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Speaker 1: Duke is a huge rivalry for y'all, and it's coming

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Speaker 2: That's going to be crazy. What was going to be huge?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? So Duke is a completely different team than they

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Speaker 3: And seeing their growth and seeing how much of a

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Speaker 3: But I think it's definitely made it even more fun

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Speaker 3: So that first game we had this year was insane

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to sometimes. I hope I'm your host. Hayley Jones,

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Speaker 1: Humble Bragg number one recruit class of twenty nineteen, Natty Champ,

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Speaker 1: most house Standy player of the final four preseason All

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Speaker 1: America first Team. But this isn't about the The Carolina

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Speaker 1: Blue is making its debut on the pod today. We

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Speaker 1: have McDonald's All American one thousand point club score, first Team,

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Speaker 1: All ACC certifive bucket. North Carolina is very own. Deja Kelly,

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Speaker 1: thanks for hopping on the pod.

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Speaker 3: Oh well, thanks for having me hearing all your accolades.

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Speaker 3: Those are definitely my goal. So I'm like, wow, no,

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Speaker 3: thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 2: Oh of course.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So we'll just kind of hop into what's going

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Speaker 1: on right now the landscape. So our season is winding

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Speaker 1: down already. We're both upperclassmen. I feel like this season

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think it's fully hit me yet. That

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Speaker 3: that's insane. It definitely has flown by, but I think

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Speaker 3: It's a lot of different emotions just because you know,

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Speaker 3: that's when it's really important, and these last few games

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Speaker 3: of league player probably the most important, just you know,

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Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, I mean hosting is a completely different experience,

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Speaker 1: But you know, there's a lot of teams who kind

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Speaker 3: Like, It's been insane. There's it's literally been a whole

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Speaker 1: Which ACC team has been giving people trouble like deserves

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Speaker 3: I think I would say Miami. We lost to Miami,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Miami's been on the rise recently, Like I get

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Speaker 1: like your junior class at North Carolina has really brought

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Speaker 3: Like it's just I think everyone has more than one loss.

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Speaker 2: So that's amazing. I need to hear more about this

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Speaker 1: I mean, and then here you are accomplishing the Donald's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it takes a lot of courage to

435
00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:46,880
Speaker 1: decommit from a school after junior year. Yeah, I'm sure,

436
00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:51,000
Speaker 1: like the internet backlash, social media, just everybody having opinions,

437
00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:54,320
Speaker 1: especially like you said, like you're thirteen, Like why do

438
00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:54,680
Speaker 1: you hate?

439
00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:55,960
Speaker 2: Like why do you said to me hate man when

440
00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:57,520
Speaker 2: I'm thirteen years old? But it's crazy.

441
00:19:57,760 --> 00:19:59,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean, it takes a lot of courage

442
00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:03,119
Speaker 1: strength to do that. And I'm sure, you know, playing

443
00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:06,240
Speaker 1: AU for a predominant team like the Jason Terry AAU

444
00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:10,160
Speaker 1: program that he has and getting coached by these basketball

445
00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:13,480
Speaker 1: legends and your mom being an amazing coach, did a

446
00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:16,840
Speaker 1: you and competing against the best and having other colleges,

447
00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:20,000
Speaker 1: did that have kind of something to do with your

448
00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:22,320
Speaker 1: reopening up your commitment. Was there a tournament that puts

449
00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:23,840
Speaker 1: you on the map and you're like, Okay, I want

450
00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:24,439
Speaker 1: to reopen this.

451
00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:26,200
Speaker 2: What kind of led to that decision?

452
00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,200
Speaker 3: I think that it was probably when I started playing

453
00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:33,720
Speaker 3: Nike on the UIBL circuit. I think that kind of

454
00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:35,840
Speaker 3: played a part into it, just because I was like,

455
00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:39,640
Speaker 3: I saw myself, you know, getting better and better each year.

456
00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:44,760
Speaker 3: And even though you know, that freshman year summer, I

457
00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:47,000
Speaker 3: was still committed to Texas, but I was kind of like, okay,

458
00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:49,800
Speaker 3: like I feel like I'm, you know, I'm selling myself

459
00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:52,679
Speaker 3: short if I don't at least explore and at least

460
00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,240
Speaker 3: you make sure that this is the best decision for me.

461
00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:58,680
Speaker 3: And so then after sophomore summer, I had a pretty

462
00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:00,640
Speaker 3: good summer and I was like, I think, I think

463
00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,159
Speaker 3: I just needed to explore and just make sure that

464
00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:05,439
Speaker 3: I'm making the right decision and just make sure that

465
00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,080
Speaker 3: there's nothing else out there that that I could be

466
00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:10,159
Speaker 3: missing or that you know, could benefit me in a

467
00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:12,720
Speaker 3: lot of different ways. So and that's kind of when

468
00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:15,000
Speaker 3: I got into you know, I had my mind made

469
00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:17,600
Speaker 3: up on me one and a major in broadcast journalism too,

470
00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:20,120
Speaker 3: so I was like, Okay, I knew Texas had a good,

471
00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:22,080
Speaker 3: you know background with that, but I was also like,

472
00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:23,919
Speaker 3: this is something I really want to get serious about.

473
00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,399
Speaker 3: Let me do more research. So that that played a

474
00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:30,439
Speaker 3: part into it as well. That eventually led to the decommitment,

475
00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:32,800
Speaker 3: which was extremely hard, but like I said, Texas was

476
00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:35,600
Speaker 3: still an option when I did open my recruitment back up.

477
00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:38,560
Speaker 3: So yeah, and then it kind of everything else go

478
00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:39,480
Speaker 3: in a place then Sun.

479
00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:41,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it all worked out.

480
00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:44,080
Speaker 1: You chose North Carolina, which just seemed like it's been

481
00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:48,920
Speaker 1: amazing place for you. Why North Carolina like it kind

482
00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:51,280
Speaker 1: of just came into the picture all these different things.

483
00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:53,920
Speaker 2: How did that work? Why did you end up choosing there?

484
00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:57,679
Speaker 3: Yeah? So North Carolina was actually the very last school

485
00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:02,960
Speaker 3: to recruit me the summer going into my senior year.

486
00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:05,520
Speaker 3: It was like August, so it was already after the

487
00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:07,800
Speaker 3: summer was over. I already kind of had my mind

488
00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:10,119
Speaker 3: made up on like at least the top five six,

489
00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,159
Speaker 3: and I was like, okay, like now I got to

490
00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:15,440
Speaker 3: figure out when I'm going to visit and coach Banghart

491
00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:17,680
Speaker 3: she had just got the job. I think that may

492
00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:21,280
Speaker 3: or June of that summer, and I kind of knew

493
00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:24,040
Speaker 3: of her from Princeton, but I you know, I never

494
00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:27,960
Speaker 3: even looked North Carolina's way. So she called me and

495
00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:31,399
Speaker 3: I was just like, I don't, like I was on

496
00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:33,879
Speaker 3: my mom. I was like, no, like I already already

497
00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:35,879
Speaker 3: did all this research on all these other schools, like

498
00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,080
Speaker 3: there's no point of adding another. And She's like, at

499
00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:41,119
Speaker 3: least listen to what she has to say. So she

500
00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:43,119
Speaker 3: called me, and I think we talked for maybe about

501
00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:45,920
Speaker 3: an hour hour and a half, and she just kind

502
00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:49,359
Speaker 3: of laid the whole, you know, plan out how she

503
00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:52,399
Speaker 3: came to North Carolina to not only challenge herself as

504
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,600
Speaker 3: a coach, but to just better the program and bring

505
00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,320
Speaker 3: the program back to the national map. It was it

506
00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,280
Speaker 3: was once on and the vision that she had for

507
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:03,280
Speaker 3: me was to you know, basically help build the program

508
00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:05,600
Speaker 3: to that and just you know, build around me and

509
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:08,760
Speaker 3: have me be a big impact on you know, the

510
00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:12,520
Speaker 3: team success and the program success eventually. And that was

511
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 3: something that I wanted to do, you know, I wanted

512
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:18,800
Speaker 3: I had the the bigger schools on me that you know,

513
00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:21,720
Speaker 3: I could have came and been a part of, you know,

514
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:25,399
Speaker 3: a winning program from Jump like off Rip and just

515
00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:28,119
Speaker 3: been another a part of that. But I wanted to

516
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:29,600
Speaker 3: go to a school where I knew that I was

517
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:34,720
Speaker 3: gonna have solely an impact and be a huge part

518
00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:38,440
Speaker 3: of the ongoing success and be the part of a rebuild.

519
00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:40,919
Speaker 3: And that's that's what I wanted to do, and that's

520
00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:42,800
Speaker 3: what I was really focused on. And that's the discussion

521
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,119
Speaker 3: I mean, Coach being Heart had and she can eventually

522
00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:48,080
Speaker 3: convince me to take a visit, and I did, and

523
00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:51,200
Speaker 3: I fell in love instantly, and I was so mad

524
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,800
Speaker 3: that I did, but I was like, I can't like it.

525
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:57,639
Speaker 3: And then they had the number one broadcast journalism school here,

526
00:23:57,680 --> 00:23:59,520
Speaker 3: so I think that definitely played a part in and

527
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, it's a no wrinner, but yeah,

528
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 3: I think the biggest thing was just the vision that

529
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 3: me and Coach Bangher talked about going into the recruiting process,

530
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 3: because I was like, that's exactly what I want. I

531
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,360
Speaker 3: want to do, you know, I want my I want

532
00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:16,399
Speaker 3: to leave a legacy from wherever I go, and I

533
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 3: think I can definitely do that in North Carolina and

534
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,240
Speaker 3: I think she will definitely be a big help to

535
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,240
Speaker 3: help me do that as well. As just becoming a

536
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:27,200
Speaker 3: better person and a better you know, journalist and things

537
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:29,480
Speaker 3: like that. So there was a lot that played into it,

538
00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:31,880
Speaker 3: but the main thing was, you know, just me leaving

539
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,480
Speaker 3: a legacy and knowing I can leave a legacy somewhere

540
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 3: and build the program back up.

541
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,720
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean that's something special and it takes a

542
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:42,560
Speaker 1: special type of person to, you know, come from high

543
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:44,879
Speaker 1: school and you're you're on a winning team and then

544
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,320
Speaker 1: you got to go somewhere and rebuild. Like that's hard

545
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,919
Speaker 1: and very hard, you know, to take that chance on yourself,

546
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:57,600
Speaker 1: bet on yourself, do all that. It's it's special. I

547
00:24:57,600 --> 00:24:59,560
Speaker 1: talked to coach Banghard at Princeton a little bit, and

548
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 1: she's a character. She's got energy, charisma, like the first

549
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 1: time you talked to her, and so I'm just imagining,

550
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:06,960
Speaker 1: like you can talk to that woman for two hours

551
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 1: and it's.

552
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:10,639
Speaker 3: Just quick, never a lot of things to talk about.

553
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:15,440
Speaker 1: Never, never, And so you know, she's an amazing person.

554
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:17,760
Speaker 1: I can see why, you know, you believe in her

555
00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:19,520
Speaker 1: when you go there and it's like we're gonna make

556
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:21,840
Speaker 1: it happen, and you have, which is the payoff has

557
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:25,160
Speaker 1: been awesome and you and c has kind of been

558
00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:27,880
Speaker 1: one of those pillar programs historically, and you guys did

559
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:29,400
Speaker 1: bring them back on the map because for a few

560
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:31,639
Speaker 1: years they were kind of down and out. But with

561
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 1: you and that core group that you've brought in, you

562
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,560
Speaker 1: guys have brought it back onto the map, right. And

563
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:40,679
Speaker 1: so when you're stepping into that freshman year, new coach,

564
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:43,199
Speaker 1: you're the new kid on campus, this and that. Like

565
00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 1: we said, it's a historical program. How was it handling

566
00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,800
Speaker 1: those expectations stepping into that those first few games your

567
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:50,440
Speaker 1: freshman year?

568
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,440
Speaker 3: It was definitely tough. It was not easy. It's not

569
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 3: has not been an easy process. You know, freshman year,

570
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,680
Speaker 3: I've we had five freshmen coming into a team with

571
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:03,239
Speaker 3: a lot of older seniors and grad transfers. So it

572
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 3: was like whoa, Like, this is something we have to

573
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 3: kind of live up to. We have. We had Stephanie

574
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,960
Speaker 3: Watts who came back that year, who was already at Carolina,

575
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:13,440
Speaker 3: so is like, this is kind of what we're looking

576
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 3: up to. And that first year was not easy.

577
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:16,280
Speaker 1: You know.

578
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:20,199
Speaker 3: We went from hoping like having to be like we

579
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:22,040
Speaker 3: have to win this game in order to make the tournament,

580
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,479
Speaker 3: like those type of feelings and like I said, us

581
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 3: through freshman me, Kennedy and Alyssa. We had to come

582
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 3: in right away and we didn't really have a chance

583
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:33,600
Speaker 3: to be freshman Like we didn't have time to you know,

584
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,240
Speaker 3: really go through those mistakes and really be like, Okay,

585
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 3: well we'll figure it out later, we'll work on it

586
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:39,880
Speaker 3: in the summer. Like no, Like we had to come

587
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,199
Speaker 3: in and make an impact right away, and it was

588
00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:45,400
Speaker 3: that was definitely hard, but it was something that we

589
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 3: are thankful for now because it's like, if we hadn't

590
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:49,919
Speaker 3: went through those struggles in then we wouldn't have been

591
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,840
Speaker 3: able to build ourselves into what we are now. And

592
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,440
Speaker 3: you know, and then that goes to sophomore year. Last year,

593
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:58,639
Speaker 3: you know, we to us almost being a team to host,

594
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 3: and now this year, you know, we're on the verge

595
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 3: of hosting. So I think you can just see that

596
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,159
Speaker 3: those growth steps and the growth of the program just

597
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,760
Speaker 3: within the past three years, which is really exciting. But

598
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:13,159
Speaker 3: it definitely has not been an easy process. And you know,

599
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,399
Speaker 3: now being an upperclassman now having younger ones who I

600
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 3: was in that position and having to help them through

601
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,880
Speaker 3: it and help them help us the best that they can.

602
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,399
Speaker 3: I think It's just been a really beautiful process to

603
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 3: see and to be a part of. And yeah, I'm

604
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 3: excited for us to do a lot more. I know

605
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 3: we have a lot more work to do, but yeah,

606
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:34,000
Speaker 3: it's just been I think it's definitely a story that

607
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 3: will go down in history for Carolina.

608
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 1: I mean, freshman year is hard, and like you said,

609
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 1: playing immediately and having that expected of you to be

610
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 1: an impact player is difficult. I mean I know for myself,

611
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:48,880
Speaker 1: I came in and Tara said, okay, no One through four.

612
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 1: By halfway through summer, I said, all four positions understood.

613
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,719
Speaker 2: And like, it's hard. It's an a tire and new system.

614
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,159
Speaker 1: You're playing with these upperclassmen, like you said, play like

615
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,919
Speaker 1: Stephanie Watts in All acc performer and this, that and

616
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,400
Speaker 1: the third. It's difficult to come and find your role.

617
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 1: Is there as you look back on your freshman year,

618
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 1: which now is just so long ago. Is there like

619
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 1: a tough game or a tough film session that you

620
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,119
Speaker 1: can remember that is just like burn into your mind?

621
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 3: Oh gosh. I think I would say probably the first

622
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 3: round of the a SEC Tournament freshman year, we lost

623
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:30,919
Speaker 3: to Wake Forest and we had played them already twice

624
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 3: that year, and they I think it was like two

625
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 3: years before that day, the North Carolina hadn't won in

626
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 3: the first round or made it past the first round

627
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,400
Speaker 3: in ACE tournament and for a few years. So it

628
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 3: was like, Okay, that pressure, now we're going to make

629
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 3: it past the first round. We were like, okay, wake

630
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 3: Forest beat us twice already that year. We were like,

631
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 3: there's no way that they could beat us a third time.

632
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,000
Speaker 3: Like that's hard to do. And I think, you know,

633
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 3: just as a freshman, like, obviously, this is what I

634
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 3: wanted to take on, you know, with picking the school

635
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 3: that I did, I wanted to take on that pressure.

636
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 3: I wanted to take on that responsibility. But I think

637
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 3: that game is definitely like like when I hear about it,

638
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 3: it's like, okay, can you not? Yeah, I'm like so

639
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 3: just because of how hard it was and how that

640
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 3: game was kind of the turning point of whether we

641
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 3: knew if we're going to make the tournament or not.

642
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 3: And we were like, Okay, we lost, can we still

643
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 3: make it? We don't know. We don't really have anything

644
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 3: to prove, right, so because we already lost, we don't

645
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 3: have any more games to play. But I think that

646
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 3: game was definitely also a turning point for us underclassman then,

647
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 3: because we were like, Okay, we know that this is not,

648
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 3: you know, something that we want to repeat. This is

649
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 3: not a consistent thing. We're definitely not you know, we're

650
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 3: making it a thing to just give our best and

651
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 3: knowing that knowing what it takes to win and the

652
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 3: ACC is really hard. And I think that's what we

653
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 3: learned too that freshman year. But I would say that

654
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 3: specific game where it was like wakefullest, like really so.

655
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, No, I still have those games, so it's

656
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: a sore spot and it never really leaves.

657
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 2: But I mean, you guys made so sweet sixteen that year.

658
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 1: The year afterwards, I mean, you're moving and grooving, You're

659
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 1: playing South Carolina this and that. You lost the game,

660
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 1: but you still had a great individual performance. How did

661
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 1: that last season now kind of fuel you moving into

662
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:22,640
Speaker 1: this year?

663
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 2: You know, you have expectations this year. You're ranked the.

664
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 1: Top twenty five from week one, this and the third.

665
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 1: How has it been kind of using that momentum.

666
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 3: It's been really exciting. I think that was that South

667
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 3: Carolina game was definitely a turning point, not only for me,

668
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 3: but just for the team, just because we realize, you know,

669
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 3: how good we can be. You know, we only lost

670
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 3: one senior that played and Carly being our point guard.

671
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 3: But I think, you know, we knew that we were

672
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 3: returning everyone else, so we were like, I want everyone

673
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:57,560
Speaker 3: to be extremely proud of like how we performed guests.

674
00:30:57,600 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 3: It hurt, it's going to hurt for a while that

675
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 3: we love, but knowing that this was what we were

676
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 3: bringing back and that we made it that far with

677
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 3: the group that we have, I think that was definitely encouraging,

678
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 3: especially going in the summer, and we already had that

679
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 3: chemistry we are. You know, we were a young group.

680
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 3: We started four sophomores last year and you know, so

681
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 3: we knew we were young, but we also knew that

682
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 3: that was definitely we could only you know, move forward

683
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 3: and only build on off of that. And for me,

684
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 3: I was like, Okay, this is going to be a

685
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 3: huge summer for you, This is going to be this

686
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 3: next year is going to be a huge year for you.

687
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 3: Just knowing the goals that you have set for myself

688
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 3: and as well for the team. You know, our goal

689
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 3: is to make it to get to the final FOURDS

690
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 3: in Dallas, so hometown basically kind of. So it's like back, yeah,

691
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 3: So just having those expectations and just really locking into

692
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 3: the main goals that we have. I think, you know,

693
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 3: after us making it to the sweet sixteen and playing

694
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 3: how we did, that's when everyone's mentality started to shift.

695
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 3: So now it's not our goals aren't to just make

696
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,479
Speaker 3: the tournament. Our goals aren't to you know, hopefully make

697
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 3: it past the first round. Now, our goals are to

698
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 3: make it to the final four, win a national championship,

699
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 3: win an ACC championship. And that wasn't the talk before,

700
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 3: you know, freshman year was like, Okay, let's try to

701
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 3: make the tournament. Let's try to win the past the

702
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 3: first round. So I think, you know, you can just

703
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 3: hear and see the mental shift that we all had

704
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 3: as a young group, and that definitely is showing this

705
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 3: year just because you know, we just have a different mentality.

706
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 3: It's not because we know that now we have built

707
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 3: ourselves to be one of the top teams in the country,

708
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 3: so now we have to act like it and act accordingly.

709
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: Yes, demand a certain level of respect now, which is

710
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 1: it's cool to see that your goals are able to

711
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 1: change from your year being from first round to okay,

712
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 1: sweet sixteen and now this year it's like you can

713
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 1: make a final four, So why not act like that.

714
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 1: You demand that respect whenever those teams are going through

715
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 1: your scanning report and they're like, Okay, how are we

716
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: going to stop Desa?

717
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 2: Not only Daja? And now we gotta stop Alissa, you

718
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 2: gotta stop Kenny.

719
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: There's so many different weapons that you have, which is

720
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 1: which is crazy this short amount of time that you

721
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 1: guys have made those leaps. But you mentioned and this

722
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: was a big summer for you, what were the biggest

723
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 1: things that you worked on in this off season preparing

724
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 1: for a big run this year?

725
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 3: Honestly, my strength, I know it's not it doesn't look

726
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 3: like I did, which I've gotten a lot of comments on,

727
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 3: but it's like, but I just feel, you know, I can.

728
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 3: I knew how many times I get a lot of contact.

729
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 3: You know, I pride myself and really get into the

730
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 3: free throw line a lot. So just being able to

731
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 3: take that contact and really finishing through it and being

732
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 3: able to handle how I do and with you know,

733
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 3: someone who's trying to guard me ninety four feet. I

734
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:35,719
Speaker 3: think just things like that that's something I was really

735
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 3: focused on, and honestly, it was more off the court stuff.

736
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 3: It was more so my leadership on the court as well.

737
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 3: But I think that was something that I really, you know,

738
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 3: knew I had to take on and really you know,

739
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 3: dove into because I knew that we were getting a

740
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 3: young group and I knew that with US juniors now

741
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 3: being the upperclassman, it was like now I have to,

742
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 3: like I have no choice but to use my voice now,

743
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 3: but to try to lead not only that example, but

744
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 3: with my voice and whether that looks like, you know,

745
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 3: talking really positive with someone or if that means getting,

746
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 3: you know, CUsing someone out, you know, who can take what.

747
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 3: But I think just figuring that out and figuring out

748
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 3: that balance as well as performing and as well as

749
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 3: giving my tame everything I have trying to lead them

750
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 3: as well, that was the most thing. That the main

751
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 3: thing that I was focused on in the summer and

752
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,880
Speaker 3: trying to do that summer workouts and off season just

753
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 3: to try to build everyone else's confidence along with mine

754
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:29,359
Speaker 3: as well.

755
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:32,799
Speaker 1: Leadership is huge, learning how to interact with everybody on

756
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 1: your team because you have a team of like fifteen

757
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: girls and everybody is completely different. You can yell at

758
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 1: some people and some people you got to talk to

759
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: individually because they're going to shut down, and it's like, okay.

760
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: You know that chemistry off the court is huge, not

761
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 1: only for how you play with each other in the moment,

762
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: but like moving through the ups and downs of the seasons.

763
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:51,919
Speaker 1: There's gonna be rough days where you're like, I don't

764
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 1: want to be here. There can be days we were

765
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: tabbed the coaches, you have an upsetting loss, whatever may be.

766
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 1: But being able to fall back on those relationships that

767
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,359
Speaker 1: you created as a leader are huge.

768
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 2: Moving off the court a little bit.

769
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 1: NIL has been huge for both of us, for women's basketball,

770
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 1: for women's sports, for everybody. Really, what has NIL meant

771
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 1: to you? What has that process been like? I know

772
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 1: it's been different for everybody with agents, deals being signed,

773
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:19,280
Speaker 1: this and that.

774
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 2: But when did it get real for you?

775
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 3: I think it got real for me when I was

776
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 3: able to provide for my family, I think, and just

777
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 3: help them in ways that I couldn't even imagine doing

778
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,319
Speaker 3: two years ago at the age of twenty twenty one.

779
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,320
Speaker 3: I think that that NIL has just been a blessing

780
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 3: just being able to you know, really capitalize on my

781
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:49,319
Speaker 3: brand and everything that I have worked so hard for

782
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,359
Speaker 3: in the years before, just you know, trying to build

783
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,720
Speaker 3: my brand, trying to build my name and it finally

784
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 3: coming into play and me being able to you know,

785
00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 3: succeed off of it. I think it's definitely been amazing.

786
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:01,920
Speaker 3: And just saying all other athletes being able to capitalize

787
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 3: on that as well. It's like this is such a

788
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 3: huge growth step and we're moving in the right direction.

789
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 3: But it's like for us to now be able to

790
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:12,440
Speaker 3: you know, just provide in different ways. You know, everyone

791
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:16,319
Speaker 3: has different, different backgrounds, different stories, but it's definitely been

792
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 3: beneficial in all sorts of different ways for everybody, which

793
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 3: I think is just very encouraging to see. But for me, yeah,

794
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,960
Speaker 3: I think just being able to provide and just being

795
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 3: able to help out and just being able to give

796
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:32,400
Speaker 3: back to my community to you know, hosting my first

797
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 3: DK twenty five camp that was amazing. That was something

798
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,399
Speaker 3: that I didn't think I would be doing anytime soon

799
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 3: until until nil. So just being able to do things

800
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 3: like that, I think it's truly a blessing because while

801
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:47,320
Speaker 3: you're still in school, while you're still a collegiate athlete,

802
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 3: literally while you're still playing and going to class and

803
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 3: having to worry about all the things a regular student

804
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 3: athlete would, you're also allowed to give back, and you're

805
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 3: also allowed to, you know, give back in ways that

806
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 3: most people would have to wait till they get to

807
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 3: the league or in the NBA WNBA and things like that.

808
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,800
Speaker 3: So I think it's just truly been a blessing overall.

809
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:09,919
Speaker 1: I saw your DK twenty five camp, like being able

810
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 1: to interact with the next generation at such a young

811
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,439
Speaker 1: age where you're really still able to relate to them

812
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 1: and then being able to like tangibly be around you

813
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:21,400
Speaker 1: and get to know you and ask questions, do this,

814
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: and that just does such an impact to them that

815
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 1: I don't even know if I still understand, but it's

816
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: so powerful, and I feel like NIL has given us

817
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 1: the platform to speak on issues, to advocate, to give back,

818
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 1: to be that role model.

819
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 2: For people all across the country, across the world.

820
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 1: Really, I think that something that's been a little bit

821
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 1: of conversation has just been the NIL space for black women.

822
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 1: What it's been like across the country, How how has

823
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 1: your process been being a black woman in space, being

824
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:55,720
Speaker 1: signing these huge deals like having partners like beat Stunkin

825
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 1: Donuts for over twenty one. Like I see all this

826
00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 1: stuff on like Instagram and Twitter, and I just get

827
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:03,320
Speaker 1: so excited from outsideive, Like anybody signing these big deals.

828
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 1: I'm just like so just in awe, so happy for

829
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:08,799
Speaker 1: people of this and that. And I know that people

830
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: are feeling the exact same way whenever I post whatever

831
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 1: it may be.

832
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:14,240
Speaker 2: But how has it been like navigating this space?

833
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,720
Speaker 3: It has not been easy, but it's definitely been super

834
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:20,479
Speaker 3: fun just being able to learn about different things as well,

835
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 3: just more by myself too, like what I like, what

836
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 3: I value, and that's kind of what I how I

837
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 3: look at it, and whenever I look at getting a

838
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 3: new deal or what like, really, is it okay? Is

839
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 3: it true to my values? Is it true to what

840
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:34,919
Speaker 3: I believe in? Is it true to what I want

841
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 3: to do down the road? Are they going to you know,

842
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 3: compromise with me as far as okay, if we do this,

843
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:41,839
Speaker 3: then I want to give back to this, Like just

844
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 3: things like that. I think it's just learning a lot,

845
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 3: but definitely just being a black female, I think it's

846
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 3: definitely had allowed me to see a different perspective, you know,

847
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:53,759
Speaker 3: signing with Actively Black, I think I've just learned a

848
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 3: lot just alone in that deal, and it's just it

849
00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 3: feels really empowering to be able to represent or be

850
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:07,360
Speaker 3: the first women's collegiate athlete to represent the brand, and

851
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 3: you know, just it just means so much more, like

852
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:11,879
Speaker 3: I said, and it just it opens a lot more

853
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 3: doors on the line as well. But you know, and

854
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 3: just being with Forever twenty one that was that was

855
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:19,920
Speaker 3: probably one of my favorite partnerships just because it preached,

856
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 3: you know, being comfortable, being you, being comfortable in your

857
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 3: own skin, no matter how you look, no matter what

858
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 3: your skin color is, no matter you know anything. I

859
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,360
Speaker 3: think that was the main message of the partnership, and

860
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 3: I was so happy to be a part of it

861
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 3: because that's that's what I value. That's what I preach.

862
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 3: You know, I'm comfortable and being you know, and being black,

863
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:40,920
Speaker 3: and being very feminine off the court and having my

864
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 3: lashes and nails done while I'm playing, like things like that.

865
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 3: I think that definitely just sent the right message. And

866
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 3: so just being able to be a part of partnerships

867
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 3: like that and being able to be a part of

868
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 3: brands that respect the values that you have as well.

869
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 3: I think it's just it's been super super cool and

870
00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 3: blessed to be a part of them.

871
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 1: It's special to be able to like be who you

872
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 1: are off the court and what that does for the

873
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: people looking up to is seeing that you're creating this

874
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 1: space for them to be able to follow on our

875
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 1: footsteps and just be like, yeah, we can do this

876
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:13,440
Speaker 1: and this on the court, and we can dress this

877
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 1: type of way off the court and still sign these

878
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 1: amazing deals. Speak on this issue, that issue, whatever it

879
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:20,799
Speaker 1: may be. But I feel like it's starting to hit

880
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 1: me now the impact that you have on those younger generations,

881
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:25,879
Speaker 1: just creating the space for them, right.

882
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:26,239
Speaker 3: Yeah.

883
00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 1: I feel like there's a lot of backlashing criticism about

884
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:30,880
Speaker 1: that across the country. For I feel like a lot

885
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 1: of it's about hoopers having the lasses, the nails, your hair,

886
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:35,480
Speaker 1: this and that, But it's just how you want to

887
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 1: present yourself. What do you think about the criticism when

888
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 1: it comes to that, like, oh, you're less of a

889
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 1: hooper this and that.

890
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:41,480
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts?

891
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 3: I think the criticism is trash. I think it's people

892
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 3: who have nothing better to do than criticize people. But

893
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,280
Speaker 3: it's always been something that I've kind of just loved

894
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:56,399
Speaker 3: doing ever since high school, ever since middle school. Really,

895
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 3: like I've always had to have my hair in a

896
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 3: very you know, put together if the puntytail or bun,

897
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 3: and my nails had to be done. I started to

898
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:06,440
Speaker 3: get my nails done in eighth grade, so I don't

899
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:08,480
Speaker 3: think I've never not had them done since then, and

900
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 3: it's always been a crylicks. People hate it. They say

901
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:13,320
Speaker 3: I scratch them, but like, oh wow.

902
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know they're they're rounded. I don't be scratching anyone.

903
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just like whatever y'all are lying. But it's

904
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 3: just something I take pride in because it's something that

905
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 3: I'm really passionate about. Off the court. I love anytime

906
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 3: that I can, you know, put a dress on, put

907
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:29,400
Speaker 3: some nails on, get cute. Like I'll get cute just

908
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:32,440
Speaker 3: to go to like the store, just because because you know,

909
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,359
Speaker 3: I'm always in sweats and a jersey half of the time.

910
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 3: But yeah, I think that the messages females should just

911
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:42,080
Speaker 3: be able to appear how they want to appear on

912
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:43,680
Speaker 3: the court and know that, you know, at the end

913
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:46,399
Speaker 3: of the day, whether we have lashes, nails, hair done,

914
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 3: like we still give your favorite team thirty. So it's

915
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:52,759
Speaker 3: like that's the mentality that we have, and it's I

916
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 3: think that's the mentality that we all have because it's like, Okay,

917
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:58,839
Speaker 3: why are you worried about how I'm wearing my hair

918
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:00,400
Speaker 3: and why are you worried about if I have lashes

919
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 3: on when like we're like, I'm doing what I gotta

920
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:04,879
Speaker 3: do on the court. It doesn't make me any less

921
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:08,840
Speaker 3: of a hooper than whoever else. So it's definitely something

922
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:10,839
Speaker 3: i'd take pride in that. I'm really happy to see

923
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 3: a lot more females take pride in and not care

924
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 3: about what people have to say about it. So yeah,

925
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 3: I've even heard like some coaches like get mad about nails.

926
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, so yeah, I could never So.

927
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:24,719
Speaker 2: I mean, I couldn't agree more.

928
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: I think that it's just like you're worried about the

929
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 1: wrong things, which you should be worried about, is how

930
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:30,400
Speaker 1: you're going to scout me, how you're going to do

931
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 1: this and that, rather than what my hair looks like

932
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:34,800
Speaker 1: this day, what color my nails are. This is not

933
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,319
Speaker 1: because they're going to be done. My lashes are going

934
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,600
Speaker 1: to be done, and just because I choose to present

935
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 1: myself in a certain way, like I'm the same thing.

936
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 2: I love wearing a dress.

937
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:45,839
Speaker 1: I love doing this and that just for the fun

938
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:48,160
Speaker 1: of it, because like you said, we're in sweats ninety

939
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:48,839
Speaker 1: percent of the time.

940
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:51,399
Speaker 2: I mean my practice jerseys. I'm doing this, so it's

941
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 2: like I'm not trying to wear that twenty four.

942
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 3: To seven exactly.

943
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 2: I'm not.

944
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 1: But I couldn't agree more with your opinion on it.

945
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:00,760
Speaker 1: And I mean it's really kind of like a treating

946
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 1: yourself thing too, Like I'm gonna go do something nice

947
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:03,440
Speaker 1: for myself.

948
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 2: It's like little self care and then go.

949
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,319
Speaker 3: Get liitterally and it's like you.

950
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 2: Go take a quick nap for the lashes.

951
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 3: Yes, Like I can't wait done because I'm like, let

952
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:16,280
Speaker 3: me go take my nap the hour hour and whatever.

953
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:18,239
Speaker 3: Today it was off day, I went to go get

954
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 3: me a pedicure on my nails and so I'm like, like,

955
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 3: this is something I take pride in and it's very

956
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 3: therapeutic for me. So if you want me to be

957
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:28,840
Speaker 3: like on a mental like spiral or have a breakdown

958
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 3: like throughout the week, then I SI, you just let

959
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:32,279
Speaker 3: me go do what I gotta do for self care.

960
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:34,879
Speaker 1: One hundred percent, Like, let me go get my hair done,

961
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 1: do my homework. I get my hair done, Like it's

962
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 1: always something being done. It's the nap during the lashes.

963
00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:42,400
Speaker 1: It's like the phone calls during the nails. There's something

964
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 1: for everything. You stay efficient. But okay, as we wrap

965
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 1: up here, we do a little segment called the vibe check,

966
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 1: which is gonna be rapid fire answers.

967
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:54,279
Speaker 2: I hope you're good at them. We had some trouble in.

968
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:58,479
Speaker 1: The past, but rapid fire portion of it, it's gonna

969
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:02,359
Speaker 1: be good. I move, Okay, So here we go. What

970
00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:04,799
Speaker 1: is the one drill you never want to see other

971
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:05,359
Speaker 1: practice plan?

972
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:11,320
Speaker 3: Oh, probably the defensive slides, having a guard our practice boards.

973
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:15,800
Speaker 1: Full court sounds awful. It sounds awful already. Yeah, no, ma'am.

974
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 1: Game winning shot or game winning steel, game winning shot,

975
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:25,440
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, off the court, go to sneaker.

976
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 3: Oh probably Jordan fours Yeah.

977
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 1: I love yeah, okay, And then favorite team issued Jordan's.

978
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 3: Probably are six is our pees that we got last

979
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:44,720
Speaker 3: year for the tournament. They were like the all Carolina

980
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 3: blue with like a cream lace. Yeah. Those are probably

981
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:49,439
Speaker 3: my favorite so far.

982
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:51,879
Speaker 1: Okay, sounds better than our running shoes. We get all right,

983
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:54,279
Speaker 1: and one or three pointer.

984
00:44:55,680 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 2: And one yep. Toughest place to play a oh man,

985
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 2: see this is where the rapid fire drops off.

986
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 3: The toughest place to play probably NC State because I

987
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:12,000
Speaker 3: hate their fans.

988
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 2: So okay, understood ice pack or ice.

989
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 3: Bath ice pack for sure?

990
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 2: Okay. What is your biggest basketball ache?

991
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 3: Probably when a defender is like, you know, they guard

992
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:32,359
Speaker 3: you good for like one good possession and then they

993
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:35,839
Speaker 3: think that they just guarded you like really well, it's

994
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 3: like all right, girl, then please give me the ball

995
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:39,719
Speaker 3: back so I could just go to it real quick.

996
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:41,359
Speaker 3: That's probably my biggest ac And when they get all

997
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 3: hype and I'm just like, HiPE down, that's my.

998
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 1: Big Yes, you have one time, you have one time? Yeah?

999
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:50,160
Speaker 1: What is the college with the best facilities?

1000
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 2: Ah?

1001
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:54,839
Speaker 3: How much does that? You know? I'm just gonna say

1002
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 3: mine because I'm biased. Yeah, we'll say that, Okay, okay.

1003
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 1: And then what is your best impersonation of coach bang Heart?

1004
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 3: Oh god, babe, babe, I just need you to you know, babe,

1005
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:09,680
Speaker 3: come on, like your better than that. Come on, babe,

1006
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 3: she says, babe. Yeah, she calls us babe in a

1007
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 3: very high pitched voice and we make fun of her

1008
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:17,280
Speaker 3: for it all the time. It's like, Babe, come on now, babe.

1009
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:18,319
Speaker 2: I love the Bie.

1010
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love Oh wow, Wow, Babe is crazy, Babe,

1011
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 1: it is crazy.

1012
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 2: Djure. This has been so fun. Thank you so much

1013
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:28,560
Speaker 2: for coming on.

1014
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 3: Of course, thank you so much for having me. I

1015
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:33,880
Speaker 3: love talking about all these things and just bring a

1016
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:36,120
Speaker 3: girl in the women's game. It's fun. So thank you.

1017
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 2: Love it.

1018
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:39,360
Speaker 1: Well, this has been Sometimes I Hoop. We will be

1019
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:41,920
Speaker 1: back every week with a new guest following the latest

1020
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:42,920
Speaker 1: on women's hoops.

1021
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:43,800
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