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[Assistant] My mom actually introduced me into soccer. She's been playing for a long time. She was playing when she was pregnant with me and it's always just been there for me and it's something that we do together. She's taught me how to be aggressive. She's taught me how to get past offenders and especially like


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[Assistant] Currently I play center midfielder, or more specifically the 6 or the 8, but I'm mostly a defending midfielder.


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[Assistant] I wrote about how women get paid less and have less respect than the men do when it comes to soccer. It made me feel upset, but it also inspired me to write about it because I want to be part of the reason that that changes and I want to be able to help people for the future.


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[Assistant] One that has my brand name, but it's backwards because when you print it onto a paper,


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[Assistant] There's really no boundaries in art, no limits. And that's similar to soccer, how when I play soccer, it feels like there's nothing that can hold me back and nothing that can stop me from being creative.


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[Assistant] So there's two important things that I really love about this sport. I like the community and everyone that I've met through this sport. Everyone's so nice and it's really fun meeting new people. And I also like the way I'm able to be creative when I'm on the field.


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[Assistant] No Days Off means to me that if you really love something and you're passionate about it, you should put your effort into it. I got my confidence by my mom telling me that nobody's gonna be there to tell you to do something, so you just gotta do it yourself. You just gotta build the motivation and go out there and do it.


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[Assistant] Make some food, then take a shower, then I go work out. Sometimes I work at the gym and sometimes I work out at the beach.


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[Assistant] Looking back, I know nicotine affected my mental health and my strength. I was surprised to hear that vaping nicotine can worsen anxiety symptoms.


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[Assistant] I started skateboarding when I was three years old. When I was four years old, I learned my first hand plant. Then when I was five, I tried 540s.


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[Assistant] Baseball's something I love. My mentality is I just gotta play.


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[Assistant] I have a goal and that's to get to the MLB and play a solid career in the MLB and I don't think anything is going to slow me down from that.


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[Assistant] My name is Cason Consterina, I'm 16 years old and I play baseball.


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[Assistant] My first memory, uh, was four years old playing with the Cubs Pony team, uh, at Chino Hills BLD.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I remember my whole team went to run the center field just to, just to start stretching. And I remember I was really nervous and scared.


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[Assistant] And I actually didn't run with the team and I stayed back crying. At first it definitely was like, I'm not good enough, but I wanted to stay involved, you know, I wanted to...


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[Assistant] Played something that had a ball in it and I got first introduced to baseball by my dad. I just, I loved it. I played in the backyard with a whoop-a-ball and a little bat. But 14, I started maturing more. I started realizing, okay, this is something I want to do. This is something I want to take seriously. So I started lifting and hitting and doing all that stuff on my own.


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[Assistant] My teammates are incredible as well. Adrian Lopez, uhm, he's a guy that pushes me every single day. We push each other at practice. I mean, we practice, we train, we hit, we run together, and he's...


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[Assistant] Become one of my best friends and I think having someone like him around me at all times is, is really helpful because he pushes me, I push him and a baseball can be.


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[Assistant] Having him as my teammate and also best friend, you know, he can be the one in the dugout.


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[Assistant] Calming me down or picking me up if I really need it, so it definitely helps a ton with him there.


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[Assistant] I never really saw people vaping, you know, in the dugout or anything, but I definitely hear stories about them talking about vaping and how they would do it outside. They, they would go home, you know, or go to a party, uhm, and they would, they would vape or they'd smoke, do whatever they wanted to do, uhm, or when they would get stressed, they would vape, uhm, and that was just kind of their outside life outside of baseball.


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[Assistant] I think a lot of people vape, uh, because I think it's cool, honestly. Uhm, maybe they see their friends doing it and they want to fit in. Uhm, they feel if they don't, like if they don't, uh, if they don't vape then they're not part of that friend group anymore and they don't want to have the feeling of being not accepted just because of that. So I think they just want to do it to fit in.


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[Assistant] Also, baseball is a big stress reliever for me. You know, if I'm stressed over school, anything, friends, even if I'm stressed with baseball, go outside in the backyard, hit off a tee, and it just helps, it really does.


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[Assistant] Then after that we went into some fielding, some fielding drills, working on fundamentals, short hops, uh, glove work, some foot work as well.


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[Assistant] After that we did arm strengthening and throwing.


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[Assistant] Just to really build up that arm, because that's one of the tools that you need for baseball. It was definitely a lot first coming in, but I knew this is what I wanted to do, this is what I want to stick with, so.


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[Assistant] Incredible. Uhm, you know, I've had to do a lot of traveling. Definitely had to spend a lot of money.


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[Assistant] It's a lot of time away from your family as well. There's tournaments where...


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[Assistant] We can't go to family events or we have to travel to Arizona.


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[Assistant] Where it's just me and my dad, so I can't see the five other members of my family, uhm, they rarely complain and they're always with me.


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[Assistant] I don't want to ever settle for anything less. Uhm, it just pushes me to be one of the best out there and keep working every single day.


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[Assistant] That was fun. How'd you like the, the little tip for a backsmith?


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[Assistant] Good, I saw that. I saw you, you know, getting to it on the backseat.


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[Assistant] You know, your body position a little bit on the back seat and let it go taking you. That's it, that's how you gotta do it.


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[Assistant] Peyton is, uh, mentally ready and physically ready to play at a higher level. You know, he is big. I was a little concerned.


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[Assistant] You know, when I first started thinking about him playing up, because a lot of times when kids grow that fast, they haven't really grown into their body. He has. He's got great foot skills mentally.


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[Assistant] You know, he's, he's ready to play up. So mentally you can handle it, professionally you can handle it. Why not?


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[Assistant] I'm Lonnie White Jr., I'm 18, and I play baseball.


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[Assistant] I don't swing every day, but I swing a lot. I'm really just trying to just feel out my swing as much as possible. I can feel when something's not right, and uh, just try to adjust to whatever I feel like, off.


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[Assistant] Throughout high school and throughout my life, I've always played multiple sports. Football, basketball, and baseball, they all use different muscles, but a lot of it goes together.


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[Assistant] These are all like the trophies and I won. This is my team for football. This right here.


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[Assistant] It's a signed ball by, uh, Cal Ripken Jr. We got this going to...


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[Assistant] We ended up being like the fastest team in the country, which is pretty cool. Oh, one more thing, there's...


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[Assistant] Kane's base will win from winning the uh, WWE championship.


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[Assistant] I grew up in an athletic family. My whole entire family played sports.


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[Assistant] I really had a big love for baseball. Uhm, started when I was like, maybe like four. Baseball, I feel like,


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[Assistant] It's always a challenge no matter who's pitching.


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[Assistant] I don't like to brag, but uh, I guess my parents would like tell me it all the time and how you, uh, you have a future ahead of you and like everything, but,


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[Assistant] I didn't really like see it that well throughout high school until like literally like right now and I still trying to gain the confidence that I should have.


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[Assistant] It was kinda crazy, it's like, wow, that's Lonnie.


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[Assistant] I think it just shows how hard I've worked throughout the years, but it's really nice to know that uhm, it's like right there, but at the same time, I think the part that's scaring me is just,


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[Assistant] Not coming back to high school, but I'm just, right now I'm just trying to live in the moment and uhm, take everything all in.


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[Assistant] One of the most exciting things about Hannah is when she's getting ready to do a trick that she's never done before, it's a very, very good chance that no other woman in the planet has ever done that before either. You can just tell when someone's got that talent and that drive and she's had that from a very young age.


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[Assistant] You know, just for her, like, she's riding at such a high level, it's like, you know, you plan for her best run and usually that's enough.


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[Assistant] My name is Ryan Nyquist and I am the coach of the USA BMX freestyle team.


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[Assistant] Historically our sport hasn't had coaches, but we've always kind of leaned on our friends or, you know, sometimes even competitors to like...


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[Assistant] You know, help us with a trick or if, you know, how'd that look kind of thing and be like, oh, you know, dip your shoulder a little bit more and it might be right there. So, you know, in a sense there are always work coaches, but there was never like an official role. It was just like you and your homies out there riding and they would give you advice. Her motivation a lot of times was just like, you know, small little bets.


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[Assistant] She had her way, she would like, literally be like, no days off, every day we're riding, every day we're doing something, I'm progressing, I have goals. And that's the great thing about Hannah is she has so many goals, there's never like a day where she's like,


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[Assistant] I don't know what I want to do, like she always has something that she wants to try, which is, which is great, you know, which is why she's, you know, one of the best women in the world because she just doesn't stop. It's kind of the coach's dream actually.


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[Assistant] A lot of young kids, you know, there's just most of them, you know, learning to hit and all that, you know, and he's learning the strategy of the game where a lot of kids don't learn until they get 15 or 16.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, you take a player, especially at that age, you know, there's just most of them, you know, learning to hit and all that, you know, and he's learning the strategy of the game where a lot of kids don't learn until they get 15 or 16.


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[Assistant] Not, not, you know, not that hits like home or throws like home, but 10 kids that had the same approach as him.


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[Assistant] I mean 10, even 10 average players, you know, I don't think I'd ever lose.


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[Assistant] Basketball, I've been hoopin' since I was probably like four. My parents put us in all the sports, so I was trying all over whenever I was that age. Eighth grade was my last year playing football, so from then on, basketball was what it was, and that's all I was working on.


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[Assistant] Just the adrenaline that I get playing basketball, I don't really get anywhere else. Being able to have the ball and make plays and, you know, being on fast breaks. I feel like that feeling is something that I don't really find in other sports. That passion for it was easy to find with that and then, you know, from then on, it just grew more and more as I got better.


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[Assistant] It's different now just because there's no school. All I have to worry about is basketball and being professional about what I'm doing now. So, it's brought a new freshness to it I think. I've liked, you know, being able to just get up and only think about, you know, how am I going to get better as a basketball player today.


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[Assistant] We mix it up so some days will be finishing days, ball handling. That's what we got today. Other days, catch and shoot. Some days, shooting off the dribble, things like that. Right now it's just trying to improve on my game as much as I can. Skill stuff.


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[Assistant] Definitely number one. My family just in general. I feel like, you know, the way that they...


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[Assistant] We've all been so close and coming up, you know, there's a lot of different people trying to pull you a bunch of different ways. And I think the biggest thing that my family's done for me is they've helped me deflect everything towards them. And as close as we've been, the fact that we've been able to stay this way for so long with everybody tugging at us, I think that's the thing I'm most proud about.


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[Assistant] Keep those like horse blinders on and just worry about your lane and don't worry about so much what it looks like to be successful and instead, you know, find real success in yourself and we've worked so hard to get to this point now where I'm probably going to be a super high draft pick.


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[Assistant] It's been something that I've been dreaming of my whole life and, you know, to finally be able to get to that point now, it's like, I'm excited man. I hope I get to, you know, get in there and rock out how I plan to.


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[Assistant] I want to see Giannis in person, I want to see LeBron, I want to see AD, I want to see all those guys in person, man. Like it's, it's going to be crazy the first time I get to, you know, actually be able to go up and compete against a man.


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[Assistant] My goal is to be best ever, you know what I'm saying? That's why I'm working towards Resort. Whatever it takes to get that.


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[Assistant] Nick's always worked really, really hard at everything. If he wanted to do something throughout his entire life, he's worked exceptionally hard at it.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm very proud that he has chosen to.


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[Assistant] Commit himself to a high academic school because, uh, regardless of what happens, uhm, it's, it's a win. And I know he'll continue to be a very strong leader.


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[Assistant] I'm extremely proud of what Nick has done in order to achieve his goals. That's what I'm most proud of. I'm most proud of the work he puts in.


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[Assistant] To achieve those goals. And I believe that the sky's the limit if you continue to do that. And he will.


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[Assistant] And played that for 12 years straight professionally, and then it led into me going on to play Apex Legends.


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[Assistant] When I was growing up, pro gaming was not a thing. It was more of a show-off to your friends on who's the best at ex-video game. And, uh, it just is completely different now and it's been wild to see the growth that esports has had. Alright, yo, if you guys have questions, go ahead and ask away. I'll try and answer some.


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[Assistant] I think at the beginning of my career it was really hard for me to separate my personal life and my gaming life. And I think as I got older I really found a way to create a balance and


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[Assistant] Currently I am a professional Apex Legends player for Team Solomid or TSM.


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[Assistant] And I have my Discord and another version of my Twitch chat on the left as well. So I can look left, chat, look right, chat, you know, so I don't, I try and answer as many questions as I possibly can. Why did I decide to become pro on Apex? Uh, it was pretty much the first game outside of Halo that I really like, enjoyed right away. I liked Fortnite, but it wasn't a...


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[Assistant] I love going to friends houses playing video games when like, LANs were a thing or like, system link was a thing. I think I'm able to keep my passion and love for video games honestly because I stream and I can separate competing from streaming as an enjoyment.


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[Assistant] Here to take that for granted. I do what I love every day. I play video games for a living. Just being able to press that go live button, that's something that I am here to cherish and outside of competing where that is my full-time job.


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[Assistant] I'm here to enjoy streaming and just make it last as long as I can.


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[Assistant] So outside of streaming, I really like to get outdoors. I'm inside all the time, sitting down, so when I'm not in my chair streaming, I like to get up and be active. Whether that's going to the gym, or going for walks, or taking the dog to the park. And I really just try to make sure that I'm not in the house, because I realize if I'm just always in the house, I start to get irritable, I start to just get a little overwhelmed.


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[Assistant] Some of the biggest challenges that I've faced as a professional esports player is balancing relationships and just being able to like split my time properly, whether that's with friends, family, relationships, whatever it is. And I think that that's something that because I've been doing it for so long, I've been able to


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[Assistant] I'm with my high school graduation for a tournament, and I don't regret it, I won the tournament, but that's just an example of some of the things that you really do have to sacrifice, because when it comes to gaming or any professional sport, you don't really get to pick and choose.


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[Assistant] What days you can show up to work. It's a tough balance, but at the end of the day, I love what I do. And I think the people that really care about you understand that that's just the things you gotta do.


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[Assistant] And so you put that together with the off the charts athleticism, you really got something. And this Keon Johnson is going to be a really, really good NBA player. He's made some plays when we do our live stuff that just are abnormal.


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[Assistant] We do a lot of drilling, but we also do a lot of live stuff where it's one on one, two on two. And that's where I think he's really benefited in the live stuff and really understanding how am I going to score in the NBA.


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[Assistant] Theon doesn't say much. That means he doesn't complain. That just means he comes in here and does his work.


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[Assistant] He's had a couple defensive plays where...


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[Assistant] You see the defender way out of position. So you think the guy, the offensive guy is going to score. Somehow he recovers back to the play. And so if you don't have elite, elite athleticism, you can't make those plays and he makes them. But I think he has a chance to be an elite defender with that elite athleticism.


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[Assistant] You know, looked at a lot of film on him and, you know, the way he played at Tennessee was different than how he's gonna have to play in the NBA. And so,


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[Assistant] More of a challenge in him understanding the position he's gonna have to play.


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[Assistant] And then incorporating the skill set he's going to need to develop.


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[Assistant] But a much better three-point shooter than anyone will think until they see him. I think when he goes to his team workouts, teams will be surprised at how well he shoots it.


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[Assistant] He's really come a long way in the time that he's been here. I think he wants to be a really good NBA player. I do. Whatever motivates them materially, whether it's money or cars or whatever they're into, you'll get what you want, but you gotta do the work.


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[Assistant] Her strength and her, uh, basketball IQ is definitely her number one asset.


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[Assistant] So it's very special because she does not like to sit out. She wants to play 24-7. She's a baller. She loves that game.


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[Assistant] This is a physical therapy place for elite performers. This is for athletes that really want to get it and they want to get better and they want to get better fast.


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[Assistant] What we do with Zoe on a daily basis is we try to make sure that she is taking care of us as far as physically, any type of ailments that she might have, we take care of that. But at the same time, accentuating her strengths. Good. Jump and land?


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[Assistant] Yeah, so Zoe's, if she has some ankle stiffness, okay, we want to take care of that because we know she trains so much and she's got to train later today. So we want to make sure we maintain that so we, we don't have any type of issues tomorrow or the next day and she says, oh, I can't play because my ankle's stiff. Hey, you just can't take a day off because your sore.


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[Assistant] So we want to make sure that she doesn't have any of those issues because you can't get better if you don't play.


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[Assistant] The process is really what makes you better and makes you a pro. And I think Zoe Brooks has a, you know, I would put money on it that she's going to be a pro.


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[Assistant] When I got on varsity as a sophomore, it was, uh, it's a lot more intense, you know, there's more of a crowd involved and there's a little bit more on the line, but I love playing for my hometown and it's always fun when you can play with and against the guys that you grew up with.


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[Assistant] Trying to get better at being more verbal about that and, uh, not being harsh about it, but, you know, just kind of picking them up for sure.


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[Assistant] Too many fastballs in the zone. Definitely trying to hit off speed. And I'd say pitching wise, it's just staying fluid with my mechanics. Really not trying too, too hard when I try to do too much is when...


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[Assistant] Not really. So I'll do, like I said, I'll do track in the morning, baseball.


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[Assistant] I literally started from nothing, like homelessness, like all that stuff, just having nothing at all. I had friends who got killed. I don't even know how I got through that. It took years. I did all my years in high school, went to Alabama training, then I went over to the pros.


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[Assistant] Alabama, yes it already was a name. I feel like I came in there and I made a name for myself.


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[Assistant] Now I gotta be in the league, and wherever I land at now, it just starts right back over. So wherever I'm going, I'm just thinking, alright, this is the time to make my legacy. This is the time to prove myself. You know what I'm saying? Make a name for me. My name is Najah Harris. I'm a running back parent for the upcoming draft.


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[Assistant] I finished my college, my last college game a month and a half ago maybe. I went straight to Texas to start rehabbing and training for the draft. This is a transition from college football to the league. It's two different trainings.


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[Assistant] For the college football, you're playing for the football season. Now it's more like a track meet. You know, they want to see the 40, they want to see your vertical, they want to see your broad jump, L drill, 510.5.


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[Assistant] About how much points you can put on the board on offense. It's about how fast that time is on the clock. It's just all the small things you gotta focus on to get that time you want.


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[Assistant] 510.5 is just really like how fashion gets to move right to left laterally and that plays a big part because for running back, changing direction is important and being agile.


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[Assistant] Me being 6'2", 230. A lot of people won't expect me to be as agile. A lot of guys will be like a 4'2", whatever. Me personally, it's up.


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[Assistant] Four flat to three nine, that stuff. The motivation is to do better. Like just to keep improving each day. I set a number that I want and I wanna hit those numbers. If I do hit those numbers, then now I gotta make those numbers even like lower.


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[Assistant] Running Back's business is so devalued because of how, like, you know.


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[Assistant] They say you can find one later in the draft that do the same thing, but it's like, you can find one later in the draft that's like good at some things. For running back, it's like, you gotta pass, catch, you gotta pass block, you gotta run between tackles, you gotta do all this stuff. Me personally, I feel like that's the hardest position on the field, and it's the best position on the field, you know?


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[Assistant] Of course they're gonna say quarterback. It's like, obviously that's the king.


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[Assistant] And I'm the queen, you know, the queen piece gotta do all the, it goes everywhere. It's like, you know, like all these moves. The king piece just moves one way everywhere. But the queen gotta do all this stuff. I feel like the running back is the best piece.


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[Assistant] Just in this sport alone, and in my position, we don't last the longest.


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[Assistant] So me taking care of my body is very important. That's why I train so much because I want to be prepared for every situation.


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[Assistant] It's me being from where I'm from, you know, just raised, you know, in harsh environments. People doubt me. It's a saying I like to say, it's like, do not go...


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[Assistant] Where the path may lead, but go where there's no path and leave a trail, it starts with your mindset. You know, talent is one thing, but like, if you don't have the mindset to get through things and overcome, you know, situations that's not going your way, then you know, it's going to be really hard to reach that goal.


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[Assistant] The dream is almost there and that's to be in the league, obviously, when the next dream is to like, dominate the league.


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[Assistant] On tap with everything else, you know, that basketball was just added to what he already does, but he turned out to be greater.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that made me very proud because I know how much work he puts in. That was good to see him bring it home and to see how excited he was about knowing that he put the work in so he was.


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[Assistant] I know that they'll one day be on the US national team, uhm, and I'll be in the stands cheering them on.


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[Assistant] Every day I see them working hard and chasing their dreams. I'm proud of them.


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[Assistant] My dad really helped me stay around the right circle of people.


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[Assistant] And the ones who are outside of the circle who aren't very supportive and are doubtful and they don't really hide it well, I wanna prove them wrong.


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[Assistant] My name is Akashi Robo, I'm 14 years old and I play tennis.


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[Assistant] When I wake up, uhm, I get ready with my dogs and I do my best to walk them out in the mornings or run with them. Then I come back in, I eat breakfast, then I finish school, I leave.


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[Assistant] I go straight to tennis. I go and practice for a couple hours. It depends on who I'm practicing with and I usually just play with my dad.


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[Assistant] It can be a bit distracting because we're so close and uhm, I remember at the last one I was just looking for her the whole, the whole match. I know that I'm supposed to be focusing on the match and then as she comes she's gonna be there.


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[Assistant] This is by far my favorite. It's the Little Mo' Grand Slam trophy. I have to win three legs for it in California, New York and then here in Florida. I actually won


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[Assistant] Two calendar years in a row, which is 50 plus matches and it was a lot of matches that I played. Uhm, they proclaimed in the city of Fort Lauderdale that May 1st was Akashari Robo Day and it was commemorating all of my achievements, uhm, my, my wins, uhm, the records that I broke and uhm, how hard I've been working.


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[Assistant] When? It was girls 12s and I won this when I was 9.


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[Assistant] This one, I won two years ago. I was uhm, 12. I didn't really play any girls near my age. They were mainly 17 to uhm, around mid-20s.


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[Assistant] I've met a couple of players. I've met the Bryan Brothers. I met Venus. I've met, uhm, Andy Murray. I met the Bryan Brothers' wife. It was basically a before and after photo with Mike because the first time I took one with him I was around 5'6 and then 13' last year.


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[Assistant] I met Venus at Matchpoint and that was really cool and now I talk to her sometimes. I met Andy Murray at US Open. It happened to be on The Today Show, so I happened to hit with him on live television and that was pretty cool and it makes me feel a sense of accomplishment because uhm,


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[Assistant] These people that I look up to, I can actually talk to and they look at the things that I've done and they acknowledge it and it's, it's really weird but it's amazing at the same time.


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[Assistant] I have to pull them off the court and come in in a minimum of five shots. And that really helps me because it's a good example of what I can do in matches. And even though sometimes it can be difficult, it can still be done. So I really think that that part of practice is really fundamental.


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[Assistant] This one is Sanji. She's 10 years old now. Uhm, we've had her since I was 5. Leo's this one back here.


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[Assistant] He's just really the baby of the family, and he...


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[Assistant] He's a type of dog that knows he's cute, so he thinks that he can like, get you to give him any food that he wants.


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[Assistant] Stuff like that, but my relationship with them is basically like having a relationship with a real friend.


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[Assistant] They understand you on a real emotional level, and even though they can't understand the words you say, they understand emotions.


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[Assistant] And so it's really nice to know that I can come back into the comfort at home after a long day or a bad day and just chill and be with my dog, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Once you get closer to your goal, it's starting to seem almost normal actually. I aspire to play for a very long time if I make it on tour. When I make it on tour, hopefully. My dad helped me work for a long time. He sacrificed a lot to get me here. I feel like


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[Assistant] I stick with it, I can really do it, and if I don't start slacking now, because, I got so many time and time again that this is the time where you can't be slacking off because you're almost there, and yeaah.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, there's a big man inside of there. It's a big man mindset. That's why you squat more than most offensive linemen.


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[Assistant] Emotional role and stuff, because it's a long period of time that you're training for, so you gotta keep them up, you gotta build them up, you gotta spend time with them. Try to put them in the right people's hands that can prepare him for what he needs to do on pro day.


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[Assistant] You know, prepping for the drop is psychological examination. So, you know, they want to make sure that, um,


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[Assistant] The kid, if they decide to drive Jamar, that he can handle that type of pressure of being an NFL, which it is.


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[Assistant] And I'm so proud of him and I'm looking forward to representing him and I'm looking forward to it.


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[Assistant] Jalen's greatest skill that I've seen as a soccer player is his dedication. And when he sees his other friends doing it, he wants to do it and he wants to do it better.


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[Assistant] If they, if they do a rainbow kick in the game, well, he wants to do the same thing. So it's just his dedication to, to really honing his craft and being the best he can be, even at nine years old.


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[Assistant] Five days a week, week, we were at one time every weekend, it's like, what are we doing this weekend? I was like, you know what we're doing this weekend, we're going to watch Jaylen play soccer.


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[Assistant] He's just flying down the field. He's out running kids that are older than him, maybe a year or two older than him. But he's just, he's handling himself like he's.


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[Assistant] Like he's been here before, like he's been doing this before, and it was just, it was a joy to see. I mean, at the end of the day, he's just a kid. He's around his uncles, he's around his, his sister.


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[Assistant] You know, soccer is the only sport that we know best because we can afford it, but nothing else than, you know, than a ball. It's not a weekend game, it's an everyday game. It's part of life now. And I'm his best fan, you know, so there's no doubt about it. Now when you see what he can do.


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[Assistant] She's just always so positive about it and I'm really glad to see my sister going on to do great things in the cable tennis world.


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[Assistant] I remember when she was really young, she picked up the paddle and just started mimicking what we did and she really enjoyed just hanging out with us and playing.


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[Assistant] Back when I was in high school, Faith and I would workout, I would say, three to four times a week. We usually like going for runs. We'll do, uhm, ab workouts as well as strength and endurance workouts. Uhm, and this includes jump rope, uhm, ladder, uhm, and like push-ups and sit-ups.


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[Assistant] I think these workouts are really important because it helps your strength and your endurance. And especially in table tennis, it's a very fast sport, so you have to have really strong reflexes and really fast agility.


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[Assistant] As a 14 year old in the sport, she's definitely at the top of her game right now.


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[Assistant] Her determination, you know, her competitiveness comes in and she wants to win, you know, she wants to be number one and she does what it takes.


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[Assistant] I mean, she already trains as a 10 year old, 34 hours a week. So, you know, she does two a day, four days a week.


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[Assistant] And, you know, we do all four events, conditioning, flexibility, and just a lot of dedication.


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[Assistant] we're fortunate enough to that she can kind of look


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[Assistant] We do have several elites that she can see what it takes to get there and the skills that she'll have to learn in the future.


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[Assistant] Every other day we'll alternate, we do upper body and then the next day we'll do lower body.


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[Assistant] We do the thing upper body, we call it physical abilities pretty much that includes the rope, you know, leg lifts, handstand hold, presses, uhm, and it's just pretty much the


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[Assistant] They do a lot of conditioning to protect their bodies since they do train so much and want to make sure they're healthy as much as possible.


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[Assistant] I'm never really not active.


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[Assistant] When I suit up to hockey, I feel like I'm a warrior. But when I get on the ice and get my figure skates on, I feel like a princess. I guess that makes me a warrior princess.


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[Assistant] No days off means to me that work hard every day.


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[Assistant] I've been with Mel since he's five. He used to come to me on Tuesdays and Thursdays and he's been doing this. Yeaah, I don't think he's been since Saturday and Sunday since I started back since the pandemic. So he has a certain passion for the game.


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[Assistant] Keep your shoulders on the wall. Be strong with the basketball. Come on, tough it out. Good mouth. Ready?


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[Assistant] What makes Mel different than other athletes is just his passion for the game. His ability to want to work. His ability to want to be good. He wants to be elite. And he puts the time in it. So just, he just has a certain drive.


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[Assistant] When it starts to hurt a little bit and then you start to get tired. That's why I need that guys to fight through it. It has to become your fight.


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[Assistant] Learn to fight through it. Learn to fight. I just try to tell my players that, you know, basketball is like life in which the mentality you develop for basketball, sometimes it's who you become in life.


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[Assistant] Because of the same mentality when you give up now and you're dropping out, it's the same thing, you're gonna do it again. The mentality.


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[Assistant] You know, being able to do the Saturday and Sunday on a consistent pace, that's an indicator right there.


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[Assistant] There's been times in the gym, you know, I have some high school kids in there and he's been right there with high school kids. So to me, you know, to be able to come in there and compete with high school kids, perform with high school kids and outwork high school kids, those are indicators. Come on! Move that line over.


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[Assistant] One thing you have to do is control that outside influence and just stay focused.


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[Assistant] And just continue to, you know, being at six in the morning. Continue to understand that this is important. This is your edge. I don't really know how many kids are in the gym six in the morning, you know, for three hours. So just, you know, don't lose that part. Keep that part. Understand that that is making a difference in your life.


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[Assistant] Being with him, he just pushes me every day, and then I push him, and we're gonna continue to get better. But every time I play with him, I just feel like we gonna win every game. I don't feel like I'm gonna lose.


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[Assistant] Uh, he's a dog just like me. We're both competitors and stuff and we both get on each other and make sure that, uh, you know, we're performing to the best of our abilities. So.


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[Assistant] I mean, every time he just touches the field, it's just like when you need him to come into the clutch, he's got it. He can scramble. He can read the defense. So when he makes those throws and you hear the crowd go.


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[Assistant] And he'll tell you, it goes in the, it goes God, family, and then football, and that's what he lives by.


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[Assistant] So ever since he was even little to now, it's just that he's got an agenda and he's gonna do it. So when he makes his mind up to do something, he's gonna do it.


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[Assistant] They've been playing together for so long. That's the continuity. People wonder, well, what's the catch? It's not a catch. Yes, they're talented kids, but they've worked together. They, they encourage each other in a sense where it's not just one single person and, oh, I'm the best. And I said, no, they all work with each other.


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[Assistant] what else is up next. He knows right from wrong and he knows where he wants to go. I know it sounds so biased, but I do see him going to OU. I do see him playing on Sundays. He knows that education needs to come first also. So everything that Chad Michaels told me he wants to do, there's hands down. I don't have a doubt in my mind. Every one of his dreams are going to come through.


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[Assistant] He just wants to train. He loves to train. He loves to practice. He loves to play. Whether he has the greatest day or the worst day, he wants to do it the very next day.


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[Assistant] He wants to do it, it's not because I'm telling him to do it. Matter of fact, I have to tell him to stop. Like I have to tell him to take a break.


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[Assistant] You know, when he grabbed a ball or a glove or when he was around me anytime, he just, he wanted to do it. So, you know, I would say like when he was four years old, we just started going over some basic mechanics and, you know, we did them every single day. We'd hit in the backyard.


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[Assistant] Pretty soon, you know, he was hitting him over the fence and I had to stop and he was breaking the fence. So we had to stop and that's when I, uh, you know, got my facility and, and we started training in there, so.


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[Assistant] Playing basketball is kind of an escape form. We go in the backyard, we play.


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[Assistant] But I've never let him win, so he does beat me now, right? He really loves spending time with his family.


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[Assistant] What I see in my goal for him, you know, as a father is to get his education, right? I don't want him to miss out on college just to go play pro ball.


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[Assistant] You know, unless it's absolutely worth it for him, you know, something that he couldn't pass up, but truly for him to get his degree, especially at a school like Baylor.


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[Assistant] When it comes to game time, it's, you know, she blacks out. She's, she's a beast.


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[Assistant] We don't anticipate things like that, especially from somebody who puts out


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[Assistant] All that effort and all that energy. We knew that we had to work.


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[Assistant] A lot harder to get back to where we wanted to be in that this wasn't going to finish us.


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[Assistant] Gabrielle's pretty mature for her age. She's asked to do a lot of things that most kids don't do. She has a lot of responsibilities, definitely a little bit more pressure than most kids, so she's really adapted to that and it shows on the field, it shows in school, it shows around the house.


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[Assistant] Gabrielle's a great leader, uh, natural leader. She, uh, her siblings, you know, really re-admire everything that she does. She, she's a work, she's a workhorse. She likes to clean, she likes to participate in everything. Uh, she's, she's pretty amazing.


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[Assistant] Uh, the kids really look up to her, want to copy and do exactly everything that she does. And I think she motivates the team when she, you know, shows that she gives it her all. The team usually follows that same trend.


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[Assistant] She understands what a sacrifice is. She understands that, you know, uh, we're not privileged enough to stay home and, and,


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[Assistant] Not go to work and not, you know, bust our butts out there to make sure she's, you know, she has gear and her tuition's paid for. So she understands that we make sacrifices, she makes sacrifices and she definitely, you know, holds our end of it.


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[Assistant] I actually started training Sino when he was actually six years old, uh, up until now. He was a very creative kid, uh, but he was the kind of kid that always just wanted to get better. So he was always in there working on something different.


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[Assistant] Sino's a fun kid. He's so focused, but he still has fun doing it. Sino has absolutely great balance when it comes to working hard and still being fun within the course of the workout.


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[Assistant] He really, he really truly means that. Like sometimes his parents and his coaches have to tell him.


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[Assistant] Take a break and he's like, hashtag no days off, man. I gotta, I like, I'm, like I'm, I'm trying to get somewhere.


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[Assistant] The most important thing about skateboarding is when someone is on their own, the perseverance that you learn.


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[Assistant] Through getting up and trying and trying and trying again, you can apply that to life, every aspect of your life.


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[Assistant] Jordan Santana is here at Southside Skate Park probably more often than I am some weeks.


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[Assistant] It's been amazing to watch these last few years. She's skating parks all over the nation, all over the world. That's definitely landed a hand in helping her progress.


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[Assistant] She has a good attitude. It's that kind of shut up and skate mentality. She's there to skate and have a good time.


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[Assistant] It's a skate, you know, just for the pure passion of skateboarding. That's what, that's why I think she's standing out, because she's a skateboarder.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think that she will take it as far as she wants to, as far as she can. She doesn't seem like she's ever gonna stop skateboarding. She loves skateboarding. She continues to progress.


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[Assistant] Valeria es una niña muy fuerte, independiente y es un buen líder.


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[Assistant] Pues yo miro a Valerie jugando para una universidad o para la nacional y su sueño de ella es nuestro sueño.


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[Assistant] Our third position is catcher. You have to be the leader of the field and you have to have a really good arm and I really like that.


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[Assistant] What it takes to be a good catcher, you have to have strong legs, a good arm, and you just have to have that leader mindset.


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[Assistant] My conditioning coach is Singor Mobley. He helps me with my strength and my balance.


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[Assistant] Out of all my championships, my favorite one is the Arizona Spring Championships. It was a super NIT and it was a really big West Coast tournament. I'm just so happy we won and we went undefeated in the whole tournament.


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[Assistant] with a blink of an eye. It's so fast. Most kids at 11 years old, they don't have them type of breaks. They don't have that type of movement. So they're probably about 15.


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[Assistant] Back pedal. Shuffle. Open up. Open up. Get up. High point. High point. Good, good. Score, score, score.


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[Assistant] Good job, good job. I've been training Jayden for the last three and a half years. Go!


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[Assistant] When I first got with him, I knew it was something different about him with the way that he moved and his mindset. He was real determined.


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[Assistant] When you open it up, right? That full extension, right? Turn around, few yards, look up. I want you to jump. The thing about work that they get is everybody's gonna workout, right? And some people's gonna say, I'm gonna outwork you. So they're gonna workout two or three times a day, right? Jaden, he will attack each workout like he didn't workout before. And that's what makes an athlete different because you don't want to necessarily workout the same every single workout.


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[Assistant] Jaden, he has ability. I do not know how he does it because I didn't get this trait until I was probably a senior in high school or freshman in college. He attacks every workout just the same. No complaining. Real quiet guy with a good personality.


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[Assistant] Come from a really good family. Great mom, great dad. College without a dad is where I wanted to see him go.


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[Assistant] You know, whenever I give her a challenge, I mean, this girl will move mountains to get it done. You know, like there's no task that she feels she can't do.


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[Assistant] So the first one, let's go walking knee hugs. Alright, so we're gonna walk straight through the cone. I want you to grab your knee, pull it tight to your chest, okay?


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[Assistant] We always start off with uhm, good mobility work, because, you know, she does a lot of sports, she's very active, so you know what, I try to make sure she stays balanced and that, that sort. Uhm, we do a lot of speed, agility exercises, we do strength and conditioning as well.


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[Assistant] Well, Samaya is very advanced. She picks up fast, so... Honestly, I train her just like my big kids, just like my professional athletes. I just adjust the load on her, so...


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[Assistant] You know, she, I mean you just see the driving her. I don't know if you've seen the SPN, but she pushes 210 pounds on that sled.


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[Assistant] She saw her older brother play hockey and wanted to do the same.


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[Assistant] Maya's on several different teams. They play AAA and AA teams, which is the highest levels that you can play at this age.


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[Assistant] It's very important for hockey players to be athletes as well, and you can develop into an athlete if all they do is train one sport. For her to be an athlete, she needs to work on speed, explosiveness, trend, flexibility, agility, all those types of things which are best developed in a gym.


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[Assistant] Figure skating is more edges. Everybody that knows anything about like the skating world, they'll tell you that figure skaters are the best skaters. They're better than hockey players in terms of the actual skating.


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[Assistant] She will do competitions once, maybe once or twice a year. She's getting ready for one right now.


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[Assistant] Maya has a decent Instagram presence, 6-7 thousand followers, and started doing that to kind of follow her progress 3-4 years ago. It's a hockey community on Instagram, uh, all ages and girls and boys, so as the account grew, we started getting more direct messages from


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[Assistant] Girls or their parents, queer age or younger, just saying that we really love your progress, you're an inspiration, keep kicking butt, playing with the boys, that's really encouraging to see.


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[Assistant] It's amazing really, I mean I really look up to her. She has a lot of qualities that she has developed on her own, not qualities that necessarily somebody's coached her or given her. She's very brave, very outgoing, and works very hard. She inspires me when I look at how she plays and how hard she works.


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[Assistant] From a real early age, Dylan was interested in boxing.


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[Assistant] It was very early on, maybe like two years old. I used to have him sit down with me and watch the fights and he used to like imitate the boxers. I really wanted him to do baseball or basketball because that's what I used to play.


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[Assistant] Boxing's a very dangerous sport, but as a kid I wanted to do boxing myself. My dad wouldn't allow me to do boxing. So I know the feeling when you want to do something and your parents hold you back. So I gave him the opportunity to do what he wants to do.


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[Assistant] The very first time I took him to the boxing gym, he was so excited. He was actually upset because there was other little kids that were going into the ring, but they were a little more experienced already.


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[Assistant] And he wanted to go into the ring. But he would just, you know, he just started. You gotta learn the basics, the foundations.


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[Assistant] Well I felt with the guidance of Dread and hard work and dedication of Dylan that he would too become a champion.


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[Assistant] He's come a long way watching him now from when he started. I remember he couldn't get the jump rope underneath his feet and now he's competing with the best in the nation.


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[Assistant] After a big workout, Dylan likes to have a glass of chocolate milk. It gives him what he's looking for and he just loves the taste.


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[Assistant] When Dylan walked into his first fight, I just told him to go out there, don't worry about wins or losses, just have fun and do your best. As long as you give your best, that's all I care about. We lost his very first fight, which I think was beneficial for him losing his first fight, because he came back even stronger and won his next four fights.


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[Assistant] You don't see kids Dylan's age working this hard. They'd rather be home playing video games when he wants to be at the gym.


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[Assistant] Don't get me wrong, he plays video games too, but he's all about work. Video games come last.


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[Assistant] I hope that he gets his dream that he wants to become a world champion. Eventually, if he keeps on, most of the boxers today who are champions, they started at a very young age like Dylan. So as long as he keeps going, he could achieve that dream of becoming a world champion.


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[Assistant] A part of why I love surfing so much is I think in ways it kind of chose me.


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[Assistant] The water has actually been something that has been really uncomfortable for me.


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[Assistant] I think even today I'm still constantly put in positions out there that I'm uncomfortable with.


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[Assistant] But there's something about conquering that element that is exciting to me.


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[Assistant] I mean, getting into surfing for me came a little bit later than maybe your average professional surfer. Uhm, I started at 10. I grew up in Ojai, California, small town, about 30 minutes from the beach.


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[Assistant] Grew up in a coffee shop that my mom and grandma ran and at 10 when we moved to the north shore of Oahu, there wasn't much to do besides be in the water.


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[Assistant] Well surfing for me has kind of always been an uncomfortable place.


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[Assistant] Which sounds funny because that's what I do for a living and I naturally feel more comfortable around land.


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[Assistant] Being from Ojai, it's an inland, cute country town surrounded by beautiful mountains and rivers and...


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[Assistant] I think you can create your world around a comfortable place and you get to choose what that looks like. But I think as people, we're meant to be challenged.


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[Assistant] I have people ask me all the time how I can read the ocean, and I always bring it back to the mountains. That's probably because I'm from a small mountain town.


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[Assistant] It's like you can see these rolling hills coming in and you're going to know that once it hits some sort of the sandbar or the reef, it's going to have apex to it and that's going to be where the best wave is.


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[Assistant] Where you can kinda look out to the horizon and see those rolling lines, you can navigate actually where you're gonna go.


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[Assistant] For sure, style is an extension of yourself, especially when surfing.


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[Assistant] In contests, sometimes that's been a downfall. They really like an aggression and a committed look.


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[Assistant] When you connect with a wave, there's nothing really like it.


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[Assistant] You're out on this variable surface of something that is constantly changing, right?


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[Assistant] To try and figure out how you can have a part of that is wild.


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[Assistant] I think that's what's so special about the ocean is there's so many emotions to it. So every day it's different. And so I love that that changes just like people change.


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[Assistant] The whole time I'm out there, it does get kinda lonely, but that's why I bring such incredible friends.


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[Assistant] Alana has been my best friend since I was 10. Over the years she's established more of this creative side with photography. She's now the head of my social media. And I always felt like having somebody that really knew me made sense because I never want to put anything out there that doesn't speak to who I am.


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[Assistant] I mean, between Alana and Willie, they pretty much got me. Willie's one of my other amazing friends that shoots a lot of my content. And between both of them, I think they're my full-time partner on tour.


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[Assistant] Lucy is my feisty Brazilian friend. She's got so much passion, fire. She believes in me so much.


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[Assistant] Originally when I got this house, it was just completely dirt back there and not much life or vegetation. So I think I've overdone it with the amount of plants. I still have like no room.


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[Assistant] And then if the waves are good, I'll go surfing. But if it's not, then I've got a pretty cool home gym that I like to work out in.


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[Assistant] Boxing to me, uh, changed the way that I approach competing because it kind of naturally you have to have that grit.


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[Assistant] And a lot of times when I get really deep into a boxing workout, I'm actually visualizing competing.


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[Assistant] A world champion. I want to gear my life towards winning competitively again. I have that fire to go to be in the top five on the world tour.


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[Assistant] My goals are to become a professional soccer player like Kali Lord.


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[Assistant] I was about four years old when I started soccer.


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[Assistant] Uh, this one. This was from the...


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[Assistant] Regionals with the United Fritzl champion team. What I loved about the tournament, I was the top scorer. I had 16 goals.


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[Assistant] My favorite player is Callie Lloyd. I look up to her because she shoots a lot. Eleven. Twelve. Thirteen.


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[Assistant] Two years older than me, with Chicago Fire, 15, 16, 17. Nice.


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[Assistant] In the boys team, I am the youngest. When you play older, it gets a little harder because they've been training a lot. It's more of a challenge.


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[Assistant] I go to two practices because I want to.


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[Assistant] I like going to Girl Scouts because it's a little different than soccer.


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[Assistant] She's not scared to play with kids two years older than her.


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[Assistant] We started taking her to Brazilian Touch with Claudio on Fridays and she was catching on really quick. She was a quick learner. And then from there we went to doing private trainings. She was pretty good. She was a little bit advanced on, for her age. Well, they do a lot of running, a lot of conditioning. That's just the way that she is. She's always active.


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[Assistant] On the field, especially for girls, there's a lot of more challenges because they think that they have to take it easy on them. They have to work twice as hard to be noticed. I take her to all these other extra trainings to be able to keep up with the rest of the players.


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[Assistant] Futsal is more of a fast paced game. You have to be able to beat the one on one and it makes the player be more creative on the field. You have to use your skills.


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[Assistant] Bringing it outdoor, it makes you more of a faster player, making you quicker decisions.


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[Assistant] I wanted her to be more challenged. She's always said she wants to, you know, be a professional soccer player. Told her that it comes with hard work.


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[Assistant] I'm proud of her no matter what because she's my daughter. The way that she can handle this busy schedule to school and the homework and then coming home and doing her lunch is ready so we can start going to practice and then jumping from one practice to the other.


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[Assistant] She has a real busy schedule A lot of people tell me that I push her


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[Assistant] I would like for her to continue with her dream, hopefully making it into the national team.


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[Assistant] I don't know about that. It's kinda like a chain. Yeah, I'm usually out there first.


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[Assistant] I like fielding personally. Hitting. It's just like, it's so satisfying. It just hit the ball right on the barrel. The ball just like soared through the air.


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[Assistant] So, we wake up at 6 o'clock, we get downstairs, we walk out, we get in the garage, top hand, bottom hand, work off the seat.


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[Assistant] Having a brother like working out with you, getting up with you is great. They help you when you're not as committed and then you help them when they're not as committed as well. So it's kind of a win-win for like every situation.


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[Assistant] We get in here, we get dressed for school. If it's Tuesday through Thursday, we have to wear a suit and tie. Go to school, come back. Then we would have baseball practice.


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[Assistant] Oh, I decided to play catcher because my brother Jake played catcher in Little League. I just saw that position and I was like, man, that's probably really fun. When you're catching, like you're in every play, you're always involved with something.


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[Assistant] Shortstop. I just felt like I just want to be there. I want to take charge and I just want to play that position. Someone who plays shortstop, you have to have fast hands, uh, and you gotta work on your transfers. Like, say double play. You have a feed. You gotta be quick and throw it out.


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[Assistant] What we're mainly working on right now is trying to get faster.


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[Assistant] So then after that we hit off the TV to check swing drill 45 degrees.


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[Assistant] We started doing ballet four or five years ago. It's great. We work a lot on stretching, mobility, arm work. Everything we think of a ballet or a ballerina does, we do, except we don't wear tutus. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Maybe after that college player, we have to have many smaller goals to help us get to our big goal eventually.


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[Assistant] A note is off to me means just you're working hard and you're grinding at anything you want to be good at to the point where you're getting good at that and staying good. Just working hard 24-7, giving it all you can basically.


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[Assistant] On the field, he plays big. Anywhere you need him, he's a kid that can play that spot. With size, he's lean, he's fast, he's strong. With my size and my strength, I like being physical.


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[Assistant] He's a kid that's going to have about 20 to 30 offers from big time universities. Kasani's play is aggressive, fast, determined, and he has the ability to change the game.


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[Assistant] He's stuck out with his size, his charisma. He definitely like a kid that sticks on to you when he first meets you.


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[Assistant] Sonny is in the sixth grade, which is definitely something that's special for a kid in that grade.


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[Assistant] A lot of kids get offers that are in high school that's 15, 16, 17, 18 years old. So for him to have an opportunity like that to be seen early and to have a jump on some kids that are already in high school, the doors is going to really open for this kid and the amount of work that he puts in inside the classroom, outside of it, the extra work, it's all going to be worth it when he signs his letter of intent.


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[Assistant] We have credential teachers that teach them and we do training for all the kids that attend our academy.


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[Assistant] One of those playmaker guys. With style. Fearless. Fast. Perfect attitude for the sport. He won't give up on you. Never gives you bad attitude.


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[Assistant] I watch guys like Akil Carr in high school, Andrew Wiggins, Tre Young, David Brown, NBA players in high school. It shows me what they were like before they were in the NBA.


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[Assistant] I first started working out when I was about seven, but seriously got into it when I was about eight.


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[Assistant] I think I just love pushing myself to new limits, finding out what our bodies are capable of, and I think it's a really cool thing to know that you can push yourself to such great limits so you can go as high as the sky.


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[Assistant] Something I really love about rope climbs is it's so fun. You're gonna have your feet and climb up and then climb down. It's almost like climbing a building.


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[Assistant] Just finished my weight lifting session, now I get to do a fun workout with all my friends. Training with adults, I love it. If you're training with older people, when you go to train with somebody your age, you're thinking, I train with adults all the time. I can take this person, like, this person's life.


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[Assistant] My uncle Will is pretty amazing. He does a lot for me and definitely supports me through infinity and beyond. Super strong too, and he knows how to defend himself, so that's a good uncle to have.


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[Assistant] So these are all my medals for weightlifting, cause right now at this age I can't really compete in CrossFit.


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[Assistant] This one right here. I bombed out on snatch so I didn't hit any of my snatching lifts. If you bomb out, your total's gonna be zero.


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[Assistant] I was really bummed out, like, started crying in the back a little bit. But I was like, well, it's over.


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[Assistant] Now all you can do is go out and clean your jerk and perform. I went out and cleaned your jerk and hit all three of my lifts and took a competition PR and it felt like I didn't even remember I had bombed out anymore.


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[Assistant] I actually really enjoy tumbling because I know that it will help me with my self control and body control and it will definitely help with hand-eye coordination.


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[Assistant] Online school, it's a lot of work. Because she's seventh grade, this is new for her. It's her first time doing full-time online school. They have to do about five hours a day in order to be, you know, considered full-time. She usually does that or more. She works on the weekends. She's always been a really hard


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[Assistant] It's a choice, like it's not us telling her or pressuring her, like it's all her choice. She chooses to do this every day.


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[Assistant] Somewhere in here. We made the move here to Texas about three and a half years ago for Chandler to compete here.


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[Assistant] At this age, they're not thinking about it. They're just all friends. The parents are more competitive and the girls are just out there doing their best and having fun and cheering each other on.


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[Assistant] If she were to go to the Olympics, that would be great. This whole sport of course, it's a huge investment. College scholarship definitely would be great.


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[Assistant] So every Saturday morning we come to the gym and we start about 8.39 and then we run for about an hour, hour and a half.


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[Assistant] I think it's very important for them to get the mental aspect of the game. Not only like learning the game by watching the film, but also being mentally tough. Game speed. Push, push, push, cross.


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[Assistant] Shoes that came out for Kyrie Irving or LeBron James and I think it's amazing for them because they see that all their hard work and all their dedication kind of has perks.


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[Assistant] They're really into Fortnite, so like the video game means to a point where like, okay, you guys have two hours on the game today, like, cause if not, they'll go on for days.


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[Assistant] So I think basketball in general has so many life skills that you can apply to your school, your everyday life, work, career path. And for me, I think they're developing a lot of great characteristics.


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[Assistant] I'd like for them to earn an athletic scholarship, go play ball, go to college, get an education, graduate, and then if they still want to pursue basketball at that point, I'm all for it or if they have a desire to be a teacher or a doctor or start their own business, I'm all for that as well.


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[Assistant] We're at Matrix Performance. My name is Ty Marks. I'm the owner. We do a lot of mobility, a lot of hip openers with him. Matthew comes here twice a week. A lot of grip strength and just full body explosive movements.


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[Assistant] So this is all proprioception. I'm just making it fun for him, all he knows is he's really having fun. Wait.


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[Assistant] This is one of my most prized possessions. It was given to me by Nike when I achieved the world record in the 400 meters. These are the first two medals that I won at the global level. I love that the- I just didn't realize this is by appointment to Her Majesty the Queen.


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[Assistant] I'm Scout Bassett, I'm a U.S. Paralympian and I compete in the 100, 200 meters and the long jump.


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[Assistant] Just felt like, really smooth, not as, uh, jerky as the first one.


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[Assistant] I think the advantage of not having your knee is developing the work ethic that you are required to have to be able to do the workout.


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[Assistant] Even the little minute things of being able to go downstairs or upstairs, you've gotta just be so mentally and physically strong and I would say that that's the advantage because I've developed all of that and not being able to have my knee.


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[Assistant] My story begins in Nanjing, China, where as an infant, I was burned in a fire. I was left on the streets of Nanjing and later found and placed in a government orphanage where I lived until I was seven years old.


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[Assistant] When I was 14 years old, I received a running prosthetic from the Challenge Athletes Foundation. Up until then, I had never been able to be a part of competitive sports. I did sports on my everyday walking prosthetic, but it just didn't allow me to keep up with the other kids. When it came to game days, I didn't get to play.


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[Assistant] At 14 that I didn't feel that I was disabled.


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[Assistant] I've gotten more comfortable over the years being able to be open and authentic about my story and telling my journey.


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[Assistant] When I began with CAF when I was 14, I was obviously just a young athlete. But as the years have gone on, I have become more of a mentor and that's something that I'm super proud of.


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[Assistant] You never used to hear of like a professional Paralympic athlete because the opportunities weren't there. They weren't getting enough funding, enough support, sponsors, and they're still


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[Assistant] I have a personal motto, mantra that says never give in. What I mean by that is never giving in to your fears, your doubts, your insecurities, your anxieties, whatever holds you back. Never give in to those things. And I've learned to do that throughout my life, to not allow the voices in my head or the external voices to control me, but that I'm so much more powerful than that. And to be able to take any situation, good or bad, and say that you're never gonna give in to the negative aspects of that.


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[Assistant] You're always gonna continue to push through to see the positive.


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[Assistant] He's worked his butt off. He's in here every day, he never complains. And he's always doing, he's doing whatever I ask and he's always doing more than what I ask, so.


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[Assistant] I would love to see him go pro someday, and I think that he will.


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[Assistant] Second or third grade, yeaah, and he was just like, you know, can I talk to you? And I'm like, yeaah, and he was like, can I be homeschooled? Like yeaah, maybe after like junior high, like you should learn like normal school first, some math and some language because I don't know how good we'll be able to teach you.


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[Assistant] Just please, like, help me, like, chase my dream, and we're like, okay, I guess we're doing homeschool, man, let's go! That's when it started, man.


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[Assistant] I think any photo or any video that you get, as soon as you see the tree, you're gonna know where it's at. Whose idea was it first to do the backyard part?


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[Assistant] Mom's cause he's gone like all the time, so we don't really get to see him very much. She's like, hey, if he has a little skate park in the backyard, we can see him more and his friends can come over and we can all hang out.


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[Assistant] Relaxed style, goes and skates and does it, and I just literally get teared up like, man, amazing, that's my boy, and uh, yeaah, he just lives for that moment.


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[Assistant] I always listen to music when I skate. It puts me in a focused mode.


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[Assistant] When I have music in my ears and I'm feeling confident, like I honestly kinda skate faster and harder.


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[Assistant] JJ is a good friend of mine. He keeps me accountable and makes sure I do all my tricks, so I guess you could say he's a kind of a coach.


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[Assistant] After I'm done skating for four hours, I come home, do my school. That probably takes about two hours, two and a half hours a day, and then I can go skate all day and do whatever I want. It's benefited me a lot for skating.


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[Assistant] How you think it's turning out? It's uh, turning out really good. Yea man. Stoked.


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[Assistant] First got the idea, we said keep the tree, cause it shades the house.


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[Assistant] Me and my dad both came up with the layout. I kinda like picked like the length and the height. We still have more stuff to do on it.


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[Assistant] After I'm done with school and after I play some games, I go to Rio Vista skate park at night for like, I'd say two, three hours just for fun. Yeaah, in the morning I train and then in the night I just have fun with my friends. I practice tricks every day so I can land tricks in a line.


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[Assistant] Eat dinner, chill for a little bit, and then sleep and then wake up and do it all over again.


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[Assistant] I love competitions. I go against all my friends, right? And it's a contest. Like, if I lose, I don't care. If I win, like, yeaah, let's go. But I just give it all I got every comp. I just like want to become pro and be able to win the biggest competitions in the world.


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[Assistant] And it's not going to be able to get to this. There's not really any training tools or, you know, fanciness. We just talk.


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[Assistant] Once he feels it and he can see it, then, uh, he can make those adjustments on his own. And over the years I've tried to help him be able to coach himself.


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[Assistant] Good, very good. There's nothing more to it. And then he'll hit there for a while. We'll go through probably a bucket, buck and a half. We'll move on to do our catching or whatever we're going to do that day.


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[Assistant] Big thing about a catcher is pitch presentation.


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[Assistant] We work on making sure that his body doesn't give strikes away. Making sure when the umpire's looking, all that's possible with wrist strengths. If you're an umpire and you're setting up behind him and you're getting ready to see the pitch come in, it's very important is that this part of his, his arm right here moves as little as possible.


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[Assistant] So if his arm's not moving a lot, this part of his arm and his shoulder, then it's more deceptive for the umpire. So if he's all the way down here, he can move that ball all the way up to here.


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[Assistant] And that umpire thinks that ball might have traveled six or eight inches higher.


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[Assistant] Most everything that he does that helps him in the last couple years has been in the weight room. For legs, arms, upper body, back, all of it.


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[Assistant] Being a catcher, you have to be in top physical shape from top to bottom. It works all day.


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[Assistant] This isn't what we want from him. It's continuously always been what he wanted. And one of the things that we've always done is we've never forced him to practice, ever. Now we might force him to do chores around the house and things he doesn't want to do, but when it comes to baseball, we would. He's a competitive player, and when I say competitive, it goes to his grades, to ping pong, to


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[Assistant] Oklahoma's got a chance to watch him play in a few tournaments. He had a really good turnout in Atlanta and by the fourth or fifth game, we were walking back and our coach said, hey, just talk to the coaches at Oklahoma and they want you to call them.


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[Assistant] It was kind of an all-around good thing for our family and we just decided, why wait? Instead of waiting a couple years, we knew that that was where we wanted to be and it made no difference. We committed to them as much as they committed to us.


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[Assistant] But because of my size and somebody up there in the NFL saying that, I couldn't do it. I didn't get drafted. All my cousins, my uncle, you know, my father, everybody was so close to making it to the NFL but came short by injuries or just, you know, bad luck at the time and I had the opportunity to be the first one to break that.


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[Assistant] Slim shot at making it. I knew I was gonna make it though, because I knew the type of person I was.


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[Assistant] All you can do is improve your game and get better. You know, I'm far from where I want to be.


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[Assistant] Where I want to be is the best I can be. I need to make impact so I can stay.


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[Assistant] For me, I'm always looking to get better. I'm always looking to find ways to better myself as a person, as a football player.


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[Assistant] It's not hard to motivate myself for the offseason. It's the best part about it. You get to work on your body. You get to grind every day and prepare for battle pretty much.


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[Assistant] Martial arts came from my father. He turned his garage into a dojo and that's where he


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[Assistant] It tests your body to a point where you don't think you can do it. It brings back flexibility that a lot of football players don't have.


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[Assistant] I view the way I do things, the way I look at life, the way I do my training as who I am. Unique.


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[Assistant] You just let the energy flow through, you know, and it keeps me grounded, opens my mind up, and I feel a lot better.


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[Assistant] He gave me a couple crystals in college. My crystals are a program for me to like keep me healthy.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, take all negative energy away.


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[Assistant] I'm just trying to open my guides up so that I can be clear going into the game.


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[Assistant] If you want to be a really good athlete and really good pro, it's about sacrificing and understanding the bigger picture. But you gotta stay consistent on your diet, eating healthy and eating consistently.


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[Assistant] Everything that I do is focused around football, because that's my job.


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[Assistant] He is wild with who we are. The stuff he has done for us, he pushed us.


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[Assistant] Back in the day, uh, I used to watch my cousins who were actually out here today. Uh, they played football at Oklahoma State and I always watched them on TV. And growing up, I wanted to be just like them. I used to be in a majority of these kids shoes, you know, and having a dream to, to play in the NFL.


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[Assistant] You know, when I'm out there, I'm representing my household, my cousins, my uncle, because everybody was a part of what I've done. Everybody has helped me in some way, shape, or form.


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[Assistant] For a hometown kid to stay here, represent, and be proud of where they're from, from college to now. I'm honored to be able to do that.


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[Assistant] She was four when she first originally wanted to get into the whole basketball thing. And of course, a lot of people thought that it was me pushing her and saying, oh, let's go do this, let's go do that. Nah, the success comes from within her. We warm up, get the blood flowing. So it's, it's bah, ha, ha.


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[Assistant] And we go and put up some jump shots. We just work on her form, strong. A lot of shots.


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[Assistant] Show me right now what you think your range is. Go stand at it. That a girl. Perfect.


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[Assistant] She's pretty much laid out her own foundation for success. And it shows. She has her own drive. She has her own passion. She knows what it takes. I'm not doing nothing special. I'm spending time with my daughter. Simple. Her success is based on her. Everything she do, she's done it. I mean, I can't tell her.


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[Assistant] Her trying to set those goals is amazing to me as a father. There's women breaking boundaries every day. Every day.


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[Assistant] It's no limit to what you can and what you want to do. You can do everything and anything you want to do. It doesn't matter.


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[Assistant] Be on the resume. Softball pitchers rotate their arm underneath and then basketball you're going over the top. I don't want to mess that up.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Sundays is family day, fun day. We go hang out, swim, get in a hot tub. You know, I like to cook, so I'm going to go jump on the grill. And this is what we do to kind of relax, like whenever we have a free weekend to kind of let kids be kids and let her enjoy herself and, you know, just enjoy family being around and just have fun.


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[Assistant] I don't too much focus on eating habits or trying to make her eat.


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[Assistant] A certain way cause at the end of the day she's a kid. So, it's a little too early for that. I feel like once she gets older and she wants to kind of do that on her own or if it's something that we should do.


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[Assistant] Then yeaah, of course I'll do it, but let them have fun. That's what it's about. To me, when I think about No Days All, I think about her. And she's been talking and been saying that since she was four.


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[Assistant] Balancing just the coach and dad part of it is I'm not this super trainer. I didn't play in the NBA and all that. I just know enough to get my daughter to the elite level where she's at. She's nine, but she's on a level of a...


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[Assistant] She will be a future first round draft pick.


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[Assistant] What did the number 5 come from? Oh, the number 5 came from her.


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[Assistant] Because I take, I take stuff more serious. I take all game personal because you want to make it to the championship.


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[Assistant] I mean it was one of the hardest things that I've ever had to go through. Never want to see the person that you love the most in the world in that kind of position.


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[Assistant] Through high school and then through college and now through his professional career, I think for me it's been so special to watch the success that he's had, the hard times that he's had, and just his perseverance has been just really incredible to see.


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[Assistant] I knew obviously from the day that he got hurt that he was going to come back stronger because of just who he is. Being able to see his joy through that all and watch him through that has been just a really incredible experience.


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[Assistant] We love having fun together, we love laughing together and working out is something that I enjoy and obviously it's a big part of his life. Being able to do that together is really special.


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[Assistant] The biggest thing that separates Cooper from his peers is the balance that he has. Being able to balance a home life and


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[Assistant] A professional career that's so demanding is really incredible and I don't think a lot of people are able to do that as well and as gracefully as he does.


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[Assistant] Go through every single day and his dedication and the sacrifices that he makes. It's just an incredible feeling to watch him do what he loves.


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[Assistant] He knew when it was time for one of Parker's games he would.


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[Assistant] He would grab all of his things and he'd have his little plastic bat and ball and he would go out there and like he said, play with other siblings and.


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[Assistant] We just have to plan accordingly to share the one bathroom.


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[Assistant] Of course, it's a reality that a lot of people deal with. I think you kind of have a decision to make. You have a decision to either go backwards or you can say, what happened? How am I going to move forward from it?


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[Assistant] What fuels my hustle is making sure that I'm doing the best that I can for the guys next to me, uhm, playing for my family, uhm, playing for my friends. I'm really just looking forward to getting out there and playing football.


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[Assistant] My name is Cooper Cup, and I play wide receiver for the Los Angeles Rams.


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[Assistant] I walked off the field my senior year with no offers. I was kind of distraught. I remember breaking down in tears, crying on the bus ride home. I didn't know anything else other than putting it all back into football again. And that's what I did heading into college.


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[Assistant] I've been playing at Eastern Washington for five years. I just committed all my time, all my energy to being the best me that I could be. Something my grandpa used to talk about all the time, he still talks about every time he sits down, is the importance of dreaming and visualization. Before a game, he would just lay in his bed with his eyes closed and visualize plays over and over and over again.


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[Assistant] And then see himself accomplishing his goal. And my expectation was simply that I was going to get an opportunity to play in the NFL and whoever ended up choosing me wasn't going to be disappointed in the player that they got.


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[Assistant] Family is so important to me. That is, that is a priority before football. My wife has been there through probably the highest highs and the lowest lows and she's always been a rock for me.


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[Assistant] First time I started running track, I pretty much say after I saw 2008 Beijing Olympics when I saw Usain Bolt run.


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[Assistant] I was so amazed by how fast their legs are moving and how fast they are moving and everything. I just know that I can be like them someday.


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[Assistant] Uh, fastest on my brand so far is 10-8. And I'm not satisfied with that at all. I'm Jalen, I'm 16, and I'm a sprinter.


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[Assistant] My dad was known for being very, very fast. And I feel like I picked that up from him especially. I was seven years old when I started running against older kids and started beating them. And a lot of people started telling me like, you have potential and you're gonna go far. And that's when I pretty much just like, hmm, I guess I am fast.


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[Assistant] Growing up in Coney Island, it was kind of a struggle in a way because I had to work ten times as hard to make sure I was seen and to make sure, like, I was doing what I had to do to be the best. Traveling to school every day takes me about an hour, but I know


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[Assistant] And when I didn't win, I didn't take it as a loss. I just took it as a lesson and


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[Assistant] I would just hope the next week to get them back and eventually I did.


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[Assistant] I train Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. I don't train on Fridays. And I train for about three to four hours.


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[Assistant] I have two coaches cause I run for high school and I run for club. Both my coaches are Jamaican, so I guess like, them having that experience, they kinda put it on us.


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[Assistant] Growing up around the beach my whole life is really good because I get to run on the sand and especially in track you get out the block before everybody else and running with weights on the beach and parachutes it's helped me because that's what I need to like work on a little bit more is my starts. I'm explosive out the blocks but I just need to be a little bit more explosive to get to that level where I want to be.