Sundays were like my day off and then I can get caught up on school work if I needed to. But we had team workout and then I would literally stay for like another two hours and work out for two hours. Like I was in the best shape of my life. And then I would go and work with my diet. And I would just talk to them about like eating habits and stuff. So I learned a lot about like just the foods we eat.

And it's not necessarily about like how much you're eating. Because sometimes there's things that you eat that like just keep eating it. Like it's not really going to do too much to you. But you can't sit there and eat a brownie every single day, you know. Don't know. I know. I would love to. I would love to do that.

I'm someone that I do not say no to a cookie. I mean, I think through it that when you watch Nebraska versus other programs, you see there is a power difference. Yes. There's an endurance difference. And that people are still trying to figure out what the prototype is for a high-level women's college bowling. We used to go run the stadium. Now, Memorial Stadium is massive. probably one of the best stadiums in the country, especially even for Big Ten.

I know that a lot of other Big Ten schools are expanding their stadiums now. And so we have also expanded our stadium, potentially even expanding it more to fit more fans. But we used to go run the stadium. And then after volleyball games had happened or before volleyball games had happened, we'd be running the bob. And so we are like, it was just constant like pushing to like make. our endurance, like the best that it physically can be because you're standing from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. Like, there's no sitting. And if you do get to sit, you're like, oh, thank goodness, even if it's for a minute, like, you take full advantage of it. But now, like, I don't sit

when I bowl now. Now, like, college bowling has ingrained in me, like, stand, stand. But isn't that, I mean, that weird tear over the course? I mean, like, I have talked to my physical trainer, he's like, you should take a seat. And I'm like, I can't. I physically, if I sit down when I'm bowling, like, it makes me nervous because I'm like, oh my God, I'm not going to get up fast enough to like throw my shot. Like, it really, like, I like sit there and then I'm like, oh gosh, like I get, I get antsy. And I don't know why, but I mean, five years of standing from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. For literally the entire year, I'm like, my goodness.

What's the biggest misconception about women bowlers on the college level? that were not athletes. There there was a comment that was made when we won the national championship in 2021 and we, they had brought us to the baseball field to show everyone

because we had won in Kansas City. So we were taking the bus back to campus and they were like, we're going to go to the baseball game and announce you guys as national champions. Well, the Nebraska page made the post and someone goes, what did they win a national podcast?

eating contest. And so, like, it's things like that that, like, because we're not volleyball, like, we're not tall, we're not skinny or I shouldn't say we're not skinny, but we're not as, we don't have the same body structure as some of these other athletes. And it's one of those things that, like, it gets to you sometimes. And, I mean, there's still girls out bowling on the professional world that they get some mean comments made to them. And I'm like, just because we don't have the same.

rituals as volleyball or softball or soccer or whatever else, like does not mean that we are not athletes. I mean, we often talk on this station about the conversations that are had, the comments that are made and things that are said. And they're just like, wait a minute, just grow up. Yeah. Just grow up. Like if you feel the need to attack somebody who's out here accomplishing, first of all,

you probably couldn't get in the school. They got in academically. You certainly couldn't bowl at their level. You couldn't bowl at their level. They could take you down to the alley and beat the pants off you. You know, that would be a thing. Do you get challenged much by fans who just say, you know, hey, I think, I think I could take you? I mean, yeah, but it's more of like sometimes, like when I see people start to like,

so like the kids back home that I work with or that I just bowl with, I love bowling with them because they keep me on the lanes and they keep me like noticing, like, what I need to focus on. And like I learned their ball roll because three out of five of them are two-handers. So like I want to start going bowling like more like the men's stuff. And it's one of those things that like even though they're young, I can still learn their ball role, especially for when like women start to come in with better two-handed style. But it's just one of those things that I, when I see them start to get a little bit,

like cocky and they're like oh well you can't or whatever like my one of my favorite times and i i still give him a hard time for this but he was like no one can beat me right now and um i hope he's watching this actually and but i was like i'll bowl you and he goes okay and what are you going to bowl and i said i will buy you lunch and so like a lot of the times like i'm like i'll buy you tropical smoothie if you beat me. And so a few of them have beat me. And so like I paid up my tropical smoothie. But this kid was just talking and talking. I was like, let me bowl. And I shot 300 against him. And so to this day, he like, any time the guys like start like chirping and stuff, he walks over and he goes, I would not. Bach, how many 300 every bowl? Not one. There we go. Crystal, how many? How many do you have?

I think I'm at 32 right now. Okay. We're going to break. We're going to break. We're going to break. We're going to break. Crystal Elliott. joins us on 101. We'll close it out. Hand it over to the captain's show when we come back. Watch live on Facebook, YouTube, or Twitch. You're listening to One-on-One with DP on 93-7, The Ticket, and The Ticketfm.com.