October 31, 2025 • 32 mins
Azzi and Ashanti are back, and this week they’re joined by UConn’s very own Caroline Ducharme — aka the Silent Assassin. From her quiet freshman year to becoming the mom of the team. Caroline opens up about her journey, her mindset, and how she fought her way back from multiple concussions.
The crew talks growing pains, locker room dynamics, and why this season feels different. Caroline also spills on growing up in New England basketball culture, the chaos of ring design day, and her unexpected theater debut as the rose in Beauty and the Beast.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey, everyone, welcome back to another episode. A fut around
and find out. I'm here with my girl a shanty
a shanty. What's up? Hey?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It is now spooky season, so this episode dropping on Halloween,
and so I've just brought a little spook to the pod.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
And for those who don't celebrate, you know, hallelujah night.
So that's when I'm rocking. What you got on?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Well, you know, I forgot my spooky ears, but I
do have my good wife's crew neck on, so shout
out good wives. Okay, fire, wait, I can't see you,
let me see yes, represent yeah, you know. Sweet cheek
society is what it says. I love it. I love it.
Tell good wipe, send you some more, some more stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Okay, So, girly Pop, I just saw your scrimmage, your
second scrimmage of the season.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I'm so excited for you in your team. How are
you feeling after that? Excited? I'm excited to start. That
was our last exhibition game and so from here on out,
it's the real stuff. So I can't wait. I can't
wait for things to start going. I can't wait to
get in the thick of the season. And I'm just
excited to start playing with this team, Like, I think
that we have the chance to do something really fun
this year, so to be able to really start that process.
(01:14):
Can't wait. Okay, well, you guys look good. I mean,
you spank that team, y'all. It was I mean, it
was practice out there. It was practice, all right, all right.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I'm just saying as someone who was viewing, you know,
I haven't been, you know, to that many Yukon games
in the last couple of years, So me pulling up,
I was like, whoa, it's really magic. So I enjoyed it,
and I'm looking forward to the start of your season.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
So, you know, the listeners have been writing and asking.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
They try to guess every week who we're going to
have on, So we've been dropping hints and we haven't
really been explaining. So the last episode we had Sue on,
and then we dropped three emojis, which was like a
soldier with like a hat, a nose, and a rainbow.
The soldier represented that picture of super when she had
that big fuzzy hat on and she was wearing like,
(02:03):
I don't know, it was like a red that like
guard outfit. Yes, the guardfit, which is why we had
that one. The nose emoji was about her breaking her
nose five times, which is insane. And then the rainbow
we talked about it on the episode, but you know,
we talked about her being out in you know, proud
and just like that journey through college and coming out so.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Beautiful, hints Ashanti. So good. Well, thanks me and the team.
We also had other clues you want to talk about them. Yeah,
So my profile picture in the text group chat was
from the panel that I did with Sue this past summer.
And then in that same panel was when Sue and
I kind of teased about having the pod. She asked
(02:46):
if I would ever have a pod of my own
and my answer was you're gonna have to fut around
and find out. And then another one was the time
stamp in it was twenty two military time, which is
same as her grad year two thousand and two. And
then there are also ten text messages in the chain
her number, and then there was also a green battery
for green for the Seattle storm. Here you go.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I mean, I feel like that was enough for those
who were super stumped. I was like, I get why
you're confused. But there was a couple of people who
actually got.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It, and I was like detectives, FBI hire them.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
No, seriously, So now we have a special guest who's
going to be joining us.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I'm so excited. It's always a special episode, but it's
always extra special. Whoa, it's always it's always a special episode,
but it's extra special when one of my teammates are on.
So today we have the extra special Caroline ducharm whoa,
Hey Caroline, Hello, thanks for having me, Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yes, Caroline, so you are called the Silent Assassin.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Where did you get this nickname?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Honestly, it probably started our freshman year when we both
got here. I don't think I said like three words
like until like four months and maybe so.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
That's that's where it came from. I forgot that that
was your nickname. I did too, Honestly, She's not silent anymore. No,
But why did you only say like three words? Were
you nervous or scared? I was just really quiet. I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I really only talked to Asy and the other freshmen.
I talked to Vina a little bit, but like it
wasn't no, I wasn't very out there.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Wow, I really forgot about that. You were superchol. I
was really quiet, yeah, and then I was just the kuders. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Okay, well things have changed now you've definitely grown into yourself.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Let's take you back, Caroline. Can you tell our listeners
a little bit more about your background?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So I'm from Milton, Massachusetts. I have an older sister
and a younger brother, and they both played basketball, so
we grew up playing both. My parents played coached us
their whole lif so we grew up just playing in
the backyard, playing horse before school like stuff like that.
And then most importantly, my dog, Lola.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
She's an English mass and she's okay with her. We're
definitely gonna need a picture I want to see for sure. Okay,
so you grew up playing basketball. Did you always want
to go to Yukon or is this how did you
end up here?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Honestly?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah, I think growing up in New England as a
girls basketball player, I mean I grew up in like
the Stewey that whole era, So I feel like I
was just always in awe of Yukon and I was
obsessed with them when I was younger. But then when
I started actually going through the recruiting process and actually
you know, trying to figure out where I was going
(05:47):
to go for real. I didn't want to just comit
here because that's what I wanted to do when I
was seven. So you know, I did the whole thing.
I went on the visits, I talked to coaches seriously.
I looked at a lot of other schools seriously, but
I just was always coming back to coach in Yukon,
and yeah, it just felt right, So I came here.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
What other schools were you thinking about?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
By the end, I was down to Oregon, Tennessee, North
Carolina and Yukon.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I can't imagine you anywhere else. No me, I think
about that too. I'm like, I can't imagine if I
had gone anywhere.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Why'd you pick Yukon? What set you kind of for
I think just the culture here. Obviously Coach there's nobody
like him, So I think just I wanted to play
with and against the best, and I wanted to be.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Challenged every day. And I love.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Just like the culture of success and the standard that
we have here, and I was just always drawn to
that expectation of you know, excellence and perfection and everything
that we do.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
So I would say that is what you know stood out.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Okay, so let's talk about your family. I know all
your families played basketball. Growing up, I had the opportunity to,
you know, chat a little bit with your sister. She
shared some funny stories about you. You know, she's older
than you. You always sticking around playing with the older kids.
She did share one story about your you know, determination
(07:10):
when it comes to playing and wanting to play with
the older kids.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Do you want to share that story? I don't know
what story she's talking about.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
It was one where you got pretty sick and you
were like, I guess, throwing up in the hotel, and
then I guess your older sister team.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Okay, yeah, go ahead, let's tell it from your words.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah, I must have been. I think she was in
sixth grade, so I was in fourth grade, I think,
And yeah, I growing up, I wanted to be just
like my older sister, Like I wanted to wear.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
What she wore. I wanted to do what she did.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I was like that little sister that was like attached
to her hip. So when she started playing basketball more
like obviously I wanted to do what she did. And
then I obviously like found my own love for it.
But when I was younger. I used to just her
team around and like fourth grade, you know, your season
ends at like you know, reasonable time, and then the
older kids get to keep playing into the summer. So
(08:07):
I would just like follow them around and sit at
the end of the bench and if they were up
by a million, like their coach would you know, throw
me a bone and I'd get in for thirty seconds
or something like that. And so yeah, I don't remember
exactly what it was, but yeah, it was at some
tournament over the summer and I was sick.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I was throwing up like all morning, all day. I
was throwing up at the bench.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
There's like a picture of me like in my uniform,
like the longest shorts ever, just like over.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
The trash can.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
And my coach was like my dad was the coach,
and then the other coach was like a good, really
close friend of ours, and he was like, you know,
like we're up by a lot, like this might be
the only time she gets to go in, and my
dad was kind of like, no, it's.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Okay, and I was like, no, I want to go in.
I want to go in.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
And I was throwing up everywhere, but I got my
thirty seconds of fame.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I went back to the trash can. So you're really
the same person.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, I was really gonna say, like super resilient even
now playing at you got I want to know, Ezy,
what it was like like your freshman sophomore year playing
with Caroline.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
You know what's crazy is that Caroline is actually one
of my longest friends. I mean, obviously besides like people
I literally grew up with, but given that we're not
from the same area, I think as soon as we met,
we became friends, which was seventh grade. Yeah, Blue Star.
You met at Blue Star in seventh grade, and we
she was like the first person I met in my
(09:32):
class that played basketball and was high level, had the
same mindset, and we just clicked were best friends since
I was pretty immediate. So I just don't like my
longest friend now seventh seventh grade.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Seventh grade, so now, and because there wasn't a lot
of people in our grade at the camp, it was
only like a couple of us. Wait, did I just
map that seventh grade? Eighth, ninth, tenth, not using your
fingers to count? This is our fifth year. Yeah, that's
ten years. Oh my god, that's crazy. We're going on
ten years. We were like fourteen or that's nuts.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
So how'd you feel like freshman year her committing to
Yukon with you, what was that like?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Well, Carolin was the first in our class to commit,
so she was kind of recruiting me, not kind of,
she was recruiting me to go to school with her,
and that she was part of the reason why I came.
I mean I came for the same reason she did.
The coaches, the standard here, wanting to play with and
against the best every day, being coached by the best,
but then having that extra incentive of being able to
(10:34):
play with your best friends. Like not many people go
in to a college either with someone or knowing someone
already there, So that was an extra just bonus of
getting to play with two of your best friends. And
it's been a little different than what I imagined when
I committed, but that has still been really special. I mean,
going through everything we've done or we've been through, being
(10:56):
able to have each other buyer sides through it has
definitely made it a lot. Not but just being able
to handle it has been easier. Having people that you
love and no love you and have your back.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Absolutely and all of us know what it's like to
come back from injury, Caroline, can you tell us a
little bit of like how that started. I know that
you've you've gone through quite a bit when it comes
to like head injuries and things.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Like that, since they even like knees and shoulders. I
was going to say, and I was. I was there, Yeah,
Asy was there when I tore my a cl in
Wow my fresh year, I think, yeah, in ninth grade
at Bea Williams, And I literally remember she was on
the opposite on the faceline and then I went, you know,
(11:48):
in the little like tournament trainers, and it was just
me and easy because I don't think my parents had
come over yet, like they were still trying to find
the way.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
And I was like, oh my gosh, Ezy was right
there with me. Yeah, and through it all.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
And then ten years later, so there had a bunch
of concussions that led to head injuries and TBIs and
all that. But yeah, I'm feeling good now getting there.
It's obviously a process. You know, concussions are really scary.
I think they're very under talked about in sports, especially
(12:28):
at a young age. I think you hear about them
so much with football and you know, hockey and stuff
like that, but you don't necessarily think that it's going
to affect your life so much like as a basketball player.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I don't know, I was never really that.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Educated on concussions, and I never thought it would take
over my life like it has. But I would say,
I'm trending up. Yeah I'm feeling good obviously. Yeah it's
you know, it takes a while, but I'm feeling good.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
So this is the best I felt in years. So
she looks amazing too. Okay, I was gonna say perfect timing.
But for those who don't know, like what the concussion
process or rehab looks like, could you walk us through that?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
So mine it kind of changed at the more that
I got of them. But at the beginning, I don't
honestly know the exact number, but.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
A lot, I would say, a lot, like over three,
over five.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
The numbers not yeah you know, but yeah, first it's
hard because obviously as an athlete, especially I had gone
through other surgeries and other injuries where you know, when
you're frustrated, and as Asy knows, like, you just do
rehab and you just constantly do rehab and it kind
(13:46):
of helps ease your mind that like you are getting back,
you are getting back, but with concussions, you can't.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Really do that so much. It's so much about rest
and not not doing too much and letting your brain heal.
And so at first it was a lot of that stuff,
which was really frustrating because you know, obviously as someone
who wants to be out there, you don't feel like
you're doing much, but it is helping.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
And then kind of the more I got, you know,
the more symptoms I had, the more they kept piling up,
becoming a TBI, I kind of needed to do something different,
and that's when I went down to Florida to AVIV,
which is the Brain Rehabilitation Center, and that's where I
got like real rehab, real work, and that's honestly when
(14:31):
I started to see a difference in my recovery.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Okay, amazing, Thanks for talking about this, Caroline. I know
that's tough. Like of course, even talking about I've tore
my ACL even talking about that when I was playing,
it's kind of like people don't get it. It makes
you want to quit and you just have to decide
that you got to push through. So I can't imagine
having multiple concussions, because one thing is like, Okay, your knee,
(14:58):
it can heal, you'll be able to you'll be fine.
Your brain is like a whole different ballgame. So yeah, no,
that's the serious part.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yeah. So, Carol, I've noticed in practice that you look
a lot more confident and just sure of yourself. Like
you look you really look like you're getting back to
your old self, like cutting, being in the paint and
not worrying about things, being able to just play more free.
I'm curious is that how you feel as well? Is
that also what's going through your head? Yeah, I definitely
think that I'm thinking about it. Lest I think when
(15:30):
I came back last year, you could tell I was
kind of like three point line and out, like I
wasn't really trying to go in there, and I think
that was just kind of just to get like my
feet under me. And now I feel like I'm trying
to actually, you know, play I don't want to just
like be out there.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
I want to actually, you know, make an impact. So
I think, yeah, like I've definitely felt more comfortable with it.
It's definitely still a processing so I sometimes I find
myself like so flinching or stuff like that, But I do.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Feel like i've you know, come a long way with it.
How do you think you've kind of made that progression
because I feel like even very very different, like not
trying to compare knees and heads and eat knees and brains.
But I feel something that everyone goes through is like
that fear of re injuring yourself, regetting hit. But I
feel like in your case it's just like a little
bit scarier. So how do you get over that? It's
(16:17):
like the fear is always there, it's always a possibility,
but you can't think about it, and then when you
try not to think about it, you're thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yeah, I think honestly, like this summer, having got like
bumped or like a little hits, and I was okay,
Like you know, the first few times, like whenever I
get hit, everyone's like are you okay?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Are you okay?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
And for a second I'm like, oh, shoot, like am
I okay? And then I'm good. So then I was
able to like keep going. And you know, for a
while I was used to like getting little bombs and
that would set me back for a week. So I think, yeah,
just getting those little hits or like, you know, having contact,
being like, oh wait, I'm actually good, like I'm healed.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I think that's helped my confidence. Obviously I do think
about it, but no, yeah, I think that's definitely been
what's helped me.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
So now that you're back on the court and you're
feeling more confident, I see that you wear a headband often.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Why do you do that.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
It's just like for a little added protection. I don't
know how much it really does, but just think if
I get hit in that area, it kind of helps
me to, you know, have a little that's kind of
usually where I would get hit is like along the
front or like on the sides, and it's you know,
it's helped a little bit.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I don't know that definitely that it really does too much,
but it's like a little safety.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I guess it's like a nie sleeve or a knee
brace if you have an injury there.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
So I guess, yeah, that makes sense. Okay, ladies.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
You guys are coming off a national championship and I
know there was recently a ring ceremony and you guys
were the scene. Well the older group who helped design
the ring. What went into designing those rings? Honestly a
lot more than I was expecting.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I kind of thought that they were just gonna kind
of do it and then get our approval. I didn't
know that we were gonna have that much say in it,
so that was kind of fun. It was, Yeah, I
was not expecting all of the yea, all the little details. Yeah,
all the little things. Was the shape of the little diamonds,
the shape of the ring, what do you want do
(18:19):
you want the like the top to come off? What
do you want to say here? Here, here, and here?
Do you want there to be a trophy where they
put on numbers? It was just so many details that
I didn't even think about. But it was really cool.
I was happy that we were able to do that.
It worked out really good. It looks incredible good. I
mean it was beautiful. It was blinking Wait.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
So they didn't have like a template for you, guys.
They literally made you just like you had to come
with ideas. They just had a million options of stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yeah, there's a bunch of options, but you could mix
and match any of the different options. So like every
every detail and every piece of writing and design, there
was like five options for that.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Okay, well, yeah, did y'ad big one because it was amazing.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
It was beautiful. All Right.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
You guys are also going into your final year at Yukon.
You guys, how does it feel having to step up
and be leaders or like, has your role changed from
last year?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I think it is kind of crazy that we're fifth years.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I feel like in some ways I feel like we
just got here, but you don't really realize it until
you're talking about stuff and then they're like, oh, wait, age,
it was only one else that was here for that,
it's like just us. I mean, for me, I think
my role has changed just because I didn't play for
the majority of last year, so I was like a
little bit removed from stuff that was like going on
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in practice and on the court. But I do think
that it's helped me this year because I feel like
last year the year before that was like my only impact,
So I made a concerted effort to be like super
involved off the court. So I think it's helped me
this year to you know, still have that and.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Then also be playing. Yeah, Caroline is that teammate that
anyone and everyone goes to whenever they're sad, happy, upset
needs something. Truthfully, I don't know how she does it.
That is a draining job. There's fifteen of us, so
it's fourteen other people in this team that you basically
take care of. So to have that energy and always
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be there for everyone always impresses me. But she is,
like when she says that her role the last few years,
like she's really tried to embrace like being there for
everyone off the court. Not only does she embrace it,
like she like I can't even I know, but like seriously,
I can't explain it because she's always the one making
sure that like are you okay? Are you doing well?
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Like I noticed this. She just notices everything about everyone
and takes care of them, and it's not easy to do,
especially like she has a million things on her plate
with rehab, school, basketball, trying to figure things out, and
so to always have that extra time for everyone else
has always amazed me.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Okay, Caroline, you've become like the mom of the team.
That different for you being a little child.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Yeah, actually kind of, because yeah, I feel like as
a child, like as a kid I was, my sister
was always I always say, like when I'm with her,
like I just want to have like empty head and
just like follow her around, and I really do that
with her. But now it's like, yeah, I think it's
probably weird, probably weirdest for her to see me in
(21:23):
this role because she's like, I've taken.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Care of you.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
She should be so proud all the things she's done
you now and body for your team.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
So that's awesome. Oh, that's a really sweet way to
look at it. I know. Okay, Cairl, So being from
Boston and playing at a high level, you've gotten the
chance to play with a bunch of other professional and
collegiate BASHL players. What's that been like being able to
play with people like Ronica Burton, Taylor Soul, Janee CRuMs
and others. Yeah. I think basketball in Boston is very underrated.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
I think that we don't really get a lot of
like the high level, you know, high profile athletes coming
out of Boston. But I think during COVID, I mean,
all these people like I grew up playing with when
I was younger, but then during COVID, when everything was
shut down, is when we kind of made a concerted
effort to you know, be able to come together. And
we couldn't play, we couldn't travel, we couldn't go anywhere else.
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So we would every morning at like six, we'd play
pick up literally every day, and it was just really
fun to be able to, you know, have those Everyone
went to different schools in different you know areas, but
to be able to come together and play and you know,
we hadn't most of us hadn't played together since we
were like, you know, ten, So especially for me because
they were all older than me. So to be able
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to push each other during COVID and be able to
you know, have that environment and community I think really helped.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
And it's continued on after the quarantine was over. That's
super cool. Do you still talk to a lot of them? Yeah,
most of them. Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Okay, so I kind of I kind of have like
a little pivot. When did you decide like you wanted
to play basketball, because you know, your sister tells a
story that you were into musical theater at first.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I was the rose and beating the beast. It was
a very huge role and I took it very seriously.
Wait when when was this? I have a picture somewhere.
I think I was in like second grade. I was little,
like I was a little rat at this time, and
I was.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I need a video. I definitely have a big kind
of picture. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
I had like a little like like to too, and
like it was like a little like Ballerina thing, and
I had like the pedals and you know the rose.
The rose is dying, so I had like the pedals falling.
It was a dancing roll. Yeah, you react. I just
like went like this, like the pedals were falling, So
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I just like went like that. But it was a
it was a crucial role. I mean, you can't have
beating the beast without the rose. So it was like
it was my main role. But then I think everyone
was happy when I kind of pivoted to basketball. I
still played basketball while I was doing the rose, but yeah,
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then I kind of left that.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
No, I don't say your dance or anything. I think
we need to bring perform. No, say I think it's
good good in the past. Definitely need a video though. No,
my mom definitely has a okay good Yeah, please we
need videos and pictures absolutely, Okay, Carol, let's talk about school.
A lot of people don't know what your major is.
(24:39):
What are you majoring in?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
So I just graduated with a degree in Human development
and family studies.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Wait, when did you just graduate? I got my degree? Congratulations.
I had no idea congrat thank you, thank you? Wow,
look at you. I got congrat. I got a notification.
I was sent to the house. It's all the matter.
Come yeah, yeah, I need to see that, you know,
the real proof writing. Yeah. So what are you doing now?
(25:09):
So now I'm just taking classes certificate? Yeah yeah, it's
just a bunch of classes. Wow. Wait what development Family Studies? Yeah? Okay,
why did you choose that? I'm going to do something?
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Honestly, I just kind of liked it because I feel
like you can do a lot of different things with it.
It's all about like relationships and people and how you know,
people like interact with each other and how to work
with other people.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
So I feel like I could really use it in
a lot of different ways. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Now it's time for our what the fud of the
week are? What the fun of the week is?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Something that happened this week that made you say what
the fuck? Caroline? Was yours?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
My what the fun of the week is was the
reunion we had with the Page and Aubrey, seeing them
back on campus and playing with them again.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
That's a good one.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Yeah, I saw pages uh Instagram, and some other people
were posting basically saying they got to play against you guys.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
I don't know. She says she was putting you out
through the wringer. You know what, that's my changing my
what the fun? I'm changing what the food to that way?
Now it's a good change. Okay, I'm having too, but
(26:35):
that's one of them. She went out of a way
to tag me as lay her. I have to her
tell her to drop the page. If you're listening to this,
come back to practice please. Anyways, Yeah, we're not gonna
we're not gonna expose her though. We're gonna be classy
about it. We're gonna be classy, classy how we are. Anyways,
(27:00):
My other what the fud is that we had an
exhibition game, uh this past weekend, and ah he was there.
And after our games we get these little mini Yukon
basketballs that we get to throw out to fans, and
so I threw one to where my mom and a
shanty were standing. It hit my mom's back, and a
shanty was like, why are they throwing little oranges at people?
(27:23):
Why are they throwing clementines at people?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I just want to say I just want to say
that was a I in the year of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
That was not that was okay because why wouldn't be
throwing oranges? Now?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
I was like, why are you throwing them? And also
I wanted one. I was like, ah, I take some
vitamin see after the game?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Why not? It was cold, Like I'm kind of hungry.
I could get some butt and see actually was starving.
So that's probably why my mind went to that. Oh okay,
that's hilarious. That was a good one.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Azy top here, top tier with the fuds. This week,
this is Caroline. Our next game is who's more likely
to So we're going to throw out scenarios and you
guys tell us who's more likely to do it?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
You already? Okay? Right? Okay? First one? Who's more likely
to dress up for Halloween? Me? I am dressing up
this year? Though, Yes, we're all dressing up this year,
but Caroline hates Halloween. I just don't really that's okay,
but I will do it for them. I'll do it.
I've dressed up every year. I just haven't been the
(28:35):
most enthusiastic. You're like the most it's a bunny, She's basic.
Listen some people this year. I'm not basic. You're gonna
like you know, growing up we had Hallelujah and I
you know, and everybody had.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
The ability to dress up Halloween. Okay, Next one, who's
more likely to take longer to respond to text?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
You? You take a long time too. I do take
a long time too, but you take even longer. I'm
getting better. It's just getting better. Who's more likely to
be louder in practice? Caroline? But I'm getting better. I'm
(29:24):
gonna take that one. But you're also getting better. Definitely
gets better. I believe that one. Who's the better cook? Yeah, okay,
little boy? What should be cooking? Caroline knows her limits,
though she knows what she can speak to what I'm
what I'm good at? Make good walk? Yes you do?
Everyone has? Yeah, really good at that's crazy? Okay. Who's
(29:51):
the better driver? So easy? Not me? I think it's
the Boston and her you know? Yeah, it definitely is right.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I get us from pointing to me, We've never alive
and that's all that matters.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Did you die? Though? Who gets yelled at a practice more? Caroline?
Also me people, it could never be the princess, but
I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Oh, okay, I think this is pretty good. Who's better
at other sports?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
No, definitely not me.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
I don't know if I ever seen you play it
another sport, but I just feel like it would be you.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
I feel like it wouldn't be you. I'm saying no,
it's it's definitely not me, not saying oh, I feel
like it would be me.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
She's like, I feel like it would be Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Who's better at giving gifts? Caroline. I'm gonna take that one, yes, Caroline.
She is so thoughtful, like I said, but is good
when you put your mind to it. You're good at gifts.
But it's like not that it's more natural for you,
but like you just do it so often, like you're
you're just very thoughtful. Not that I'm not, but it's
like you noticed when someone is not having by day
(31:05):
and you're like professional gift basket maker right here. I
do like a gift basket. I love that. I do
like a gift basket. But when when you do gift,
they're very good. You just don't gift as often, but
you are very thoughtful to take your little Christmas things
and your little countreets. Yeah, she's more of like a
baker and like the food. Yeah, I don't think that
(31:26):
sounds good.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Last two, who's more likely to start a business after basketball? A?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Start a business? I don't be interesting. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Maybe we could co start a business. Yeah, let's start
a business together, could start a business. I would love
to see that, all right, you guys. Last one, who's
more likely to get in a fight during a game?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Not? Either? Wrong? I was gonna say, I don't know
about either of us. Yeah, I don't think either of us.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
We're more of a like, you know, calm the other
person down, whoever's getting rowdie.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Yeah, we're the level headed, the okay, calm collective. Caroline,
thank you so much for joining us today. It was
such a pleasure to get to know you better and
chat with you this morning. Thank you so much for
having me my pleasure. And listeners. Thank you guys so
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five and a Shawntee Plummer
Hey, everyone, welcome back to another episode. A fut around
and find out. I'm here with my girl a shanty
a shanty. What's up? Hey?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It is now spooky season, so this episode dropping on Halloween,
and so I've just brought a little spook to the pod.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
And for those who don't celebrate, you know, hallelujah night.
So that's when I'm rocking. What you got on?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Well, you know, I forgot my spooky ears, but I
do have my good wife's crew neck on, so shout
out good wives. Okay, fire, wait, I can't see you,
let me see yes, represent yeah, you know. Sweet cheek
society is what it says. I love it. I love it.
Tell good wipe, send you some more, some more stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Okay, So, girly Pop, I just saw your scrimmage, your
second scrimmage of the season.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I'm so excited for you in your team. How are
you feeling after that? Excited? I'm excited to start. That
was our last exhibition game and so from here on out,
it's the real stuff. So I can't wait. I can't
wait for things to start going. I can't wait to
get in the thick of the season. And I'm just
excited to start playing with this team, Like, I think
that we have the chance to do something really fun
this year, so to be able to really start that process.
(01:14):
Can't wait. Okay, well, you guys look good. I mean,
you spank that team, y'all. It was I mean, it
was practice out there. It was practice, all right, all right.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I'm just saying as someone who was viewing, you know,
I haven't been, you know, to that many Yukon games
in the last couple of years, So me pulling up,
I was like, whoa, it's really magic. So I enjoyed it,
and I'm looking forward to the start of your season.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
So, you know, the listeners have been writing and asking.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
They try to guess every week who we're going to
have on, So we've been dropping hints and we haven't
really been explaining. So the last episode we had Sue on,
and then we dropped three emojis, which was like a
soldier with like a hat, a nose, and a rainbow.
The soldier represented that picture of super when she had
that big fuzzy hat on and she was wearing like,
(02:03):
I don't know, it was like a red that like
guard outfit. Yes, the guardfit, which is why we had
that one. The nose emoji was about her breaking her
nose five times, which is insane. And then the rainbow
we talked about it on the episode, but you know,
we talked about her being out in you know, proud
and just like that journey through college and coming out so.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Beautiful, hints Ashanti. So good. Well, thanks me and the team.
We also had other clues you want to talk about them. Yeah,
So my profile picture in the text group chat was
from the panel that I did with Sue this past summer.
And then in that same panel was when Sue and
I kind of teased about having the pod. She asked
(02:46):
if I would ever have a pod of my own
and my answer was you're gonna have to fut around
and find out. And then another one was the time
stamp in it was twenty two military time, which is
same as her grad year two thousand and two. And
then there are also ten text messages in the chain
her number, and then there was also a green battery
for green for the Seattle storm. Here you go.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I mean, I feel like that was enough for those
who were super stumped. I was like, I get why
you're confused. But there was a couple of people who
actually got.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It, and I was like detectives, FBI hire them.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
No, seriously, So now we have a special guest who's
going to be joining us.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I'm so excited. It's always a special episode, but it's
always extra special. Whoa, it's always it's always a special episode,
but it's extra special when one of my teammates are on.
So today we have the extra special Caroline ducharm whoa,
Hey Caroline, Hello, thanks for having me, Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yes, Caroline, so you are called the Silent Assassin.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Where did you get this nickname?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Honestly, it probably started our freshman year when we both
got here. I don't think I said like three words
like until like four months and maybe so.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
That's that's where it came from. I forgot that that
was your nickname. I did too, Honestly, She's not silent anymore. No,
But why did you only say like three words? Were
you nervous or scared? I was just really quiet. I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I really only talked to Asy and the other freshmen.
I talked to Vina a little bit, but like it
wasn't no, I wasn't very out there.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Wow, I really forgot about that. You were superchol. I
was really quiet, yeah, and then I was just the kuders. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Okay, well things have changed now you've definitely grown into yourself.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Let's take you back, Caroline. Can you tell our listeners
a little bit more about your background?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So I'm from Milton, Massachusetts. I have an older sister
and a younger brother, and they both played basketball, so
we grew up playing both. My parents played coached us
their whole lif so we grew up just playing in
the backyard, playing horse before school like stuff like that.
And then most importantly, my dog, Lola.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
She's an English mass and she's okay with her. We're
definitely gonna need a picture I want to see for sure. Okay,
so you grew up playing basketball. Did you always want
to go to Yukon or is this how did you
end up here?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Honestly?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah, I think growing up in New England as a
girls basketball player, I mean I grew up in like
the Stewey that whole era, So I feel like I
was just always in awe of Yukon and I was
obsessed with them when I was younger. But then when
I started actually going through the recruiting process and actually
you know, trying to figure out where I was going
(05:47):
to go for real. I didn't want to just comit
here because that's what I wanted to do when I
was seven. So you know, I did the whole thing.
I went on the visits, I talked to coaches seriously.
I looked at a lot of other schools seriously, but
I just was always coming back to coach in Yukon,
and yeah, it just felt right, So I came here.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
What other schools were you thinking about?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
By the end, I was down to Oregon, Tennessee, North
Carolina and Yukon.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I can't imagine you anywhere else. No me, I think
about that too. I'm like, I can't imagine if I
had gone anywhere.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Why'd you pick Yukon? What set you kind of for
I think just the culture here. Obviously Coach there's nobody
like him, So I think just I wanted to play
with and against the best, and I wanted to be.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Challenged every day. And I love.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Just like the culture of success and the standard that
we have here, and I was just always drawn to
that expectation of you know, excellence and perfection and everything
that we do.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
So I would say that is what you know stood out.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Okay, so let's talk about your family. I know all
your families played basketball. Growing up, I had the opportunity to,
you know, chat a little bit with your sister. She
shared some funny stories about you. You know, she's older
than you. You always sticking around playing with the older kids.
She did share one story about your you know, determination
(07:10):
when it comes to playing and wanting to play with
the older kids.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Do you want to share that story? I don't know
what story she's talking about.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
It was one where you got pretty sick and you
were like, I guess, throwing up in the hotel, and
then I guess your older sister team.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Okay, yeah, go ahead, let's tell it from your words.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah, I must have been. I think she was in
sixth grade, so I was in fourth grade, I think,
And yeah, I growing up, I wanted to be just
like my older sister, Like I wanted to wear.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
What she wore. I wanted to do what she did.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I was like that little sister that was like attached
to her hip. So when she started playing basketball more
like obviously I wanted to do what she did. And
then I obviously like found my own love for it.
But when I was younger. I used to just her
team around and like fourth grade, you know, your season
ends at like you know, reasonable time, and then the
older kids get to keep playing into the summer. So
(08:07):
I would just like follow them around and sit at
the end of the bench and if they were up
by a million, like their coach would you know, throw
me a bone and I'd get in for thirty seconds
or something like that. And so yeah, I don't remember
exactly what it was, but yeah, it was at some
tournament over the summer and I was sick.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I was throwing up like all morning, all day. I
was throwing up at the bench.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
There's like a picture of me like in my uniform,
like the longest shorts ever, just like over.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
The trash can.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
And my coach was like my dad was the coach,
and then the other coach was like a good, really
close friend of ours, and he was like, you know,
like we're up by a lot, like this might be
the only time she gets to go in, and my
dad was kind of like, no, it's.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Okay, and I was like, no, I want to go in.
I want to go in.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
And I was throwing up everywhere, but I got my
thirty seconds of fame.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I went back to the trash can. So you're really
the same person.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, I was really gonna say, like super resilient even
now playing at you got I want to know, Ezy,
what it was like like your freshman sophomore year playing
with Caroline.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
You know what's crazy is that Caroline is actually one
of my longest friends. I mean, obviously besides like people
I literally grew up with, but given that we're not
from the same area, I think as soon as we met,
we became friends, which was seventh grade. Yeah, Blue Star.
You met at Blue Star in seventh grade, and we
she was like the first person I met in my
(09:32):
class that played basketball and was high level, had the
same mindset, and we just clicked were best friends since
I was pretty immediate. So I just don't like my
longest friend now seventh seventh grade.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Seventh grade, so now, and because there wasn't a lot
of people in our grade at the camp, it was
only like a couple of us. Wait, did I just
map that seventh grade? Eighth, ninth, tenth, not using your
fingers to count? This is our fifth year. Yeah, that's
ten years. Oh my god, that's crazy. We're going on
ten years. We were like fourteen or that's nuts.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
So how'd you feel like freshman year her committing to
Yukon with you, what was that like?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Well, Carolin was the first in our class to commit,
so she was kind of recruiting me, not kind of,
she was recruiting me to go to school with her,
and that she was part of the reason why I came.
I mean I came for the same reason she did.
The coaches, the standard here, wanting to play with and
against the best every day, being coached by the best,
but then having that extra incentive of being able to
(10:34):
play with your best friends. Like not many people go
in to a college either with someone or knowing someone
already there, So that was an extra just bonus of
getting to play with two of your best friends. And
it's been a little different than what I imagined when
I committed, but that has still been really special. I mean,
going through everything we've done or we've been through, being
(10:56):
able to have each other buyer sides through it has
definitely made it a lot. Not but just being able
to handle it has been easier. Having people that you
love and no love you and have your back.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Absolutely and all of us know what it's like to
come back from injury, Caroline, can you tell us a
little bit of like how that started. I know that
you've you've gone through quite a bit when it comes
to like head injuries and things.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Like that, since they even like knees and shoulders. I
was going to say, and I was. I was there, Yeah,
Asy was there when I tore my a cl in
Wow my fresh year, I think, yeah, in ninth grade
at Bea Williams, And I literally remember she was on
the opposite on the faceline and then I went, you know,
(11:48):
in the little like tournament trainers, and it was just
me and easy because I don't think my parents had
come over yet, like they were still trying to find
the way.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
And I was like, oh my gosh, Ezy was right
there with me. Yeah, and through it all.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
And then ten years later, so there had a bunch
of concussions that led to head injuries and TBIs and
all that. But yeah, I'm feeling good now getting there.
It's obviously a process. You know, concussions are really scary.
I think they're very under talked about in sports, especially
(12:28):
at a young age. I think you hear about them
so much with football and you know, hockey and stuff
like that, but you don't necessarily think that it's going
to affect your life so much like as a basketball player.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I don't know, I was never really that.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Educated on concussions, and I never thought it would take
over my life like it has. But I would say,
I'm trending up. Yeah I'm feeling good obviously. Yeah it's
you know, it takes a while, but I'm feeling good.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
So this is the best I felt in years. So
she looks amazing too. Okay, I was gonna say perfect timing.
But for those who don't know, like what the concussion
process or rehab looks like, could you walk us through that?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
So mine it kind of changed at the more that
I got of them. But at the beginning, I don't
honestly know the exact number, but.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
A lot, I would say, a lot, like over three,
over five.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
The numbers not yeah you know, but yeah, first it's
hard because obviously as an athlete, especially I had gone
through other surgeries and other injuries where you know, when
you're frustrated, and as Asy knows, like, you just do
rehab and you just constantly do rehab and it kind
(13:46):
of helps ease your mind that like you are getting back,
you are getting back, but with concussions, you can't.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Really do that so much. It's so much about rest
and not not doing too much and letting your brain heal.
And so at first it was a lot of that stuff,
which was really frustrating because you know, obviously as someone
who wants to be out there, you don't feel like
you're doing much, but it is helping.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
And then kind of the more I got, you know,
the more symptoms I had, the more they kept piling up,
becoming a TBI, I kind of needed to do something different,
and that's when I went down to Florida to AVIV,
which is the Brain Rehabilitation Center, and that's where I
got like real rehab, real work, and that's honestly when
(14:31):
I started to see a difference in my recovery.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Okay, amazing, Thanks for talking about this, Caroline. I know
that's tough. Like of course, even talking about I've tore
my ACL even talking about that when I was playing,
it's kind of like people don't get it. It makes
you want to quit and you just have to decide
that you got to push through. So I can't imagine
having multiple concussions, because one thing is like, Okay, your knee,
(14:58):
it can heal, you'll be able to you'll be fine.
Your brain is like a whole different ballgame. So yeah, no,
that's the serious part.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yeah. So, Carol, I've noticed in practice that you look
a lot more confident and just sure of yourself. Like
you look you really look like you're getting back to
your old self, like cutting, being in the paint and
not worrying about things, being able to just play more free.
I'm curious is that how you feel as well? Is
that also what's going through your head? Yeah, I definitely
think that I'm thinking about it. Lest I think when
(15:30):
I came back last year, you could tell I was
kind of like three point line and out, like I
wasn't really trying to go in there, and I think
that was just kind of just to get like my
feet under me. And now I feel like I'm trying
to actually, you know, play I don't want to just
like be out there.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
I want to actually, you know, make an impact. So
I think, yeah, like I've definitely felt more comfortable with it.
It's definitely still a processing so I sometimes I find
myself like so flinching or stuff like that, But I do.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Feel like i've you know, come a long way with it.
How do you think you've kind of made that progression
because I feel like even very very different, like not
trying to compare knees and heads and eat knees and brains.
But I feel something that everyone goes through is like
that fear of re injuring yourself, regetting hit. But I
feel like in your case it's just like a little
bit scarier. So how do you get over that? It's
(16:17):
like the fear is always there, it's always a possibility,
but you can't think about it, and then when you
try not to think about it, you're thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yeah, I think honestly, like this summer, having got like
bumped or like a little hits, and I was okay,
Like you know, the first few times, like whenever I
get hit, everyone's like are you okay?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Are you okay?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
And for a second I'm like, oh, shoot, like am
I okay? And then I'm good. So then I was
able to like keep going. And you know, for a
while I was used to like getting little bombs and
that would set me back for a week. So I think, yeah,
just getting those little hits or like, you know, having contact,
being like, oh wait, I'm actually good, like I'm healed.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I think that's helped my confidence. Obviously I do think
about it, but no, yeah, I think that's definitely been
what's helped me.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
So now that you're back on the court and you're
feeling more confident, I see that you wear a headband often.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Why do you do that.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
It's just like for a little added protection. I don't
know how much it really does, but just think if
I get hit in that area, it kind of helps
me to, you know, have a little that's kind of
usually where I would get hit is like along the
front or like on the sides, and it's you know,
it's helped a little bit.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I don't know that definitely that it really does too much,
but it's like a little safety.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I guess it's like a nie sleeve or a knee
brace if you have an injury there.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
So I guess, yeah, that makes sense. Okay, ladies.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
You guys are coming off a national championship and I
know there was recently a ring ceremony and you guys
were the scene. Well the older group who helped design
the ring. What went into designing those rings? Honestly a
lot more than I was expecting.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I kind of thought that they were just gonna kind
of do it and then get our approval. I didn't
know that we were gonna have that much say in it,
so that was kind of fun. It was, Yeah, I
was not expecting all of the yea, all the little details. Yeah,
all the little things. Was the shape of the little diamonds,
the shape of the ring, what do you want do
(18:19):
you want the like the top to come off? What
do you want to say here? Here, here, and here?
Do you want there to be a trophy where they
put on numbers? It was just so many details that
I didn't even think about. But it was really cool.
I was happy that we were able to do that.
It worked out really good. It looks incredible good. I
mean it was beautiful. It was blinking Wait.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
So they didn't have like a template for you, guys.
They literally made you just like you had to come
with ideas. They just had a million options of stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yeah, there's a bunch of options, but you could mix
and match any of the different options. So like every
every detail and every piece of writing and design, there
was like five options for that.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Okay, well, yeah, did y'ad big one because it was amazing.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
It was beautiful. All Right.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
You guys are also going into your final year at Yukon.
You guys, how does it feel having to step up
and be leaders or like, has your role changed from
last year?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I think it is kind of crazy that we're fifth years.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I feel like in some ways I feel like we
just got here, but you don't really realize it until
you're talking about stuff and then they're like, oh, wait, age,
it was only one else that was here for that,
it's like just us. I mean, for me, I think
my role has changed just because I didn't play for
the majority of last year, so I was like a
little bit removed from stuff that was like going on
(19:41):
in practice and on the court. But I do think
that it's helped me this year because I feel like
last year the year before that was like my only impact,
So I made a concerted effort to be like super
involved off the court. So I think it's helped me
this year to you know, still have that and.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Then also be playing. Yeah, Caroline is that teammate that
anyone and everyone goes to whenever they're sad, happy, upset
needs something. Truthfully, I don't know how she does it.
That is a draining job. There's fifteen of us, so
it's fourteen other people in this team that you basically
take care of. So to have that energy and always
(20:19):
be there for everyone always impresses me. But she is,
like when she says that her role the last few years,
like she's really tried to embrace like being there for
everyone off the court. Not only does she embrace it,
like she like I can't even I know, but like seriously,
I can't explain it because she's always the one making
sure that like are you okay? Are you doing well?
(20:40):
Like I noticed this. She just notices everything about everyone
and takes care of them, and it's not easy to do,
especially like she has a million things on her plate
with rehab, school, basketball, trying to figure things out, and
so to always have that extra time for everyone else
has always amazed me.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Okay, Caroline, you've become like the mom of the team.
That different for you being a little child.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Yeah, actually kind of, because yeah, I feel like as
a child, like as a kid I was, my sister
was always I always say, like when I'm with her,
like I just want to have like empty head and
just like follow her around, and I really do that
with her. But now it's like, yeah, I think it's
probably weird, probably weirdest for her to see me in
(21:23):
this role because she's like, I've taken.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Care of you.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
She should be so proud all the things she's done
you now and body for your team.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
So that's awesome. Oh, that's a really sweet way to
look at it. I know. Okay, Cairl, So being from
Boston and playing at a high level, you've gotten the
chance to play with a bunch of other professional and
collegiate BASHL players. What's that been like being able to
play with people like Ronica Burton, Taylor Soul, Janee CRuMs
and others. Yeah. I think basketball in Boston is very underrated.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
I think that we don't really get a lot of
like the high level, you know, high profile athletes coming
out of Boston. But I think during COVID, I mean,
all these people like I grew up playing with when
I was younger, but then during COVID, when everything was
shut down, is when we kind of made a concerted
effort to you know, be able to come together. And
we couldn't play, we couldn't travel, we couldn't go anywhere else.
(22:18):
So we would every morning at like six, we'd play
pick up literally every day, and it was just really
fun to be able to, you know, have those Everyone
went to different schools in different you know areas, but
to be able to come together and play and you know,
we hadn't most of us hadn't played together since we
were like, you know, ten, So especially for me because
they were all older than me. So to be able
(22:38):
to push each other during COVID and be able to
you know, have that environment and community I think really helped.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
And it's continued on after the quarantine was over. That's
super cool. Do you still talk to a lot of them? Yeah,
most of them. Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Okay, so I kind of I kind of have like
a little pivot. When did you decide like you wanted
to play basketball, because you know, your sister tells a
story that you were into musical theater at first.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I was the rose and beating the beast. It was
a very huge role and I took it very seriously.
Wait when when was this? I have a picture somewhere.
I think I was in like second grade. I was little,
like I was a little rat at this time, and
I was.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I need a video. I definitely have a big kind
of picture. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
I had like a little like like to too, and
like it was like a little like Ballerina thing, and
I had like the pedals and you know the rose.
The rose is dying, so I had like the pedals falling.
It was a dancing roll. Yeah, you react. I just
like went like this, like the pedals were falling, So
(23:52):
I just like went like that. But it was a
it was a crucial role. I mean, you can't have
beating the beast without the rose. So it was like
it was my main role. But then I think everyone
was happy when I kind of pivoted to basketball. I
still played basketball while I was doing the rose, but yeah,
(24:13):
then I kind of left that.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
No, I don't say your dance or anything. I think
we need to bring perform. No, say I think it's
good good in the past. Definitely need a video though. No,
my mom definitely has a okay good Yeah, please we
need videos and pictures absolutely, Okay, Carol, let's talk about school.
A lot of people don't know what your major is.
(24:39):
What are you majoring in?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
So I just graduated with a degree in Human development
and family studies.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Wait, when did you just graduate? I got my degree? Congratulations.
I had no idea congrat thank you, thank you? Wow,
look at you. I got congrat. I got a notification.
I was sent to the house. It's all the matter.
Come yeah, yeah, I need to see that, you know,
the real proof writing. Yeah. So what are you doing now?
(25:09):
So now I'm just taking classes certificate? Yeah yeah, it's
just a bunch of classes. Wow. Wait what development Family Studies? Yeah? Okay,
why did you choose that? I'm going to do something?
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Honestly, I just kind of liked it because I feel
like you can do a lot of different things with it.
It's all about like relationships and people and how you know,
people like interact with each other and how to work
with other people.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
So I feel like I could really use it in
a lot of different ways. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Now it's time for our what the fud of the
week are? What the fun of the week is?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Something that happened this week that made you say what
the fuck? Caroline? Was yours?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
My what the fun of the week is was the
reunion we had with the Page and Aubrey, seeing them
back on campus and playing with them again.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
That's a good one.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Yeah, I saw pages uh Instagram, and some other people
were posting basically saying they got to play against you guys.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
I don't know. She says she was putting you out
through the wringer. You know what, that's my changing my
what the fun? I'm changing what the food to that way?
Now it's a good change. Okay, I'm having too, but
(26:35):
that's one of them. She went out of a way
to tag me as lay her. I have to her
tell her to drop the page. If you're listening to this,
come back to practice please. Anyways, Yeah, we're not gonna
we're not gonna expose her though. We're gonna be classy
about it. We're gonna be classy, classy how we are. Anyways,
(27:00):
My other what the fud is that we had an
exhibition game, uh this past weekend, and ah he was there.
And after our games we get these little mini Yukon
basketballs that we get to throw out to fans, and
so I threw one to where my mom and a
shanty were standing. It hit my mom's back, and a
shanty was like, why are they throwing little oranges at people?
(27:23):
Why are they throwing clementines at people?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I just want to say I just want to say
that was a I in the year of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
That was not that was okay because why wouldn't be
throwing oranges? Now?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
I was like, why are you throwing them? And also
I wanted one. I was like, ah, I take some
vitamin see after the game?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Why not? It was cold, Like I'm kind of hungry.
I could get some butt and see actually was starving.
So that's probably why my mind went to that. Oh okay,
that's hilarious. That was a good one.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Azy top here, top tier with the fuds. This week,
this is Caroline. Our next game is who's more likely
to So we're going to throw out scenarios and you
guys tell us who's more likely to do it?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
You already? Okay? Right? Okay? First one? Who's more likely
to dress up for Halloween? Me? I am dressing up
this year? Though, Yes, we're all dressing up this year,
but Caroline hates Halloween. I just don't really that's okay,
but I will do it for them. I'll do it.
I've dressed up every year. I just haven't been the
(28:35):
most enthusiastic. You're like the most it's a bunny, She's basic.
Listen some people this year. I'm not basic. You're gonna
like you know, growing up we had Hallelujah and I
you know, and everybody had.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
The ability to dress up Halloween. Okay, Next one, who's
more likely to take longer to respond to text?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
You? You take a long time too. I do take
a long time too, but you take even longer. I'm
getting better. It's just getting better. Who's more likely to
be louder in practice? Caroline? But I'm getting better. I'm
(29:24):
gonna take that one. But you're also getting better. Definitely
gets better. I believe that one. Who's the better cook? Yeah, okay,
little boy? What should be cooking? Caroline knows her limits,
though she knows what she can speak to what I'm
what I'm good at? Make good walk? Yes you do?
Everyone has? Yeah, really good at that's crazy? Okay. Who's
(29:51):
the better driver? So easy? Not me? I think it's
the Boston and her you know? Yeah, it definitely is right.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I get us from pointing to me, We've never alive
and that's all that matters.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Did you die? Though? Who gets yelled at a practice more? Caroline?
Also me people, it could never be the princess, but
I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Oh, okay, I think this is pretty good. Who's better
at other sports?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
No, definitely not me.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
I don't know if I ever seen you play it
another sport, but I just feel like it would be you.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
I feel like it wouldn't be you. I'm saying no,
it's it's definitely not me, not saying oh, I feel
like it would be me.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
She's like, I feel like it would be Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Who's better at giving gifts? Caroline. I'm gonna take that one, yes, Caroline.
She is so thoughtful, like I said, but is good
when you put your mind to it. You're good at gifts.
But it's like not that it's more natural for you,
but like you just do it so often, like you're
you're just very thoughtful. Not that I'm not, but it's
like you noticed when someone is not having by day
(31:05):
and you're like professional gift basket maker right here. I
do like a gift basket. I love that. I do
like a gift basket. But when when you do gift,
they're very good. You just don't gift as often, but
you are very thoughtful to take your little Christmas things
and your little countreets. Yeah, she's more of like a
baker and like the food. Yeah, I don't think that
(31:26):
sounds good.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Last two, who's more likely to start a business after basketball? A?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Start a business? I don't be interesting. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Maybe we could co start a business. Yeah, let's start
a business together, could start a business. I would love
to see that, all right, you guys. Last one, who's
more likely to get in a fight during a game?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Not? Either? Wrong? I was gonna say, I don't know
about either of us. Yeah, I don't think either of us.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
We're more of a like, you know, calm the other
person down, whoever's getting rowdie.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Yeah, we're the level headed, the okay, calm collective. Caroline,
thank you so much for joining us today. It was
such a pleasure to get to know you better and
chat with you this morning. Thank you so much for
having me my pleasure. And listeners. Thank you guys so
much for tuning in. Don't forget to rate, review, and
subscribe to fut Around and find Out wherever you get
your podcasts. We'll see you guys next week. Futt Around
(32:30):
and find Out is a production of iHeart Women's Sports
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Sumter Brugette, and Stephan Curry. Co executive producer is Kalina
Maria Cutney. Producers are Mike Costcarelli and co producers are
Kurt Redmand, Maya Howard, and jack Lyn Schoeninger. This podcast
is edited by Mike Costcarelli and hosted by me Azy
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