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Tilly Kearns is sitting in her car, speaking into one phone, while another films from beside her.
The call is the one Kearns — a member of the Australian water polo team, the Stingers — has been expecting.
Her reaction though, was not.
After being told that she had made the 2024 Olympic team and would be heading to her second Games in Paris, the 23-year-old burst into tears.
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That organic and emotional response to the realisation of Kearns's dream has been watched over 245,000 times on her Instagram profile, and almost 80,000 more have done the same on TikTok.
Posting such a genuinely personal moment out to the world is part of what makes Kearns one of the real fan favourites in the Australian Olympic squad.
"It was a totally different feeling to Tokyo," Kearns told ABC Sport, when asked about the background to that video.
"Before the Tokyo Olympics, waiting for that call, it was totally different because I wasn't a guarantee. It could have gone any way, so it was definitely a different feeling [this time].
"But regardless, it's still a highly emotional day.
"Some of your best mates, your teammates, will get cut and it's hard to celebrate a big milestone when the people you care about are hurting.
"But at the same time, that was kinda the first moment that it really sunk in for me that I was going to be a two-time Olympian.
"I wasn't expecting that my body reacted like that but I kinda just let it do it's natural thing. It was just really overwhelming, it was a really special moment."
That video was something of a one off, but overall it conveyed the same message Kearns espouses across all her posts on social media.
And it's clearly working.
"I'm authentic and I just say things how it is, I'm me online, take it or leave it," Kearns said of her online persona, which has gained her 46,000 followers on Instagram and over 400,000 on TikTok.
"I did have those generic responses that everyone spits out in a post-match interview, but I think that's not giving people an insight into you as an athlete, and also your sport, the hard work you do.
"I think it's important to keep a bit of yourself in everything.
"Female athletes are trying to find their foothold in whatever they can, so it is daunting, if you say the wrong thing, or, you can be perceived in the wrong way.
"For me, I want myself to shine through before anything else."
Building a personal brand on social media is a tremendous opportunity for athletes in sports that often fly under the radar in the congested Australian market.
But it can be a double-edged sword when it comes to personal attacks to go alongside the positivity.
"I don't get a heap of negative stuff yet," Kearns said.
"I'm sure as I keep growing, I will.
"During the Olympics and big events there's always your people at home on their couches who think they're experts, but it's pretty easy to remind yourself that they're nothing more than an armchair expert and they actually have no idea what's going on, and those comments are just not worth reading into.
"There are personal ones that you can kinda laugh at, it is hard sometimes, but I'm lucky in that I don't really get a lot of hate just yet.
"I hope it stays that way."
In fact, at the moment it's the opposite.
Earlier in the year, Australia's international water polo teams had a training camp in Queensland, with the men playing three Tests against Japan and the women playing intra-squad matches before taking on Canada.
When the players were introduced to the packed crowd at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre in Chandler, one name elicited a cheer like no other.
"I think they almost feel like maybe they're friends," Kearns said by way of an explanation as to her popularity.
"They see other parts of my life, so there is that connection with them — and I absolutely love it.
"Those little girls that show up to the games … give me notes and stuff after the game saying how much I've helped them and renewed their love for the sport.
"That stuff is really really special. It keeps me grounded.
"You can get tied up in the day in and day out of being an athlete and the hard training and working towards something big.
"But there's all those little girls who are looking to you, and I was one of those little girls too and all I would have loved is to have someone online who I could have followed and felt a connection with.
"It's really cool that I'm kind of paving the way a little bit in that sense."
Part of that is by being a positive role model, whether it be putting losses into perspective or encouraging others to make healthy choices out of the pool, like stopping vaping.
"I think it's a platform that's given me an opportunity to speak up about [staying healthy]," Kearns said.
"I know how many young people follow me and kinda watch what I do and maybe even copy some of the things I do.
"And that's with or without a platform I'm passionate about it — regardless I tell my friends to stop vaping and things like that, but I think that now I actually have a platform that it's cool that I can spread that message in an authentic way that I actually care about."
The women's water polo competition promises to be one of the most competitive events at the Paris Games.
Australia claimed the first ever women's gold medal when it was introduced in Sydney in 2000, a staggering 100 years after the first men's competition too place in Paris in the Seine river.
At the 2024 World Championships in Doha, Australia finished sixth after an agonising 10-9 defeat to eventual champions the USA in the quarterfinals, despite scoring six goals in the final quarter.
With any of the top 10 teams capable of beating the other on any given day, an elusive international medal is up for grabs for Kearns, who is yet to stand on a podium in major international competition.
The Stingers' have finished sixth at two of the last three World Championships, sandwiched between a fourth-place finish at the 2023 tournament in Fukuoka, as well as claiming fifth spot at the last Olympics in Tokyo — competitions Kearns all played a role in.
The difference between now and then though, is regular competition.
"[Our preparation] is night and day compared to Tokyo," Kearns said.
"We went into the [2021] Olympics with no game experience in the prior two years — we were playing 16-year-old boys and that was the best training partners we could get.
"But now we've had [matches against] China, we went to the USA a couple of weeks before China got here.
"All the teams in the world are really close … any game experience is valuable and hopefully a big turn around point compared to Tokyo."
- The Stingers start their Olympic campaign against China on Sunday morning at 4:05am (AEST). Follow all the action via ABC Sport's live blogs.
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