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Ep. 40 - Basketball, Legos, and Building a Brand with Mia Moore · Beyond the Paw - Clemson Athletics

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, welcome to another episode of Beyond the Paw.
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  Speaker 1: Today we have a very special guest. We have a
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  Speaker 1: Clemson basketball player, Mia Moore, and we talk about her
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  Speaker 1: transfer to Clemson, her hobby of legos, and how what
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  Speaker 1: it's like playing under coach Poppy. Let's go beyond the Paw. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so wait, you transferred from Mississippi State to UAB to Clemson.
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  Speaker 1: Can you kind of talk to us about like what
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  Speaker 1: that was like like each school and then transferring it
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  Speaker 1: a third time.
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  Speaker 2: So at Mississippi State I was there for two years.
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  Speaker 2: My freshman year I was well, I got hurt and
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  Speaker 2: we were doing a lot of running on the track.
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  Speaker 2: I'll say that, and so would you hurt my shin?
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  Speaker 2: So I fractured that the first time I fractured it.
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  Speaker 2: I set out my whole freshman year and once I
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  Speaker 2: came back, started going back at it. You know how
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  Speaker 2: that gets gets rough in the paint. So yeah, came
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  Speaker 2: back and then found out that I heard it again,
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  Speaker 2: so that one, Yeah, I refractured it. So then I
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  Speaker 2: had to get surgery. So then I was pretty much
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  Speaker 2: out for my second year. I came back and I
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  Speaker 2: think around December. Then I finally played in my first
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  Speaker 2: game in January, and I mean it went pretty well,
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  Speaker 2: but obviously I just felt like I wasn't really one
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent. So yeah, it's definitely hard. Yeah, it was
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  Speaker 2: just like up and down. It was really a roller
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  Speaker 2: coaster a Mississippi state. So I just wanted to find
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  Speaker 2: someplace that I could get my confidence back, and that
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  Speaker 2: was UAB. They accepted me for who I was and
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  Speaker 2: told me that I'll have a good chance at just
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  Speaker 2: being able to just be me and going out there
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  Speaker 2: and playing freely. So I chose to go there, and
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  Speaker 2: obviously it worked out for me. So now I'm here.
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  Speaker 2: Coach Poppy gave me a chance. Well, he actually recruited
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  Speaker 2: me back in like eighth grade and so we just
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  Speaker 2: always had that connection. Wow. Yeah, he wanted before I
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  Speaker 2: committed to.
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  Speaker 3: U a B.
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  Speaker 2: He wanted me to come to Chattan do Good, but
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  Speaker 2: I turned him down. It worked out, Yeah, So I
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  Speaker 2: was like once he got the job at Clemson, I
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  Speaker 2: was like, yeah, I want to give him a chance.
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  Speaker 2: I know how he's good people for sure, and he
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  Speaker 2: just surrounds himself with like great people. So I thought
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  Speaker 2: this was definitely going to be the place for me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: That's what's crazy is that me and I played for
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  Speaker 5: the same coach. Oh yeah, wait way yeah you her
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  Speaker 5: UA B coach was the I think associate head coach
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  Speaker 5: at Missoo when I played there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, I didn't know you went to Missoo.
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  Speaker 2: I transferred before transferring was cool until she told us
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  Speaker 2: one day, told me one day at par I was
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  Speaker 2: like wait.
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  Speaker 5: What yeah, oh I remember your visit and I was
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  Speaker 5: talking to you and I was like, this is so weird.
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  Speaker 5: We both played for the Saale guy. Like what small world?
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  Speaker 5: So small?
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  Speaker 2: So how was too?
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy. You were like a founding father of then,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not founding father. I'm not trying to aid
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  Speaker 1: you at all. Toy is very young.
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  Speaker 2: Back in my day, a whole year.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's a right.
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  Speaker 2: That was a brutal wow. So there was no like portal.
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  Speaker 5: It was just no you had to go in and
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  Speaker 5: like talk to my coaches and then talk.
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  Speaker 2: To the athletic director.
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  Speaker 5: Never talked to and being like okay, you can't transfer
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  Speaker 5: anywhere in the conference and like okay, and then you're.
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  Speaker 2: Just out in the world. And then yeah, crazy that
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know you can transfer in the conference.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, back then, I think they could have those rules
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  Speaker 5: that you think, like limit certain schools that you could
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  Speaker 5: not go to and then you had to sit out
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  Speaker 5: for that year.
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  Speaker 2: That's crazy. I was just stall like four years and
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  Speaker 2: five years, but I had to sit out.
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  Speaker 5: But I was able to get my master's done and
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  Speaker 5: paid for as well, so it all worked out and
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  Speaker 5: I'd had surgery.
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  Speaker 2: So so would you get your masters in sport management? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: I was a journalism maker, just to aid math and science.
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  Speaker 2: Very fair?
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  Speaker 1: What's your major?
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  Speaker 2: Communications?
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  Speaker 1: So communications for the people who like don't know what
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  Speaker 1: that entails, like, what are your classes like?
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  Speaker 2: Every day literally just learning about how to communicate in
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  Speaker 2: a workspace, how to be confident in your voice and
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  Speaker 2: basically that honestly. And then some other classes that I've
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  Speaker 2: taken are just like sports management classes and public speaking
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  Speaker 2: of course is my least favorite, but it makes me
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  Speaker 2: more confident, it makes me get out of my comfort zone.
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  Speaker 2: So those are definitely like the classes that I'm in
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  Speaker 2: right now. What else I feel like?
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  Speaker 1: Communications like it's so broad, like you can learn about production,
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  Speaker 1: you can learn about sports media, like it has everything.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so for me, I was actually a marketing major
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  Speaker 2: for like my and then I got here and most
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  Speaker 2: of my credits strengthsled over to communication, so I, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: have to go that route. I didn't really want to.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, wait, that was the same at my old school.
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  Speaker 1: When I transferred, I had to transfer to communications. But
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  Speaker 1: now I'm doing a marketing masters. Yeah yeah, kind of
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  Speaker 1: all worked out.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, so honestly, I'm still trying to figure out
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  Speaker 2: what I want to do. Like right now, I'm well,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to graduate in August and then I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to go get my masters in human resources just until
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  Speaker 2: I can figure out, like what I want to go.
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  Speaker 2: I thought you wanted to be a dentist, I know what. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like my three years i've been in college, like I
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  Speaker 2: was like, okay, I want to be in this. I
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  Speaker 2: want to be a dentist. But then I feel like
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  Speaker 2: it was once I came here, I was like, I
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  Speaker 2: don't really have the passion for it, Like I want
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  Speaker 2: to see no more. Yeah, I mean maybe if I
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  Speaker 2: I might want to do two years in hygienis school,
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  Speaker 2: but we'll see once basketball.
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  Speaker 1: The world is your oyster.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's basketball ins and if if I get
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  Speaker 2: the chance to go overseas or whatever that and entails.
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  Speaker 2: Then I might want to come back and just do
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  Speaker 2: two years in hygienis school. But we'll see. I honestly
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  Speaker 2: don't know, like I really don't know what I want
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  Speaker 2: to do. That's okay, that's okay. How many years eligibility
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  Speaker 2: do you have left? So this year for sure, and
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  Speaker 2: then I will I'm trying to get my medical red
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  Speaker 2: shirt back, okay, which is we should be We should
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  Speaker 2: be able to get that for sure, and then if
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  Speaker 2: that five year rule comes out, then I'll be able
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  Speaker 2: to get that too.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to stay in college as long as
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  Speaker 2: I can. Now sports is on the rise, so for sure. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: oh yeah, the best time to be a woman in sport.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Torri was telling me to stay in college as long
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  Speaker 1: as you can because there's nothing but bills on Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and that has stuck with me for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: How many how many years do you have?
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be in my sixth year next year,
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  Speaker 1: so this is my fifth year right now, and I
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  Speaker 1: have one red shirt year and COVID so yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna be granny. Yeah that's fine, that's fine.
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  Speaker 2: What about you.
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  Speaker 3: I have one more year left, but that's just my
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  Speaker 3: senior year. I didn't get any COVID or I was
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  Speaker 3: four year. But yeah, so we both have one more year.
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  Speaker 2: But also awesome that you have four years at one school. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that's something that's really cool and should
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  Speaker 2: be celebrated as well. Yeah, for sure, kudos to you,
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  Speaker 2: for sure, because there's not a lot of people out
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  Speaker 2: there that can just like stay in one place obviously
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  Speaker 2: meet but yeah, so I'm glad that out for you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Can you talk to us kind of about your like
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  Speaker 1: basketball journey growing up? Like, did you always know you
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  Speaker 1: wanted to play basketball? And you're also five six for
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  Speaker 1: those listening, she's a shorter basketball player. What's that been
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  Speaker 1: like for you?
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  Speaker 2: So I grew up actually running track? Yeah, I was, well,
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  Speaker 2: I went back and forth. I ran track, but track
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  Speaker 2: was my primary sport growing up. My mom she ran
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  Speaker 2: sorry take car okay, Yeah, my mom ran track and
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  Speaker 2: at Saint John's she did long jump and then my
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  Speaker 2: dad played basketball at Creighton, and so it was always
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  Speaker 2: like an argument whether I should pursue track or if
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  Speaker 2: I should pursue basketball. So growing up, I was really
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  Speaker 2: just I was a track star and you got golden
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  Speaker 2: medal I do in the pentathlon. Yeah yeah, okay, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll get into that later. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, okay, So I grew up and I chose basketball, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: and so my mom was pretty mad about that because
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  Speaker 2: I was I was a lot of people think I'm
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  Speaker 2: better at track than basketball, So.
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  Speaker 1: I have more passion for basketball, you would.
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  Speaker 2: Say, yeah, just I grew up wanted to be on
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  Speaker 2: like the team, just surrounded by people and make friends. Like, yeah, track,
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  Speaker 2: you're just solely by yourself and just competing for you.
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  Speaker 2: And I wanted to be able to compete for a
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  Speaker 2: team for sure, because I feel like that has like
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  Speaker 2: more value and you're not putting like a lot of
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  Speaker 2: pressure on yourself. So yeah, that was really my reasoning.
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  Speaker 2: But also I feel like as a kid, you just
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  Speaker 2: want to be able to make friends and bear around
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  Speaker 2: little kids. But so yeah, I stuck with basketball, and
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  Speaker 2: I just stuck with it. Honestly, I don't really know.
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  Speaker 2: Growing up, that's basketball was really all I knew, just
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  Speaker 2: because my dad was always in my ear and I mean,
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  Speaker 2: obviously my mom was in my ear by track, but
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  Speaker 2: it was just something about basketball that I just really loved,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm pretty sure that's just the team aspect of it.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't know, basketball just kind of gravitated towards me.
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  Speaker 2: It had my heart.
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  Speaker 1: It shows you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't really have an explanation for it. So
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I feel like I grew up in
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  Speaker 2: a praying family and they always told me to just
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  Speaker 2: like pray, and so that's what I did. And I
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  Speaker 2: feel like basketball was just what what basketball is me
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  Speaker 2: at this? You have a reason behind the number that
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  Speaker 2: you wear. Yes, So my birthday is on May twelfth,
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  Speaker 2: my grandma's birthday is on May twelfth, and my mom's
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  Speaker 2: birthday is January twelfth. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So I was like, so I'm guessing your number
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  Speaker 1: is twelve.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, twelve. It used to be twenty two because that
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  Speaker 2: was my dad's number. But I was like, I feel
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  Speaker 2: like this has more meaning and value.
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  Speaker 3: Wait, that's crazy because me and more on my team
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  Speaker 3: as umber twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, the Me and Wars are the new besties. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: do you guys get like confused all the time or not? Really? Yes? Actually,
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  Speaker 2: because during the season she would get like tagged in
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  Speaker 2: my basketball picture.
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  Speaker 1: It's hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: And then I went and got an X ray a
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago, and they sent the bill to her,
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  Speaker 2: and her mom was calling her life like, why did
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  Speaker 2: you have to get an X ray? Because I guess
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  Speaker 2: they send it to her home. Yeah, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 2: it's just like that. And then we're supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: moving to the same apartment complex, so sometimes they'll call.
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  Speaker 3: Oh gosh, she said to her, are you moving to ever? Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I'll be her roommate.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, neighbors, neighbors.
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  Speaker 5: They're both in power. Is that where you became best friends?
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  Speaker 5: So you met each other or you met each other
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  Speaker 5: somewhere else?
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  Speaker 1: Do you guys know each other before?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Before? So honestly, it's a weird thing. So both
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  Speaker 2: of our boyfriends went to Colorado and then we kind
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  Speaker 2: of through through that. Awesome. That's cool.
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  Speaker 1: That's so cool. Wait didn't someone you know, like just
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  Speaker 1: like went to Colorado? Okay, I may be buttraying this completely.
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  Speaker 2: Wait no, no, like you're talking about my boyfriend or no.
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  Speaker 1: Is that your boyfriend? I did some stalking on Instagram?
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  Speaker 2: You just got drafted. You just got drafted, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's awesome. Jacksonville that's crazy. So yeah, I got to
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  Speaker 2: go up there and be with him and be a
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  Speaker 2: part of the experience, and yeah, I'm excited for him.
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  Speaker 2: He definitely deserves it. He's been through a lot, so
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  Speaker 2: kudos to you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and being coached under Deon Sanders.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he's been with him since Jackson State High School. Actually, wow,
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  Speaker 2: yeah he was so he's from Alabama, but then he
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: went to he moved to Trinity, I mean not Trinity,
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  Speaker 2: he moved to Texas to go to Trinity, that's the
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  Speaker 2: high school name, and just to be coached under Dion
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  Speaker 2: and then he stayed with him the whole time. Oh wow,
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  Speaker 2: that's really cool. Yeah, that's crazy.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, it's been a long ride for sure. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So what is your position in basketball?
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  Speaker 2: So last year we were a really small team, so
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  Speaker 2: I had to play I had to play the three. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: can explain what that means? Yeah, So, I mean, so
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  Speaker 2: for numbers, so there's I guess you could say there's numbers.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just one, two, three, four, and five. The
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  Speaker 2: one is the point guard. Two is like you could say,
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  Speaker 2: combo combo guard that can get to the basket. Three
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  Speaker 2: is the three. Is usually pretty like taller and can
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  Speaker 2: still like shoot the ball get to the basket before
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  Speaker 2: taller as well, but can like get down load the paint.
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  Speaker 2: And then the five is like the center who can
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  Speaker 2: really like post up and got rebounding.
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  Speaker 1: So you played the point guard and the three.
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  Speaker 2: You could say that, I mean I was, I'm really
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  Speaker 2: a combo guard. So this year I'll be the point guard. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: also a combo guard. So yeah, so yeah, I'm ready
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  Speaker 2: to take on that role, just be the take on
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  Speaker 2: the leadership role. And I'm definitely excited for this upcoming season.
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  Speaker 2: We got a lot of good transfers and they're just
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  Speaker 2: really good people, So I'm excited for this year for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Coach probably did a good job this year along with
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  Speaker 2: the staff.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, how's it been like playing under coach Hoppy?
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  Speaker 3: And how was his first year?
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  Speaker 2: This year was definitely a good year, I'll say for
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  Speaker 2: his first year year being in the Being in Power
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  Speaker 2: five is not an easy conference at all, So I
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  Speaker 2: feel like he definitely did a good job with just
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  Speaker 2: keeping everything under control and just maintaining himself, like not
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  Speaker 2: getting too high, not getting too low. Like I feel
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  Speaker 2: like we had a steady season. I feel like it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't the greatest season that Clempson could have possibly had,
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  Speaker 2: but I feel like we definitely we definitely made something
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  Speaker 2: of ourselves. Like we had a few games where I
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  Speaker 2: think we'd be we had two top twenty.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you all be number twenty cal What was that like?
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  Speaker 5: Because also the environment, I mean the attendance at Little
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  Speaker 5: John was crazy this year.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a night increase. Yeah, So that that was
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  Speaker 2: really exciting to see. Just knowing that we had support
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  Speaker 2: after like somebody's having just being somebody's first year is
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  Speaker 2: really big, honestly. So yeah, we had a nine to
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  Speaker 2: nine percent increase from last year. And I feel like
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  Speaker 2: that just says that just speaks values about who coach
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  Speaker 2: Poppy is. Like he's just a person that wants to
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  Speaker 2: get out in the community and really meet like who
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  Speaker 2: his fans are. There's never a day that goes by
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  Speaker 2: I feel like he's not talking to like donors or
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  Speaker 2: if Tay or just like going around in the Clemson community.
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  Speaker 2: And I feel like he's always in the admin office
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  Speaker 2: just like saying hello. He's just those He's just that
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: type of guy that wants to have those connections. And
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  Speaker 2: I feel like that's why I really wanted to be
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  Speaker 2: under him, is because he cares about us as people,
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  Speaker 2: not just basketball players. And so like after every practice,
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  Speaker 2: he would tell me just to come up to his
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  Speaker 2: office and we can talk about what I need to
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  Speaker 2: get better at or what I'm doing well. Like he's
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  Speaker 2: always going to make sure that he's had he has
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  Speaker 2: that connection with his players, and that's one thing that
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  Speaker 2: really drew me to him because I knew that he
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  Speaker 2: was going to be that type of person that's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: So he's stayed again, sorry, go ahead, No, I was
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  Speaker 2: just going to say that he's just stayed consistent from
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: when I was in eighth grade. Honestly, Like my yeah,
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  Speaker 2: once my family knew that he got the job at Clemson,
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: they're like, oh, yeah, you need to give him a
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  Speaker 2: like this is your moment. And we grew up. One
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: of our neighbors was actually a Clemson alumni, and she's
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  Speaker 2: like she's a big fan, Like they come to all
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: the games and yeah, she's a part of it ta actually,
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  Speaker 2: and so I actually was. I actually came to like
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: a few games, football games, just being around her, and
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: so yeah, it was just like a full suck girl's
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  Speaker 2: full circle moment for me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome. How has the Clemson community kind of
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  Speaker 1: treated you so far? Like what if you notice, like
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: did people come up to you and be like, oh
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: my gosh.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: More, Oh yeah, for sure, Like if I go downtown
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: and I'm just shopping or eating somewhere, They'll be like, oh,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: great season, Like I can't wait to come back next year.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: And so that's just like, I don't know, it kind
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: of just warms my heart because like everywhere else I've been,
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: I've never really experienced that, and so it's just really
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: cool to see, like Clemson community is definitely like for
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: the college itself, like and so when people hear of Clemson,
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: they're like, well, there's not really anything to do around there,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, well that's the point. Like it's a
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: college town. But you're going to be loved and you're
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: going to be welcome with open arms, and everybody's going
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: to just love you and support you and root for you.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: And I feel like you can't really fail here, like
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: everybody's going to make sure that you succeed, right for sure.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: What's it like playing in Little John? I know we
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: kind of talked about the environment. Just how like crazy
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: it as fans wise, what I feel.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Like, Yeah, it gets crazy for sure. I feel like
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: our Sunday games are the most people will come. Thursdays
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: are kind of shallow, but we're hoping to get more
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: next year. But yeah, Sunday is the day that we
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: really look forward to, especially if we have a home
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: game obviously, but yeah, it's wild in there. They definitely
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: go at it like if there's a bad call, they're
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: going to make sure that the ref knows about it
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: for sure. And we love when we get like the
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: student section filled up, like that's something that I feel like.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: It was the South Carolina game that was like an
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: unbelievable game that, like, I feel like every student was there,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: and so I hope that we get a little bit
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: more students next year. But when they're there, it's definitely
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: up and jumping, I know for the men's games, Like
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: I just like to go to the men's games because
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: of like the fans and we're able to engage with
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: them and just but yeah, so hopefully we get more
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: fans next year, but this year was definitely want to remember.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like it's like coming to Clemson, it's
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: like nothing you've ever experienced before. Like it's a whole
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: new world. Like everyone is so supportive of you, like
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: they know your name. It feels like such like a family.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: So that's awesome that you've got to experience that in
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: just your first year being here. Like, that's so cool.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: I've noticed you guys had like a lot of different,
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: like cool new jerseys.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Like what's your favorite? My favorite is probably the highlighter orange.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Highlighter orange.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that one. Honestly. I feel like it
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: like goes really well with my skin tone. We actually
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: they actually just dropped a like a hype video of
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: like We're staying at Clemson video of me Hannah Raven
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: and I had the highlighted jersey on. That's fine. I
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: saw that. That was really cool. Did you wear that
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: this season once? Okay, because we can never find like
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: an undershirt to match the the color. Yeah, but I
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: will literally wear that jersey every time.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: You guys had like a throwback jersey, right, is that.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: What you're I think that's the one. Oh it is?
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah with like the cursive Clemson.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah that's the one.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's your favorite.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: That's cool to celebrate fifty years women's sports that comes in.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, I had no idea. That is so cool. Wait,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: how is the like culture on your team, Like you
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: came to a new school, new girls, Like, what's that like?
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: I feel like last year was it was a little hard.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: I mean just because we literally had like everybody was
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: new except for four people maybe wow, yeah, whole new team,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: like coming from literally mid major power for like everywhere.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: You can think of some people knowing only one year. Yeah,
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: I'm sure that would be hard to just ye, you're
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: at a place.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're literally starting over again. So I feel like
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: it's I mean, it's kind of hard to build those
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: relationships just because you're you're just I don't know, you're
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: just coming from different places. So it's hard to like
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: get rid of those old habits that you had. And
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: I don't know it, it was kind of rocket this year,
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: just like trying to build the chemistry. And I feel
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: like that's why we kind of came up short this
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: year in a lot of games, just because we couldn't
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: really fall back on like our true sisterhood, just because
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: I mean it's hard to like really build that bond
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: in a year and so less than a year, the.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Summer semester you start playing.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I mean we made it through, though, I
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: feel like we still were able to build a slightly
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: good one. Yeah, but I mean I feel like this
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: year will be a little better, just because we have
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: a lot of people who will be sticking around for
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: a long period of time. But yeah, and we had
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: a lot of seniors, so it was I mean, when
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: you know that you're about to leave, it's kind of
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: just like, well, i mean I'm never going to see
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: them again, so it's like it's hard to like.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: That's what the toughness like about like college sports, Like
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: so many people are like coming and going like whe
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: they like it's a transfer portal or.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Like especially with yeah yeah.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that's unusually your seniors, no, yeah, making kind
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: of guide the freshman.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: But yeah, so it was literally like the seniors didn't
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: know what so, like the only three people that really
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: kind of had a feel was Raven, ag and Hannah
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: just because they came from Chanttanooga with Coach Poppy. But yeah,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: that was pretty much that was pretty much it. So yeah,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: it was just kind of hard because we didn't really
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: have that true leader who could really like just guide
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: us and really knew like what was wanted.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, speaking of leadership, you're a part of Power
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: this year as well. Can you talk to us a
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: little bit about that and what that entails and that experience.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: So when I got the email, well, coach Bobby I think,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: mentioned it to me that Tory wanted me to be
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: a part of.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: No.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: He was just saying like it would be a good opportunity,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: and so I was like, okay, yeah, like I'll sign
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: up for it, and I did my little interview.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: How was the interview process? We didn't have to do
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: that for my cohort, so I'm wondering, what's that like.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Well, we just had to answer a few questions about
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: ourselves and what we wanted to get out of Power,
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: And for me, it was just really like I want
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: to be able to give back to younger kids. I
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: want them to be able to look up to me,
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: and I want them to be able to know that
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: like you can be you without having to do the
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: extra and really just going based off the youth, Like
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: I want to be able to make a difference in
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: the world, whether that's whether that's playing basketball or just
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: being an advocate for like younger kids to like just
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: be like look up to. Yeah, I don't know, yeah, yeah,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: I just want to be a role model to younger kids.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: And that was really just what I kind of talked about,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: and that just answering my questions. But power has been
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: really great. I've been able to get out of my
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: shell because I'm not really a talker, and so yeah, yeah,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: so yeah, so Powers, it's been It's been great. We've
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: been able, I've been able to meet a lot of
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: great people, obviously Tori and and so yeah, it's been great.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: I've been able to learn about myself in different ways
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: that I didn't really I kind of like shied away
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: from just because you don't want to like get into
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: like yeah, you're we talk about like our weaknesses and
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: our strengths, and I feel like we always kind of
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: shy away from like what we're good at, and we're
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: always we're always like, oh, well I'm not good at this,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: but we never gave ourself praise about like what we
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: can really do and what we're capable of. And so yeah,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: I feel like power is just really trying to get
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: you to be confident within yourself, and it's just putting
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: you in those environments where you can really be great.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: And so we're going on our power trip soon. Can't
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: wait for that, and so we'll really be able to
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: connect with like a few different companies and we were
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: able to do like our our Norsetrum Yep. We're gonna
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: go to North Stroum yep. Okay, Yeah, we're gonna go
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: to North Strum and they're gonna like pick out a
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: couple of fashion things for us. And we were able
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: to like go on Pinterest and pick out like our
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: kind of style and so they're gonna help us with that.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: I know I need help with that because I'll literally
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: just get up and go into what's anywhere. So yeah,
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: that's gonna I can't wait for that. Yeah, I can't.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: I was able to actually go to the Power Power
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Summer last year in the summer. Yeah, over the summer,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: and y'all did a great job.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: And wait it was it was my teammate Trinity.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: She was, oh, so you weren't You weren't in it
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: last year too, and I'm old, Okay, yeah, go in
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: to my years. Two years ago. I was able to go.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I went to Chicago. That was so much fun.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, but Yeah, I was able to go to
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: the Power sum My last year and it was nothing
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: but great, And so once I got that in fight,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, I definitely want to be a
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: part of something bigger than me.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: That's so fun, especially like like once you get into
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: like the real world and you know how to dress
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: to go to an interview or go to your job
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: every day, Like that's something I feel like we take
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: for granted as like student athletes, because like we don't
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: have to do that every day, but like we need
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: to be prepared.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm definitely grateful for powers. Definitely gotten me
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: out of my comfort zone.
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: So I do you have to tell the MIAs it
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: can't be partners for everything. I got to separate together,
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: so I'm always like, find someone that's not your teammate MIAs, Yeah,
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: nod summer. Yeah, And I think the North Stream thing
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: that's been a fun element too, because especially as female athletes,
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: like standard sizing of clothes just doesn't work a lot.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Of the shoulders are too broad or the egs.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I have literally every single size of
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: clothing in my closet, So it's different than maybe being
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: able to wear polos in a slack so at D
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: and we want to you know, whatever, you want to
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: go into professional whyse So maybe you keep thinking about that.
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: But you know, like your coaches can wear sweats every
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: day to the gym. I can't wear sweats every day
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: to my job. But also if your coaches showed up
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: in business casual, that would also be awkward. So just
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: thinking of the clothing that you want to wear in
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: your job and finding clothes that make you look good,
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: feel good?
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Sure, really good good.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Is there somebody that sorry, So there's somebody that like
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: inspires you, you know to talk about power, power, wanting
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: to inspire others.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Is there someone that inspires you? Probably my aunt. She
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: had breast cancer and she got really close to God,
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: and she's the one that really can me because my
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: college journey has been like roller coasters, and she's the
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: one that really kind of like kept me grounded and
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: just made me keep my faith and just kept telling
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: me that like everything's already worked out, like God has
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: a plan for you and you're gonna be fine. Like
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: she's the one that really just kept me at a
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: smooth state. And so I really appreciate her, Like she's
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: just someone that I know I can always go back
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: to and she'll always tell me the right things. And
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: so yeah, that's one person that's just really motivating and
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: just knows how to like just calmed me and just
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: lets me know, just lets me know that everything is okay.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: And I mean along with my mom, but definitely my aunt. Yeah,
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: she's definitely the one that kept me going and like
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: throughout the COVID times, like that was crazy, Like I
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: had to miss my aau Sson my last season of
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: A you Wow, And yeah, so I just had to
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: keep my face there too because like after that, like
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: my Mississippi one of my Mississippi State coaches got fired
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: and that was the one that I was really close with,
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: and so yeah, I just my I was Yeah, that
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: was a kind of a bad time, but she was
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: the one that really got me out of it. And yeah,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: she's just the one that our family always goes to
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: when we need like that one word, she's there. That's awesome,
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: that's good support.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Did you have any like favorite basketball players growing up
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: or like you know someone you think you could take
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: one view on right now, like what's that look like?
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Growing up? I love Golden State, like I love Klay
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Thomas and Steph Curry. Those are right, Well, Steph Curry
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: was definitely my favorite basketball player.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Your favorite team, Oh.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: I don't really, I don't really have a favorite NBA team,
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: but definitely when I was in high school, in middle school,
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: like Golden State, was Michael to team for sure, just because,
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: like Stephkirk, he can dribble, he can shoot, he can
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: get to the basket, he can do he can literally
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: do everything. Unreal. Yeah, he's unreal for sure. But I mean,
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: of course I like Lebron of course, Michael Jordan. That's
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: a take back. But yeah, I would.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Say Static Johnson too.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like, I mean, Magic Johnson is not really
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: like he's just gonna he's a post player.
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: The joke is that I confused the too Michael Jordan,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: and it was very embarrassing.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: So now, especially since she was in the picture with.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, so I thought I had a picture
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: of Michael Jordan, me and Michael.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: You also were telling the story when you were at
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: U n C. Yeah, U n C, Michael Jordan.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Okay, make it worse story getting the detail.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Wait wait wait wait wait, so wait did you go
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: to UNC?
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: No, I was at UNC was at UNC for a
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: competition and I saw the Jordan sign everywhere and I
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, I have a picture with the guy,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: like I'm cooler than all of you guys. Actually showed
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: the picture to my teammates. It was Magic Johnson.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, which is still a really cool picture. Yeah.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Are at least you got the initials right right? Yeah?
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Yea m J and MJ.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: That's what I was trying to say. Okay, but that
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: was really nice of me. Yeah, yeah, that's funny though.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: That's a funny story. Do you have like a favorite
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: basketball shoe?
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you like to wear? I like the
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: subrides now, like they're really likely. That kind of reminds
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: me of like the Kobe's. But I'm all about supporting women, So.
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: I think her shoe was the second most worn in
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: the NBA this season. Yeah, it just came out, which
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: I love that it was a woman, female athlete her
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: shoe and the NBA.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Oh wow much, that's crazy.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: We wore them this season too. Real the Sabrinas, Oh wow,
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: wait what color did you have? Just the white one?
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: The oneah? Okay yeah cool?
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they were super like I feel like for basketball too.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: Sometimes it's hard to find ones that are like good
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: for volleyball because like sometimes we like.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: We'll wear basketball shoes. So that was cool. It was
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: kind of like a good mix volley shoes.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: They do just sometimes like I don't know the different
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: styles you want. Sometimes you want like a high top
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: shoe or like the low low ones. So you like
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: low top, I like a like a middle, like a
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: mid yeah yeah, but yeah, is.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: There like like basketball drip like between the like different shoes,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Like I don't know, do you know what I mean?
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like I'm pretty calm when it comes
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: to basketball drip.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: I just like to match, gotcha.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't like to do like the orange with
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: the pink shoes with the I mean I actually do
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: have a picture of me in orange. No, Yeah, so
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: like if I wear pink shoes, it will probably have
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: to be with the white uniform.
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: Got Yeah, that's Cary shoes that people wear out there. Yeah,
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: I'm just cool expressing you're creative.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm pretty mellow when it comes to that.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: What has Nil been treating you like this year? It's
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: coming to Clemson. We heard you did a deal with
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Nerds Clusters.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did. That was definitely. I love Nerds, so
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: that was like, oh my gosh, yes, like I can't wait. Yeah,
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: and so they sent me like I don't even know,
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: maybe like twenty bags of Nerds, Yeah, Nerd clusters and
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: like it was different flavors and everything.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: How many bags you have left?
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: None?
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Once everybody knew that they sent me stuff
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: there like can I please have a bag because they're
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: kind of expensive in the stores, the big bag and
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: so yeah, I was giving them out to my teammates
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: and some of my coaches and so yeah, that was
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: a cool experience, just like a little hype video kind
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: of like dribbling the ball, going between the legs, shooting
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: the ball and one shot I had to like eat
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: it and yeah that was That was pretty much it.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: But yeah, that was really cool experience. But yeah, that's
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: like the main deal that I've had so far. I've
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: had like little ones I don't know, if you know,
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: of like the app post game.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm just kind of doing uh stuff like that,
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: but no big deals yet. Hopefully they're there, they'll come.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, being at Clemson, they're definitely like trying to
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: help us with that.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: So what's your like dream and il deal brands?
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: If you're listening, that's not probably Nike or Lulu Liman. Yeah, yeah,
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: I love I love me some Lula limits. The material
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: is like to die for. How do you feel like
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: yours for you too as well?
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: But how have you focused on your brand or built
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: your brand as you have been through college knowing that
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: nil is an opportunity, have you like more so focused
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: on your individual brands?
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: I'll say that I have. I'm not really like a
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: social media person, so I try to post more than
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: I would just like whether that's not like always trying
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: to post basketball stuff, like just trying to post like
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: who I am as a person and just kind of
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: get into my style. I know, I kind of have
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: to do better better, you know, I need to go
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: get a camera or something. So it's not just like
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: the iPhone pictures. But yeah, I kind of want to
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: start showing people my fashion. Yeah, but I feel like
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: brands are like wanting to know that you're an athlete
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: and wanting to know, like see those videos of you
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: playing basketball. So that's really what my brand is right now,
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: just kind of basketball. But I'm hoping that I can
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: show like another side of me. Yeah, for sure, the whole. Yeah.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's kind of interesting that you mentioned like talking
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: about like who you are more than an athlete, because
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: first of all, that's what this podcast is for too.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: But also we had Jackson Olsen from The Savannah Bananas
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: on the podcast recently and he was talkingking about how
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: he built his brand and he has like one point
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: eight followers on milik Talk, one point eight million.
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: One followerry eight million, oh sorry, one point eight million
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: followers on TikTok, and then like seven hundred k on Instagram,
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: and he was talking about how important it is.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: To like show people who you are because then they'll
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: be more invested into you as a person rather than
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: like what you do. Yeah, like he is on the
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Bananas and like that's super cool, but they want to
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: know like who he has, who he is as a person,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: So that's like, yeah, it is a balance. Yeah for me,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Like my brand, I don't know, I usually post like
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: more personality videos like on TikTok. I know, like they
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: show up sometimes on.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Toys they do, and I always laugh, I think you
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: do a great job.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: They always uh yeah, And I love posting there because
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: it's like so fun, Like you can make videos with
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: your teammates, like you can do pranks and like do
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: fun like transitions and they have funny sounds. Like it
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: feels like very natural to me to to do that
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: on TikTok And then I try, like I have a
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: hard time trying kind of translating that onto Instagram because
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: like I don't know why. I feel like because my
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: my family, like my grandma follows me on Instagram and like,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: you know, like I don't know, but TikTok has been
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: easier to gain a following too, because you get way
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: more views on you, like very very quick, and then
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: just like posting like funny gymnastics fails or like stuff
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: with my teammates, people usually like to see that. I guess,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: but I need to do better with the like posting
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: on Instagram though more often, especially because the more often
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: you post, the more engagement that you do get. So yeah, yes,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: I want.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: To get better at posting on TikTok for sure. I
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: just don't ever know like what to do with the triends.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, follow me, I'll send you sound okay.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's also like a certain time you have to post. Yeah,
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: like I don't know.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: One time I saw this like list of like okay mondays,
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: you have to post this time, Tuesdays, you have to
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: post this time, and I was like, I would have
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: never thought that, Like it goes like that deep into.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: It data analytics.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, literally, that's crazy.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say for me personally, like my brand,
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: I would say similar to both of y'all like kind
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: of just like getting into it, and especially with like TikTok,
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: that's like probably the easiest way if I feel too,
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: just like posting videos, but I feel like I like
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: lean towards more funny videos because that's like what I
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: like to watch, just like getting a laugh out of it.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: And I like laugh at myself a lot too, like
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: whether it's like volleyball like mistakes or whatever it is.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: I think those are hilarious.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: So I think just like, yeah, going back to being
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: you and showcasing who you are and your story, I
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: think that's like the biggest thing of like promoting your
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: brand because at the end of the day, like post
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: what you want and post who you are, so and.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: I feel like fans will like want to watch you
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: more if they know what your personality is like too,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: and they'll be more interested in like what you do,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: like on the court court or like on the mat
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: because they know you as a person, Like I know
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: when like I know someone like it makes it more
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: fun going to their games and stuff like that. Like
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: it's like, oh, I'll go to like a volleyball match,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: and like if I didn't know like mea or some
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: our teammates, I'd be like huh, like okay, like this
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: is cool. But like if I know me, I'm like,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, Meta is going to talk about that later,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: like something like that. Like I feel like that just
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: makes this so much more interesting for people to come
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: and watch. So with the nil world blossoming and women's
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: sports blossoming, I feel like this is the perfect opportunity
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: as like women and sports didn't capitalize on it, so
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: that's awesome.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: Do you have like a favorite influencer hm or someone
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: you follow on social media?
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Hmm?
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: What about your favorite college basketball player hmm? Women's college
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: basketball players?
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: Okay, Oh that's a good one. Probably probably Aziah James.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: Do y'all know who that is? She's from NC State,
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: do you? Okay? Yeah? I like her and Snaya Rivers
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: actually because they're actually really good at like just like
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: showing who they really are on Instagram and TikTok and
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: so yeah, definitely them. They're on inc State and they're
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: just always like showing off and dancing and just they're
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: always like good vibes and they're really good people like
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: on and off the court, and so yeah, they I
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: kind of I actually look up to them because they're
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: really good at just like showing who they are and
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: they have like a good balance on like their Instagram
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: just showing who they are and who they are on
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: the court. Yeah, and so like they have that dog mentality.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: But then like when they posted TikTok, it's like, oh,
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: like they're kind of funny actually, So yeah, I would
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: say those two for sure. Or they're definitely people that
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: I would try to be like, just like social media
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: wise and just how they carry theirselves.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: That kind of reminds you of like kk Arnold and
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: paid in their relationship.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: And yeah, they post on social media. That's a good one.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: That's a good one too, because.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: I don't care about like Yukon at all, but because
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: they post and they show their personality, I'm.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Like, oh my gosh, I'm gonna.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Go watch one of their games I want to meet,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: you know, like.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: Stuff like that. But I think that's what draws people in.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: Like I know, I'll catch myself watching videos like why
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: am I watching this?
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: But yeah, other people like, oh I do that too,
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: or I can relate to that or that was funny.
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: I think that's what's cool about social media is that
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: anybody can kind of do it if they want to
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: do it in their own way. It doesn't have to
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: be for everybody, but it's probably for somebody. But I
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: think that's also why you can just get stuck scrolling.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think people.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: Forget too, just like how normal athletes are and like yes,
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: like they give you so famous or like have so
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: many followers, but like they're just like any other per
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: and like that's what kind of makes it so cool.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: It's like, you know, like everyone has their own unique
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: story and their own thing, but at the end of
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: the day, like we're all we're all human.
• 42:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what's something you want to be like remembered for,
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: like after your time here at Clemson, Like what do
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: people what do you want people to remember about you?
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: M M. Probably just probably being that Clemson woman's basketball
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: player that is not just an athlete, but also a
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: student who can still get her work done and still
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: get good grades and still just have a impact on
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: the Clemson community. Like I just I don't want to
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: be just known as me and more of the basketball player.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: Like I want to actually just leave a legacy of
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: like who I was as a person and how I
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: impacted other people and just like I said before, just
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: impacting the younger generations to just be them and know
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: that they can do a lot of good things in
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: this world. For sure.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: Well, you guys are just coming off your season and
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: heading into the off season, what are you most looking
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: forward to?
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so, yeah, I definitely want to go to the beach.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: But after that, I'm definitely gonna get in the gym
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: and just start working on the things that I know
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: I need to work on, so I don't like make
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: those same mistakes again that I did this season. But
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: I'm just excited to meet my future teammates and build
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: that bond and just like the true relationship aspect of
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: it and just really just build a sisterhood so we
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: can really like just be close knit and be on
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: the same page on the court. And so yeah, I'm
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: excited to start hanging out with them, and I can't
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: wait to get back in the gym. We start June
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: the week of June twentieth, so yeah, I can't wait
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: to get things going with them, and yeah, it's gonna
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: definitely be a good season this year. Exciting.
• 44:13
  Speaker 5: Summer is always I remember even when I played, the
• 44:16
  Speaker 5: summer was what you look forward to. And there's just
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: something special about campus is empty. It's just the athletes
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: that are around, and you have open gym or you know,
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: you're in some version of two a day, so that's
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: lifting in the morning, and then you come back and
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: open gym and just how fun it was to just
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: play basketball but you're still getting better and then you're
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: hanging out or you're going to the pool on your
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: off day, and there's just a lot of good memories
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: that are built when you can be with your team
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: and you're really just playing. You're doing the training and
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: the workouts too. But the open gyms are what I
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: miss of just being able to get out there and
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: play and have fun and you know, have a little
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: some chippy moments and getting intense. But then that's the
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: fun stuff too that you joke about afterwards.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I feel like last summer I didn't really
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: like take advantage of just like actually having fun outside
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: of basketball. I feel like it was just work, work, work, work, work,
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: because I was everybody was basically new. But I feel
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: like I'm going to try and like just make it
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: clear that we can still have fun because I feel
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: like that's kind of where we what we were missing
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: last year, Like we weren't really having fun. I keep
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: saying last year, but it was literally like a couple
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: months ago. But yeah, I just want to make sure
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: that my teammates know that we can have fun and
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: still play basketball at the same time.
• 45:29
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: I feel like building that culture like off the court
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: is going to transfer to your games like so easily.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure. Definitely.
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: Just like a balance of different things too, Like sometimes
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: it gets like monotonous and like tough, like when you're
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: just working all the time, but like fixing in some
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: you know, other fun things too, like.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: Really helps just like build each other up.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah sure, So mio, do you have any other hobbies
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: besides basketball, besides school? What do you like to do
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: in your free time.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: To build legos? Really? Okay, really right now I'm actually
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: building the It's a pandemicgo and then I've built a
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: tiger built Stitch from Leelo and Stitch. Oh my god,
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: that's her favorite movie. And then really live action soon right, yeah,
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: what is it? Do you know when it's supposed to? No,
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: I don't, okay, I used to watch the show.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: I've never seen the Lelo and Stitch movie, like Lelo Stitch.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: Leelo and Stitch was a show, right.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: It's a movie. I don't know. I just thought it
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: was a movie.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no no, it's a show too. Like
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: it came on Nickelodeon too, and then they came out
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: with a movie and now new movies coming.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, the movie is like really old.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, okay, I must be confused. Continue about Oh okay, yeah,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: I did the Stitch one.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: I've done a couple of flowers, and I'm about to
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: do like it's the love one that spells out love,
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: but that's gonna take forever.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I feel like I've seen like some of
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: the people, some of these like legos that like they're small,
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: and I feel like that's so tedious. How long does
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: like one take you?
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: I don't do it in one sitting. I just have
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: to do it like day by day by day whenever
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: I get the chance, like whenever i'm bored, and so
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: like right now I'm pretty bored because I'm not really
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: playing basketball or anything. So I've been doing those a
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: lot and so yeah, but they they're pretty timely, so yeah,
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: but yeah, it keeps me occupied when I have nothing
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: to do. So yeah, what else? I have? My dog Tia,
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: like hang out with her. She's a Yorkie. Yeah, she's
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: like six pounds. She's a little small one, but she
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: keeps me entertained and just being around friends and family
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: and just hanging out with them. Yeah. I need to
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: find more hobbies though, like just to see what.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: We've got a whole way too.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: I know, like I want to try and get on
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: the lake more for sure, and just like go paddleboarding
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: or something like that.
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: It's hard when people are like, what are your hobbies
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: and I'm like, oh, sleep, sleep, TikTok.
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, TikTok. For sure. I can scroll on there
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: for hours and hours. Yeah, I had to put a
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: time limit on my phone.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: What that were you scared when it was about to
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: be Oh?
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was like please no, like when it when
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: it was gone. I literally was just on Instagram reels
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: didn't even.
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: Feel the same, and they're like, it's such a different vibe,
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: and I was like, I don't think I can do this.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: I really didn't think.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: But then it came back literally the same day, literally.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: Like ok no, but for that few hours, my life
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: was dreadful. Okay, Okay, that's an over dramatization. But I
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: have a wonderful life without. I don't need TikTok, but
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sure do. Yeah, that's a good one.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: Okay, Mia, where can people follow you on social media?
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: So Instagram, CBG Dot, Mia More, m I A M
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: O r E, Twitter, Mia V Moore twenty eight and TikTok.
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: I don't remember because I don't know. We will find it.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: We will find it. Yeah, okay, yeah I don't. I
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: think it's get the followers on TikTok. Okay, TikTok is underscore,
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: Mia dot More underscore. That's awesome. Well, thank you so
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: much for coming. Yeah thanks, also, thank you guys for
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: having me. I had fun. This is my first podcast,
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: So did you did so good? You guys got me
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: out of my comfort zone today. Hey, there we go.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: That's what we're here for