The Bulldog Basketball Hour With Matt Norvell & Coach Jamie White

Matt Norvell along withn Fresno State Women's Basketball Coach White were at Crow & Wolf in Clovis to talk about this week's Basketball tournament in Hawaii and also we found out who liks to sing on the team too. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Live from Crowing Wolf tap Room in Clovis.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Here's your host, the voice of the Bulldogs, Paul Leffler.

Speaker 4 (00:15):
And we welcome you to Crowing Wolf here in Clovis.
I'm Matt Noorville, the voice of the women's basketball program.
As we've got an hour with the Bulldog basketball team
and it's head coach Jamie Whiten are eleventh season. We've
got a couple of student athletes that are gonna be
joining us here in just a few minutes. As we
welcome you to get the coaches show started for year
number with us, year number two. For you, it's like

(00:37):
your number three or four, isn't it? Because you did
because you did a coach show with Paul for a
couple of season three yep, So now you got it
with me for a couple of years now. Coach talked
me through what's going on with your squad. You guys
are playing some good basketball. You've won five of your
first six games five and one win four of them
by double digits, so things are clicking. Before we get
into what's been going on this season, talk to me

(00:58):
about preseason.

Speaker 5 (00:59):
Yeah, well we meet in July. Everybody comes back and
reports in July. And we've had a great off season,
just getting to know each other and kind of transitioning
from wherever else we've been and coming.

Speaker 6 (01:11):
Together as a team.

Speaker 5 (01:13):
We did have an opportunity to play in the community.
We played two inner squad scrimmages out in our community,
and I thought it was a really good chance to
play live in front of a crowd. It felt like
it was on the road, even though it was kind
of home, and it was good for our team. We
have eight new players and that was nice to be

(01:35):
able to play somewhat live without it counting out in
front and great opportunity. We also have our tip off
dinner this year we had called the Swish and Dish,
and that was a huge, you know event for us,
put on for our community and our boosters and our
fans and kind of kick the team or kick the game,

(01:57):
kick the season off.

Speaker 7 (01:58):
Right, kick somebody, yes, exactly.

Speaker 6 (02:01):
Kick the season off right. And that was fine.

Speaker 5 (02:04):
We brought a bunch of fans and stuff together and
then you know, seasons just continued to get going one
step at a time. I felt like we've played a
good schedule. We did have three games in five days
where we won two out of the three, and I
thought that are our players. That challenge was good for us.
Our players stepped up and played well. We've been working

(02:25):
together well. We have a lot of different parts that
can defend, that can score, that can rebound, and that's
been really beneficial and I think that has helped us
in our wins.

Speaker 7 (02:38):
You know, talk about that schedule a little bit. You played.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
You said, those three games in five days. How important
is that because you know, when you get to Vegas,
it's just game, game game, you know, to win a title.

Speaker 6 (02:49):
Yeah, I think it's really good to.

Speaker 5 (02:52):
Have that experience, just because you find that you're capable
of doing more and less time as a coach and
as a player. But it is more important that our
kids just get used to being able to do a scout,
turn around, play a game, recover turn around, play a game.
And now as we go to Hawaii, we're gonna be

(03:14):
playing three games in three days, just like the tournament.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
So you are going to be playing three games in
three days. You've got University of Hawaii. Now you've got
coach the number one ranked team in the country. And
UCLA on that Saturday, and then UT Martin. So talk
me through the upcoming week ahead. After you guys are
playing some good basketball. Now the competition is gonna step
up a bit.

Speaker 6 (03:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (03:36):
I think we're gonna play three really good teams. There's
gonna be it's gonna be a big challenge for our players.
Hawaii is gonna be as tough as any just because
we're at their place. They've now played I think they
played two games this weekend at home, so they're very
comfortable playing there. They have a good squad, a returning
squad that did really well. You know, I looked at

(03:57):
their ages, their senior senior, senior, junior experience, and a
freshman post player.

Speaker 6 (04:03):
So that'll be a good game. And that's the first one.
So it's it's easy. You just prepare for the first.

Speaker 5 (04:09):
Game, you really you know, put it all out there,
and then after that game you go to the next which.

Speaker 6 (04:14):
Is the number one U c l A. Ruins.

Speaker 5 (04:16):
So excited to play them. I think the challenge is
going to be there. The other thing is just preparing,
preparing our team for the Mountain West Conference. This this
will be a good challenge for that and just being
able to see different parts with uh, we're gonna see
some tall kids maybe, you know, obviously some quicker you know,

(04:39):
a different type of team, and and obviously there's a
lot of uh emphasis on a U C.

Speaker 8 (04:46):
L A.

Speaker 5 (04:46):
And and sometimes you can sneak right in and and
you know, play your best and get some good experience
and use that in the next games to come.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
Well, your schedule just to kind of go about that,
you got UCLA this week, and you're gonna have USC
and a few weeks you played UCLA a couple of
years ago. You guys have been notorious for really having
a good non conference schedule, you say, year and year
out to get ready for conference. Let's talk about conference
a little bit. With conference coming up, everyone seems to
be playing well early in conference. It's gonna be it

(05:16):
looks like it's gonna be tight in the entire Mountain
West Conference. Every game is going to be close.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
Yeah, I mean, the preseason is definitely for you know,
just sharpening the edge a little bit and making sure
that your team is ready and been challenged and in
different ways so that when you do start conference you
don't see anything that surprises you. You know, the funny
thing is last time we played.

Speaker 7 (05:37):
U C L A.

Speaker 9 (05:38):
I know there.

Speaker 6 (05:41):
Were they took that one on the shoulders.

Speaker 5 (05:44):
But the time before, if you don't remember, I think
it was like a ten point game most of the game.

Speaker 6 (05:49):
And yes, why well she went I mean.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
She scored, she went crazy in the second half, but
she had two early ones in the first half.

Speaker 6 (05:57):
Because if we'd have had her, the whole game been
in trouble.

Speaker 5 (06:01):
But but yeah, so it's a it's fun to play
those schools, and especially u c l A, USC Cow,
you know, some of those schools that are close to us.

Speaker 6 (06:10):
It's a it's a good game. Well, USC will be
an easy travel game UCLA.

Speaker 5 (06:17):
You don't really in the tournaments. A lot of times
you don't know who you're going to play until you know,
a couple of weeks ago, right like until the schedule
comes out. So that wasn't necessarily planned, but we knew
we would have we would be challenged and play somebody, uh,
you know, a Power five school and then working towards
the Mountain West.

Speaker 6 (06:37):
We we start off with you in LV I know,
so we better be ready to go.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
Yeah, they're the defending conference champs. You guys got them
actually right after Christmas on that Sunday in Vegas. Coach,
let's talk about your staff a little bit, because your
staff has changed this year. We said so long to
a coach Shannon, who was very good on the staff,
but we welcomed in a new member on the staff.
But just talk about what they mean to you and
go through them a little bit.

Speaker 5 (07:01):
Well, yeah, coach Hannon's had been with us for seven years.
That was like a bad breakup or a good breakup
or some kind of breakup, but we wished her well.
She got an associate head coaching job out at Cornell
and she's doing well out there. But coach Mandy has
been with me for eleven years, and coach Courtney now
going into her fourth year. And then we added coach

(07:24):
Allan Nakamora. He's been at Point Loma for he was
at Point Loma as an assistant for fifteen and then.

Speaker 6 (07:31):
Biola as a head coach for eight.

Speaker 5 (07:33):
And when we were looking at doing the hiring of
one of my commitments was to get somebody with experience
that's maybe called the shots a little bit, that is
able to jump right in and get to work. And
then really but somebody that understands what needs to be done,
kind of on a holistic type of version, because as

(07:55):
a head coach, you can spend a lot of time
mentoring young coaches and helping them, or you can you know,
get somebody that maybe has done it and then you
just got to tweak things here and there. So Alan's
done a great job. He's actually he's a great recruiter.
He's great defensively. He's really helped us defensively, and he's

(08:16):
out recruiting and he actually has lived in Hawaii for
some time, so as we go over there, he's gonna
be recruiting and he'll know he'll know the lay of
the lamb pretty good.

Speaker 7 (08:25):
That's good that he can give you all the spots.

Speaker 6 (08:27):
Where related to the officials, fun like that.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
Yeah, so you guys can get some calls on the road,
that'd be very nice. This is a head coach, Jamie White.
It's the Bulldog Basketball Hour. We've got a couple of
student athletes that we're gonna chat with here in just
a couple of moments at Fresno State, currently five and
one this season. They are on the road in Hawaii
this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, against University of Hawaii UCLA
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Speaker 4 (12:04):
And we welcome you back to Crow and Wolf five,
twenty six, Bruce Avenue in Clovis. It's the Bulldog Basketball Hour,
joined by head coach Jamie White. I'm Matt Norble. Thanks
for joining us, and we've got a couple of student
athletes alongside.

Speaker 7 (12:15):
We got Mariah and Saga.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
Who are a part of this team and newcomers this season,
but they can play the game of basketball already a
part of the five and one start that the Bulldogs
are on as we go down the line, and we
want you to introduce yourself, all right, so Saga start
us off. Tell us a little bit about yourself, where
you're from, and what made you come.

Speaker 7 (12:33):
To Fresno State.

Speaker 17 (12:34):
Okay, so I'm Saga. I'm from Finland. I'm twenty three
years old, so I'm a senior. And what made me
come to Prisno State. It was really just a fan
atmosphere and like coaches being really emphasizing also the family
atmosphere and the team, and I just like the location.

Speaker 18 (12:54):
I wanted to come see what California was about.

Speaker 7 (12:58):
Understandable, Mariah, what about you?

Speaker 8 (13:00):
I'm Ria am from Thousand Oaks, California. In my junior
year a transfer from l i U. I chose Fresno.
Being close to home was really important. I was across
the country the last two years, so for my family
to be able to come watch my games and be
able to be able to go home was a big reason.
And then the same I SAWGA just the the environment,

(13:21):
the community to support that was something that I thought
was really important, having people come to or get It's
nice to see people in the stands, to have sponsors
like I haven't. This is my first time experiencing stuff
like that, so I'm very thankful to be.

Speaker 19 (13:34):
A part of this program.

Speaker 4 (13:35):
What about the weather for you too, because I mean
you were out east, so how I getting back to
California back to you know, good weather.

Speaker 8 (13:41):
Yeah. Before I was on the East Coast, I loved
the heat and the sun, but then going out there,
like I got used to it by only mine, I
like both.

Speaker 19 (13:49):
I like the heat. I also like the cold here
and there though.

Speaker 4 (13:52):
Okay, yeah, coach, talk to me about getting these too.
Obviously they've helped you, no doubt. Both starters both have
been playing well.

Speaker 5 (14:00):
First off, let's have them say their last Namesa's.

Speaker 7 (14:06):
Last name is right, all right? And then and then
the Mara your last name.

Speaker 8 (14:12):
Is l Yeah, people have always struggled to get it right.
But I kind of I'm just like, it's whatever. However,
they say, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (14:22):
If I if I visualize what it looks like, then
I mess it up every time.

Speaker 4 (14:27):
Hellow him, Yeah, yeah, that's probably. I mean it's e
L O H. I M yeah, yeah, I guess I
could see. I could see that, all right. Talk to
me coach about how getting these two well.

Speaker 5 (14:43):
Saga played at Texas Tech and we have an old assistant.
He's not old, he's young, but assistant that used to
be here that coached with coached her, and uh, there
was a little bit of a connection there. So he
concurred that she was a good kid and played hard.
And you know, we've seen her experience at that level

(15:04):
really pay off and really her not only her experience,
but her maturity and her ability to you know, communicate
and and you've seen it on the floor has been great.
Her ability to score in different ways, get to the rim,
you had to pull up, shoot the deep three, the
really deep three, sometimes too deep of.

Speaker 18 (15:22):
A three now.

Speaker 5 (15:26):
And she's been able to help us play at the
point guard spot. So that's been She's really played one
through four so far. So I've been really pleased with
her and excited to have her.

Speaker 17 (15:36):
And then.

Speaker 5 (15:38):
Mariah, you know, we we kind of knew her a
little bit prior to her going out to l i U.
We knew of her, and then as in her recruiting process,
just nice. You know, it was fun to have her
on campus, meet her family. Just what you see in Mariah,
you see it every day. She's fun and kind of
upbeat and you know, just like can shoot the three

(16:02):
just out anywhere on the court and has a great form,
great shot. You every time she shoots, you think it's
going in and that is that has truly happened a
couple times. But you know, can really keep somebody in
front of her defensively, and it has really added to
the team. Both both Saga and Maria are starting for

(16:23):
us and playing a lot of minutes and and doing
good things and really a big part of the five
and one.

Speaker 4 (16:30):
Yeah, and then you're talking about they're shooting. Both of
them are shooting thirty seven percent from three, which is
the top on the team. You got Kylie Fox right
behind him at thirty six. Now, you guys, talk to me,
what got you into basketball? You know, because it gets
this level, obviously goe have dedication, but you also gotta
love the game.

Speaker 7 (16:43):
So what got you into it? Saga you start of saw?

Speaker 17 (16:45):
Yeah, I started when I was four, so this will
be my twentieth season, so it's been a long time playing.
My dad really got me into it. He just his
friend was coaching this like little dribblers team, so then
he was like, just go and try it. I was
like okay, and then I just stuck with it. I
played a lot of sports growing up, but basketball just

(17:08):
stuck with me and I liked it the most, so
I just kept pursuing that that goal more. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (17:14):
I think I started playing like around five too, But
I also grew up playing a lot of sports, so
I'd go from like basketball to soccer to softball, and
up until high school, I was still playing basketball and softball,
and I had wanted to go to college for softball,
Like I was set on going and playing softball in college,
and then my sophomore year, I kind of just had
a switch and I was like, I think I want

(17:36):
to like play basketball in college, and so that's kind
of how it went from there. My aunt played overseas
in Israel for like seven or eight years, I think.
And then my cousin is at USC he's a freshman
on the men's team. My dad played a bunch of sports,
so sports just runs in my family, and even when
I was young, if I didn't want to, I had

(17:56):
no choice but too.

Speaker 4 (17:58):
So yeah, talk to me about your guys, both of
your guys. Family a little bit, like how big is
it and how many siblings.

Speaker 7 (18:04):
Have you got?

Speaker 8 (18:04):
Me?

Speaker 17 (18:04):
Yeah, I have one brother. My family's really small. I
mean I have my mom, my brother, and my dad,
But then I only have two cousins because my mom
only has one sister, and then my dad doesn't have
any siblings, so my family's like really small. I do
have eight grandparents though, because everybody remarried and they were
all in my lives when I was really young, so I.

Speaker 18 (18:25):
Kind of just have like eight grandparents.

Speaker 19 (18:29):
I have a big family.

Speaker 8 (18:30):
I have four siblings, a older brother and then three
little sisters, so those are I'm so close to my family.
I love my family so grateful for them. And then
I have a lot of cousins aunts uncles. My mom
is one of four, my dad is one of four,
so I have like a lot of cousins.

Speaker 19 (18:47):
Just I have a big family.

Speaker 4 (18:49):
So let's get back to basketball a little bit. When
you guys are looking to develop your game, was there
something in particular you were trying to work on this summer?
You know, coming to a new team which you've aways
been playing ball, so you know what's been working or
what you're trying to work on to get better?

Speaker 7 (19:02):
What about you?

Speaker 17 (19:03):
I think the biggest for me was just getting used
to not just shooting the doing a lot more like
getting to the rim and getting mid range jumpers and
reading and getting more assists. At Tech, I was really
just used to running to the corner and shooting if
I got the ball. So I just had to really
switch up my role a lot from what it was

(19:24):
for the past three years.

Speaker 8 (19:26):
I think for me, offensively, obviously I have the three,
but trying to get more into like my mid range
and then like driving here and there, and then on
my passing to like when I do drive, getting in
the pai looking for like the open pass or like
just better shots. And then defensively, I've my defense because
it could always be better. So that's when something I've

(19:47):
been working on a lot is like my help side
or our transition defense.

Speaker 19 (19:50):
We talk about a lot.

Speaker 8 (19:51):
That's something that I've been working on and I think
game by game it's getting better.

Speaker 4 (19:56):
Coach, you heard a couple of things you got to
like mid range, which we talked about the other day,
and then defense.

Speaker 7 (20:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (20:01):
Well, the other thing about Mariah is she has a
mean little post up to Yeah, and in our offense
that's been so effective lately. And same with Saga. Saga
running the point, you know, she can get a good
mismatch in there and be able to take advantage of that.

Speaker 6 (20:19):
So that's been really nice for both of these guys.

Speaker 4 (20:21):
When you hear defense, does that make you smile a
little bit? Because we talked about it before the season,
he said, Hey, I think we're going to be a
pretty good defensive team this season, and it's already shown
with numbers wise how good defensively you guys are.

Speaker 6 (20:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (20:32):
I mean before the Seasun game, we were holding teams
to fifty five or less, and we were we were
headed that way, but then we decided to just you know,
let it fly a little bit, which is okay, we
almost had one hundred points. We kind of gave up there.
But I just really believe that defense can be more
consistent and that you can always rely on it. You

(20:54):
know your defense is going to hold teams to a
certain amount and or play a certain way, and so
you can rely on that and then that gives your
offense a little bit of time to get going. And
that's been nice to see with our team this year.
And it's not been it's not been too tricky. We've
been we've done a little bit of zone, but really

(21:15):
we've relied on our Amanda man and that is really
nice to see, and I think our kids have good
confidence in that.

Speaker 8 (21:21):
Well.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
Both of you guys coming into the team for the
first time, talk to me about what was like meeting
new players. You know, walking up and you're walking into
a system where you don't know a lot of people
and you got to kind of introduce yourself and kind
of do the first day of school all over again.

Speaker 17 (21:35):
It was it was nice, like it was exciting to
see new faces every day and like just come in
and get new friends. And I don't know, I was
really excited to meet all the players that incomers came
in a week before before the returners came back, so
we kind of were able to get to know each

(21:56):
other first and then I feel like we all had
that because we were friends already, We all that confidence
going into and like making now being friends with their returners,
and it was kind of easier to mash together also,
so it was really nice. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (22:09):
I think coming in, me and Sugar are both very
like just goofy, like we joke a lot, funny outgoing,
so I think us both coming in it wasn't hard
for either of us to just kind of put ourselves
out there and like just make conversation and.

Speaker 19 (22:25):
Talk to people.

Speaker 8 (22:25):
And then obviously as athletes, we've been on so many
different teams, so at this point we're used to just
meeting new people and having new teammates and stuff like that.
So I think the transition into like the team aspect
was fine.

Speaker 19 (22:37):
It was it was easy And.

Speaker 4 (22:39):
Well I can definitely attest to that because then I
showed up to camp. It was like they'd been there
the whole time. They knew everybody, everyone was talking to them.
They had to be early on in meeting the team too.

Speaker 18 (22:47):
A camp over the summer, right, Yeah, it was like
right after the returners came.

Speaker 7 (22:52):
That's what I'm saying. Yeah, camp after yeah, uh huh.

Speaker 5 (22:56):
Camp it was it was nice for these guys to
be able to get in and kind of get situated
and organized and have some time together before the returners
came in.

Speaker 6 (23:06):
We try to do that.

Speaker 5 (23:07):
It doesn't always work out timing exactly, but it was
really nice this year.

Speaker 6 (23:11):
We had everybody.

Speaker 5 (23:13):
Sometimes we can't get people in for a certain amount
of time, so it was nice everybody was here and
had the same experience at the same time.

Speaker 4 (23:20):
Oh, we need to take another break. It's the Bulldog
basketball out. We're at croll on Wolf five twenty six
Spruce Avenue. You're listening to Bulldogs women's basketball from Learfield here.

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They make us who we are.

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So what does it mean when traditions unite, When a
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And welcome back to Prolin Wull Fox twenty six Bruce
Avenue here in Clovis. It's the Bulldog Basketball Hour. We're
joined by the women's basketball team head coach Jamie Whites.
I'm Matt Norvil. Thanks for joining us. As we got
about another half hour or so left of the Bulldog
Basketball Hour. We got a couple of players alongside too,
Mariah and Saga as well. And we've talked a lot
about obviously athletics, what got you guys into playing basketball? Well,

(26:55):
now we've got to talk about the student part of
being an athlete, the student athlete part. So if you
know your major, what you're doing, what you're planning to
do in house, school's going for you.

Speaker 17 (27:06):
So my major for the three years I was at
Tech for was psychology, and then when I transferred here,
not all of my credit transferreds so I had to
kind of create this. It's called special major, So it's
interdisciplinary studies with the focus on psychology, mass communication, business,
and journalism, and I want to be a sports psychologist

(27:29):
when I grow up twenty three, but when I grow up,
I want to be a sports psychologist.

Speaker 7 (27:34):
So what do you want to do with a kind
of the sports psychology part of it? What are you
trying to do with it?

Speaker 17 (27:38):
It's just I just feel like it's a really good
way of me connecting what I'm interested in school wise,
which is psychology, and then also a way for me
to still stay in athletics. And I feel like the
mental part for athletes is such a huge deal. I
feel like I just love psychology and I love mental health,
and I love all of that. I love talking to people,

(27:59):
I love helping people. So I feel like me also
being a former athlete, I could be a very I
could relate to the athletes really well. So I feel
like I would just be good at that job.

Speaker 7 (28:11):
If anyone's listening, yeah, someone will hire your dad. I
would say that. I would agree athletes are really good
at becoming psychologists. I would agree with that completely. What
about you, Mariah.

Speaker 8 (28:22):
Yeah, so at my last school, I was in sports management.
They didn't offer that at Fresno. So we've still been
trying to figure out what I'm gonna do. They're trying
to just take classes that I've taken and try to
see what major it would fit into, just to make
sure that I could graduate on time. I know, well,
it will be some type of sports business major though
that I'm but I'm not sure yet.

Speaker 19 (28:44):
And then I don't know what I want to do
after college yet.

Speaker 8 (28:47):
But I want to go overseas, so I want to
keep playing basketball after I graduate, and I could see
myself playing for a few years, so I wouldn't want
basketball to end right away. But as far as like
using my major, I'm not sure. But when I was
in New York, I was in a commercial, this Google
Pixel commercial, and I met like a bunch of NBA players.

(29:07):
My job was like to be one of the players,
so we just played pick up. I played with one
of the girls, the point guard from Notre Dame, so
I met her. We played together and it was only
two days that I filmed and I got paid, like really, well,
so that's something that I could see, like that is
something that I would want to do. I don't know
what i'd call that, but like I went to the city,

(29:28):
I got a whole wardrobe. They like had me try
on different outfits. I got my makeup done and then
I just had to go and act and play basketball.
So like, while I'm going overseas, maybe I could see
myself trying to get into something like that. But besides that,
I'm not sure what I'd want to do.

Speaker 19 (29:42):
With my major yet.

Speaker 7 (29:44):
So that's called acting coach, right.

Speaker 8 (29:45):
Yeah, she wants to be acting, but like the sports
I want to do ambassada something like.

Speaker 4 (29:53):
How are how are classes going? Like how is the
time management and all that going? Obviously, you guys are older,
so you're used to that, You're not a I's been
walking in where you have basketball, which is basically a
full time job, in academics, which is a full time job.

Speaker 7 (30:05):
But how's all that going? Time management wise?

Speaker 17 (30:08):
Because I'm trying to graduate by spring. My fall semester
was really packed. I had like eight or nine classes, so,
but one of them was like half a semester long.
So I got down with one of my classes already
like a month ago, so that definitely took some load off.
But now that we're getting into the end of semester,

(30:31):
I have a lot of big projects that I need
to work on, and I'm just trying to do a
little bit every day, so because I have a bad
habit of procrastinating sometimes, so I'm trying to I'm trying
to create good habits moving forward.

Speaker 4 (30:45):
So that means you're gonna, like you were telling us off,
They're gonna be doing some homework in Hawaii, right, Yes, I'm.

Speaker 18 (30:50):
Going to be in that lobby on that Wi Fi
with my headphones on, no distractions, just school.

Speaker 7 (30:58):
Okay.

Speaker 19 (31:00):
Classes have been good for me.

Speaker 8 (31:03):
I have a pretty easy schedule, so like Monday Friday,
I don't have class, which is, yeah, that's so helpful.
And then I really only have like Tuesdays, Thursdays, I'll
have two classes a day and they're not long. And
my other school, i'd have days where i'd have class
at two, four, and six, so I'd be at school
till like eight thirty pm. So as far as like
the schedule, it's just so much more helpful. And then

(31:26):
I also have three online classes, so I only have
to go to three classes in person, and the online
classes just helps so much not having to just go
sit in class, like I'm definitely if I could do
all online classes, I would do that. So this semester
was telling our academic advisor, just trying to get me
as much as many online classes as you can, because
those are just always so helpful.

Speaker 7 (31:47):
Online classes would because then also they can just assign homework.

Speaker 17 (31:50):
And all that.

Speaker 19 (31:50):
Yeah, and then I just I could you could do
it on your own time.

Speaker 5 (31:53):
It does help with scheduling, and we're on the road
so much, especially in the next semester, that even though
I do believe you learn better being there. Yeah, I
do think for our players it just you know, just
helps them relax and be able to do it on
their own time. It also allows us to get stuff

(32:13):
done in the in the airport, on a bus, in
the hotel room. It allows us to be able to
have access to our classes in that way. And I
think that's that's much better than missing class. Now you're
now you're you know, catching up and you're having to
talk to professors. It's been it's been I think, much
better since COVID and the online world came came about.

Speaker 4 (32:35):
Yeah, it's definitely helped athletes, no doubt about it. Talk
to me about what who also helps athletes. That's the
academic advisor. Just talk what the academic advisor means of
your program.

Speaker 6 (32:45):
Yeah, well, I you can't.

Speaker 5 (32:48):
You have to have one because coaches cannot talk directly
to teachers, to professors, and so if there was an
issue or something that somebody needed to reach out or
needed to let them know the kids were you know,
the players are going to be gone or whatever, then
the coach cannot talk to them, and so we got
to have the advisor.

Speaker 6 (33:08):
The advisor has to really know everything.

Speaker 5 (33:10):
About their schedule, about their class, about their teachers, how
to help them when the drop ad is what other
classes work, and they have to be in line academically
to be eligible to play. And so if they're not
in the right classes that will end up helping them,
you know, graduate, then we're we're gonna be ineligible.

Speaker 6 (33:34):
And that's really important too. So the academic advisor is
really important.

Speaker 5 (33:38):
What do you guys think, How does the academic advisor
help you the most?

Speaker 17 (33:43):
I think.

Speaker 8 (33:45):
As far as like classes and stuff, I personally like,
I need help choosing my classes are like kind of
guidance and you know what would be best for me
to take the times and stuff like that. So I
think Ashley, and then we had Jordan. I was really
sad that he left, but he was a big help.
And then Ashley is also great, really good with just
helping us choose, especially going into this next semester, of

(34:06):
what classes would fit, what classes will help me specifically
graduate on time.

Speaker 19 (34:11):
So they're a big help to us.

Speaker 17 (34:13):
I mean, I love Ashley. I just facetimed her after
our practice. I didn't I didn't want to go to
their office. I just facetimed her because we were talking
about some classes and scheduling. And she's just such a
good person to have around because I don't know anything.

Speaker 18 (34:30):
I don't know how I'm new to this school.

Speaker 17 (34:32):
I don't know how to register, I don't know how
to what classes I need to take with my new
special major.

Speaker 18 (34:38):
I don't know anything that goes into that.

Speaker 17 (34:41):
So she's just helping to put it all on paper
and make it clear, and like she lets me choose
which classes I would prefer to take, and like she'd
I know, I'm not gonna have any boring classes at
least by choice, because.

Speaker 4 (34:55):
Yeah, because you never know, you guys have dealing with
the younger kids come in the freshmen. Do they ever
look to you for advice with absolutely time management? But
just all that's thrown at them academics athletics, because even
though you're new to the team, you guys are still older.
You've been through the grind. You guys are college athletes,
college students as well. Do you help them out here
to give them a little pointers?

Speaker 17 (35:16):
Yeah, I mean I don't necessarily. I don't think they
come and just ask us questions. The advice kind of
just comes through regular conversation we have. I have a
class with all of our freshmen girls because I have
to get it to graduating.

Speaker 18 (35:31):
So I'm in a class with all of them.

Speaker 17 (35:32):
And we just talk all the time, and it's like
it's a class that's it's called Intro to University. So
it's a lot we go over a lot of things
that gonna you're gotta expect from being in college and
time management and stuff like that. So then we talk
about those things all the time and I kind of
can give them my experience with things and then they

(35:53):
just listen, and that's kind.

Speaker 18 (35:54):
Of how I give them advice, just through regular conversation.

Speaker 8 (35:58):
I would say the same. I don't think anyone has
like came to me specifically about school. I feel like,
for the most part, our freshmen are on top of
all their stuff and they've been good. But yeah, just
like through conversations where I feel like advice would come from.

Speaker 4 (36:12):
I think that's important, right, keeping the just talking through
with every ideal the situation that happens is kind of communication.

Speaker 6 (36:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (36:20):
Well, I think it's nice you have you have class together,
you can study together, you can you know, work work
on stuff, you know, communicate, talk about what you need
to have done, talk about you know, teachers, and you
know maybe what's been beneficial and what's helped. So I
think especially as you're on the road and maybe you
have an issue with a problem or an essay or whatever,

(36:42):
you can kind of work it out.

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It's the Bulldog Basketball Hour.

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We're joined by President of SA Bulldogs women's basketball head
coach Jamie White, and a couple of the student athletes,
Maria and Saga as well. I'm mad Normal, thanks for
spending some time with us. At about another ten minutes
with the student athletes before we wrap it up with
head coach Jamie White, and obviously we talked a lot
about basketball. We've talked obviously about studies, all which are
very important. But what do you do in your free time?

(40:23):
What else can you ladies do?

Speaker 19 (40:26):
Saga?

Speaker 8 (40:26):
Oh, out of my I mean in my free time.
I wouldn't say I do much, especially during season, but
some things I do like to do. I like to
braid hair. I like to sing, which most of the
team knows. I like to I don't cook that much.
I feel like I should be cooking more, but I

(40:47):
cook here and there. I'll bake here and there. I
talk to my family a lot. If we have any
free weekends, I'll go home.

Speaker 19 (40:54):
I'll drive home. So yeah, just things like that I
do all my free time.

Speaker 7 (40:59):
Okay, what's your go to song? Do you have one?

Speaker 8 (41:03):
Not a go to but it'd probably be like any
adele song. I was singing like slower songs. Okay, but yeah,
I grew up doing talent.

Speaker 17 (41:11):
I was.

Speaker 8 (41:12):
I did the talent show every year up until high school.
I refused to like I did not want to. But
in middle school my parents would make me and I
would like cry and they would say if I didn't
go sign up, they drive to school and sign me
up themselves. So I would go from crying walk on
stage and sing and do so good. But yeah, I

(41:32):
did it up until high school and then so singing
is just something I've always done.

Speaker 19 (41:36):
My family loves music.

Speaker 8 (41:37):
My dad's dad sang, so my dad swears I got
it from him, but it was his dad that his sing.
But yeah, I love music and I love to sing.
So that's something I do a lot on my free time.

Speaker 7 (41:49):
All right, saga.

Speaker 17 (41:51):
I just my favorite thing to do on my free
time is go to the grocery store and or go
to Dollar Tree or TJ Max and just look around
or Target. But I just really what I've been doing
more this year than I have in the past three
years of being in college is I've been starting to

(42:14):
cook more things.

Speaker 18 (42:15):
I'm trying to get.

Speaker 17 (42:18):
Into the real life and real world, so I've been
starting to cook more because I don't know, I just
want to be a good cook when i'm alter and
right now I'm currently trying to perfect my steak.

Speaker 4 (42:31):
Okay, okay, yeah, So you're going to have her coach
to cook anything tomorrow for Thanksgiving.

Speaker 6 (42:36):
I don't know you've got anything on the list.

Speaker 17 (42:39):
I just made yams yesterday for the first time because
I was really craving it and it turned out to
be pretty good, but maybe not for the whole team.

Speaker 4 (42:49):
So how important coach is it for Obviously she's obviously
going in talking about mental health, and she loves mental health,
but just honestly for your mental health, to get away
from the game and get away from stuff, these two
things that can kind of over time make life seem
a lot more difficult than what it should be.

Speaker 5 (43:05):
Yeah, I mean, I agree. We talk about it all
the time with the players. I mean they have They
just got two days off, hopefully for one whole day
they didn't think about basketball. Sometimes we get so worried
about things we can't control, or worried about things that
really maybe don't matter in the long run, and we
let it run us down. But then we're at the

(43:26):
point in a season where we're going to be coming
up on finals and the stress of finals and the
stress of games, and sometimes you just got to.

Speaker 6 (43:35):
Take a big step back and you know, just take
a break.

Speaker 5 (43:40):
I think it's great they have each other and they
I mean, like Mariah, I think a couple of girls
went home with Mariah's to see her family, and that's nice,
especially for kids.

Speaker 6 (43:51):
You know, players like Saga who.

Speaker 5 (43:53):
Are a long long ways from home and aren't getting there.
And then Saga's mom showed up the other day and
that was fun to meet her. And you know, family
obviously matters. If you feel like the team's a good family,
I think I think that helps. But then you know,
there's nothing like Mariah's mom showing up to the game
the end of night either just to make you feel

(44:14):
loved and you know, give you that that extra energy.
So I really like all of our players families and
they've been so supportive, and it's always so I'm always
so grateful to their families because really they are the
types of people they are because of their parents and
because of the family they were raised in, and that
that that always is important because then they become that

(44:36):
family with us, and that really helps down the stretch
when things are tough.

Speaker 6 (44:42):
I think that that really counts.

Speaker 4 (44:44):
Well, you guys, you've always recruited well with people with
good families. Just talk to me, you guys. We talked
about a little bit, but just family, how important it
is to you. I know you don't have a big one,
which you said, and you have a big one. Just
what it means when you see them show up.

Speaker 7 (44:57):
To a game.

Speaker 8 (44:58):
Yeah, we when I see I mean I always know
when my family's coming. But I think it's just like
the biggest breath of fresh air just seeing them, because
obviously the last two years I didn't get to see
them that much. So seeing my sisters in the stands,
like they have so much fun coming to our games.
And it's so sad because sometimes they'll drive up that
day and leave that night, and my little sister will

(45:21):
leave crying because.

Speaker 19 (45:21):
They miss me so much and they just want to stay.

Speaker 8 (45:24):
But just for my family to be able to show
up and make that drive, even though my sister does
play sports and they have other things to do, I'm
really just blessed and thankful to have that family. Just
seeing them in the stands every game is it feels
it's a lot of support.

Speaker 17 (45:39):
Well, my parents used to come to every game, like
when I was still in Finland, so it was kind
of odd at first when I moved to the States
and not have any family and then have teammates whose
family would come.

Speaker 18 (45:52):
But when my mom got to come here.

Speaker 17 (45:55):
She visited me my freshman year when I was at Tech,
but I got COVID, so she didn't even get to
watch me play and then and then now she came
for the second time in these four years, so it
was really nice, and it was really nice that she
got to watch me play.

Speaker 18 (46:10):
And it was just nice to go up.

Speaker 17 (46:11):
To the stands after and go to your own mom,
because especially here, we go to the stands and we
talked to the fans after every game. But when my
mom was there, it was just like it was like
a spotlight on her and I would just walk to her.

Speaker 18 (46:26):
It was just so nice.

Speaker 17 (46:27):
But I really love that Mariah's family comes here every
time because I've been getting close to her sisters and
I love her sisters so much too, and it's just
now that's kind of like who I also gravitate towards
with Mariah after games.

Speaker 18 (46:42):
So it's it's really nice when our families can come
and support us.

Speaker 4 (46:46):
Final question for you guys, and we'll let you go
and then we'll wrap things up with Coach White. Talk
to me about Fresno in general. What do you like
about Fresno. Is there something that you like to do
in Fresno, something that surprised you about Fresno.

Speaker 7 (46:57):
Maybe, Yeah, like.

Speaker 19 (47:00):
We said in the beginning, just the environment and the community.

Speaker 8 (47:03):
I just think it's so great to, like, at least
for me, like have people on the stands and people
care about our team and people want to put into
our team, and just like the sponsors and all the
little events we've done, like the Swish and Dish dinner
and we just did something last week. But just to
see people show up for us is like a really
good feeling because I didn't have that before. So I

(47:26):
think that's the biggest thing. Obviously, outside of the school,
the environment is a huge change.

Speaker 19 (47:31):
I went from the.

Speaker 8 (47:32):
City to Fresnoe, so I've been trying to, you know,
find more things to like outside of basketball and school
to take up my time with. But yeah, as far
as like the with basketball in school, just the community
has been so helpful and something I didn't expect, and
I love that about this school.

Speaker 18 (47:52):
My favorite thing about Fresno is that they have Trader Joes.

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Everybody loved joe I's never I had.

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Never gone before coming here, and I'm always yes, I
always watched TikTok videos of Trader Joe's at Trader Joe's halls,
and then.

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I finally I can finally go there.

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So what do you get?

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What's your favorite thing I love.

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some berries.

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I'm gonna try it.

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Yeah, it's Trader Joe's. It is well.

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Thanks guys for joining us and letting people get to
know you a little bit, and best of luck the
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Thank you.

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Twenty six Bruce Avenue here in Clovis says we've got
about the final five or six minutes or so with
head coach Jamie Whites. It is the Bulldog Basketball Hour
Forresno State women's basketball. By the way, it's off to
a very good start there. Five won this season. They've
won four games by double digits. They'll be heading to
Hawaii this weekend for Hawaii, UCLA and UT Martin. You

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can catch the Dogs back at the Saved Mart Center
December fifth. It sounds like it's far away, but that's
a week from Thursday. Coach against U see MERSI that's
crazy that it's that quick that December is next week.
It's just I'm still not over it. Some big news
that came out earlier this season, I guess, and more
in the preseason for you guys. But earlier this fall

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is that you guys will be joining the PAC twelve
in a couple of years, and that's big news.

Speaker 7 (52:33):
That's a good move.

Speaker 4 (52:34):
Gonzaga is going to be a part of it basketball
why it's going to be a really good basketball conference.

Speaker 7 (52:39):
What are your impressions of that?

Speaker 5 (52:41):
Yeah, well, you know, not only a Gonzaga, but they're
taking Colorado State, boise I, guess, Utah State now and
then Colorado State Boys, San Diego State and Utah State,
and you know, really taking you know, top couple of
teams from our league in women's basketball anyway, and then
adding the Gonzaga. I think that's exciting. Washington State's as

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good as any and then and then Oregon State. I mean,
we know has been in a Final four. So I
think it's gonna be a great move, great move for
Fresno State, great move for you know, even our community,
just to be just kind of listed in that in
that in the company that it's going to be. Uh. I,
you know, obviously it's gonna be nice. It'll help financially,

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but I think it will help not only you know,
experience day in and day out. It'll be very challenging,
but it'll it'll open doors recruiting, and that that always happens.
When you change conferences, you usually start to draw more
players from those areas, so you would get more players
from the North More Northwest. I do think they're not

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done adding schools, so we we know that we we
can get you know, kids from that area, the Mountain
West area. But then I you know, I think anywhere
a school is added, then that will open up our
recruiting in those areas.

Speaker 6 (54:06):
So it's exciting. It's exciting.

Speaker 5 (54:08):
You know, I've been in this league now for eleven
years here, it'll be twelve with next year, and then
when I was at Wyoming for three in Utah, oh yeah,
for a long time. Yeah, So so it'll be a
great change. I'm excited about it. I think, you know,
our not only our community, our kids, our coaches, but

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just you know, change is good. It challenges you, makes
you better, it makes you have to adjust, and I
think it's.

Speaker 4 (54:34):
Time let's transition a bit from that to a locker
sponsors and the Hoop Club. You heard a couple of
them talk about just the sponsors and how important they
are to your program, something that you have been doing
and been a part of for such a long time.
That's been beneficial to your guys program. What does that
entail and how positive is it?

Speaker 5 (54:54):
Yeah, well, we just had our Hoop Club Appreciation Night
and had them stand our board meet religiously once a
month to help us with events and activities. Judy Nast
is our president of the Hoop Club and she does
a great job there. They actually set up a table
at the top of the Save Mart Center and handout

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stats and any kind of you know, goings on in
women's basketball. And then they also sponsor the half Court Shop,
which I think it's up to a thousand I know,
I know. So they help with that and that's been
fun and uh, and you know, they're they're one of
the best. In fact, when I first got the job

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ten years ago, Reagan Peebley said to me, you have
one of the biggest most supportive groups on campus in
the Hoop Clubs. So and that has been true. I think, Uh,
they do a great job supporting us and helping us.
And then the Locker Sponsor program is basically a program
where each individual, each individual girl is sponsored by a

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fan and obviously there's a financial commitment to that, but
that also brings them into you know, a closer relationship
with that player, and we have multiple events and they
come to practice.

Speaker 6 (56:15):
We had the event the other night in.

Speaker 5 (56:16):
Our locker room actually where they get to sit in
the locker room and talk to each other and get
to know each other.

Speaker 6 (56:22):
So that's been nice.

Speaker 5 (56:23):
And then and then obviously financially, that's that's been helpful. So,
you know, just a couple things to really allow our
fans and community to connect with our players.

Speaker 6 (56:34):
That is really what it's all about.

Speaker 13 (56:36):
You know.

Speaker 6 (56:37):
This summer, we went to a Sparks game and I have.

Speaker 5 (56:39):
Eighth grade kids, they're in eighth grade, a boy and
a girl, and they were leaning over trying to get
a high five from Cameron Brink so far over.

Speaker 6 (56:50):
I thought they were going.

Speaker 5 (56:51):
I thought they were they were going over and they
got a high five from her, and you would have thought,
you know, it was Christmas Day. It was the cutest thing.
And then the Sparks didn't necessarily