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UConn WBB FF Presser · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Jen Hatfield with the next Kaitlin for you, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just what do you think the biggest areas are that
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  Speaker 1: you've grown as a player during your season with Yukon
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  Speaker 1: And how do you feel like Princeton prepared you for
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  Speaker 1: all that you've gone through this season and for this moment.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like Princeton has prepared me really well as
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  Speaker 2: a leader. I feel like that's where I got comfortable
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  Speaker 2: using my voice, and I feel like that's sort of
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  Speaker 2: translated over here and then being here at Yukonage just
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  Speaker 2: a matter of getting comfortable playing within our system and
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  Speaker 2: finding the best places for me to succeed.
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  Speaker 3: We won't go to our left coach Tredy from SB
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  Speaker 3: Nation this for you page right now. You're on a
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  Speaker 3: tear like you're going wild right now in your mind.
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  Speaker 3: Do you already feel like you're a pro going against
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  Speaker 3: college kids?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 5: No, not at all. Just being present here. I'm still
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  Speaker 5: in college and being my fifth year. Obviously, I want
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  Speaker 5: to use my experience as an advantage and use that
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  Speaker 5: to help myself and to help the team. But definitely
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  Speaker 5: not just staying in president here in college.
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  Speaker 6: We're going to stay too, all right, Kareem if you
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  Speaker 6: can raise your hand. I see you will put you
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  Speaker 6: on a list.
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  Speaker 7: Hey pitched Kareem Copland, Washington Post.
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  Speaker 8: How did you you know?
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  Speaker 7: Obviously the championship is the goal, but how did you
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  Speaker 7: kind of want to approach this one more run in
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  Speaker 7: this tournament? And you know, like you've just said, you know,
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  Speaker 7: you've kind of really turned it up these last three.
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  Speaker 7: So personally, how did you want to approach this tournament?
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  Speaker 5: Just approaching it as one game at a time, one
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  Speaker 5: practice at a time, one weight room session at a time,
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  Speaker 5: and not looking too forward into the future, and going
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  Speaker 5: forty minutes by forty minutes and playing it by possession.
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  Speaker 5: I think focusing on the possession that you're in will
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  Speaker 5: help you not worry about mishots or mistakes in the past,
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  Speaker 5: or worry about being anxious for the future. But the
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  Speaker 5: possession that you're in is the most important possession of
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  Speaker 5: the season, and if you approach every possession like that,
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  Speaker 5: you'll have a sense of urgency to get everything right
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  Speaker 5: and just enjoying it, embracing it. Obviously, it's it's my
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  Speaker 5: last year, it's all of our last years here, so
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  Speaker 5: just to be able to enjoy being here together and
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  Speaker 5: enjoy the little things like hanging out, sonaing together, cold
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  Speaker 5: tubbing together, eating together, like all the little things that
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  Speaker 5: you sometimes take for granted. Don't take them for granted
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  Speaker 5: and just enjoy them as much as you can.
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  Speaker 6: We'll stay to our right.
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  Speaker 9: Please, je Doug Farrenberg, the Associated Press for all three
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  Speaker 9: of you. What challenges does you silly present for you guys?
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  Speaker 5: Sorry?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, please?
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  Speaker 5: Obviously, Lauren Betts decide what she does offensively defensively protecting
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  Speaker 5: the paint and being a force on offense, really carving
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  Speaker 5: out space for herself, but also what she does to
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  Speaker 5: get her teammates open looks with all the attention that
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  Speaker 5: she draws, and it's not just her. There's shooters sprayed
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  Speaker 5: around the outside, so you can't focus on too much
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  Speaker 5: on one thing.
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  Speaker 6: So they're really versatile.
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  Speaker 5: And what they do offensively defensively got good size, good length,
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  Speaker 5: so they got great pieces.
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  Speaker 10: I agree they have great pieces, especially Lauren Betts and
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  Speaker 10: the inside. And I think if we do a good
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  Speaker 10: job of just well, we we gotta like play both
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  Speaker 10: and play their inside and outside. They have some great
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  Speaker 10: shooters too, so I think they're very riskative.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, everything, the two of them already said.
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  Speaker 6: We're going to the center of.
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  Speaker 11: The room high Paige Kirk Sandoval from maybe C seven
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  Speaker 11: when you stepped into this program, it's a legendary women's program.
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  Speaker 11: Can you speak to a the pressure then, and did
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  Speaker 11: it ever diminish, how did it become or has it
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  Speaker 11: ever become just normal?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think before you even get here, you kind
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  Speaker 5: of know the pressures that exist by committing to Yukon,
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  Speaker 5: So by making that decision to want to come here
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  Speaker 5: and try to live up to that and be a
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  Speaker 5: part of a legendary program. It's a decision you have
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  Speaker 5: to make before you even step on a campus. And
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  Speaker 5: then once you walk inside the practice facility, you see
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  Speaker 5: all the history, all the names, all the banners.
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  Speaker 6: It's just motivation.
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  Speaker 5: And obviously there's expectations here and anything less than a
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  Speaker 5: national championship is really a disappointment. And as players, that's
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  Speaker 5: what you play for and what you want to live
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  Speaker 5: up to, and the expectations and the pressure. It's a privilege,
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  Speaker 5: and so we all look at it, look at it
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  Speaker 5: as such, and we're just extremely grateful to play here
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  Speaker 5: under the best coaching staff in the world, in the
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  Speaker 5: best program in the world. And we just wear the
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  Speaker 5: jersey with pride and want to live up to everything
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  Speaker 5: that the alums have done and that the coaching staff
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  Speaker 5: is done.
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  Speaker 6: Take our next question, Cassandra, then we'll come to mil.
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  Speaker 12: Cassandra Neglie with Yahoo Sports page. When you were talking
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  Speaker 12: about not taking anything for granted, the saunas, the food,
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  Speaker 12: everything like that, how different is that from your first
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  Speaker 12: Final four? Do you feel like you did take those
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  Speaker 12: final moments with some of those teammates for granted.
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  Speaker 5: I wouldn't say that, it's just that you don't even
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  Speaker 5: recognize how important they are to life and how you're
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  Speaker 5: not ever guaranteed to get back there again, and having
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  Speaker 5: experience being at the Final four, how hard it is
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  Speaker 5: to get there and how hard it is to maintain
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  Speaker 5: consistency throughout a long, entire season. So not that you
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  Speaker 5: take those things for granted, but you don't have the
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  Speaker 5: experience on how hard it is to get there, and
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  Speaker 5: so just learning throughout the whole journey of the of
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  Speaker 5: the seasons, the ups and downs, the ebbs and flows,
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  Speaker 5: just taking none of that for granted because it's all
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  Speaker 5: a part of that season's journey. So I would just
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  Speaker 5: say I'm more appreciation of it.
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  Speaker 4: Mil Mel Greenberg for Caitlin. When most people are transferring
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  Speaker 4: out the door right now, it's contentious. The IVYS is
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  Speaker 4: the other way they tell you you're done.
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  Speaker 13: Good luck.
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  Speaker 4: So it's going to be a more friendly departure given
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  Speaker 4: who your coach is. And also we found it interesting
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  Speaker 4: the other night that you did the same role that
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  Speaker 4: she did in ninety five. It's sort of a lifesaver
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  Speaker 4: and a key spot. But in leaving did she kind
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  Speaker 4: of granted he's an older guy. Now give you the
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  Speaker 4: Book of Yukon or whatever you know, whatever you can
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  Speaker 4: share on that When you were making your decision, she.
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  Speaker 2: Was definitely a very helpful resource as someone who played
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  Speaker 2: here and knows the coaches very well. But I just
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  Speaker 2: know that she is my best or she had my
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  Speaker 2: best interests in mind, and I shoose someone who I
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  Speaker 2: trust tremendously and someone who helped me make this decision.
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  Speaker 5: For sure.
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  Speaker 6: Going to go to our left in the gray BU
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  Speaker 6: could raise your hand in the YEP Dead Center.
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  Speaker 8: I'm Mike Anthony from Herston, Connecticut for Paige Page. I
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  Speaker 8: know that this sport is an easy on one's body,
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  Speaker 8: and you are five years at Yukon, what have you
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  Speaker 8: learned about taking care of your body? Wondering if you
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  Speaker 8: could just speak to how any body transformation you've seen
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  Speaker 8: in five years. I know you take more seriously strength
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  Speaker 8: and contraditioning and nutrition and just a lot goes into
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  Speaker 8: that I understand.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say the importance of eating, getting all
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  Speaker 5: three meals, of course, but also stuff in between, sleeping
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  Speaker 5: how important that is for the body, and rest and
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  Speaker 5: recovery and making sure you're replenishing yourself with a good,
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  Speaker 5: nice rest. Pilates has been a game changer for me
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  Speaker 5: in terms of getting all of my body parts to
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  Speaker 5: work together as one. Everything surrounded by the core, so
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  Speaker 5: making sure my core is engaged, and even just activation.
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  Speaker 5: I was a person who just loved to tie their
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  Speaker 5: shoes and get on the core and play, but activating
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  Speaker 5: my muscles before participation. So I mean a lot of
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  Speaker 5: things going to taking care of your body, and obviously
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  Speaker 5: strength and conditioning is one is the main ingredient, but
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  Speaker 5: there's a lot of other things that are important.
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  Speaker 6: Going to stay middle to the back. If you could
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  Speaker 6: raise your hand in the green so the student athletes can.
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  Speaker 14: See you.
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  Speaker 15: Domin Marie Hartford, current Pegia Gino alluded to this the
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  Speaker 15: other day. Obviously, Lauren Betts has talked about it, the
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  Speaker 15: scrutiny and the pressure that comes with what you do
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  Speaker 15: and where you do it. How did you learn to
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  Speaker 15: kind of deal with that? I imagine there were times when
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  Speaker 15: it was even more than you thought it was going
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  Speaker 15: to be. How did you learn to handle all of
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  Speaker 15: that that goes around being a basketball player at Yukon?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I means still a learning process, learning to care
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  Speaker 5: less about the opinions of others and trying to please everyone.
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  Speaker 5: For every five hundred people that love you, there's gonna
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  Speaker 5: be five that hate you. So it's just focusing on
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  Speaker 5: the people that are important. And obviously there's a saying
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  Speaker 5: like you don't take criticism from people you can take
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  Speaker 5: advice from, So just making sure you're listening to the
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  Speaker 5: right voices. Deleting social media is a great word of
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  Speaker 5: advice as well, so just not paying attention to it,
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  Speaker 5: not letting anything outside of this locker room, the program
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  Speaker 5: that we have infiltrate what we have, so.
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  Speaker 6: Well, stay So I left in the blue. If you
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  Speaker 6: can raise your hands so we can get the microphone.
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  Speaker 16: Tea Chelsea shrod S and y Aubrey and Caitlin dis
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  Speaker 16: questions for you. Paige has talked about a sense of
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  Speaker 16: urgency that she's playing with right now, and I think
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  Speaker 16: we've been seeing that over the past few games. I
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  Speaker 16: wonder what that urgency looks like for the two of
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  Speaker 16: you and kind of how that shows up in your
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  Speaker 16: approach to the games.
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  Speaker 6: We can start with Orber.
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  Speaker 10: I think her sense of urgency rubs off on everyone.
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  Speaker 10: Just how hard working she is and you can tell
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  Speaker 10: she's really determined and the traits that she brings to
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  Speaker 10: the games. It rubs off on everyone. Her leadership is
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  Speaker 10: something that we all look up to her for and
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  Speaker 10: she's done a great job of just being that leader
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  Speaker 10: this year and it's overall been great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I feel like when we see her sort
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  Speaker 2: of take it into like that next level, like turn
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  Speaker 2: the switch during games, it's pretty infectious, like it's something
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  Speaker 2: you want to be a part of, and you see
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  Speaker 2: her giving her all into like you want to give
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  Speaker 2: her all as well.
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  Speaker 6: We are at time for our student athletes. At this time,
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  Speaker 6: student athletes will move over to the mixed zone. The
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  Speaker 6: locker room for Yukon is now open and we will
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  Speaker 6: be joined on the daist by a coach.
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  Speaker 17: Thank you, thank you, welcome coach.
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  Speaker 6: All right, coach, we are going to begin on our
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  Speaker 6: right hand side. Joe will go to you. I see you, Doug,
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  Speaker 6: and I see you as.
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  Speaker 14: Well, Joe Gino Joey Johnston from the Tampa Bayed Sports Commission.
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  Speaker 14: Your friend Jose Fernandez is about to become the president.
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  Speaker 13: Of the WBCA.
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  Speaker 14: Could you speak about your relationship with him, what you
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  Speaker 14: think he can bring to this role, and what you
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  Speaker 14: think the WBCA's priorities are for the coming year.
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  Speaker 18: Well, yeah, I've known Jose for thirty years now almost,
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  Speaker 18: and I think he's a tremendous coach obviously as everybody knows,
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  Speaker 18: but he cares deeply about the game itself. He's been
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  Speaker 18: involved in various committees. Uh, you know, so he puts
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  Speaker 18: the time and and and the effort that it takes.
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  Speaker 18: I was in that role and so I know it's
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  Speaker 18: it's a thankless role because you're trying to bring a
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  Speaker 18: lot of different agendas to the table and try to
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  Speaker 18: make them all go in the same direction.
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  Speaker 13: Not always easy.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 18: Hopefully he can get the right people in the room too.
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  Speaker 18: Be be okay, with thinking outside the norm.
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  Speaker 13: Asking the right people for advice. You know, there's.
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  Speaker 18: A lot of administrators, there's a lot of coaches, there's
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  Speaker 18: a lot of ads that they've been to multiple, multiple
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  Speaker 18: final fours with the men and the women. And I
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  Speaker 18: think a lot of times we say, well, just because
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  Speaker 18: the guys do it, that doesn't mean we should do it.
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  Speaker 13: That's absolutely true.
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  Speaker 18: We do something that they don't do, which is, you know,
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  Speaker 18: we have quarters. They're the only people that bounce the
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  Speaker 18: basketball to play halfs. We advanced the ball so the
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  Speaker 18: game lasts longer, so you have longer, more opportunities to
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  Speaker 18: win the game. You know, we did away with the
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  Speaker 18: one on one and all that. We've come up with
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  Speaker 18: some great ideas that have helped our game. But I
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  Speaker 18: also think we're sometimes afraid to look at what they
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  Speaker 18: do that enhances their tournament and see whether or not
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  Speaker 18: that fits what we want to do and not be
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  Speaker 18: married to tradition. I guess what I'm saying, and bring
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  Speaker 18: the game, as I've been a big proponent is and
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  Speaker 18: I'm going to talk to jose about this, bring the
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  Speaker 18: game to more people. By going to two regionals, we've
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  Speaker 18: taken the game away from the people, and I think
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  Speaker 18: we need to bring it back to where more people
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  Speaker 18: can be in the stands. And lastly, we need to
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  Speaker 18: change the schedule. We need to finish way earlier than
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  Speaker 18: we finish now, so that we don't come here Tuesday night,
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  Speaker 18: three thousand miles and then practice Wednesday and Thursday and
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  Speaker 18: play the biggest game of the year on Friday night
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  Speaker 18: at nine thirty, you know. And we were the last
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  Speaker 18: team to play on Monday, and the team we played
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  Speaker 18: was home Sunday afternoon. So and that that just goes
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  Speaker 18: for whoever played in that game. I just happened to
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  Speaker 18: be that person today. So we need to change the
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  Speaker 18: schedule so that we have more time. And maybe we
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  Speaker 18: need to finish on a different weekend than the menu finish.
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  Speaker 18: Maybe we need to finish a week earlier. We do
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  Speaker 18: it for the conference tournaments, right, So there's a lot
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  Speaker 18: of things I want to talk to him about. He
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  Speaker 18: might be the one guy that will ask me. So
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  Speaker 18: that's not a bad thing.
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  Speaker 6: We're going to do a little bit of a zigzag.
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  Speaker 6: We'll go Doug, then we'll go domb and then we'll
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  Speaker 6: work our way back.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, Gina, Doug Farnberg AP Corey was saying before, I
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  Speaker 9: guess thirteen years ago she came to watch you guys
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  Speaker 9: practice in the n SEE a tournament. I think you
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  Speaker 9: said sweet sixteen round and then came back to the
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  Speaker 9: staff a year later. Just keep talking about her relationship
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  Speaker 9: with her and just the fact you're willing to open
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  Speaker 9: up the biggest time of the year to let a
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  Speaker 9: coach who was new so to speak at a school
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  Speaker 9: coming and learn from you guys. And now you're playing
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  Speaker 9: her on the stage.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah. If I to know, and I wouldn't let her in. Yeah.
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  Speaker 18: I I just remember when I was a young coach,
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  Speaker 18: especially in high school. When I was a young coach
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  Speaker 18: in high school, I always admired the coaches that were
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  Speaker 18: open and willing to share ideas, their ideas. I've never
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  Speaker 18: been one to want to hide anything or oh my god,
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  Speaker 18: their competitors. And one of the funniest things that ever
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  Speaker 18: happened was three kids, you know, from Tennessee showed up
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  Speaker 18: for practice for like two or three days and they thought,
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  Speaker 18: you know, they called the head. Obviously they didn't just
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  Speaker 18: walk in, but everybody thought at that time, you know,
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  Speaker 18: oh my god, this is like you know, the Cold War.
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  Speaker 18: You know, the Russians are coming right, and it was
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  Speaker 18: so much fun for us for them. Basketball is basketball,
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  Speaker 18: you know, and it's our job to share it if
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  Speaker 18: we have anything that's worth it, and if they think
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  Speaker 18: we have something that's worth it, and you can't worry about,
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  Speaker 18: you know, anything else.
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  Speaker 13: And our relationship, you know.
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  Speaker 18: And through USA Basketball, Courty and I got to know
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  Speaker 18: each other a little bit and we both share, you know,
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  Speaker 18: passion for Wines and you know so her you know, her,
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  Speaker 18: her energy and all that that she has that she
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  Speaker 18: brings is just infectious, I think, And and I'm glad
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  Speaker 18: when coaches have success, and that's what we're here for.
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  Speaker 6: Going to our that's all left Domamory Hart for current.
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  Speaker 15: You know, you've coached a couple of Hall of famers
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  Speaker 15: that Yukon and that number could double, yeah, in the
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  Speaker 15: next couple of days.
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  Speaker 13: I wonder if you can.
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  Speaker 15: Give us your thoughts on on the possibility of a
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  Speaker 15: couple of more of your players going into the Hall
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  Speaker 15: of Fame.
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  Speaker 18: You know, it's it's so unbelievable that when you think
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  Speaker 18: of a seventeen year old that you're sitting there talking
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  Speaker 18: to and you're projecting them as freshman sophomores in college
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  Speaker 18: and juniors in college and where do I think they
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  Speaker 18: can be and how much impact could they have on
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  Speaker 18: our program and all those great things, And when they're there,
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  Speaker 18: you realize there's something special about them and fast forward
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  Speaker 18: and then to look up and realize that their wilder
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  Speaker 18: dreams have come true. I mean, what kid doesn't shoot
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  Speaker 18: a basket when they're ten and think about winning a
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  Speaker 18: national championship, winning you know, gold medal, and then somebody goes,
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  Speaker 18: you know, you're the best player in the country.
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  Speaker 13: But I don't.
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  Speaker 18: I don't know that any one of those kids ever
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  Speaker 18: came to Yukon saying, you know, I came here to
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  Speaker 18: make the Hall of Fame, to be inducted into the
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  Speaker 18: Hall of Fame. I don't think anybody said that. Maybe
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  Speaker 18: Diana did, because you know, but for me to see,
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  Speaker 18: you know, what's happened out there with Rebecca and Swim
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  Speaker 18: and now Maya and Sue obviously being in the mix,
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  Speaker 18: that that pretty much is bigger than when you look
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  Speaker 18: back then all the national championships.
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  Speaker 13: Hamers who.
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  Speaker 18: They're hall of famers for me, they're Hall of famers
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  Speaker 18: for their family, they're Hall of famers for everybody. They're
• 19:35
  Speaker 18: even Hall of famers for the Yukon haters. That's one
• 19:39
  Speaker 18: thing they can all agree on. You know, they're they're
• 19:44
  Speaker 18: Olympian Hall of Fame famers, they're w NBA Hall of famers,
• 19:48
  Speaker 18: they're college Hall of famers, they're Hall of famers as people,
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  Speaker 18: most of them.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to our right, Ben, if you could raise
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  Speaker 6: your Handsel coach can see.
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  Speaker 19: You're been picking with the athletic. You know, Don was
• 19:58
  Speaker 19: in here earlier and she met that she wants or
• 20:01
  Speaker 19: she hopes that college basketball would have its own TV
• 20:04
  Speaker 19: deal to determine its worth. I guess where do you
• 20:07
  Speaker 19: stand on? Who said that down about the meteorites deal?
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  Speaker 18: Oh, the women's basketball should have their own Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 18: I thought they were. I thought they were doing stuff
• 20:18
  Speaker 18: like that. I thought they were trying to spin it off.
• 20:21
  Speaker 18: I don't know where that got, and it probably didn't
• 20:24
  Speaker 18: get as far as maybe it could have. But we
• 20:26
  Speaker 18: talk about that all the time, and we also, Uh,
• 20:32
  Speaker 18: it's funny because we talk about it in in in
• 20:36
  Speaker 18: our league. You know, we talk about it as as
• 20:38
  Speaker 18: you can. You know, how do we how do we
• 20:41
  Speaker 18: get more value for our brand? Is it worth more
• 20:43
  Speaker 18: than if you put it into collectively a bunch of
• 20:46
  Speaker 18: other stuff. So it's worth it, It's worth exploring.
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  Speaker 13: I think.
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  Speaker 18: When you put it out there, you're gonna have to
• 20:57
  Speaker 18: be ready for it. Maybe smaller than you think, and
• 21:00
  Speaker 18: it may be three times larger than you think. So
• 21:05
  Speaker 18: it's best to find out right instead of just keep wondering. So, yeah,
• 21:10
  Speaker 18: I would think that would be fantastic in the States.
• 21:14
  Speaker 20: To the center of the room, coach, Hey, you know,
• 21:16
  Speaker 20: Matt Baker with the athletic another kind of big picture question,
• 21:19
  Speaker 20: but revenue sharing probably going to be finalized and signed
• 21:22
  Speaker 20: off on here in the next couple of days or weeks.
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  Speaker 20: What sort of impact do you expect that to have
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  Speaker 20: on your game and the types of programs that are
• 21:28
  Speaker 20: able to compete From women's final.
• 21:30
  Speaker 18: Fours, well, it all ruin parody, that's number one.
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  Speaker 13: I mean, I'm for revenue sharing. There will be.
• 21:46
  Speaker 18: Less parody in the game of basketball. If you look
• 21:51
  Speaker 18: at right now, there's less parody happening every year in
• 21:55
  Speaker 18: men's basketball. People talk about the football twelve schools, it's
• 21:59
  Speaker 18: the same four in the final four, seems like every year.
• 22:03
  Speaker 18: And as the money now drives it, there's gonna be
• 22:07
  Speaker 18: less people that have that kind of money. There's gonna
• 22:10
  Speaker 18: be less of them. They're gonna want to give it
• 22:12
  Speaker 18: to women's basketball. So if the number of teams that
• 22:18
  Speaker 18: could win the national championship when it was US in
• 22:22
  Speaker 18: Tennessee and everybody wanted anybody to win other than Yukon
• 22:25
  Speaker 18: and Tennessee, and then it kind of stretched to kind
• 22:28
  Speaker 18: of stretch. The kind of stretch. Now you look at
• 22:29
  Speaker 18: the landscape today and it still a lot of the
• 22:35
  Speaker 18: same teams, but there's a lot more vying for that
• 22:39
  Speaker 18: spot in the final four. Well, now that's all gonna
• 22:42
  Speaker 18: go away. Now it'll become like college football where in
• 22:47
  Speaker 18: every conference and it's the conference to get bigger, think
• 22:51
  Speaker 18: about it, it's eighteen teams in it in the Big
• 22:53
  Speaker 18: Ten for now. Okay, I would venture to say eight
• 22:57
  Speaker 18: of those teams will never get to championship game in
• 23:00
  Speaker 18: any sport that I'm talking about, basketball, football, men's basketball.
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  Speaker 13: Maybe.
• 23:06
  Speaker 18: So when you do, when you do those kind of
• 23:08
  Speaker 18: things and it's money driven, it's going to be who's
• 23:12
  Speaker 18: going to become the Dodgers and the Yankees and how
• 23:15
  Speaker 18: many of those are you going to have? And how
• 23:17
  Speaker 18: many other programs in women's basketball are going to be
• 23:22
  Speaker 18: Milwaukee and Kansas City because that's where we're headed. And
• 23:27
  Speaker 18: don't believe this twenty point five million salary cap. See
• 23:31
  Speaker 18: the thing in the NBA if you go over to
• 23:33
  Speaker 18: salary cap, there's a huge tax.
• 23:36
  Speaker 13: There's a salary.
• 23:37
  Speaker 18: Cap in revenue sharing in sports in college, you think
• 23:40
  Speaker 18: anybody in their right mind is going to stick to
• 23:42
  Speaker 18: twenty point five. That might be what's on the books,
• 23:46
  Speaker 18: but that ain't going to be the final number. And
• 23:50
  Speaker 18: there's nobody out there looking around to collect taxes on that.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: Coach, You're going to go to our right, Can.
• 23:58
  Speaker 13: We play at UCLA? They're really good? Start to throw
• 24:03
  Speaker 13: that in.
• 24:05
  Speaker 21: Hey, coach t Baker with the next when you Caitlyn
• 24:07
  Speaker 21: Chen obviously had a great ELITEA and when you think
• 24:10
  Speaker 21: about what she's brought all season, what has been the
• 24:12
  Speaker 21: different the biggest difference she's brought to the team and
• 24:14
  Speaker 21: what gap has she filled in the roster?
• 24:18
  Speaker 18: Maturity, experience, you know, things that we obviously lost when
• 24:26
  Speaker 18: when Nica graduated. She's a different player than Nika, different personality,
• 24:35
  Speaker 18: approaches things differently, different skill set, but in.
• 24:41
  Speaker 13: What we needed for this particular.
• 24:43
  Speaker 18: Team, I think she's been the perfect edition. Obviously, Sarah
• 24:50
  Speaker 18: Strong was the biggest addition. I think Caitlyn Chen was
• 24:56
  Speaker 18: the perfect addition for what this team needed at the
• 25:01
  Speaker 18: position that we needed it. And so you saw the
• 25:05
  Speaker 18: other night in that game. Why was worth bringing her in?
• 25:11
  Speaker 18: And I have had a blast coaching her.
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: I mean, go to the second row on our left.
• 25:18
  Speaker 18: Contrary to I, really students, they do have a sense
• 25:21
  Speaker 18: of humor.
• 25:23
  Speaker 22: Hi, I'm Stephanie from eSPI Nation. There have been a
• 25:26
  Speaker 22: few players not from yukon this tournament run who have
• 25:29
  Speaker 22: expressed they've come from traumatic or toxic environments to other schools.
• 25:35
  Speaker 22: You have a wealth of coaching experience and you obviously
• 25:38
  Speaker 22: have players for decades that adore you. What do coaches like?
• 25:42
  Speaker 22: What do coaches need to do better?
• 25:46
  Speaker 18: And oh man, even if I knew, I wouldn't tell you.
• 25:51
  Speaker 18: I mean I could share when I can't share that much.
• 25:55
  Speaker 18: I just think this incredible pressure to win and the
• 26:02
  Speaker 18: pressure to your question about revenue sharing, the pressure to
• 26:06
  Speaker 18: win is only going to get greater. You mean, I'm
• 26:09
  Speaker 18: paying you guys, and this is what I got to watch.
• 26:12
  Speaker 18: Somebody's getting fired, So the pressure's immense. It's only going
• 26:19
  Speaker 18: to get more pressure packed. So how do you react
• 26:23
  Speaker 18: under pressure. Well, if you've been there and done that,
• 26:27
  Speaker 18: you're secure. You just stay the course and say this
• 26:30
  Speaker 18: is what we do. And if you don't like it, tough.
• 26:32
  Speaker 18: If you're young and you're trying to make a name
• 26:34
  Speaker 18: for yourself and you're like close or not quite there,
• 26:39
  Speaker 18: well I can buy a team. It's better than recruiting one.
• 26:44
  Speaker 18: I gotta wait forever for them to get better. I
• 26:46
  Speaker 18: just go and buy a team. Well, now the kids
• 26:48
  Speaker 18: all know they came to your school to get paid.
• 26:52
  Speaker 18: And when everybody's getting paid and they find out who's
• 26:54
  Speaker 18: getting paid what. And the animosity now between coaches and players.
• 27:00
  Speaker 18: You know it used to be, you know, players didn't
• 27:04
  Speaker 18: like the fact that coaches had all the power. Well,
• 27:07
  Speaker 18: now coaches hate the fact that players have all the power.
• 27:10
  Speaker 18: Players on the team hate each other because of what
• 27:12
  Speaker 18: one is getting the other one's not getting. And all
• 27:15
  Speaker 18: of a sudden, nobody's coming there to win a national championship.
• 27:17
  Speaker 18: They're coming there to build their brand, to make their money.
• 27:21
  Speaker 18: And oh, by the way, if we get to the
• 27:22
  Speaker 18: final four, wouldn't it be cool? Does that happen in
• 27:27
  Speaker 18: every program? Hell No, I'll bet you ninety percent of
• 27:30
  Speaker 18: the programs in America that's not the case. But the
• 27:32
  Speaker 18: ones you're talking about, that's exactly the case.
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: Take a final question from the back, shehent tell if
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: you gree you hand hate you know chanton Jennings with
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: the Athletic and Spokane.
• 27:42
  Speaker 23: You said that page has a little bit of Diana
• 27:44
  Speaker 23: in her. I was hoping you could expand on that.
• 27:46
  Speaker 23: What about her honor off the court reminds you the
• 27:48
  Speaker 23: most of d.
• 27:53
  Speaker 18: Obviously there's a lot of similarities and there's so many
• 27:56
  Speaker 18: differences as well. They in the best sense of the word.
• 28:04
  Speaker 18: Number one, they are both exceptional con artists. They can
• 28:12
  Speaker 18: spin things so that it goes their way about ninety
• 28:16
  Speaker 18: nine point nine percent of the time. So they live
• 28:20
  Speaker 18: in that world, which I admire that because winners do that,
• 28:28
  Speaker 18: they have to be right, they have to be the top,
• 28:31
  Speaker 18: they have to be unchallenged. So they've got that going
• 28:37
  Speaker 18: for them. They're both extremely outgoing. They both enjoy other
• 28:42
  Speaker 18: people's company. They're accommodating to other people. They're respectful, they're
• 28:49
  Speaker 18: great team players. They're both generous to their teammates, both
• 28:55
  Speaker 18: on the court off the court. They have a flair
• 28:59
  Speaker 18: for the moment. They can summon up something that's needed
• 29:04
  Speaker 18: at the time when it's exactly needed. They take responsibility
• 29:12
  Speaker 18: for what happens. They're not afraid of the criticism that
• 29:18
  Speaker 18: might come if they fail. And I don't think anybody
• 29:25
  Speaker 18: loves being in the gym more than those two. And
• 29:30
  Speaker 18: if you ask them, where's their happy place? And they
• 29:31
  Speaker 18: could be any place in the world at any time,
• 29:34
  Speaker 18: they would tell you in a gym by myself doing
• 29:36
  Speaker 18: what I love to do. And that's the best way
• 29:43
  Speaker 18: I can describe both.
• 29:44
  Speaker 13: Of them in how do how do they compare? Now?
• 29:48
  Speaker 18: How are they? How are they different? That would be
• 29:50
  Speaker 18: a whole different press conference.
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: Want to thank you for your time today, coach.
• 29:56
  Speaker 13: Thank you.
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: A reminder for those in the room that the locker
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: room for Yukon is still open until two ten pm.