The Bulldog Basketball Hour With Matt Norvell, Coach Jamie White & Players Laney Amundsen & Holly Griffiths

Matt Norvell was broadcasting live from Crow & Wolf in Clovis as Fresno State Women's Basketball Coach White along with Fresno State Woemn's Basketball student athletes Laney Amundsen and Holly Griffiths as they talked about the holidays and some of the big games the Bulldogs have coming up as well. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:23):
Here's Matt Norvil.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
And good evening and welcome to Grown Wolf at five
twenty six Bruce Avenue here in Clovis. Thanks for listening
to us on AM thirteen forty Fox Sports Radio. It's
the Bulldog Basketball Hour with the present State women's basketball
team at coach Jamie White and a couple of student
athletes Laney Emerson and Holly Griffiths alongside. I'm Matt Norble.
Thanks for joining us here tonight. Bulldog's currently seven and

(00:49):
four this season. As we've got a couple of those
student athletes, we've got Laney and Holly.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Guys, thanks for joining us here this evening.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
Thank you for having us.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Thank you all right, let's first talk about you. Guys
are new to the program this season, so talked me
through your decision and why you chose to come to
Fresno State. Obviously, Laney, you're from the area, having gone
to Clovis and I grew up in Clovis and all
of that. So what made you decide to, you know,
play your final year here.

Speaker 5 (01:13):
I think it's just really exciting to be home with
my family and having them be able to come to
all the games. That was like a big decision for me,
you know, like that, which is an easy decision.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
I should say, how many games have they been able
to go to? Pretty much most of them.

Speaker 5 (01:26):
I think my mom has only missed one, but because
my dad as a coach, he's missed like.

Speaker 6 (01:30):
Two or three.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, what's it like being a coach's kid.

Speaker 5 (01:34):
I think he's taught me the right habits because he's
a good coach. And I think it's also tough, you know,
playing for him and such. It's a higher standard. But
I think it made me a better person and a
better player.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
All right, what about you, Holly, No, it's being.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
Really good at Prisoner. I've loved, you know, meeting all
the girls and having a new tame. You know, this
is my second year in college, so I'm just I'm
so new to everything and the Yeah, the coaches were
really inviting at first, you know, when I was on
the phone to them trying to get my transfer all done,
So that was really good. And you know they've stayed

(02:12):
connecting with us and checking in, and yeah, it's been
really good.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Out of the basketball wise, where were you looking to
get out of it coming to President State? Obviously to
improve your game. I saw on your bio you want
to abstously play professionally. So what are you trying to
develop for me?

Speaker 4 (02:26):
I think experience is everything. You know, when I was
back home, I was playing in the WNBA. I was
playing against WNBA girls already, but I was only eighteen,
So I think while I grow into my body and
I get older, just playing against like, you know, these
speaker bodies, and we played against the UCLA and USC
playing against better people, just getting the experience playing different

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style of basketball. You know, the international level has just
grown and there's so many more different type of people
with different type of countries playing in the college basketball
system now. So yeah, it's just like a really good
taste of what's to come in the future.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
I guess what about you, Laney, come in here? Basketball wise,
what really were you looking to kind of develop? I know,
your goals obviously do win a conference championship, but what
were you trying to develop individually?

Speaker 5 (03:13):
Individually? I think just in practice every day, just playing
against like better players and players who you know are
super competitive. I find it like super enjoyable in that sense.
And then even our practice players who come every day
to help us get better. It's you know, annoying when
they do their things out, yes, but it makes us
better overall. So that's what I wanted, is like the

(03:34):
in practice like competition, That's what I needed.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Allie kind of touched on it already. You guys already
played a couple of big time opponies played. Do you
see LA number one in the country, just played USC
the other night, number five in the country. What has
that been like playing against that kind of competition.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
It's been good. It's been different for Sial. I mean
last year I didn't really play against many big teams
like this, or it was good to see, how you know,
at that next level. This was like big girl basketball
is and you know, just going against the best of
the best at at our age as well, which is
pretty cool to say and pretty cool to play against.
It's definitely once in a lifetime experience and something to

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like look back at.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
So yeah, think great, what about you, Annie?

Speaker 5 (04:13):
I agree, I think it is a next level type
of basketball. But again they are our age, so like
I don't ever overlook underlook, you know. But it is
very competitive and it's kind of nice to watch players
at at your position too, because they're really good at
what they do. And so just learning and keep going
from there.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
All right, talk to me about your guys. Family.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Obviously we were saying, Laney, you're from this area, You're
from Australia, so talk to me. We'll starve with you, Holly,
a little bit about your family and and well got
you into basketball because you you've come from a basketball family.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
Yes, I have the biggest basketball family out there in Melbourne.
It's a very small well basketball everyone knows everyone, so
my family is pretty well known back home and even
out to the States. My dad has been the biggest
supporter and contributor to my basketball career. He's coached me,
he's put me through workouts. My stepmom also has been

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a really big contributor. My brother and my fem like
my extended family, my cousins. My cousin Jackie played at
Auburn and then transferred to Hawaii. He holds the record
for three pointers there, so that was pretty cool when
we got to go play down there. And just yeah,
just the whole basketball experience and being brought up with
the basketball family has been great. I mean I didn't

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really get an out of basketball. It was basketball and
nothing really for us.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
That's kind of for you too, right, I mean you're
coaches kids and talking me through your the basketball and
background because you have just as much basketball in your family.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
It's super competitive.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (05:45):
My older sister actually played at Fresno State, so she's
actually in our locker room, so it's really cool to
see her every day. And then my other sister, she
went from Boise to cal State Northridge, so I actually
did get to spend the year with her out there.
Can't ask for more than that. It was amazing. My
brother he went to Concordia. My other cousin actually is
spending his first year at Dartmouth right now. He's bowling.

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He's amazing. And yeah, I think it's just super competitive.
Every holiday that comes around, when we all get together
with my family and my cousins and such, it's always
just you know, who's a better shooter at the time,
just like shoot around to see who's still got it.
My dad thinks he can still win it.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, what's it like though, hearing all those voices because
they obviously they're supportive, but then they can also critique
you a little bit, tell you, hey, you know this
is what you need to do.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
How is that?

Speaker 4 (06:33):
Well? I have my fair share, yes, even growing up.
Car rides home, as soon as the radio gets turned down,
I know a conversation is coming up. But no, they've
been really supportive of my dad. He's always probably the
first it takes me after a game, tell me what
I could have done better, what I've done well hopefully,
And yeah, they're pretty good supporters.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Like my dad.

Speaker 4 (06:56):
We always do postgame recaps and you know, he's like
sending me videos pretty much every day, being like this
what you need to work on? Look at this, which
is it's good? I mean sometimes I roll my eyes
on it. Come on, just give me a break, But
I know it's coming from a place of love and care,
and so it's nice to have basketball parents.

Speaker 5 (07:16):
Yeah. I think for me, my dad has softened it
up a little bit because I'm the last child and
I think he also realizes I'm harder on myself than
anyone else can be, and so he has a lot
of constructive criticism. Like we'll sit down and watch film
and he'll point things out that I don't always see.
So it's super nice to have that one on one
time with him, and he's super helpful. He's super supportive

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and honestly, like, I think he's just happy to be
able to be playing no matter what.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Was there someone you guys looked up to in terms
of basketball then, maybe not that you modeled your game after,
but you looked up to and you're like, man, I
really like the way they play the game.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
Yes, for me, it would have to be Michelle Bergen.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
So she's.

Speaker 4 (07:55):
My dad's first wife and my brother my half brother's mum,
so I've grown up with her. She's coached me for
a year. She took me for individuals. I feel like
we have a pretty similar game. You know, she's not
the quickest on the floor, but you know, she always
makes a difference. She has great IQ, Like that's something
I really wanted to pick up and I wanted to,
you know, be the best at and reading the game

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and all that stuff. So I say she's probably a
really big role model for me as well as Abby Bishop.
She's also played in the WNBA and I play with
her at Southside Flyers. She was a great role model
to me on and off the court. Off the court,
she is just like a beautiful human being, so kind,
always putting other people first. And but then on the court,

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she's also a dog and she like gets after it.
She's a great post player. I can also shoot the three,
so I definitely modeled my game around her growing up.

Speaker 5 (08:48):
I would say from me would my sister Tess. I
mean in high school, she wasn't always a star player,
but she did her job and she did really well,
and she always played hard. I feel like that's something
everybody can always say about her. And she has this
love for the game you cannot teach. She has this passion.
I mean, she was in the gym every day, like
two times extra outside of practice, Like we're on the

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courts outside playing pickup ball with all the guys and
I was uncomfortable to even go. But you know, she
helped me feel better about it. In all this and
it's just like really inspiring to see that passion in
that fire and she obviously helps me one on ones.
I mean it's frustrating, but it gets me better. So
I would say test is definitely my inspiration.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
All right.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
And for baby fans and have not seen you play
yet this season, but they will. How would you describe
your game? Holly start us off. If someone was saying, hey,
describe how you play the game basketball.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
Would you say?

Speaker 4 (09:36):
I would say that I'm like a more of a
modern day four five players, So I'm not the one
that's gonna be in the post banging bodies twenty four seven.
I you know, like to extend my game to the
three point line. I do like to stay inside the
high post is a fave for me as well. That's
offensively and then defensively, I want to be the worst
person people like see when they're coming down the floor,

(09:57):
like I'm coming to guard you, I'm gonna push you
off the block and all that, sir. And I'm mostly
pretty loud on defense.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
I would like to say we saw that kind of
against you. I see it the other night exactly. All right, Lenny,
how do you describe your game?

Speaker 5 (10:09):
I would just say I do all the little things
that no one really plays attention to, like It's not
always on the stat sheet, but I feel like I
have really good help side defense. I'm always there to
back people up because you got to help your teammates out.
And then I would just say I'm super physical.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah, I would. I know you are.

Speaker 5 (10:25):
If you're making a cut, I'm gonna hit you because
it's not going to be easy. And I think that's like,
that's what I bring to the table.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
They're a very good screener. Two coach, who was talking
all about that the other night. You're very good at
the screens. This is the Bulldog Basketball Hour. We'll take
our first break and we'll come back. Jamie right, the
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It's the Bulldog Basketball Hour. We are a Coln Wolf
five twenty six Bruce Avenue here in Clovis. Thanks for
listening to us on AM thirteen forty Fox Sports Radio.
If you're listening to us on the Bulldog app or
the iHeartRadio app, thanks for listening to us here tonight.
We've got head to coach Jamie White for the Fresno
State women's basketball team. Also a couple of student athletes,
Landy Eminson and Holly Griffiths. I am Matt Norble. Thanks

(14:09):
for joining us this evening. Coach, Welcome to another Bulldog
Basketball Hour. Talk to a couple of the ladies next
to you and just give me a little bit runned
out about what your team's been up to the last
little over a week or so.

Speaker 6 (14:22):
Yeah, well we got to go to Hawaii.

Speaker 15 (14:24):
Have we talked since they Okay, Well, that was a
great trip for us. It was special in a couple
of different ways.

Speaker 6 (14:31):
One was it's.

Speaker 15 (14:32):
Hawaii, yay. We stayed right on the beach practically. But two,
we played three games in a row, day after day
and that was a big challenge. And then the other
is just the competition that we have to play Hawaii
at Hawaii tough. They had, you know, a couple six

(14:53):
foot four kids. I think they have a six year
All Conference kid. They had a lot of really good players.
That was a great game. And then we turned around
and so we played at two thirty noon and noon.
We had not a lot of time to plan, and
I thought our kids did a great job. It's very
similar to what the tournament would be like, so that
was important for us to have that experience and play

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three really good teams. It doesn't matter what tournament you're in.
At the end of the year, the conference tournament is
always hard. Everybody wants to win those those games.

Speaker 6 (15:25):
So I thought that was really good. I'm really proud
of our kids. The way they played.

Speaker 15 (15:29):
We played, why then we played number one UCLA, who
we actually flew on the same plane.

Speaker 6 (15:35):
With there I heard, yeah.

Speaker 15 (15:38):
Yeah, we were all kind of hanging out a little bit,
you know, me and Corey, But yeah, I mean it
was it was kind of fun to see them.

Speaker 6 (15:48):
We were able to have like kind of a little banquet.

Speaker 15 (15:50):
Where we got to you know, see all the teams
a little bit more and then.

Speaker 6 (15:55):
Just to play.

Speaker 15 (15:56):
And here's the thing about UCLA is number one. I
think they do a good job overall. They run good stuff,
They you know, teach their players, they develop. I really
thought they did a lot of good things. And and
their size. The size really was something that we hadn't
gone against. I mean, and Betts as much as you

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think she is tall when you see her on TV,
when you see her in person, like I thought she
was more.

Speaker 6 (16:23):
Like six eight.

Speaker 15 (16:24):
Yeah, and just long, long everything, long arms, long fingers,
long hands, you know, just everything long and.

Speaker 6 (16:31):
Just worked really hard, really physical. She's not a like
a slow six eight. She was.

Speaker 15 (16:36):
She was especially in the half court. Great great mechanics,
great great finishing, all of those things. So but I
thought we did a really good job. We had some
really good moments. I thought we ran our zone really
good against them. I thought they didn't like it. They
had to adjust, and a lot of times with both
UCLA and USC, they've had to adjust to us, and

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I think that was that was something that at least,
you know, made us feel like, Okay, we're doing the
right thing now when they adjust, we have to adjust,
and sometimes we did, sometimes we didn't.

Speaker 6 (17:06):
But really fun to play them.

Speaker 15 (17:08):
And then we turned around and played a ut martin
the next day, really good team, and I and they
had to do some they did some different things that
we weren't used to, and I thought we adjusted in
that game and really just you know, had a determination
to win the game, and you know, we should have won.

Speaker 6 (17:26):
It in regulation, but Saga got hurt and went out.

Speaker 15 (17:30):
Denay had to step up to the free throw line
and knock down two free throws to go into overtime,
and then in overtime, I just thought it was it
was over.

Speaker 6 (17:37):
And overtime we really did a good job getting the
ball in.

Speaker 15 (17:41):
We got so many offensive rebounds in the overtime and
put backs and we got to the valle line, So
all good things there. And then coming home we played
Merced where you know, I just it was a good
game to come home to and again Merced was a
solid team. But I thought we played really well and
having to come home from Hawaii and it just again

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I thought our kids did a good job that way.
And then to go down and play USC and they
were number five, they've got the I mean, I don't know,
is Juju the number one?

Speaker 16 (18:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (18:12):
I mean she's she's solid. I think, you know, you
really have to throw two people at her. Yeah, and
we tried. I thought we did a good job on
a lot of levels and a lot of areas. The
only thing is she got to the free throw line
and if you let her get downhill, she's.

Speaker 6 (18:28):
Pretty much gonna finish that shot.

Speaker 15 (18:30):
So she get downhill, she she'd get an and one,
and so you gotta you gotta stop her before she
gets going too quick. Now, funny thing about the game,
Coach Mandy goes, Jamie, look, they've got a little Juju.
This little girl looked just like her ran out in
front of the team and and she had her the
slam shirt on and everything. That was kind of funny.

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And you know, their gym is is not overly huge.
So the crowd was solid. We had a lot of
family and friends down there, so that was fun. And
I thought we had a we We played usc better
than we played UCLA.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
Got off to a great start. You actually had the
lead at the first TV time out, and then uh,
then it just kind of switched up a little bit.

Speaker 17 (19:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (19:11):
I was watching the clips on ESPN last night and
I wasn't Bonnie Bonnie shot at him for me, but
it was like the first clip, it was like ten
to four.

Speaker 14 (19:20):
I was like, stop, that's right, we were on TV.

Speaker 15 (19:24):
And then it kind of trickled down. But to be honest,
I thought our first half was solid. Holly came in
and gave us good minutes. Lanny came in, especially in
the second half, and I thought she played tough and strong,
and you know, you got to play to beat a
team like that, You got to play your best basketball
for forty minutes as a team. So you can't just

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have minutes here and there. You've got to really play
as a team solid the entire time. And and we
got into a little bit of foul trouble before half.
I thought that hurt us. And then coming back out,
you know, it's it's hard the difference was we weren't
on a neutral court at UCLA were on a neutral court.
We were not on a neutral court with USC and

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I think they got to the free throw line twenty
five times. We got there six, So we made five
of our little six free throws.

Speaker 6 (20:13):
And you just gotta do what you gotta do.

Speaker 15 (20:16):
I thought we could have, you know, at times boxed
out a little bit better at times.

Speaker 6 (20:20):
But we got some really good shots, but you.

Speaker 15 (20:22):
Got to knock them down, and you got to knock
more of them than not down. So anyway, it's been
a really good preseason. I'm really proud of the girls.
I think we've played hard. I told them after the game,
you know, Hawaii is a three point game. I think
Santa Clair was a six point game. You know, had
we come out away with the wins in those two games,

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we would be I'd be feeling really good right now.
Now are our challenge is to knock out Bakersfield and
Inau going into the Christmas break.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
And you got two really you got two different types
of opponents. Nordin Arizona's a good squad too. Coming up
uh next week, which, by the way, that game will
happening Thursday, at the Save Marts that the next two
games are at the SMC. Coach was talking a lot
about that USC game. Guys, talk me through that game yourselves.
Was there a favorite moment you had in that game?
There was a good crowd on hand, you had about

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thirty five hundred people in attendance, and you're playing the
number five team in the country.

Speaker 6 (21:18):
But was snoop? There Snooper.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
Cheryl Miller was scorched.

Speaker 6 (21:22):
Keryl Miller was Cynthony Cooper.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
We saw something was there?

Speaker 4 (21:27):
I guess my favorite moment for me was, you know,
stepping up and in the second quota being I would
have come in with a lot of confidence and just
back myself with those two threes straight off the bat.
So I reckon that would probably be the best moment
for me.

Speaker 5 (21:41):
What about you, Lanny, I would say the same thing. Honestly,
just seeing a celebration from the team, would like Holly
coming in and just like everyone going too high five her.
Like those moments like that were happening throughout the game
were super special.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Stop to transition from basketball, but let's do it to
academics and Lanny, tell me a little bit about what
you're kind of studying in school where you're trying to
do when you're all done and and Holly, same thing
for you.

Speaker 5 (22:07):
I'm right now studying public health, but once I graduate,
I will be going into nursing school. I want to
be a nurse, just like my mom and my sister.
So yeah, that's kind of the goal.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
What kind of drew you into it? Just because you're
your family? Does it? Or just what do you like
about it?

Speaker 5 (22:21):
I like helping people, and I feel like being a
nurse and a doctor and stuff like people come in,
they don't feel comfortable, they're not feeling well, they're in
there for a reason, and just like being able to
help people make them feel comfortable. So like, if something
is happening, they'll come in sooner rather than later, which
is basically the problem. Yeah, right now we're just not
coming in and that's kind of what I want to do,

(22:41):
is just to help people feel better.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
What about you? How I know you haven't maybe made
up your mind what you want to do. How's school
going for you so far?

Speaker 16 (22:49):
Yeah?

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Speaker 4 (22:50):
I'm I majored in at Pepinine Sports Administration, So I've
kind of brought that over to your fresner with recreational
administration kind of going along this same things. I do
love sports, so I do want to stay in that field,
and yeah, for me, I think when I go back home,
I want to work with Basketball Australia, work with Basbol Victoria,

(23:11):
giving back to what put into me to getting to
where I am now. I think that would be really special.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
How is it school wise for you guys in terms
of time? Does it take up a lot of your
time or how's it going? Since you guys, I mean,
obviously you're a senior and then you're just a sophomore,
how's it going for your time wise?

Speaker 5 (23:26):
I would say because I transferred with one year left
of eligibility, the credits was always a problem, like entering
the portal, and so my load is a little bit
heavier than normal, but you know, you gotta put the
hours in to get the grades. So that's just kind
of where it's at.

Speaker 4 (23:43):
Yeah, No, same thing with me, especially with the transferring
of the credits. I got the rough end of this stick.
Not many of my classes at pepernine did transfer, so
I've had to pick up extra classes, which has yeah,
been a bit hard, but I've been able to manage
it so it's been coach.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
How do you handle that?

Speaker 2 (24:02):
You just had a couple of obviously first year players
coming into you and they got a transfer. We've got
a great academic advisor. How do you guys handle that
as a staff?

Speaker 15 (24:09):
Yeah, I mean I that academic advisor is really important.
And you know a lot of times, especially with the
transfer credit, it's gonna land differently and you don't know,
like we're we're talking to them over the phone or
we have them on a visit, and we can only
know so much and you don't ever know until all
their grades have matriculated through our system to know where

(24:32):
they stand. And most of the times things pan out okay.
And so that's the hope, especially with Laney because she's
in her senior year.

Speaker 6 (24:42):
But you know it's.

Speaker 15 (24:43):
Important to have them. I mean one, obviously you got
to be in class too. You've got to know what
you need to have done so that there's not a surprise,
you know, going into your last semester there's a surprise,
Oh I need three more classes, or I need summer,
I need fall, and so really to have a good plan,
we've done a really good job. It's very important to

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us as a staff and to our girls.

Speaker 6 (25:08):
It was funny.

Speaker 15 (25:09):
We got to calif Or La last night or the
night before the USC game. We had study hall. They
had to get off the bus go to study hall
right away. And I walked into study hall and everybody,
you know, nobody was like shutting down to eat.

Speaker 6 (25:24):
They were continuing to work through.

Speaker 15 (25:26):
And you know, it's that time of year where things
got to be done and we're going to go into finals.
And you know, last semester our GPOs three point four.
So I think, you know, that's important that we keep
that standard high. It doesn't always have to be perfect,
but to keep that standard high and work the hardest
that we can to pass the classes and to get

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And welcome you back to Crow and Wolf in five
twenty six Thruce Avenue Here in Clovis, it's the Bulldog
Basketball Hour. It's head coach Jamie White, along with a
couple of student athletes, Laney Anderson and Holly Griffiths. I'm
met normal, Thanks for joining us here this evening. A coach,
I got to talk to you about why you recruited
the two next to you. We talked to them earlier
about why they came and chose Presno State. But why

(29:21):
did you take a look and say, hey, they'd be
great for your program.

Speaker 15 (29:24):
Well, it's funny because every every kid has a different
story in different different you know, experience with the recruiting process,
and with transfers, it happens really quick. And it was
funny because, okay, so I'll start with Laney. So we
were recruiting her teammate and and she was also her roommate.

(29:46):
And this is the truth, is that I did not
know if Laney was in the portal, because that's so
I my assistants usually do the portal. Anyway, so I'm
at my daughter's game and I see Laney reving and
then I see Tess.

Speaker 6 (30:01):
Her sister, because we recruited her sister too.

Speaker 15 (30:03):
And I kept thinking, oh, I wonder, and I don't know.
I don't remember ever asking your roommate, lady's roommate if
she was transferring to and so I didn't know.

Speaker 6 (30:14):
I didn't know.

Speaker 15 (30:15):
And then Mandy goes, well, you know, lady's in the portal,
and I was like what because we needed that position.
And I was like, she is, well, you know, why
aren't we talking to her? So anyway, we started the conversation.
She clearly was refing, you know, middle school, and I'd
see her and her sister shooting threes. Anyway, I grabbed

(30:36):
her one time at the game and then I was like, oh,
my gosh, we need to recruit her, Like why wouldn't
we be so anyway, then then it all kind of
came full circle. Her family's great, we've we've known them
for a long time. The Aminson name, my son Will
will be coached by her uncle at North Clovis and Norse.
So anyway, it's kind of fun. And then with Holly,

(30:58):
a good friend of mine who with me at Northern Colorado,
Ryan Johnson, and Holly has such a story I should
let her tell you, but he was at Xavier and
they were recruiting Holly and he just loved her and
loved everything about her. And he's like, Jamie, she's in.
So I called him and he's like, she's got good hands,
she can shoot the three, she works hard, and he

(31:20):
compared her to some other players that we'd coach together.
And I was like, okay, and he's like, you got
to like you know, and he's at another school and
he's like, we don't have any scholarships. And I think
she'd be a good California kid anyway, And so then
you know, we moved on. And then Holly came on
a visit, brought her dad, and we looked straight up
at her and we were like, yeah, I think this
is gonna work, and she can she can face up

(31:43):
and shoot. We got to see some of her film
from Pepperdine. She was just in a really hard situation
where she was gonna go to Xavier and then that
coach left then came to Pepperdine and I should let
her go ahead and tell how.

Speaker 4 (31:59):
Yeah, well, I come in to to Xavier. And then
when I was back home, the coaches got fired, so
scrambled and I committed to Peppinine. And then at the
day I arrived in America with all my stuff and
my parents, my Peppinine coach gets buyed. So I was like,
is the coaching coast on main.

Speaker 6 (32:18):
I'm still here?

Speaker 4 (32:19):
Yes, And so interim head coach was our assistants.

Speaker 15 (32:24):
That was yeah, it was even the assistant that took
over was not really prepared for that.

Speaker 6 (32:33):
So it was it was a really really hard situation.

Speaker 15 (32:37):
So we were glad and it was fun getting on
the phone with both of them. Holly is uh, you know,
she had a list of questions and she she would
schedule times to talk and she was great, and I
just you know, it's it's funny sometimes in coaching you
get lucky, And I think both kids have great basketball

(32:58):
minds and understand basketball and want to be here for
the right reasons and and want to be with the
team for the right reasons. And it's just been a
pleasure to have both of them on our team.

Speaker 6 (33:07):
So we're glad they're here.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
You guys, if you're not playing basketball and you're not studying,
what are you doing in your free time? Something like Laney,
I mean, you're from the area, so that you got
probably a lot of you got family all over. What
are you doing if you're not studying, not playing basketball?

Speaker 5 (33:24):
Honestly, I would say I'm at my family's, my sisters especially.
I have a little niece and a nephew, so it's
always fun seeing them. They're like a little star of
my day outside of that sleeping yeah, or the movies.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
Okay, what about you?

Speaker 4 (33:42):
For me, I just jump in anyone's car, let's go one.
If Landy's going to the shops, I'm going to the shops.
If Lannie's gonna go get Stawbucks, I'm jumping the cud
of Stawbucks.

Speaker 17 (33:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (33:54):
I love shopping. That's definitely one of my favorite things
to do in my off days, and if I get
a chance to get to a bait, I will. But yeah, honestly,
I'm just jumping on the back of everyone else like me.
I went to go watch one of Laney's dad's games
as she coached. That was pretty awesome.

Speaker 5 (34:11):
And yeah, she spends a lot of time on Fashion Fair,
a lot of.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that. Do you have a
favorite like store you like to go to or anything.

Speaker 4 (34:23):
Anyone that's gonna say you honestly, Yeah, A good bargain
will do me.

Speaker 17 (34:27):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
Also, you're all about the deals.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
Yeah, okay, so you're not walking in and just going Han,
I'm going to get the most expensive thing and then
show up to practice the next time.

Speaker 17 (34:35):
Too happy.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
Coach, what's it like? Obviously you got they got good
heads on their shoulders. Academics important, Athletics is important. How
do you juggle that and then also give them the
time off?

Speaker 15 (34:48):
Yeah, I mean it's it's hard because you know, at
this time of the year, you're just going, you're you're
really not thinking, You're just being told where to go,
when to show up and trying to you know, feel good.
And you know, we got we got home at maybe
one thirty the other night in the morning, and they
had to turn around and go to school. They have finals,
they've got to get things done, and that's hard, and

(35:10):
you know that. I mean, thank goodness we were able
to give them the day off. But I was telling
coach Mandy, when we start season, we get home at
two o'clock in the morning on Wednesday and we practice
the next day, so because we have a game and
so we just don't have the luxury to have as
many days in between.

Speaker 6 (35:31):
So it is hard. It's funny.

Speaker 15 (35:33):
I often think they're just in they're in an automatic gear,
and you know they're and it's hard. It's hard to
get taped and get stretched and you know, all those
things that they have to do. And then it's funny
because today we had a meeting, We had our what
we call our leadership fifty two. Then we went to practice.
Then they had to go lift, and I actually forgot

(35:54):
about the lifting, so I was like, well, they'll be fine,
they'll have time to shower and all that. But then
they had to go lift back over to North Gym,
and then they had to turn around and go to
our locker sponsor party and I mean that's a lot
of time, and that's a lot of you know, it's
a lot of movement and getting ready and being nice
to people and being on and meanwhile, they have finals,

(36:17):
so it is really important when we can take the
day off. I mean, ideally, I would love to take
the day after a game off every single week, but
the conference just won't allow that. So when we can
take a day off, I'm a fan of a weekend.
I'm a fan of two days in a row. I'm
a fan of taking Sundays off. If we can do that,
we will, And it's pretty consistent in the conference where

(36:38):
we will take Sundays off, we have a bye, we'll
take a Monday off. Other than that, and then the
other thing is just maybe not going as harder as long.
There's days to go long and hard, and there's days
to not and so just kind of as a coach
being smart with that.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
How nice is it? I mean with finals. Once finals
is over and the semesters over, they kind of are
like pros where all they're doing is playing basketball, So
that gives them a little bit more free time, right,
maybe to shop.

Speaker 4 (37:07):
Oh yeah, I'll take that.

Speaker 15 (37:10):
No, you know, it's a good time. And it also
we have some away trips. It's a nice time because
their minds are clear. You know, the stress of having
to get the paper done or having to get the
final studied for that stress is wearing.

Speaker 6 (37:26):
And I can see that right now.

Speaker 15 (37:28):
I can hear the sniffles and the you know, like
people not getting sleep, and so when when they don't
have that, it's it's more fun.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
It is.

Speaker 6 (37:36):
It is like being a pro.

Speaker 15 (37:37):
But it also gives them that opportunity to get a
little bit better, work on a few things here and there,
spend a little more time in the gym, and then
just enjoy practice.

Speaker 6 (37:47):
And be in the moment.

Speaker 15 (37:48):
Sometimes when you know you got a test to study for,
you're just not in the moment.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
That is definitely true. She mentioned something about locker responsors.
I want to talk to you guys about that. How
cool is it for you guys, and how important.

Speaker 3 (37:59):
Is it for you?

Speaker 4 (38:01):
I think it's like the best thing ever for me,
being international and not having my parents. Every game, I've
had the two best lack of sponsors out their courtside
every single game. They've got custom made Holly Group Its jerseys.
They're so cute. They love to take me out, and yeah,
they just definitely look after me for sure, Like they

(38:22):
call me their adopted daughter, which I love.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
But have they met your parents yet or anything?

Speaker 4 (38:27):
Yes, they spent some great quality time in Hawaii and yeah, no,
that was really special to see them together at the
games in Hawaii as well.

Speaker 6 (38:38):
Fun for your parents to meet them, Yeah, for sure. Yeah,
it means a lot.

Speaker 15 (38:41):
I think it does mean a lot to parents that
they're especially international kids.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
Do you remember why you came up with that? Do
you remember why?

Speaker 2 (38:50):
What was the reason that you decided, you know, you
want to do that with the program because doing it
for a while.

Speaker 8 (38:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (38:54):
I had a friend who was at Nebraska and for
so long the rules didn't allow us to to do
too much co mingling with our fans, and he was
he said, in volleyball, they were locker sponsors and they
got to have this special relationship with a player and
they usually had that player all four years.

Speaker 6 (39:15):
And I just thought, you know what, that's really what
our players.

Speaker 15 (39:18):
Need, and to help them feel like a home away
from home and also a way to raise some money
and to invite some fans with that amount of money
to help and that they want the more special relationship,
and it has been It's been really important to a
lot of people that have done that and really valuable
to just the experience that our student athletes have. And

(39:42):
I think we started it maybe a year in or
two years in, so we've been doing it.

Speaker 3 (39:48):
What about Elan.

Speaker 5 (39:50):
I think it's really cool because they're not like your
parents and they're not also your friends. It's like another
role model in that sense. So it's also really nice
to like and refreshing to have like a different point
of view different things, and like a type of leadership
and you know, just helping me throughout life.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
Like you know, you think that someone that you can
just talk to kind of ya. I know they love
it too, coach. I see them at every game and
they live for it. It's they you are their favorite
player by farons.

Speaker 6 (40:18):
Well, I think it's getting a little competitive, so.

Speaker 3 (40:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
Yeah, they love you so much that sometimes we think
that is actually your parents really.

Speaker 4 (40:30):
They are tall, but they are tall, and they do
have a dough to name Holly.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
Usc actually, and then Taylor was like, you realize, well,
they're just her Locker.

Speaker 4 (40:37):
Sponsors, none of the best.

Speaker 15 (40:40):
Yeah, it's fine. I think they feel some own. I mean,
they were all there ready to ready to you know,
sit down and have a conversation our girls. Is a great,
great job, and it's it's getting easier because we see
them often. It's getting easier to you know, sit down
and have a meal with them, and you know, just
treat them like family. And they're treating treating our girls

(41:02):
like family, which is which is special.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
So this is the Bulldog Basketball how We're gonna say
goodbye to h Laney and Holly and we're gonna chat
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Forty Fox Sports Radio, or if you're listening to us
on the Bulldog app I'm Att Norble talking with at
Fresno State women's basketball coach Jamie whites As. We just
got done with a couple of student athletes, Laney Edmonton
and Holly Griffiths, coach. We talk about this all the time,
but the kids you recruit to go to school not
only play the game of basketball, but they're such good people.

Speaker 6 (44:49):
They really are.

Speaker 15 (44:50):
It is and you know sometimes you have well, I've
been doing this a long time and.

Speaker 6 (44:58):
You always have well, you always.

Speaker 15 (45:01):
Have eighteen to twenty let's say twenty two year adults, right,
and they're always going to have this or that. But
for the most part, they're just in such a fun
time of their life. And I think we've done a
really good job of recruiting kids that all value academics
and athletics and really want to be better and want

(45:23):
to be successful. And that works with our staff, it
works with our university, it works with women's basketball. So
that's been really fun. But I really like this year's team.
I've liked all of our teams, but this year's team
just seems like any of those kids could be around
any of the others and they would be fine, And
that really makes my job easy.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
Yeah, I saw it actually a camp. And then little
kids love them, Yeah, love them. They go to them,
they gravitate towards them, and they're so good with young kids.
You can see that with every single one of your players.
Let's get back to the court. You got a couple
of games coming up. Guess HESU Bakersfield at home. That's
this Saturday. It's one o'clock start. It's part of a

(46:06):
doubleheader with the men and then you've got Northern Arizona
next week, so kind of talk me through the next
couple of games with finals going on and all of
that good stuff.

Speaker 6 (46:14):
Yeah, well, let me talk about Holly real quick.

Speaker 15 (46:16):
So my daughter's in the eighth grade and they wanted to,
I can't remember, come to the locker room or something,
and then they wanted to meet Holly because they saw
her do the gritty down the hallway.

Speaker 6 (46:30):
So anyway, they meet Holly.

Speaker 15 (46:31):
They're in the locker room and they meet Holly, and
then Holly follows them on Instagram and they follow her,
and now she's like the queen. In fact, they call
her the queen. So when they come to the games.

Speaker 6 (46:41):
They're like, where's Holly, Where's the Queen?

Speaker 15 (46:43):
And so she's done such a good job with those
kids and just so nice and fun and what a
great example for those young kids as they are now
playing basketball and how they should be with younger kids.
And it just you know, you pay it forward. And
you heard Holly say, you know, I want to give
it back to you know who poured into her. So anyway,

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really really neat to see that, especially as a coach Bakersfield.
Bakersfield has beaten us last two years, so we need
to be ready to go and serious and and everybody's
trying to get wins right now. Everybody wants wins going
home for the Christmas break and and you know, we
need to be top of that list. We've got two
games at home and we need to be fired up

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and ready to go. I think our kids have played
such good competition and competed, and you know, I think
I think going into the Bakersfield game, we need to
really have a presence on the boards, you know, you know,
just offensively, running good offense. I just think really fine
tuning what we do. Even in the USC game, we

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said it's this is about us, This about us getting better,
us running our stuff. We've had just that a little
bump in the road with Tajia being out, so Denay
and Saga have been taking over at the point guard spot,
and then Saga is out for a minute, and so
now Saga and to they are back and life's better.

Speaker 6 (48:07):
So we're we're excited to be able to do that.
And then you know, hoping that in the.

Speaker 15 (48:12):
Near future Tasia is back and with us, so we'll
see how that goes. But excited for the game. It's
a blackout game, so where you're black. We got brand
new black uniforms. The girls are looking good, the guys
are going to be in they're black, so it should
be kind of fun.

Speaker 16 (48:30):
You know.

Speaker 6 (48:30):
It's kind of fun.

Speaker 15 (48:31):
Too that Bakersfield just drives up the street, you know,
and and they you know, they they obviously it's always
kind of I wouldn't say it's the biggest rival game,
but it is a rival.

Speaker 6 (48:41):
Game, and so that's fun.

Speaker 15 (48:43):
And then moving into NAU, and you said it before,
NAU is as good as anybody.

Speaker 6 (48:47):
They are.

Speaker 15 (48:49):
They've beaten Colorado State, New Mexico, Arizona, They've they've beaten
some big time teams. They they play fast, they play hard,
they're aggressive.

Speaker 6 (48:58):
They have a lot of kids that have.

Speaker 15 (49:00):
Been there a couple of years, so they're older, in
experienced and have played together. And you're seeing a lot
of teams like ours that have a lot of new
transfers that aren't meshing and you know that haven't done
as well. And so I'm grateful that we have meshed
and that we have been playing well together. But with

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the NAU, we're gonna have to you know, I think
we're gonna have to.

Speaker 6 (49:27):
Really play a really good, solid game.

Speaker 15 (49:30):
And the hope for me as a coach as we
go into the break with you know, going to and
oh in these next games and ready to play un
LB when we get back, because.

Speaker 3 (49:39):
We're currently seven and four right now.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
Bulldogs have again this Saturday CSU Bakersfield at one o'clock
Northern Arizona on the nineteenth. That tip office later for
six before un LB, which starts a conference season. Coach
talked me through about the Mountain West Conference. It's gonna
be tight. I just think that there's so many teams
that are gonna be pretty evin in conference. It's not

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just I don't think there's just that one team that
you look at and you say, obviously UNLV's wonted the
last few years, but I don't feel like they're at
that level that they were the last couple of years.

Speaker 15 (50:10):
Hey, they lost Deisi, so that's good. She was by
far one of the better post players in the league.
So I think, you know, there's probably right now you've
got and not in this order, but a boy c
CSU of San Diego State that I think really are
kind of leading the pack. I think we're right there
with them. I think every year you have a version

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of what it's going to look like and it changes,
and so I just try to not even think about it.
You know, San Diego State beat Wisconsin, but yet they
almost lose to Fullerton who hadn't won a game, and
so you just have to kind of kind of you know,
take it with the greateness, don't get too fired up
about it.

Speaker 6 (50:51):
But but it is going to be competitive.

Speaker 15 (50:54):
We know that the Mountain West has gotten better over time,
and I think I mean from San Jose, Air Force, Wyoming,
I mean, you can't even really pick one. They're all
gonna be good. They're all gonna be hard to play
at their place. And so for us to go in
and play a UNLV from you know, the first game,

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I think I think it's nice because nobody's had a
conference game yet, nobody knows what that feels like. And
if we can go in there and knock them off,
I think that's a great start too.

Speaker 6 (51:25):
Fantastics or to the conference.

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Speaker 2 (54:42):
As we wrap things up at the Bulldog Basketball Hour,
we are at Crolling Wolf five twenty six, Bruce Avenue
here in Clovis. Thanks for listening to us on AM
thirteen forty Fox Sports Radio or on the Bulldog app.
I'm Matt Norble talking with President State women's basketball head
coach Jamie White, who, by the way, is in our
eleven seat. And you picked up your three hundredth career

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victory too long ago. When you think about that and
this the totality so far of your coaching career, what
does it make you think of.

Speaker 15 (55:14):
You know, I'm just I mean, I'm I'm to be honest,
I'm proud of my endurance because it has taken endurance
to to do what we do every day. For now,
I'm going on my thirty first year. But you know,
the winds are nice, but the wins mean you've had
great players, You've had great coaches, you've had great game plans,

(55:35):
you know all of those things. And the funniest thing
is you had all those things in your losses too.
So it's it's really a journey. It's it's not necessarily
a destination thing. I said to myself a long time ago,
how how can I do this job day in and
day out and enjoy it and enjoy it in its entirety,
the wins, the losses, the you know, the the road trips,

(55:57):
the two o'clock in the morning, the you know, all
of those things. And it's funny me and Mandy could
probably sit for hours and say, oh.

Speaker 6 (56:06):
This one time, this one time, oh this one time.

Speaker 15 (56:08):
And I could do the same thing with my other
coaches that I coached with at Northern Colorado. And I'm
just I'm proud of like just being here for that
long really you know, building you know, building bulldog basketball
and and and trying to sustain and the ins and
outs and the ups and downs and just just hanging

(56:29):
in there and and keep fighting. I think I think
we instill that in our players too. But just you know,
grateful to still be in the game. There's a lot
of people that aren't a lot of really good coaches
I saw in my career that you know, it got
too hard and they and they bailed and and you know,
everybody has a different reason. But you know, I just again,

(56:52):
I feel, you know, like I've really stuck it out
and and tried to get better and tried to change
with the times. Now we have all the different things
and it's funny because in the last five years it's changed.
So twenty five years of the same thing we got,
we had it down, and then the last five years

(57:13):
it's changed. And so guests, the people who will win
are the ones that change and adapt and and continue
to to manage these young kids and help them and
have their heart and the right reason in the right place.
And so you know, just proud of that, but also
so grateful for so many people that that I that
work with me, my coaches, administration, that believed in me.

Speaker 6 (57:37):
I mean all those things.

Speaker 15 (57:38):
And and believe me, some of the years you remember
the most didn't have that many wins, and you know,
you think.

Speaker 6 (57:45):
Wow, how did I get through that?

Speaker 15 (57:47):
Or you know, but the next year we had, we
were better, and the next year we were better, and
and then you know, just being able to adjust through that.
I feel like I'm like the stock market up.

Speaker 6 (57:59):
And down, up and down, but keep going up.

Speaker 15 (58:01):
We got a trend up, you know, and and uh,
and you just keep it, you keep going and and
you know, some pretty soon you're you're gonna have that
year like we had in twenty twenty, or you're gonna
you know, you're gonna you're gonna have that moment and
and again, those moments.

Speaker 6 (58:17):
Are great, but it's about the journey.

Speaker 15 (58:20):
So when you look back and you think all the
great people and all the great kids, and all the
great experiences, that's what really is gonna be the accumulation
of success in my mind.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
Coach, that's well said, and that's gonna wrap up our
Bulldog Basketball. Thanks for joining us here this evening, and
a reminder for you, Fresno States will be in action
this Saturday. It's the Blackout Game. Our pregame covered to
twelve thirty with the tip at one o'clock at the
Save Mart Center. They will have autographs with the team
immediately following the game and then their ugly sweater Christmas
game is happening against Northern Arizona. That's next Thursday, one

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week from today.

Speaker 3 (58:56):
Our pregame at five point thirty for that one and
tip at six.

Speaker 2 (58:59):
Us for the next women's a Bulldog Basketball Hour Thursday,
January second, raking the new at twenty and twenty five year.
I'm ad Normle. Thanks for everybody that's helped make this
broadcast possible. We say so long you've been listening to
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