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Speaker 1: What's goodie? Everyone?

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the first episode of the Sometimes I Hoop Podcast.

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Speaker 2: I'm your host, Hayley Jones, number one recruit of twenty

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Speaker 2: nineteen National champ but the show isn't about me. For

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Speaker 2: the very first episode, I'm joined by one of my

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Speaker 2: closest friends and biggest rivals, a Leiah Boston from South Carolina.

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Speaker 2: The world knows you as the reigning Naysmith College Player

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Speaker 2: of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year, first

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Speaker 2: one to do it, twenty twenty two National champion, most

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Speaker 2: outstanding player in Miss Double Double.

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Speaker 3: How are you today? I'm good.

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Speaker 1: How are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm doing so good.

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Speaker 2: I'm so excited to have you here. Our senior year

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Speaker 2: started not too long ago. We're the old ones on campus,

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Speaker 2: old ones on the team.

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Speaker 3: Crazy. How do you get craky? That's like insane, Like

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Speaker 3: I think about it all the time and I'm just like,

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Speaker 3: there's no way, Like we just stept foot on campus,

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Speaker 3: like we really did it. Now we're graduating.

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Speaker 2: I mean here, we are just adulting, moving on your department,

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Speaker 2: We're paying bills.

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Speaker 3: You're doing I don't even want it. I don't.

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Speaker 2: I mean, just us being seniors. I feel like, our

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Speaker 2: senior class is pretty strong. Like we've been our same

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Speaker 2: class for forever, but I feel like our class has

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Speaker 2: only gotten better and better as I think back to

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Speaker 2: our USAU seventeen team. You think about that as starting five?

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Speaker 2: Were who big across the country like Jordan, Paige, asy Me,

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Speaker 2: you ez.

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Speaker 1: Coming off the bench. It's kind of crazy. Did we

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Speaker 1: first meet at USA.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because I remember we were all just like just bonding.

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Speaker 1: What was your first impression of me?

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Speaker 3: Oh, I just knew we're going to be friends. But

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Speaker 3: the first thing. I don't know if I'm gonna get

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Speaker 3: in trouble for this right here, but like we would

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Speaker 3: sit down and eat a meal and like count everyone is,

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Speaker 3: everyone is done, and Haley's just like, okay, hold on,

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Speaker 3: like five more bites.

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Speaker 1: First of all, slow eating is cool.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't need to be some type of knock on me. No,

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Speaker 3: it's cool for okay, okay.

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Speaker 1: Whatever, AnyWho? Okay, So last year y'all won.

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Speaker 2: The year before we won, you know, we've got another

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Speaker 2: year coming at US Who knows what's to happen then?

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Speaker 2: But so after you won last year, what was the

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Speaker 2: first thing you did the day after?

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Speaker 3: Ooh oh, I think oh, I don't know. I really

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Speaker 3: feel like I like slept a lot. I feel like

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Speaker 3: I like knocked out, like knocked out.

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Speaker 1: That's all you have.

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Speaker 3: You slept. You didn't do it anything, slept. I don't know,

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Speaker 3: it listened because it felt like so like unreal that

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Speaker 3: that we won. Like I know, we won, but after

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Speaker 3: that it was kind of like like we celebrated that

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Speaker 3: like whoa, you know, like we really just just won,

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Speaker 3: like it's crazy. So sometimes it would just hit me

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Speaker 3: a random moments and I was like, Okay, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I did that.

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Speaker 3: I did So that's me right there. I'm a little sophie.

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Speaker 1: Oh my lord.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So so you don't really know what you did

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Speaker 2: the next day, you won, you slept in, you enjoyed

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Speaker 2: your life.

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Speaker 1: But now we're on to this year. What are your

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Speaker 1: first impression of the team.

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Speaker 3: I'm feeling pretty good. I think I think we're looking good.

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Speaker 3: I think we've had, you know, a couple tough games,

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Speaker 3: closer games, you know, you guys being one of them,

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Speaker 3: and and I like the way that we fought back.

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Speaker 3: I mean, like our entire game was you guys had

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Speaker 3: game against UCLA too, and you know, we keep we fight.

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Speaker 3: I think that's one thing about our team that I

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Speaker 3: definitely coming with their best shot.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, no, I think that our little cross country

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Speaker 2: robbery that we have is kind of like one of.

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Speaker 1: The new day in Age type breberies.

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Speaker 2: Does it remind you of any of the ones from

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Speaker 2: the past that we might have watched growing up?

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Speaker 3: Definitely. I mean, you know, there were the Tennessee and

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Speaker 3: like Yukon, like that was definitely a battle, and every

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Speaker 3: time that game comes out on TV, it's kind of like, Okay,

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Speaker 3: But I'm loving this new ribery. I think everyone like

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Speaker 3: looks forward to it. It's exciting. Everyone always tunes in. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Okay, do you think that there's like a lot of

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Speaker 2: trash talk against each other, like team to team. I

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Speaker 2: feel like me and you personally we don't really trash

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Speaker 2: talk each other if it is mainly jokes out there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think we trash talk each other, but

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Speaker 3: there are definitely there are definitely some like there are

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Speaker 3: definitely some comments that go back and forth. But I

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Speaker 3: mean it just comes with the game. So but I

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Speaker 3: you know, I have to agree with you. I think

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Speaker 3: there I heard some trash talk. I heard you and Cam.

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Speaker 1: I heard did you know. I think I heard a

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Speaker 1: little bit of trash talk this year. No, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I think I think definitely everybody looks forward to it.

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Speaker 2: I know the vibes and we play you guys, it's

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Speaker 2: just exciting. Yeah, I feel like it's one of a

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Speaker 2: the fans don't like each other. Like it's huge on

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Speaker 2: social media. What do you think that's it is? It

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Speaker 2: is huge on social media. But I think it's good.

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Speaker 2: I think it helps grow the game definitely.

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Speaker 3: But it's always like you know, it's always intense, like

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Speaker 3: it from both sides. It's always going to be intense.

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Speaker 3: I don't think that's ever going to change because our

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Speaker 3: fan base is so strong that you know, every they

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Speaker 3: just they're gonna fight for who they love. Like your

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Speaker 3: fan base does that, ours does it? It's just yeah,

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Speaker 3: but it's fun though. I'm like chuckling, that's a good one.

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Speaker 2: It's fun game called WBB fans follows me on Twitter,

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Speaker 2: so they're commenting on my stuff.

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Speaker 1: Great fan base.

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Speaker 2: I know Cardinal Nation is out there as well. But

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think whenever our two teams match up,

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Speaker 2: it's really fun. And I feel like every year we

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Speaker 2: reload just as you guys do. And this year, you

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Speaker 2: What does that like at practice? Matching up with six

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's fun, but it also gives you know,

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Speaker 3: figure out how to defend, because I mean, you guys

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Speaker 3: are you guys are huge.

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Speaker 1: Yes, we are tall as well you.

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Speaker 3: Were. You guys have some leng okay, we do, we do.

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Speaker 3: I mean it definitely just helps. But you know we

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Speaker 3: So it's all right. But you guys are long, we

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Speaker 1: We are linky. But I feel like, just like with us.

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Speaker 2: All reloading and bringing in that length, you guys and ourselves,

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Speaker 2: I feel like it's difficult when you lose such key seniors,

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Speaker 2: like you know, us losing the Twins and Anna Wilson,

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Speaker 2: and it's you know, you return a lot of key players,

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Speaker 2: but it's also you're missing a big piece.

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Speaker 1: And I know y'all lost Henny. She's a big piece

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Speaker 2: How was that adjusting and getting a new point guard

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I mean we worked a lot of

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Speaker 3: and Raven have done a pretty good job of adjusting

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Speaker 3: to you know, coach Daley style of play and leading

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Speaker 3: the team. I'm very impressed. They do really well every

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, they do a great job. And I feel

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Speaker 2: like they're really interchangeable. Like when we're going through the scout,

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Speaker 2: of a scout. That was enough of a scout. Good

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Speaker 2: try can you ma'am?

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Speaker 3: That's my bad.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna catch it off right there. Any who. Okay,

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Speaker 2: So I feel like Tara and Don are both just

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Speaker 2: four every year. It's our coach Don on that Olympic team.

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Speaker 2: But I'm so interested to see like the differences between

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Speaker 3: What is it like? Coach Staley? She's pretty cool. No,

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Speaker 3: want to be around people that care about you, and

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Speaker 3: coach Daely does that. And being a black woman, she

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Speaker 3: definitely we know she has our best interests at heart,

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Speaker 3: Like you do what she wants when she asks you

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Speaker 3: come into practice every day, you give it your all,

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Speaker 3: then it's pretty good. But if you want to come

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Speaker 3: I think is pretty good though, because you need that,

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Speaker 3: you need that balance of you know, having that fun.

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Speaker 3: And she won't hit you with a good dance move though,

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Speaker 3: on the court. So I'm still trying to learn from

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Speaker 1: You can get some assistance.

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Speaker 3: I'm with you. I do, Yeah, I do.

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Speaker 1: But it's okay, it's okay, it's okay.

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Speaker 3: Don't don't agree, don't agree too much. Okay, don't agree

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Speaker 3: too much.

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Speaker 1: You know what. Okay, we'll circle back to dancing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but she's pretty cool. I love her, and I'm like,

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Speaker 3: every time I think about it, I tell them all

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Speaker 3: the time, like if I could go my four years

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Speaker 3: over and pick a new school, like, I don't think

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Speaker 3: I would like. I think South Carolina was definitely the

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Speaker 3: best school for me, and it's really like my happy place.

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Speaker 2: What about you, No, I love that. I feel the

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Speaker 2: same way about Stanford. I think that tar is a

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Speaker 2: hard coach, but she's somebody that you want to play for.

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Speaker 1: She's gonna make you.

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Speaker 2: Like who are those teams that you're kind of like

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Speaker 3: That's a great question. Oh you know what, Like there

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Speaker 2: Nah, I'm with you, And I mean, we know grace

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Speaker 3: Grace jumper is insane.

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Speaker 1: That's that's deny the ball. Deny the ball. I mean

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Speaker 2: I mean, and now they have Sydney there like they

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Speaker 3: I saw that, Yeah, I was. I was looking at

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Speaker 3: no way, right, well, hear me out. SEC is still

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what it is. I will

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Speaker 3: No, no, it's okay.

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Speaker 2: It's okay that that's your truth, but that's not my

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Speaker 3: The best hear me out, hear me out.

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Speaker 3: Like the SEC is really top to and not and

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Speaker 2: I respect your opinion, however, just gonna go off of that.

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Speaker 2: I think that the PAC twelve has so much talent.

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Speaker 1: To mention Arizona Oregon US.

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Speaker 2: And then you think of teams like Colorado whill be

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Speaker 2: I mean, we were banging, we play against y'all, we'd

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Speaker 1: We got them coming out this.

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Speaker 3: I'm all right, whatever and let me I respect your

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Speaker 3: opinion for sure.

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Speaker 2: Agree to disagree, I agree to disagree. I feel like

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Speaker 3: The listen hear me out like Ohio State.

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Speaker 2: That's what I was saying, Like I'm thinking about all

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Speaker 3: Oh, that Maryland Nordame game was really crazy.

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Speaker 1: Crazy time is a little one leg to end it.

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Speaker 3: That was good. Yeah, but I'm loving that. Like people

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Speaker 3: I think it's so important because when you get down

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Speaker 1: Nah. For sure.

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Speaker 2: I feel like just the depth across from college basketball

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Speaker 1: I wow, cause that was good.

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Speaker 3: That was a great game.

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Speaker 2: The teams are starting off top four, top five, Tennessee's

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's the same. But I think that also

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Speaker 3: They're like, all right, well we got a game, let's

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Speaker 3: go it, don't matter the rankings. That's what I always

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Speaker 3: I'm ranked number three, I'm ranked number four, But everybody's

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Speaker 3: coming for that, you know, coming, Oh, we about to

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Speaker 3: we know they're coming, Like we can't take them for granted,

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Speaker 2: No, for sure, I feel like for every other team

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Speaker 2: where that game circled on their schedule, right, like we

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Speaker 1: But what game do you have circle on your schedule?

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Speaker 1: What game are you looking forward to? Non conference? Now

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Speaker 1: we'll try to leap up thinking, oh, we're ready for Yukon.

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Speaker 3: Are you trying to get me cough? Oh come on,

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Speaker 3: not everybody? No, I no, seriously, Yukon is gonna be

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Speaker 2: You know? I mean the PAC twelve is just so

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Speaker 3: So like I said, like I said, SEC is for sure. See,

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Speaker 3: and that's where we just agree to disagree.

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Speaker 1: That's what we have.

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Speaker 2: That's where we agree to disagree. And that's okay, that's okay.

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Speaker 2: But you know, I think I want to take it

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Speaker 2: back to the origins here, Leah. I want to I

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Speaker 2: want to pick your brain here, so I know you

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Speaker 2: moved from the Virgin Islands to Massachusetts when you were twelve. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: So did you start playing AU then or how did

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Speaker 1: For you?

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Speaker 3: Well, I well, I was playing in like the little

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Speaker 1: Oh, you're shooting the balls in the basket. That's what

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Speaker 2: But okay, so growing up, I know for me, like

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Speaker 2: because I was just getting busted. But like, who do

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Speaker 3: This is gonna sound really. I mean, I'm just gonna

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Speaker 3: I really wasn't like looking at anybody else, to be honest, Like,

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Speaker 3: I don't remember the teams. I remember one time though,

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Speaker 1: Oh with side there.

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Speaker 3: They were big, cute, like it was unreal, and so

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Speaker 3: I do remember that game just because they were huge.

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Speaker 3: It was so our team. We missed like the one

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Speaker 3: But I do remember that. But I mean everybody else,

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Speaker 2: Like there's a lot of hoopers out there that I

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Speaker 1: But they can hoop.

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Speaker 3: They can hoop.

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Speaker 2: But okay, so then you got onto USA basketball and

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Speaker 2: now you have, let me two four, five gold medals.

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Speaker 2: Is that correct them?

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Speaker 3: Yep?

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Speaker 2: A little some slight slow five. It's a whole handful

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Speaker 2: of gold medals. What is the biggest moment from playing

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Speaker 2: USA basketball as you remember, your favorite story, your most

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Speaker 2: full circle moment.

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Speaker 1: What is that for you?

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Speaker 3: Oh, let's see. I loved when we went to was

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Speaker 3: it was so crazy. We were like trying to foul

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Speaker 3: and it was like nothing, like the rev wouldn't call it.

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Speaker 3: And then Ryan like took an elbow to the mouth

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Speaker 3: our time. But like the entire game, it was like

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Speaker 1: It's not happening.

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Speaker 3: That doesn't make any sense. Oh no, And then like

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Speaker 3: won and won gold. But it was like the craziest

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Speaker 3: like USA game that I've ever like played in because

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Speaker 3: it didn't make no sense that we were down.

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Speaker 2: It's like seconds left the game, Like no way, no

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Speaker 2: way we lose.

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Speaker 3: It's not there's no way we're There's no way I'm

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Speaker 3: bringing home silver right now.

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Speaker 1: That's not what we do USA basketball.

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Speaker 2: They have that tradition that is instill the same team

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Speaker 1: It is gold or nothing.

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Speaker 3: Don't bring anything back.

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Speaker 1: We don't want it. Leave it there. You stay there too,

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna be back.

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Speaker 3: On the flight was so much fun. It was so

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Speaker 3: much fun. I think USA has definitely opened up like

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Speaker 3: a lot of friendships. Yeah, and it's good. Everyone knows

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Speaker 2: I mean USA brought us together, dude, Like really moment there.

441
00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:17,959
Speaker 3: And now all our parents are like best friends are besties.

442
00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:20,200
Speaker 2: Like whenever we play each other, our parents aren't going out.

443
00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:22,400
Speaker 2: They're going to get dinner and they hanging out.

444
00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:25,159
Speaker 3: My mom really was like, I'm coming to California. I

445
00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:27,280
Speaker 3: was like, Mom, She's like, no, I'm I'm coming. Yeah,

446
00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:30,000
Speaker 3: she's like talking to your mom and talking to Fran's

447
00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:31,320
Speaker 3: mom was like, I'm on the way.

448
00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:33,280
Speaker 1: It's a reunion. She's making the trip.

449
00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:37,200
Speaker 2: But I mean, I think that's so cool that we're

450
00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:39,280
Speaker 2: able to like create these relationships and we're really only

451
00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:41,919
Speaker 2: playing together for like a month, and then you create

452
00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:46,280
Speaker 2: friendships and which ended up being robberies and whatnot. But

453
00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:48,159
Speaker 2: like I'm just thinking back when we met and we

454
00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:50,119
Speaker 2: were in high school, like going to junior. We had

455
00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:52,679
Speaker 2: no idea where we were gonna go. What recruiting was,

456
00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:55,040
Speaker 2: I had no recruiting took forever.

457
00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:57,919
Speaker 1: I know. We both took a minute to say we

458
00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:00,679
Speaker 1: both did. We were like the last we were like

459
00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:05,040
Speaker 1: we were we were. But what do you think made

460
00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:07,440
Speaker 1: you choose South Carolina back then?

461
00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:11,720
Speaker 3: Well? I loved I loved like the campus like when

462
00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:14,560
Speaker 3: I came and I felt like the girls were really

463
00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:17,280
Speaker 3: nice and easy to talk to, and they actually like

464
00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:19,960
Speaker 3: talked to me. You know, sometimes you could go on

465
00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:20,640
Speaker 3: a visit and like.

466
00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:24,199
Speaker 2: We went on a visit, we let that one go,

467
00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:28,520
Speaker 2: Let that one go, Hayley, let's that will go. You

468
00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:31,239
Speaker 2: know how they can be like visits where you know,

469
00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:34,680
Speaker 2: they're not really interactive and so which makes it hard

470
00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:36,240
Speaker 2: for you because I mean think about it, like we're

471
00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,360
Speaker 2: in high school. We look up to these girls like, oh,

472
00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:40,240
Speaker 2: these could be my teammates, and it's like really hard

473
00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:41,560
Speaker 2: when they don't really interact.

474
00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:43,760
Speaker 3: And I feel like everyone here did that. And I

475
00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:46,040
Speaker 3: loved Coach Day like she was just so honest and

476
00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:48,040
Speaker 3: she told me, she was like, you know, I'm I'm

477
00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:49,840
Speaker 3: not going to promise you a starting spot. I'm not

478
00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:51,800
Speaker 3: going to promise you this because you know, you come

479
00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:53,440
Speaker 3: in here and you gotta work for it. But also

480
00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:55,560
Speaker 3: if you work, like, I'm gonna help you get to

481
00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:57,199
Speaker 3: where you want to be. And I just thought that

482
00:20:57,359 --> 00:20:59,640
Speaker 3: was nice because you know, also you go on visits

483
00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:02,800
Speaker 3: and they're like, yeah, like you thirty minutes a game there,

484
00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:05,040
Speaker 3: you have minutes game like balls in your hands, when

485
00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:06,919
Speaker 3: that doesn't necessarily have to be the case. Like, I

486
00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:09,800
Speaker 3: think learning and growing is definitely important, but also finding

487
00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:11,840
Speaker 3: a coach that'll help you get to where you want

488
00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:15,400
Speaker 3: to be. That's not like mentally draining.

489
00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:15,879
Speaker 1: No, for sure.

490
00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:19,639
Speaker 2: I feel like since we went through a recruiting process,

491
00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:23,280
Speaker 2: recruiting has changed, Like yeah, a lot of different things

492
00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:24,919
Speaker 2: have come into play. And I know, you guys have

493
00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:28,440
Speaker 2: a great recruiting class coming in, but I know, I mean,

494
00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:29,520
Speaker 2: are you excited about that?

495
00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:31,960
Speaker 1: Who we got? The who's on the lineup?

496
00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:34,960
Speaker 3: I am. You know, we have Chloe Kids coming and

497
00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,600
Speaker 3: she's early in rolling too, so that's like pretty exciting.

498
00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:41,280
Speaker 3: And then you know we got Malaysia like Tessa sny

499
00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:43,679
Speaker 3: y'aw like every like it's great.

500
00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:45,359
Speaker 1: A class. You got a class coming in.

501
00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:51,240
Speaker 2: I mean, we both hosted Juju right, and she chose

502
00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:52,320
Speaker 2: the other USC.

503
00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:55,120
Speaker 1: You know the pack USC Okay.

504
00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:57,400
Speaker 3: Don't pack much, don't pack too.

505
00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:01,840
Speaker 1: Much, carrier, I don't know, don't do too much. But

506
00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:03,760
Speaker 1: I mean I feel, like, you.

507
00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:07,040
Speaker 2: Know, it was so exciting to have another big recruit

508
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:09,200
Speaker 2: and this person like Juju commit she gon to be

509
00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:13,159
Speaker 2: on ESPN. All that does is bring more coverage to

510
00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:16,000
Speaker 2: the game. The way the recruiting is the over times

511
00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,679
Speaker 2: of Instagram, like all these different accounts. What do you

512
00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:21,480
Speaker 2: think that that's doing for the game, Having these recruits

513
00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,960
Speaker 2: with huge social followings being all over the internet just

514
00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:24,719
Speaker 2: bring more coverage.

515
00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:26,200
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts there?

516
00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:28,160
Speaker 3: I mean, I think it's just gonna continue to help

517
00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:29,840
Speaker 3: grow the game. And I think it's good. You know,

518
00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:32,640
Speaker 3: she's coming into college next year, so and I think

519
00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,919
Speaker 3: social media plays like really big part in it. Like

520
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:39,520
Speaker 3: Juju's very active on social media, and so is everyone else,

521
00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:42,320
Speaker 3: like you know, Jada Williams too, like she's coming in

522
00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:44,879
Speaker 3: next year, but lots of social media followers. And I

523
00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:46,640
Speaker 3: think it's just gonna help grow the game because those

524
00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:49,040
Speaker 3: followers aren't gonna leave her or leave them now that

525
00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:51,240
Speaker 3: they're out of high school. It's gonna be like, oh,

526
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:55,200
Speaker 3: now you're a USC, now you're at Arizona. Like you,

527
00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:57,600
Speaker 3: we're gonna follow you. And now that brings more words

528
00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,000
Speaker 3: to the team, and everyone's gonna be like, oh, Juju's

529
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:02,520
Speaker 3: Oh Jada's playing, let's go let's go watch, which I

530
00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:04,439
Speaker 3: think is just gonna help grow the game. Yeah.

531
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:08,600
Speaker 2: What do you feel like about Juju picking Southern California?

532
00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:09,880
Speaker 1: Because I feel like I'm the top three.

533
00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 2: People are like, Okay, Stanford South Carolina, Like it's gonna

534
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:14,680
Speaker 2: be one of those two. And I mean the people

535
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:16,120
Speaker 2: while I was talking to they're like, oh, it's gonna

536
00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:18,439
Speaker 2: be you know, you were there. What do you think

537
00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:20,920
Speaker 2: about like kind of the choice of going to Southern California,

538
00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:22,840
Speaker 2: hometown kid making it happen.

539
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:23,640
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts there?

540
00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I honestly, she probably went through the pros

541
00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:29,040
Speaker 3: and cons of each school and felt like that was

542
00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:31,199
Speaker 3: the best place for her. So I'm happy that she

543
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,080
Speaker 3: was able to make that decision because at the same time, like,

544
00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:36,119
Speaker 3: you wouldn't want her to commit to Stanford or commit

545
00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,040
Speaker 3: to US and then she comes here and she doesn't

546
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:40,080
Speaker 3: really like it, because that's not really like the point

547
00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:42,440
Speaker 3: like you want somebody to come and stay. So if

548
00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:44,119
Speaker 3: she feels like that's the best place for her, then

549
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:46,600
Speaker 3: I'm glad she did it. And I love like the

550
00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:50,640
Speaker 3: hometown hero, hometown kid type of story because it's good

551
00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:53,000
Speaker 3: and I think that's definitely gonna help build the USC

552
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,879
Speaker 3: program too. Like other recruits coming in, they're like, oh, shoot,

553
00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:57,720
Speaker 3: I get to play with Juju. Oh let's build this

554
00:23:57,800 --> 00:23:59,919
Speaker 3: program up, and that's only gonna help it. Girl get

555
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 3: and so I'm happy that she chose the spot that

556
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 3: was best for her. Yeah.

557
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:06,280
Speaker 1: So yeah, no, for sure.

558
00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:11,000
Speaker 2: Okay, back to you being our little superstar guest here today. So,

559
00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 2: coming in South Carolina, Asia Wilson National Championship years prior,

560
00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:21,119
Speaker 2: did you feel any type of pressure or expectations to

561
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 2: perform at a certain level when you got there?

562
00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:26,320
Speaker 3: Not really. I just felt like I was going to

563
00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:28,840
Speaker 3: come in and kind of just learn and see what

564
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:31,520
Speaker 3: this whole college thing is all about. But I mean

565
00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:33,800
Speaker 3: everyone when I first, you know, was coming in, they

566
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,719
Speaker 3: were like, oh, you know, you're gonna fall in Asia's footsteps,

567
00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:39,479
Speaker 3: And my response was every time was, you know, I

568
00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 3: just want to be me. I just want to be me,

569
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:44,880
Speaker 3: Like Asia came in and she dominated, and she continued

570
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 3: to put South Calna on the map, and so I

571
00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:48,879
Speaker 3: just kind of want to be a part of, you know,

572
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:51,480
Speaker 3: building up the program. And so I mean I was

573
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 3: decited to you know, me a Leah Boston and hoop

574
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:56,200
Speaker 3: and shoot some balls in the basket in my free time.

575
00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:01,640
Speaker 2: In Okay, Okay, So your fresh you're coming in, You're

576
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 2: being you.

577
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 1: Did you feel like.

578
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 2: You had any game that was tough for you to

579
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,000
Speaker 2: push through any type of poor performance?

580
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:10,680
Speaker 1: How did you work through that?

581
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 3: Gosh, I remember this game, like I like I still

582
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 3: remember this game okay, okay, freshman year, we played against

583
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 3: Temple at Temple, like it was probably the worst game,

584
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:24,879
Speaker 3: like I've ever played, like to this day, like I

585
00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:26,879
Speaker 3: wish I was joking, Like I remember it like it

586
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 3: was yesterday, and I talked about it all the time,

587
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,680
Speaker 3: like I was I when I tell you, Haley, I

588
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 3: couldn't finish a layup by like a jump shot. I

589
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:37,200
Speaker 3: don't even know if I met free throws might have

590
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 3: been the only like saving grace honestly, Like couldn't catch

591
00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:44,880
Speaker 3: a ball, Like it was so bad, like and it

592
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,959
Speaker 3: was so hard, Like I was like ready to to

593
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,560
Speaker 3: like cry. I probably did shed a tear. Honestly, I

594
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:53,560
Speaker 3: probably cried after the game. Maybe we don't know, but

595
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:56,399
Speaker 3: I'm not even joking. But Coach Staley was like, you know,

596
00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:58,800
Speaker 3: those things happened, like you gotta you gotta move on,

597
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,000
Speaker 3: Like you can't think about, you know, coming into practice

598
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:02,399
Speaker 3: next day or going into the next game of how

599
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,159
Speaker 3: bad I played at Temple, Like you can't do that

600
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 3: because then you're gonna be stuck on that every single time.

601
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:10,320
Speaker 3: But that was so hard, Like I wouldn't even Usually

602
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:12,720
Speaker 3: I go back and rewatch all the games, no matter

603
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,560
Speaker 3: like how it ended or what how I did, just

604
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:19,199
Speaker 3: to see like how everything played out. But Temple, like

605
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,359
Speaker 3: to this day, to this very minute, like you have

606
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 3: not looked at it. I have not watched because I can't.

607
00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 3: It was so bad.

608
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 1: It hurts. It hurts.

609
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,159
Speaker 2: I feel like I've had a few and you know,

610
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 2: sometimes it's really just like that and it's too painful

611
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,200
Speaker 2: to watch the film because it's like there's no way

612
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 2: that was me, Like, like come on, like that that.

613
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,639
Speaker 3: Didn't make any sense. And sometimes what's like so like

614
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,880
Speaker 3: when we have a bad game or whatnot, and it's

615
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 3: time to like watch film before practice. I just sit

616
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 3: there and I'm.

617
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 1: Like, i'd be dreading it.

618
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 2: I'm like, come on, now, you're better than this, and

619
00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 2: i know what's coming.

620
00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:00,239
Speaker 3: We don't have to rewatch. But one thing about that though,

621
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:02,359
Speaker 3: They're gonna press play on that computer and.

622
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,639
Speaker 2: Then they're gonna rewind and we're gonna watch rewind and

623
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,199
Speaker 2: be like, so, what did you see here?

624
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,360
Speaker 3: And then they're gonna like we saw this one. Nope,

625
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 3: let's watch it again.

626
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 2: And it's like, what was going through your head? I'm

627
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,920
Speaker 2: a high school coach, she would say, So, watching this again,

628
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,480
Speaker 2: do you feel that you were incapable or unwilling?

629
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,680
Speaker 1: I said that to lose? Lose? What do you want

630
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:24,239
Speaker 1: me to say? Like, there's no way to get out

631
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:24,479
Speaker 1: of this.

632
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 3: It's it's so bad.

633
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:29,399
Speaker 1: It's it's really hard.

634
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:33,119
Speaker 3: And then sometimes I'm like, dang, did we do any good?

635
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.

636
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,440
Speaker 3: Did we do any good? Did we not win?

637
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 1: Did we not win the game?

638
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 3: But we'll get we'll get to the good stuff. But

639
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:47,400
Speaker 3: we're gonna go through and we're gonna see everything. I mean,

640
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 3: it's it really hurts sometimes, but you know it gotta happen.

641
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 3: So that Temple rewatch was it was tough.

642
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:54,640
Speaker 1: It was tough, hurt.

643
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 2: Okay, well, speaking of just like having to rewatch tough games.

644
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 2: I know we both had seasons where we end up

645
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:03,440
Speaker 2: on the mountaintop and then we've had seasons where you

646
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:07,359
Speaker 2: fall short. Sign me, this past year falling short to

647
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 2: Yukon on the final four was heartbreaking. And then you

648
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 2: guys won, But then the year prior, you fell short

649
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 2: to us in the final four. So what was that

650
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,399
Speaker 2: mental switch for you, like in the summertime and the

651
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 2: off season to come back and then end up winning

652
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 2: it all that next year.

653
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:26,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a hard summer. It really was, like

654
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:30,159
Speaker 3: I felt like because of how it ended, like I

655
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,920
Speaker 3: felt like everything was on me, you know, like yes

656
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:36,119
Speaker 3: it was only one shot, but I felt like everything

657
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 3: that led there was like my fault. Yeah, So it

658
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 3: was a very hard summer. Like I didn't like, I

659
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 3: really didn't watch I didn't watch any basketball, like it

660
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 3: was nothing, because every time it would be like here

661
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 3: we go, like I really just lost this game, and

662
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 3: so and so, Like I came back in the summer

663
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 3: and I was like, you know what, we just gotta

664
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 3: we go. We we deserve to win this like, this

665
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 3: is our this, this is our game, this is what

666
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 3: we need to do. And so I just put in

667
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,240
Speaker 3: the work. I just worked on all my shots, worked

668
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 3: on attacking the basket, continue to get in shape, Like

669
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:10,479
Speaker 3: I really just sent my mind to it, like this

670
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 3: is what I have to do, because that feeling at

671
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,480
Speaker 3: the end of the year was it was like really unreal,

672
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 3: especially you know, freshman year. Everything got cut short, so

673
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:19,160
Speaker 3: we didn't even have a chance to like see how

674
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 3: far we would have got our freshman year. But to

675
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 3: start off like that, it was like it was like

676
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 3: a nice little stab, you know. But I mean you

677
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 3: put in the work. Things happened and came back, and

678
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 3: God is good and we won it last year and

679
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 3: so now we're onto this one.

680
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 1: God is good. God is good.

681
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 3: Amen.

682
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 2: Just speaking of you know, the work that you do

683
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 2: in the off season, how do you continue to stay

684
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 2: at the top of your game, continue to stay elite.

685
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 2: What parts of the game are you working on?

686
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you just got to have that mindset

687
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 3: of everybody is coming for me, so I need to

688
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 3: be able to score in different ways, and I'm kind

689
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 3: of working on everything. Just want to be consistent with

690
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 3: everything that I do. I don't want to be too

691
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 3: strong in one thing because you know, like that's just

692
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 3: going to be on the scout. Like if all I

693
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 3: do is go left, it's going to be set on

694
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 3: that left hand, and you know, don't let me go

695
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 3: that way. And so just kind of being consistent mid

696
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:14,719
Speaker 3: range jumper work, continue to work on my threes, but

697
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 3: definitely being consistent around in the basket, just to make

698
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,719
Speaker 3: sure I can knock down my SHOT's mind little jumpers

699
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 3: or my layups for sure.

700
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 2: Okay, so now we're going to switch gears a little bit,

701
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 2: moving off the court for a quick moment in time.

702
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 2: I want to know with the NIO space, what do

703
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 2: you think about it? What has been exciting? When did

704
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:36,239
Speaker 2: it start to get real for you? What was it

705
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 2: like working with an agent, learning going through your first deal.

706
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 1: What has the NIOL space been like for you?

707
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 3: It's been fun. It's been a real blast.

708
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 1: It's been fun.

709
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 3: It has been a real blast to having an agent.

710
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 3: It's I think it's pretty cool. Like, you know, usually

711
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 3: our thing would be we'd have agent when we get

712
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 3: to the league, But to be able to have it

713
00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 3: now and really get a headstart, I think it's just

714
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:02,479
Speaker 3: such a blessing to have for everybody, even I know

715
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 3: everybody makes different amounts, but to be able to bring

716
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 3: in extra income, I think it's just such such an

717
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 3: important thing, such a cool thing for us to be

718
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 3: able to do as college athletes. But it's been getting

719
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 3: my first deal, it was kind of crazy, you know, like, wow,

720
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 3: I'm really making money now, you know, And just to

721
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 3: continue to see the types of brands that to partner with.

722
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 3: Like every time I see somebody like post on Instagram

723
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:28,479
Speaker 3: of a deal, I'm like, double tapah, go for you

724
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 3: get your check? You know what happened up Like, it's

725
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 3: just it's just exciting. And so this space has been

726
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 3: a lot of fun. At the beginning, you know, it

727
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 3: was like, Okay, well how do we navigate this? But

728
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 3: having an agent made that really easy. So I'm just

729
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 3: thankful for you know, Jade and Clutch for doing what

730
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 3: they do because I think they do a great job

731
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 3: at Jay does a great job. And and it got real,

732
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 3: I mean it got really intense, like after at the

733
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 3: end of the season last year, like I just felt

734
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 3: like I was on go, like everything I was traveling here,

735
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 3: I was traveling there. It just but it was so

736
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 3: much fun. I think it's going to continue as this

737
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 3: season goes on. And so I'm just just double tap

738
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 3: when you see my post.

739
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 2: You know, I'd be double tapping, commenting, reposting, look at

740
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 2: my girl.

741
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 1: Go all that.

742
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 3: No, you do that, of course, but.

743
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 2: Okay, So within the NIL space, I feel like it's

744
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 2: also like we're learning a lot, Like we didn't expect

745
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:23,479
Speaker 2: for this to be a part of our college journey.

746
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 2: So what has been the greatest piece of advice that

747
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 2: you've gotten going through NIL so far?

748
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 3: Oh? Well, that's great, Hayley, that's a wonderful question. Please wonderful.

749
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 3: I think just learning more about the financial part of it.

750
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 3: I've always been a saver, so I've never really had

751
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 3: an issue with that, but I also need to like

752
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 3: I've always invested too, but looking at where I'm putting

753
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 3: my investments I think is important because we do want

754
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 3: our money to grow. My mom would be so proud

755
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 3: when I say this. You know, like you don't just

756
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 3: sit in the bank because because it's not really doing

757
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 3: much for you. So just making sure that I'm investing,

758
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 3: but also like talking to a lot of people, like

759
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 3: you know, you want to make sure that you're maximizing

760
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,840
Speaker 3: this space while while we're in it, you know, making

761
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 3: sure that we do things to get some tax right off,

762
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 3: you know, like so they're not taking all our money.

763
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 3: That was good, right, that's good, proud, But definitely the

764
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 3: financial literacy part of it, I think is just so important.

765
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 3: But also understanding like who you're partnering with, Like I

766
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 3: feel like that's so important. Like I feel like you

767
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 3: don't just want to jump out there and partner with

768
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 3: anyone that might not be about what your focus is,

769
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 3: about what your brand is, because all of this is

770
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 3: still brand building for the future. So just making sure

771
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 3: that I'm aware.

772
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 1: Of that for sure.

773
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 2: I think that picking partnerships is really important because it

774
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 2: not only is just like you know what you're doing

775
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 2: with the brand, but it's also what does that.

776
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: Brand stand for? What do I stand for? What type

777
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 1: of people do I want align myself with?

778
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 2: And so I feel like, you know, us being black

779
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 2: women going through this process, it's different from other people,

780
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 2: are other counterparts going through the process. So what has

781
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 2: that been like for you?

782
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 3: A hard hitter?

783
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 1: Hard hitter?

784
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 3: I need to watch and I say over here, hold on.

785
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 1: Please, please, let's let's get it.

786
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:21,400
Speaker 3: Think let me think, well, I feel like hold on, Haley,

787
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 3: hold on. But just like you said, I like it

788
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 3: is different for some people when it comes to brands

789
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 3: and what kind of appearance brands are looking for. So

790
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,800
Speaker 3: I think being able to like work through that space

791
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 3: can be difficult sometimes. But at the same time, like

792
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 3: you don't want to fight to work with a specific

793
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 3: brand that doesn't want to work with you for sure,

794
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:53,720
Speaker 3: know like if they have their certain mo what they want,

795
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 3: this is their perfect image and you don't fit that.

796
00:34:57,680 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 3: I think one you should at some point, yes, you

797
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:02,279
Speaker 3: should be like Okay, well this isn't fair. But at

798
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 3: the same time, find that brand that embraces you, that

799
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 3: wants to see you and this image like succeed and

800
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 3: so that's where But what do you think about that?

801
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 1: No, I completely agree with what you said.

802
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 2: I feel like when it comes to picking brands that

803
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 2: you want to work with, it's also they have to

804
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 2: want to work with you, right, Like, I'm not going

805
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,399
Speaker 2: to go into this partnership and be more into it

806
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 2: than you are. I feel like we should be excited

807
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 2: about it. But it's also the world that we live in.

808
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:28,799
Speaker 2: We see the same issues come across in a lot

809
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:31,760
Speaker 2: of different ways, and I feel like NIL has shed

810
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 2: a light onto that in a sense where we start

811
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:38,839
Speaker 2: with social media and who's gaining followings just for posting nothing? Right,

812
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 2: there's a specific beauty standard which is something that we

813
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:45,360
Speaker 2: live in, which is disappointing, but it's also not surprising

814
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 2: in the society that we live in.

815
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:50,760
Speaker 1: And so with NIL, there's brands, there's.

816
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:53,359
Speaker 2: Different you know, amounts of money that people are going

817
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 2: to get because of the way that you look, the

818
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:57,799
Speaker 2: person that you are, what you look like. Yes, yes,

819
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 2: And so I think that is something that we both

820
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 2: deal with and it's just something to be conscious of.

821
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 2: But I also feel like it's not anything that we've

822
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,840
Speaker 2: allowed to hinder ourselves because I agree, yeah, what you

823
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 2: said about like, you're gonna find those brands that want

824
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 2: to work with you.

825
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:15,360
Speaker 3: To embrace you without want to be in that space

826
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 3: with you and be like, Okay, let's figure out how

827
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 3: we do this. Let's figure out how we do that.

828
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 3: And I think those are the best ones also because

829
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:23,399
Speaker 3: they put in the effort because they want to see

830
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 3: you shine. It helps their brand, it helps what they're about,

831
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 3: and so that's all right.

832
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think that we find a way,

833
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 2: We're still gonna go get in our bag, We're gonna

834
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:34,279
Speaker 2: get our chick and doing that, we're gonna be able

835
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 2: to do it with brands that we believe in.

836
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: They believe in us for more than our talent, more

837
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:39,400
Speaker 1: than anything.

838
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 3: I agree, Thank you?

839
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 2: Okay, So just more on nil really quick? Is your

840
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 2: Orange Theory class? Your workout?

841
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 1: You were sweating?

842
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:50,239
Speaker 3: What? What what a workout?

843
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:52,319
Speaker 2: What workouts are on there? I feel like I need

844
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 2: to sign up and go to a class. Heyl you

845
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 2: need to sign up right now, like you're working ASA. Yeah, yeah,

846
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:01,440
Speaker 2: Well what's the hardest what's the hardest exercise upon there?

847
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 1: For you?

848
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 3: They have you like on the treadmill on the roller

849
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:06,320
Speaker 3: first of all, like that's either the first section or

850
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 3: you either start on the floor, but it's like the

851
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 3: trend in the roller, like you're you're really like you

852
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 3: start off hot, you start off I started off on

853
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 3: the treadmill. So that's an automatic sweat, you know, like

854
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 3: that is automatic, and so you do that and it's

855
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 3: good to get your heart rate up and then you

856
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 3: get on the floor and it's like medball exercise like

857
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:27,760
Speaker 3: push press some like quick feed like some squads stuff

858
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 3: like that. But I think what's cool about it is

859
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 3: just it just keeps going. Like it just keeps going.

860
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 3: There's not much of a recovery time, which I think

861
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 3: really helps because you get that heart rate up, get

862
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 3: that sweat, get them once they call splat points on

863
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 3: the board. Sorry, I had to like figure out that

864
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 3: come after it was done, Like everybody said they loved it,

865
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:49,399
Speaker 3: like it was one of the best workouts that they've done,

866
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:50,799
Speaker 3: and I was like, well, thank.

867
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 1: You, Yeah, I I need to hop on that wave.

868
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 1: I'm exciting. It's so good in a class.

869
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,959
Speaker 2: I think that like doing something like that with Orange Sears,

870
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 2: it's something that I haven't really seen done in this

871
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 2: space before. You're kind of like the first person to

872
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,480
Speaker 2: do like a workout like that with a cool rent

873
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,800
Speaker 2: like that. But I feel like Niel has also given

874
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 2: us a platform to do camps. Like me and you

875
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 2: both did a camp. I know you get go back

876
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 2: in the Ridge Islands.

877
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 1: How was it? Was it amazing? I know we've talked

878
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 1: about it, but oh, tell me.

879
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 3: That that was super fun. I think Androhmer did like

880
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,279
Speaker 3: a great job with that, Like all the kids had

881
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:26,439
Speaker 3: matching shoes and they were like purple and pink from

882
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 3: like the Championship of my hair color. So it's pretty dope,

883
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:31,799
Speaker 3: and all the kids like loved it. I think it

884
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:33,359
Speaker 3: was really cool that I was able to do it

885
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 3: in St. Thomas, just because you know, that's where I

886
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 3: grew up and I didn't really have any camps that

887
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 3: were here, Like I remember, I used to go away

888
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:42,560
Speaker 3: and I used to go to PGC camps, go to Boston,

889
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:45,959
Speaker 3: like just to try to get exposure. But being able

890
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 3: to have like coaches from the states come down and

891
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 3: like help them show them what to do. I think

892
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,240
Speaker 3: they had a lot of fun. And I I'm like excited.

893
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 3: I want to make something that just continues on just

894
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 3: because I think it's just going to help the kids,

895
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 3: you know, like, oh I really like basketball and to

896
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:01,880
Speaker 3: keep going. I know this camp is gonna come back

897
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:03,319
Speaker 3: up next year, like I want to be ready and

898
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 3: improve for that.

899
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 2: So No, it was really special. I love watching all

900
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 2: the content. You hiped your little half court, it shot

901
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 2: all the above. It looked like so much fun. But

902
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 2: I mean you talked a little bit about your hair

903
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 2: and that's the color scheme that went into that. So

904
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 2: I know that we both do a lot of different hairstyles,

905
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 2: you'd be switching up the colors.

906
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 1: How do you pick the new colors?

907
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:24,399
Speaker 3: Well, my hairdresser a Lana, so she picks it so

908
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 3: like I just come in and I sit in the

909
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 3: chair and I'm like, ooh, this is what we're doing today.

910
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 3: Okay She's like yeah, and I'm like okay, and go

911
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 3: for it and then she just braids it in. But

912
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 3: I like love it. Yeah, it's so crazy, Like I

913
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 3: literally started this. My aunt told me, she was like,

914
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 3: why don't you try some color my freshman year? And

915
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,359
Speaker 3: I was like okay, like I'll try something simple, and

916
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:46,319
Speaker 3: then it kind of became like my image, you know,

917
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:48,760
Speaker 3: like oh Lia's the one with the purple hair, Lida's

918
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 3: one with the pink hair. And it really became fun

919
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 3: to me, like I would love just like Okay, I

920
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:54,879
Speaker 3: think I'm gonna do this color next. So I think

921
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do this. And now that I was able

922
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 3: to find Alana and she just like she loves like

923
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:01,879
Speaker 3: she's so created, like she gets all the colors, makes

924
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 3: it what she thinks is gonna look cool, and we

925
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 3: just do it.

926
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 1: So you just do it. Yeah, it's fun. I love

927
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 1: this of the hair.

928
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 2: I love being surprised every new IG post, every time

929
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 2: I watch a game, I'm like, okay, a little something new.

930
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 1: But I feel like, you.

931
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:18,800
Speaker 2: Know, you being able to have these different hair things

932
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 2: and you know my hair and then you think of

933
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:23,880
Speaker 2: like Aliah Edwards and just all the different art styles

934
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 2: across the country has kind of made an impact on

935
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:29,400
Speaker 2: that next generation. Do you feel like we've kind of

936
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 2: made an impact within the natural hair community with young

937
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,839
Speaker 2: black girls coming up playing sports, Like, is that something

938
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:37,920
Speaker 2: that you think about with the way that your hair

939
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 2: has become part of your persona.

940
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 3: I definitely do, because you know, sometimes I've seen like

941
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 3: little girls come up and they're like, my mom, let

942
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 3: me get this color in my hair because of you.

943
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 3: And I feel like I feel like braids can be

944
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 3: something that's embraced. But sometimes like the color isn't like

945
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 3: you know, people are like, oh she oh no, you

946
00:40:58,000 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 3: don't want to have that kind of color in your hair,

947
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 3: or you don't want to do this, when when I

948
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,000
Speaker 3: feel like, this is a way to show like what

949
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:07,240
Speaker 3: you like. Like, I love colors. I've always loved bright colors,

950
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:09,000
Speaker 3: like when I pick out shoes when I was younger,

951
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 3: it was like orange yellow type of combinations. Like it

952
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:13,399
Speaker 3: was just things that were bright and loud my hair,

953
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 3: like I do the same thing. It's just like, oh like,

954
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,840
Speaker 3: let's do some blue, let's do something like yeah, just

955
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 3: colors that I love, that I enjoy and I feel

956
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 3: like it's also good kids can embrace that. Like who

957
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 3: said you can't have color in your hair?

958
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 2: Like for sure, you know it's a way to express yourself.

959
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 2: And you know you can't touch a book by its cover.

960
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:32,359
Speaker 2: I agree, But I love I love the different hair

961
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:32,959
Speaker 2: that you do.

962
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 1: I love switching up seeing everything.

963
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 2: Okay, so now, Alia, you have an amazing TikTok content

964
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,719
Speaker 2: just coming out all the time. You know, we talked

965
00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:46,839
Speaker 2: about it about dancing earlier. What is your favorite like

966
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 2: TikTok content? Are you more of like the talking? Are

967
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:52,840
Speaker 2: you more of the dancing like what's your Are you

968
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:54,959
Speaker 2: more of a solo TikTok or like the group ones?

969
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:56,239
Speaker 1: What's your favorite vibe there?

970
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 3: I love like I love the dancing ones like, but

971
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:01,799
Speaker 3: I sometimes it makes me like like some time, like

972
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 3: I'm like thinking like usually if I like a good

973
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 3: sound comes out, I'm like, okay, how about two and

974
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 3: a half days before the sound like dies, and I

975
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 3: have to figure it out then and I'm like practicing

976
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 3: and like I'm like, okay, like this is the move

977
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:14,359
Speaker 3: like eyes.

978
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:16,920
Speaker 1: Closed, seen it, I've seen it first again you lock in.

979
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 3: And then when I'm like thinking I'm gonna do it,

980
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:22,239
Speaker 3: I'm like, no, I need somebody better than me. Yeah,

981
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 3: So then I bring them in, like usually like my

982
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 3: teammates Sanaya or v or even Zaiah, like they're ready

983
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,919
Speaker 3: to go, like Sanaia Fagian like she knows a TikTok dance,

984
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 3: like as soon as it's out like she has it.

985
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:35,799
Speaker 3: I'm like, girl, you didn't even practice, like, and so

986
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 3: I bring them in because I like have to follow

987
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 3: their lead and then sometimes I'm a little off, but

988
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 3: I really think that makes the video better.

989
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:44,960
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah if the group score, like yeah, the group

990
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:46,960
Speaker 2: score brings you up, but like you still add your

991
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:48,759
Speaker 2: own like personal flare to it.

992
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, I have to. It's just a must.

993
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 1: No, I love it. I love it.

994
00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:54,759
Speaker 2: I feel like I see your personality really shine through.

995
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 2: And if it's a solo or a group.

996
00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:00,080
Speaker 3: I'm starting to like like the TikTok the audio, I

997
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 3: didn't think you can do here. Your TikTok popped up

998
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 3: by for you page about like your x W Jordan,

999
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 3: and it was so funny.

1000
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:13,759
Speaker 1: I was like, it's so good TikTok. I'm I could

1001
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:14,840
Speaker 1: get lost on TikTok.

1002
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 3: I like scrolling, just scrolling.

1003
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 2: So would you say that you're okay? So clearly Sinaia

1004
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 2: is gonna be one of the best dances on the team.

1005
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 2: Do you just continue to fall down that ladder towards

1006
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:27,960
Speaker 2: the bunch between.

1007
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 3: Me and you?

1008
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,440
Speaker 2: I'm up, cuter, I'm at the top, and you're just

1009
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 2: a bit You're you're slacking.

1010
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:36,200
Speaker 3: Wait, I don't know. I feel like if like this

1011
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 3: is the top, like I'm right here, you're close to

1012
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:41,399
Speaker 3: the top. No, if this is the top, oh, you're

1013
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,600
Speaker 3: above I'm above the top.

1014
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 2: Crw Oh that's so that's so interesting because that's not

1015
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 2: been my experience with you.

1016
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 1: But that's okay. I feel like.

1017
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:52,800
Speaker 3: That hasn't been your That hasn't been your experience.

1018
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 2: No, and you know it hasn't, And that's okay. I

1019
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 2: just feel like with me and you, like you know, dancing,

1020
00:43:58,080 --> 00:43:59,560
Speaker 2: it'll be me. But I feel like, also like if

1021
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:02,879
Speaker 2: we're gonna who has ox it's gonna be me.

1022
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 3: That, no question, I don't care.

1023
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 1: No, okay, but what what's your what's your go to

1024
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 1: pregame song? I'm so interested.

1025
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 3: What are you listening to? Well, it's definitely a gospel song.

1026
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's like.

1027
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:20,320
Speaker 3: It's won't He Do It? By Hawthorne?

1028
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:23,279
Speaker 1: That's your that's your one, that's when they do it,

1029
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:26,319
Speaker 1: he said, he was I don't think that we need

1030
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 1: to hear you.

1031
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:28,960
Speaker 3: I won't even do I can sing, though, Did you

1032
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 3: not hear me?

1033
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 2: I heard, and I still came to my conclusion that

1034
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:34,919
Speaker 2: we don't need you to sing.

1035
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:39,000
Speaker 3: Well, fun fact, like we're gonna do like a remake

1036
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:40,720
Speaker 3: to the song and I'm going to be the one singing.

1037
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm so excited to hear.

1038
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 3: Okay, that didn't sound believable.

1039
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,040
Speaker 1: It wasn't trying to be. And you know, I'm about liuyar.

1040
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:50,759
Speaker 1: So we're just gonna leave it at that.

1041
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:54,640
Speaker 2: I think, you know, as we kind of wrap this up,

1042
00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 2: we're about to be pros in the spring, and the

1043
00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:02,720
Speaker 2: draft lottery just came out crazy Minnesota, Atlanta, and Washington,

1044
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:06,719
Speaker 2: like we could be going to those teams. How how

1045
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 2: much have you been thinking about the draft, but playing

1046
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 2: in the WNBA but still having your senior year, like

1047
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 2: staying where your feet are, but also understanding of the

1048
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:18,959
Speaker 2: future is coming so soon. How has that been.

1049
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 3: I think it's been good. I think I've did a

1050
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:23,400
Speaker 3: great job. You know. Coach Dale even talked to us

1051
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:26,439
Speaker 3: about it before, you know, we started the season talking

1052
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 3: about the seniors, and she was like, you know, a

1053
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 3: lot of you guys your goal has been to go

1054
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 3: to WNBA, and you know that time is really creeping

1055
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 3: up on us and it's about here. And she was like,

1056
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 3: and there're gonna be days where you're like one foot

1057
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 3: in and one foot out in that you're here, but

1058
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 3: you're also thinking about the future. And she's like, I

1059
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 3: just want you guys to do one thing and that

1060
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 3: try your best to keep both feet just where your

1061
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:52,880
Speaker 3: feet are. And so I think I've been doing a

1062
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:55,440
Speaker 3: great job of that. But you know, when you think

1063
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:57,479
Speaker 3: about it, like this is something that we've wanted since,

1064
00:45:57,520 --> 00:45:59,880
Speaker 3: you know, we started playing basketball. So it's just like

1065
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:02,640
Speaker 3: I didn't to you know, see like the our end

1066
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:05,720
Speaker 3: of four years, like, guys, came so fast.

1067
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:08,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so last thing before we wrap up. I

1068
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:12,359
Speaker 2: have a little vibe check rapid fire. Questions for you, Okay,

1069
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:13,520
Speaker 2: you ready.

1070
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:14,520
Speaker 3: I'm not going. I'm not gonna.

1071
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:16,959
Speaker 1: I believe, I believe. Here we go, game winning shot

1072
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:20,800
Speaker 1: or game winning block, rapid fire.

1073
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:25,919
Speaker 3: Oh, rapid fire, nick one day winning block?

1074
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 1: Okay, okay.

1075
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 2: What's your go to trash talk line? I don't trash talk,

1076
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:32,799
Speaker 2: ice bath or ice pack?

1077
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 3: Ice pack?

1078
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 1: Okay?

1079
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:37,839
Speaker 2: And one or three pointer? And one what's your off

1080
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 2: the court go to shoe? Already know the answer, crocs yep, okay,

1081
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:42,239
Speaker 2: in the locker room?

1082
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:47,359
Speaker 3: Who's on ox in a locker room? Oh my gosh, bribio.

1083
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 1: Okay, worst dancer on the team, worst dancer, worst dancer.

1084
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:53,320
Speaker 3: I'll have to say me okay.

1085
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 1: And then what's the drill you never want to see

1086
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:55,759
Speaker 1: on the practice plan?

1087
00:46:57,480 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 3: Wing to wing?

1088
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 1: Wing to wing? Walk me through wing to wing.

1089
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:04,280
Speaker 3: We do it every time before game day. Three lines

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Speaker 3: on the baseline. The mental person passes to one wing,

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Speaker 3: get it back past the other wing, skip it across,

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Speaker 3: and that's one. Then you do that one, three, five,

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Speaker 3: and then when you're like coming down the other court,

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Speaker 3: it's like it's a three man weave after the wing

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Speaker 3: to wing part, and then you just go up and

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Speaker 3: down the floor one time, three times, five times and

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Speaker 3: a time limit. So much fun and you can't miss

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Speaker 3: a layup. You gotta start over the ball can't touch

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Speaker 3: the floor, gotta start over. No dribbles, no bounds, nothing.

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Speaker 1: We did that with Usay.

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Speaker 3: It's so much fun. But it's like dang, we be running.

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Speaker 1: Running run in Aliyah.

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Speaker 2: I just want to say thank you so much for

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Speaker 2: being on the pod. Being the first episode, I feel

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Speaker 2: like it was only right to have it be you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. As we move forward, we will be back.

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Speaker 2: Every week with a new episode with different guests, and

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Speaker 2: always stay up to date on the latest things in

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Speaker 2: women's college basketball and women's hoops.

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Speaker 1: Bye, great job, Lee.

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Speaker 2: I knew you were gonna say CROs this second that

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Speaker 2: I asked the question. Hey everyone, thanks so much for

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