The Final Bulldogs Women’s Basketball Hour for the 2024-25 Season With Matt Norvell & Coach Jamie White

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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(00:24):
Here's Matt Norvil.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
And good evening. We welcome you to Crawling Wolf at
five twenty six Thruce Avenue here in Clovis. It's the
Bulldog Basketball Hour, the final show of the season for
women's basketball. As we've got the present state women's basketball
team here, head coach Jamie White, and a couple of
student athletes, Mia Jacobs and Kylie Fox, who will be
joining us here shortly. I am Matt Norville, coach. We
haven't talked to you in a little bit, but we've

(00:50):
obviously been broadcasting your games, watching you guys play stretch
run Now for you guys, the final three games, you
got lots of play for having a good season, played
some good ball on the road. Have you seen the
last couple of weeks.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yeah, I mean we've had a tough little skid with
a couple you know games, Nevada being won and then
the Colorado State recently. But overall, I feel like our
kids are playing good. You know, I said today it
was the eighty first practice that we've had since you know, October,
basically first, so we've been working hard and excited to hopefully,

(01:25):
you know, go on and run these next three games.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Let's talk about the three games coming up. You've got
breast cancer awareness. Tomorrow, you take on Air Force, and
then one week from tomorrow, get a nice little break,
and then you take on New Mexico on Senior Night
before wrapping up the regular season against San Diego State. So,
like we said, a lot to play for. Let's talk
about tomorrow when you take on Air Force, a chance
to kind of avenge a loss from earlier this season.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah, I mean, they really got after it against us
when we were there, and they're a scrappy team.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
They play basically five guards.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
So I said that Colorado State was a good warm
up to this game because you know, they.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
Were all guards also, so we're.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Gonna have to do a good job keeping the ball
out of the paint on the drives and then contesting.
They don't have a lot of three point shooters, but
they have enough to make you a little nervous, and
they they don't shy away from shooting it. So I think,
really our defense has to step up, and then offensively,
we really got to get through some pesky, gritty Air

(02:22):
Force women. They are they're aggressive, they're physical, they guard
really good player to player, and they keep you out
of the paint. They make you score outside. So you know,
we've got to move the ball. We've got to be
patient when we can, and then we've got a transition
when we can. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
I always use the word toughness. It seems like when
you play against an Air Force kind of team, it's
just you just gotta be tough. You're gonna get slapped,
You're gonna get hit. It's gonna happen. It's just that's
what happens when you play Air Force. You've obviously know
that very well, and you got New Mexico to follow.
I know your focus isn't on that. And then San
Diego State obviously on the road. You're kind of already
in postseason kind of mode. I would imagine, aren't you.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Yeah, I felt, like I said before the game the
Colorado State game, like, this is gonna feel a little
bit like a tournament game, and we need to, you know,
kind of like feel that and be able to respond.
I thought we did up moments, but overall that game
didn't go the way we wanted it to. You know,
we didn't hit shots early, but I think too get

(03:24):
a good example of the nerves maybe that we would have.
And especially you know, you only have three games left.
You gotta be kind of smelling the tournament a little bit.
So I'm excited to see our kids get back at home,
maybe get some get some things going, work together, get
a revenge game against Air Force, and be ready for
New Mexico.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Guys are three wins away from twenty wins on a season,
which is very good, and you personally are six wins
away from two hundred at Fresno State, which is outstanding.
So when you think about what your team's doing this season,
and obviously you come in with expectation, and obviously it's
a broadcast. They ask us all the time, Hey, what
do you think your team's gonna look like? What do
you think your ceiling is, what do you think your

(04:06):
bottom is? Overall? How have you seen the season up
to this point.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Well, what did we We were preseason ninth, preseason ninth,
so we're sitting at fourth or fifth, so that obviously
looks really good.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
I do.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
I feel like our combination of games that we played
in the preseason and then the way we've played, especially
on the road and conference, I feel like we've had
a lot of success in that way. You always hope
that those wins and even those losses equate to good
experience and a little bit of grittiness and toughness going

(04:40):
into this last stretch, and you know, competitiveness, and that's
the one thing I felt like our team had a
little more this year was the ability to compete. We've
been down, we've come back, we've been you know, down
nine late, we've wonted to pit like I feel like
we've had some moments of greatness, So I'm excited to
see how we respond here.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Talk about your road recording Conference five and three, which
is very good. And then at fourth quarters, you guys
have been unbelievable this season. You talk about coming back,
and that's also been the quarter where if you had
the lead, you guys had just put the hammer down
and closed out games. Why are you guys so good
this season in fourth quarters.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
Well, I think I think one thing is that I
think we have educated players, kids that understand and learn
as we go. Obviously, if you're gonna, you know, play
fourth quarters.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
You better learn, so in that fourth quarter, you're you're
doing the right things.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
I also have thought and we showed an example of
the Boise game. We had five offensive rebounds in the
fourth quarter and eleven total, and two of those offensive
rebounds were from Dnaydnay Pal. So you know, just obviously
playing as a team, not to point guard getting rebounds,
but just being feisty and competitive. And then I would

(05:55):
I would say, are probably our our shooting percentage isn't
bad in the fourth and you know, just that resiliency.
And then obviously with Mia Jacobs, players like Mia and
Kylie who you're going to talk to tonight, but they've
been consistent, They've played extended minutes, been able to pull
some huge rebounds, hit some big threes for us, and

(06:15):
just been tough defensively.

Speaker 5 (06:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Actually, what that leads me into the two young ladies
we're going to be chatting with in Mia Jacobs and
Kylie Fox. Both of those players in conference are averaging
over thirty two minutes a game. Kylie plays the most
minute statistically, just barely over Mia, so they get a
lot of the minutes. MIA's on that Becky Hammond Mid
Major watch list, which is outstanding. There's only fifteen players
in the country. She's one of the fifteen. She's on

(06:38):
the Player of the Year candidate. There's three players for
possible Player of the year. She's one of them. Kylie
obviously does everything coaches dream. She can guard the best player.
Just have you seen their development the last couple of
seasons to where they are now? They're both outstanding basketball players.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah, I mean this is only their second year with us,
and I would say MIA's focus on defensive rebounding and
that's that's kind of shown.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
Uh, it's kind of shown.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
Also statistically she's shooting far and beyond more. Uh sorry,
she's rebounding at what the second She's the second.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
Leader redound boards a game, but those.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
And defensively, so those defensive rebounds have just really helped
us secure wins towards the end of the game. You know,
if if I think about it, I'm usually yelling at
her at the.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
Beginning of the game and at the end of the game.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
She's getting all the rebounds, so she's saving up but
that's been huge. And then her ability to get to
the free throw line and finish shots, not just at
the free throw line, but finish and get get fouled
and finish hit threes. I mean, she's just really grown
her game and the ability that she has to drive
to to rebound, putbacks and whatever. Really, whatever we've needed

(07:52):
from her, she's done. She also is a great screener
and I think she's one of our best passers. So
all those things together, if we could just clone her,
we would we'd be sitting at the top. But then
with Kylie, Kylie just really does everything. She's a smart player.
She's able to defend just about anybody. She'll switch off

(08:13):
on a post and defend. She'll switch to the quickest
guard and defend. I think one thing two things she's
gotten better at is shooting off the move, and then
you know, boxing out rebounding for her position, and she's
got a rebound from the top in zone, she's got
a you know, there's some rebounding where you're just standing

(08:34):
and rebounding, and then there's some rebounding where you really
got to move and make sure you're boxing out. So
I think she's done a lot of a lot of
you know, hard work off season being able to do that,
and then obviously we rely on her for three point shooting,
handle the ball, and just about anything and everything else.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, she does everything for you guys, Such a good player.
Take me back to when you were recruiting both of
those players. What made you like Kylie and what made
you really and you're like, hey, we got to get
these two.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
Well, I mean I'll start with Kylie because she was
a freshman.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
We got a call.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
This is kind of an interesting story. We got a
call from her club coach, who had two or three
daughters play at Boise. Really yeah, and so I was like,
you know what, why is he calling us?

Speaker 4 (09:22):
You know, why did he calling Gordy?

Speaker 3 (09:24):
And anyway, as we got to know him, he said, look,
you know whatever, Boyse's already signed so and so.

Speaker 4 (09:31):
But this kid is really good.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
She came from a small school and she did everything
at the small school, but on her club team, she
was just really good fundamentally. And I think that's that's
what our fans have seen. That's what we've seen is
just fundamentally on all sides of the ball. She's really
been good. And so then when she came out, cute family.

(09:54):
She's got a sister. Actually, we just saw her family
in Boise and the sister is looking at boys.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
To go to college there.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
So anyway, I said, boo, but we'll see if she
changes her mind. And you know, just a good kid,
nice family, good kid, works hard, understands the game, and
really has taken a huge leadership role because TAJA's been out,
so she's had to communicate on the floor and really
help get people organized. And we've had we have a

(10:22):
lot of new kids, so she's been a good voice
for them, calm everybody down, get everybody organized, and then
hit those big shots. Miauh So when coach Shannon was here,
she knew the coaches out at Lasal and we had
seen MIA's numbers and and Mia had you know, two
twin sisters that had been in Lasau for a minute,

(10:43):
so we kind of knew what her you know, what
her position was like, what her ability was. We talked
to her dad or dad said, now, don't tell her.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
I said this, but I do think she's she's.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
The better of the three, and still so young and
and able to do so many different things.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
She's so versatile.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
She's gotten better at ball handling, She's been able to drive,
she can score on step throughs with physicality. The rebounding
has been huge for our team. I know it's been
huge for her, but for our team. And that's obviously
she's about averaging a double double, is it?

Speaker 4 (11:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (11:21):
And and that right there is something that I mean
that is so valuable in in across women's basketball, and
I don't know how many people even in the country
are averaging a double double.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
So that's just really helped us.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
And then her uncanny knack to shoot the three. She
slows down. It never fails. When I when I see
her release the ball, it almost feels slow motion, but
I know it's going in. Yeah, when she takes that
extra second, and then she can just she has such
a great release, catches the ball high, finishes high, and

(11:59):
just really really hard to guard too. She has done
step backs, she has done dribble pullbacks, and then adding
on top of that her ability to drive and the
drive usually ends in a foul.

Speaker 4 (12:13):
So just really valuable for us.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
And been so successful this year, and so proud of
her and her hard work.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah, she's forty one percent from three in conference, which
is big time. Those are big time numbers. Let's chat
with the student athletes when we come back. This is
the Bulldog Basketball Hour A Kroloff five to twenty six,
Bruce Avenue. We'll come back and chat with those two.
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Basketball Hour the final time this season. And we've talked
to every single player on the President State Bulldogs team
except for two, and we've got them here tonight, Mia
Jacobs and Kylie Fox. Mia the junior, Kylie the sophomore.

(16:00):
Thanks for showing up, guys, Thanks for having us. All right,
let's we've talked about it. I'm gonna kind of talk
about what you guys have done so far this season,
kind of embarrass you a little bit before we start talking. Mia.
Obviously you're on the Becky Hamm in a major watch lists,
you are in the running for Player of the Year
in the Mountain West Conference. How have you seen the
season go so far this year and what did you

(16:21):
really work on over the summer.

Speaker 13 (16:23):
Yeah, we've had a great start moving forward from sorry
last year, just getting through more wins early, which was nice.

Speaker 14 (16:34):
Side of the season, I think with one loss out of.

Speaker 13 (16:37):
Five or six games, which was nice just to keep
us keep rolling through the conference. And then how do
you like little games at the start, but then got
a few wins underabout which is nice. And then just
from last year, just trying to focus on the little things,
kind of step up my defense a little more and
then focus a lot more on my rebounding and trying

(16:58):
to try.

Speaker 14 (16:58):
And get in the game that more.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
That way exactly what coach White actually said. She said, Hey,
the rebounding for me has been very good. Kylie gonna
talk about you. Coach Quda's games with me a lot,
flat out loves you. He talks about coach's dream is
Kylie Fox. She you can do everything on the floor.
You can't take her off the floor. Have you seen
the season so far from your eyes and what you
work on over the summer?

Speaker 15 (17:18):
Yeah, I think this year I've just been really working
on my confidence and just gaining the little extra things
I didn't have last year. More confident ball handling, more
talking and just things like that.

Speaker 14 (17:30):
But so far the season has been good.

Speaker 15 (17:32):
Just getting experience with everyone and playing together has been good.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
Communication. That's what a coach White talked about. She said,
you've been way more vocal. How hard was that for
you to be more vocal? Or was that something that
came with you.

Speaker 14 (17:43):
No, it was hard.

Speaker 15 (17:44):
Every day we need to talk, I need to talk,
but definitely have gone under my belt.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
Now you guys got air Force tomorrow. I know you
have a friend on the team. What's it like when
you get to play against someone that you know.

Speaker 15 (17:57):
It's fun, But I don't like playing air Force, but
it's nice this year.

Speaker 14 (18:01):
Every once in a while.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
So from your guys perspective, when he comes to the
game of basketball, when you guys sit down and talk,
is there someone that you talk to that maybe gives
you besides the coaching staff obviously, that maybe gives you
some advice or someone you watch that you try to
model your game after to try to improve and get
to that next level.

Speaker 14 (18:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (18:21):
Obviously, my dad was my coach back in Australia, so
he's a big part of my game, and just getting
feedback from him becausitive and the constructive feedback. And then
I have other coaches back in Australia who have been
who were just close friends with us, who coached girls

(18:41):
from There's a freshman on the Boisey team who coaches
that he coached. He's coaching my sister this year, so
he's always tapping in, giving information when he needs to,
and then that's really it.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yeah, what about you, Kylie?

Speaker 15 (18:55):
I would say my parents as well, just like having
that other voice outside of the coach and my teammates
and then also my club coach. He's always telling me
things to do or what I could have done better.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
So they're always paying attention. What's it like for you guys?
Obviously you're season players now, but when you first got
in and you realize you're on the scouting report because
it's a lot different than you know, you go in
and no one knows about your game, They're like, you're
not really paying attention. But then when you go in
and you know, hey, your key players on the scouting
report and they're trying to take which you can do
well away, what's that like for you when you slowly

(19:28):
started to adjust to it, Because you guys are both
adjusted to it fine, But what you think back to
maybe your freshman year when you first realize, hey, I'm
on a scouting report. I can't do what I normally
like to do.

Speaker 13 (19:38):
Yeah, just trying to stack games and keep consistency. So
knowing that they have a scout on you doesn't mean
that they're going to be able to do it. For one,
stop everything you do and just being able to have
count as to what you normally do or if they're
stopping one thing beyond him to move on to the
next thing.

Speaker 14 (19:58):
So that's why so that he comes and play.

Speaker 13 (20:01):
So but taking out the three is like maybe that's
more of a driving mid range or a passing game
and just kind of moving like that.

Speaker 15 (20:09):
What about you for you, Kylie, I think just trying
to adjust in game, like knowing last year I mainly
just did three instead around the perimeter, so kind of
having my pull up game now and then just like
when the defense flies out, knowing what to do or
if there's.

Speaker 14 (20:23):
Help side things like them.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
Coach, I actually wanted to talk to you about that
scouting report. It's such a big thing, especially when you
have a key players. Everyone you're the name on the
scouting report. Obviously if you come in you might not
be that name, but these two are definitely on the
scouting reports. So what's it like for you as a
coach to kind of instill that comment and say, hey,
I know they're telling they're trying to take this away,
but you can still do blah blah, blah, Right, Well,

(20:44):
I think.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
The bigger thing is good players play in between everything.
So it could be transition, it could be an offensive rebound,
it could be a loose ball. They just constantly play,
so moving off off the ball and making sure they're
trying to get open, constantly putting themselves in a good
rebounding situation. And then you know they can only guard you.

(21:10):
Like Mia said, they can only guard one thing at
a time most times, and so being able to have
the confidence to do the thing that maybe isn't your
number one thing, but working on it, and both of
these guys have been working on it and also been
playing at a pace that is going to be successful.
So one thing is to be able to dribble in

(21:30):
and make a layup, but the other is to do
it with pace, with physicality against a good defender. And
then I also think both of them do a great
job screening and getting their teammates open. They're also good passers.
I said that about Mia, she might be one of
our better passers and that alone will.

Speaker 4 (21:51):
Get her open also.

Speaker 3 (21:52):
And then I think Kylie has done a good job.
We've changed the offense this year, and I think both
of them fit this offense be better where they can
make raids and play basketball a little bit better than
just being told what to do.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
I would agree with that completely. Guys talk to me
about staying like I wouldn't say just staying healthy, but
just you guys are playing so many minutes. How important
is the training room for you? Because you two are
playing the most minutes out of everyone on the team,
Kylie slightly just a little bit more than me. So
how do you guys go about that? When it comes
to obviously staying healthy and staying in the training room, Well.

Speaker 15 (22:26):
First we're I'm pretty much in there almost every day,
whether that's recovery or rehab, just trying to stay on
top of it before it becomes a problem. So just
icepath is my go to usually, but Taja and I
have done a good job of just trying to stay
consistent and be in there.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
So yeah, what about you, amya?

Speaker 13 (22:45):
Mine was more through the white room, so being more consistent,
whether that was getting in more reps during the preseason
just to make sure I'm strong enough and he can
carry that through for the season, and then.

Speaker 14 (23:00):
Whether I need to have a.

Speaker 13 (23:02):
Bit more bike session if I didn't get it, like
if I was failing and I didn't have my normal minutes.

Speaker 14 (23:07):
So stuff like that.

Speaker 13 (23:08):
Just being able to stay like fit as well as
keeping that strength on me so then all my muscles
and everything U all intact for the for the games.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Yeah, a bike session that's so important. It's anytime you
have a knock or endingammer. When I played, I was
always living on that bike. So coach, how do you
when you bring a kid in and you you know,
when you're in high school, n I'm thinking about you know,
ice bass or doing anything like that, you're not you know,
you're thinking it's going to be fine. And then after
you get to maybe your sophomore, junior, or you're playing
a lot of minutes. I mean, how do you able

(23:38):
to make sure that they see the trainer and they
get things done.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
Well, we make it mandatory on the calendar and remind them,
but I think they it's it's funny because everyone knows
the benefits. It's just we all still have lives and
we're busy, and we have been traveling. We have been
we have had a Wednesday Saturday game since the first
of January basically, and we've had You just don't have

(24:04):
a lot of time, and so it is it's hard
because you also need your sleep, You also need to
call home. You also, you know what I mean, you
need all of those things. So really trying to be consistent, timeliness, scheduled,
making sure that's part of their day. In fact, I
was coming back from the training from the student center

(24:25):
and I saw Kylie and Taja and Ao scootering over
to get their ice bath. But it just it just
takes commitment and also it takes a desire to be
good and to play this game for a long time
at a high level.

Speaker 4 (24:38):
And that's you got to take.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
Care of your body. And it is nice that we
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We welcome you back to the Bulldog Basketball hour Minder
for you. Our final mind show will be happening next
Thursday from six until seven with Paul Leffler and coach
Vance Wahlberg. This is our final women's basketball show. I'm
Matt Norvile with head coach Jamie Whites and a couple
of student athletes. We a Me and Jacobs and Kylie Fox,
a couple of starters for Fresno State, and we got

(28:31):
to talk about academics because the student is part of
the student athlete. So guys, tell me what your major is,
how you came about that, and how's the school going
for you? Go ahead, Maya.

Speaker 14 (28:43):
I'm a business marketing Majie.

Speaker 13 (28:46):
I've kind of chose it because I like the photography
side of stuff, and like the sports photography and the
like social media marketing that kind of stuff. So wanted
to kind of do something with the amount of man
and balketing ish thing. So that's how I decided what.

Speaker 14 (29:06):
My major it was gonna be.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
How's how school going. How class is going?

Speaker 14 (29:10):
It's been going good.

Speaker 13 (29:11):
It's obviously we're not there a lot, so pretty much
online class government, which is cool, but yeah, what about you, Kylie?

Speaker 15 (29:20):
And speech language pathology right now? So yeah, I just
kind of chose that. I knew I wanted to work
either with kids or something like that. Not a teacher, though,
that's a lot of kids and I cannot do that,
But I like the one on one setting and then
how many like different locations you could work at.

Speaker 14 (29:37):
I thought it was really cool.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
How's school being going for you in terms of class,
isn't it?

Speaker 14 (29:40):
It's good?

Speaker 4 (29:41):
Yeah, it's going it's going, it's going.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
It's one of those things. It's this fall semester easier
for you guys than spring semester. Would you say because
of the travel or is it just u or is
it kind of the same.

Speaker 14 (29:52):
It's supposed to be easier, but.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
It's pretty much the same. Yeah, that's what I always wondered,
do you know, because in basketball, it's one of the
if you sports it overlaps, there's really you know, you
got October practice, in November games, December games, and you
got January, February, March games, so there's really not really
a semester. But I always leaned towards fall. How did
you always handle that, you know, with all your kids?

Speaker 3 (30:13):
Yeah, well, we like the girls to take their harder
classes in the fall because we aren't gone. I think
we had three road trips this fall and they weren't
even very very far or very long. So it is
ideal if they're taking their harder courses then, and then
we try to have study hall on the road. We
try to be organized. Every kid on our team has

(30:36):
a coach that's on staff that they meet with, and
then they also have coach Jolly, who is aware of
everybody's academics, and then we also have an academic advisor
over in athletics, and they have their major academic advisors.
So if we haven't covered it one hundred times over,
then we're doing something wrong. But it's still hard. It's

(30:59):
still hard to miss classes, it's hard to catch up.
It's hard to I know, Mia had a test when
we were on the road, finally came back and had
to take a quiz early. I mean, it's just a
lot of shuffling, and that's not always ideal.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
That's one thing that I always feel like it's lost
because the athlete experience is a lot different than just
the student that's showing up to class every day, and
you got to juggle. How do you guys do that
with time management wise so that you make sure you
do get all your work in.

Speaker 13 (31:28):
It's difficult, but we kind of I kind of work
out what each week on a Monday, just figure out
what I have for the week, what I need to do,
and kind of just schedule it around whether I'm away,
whether I'm home, and whether I need to do something
earlier if I have an essay or something that's due
like maybe in two weeks that's a couple of pages long,

(31:49):
kind of starting it earlier than I need to just
so then I have enough time so I'm not stressed.

Speaker 14 (31:54):
What about you, Cole, I would say, I just love
like to do lists.

Speaker 15 (31:58):
I have probably a Google shi of all my assignments
a semester done, and so I have that to kind
of just go off of and try to get ahead
when we're going away and just kind of being prepared
for that. But also like when I'm doing homework, makes
you making sure I'm actually doing it and getting off
my phone and so but yeah, I just try to
stay on top of it like that.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Well, you guys sound like you're not procrastinators, which is
very interesting because there's got like you know, I would
think it'd be tough to be a student athlete. It's
a procrastinator. But you've got to have those coach that
just wait for the last second. So do you have
to stay on those a little bit longer?

Speaker 14 (32:31):
Well?

Speaker 4 (32:32):
I think so.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
But again, we have so many things kind of set
up already, and it's so organized. At least they know
what they should be doing and checking in with them,
and it's it's hard, like there's not one one person
that doesn't want to just take the afternoon and not
do it. But I do think we've recruited really good
kids that are that do value their degree and value academics.

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And then as they get into their upper level classes,
they are finding, you know, kind of a passion for
their major and thinking about what they want to do
and what that looks like, and I think that starts
to motivate them.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
You know what's interesting is most people when they graduate
from college, they don't do something in their major. Have
you guys thought about possibly doing anything with basketball after college?

Speaker 14 (33:19):
Me?

Speaker 2 (33:20):
Go ahead?

Speaker 13 (33:21):
Yeah, I mean I want to go play for either
in Australia or maybe Europe, but definitely back home in Australia,
maybe for the WNBO, something that I'm really pushing for.
But that's I At the moment, I don't have a
desire to coach, but I would.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
That's a question. That was the question. Is anymore?

Speaker 14 (33:45):
Not sure? Right now?

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Okay? What about you, Kylie?

Speaker 15 (33:48):
I think coaching would definitely be in my future. I
could see myself on the other side of basketball, kind
of the strategy versus like being on the court, So
I think that would be fun.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
Would you would it be college level, high school level,
like club level.

Speaker 15 (34:01):
I think probably like high school or college depending on everything.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
So well, when you were in high school, you took
your team to the state tournament for the first time
in like seventeen years. Talked me through that experience. What
was that like for you?

Speaker 14 (34:14):
Yeah, it was kind of crazy experience.

Speaker 15 (34:16):
We haven't gone to state in a very long time,
so just to be able to bring that kind of
back to my high school. We brought a lot of
fans into our games, a lot of students in the
student section, so that was really fun.

Speaker 14 (34:27):
And then once we got.

Speaker 15 (34:28):
To the state tournament, there was so many fans it
was pretty cool. And then we got to play in
the big Arena in Seattle. It was super nice.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
Said something, is that one of your best memories you
think from high school?

Speaker 14 (34:38):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (34:39):
For sure, Yeah, just that experience with my teammates that
I've grown up with since we were little, and so
it was really.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
Fun Midia for you. Talk to me about your kind
of your youth of basketball before you came over to
the States.

Speaker 14 (34:53):
It was pretty much just.

Speaker 13 (34:56):
Club teams, which is like, ow I really do through
like high schools or anything. We just played through like
our clubs and state teams, which is just like for
each age group, we have the ten best players and
then we go best the six other states in a tournament,
which is kind of a good exposure thing. So like
when we get to eighteens and under eighteens and under twenties,

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like that's when the college coaches come over and stuff
like that.

Speaker 14 (35:20):
And then that was pretty good.

Speaker 13 (35:23):
I got to play up with the older girls, so
two three years younger, played with my sisters and just
kind of grew up playing older, which was nice and
got that experience because obviously college your freshman year, you're
playing against three four years older than you.

Speaker 14 (35:38):
So that was now more yeah at.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
The moment, Yeah, at the moment, it's definitely more than that.

Speaker 4 (35:43):
When it's boisy, they're all fifth year or six year.

Speaker 14 (35:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
Coach. In terms of recruiting, I mean it's it's different
obviously international and then in the States, just how you
go about recruiting. I always say, this is the thing
I've always said to I've got forensic coach. I always say, hey,
if you can play though, fine, Yeah. So I mean
but when you go over there and you got to
kind of get adjusted, like she was talking about club's team.
It's not really attached to the high school. And then
you got here, you've got the high school teams, but

(36:09):
at the same time you still got au So recruiting wise,
what's it like for you.

Speaker 3 (36:13):
Guys, Well, it's important to have a good coordinator. Courtneyias
is our coordinator right now and they're really in charge
of all of that. And if it's international, it is clubs,
but it's also people that we know, people that are
helping these guys get over here and find places. And
so we've had a long line of Australians at Fresno State,

(36:35):
and before that when I was at Wyoming, when I
was at Northern Colorado, we had Australians wanting to play
and recruiting them. So it is really through their coaches
and through their clubs. They also have, like Mia said,
some tournaments that we can go and watch a lot
of kids at one time. And then with Kylie or

(36:55):
kids in the in the US, there is such a
large kind of summer club organization that puts them in
situations that they can be seen and we can see
a lot of kids at one time. That's mostly the
majority of July, and then we'll be able to watch
some of their high school stuff. To be honest, if

(37:16):
I were to choose, I'd choose to go to the
club stuff because they're playing on a team with high
level athletes, and they're playing other high level athletes in
situations where we can see what they could bring maybe
to the college level.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
It's a good point. Well, take another break, we'll come
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He welcome you back to Croling five twenty six, Bruce Avenue.
It is the Bulldog Basketball Hour. I am Matt Normal
talking with the President State women's basketball head coach Jamie White,
couple of the student athletes, Mia Jacobs and Kylie Fox.
We always talk about the program over at fresh No
States and it takes a lot to get the basketball
season going and it gets you guys ready to go.

(41:05):
Locker sponsors are important. We've talked to every single athlete
that we've had on this Bulldog Basketball Hour about their
locker sponsors. So Mia, tell me a little bit about yours,
and then we'll go to Kylie. Yeah.

Speaker 14 (41:17):
I love them.

Speaker 13 (41:17):
Then they're always so supportive of me. They sit up
the top. Yeah, they're amazing, such sweet kind of people.
They're like a little second family for me at this point.
They're just kind They go out of their way for
me and to do anything that they think that I
would love, send me little messages before the games, and

(41:40):
always supportive and always they're just like a good little
positive spark in my life.

Speaker 14 (41:45):
And then yeah, it's just been really.

Speaker 13 (41:47):
Great to have them and their support for not just
me but the team as well. Yeah, it's great seeing
them and having to look up and getting to see
them during the games, which is nice.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
Did you see the Austria and national flag that was
at one of the games.

Speaker 5 (42:02):
Yeah, there was.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
There was a what a German want a finished one?
And then the Australian one too.

Speaker 14 (42:07):
Right, Yes, I think that was a Canadian love too.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
Was there Canadian one too?

Speaker 13 (42:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (42:10):
Okay, I saw those three and I didn't see the
other one. Was that anything to do with your locker sponsor?
Was that just something?

Speaker 14 (42:17):
I'm not sure who they I didn't know who they were.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
I was just wondering, Yeah, Kylie, what about you and
your locker sponsor?

Speaker 15 (42:24):
Yeah, it's been really great to have that support, Like
they come to the games all the time. They said
the same spot. Always get a hug after the game,
no matter if I did good or bad. So that's
always a plus, But it's been really nice to have
that support just when your.

Speaker 14 (42:38):
Family's far away things like that. So that's been great.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
Yeah, because you're from Washington. Does your family know them?
Have they met yet or anything?

Speaker 5 (42:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (42:46):
Have they? Have they met yet? Because I know that's
with locker sponsors, they like to meet the families and
all that stuff. So we we've talked about it, but
you came up with that idea. Great idea, by the way,
fantastic because you've got so many players from obviously outside
of them Erica and then outside of California, and their
parents can't go to every single game.

Speaker 3 (43:04):
Yeah, I think it is supportive for the girls, and
it also is such a it's so fun for the
locker sponsors. I think they want to be involved, They
want to get to know the girls, they want to
be around our team. It's a great way to connect
and you know, we give them a lot of opportunity
to come to practice, to come to certain events, and.

Speaker 4 (43:27):
I think the girls love it.

Speaker 3 (43:29):
But I also think they love it and you know,
the happiness and the joy that they have to I
always say, like I've I'm always going to be twenty
six because I'm around these guys all the time. Well,
I think when our locker sponsors get to be around them,
it just fills them with their youth and fun and
delight and competitiveness and reminds them of when they played

(43:51):
or or you know, just the competitive and being able
to follow the team and watch online and.

Speaker 4 (43:59):
Hear you you.

Speaker 3 (44:02):
It's just it's a it's a great opportunity for them
to be connected at a higher level.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
She said. Fun. So we've talked about basketball in school.
I'm not saying that those aren't fun, But what do
you do in your free time? If you get some
free time, what do you normally do? Like to relax,
maybe watch goes somewhere, what.

Speaker 5 (44:18):
Do you do?

Speaker 13 (44:21):
Well, we get our Sundays off, so I've been walking
on the Sundays and then we've been going to yoga.
I've been trying some pilates classes and stuff. So that's
been fun. And then I like scrap book. I like
photography as well, like what's that cooking?

Speaker 2 (44:40):
Okay, what about you? Kylie?

Speaker 15 (44:43):
On off days, probably just like if it's warm, go
to the pool, kind of lay by the pool in
the summer. But then walks, love trying new coffee shops, around.
We try to do that once a week, trying to find.

Speaker 14 (44:54):
A new place.

Speaker 15 (44:55):
Okay, so that's just something fun to do. And then
I've started just coloring. Yeah, something different, but trying to
take my mind off everything.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
So you're like walking in and buying coloring books and
then you just started coloring. Yeah that's all right, all right,
I like that. I like that. Have you? So what
coffee shop have you most recently got to? What's the
most recent spot do you think?

Speaker 14 (45:16):
Well, well, yeah, to that one last week.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
Is that pretty good?

Speaker 15 (45:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (45:19):
It was really good, really good?

Speaker 1 (45:20):
All right?

Speaker 2 (45:21):
You a coffee drinker, coach?

Speaker 3 (45:22):
Well, I've started a couple of years, but I'm not
very I'm not picky. I just need black coffee with
a little bit of cream. But I do like the
coffee shop kind of so that's fun.

Speaker 4 (45:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (45:36):
I haven't been to the well, I want to go.
I heard it's it's big and you know students are
going there and studying and doing some stuff.

Speaker 4 (45:45):
Yeah. So who knows?

Speaker 2 (45:47):
How did you guys get into yoga and pilates?

Speaker 1 (45:49):
Whose idea was that it was to Texas?

Speaker 14 (45:53):
She's like you want to come? Like sure?

Speaker 2 (45:56):
So it's so what's been the most difficult part of that,
would you say, going in first time walking.

Speaker 13 (46:02):
In, Well, the yoga was more so like how slow
it is, so just it's pretty much an hour of
just like very low tempo, very different to what.

Speaker 14 (46:13):
We're used to. Just like, alrighty, when's the next thing? Telling?

Speaker 13 (46:17):
Like, yeah, like I want it to be faster, but
I think it's a good thing for me to be
able to slow things down and just focus on one
thing at a time. And then the plates, on the
other hand, is like a bit faster, more high tempo,
so like it kind of gives out.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
You guys obviously been playing a lot of basketball, and
then with school it can provide a lot of pressure
and mentally, what do you guys do to kind of
just release? Obviously that's what you do for fun, but
like just to release and just you know, like go
of all distress and all the outside noise. Is there
anything you guys do, particularly Mia?

Speaker 14 (46:50):
Mine is coloring color too, Yeah, mine is coloring.

Speaker 13 (46:56):
I don't know, trying to talk to my sisters more.
And then I've just got into reading some new books,
new book recommendation, So that's good.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
What about you, Kylie?

Speaker 14 (47:09):
I think I've.

Speaker 15 (47:10):
Started to do like podcasts and just like you listening
to that, like while walking or just like sitting at
home trying to do it, like my chores for the
day or coloring as well, talking to my sister or
just things like that.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
You know, when she said podcast, I thought she was
going to tell me that she started a podcast. I
know that's where you're going. I was like, I was, like,
a podcast. You just got her it, you just got
her to talk on the court. Now she's running a podcast.

Speaker 14 (47:36):
No.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
Mental health we talk about all the time. You guys
had a mental health awareness game. It's so important. And
obviously there's a lot of stresses there. I mean they're
they're doing interviews with me, you've got broadcasts, you've got
you're yelling at them telling them, hey need to do this.
You got the pressure of scoring, your family, all that
stuff with school. I mean, how important is that?

Speaker 4 (47:55):
Well, I mean for them to have support.

Speaker 3 (47:58):
Obviously, I think everybody comes in with some kind of support,
whether it's coaches or family or friends. But when you
when you go away to college, now you have to
figure out for yourself.

Speaker 4 (48:10):
How you're gonna make it.

Speaker 3 (48:11):
And I think we do a really good job of
giving a lot of opportunities for whatever support that they need.

Speaker 4 (48:19):
But at the at the end of the day, I think.

Speaker 3 (48:23):
Being being organized, prepared, supportive, open door where you know,
they can talk to us if they needed to. But
just you know, like I said, this this age for
me was so fun and so hard, and I think
they we with our coaching staff, with our support staff,

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Izzy included, our our weightlifting, our nutritionists, all of those
people involved. I think we all want what's best for
the girls, and so I think hopefully they feel that
and in that support they can be successful. And it's
gonna have some bumps, Yes they will. Yeah, that's unfortunate,
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be stronger once they leave here, and hopefully they'll feel
like they've had a home here where they've been successful
and had the tools to mitigate some of those mental stresses.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
Well, me and Kylie, that's all the time I got
with you two. I'm gonna wrap things up with a
coach thanks for joining us, best of luck tomorrow and
I'll see you guys tomorrow.

Speaker 14 (49:26):
Thanks for having us.

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Hey, welcome you back to Bulldog Basketball Hour. We are
Crollll five twenty six Spruce Avenue. Here in Clovis about
the final eight minutes or so, is this is the
final show of the year with head coach Jamie Whites.
Will of course be back here again next season talking
some women's basketball with head coach White wrapping up the show,
You've got three games coming up this Saturday, Air Force

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breast cancer Awareness. What's going on with that one tomorrow
at two o'clock with the tip.

Speaker 3 (53:09):
Yeah, I mean every year we have a breast cancer
awareness game where I think if you're wearing pink, you're
getting in the game. We're going to recognize some people
that have been through all the hard stuff at halftime.
But just you know, really important part of I think
women women's history. Everybody's been touched by cancer. Everybody has

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had some kind of an experience, so I think it's
really important to have that awareness. Obviously, we're playing air Force.
I do think we're gonna be in our pink uniform. Okay,
and there that's that's fun. The girls love wearing pink
as long as they don't they gotta be tough in this,
but uh yeah, I mean Air Force again. They they

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jumped on a there and this is gonna be a
good game where we really feel like we've.

Speaker 4 (54:05):
Gotta we gotta win. I mean, let's just be honest.

Speaker 3 (54:07):
We need to win this game so that we have
that opportunity, possible opportunity to get the buye in the
first round of the Mountain West Mount West coming up
in March. You know, it starts on Sunday if you
don't have the bye, and then four long games right
to get to the championship. So if I get to
my two hundredth game, we will have won the tournament. Correct,

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these three games and then three games in the tournament,
and we'd be we'd be good as.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
Gold, be heading to the NCAA tournament as well. You
got New Mexico on Senior Day one week from tomorrow,
and you've got a couple of seniors will be honoring
and during that Lobos game.

Speaker 4 (54:44):
Yeah, our seniors.

Speaker 3 (54:46):
You know, it's it's interesting, but our seniors are transfers
and they've only been with us for one year. So
lady Eminson, she's a major, gonna be a nurse right
and finishing up this year. And then Saga Ucanan and
she's gonna be finishing up in Liberal studies and you

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know a little bit different obviously, ladies from the area.
She's gonna stick around and go to a nursing school
and has a lot of support here. But then there's Saga,
who is from Finland, Finland and you know, wants to
stay in the States, and so she has a whole
different journey. She's looking to get, you know, to be
able to stay and continue our schooling, get her master's degree,

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get working, make some money. Just two totally different ideas
for after college.

Speaker 4 (55:37):
But great kids. They've done such a great.

Speaker 3 (55:40):
Job for us, worked really really hard, obviously, Saga being
in the starting line of being able to run the
point when Tage has been out.

Speaker 4 (55:47):
I think she's ran just about every.

Speaker 3 (55:49):
Spot but the five for us, and just tough and
gritty and really really proud of her ability to adapt
and change and do what we've been asking. And then
Laney too, and Landy hasn't played a lot, but man,
she's really been effective in practice. She really understands and
knows the game's she has the most questions and understands

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scout and is preparing and being ready for every game,
and we really appreciate both of them.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
She's also the house that I guess, you know, goes
down and Oh yeah, it's pretty wild. According to Chaffield
is telling me that the old or something.

Speaker 4 (56:26):
Yeah, I've seen that live.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
So let's talk about Vegas in a few weeks now,
that's going to be coming up. Obviously, you mentioned Sunday
is the games where if you're six through eleven you
play and if you're the top five, you don't play
again until Monday, which is the quarterfinals. Right now, you
guys would be in that buy scenario. Obviously, got to
keep winning and stuff's got to happen. But when you
talk about that advantage, you've been on both sides gotten

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the championship games, whether you played on the first day
or you got the buye. Just how much of an
advantage is that buy?

Speaker 4 (56:57):
Yeah, the bye is important.

Speaker 3 (56:58):
I mean three games in a row is tough, but
but four is extremely tough.

Speaker 4 (57:03):
And uh, you know.

Speaker 3 (57:06):
It takes It takes a lot of hard work, a
little bit of luck, and you know it, it takes
a whole team. Uh, you know that first day you
got your plan, and then after that you need your bench,
and then after that you need your starters and your bench,
and then after that you need the kid that maybe
hasn't even played. I mean, you just you need your

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all players. You need to bring the energy every night.
You've got to have longevity and consistency, and uh, you know,
you've gotta during those times, you've gotta you gotta play
defense and have offense.

Speaker 4 (57:39):
You gotta have both things.

Speaker 3 (57:40):
You cannot go in one sided and and win and advance.
You've got to have it all. And then you gotta
have I always I read this thing every morning. You
got to have your best players step up. You gotta
have your bench players, you know, come in and and
and be solid. It's never fails. A bench player is
like the player of the game.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
It always is.

Speaker 3 (58:03):
And then you gotta have your young kids play like sophomores.
And then you've gotta be a brilliant coach and call
the right plays at the right time.

Speaker 4 (58:11):
And then you need the other team to mystery throws.

Speaker 2 (58:14):
No all that. Yeah, yeah, do you ever get a
chance to enjoy it? You've been to four championship games,
which is I mean, that's that's big time. And now
you're eleventh year, so four out of ten years you
guys have been in the championship. Do you ever get
a chance. I know why it's going on, but to
sit back and go, this is pretty cool. You know
we're going to a championship or in another semi final
or anything like that.

Speaker 3 (58:34):
Well, I still you know, it's it's who you're with,
It's the people that are in the fight. And every
every championship has a different picture in my mind.

Speaker 4 (58:44):
Although coach Mandy's and all.

Speaker 3 (58:45):
That, but uh, you know, great coaches, great great a
lot of hard work, but you know, funny stories, great stories,
unbelievable stories.

Speaker 4 (58:57):
Uh, you know fans, Judy nast.

Speaker 3 (58:59):
Is most of those pictures, the Green jerseys are in
those pictures.

Speaker 4 (59:03):
Boise States in those pictures. So it's been a fun run.
Hopefully we're there again.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
All right, we'll see what happens. Bulldogs play tomorrow against
air Force. Coach, thanks for joining us all season long.

Speaker 4 (59:15):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
That's head coach Jamie White. That's gonna wrap up the
Bulldog Basketball Hour. Tune in and next Thursday as the
men wrap up their season with their final Bulldog Basketball
Hour with Paul Leffler. I'm Matt Normal, saying so long
from krol Wolf five twenty six. Bruce Avenue, you've been
listening to Bulldogs women's basketball from lair Field.

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