April 6, 2025 • 32 mins
Geno Auriemma, with Paige Bueckers, Sarah Strong & Final Four MOP Azzi Fudd on the dias
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good evening and welcome to the women's Final four National
Championship press conference featuring the Yukon Huskies. We'll hear an
opening statement from coach followed by questions from our student athletes.
Just a reminder that I asked that you hold your
questions for coach until after we have our student athletes
to part. Our student athletes will move to the mix
oone and the locker room for Yukon is now open.
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Coach will turn it over to you for an opening statement.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Uh uh yeah? Are you? You really don't You don't
prepare speeches for something like this, you know, although today
I was thinking, man, where am i? Where am I
going to say if things don't go our way? You know,
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how can you describe the emotions that you would feel if,
you know, if it went the wrong way for us?
When there's so much riding on this, on this game
for a lot of people, you know, a lot of
people at Yukon, and mostly for you know, for page
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being their last opportunity to do this. So I just
kept thinking, something good has to happen, because if we
were going to lose, it would have been before Now.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I don't think that they I don't think.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
The basketball gods would take us all the way to
the end. They've been really cruel with some of these
kids on this team. You know, they've suffered a lot
of the you know, the things that could go wrong
in the college career as an athlete, and so they
don't need any more heartbreak. So they weren't going to
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take us here and then give us more heartbreak. I
kept holding on to that, and I'm glad they were rewarded.
This was one of the more emotional final fours and
emotional national championships that I've been a part of since
that very first one.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
At this time, we'll open up with questions for our
student athletes. Doug will have you go first.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Doug Farnberg, Gap, Paige, you just walk us through this
journey you've had for the last five years, freshman year
in the bubble to now finishing off with the national championship.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Yeah, it's been a story of resilience, of gratitude, of adversity,
of overcoming adversity and just responding to life's challenges and
trying to fuel them to make me a better person,
a better player, and continue to grow in my leadership
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abilities and being a great teammate, and just staying who
I am, standing firm and who I am, and believing
in what we do here as individuals, what we do
here as a team. Just a an overwhelming sense of
gratitude for everything that's happened, through the ups and downs.
I wouldn't trade it for the world to be able
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to be shaped to be the person that I am
today and the team that we are today. And obviously
you feel like on the other side of a hard
time is a really big blessing and we stuck to it.
We kept the faith and to be rewarded with something
like this, you can't really even put it in the words.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
We'll shift to our right with Maddy.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Right over here, Paige, Asy and Sarah, all three of
you all validating. Is it that you know, Paige, you're
ending your career with the national championship, Asy you came
back from a knee injury, and Sarah as a freshman
to come in and be a part of breaking this title.
Drillt just how validating is it to sit up there
and note that you're national champions?
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Yeah? Very validating to all the hard work we put
in as individuals and as a team and how much
we stuck together through the good times and the bad,
and how connected we were. We feel like we were
so connected and nothing could break us. We've been through
a lot on our owns as a team, so we
feel like nothing that life or basketball can throw at us,
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whatever break us and make us separate. So to be
able to sit up here with them, with the whole
team and share this moment, it's extremely validating.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
And go to the center.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
Hey, Pam Grundy, author of Shattering the Glass, Remarkable History
of women's Basketball, to page and easy. You have seen
a lot in your careers. You've seen women's basketball change
a lot. I'd like if you could say something about
what the changes have been from the perspective of players,
and then also how you see yourself in the context
of all the generations of women who've come before you.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
We can start with easy.
Speaker 8 (04:49):
I felt like last year, being out, I really got
a chance to sit back and look around and just
see the attention that we had and just the impact
that all of us my teammates had on little girls,
and I thought it was just incredible and to be
a part about to be a part of that this
year and still just to see our fans like run Tampa,
and it feels like a home game to have that support,
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and just to see like little girls with their hair braided,
like little girls with shirts on, even like grown men,
and like that's just incredible. So to have that support
and to see that grow. I felt like it was
there my freshman year, but I feel like it's definitely
grown a lot since then. So to see that, it's
it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Impage.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Yeah, I would say a lot of the same things,
just in terms of the visibility and the access to
women's sports, now women's basketball, it's been amazing to be
a part of. Even since my freshman year, the women's
game has grown so much and you're extremely grateful to
be a part of that. And I feel like it's
only going to get better towards the future. But we
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think the people who've laid the foundation every single day,
the women's basketball players who came before us, who allow
us to be at this stage, allowed the WMA to
be something we aspire to be and fulfill those shoes.
So it all started with the groundwork and we're just
trying to fulfill what they've done.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
You want to go to the front.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Congratulations all of you.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Can you just tell us when the moment came.
Speaker 9 (06:14):
It looked like you were going to win the game
much earlier before the buzzer came. But when that final
moment came, when the buzzers there, when you have the realization,
what was going.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Through your heart and mind?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Is that a question for Paige Page?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Yes, I'm sorry so many emotions. Gratitude was the main
one of the journey, of the ups and downs of
everything that it took to get to that point, and
just overwhelm, overwhelming joy and just so happy for every
single person who was a part of this journey. And
so just to be able to sum that up in
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a few words, join gratitude would probably be forefront Howard.
Speaker 10 (06:55):
Award, Magdalathannatch, congratulations to all of you. Agy for you,
She's going on eleven points in the third quarter and
the quarter that essentially put this game away. If you're
just trying to take me through what you felt emotionally
at those times when you're she and the ball go
through the hoop. And also you and Page have obviously
been through so many option downs here at this program.
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I know you came here to do this. What was
going through your mind and what you go through your
mind now knowing that you helped Paige get her national
championship that she wanted.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
Yeah, I think going into the third quarter, we knew
we had a good leave. We played a great first half,
We wanted to continue that and we didn't want to
let them back in the game. So I think all
of our mindset was just to be aggressive, stay locked in,
stay disciplined, stay together, And that's exactly what we did.
And I happened to score eleven points, but that's just
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I was doing what my teammates, what the game was giving,
and how my teammates got me the ball. So and
then being able to do it with this group is
I'm so incredible. I Mean there's a lot that just
this season, like the ups and downs to the season,
but the fast four years this group has been through
so so much adversity together. So to be able to
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do this for our seniors, I really don't have words
to describe like what this feels like what it means
to me, but I'm super grateful and I'm just super
proud of this entire team.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
We'll go to Michael Vobel.
Speaker 9 (08:26):
Thank Mike Vobel from ESPN dot com.
Speaker 10 (08:29):
This is for Sarah.
Speaker 9 (08:30):
You set the record for the most points scored by
a freshman in the NCAA tournament, breaking the record by
Tamika Catchings was which she set back in nineteen ninety
eight when your mom was playing. I'm just wondering if
you could talk about this entire tournament for you and
how well you've played.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Uh, yeah, I did.
Speaker 11 (08:48):
I feel like I did better than I was expecting.
But yeah, I mean it's cool to score that. That
wouldn't have happened with that my teammates, though, We'll.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Go right behind you to because Sandra, what was.
Speaker 12 (09:05):
Cassandra and Ugli with Yahoo's sports page right in the
middle when you came out of the game. You were
subbed out in that final minute and you had a
long embrace with Gino. What was going through your head,
especially as you went down the bench. Whatever you're willing
to share about that moment specifically.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Yeah, again, just gratitude for all that coaches meant to
me and how much he shaped me to the human
I am, to the basketball player I am throughout this
entire five years, and just putting it all together in
one hug. What our journey has been together he told
me he loved me, and I told him I hated him,
so but we both love each other even though we
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hate each other some days. But yeah, just every single
relationship that I've built throughout the years. Here you just
try to encapsulate it in one hug for five seconds.
But just every single person that I went down the
line and hugged just meant so much to me and
meant so much to the team. And so just like
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I haven't been saying, just a state of gratitude.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
We're gonna go Bill Rodin, then a nanty you just
walked past Bill, go back right there.
Speaker 13 (10:23):
I uh, Bill Roden with the ESPN's ans cap. This
is actually for you, sir. There's been a lot of
talk about journeys and everybody talking about the journey Yours
is kind of short so far. But how does it
feel a lot of players been their entire careers and
never win a national championship. Just your perspective about your
first year win in a national championship and some of
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your thoughts on what your perspective on that.
Speaker 11 (10:45):
I mean, Yeah, We've gone to practice every day, working
hard for this moment. So just really proud of the
team and the way we've been.
Speaker 13 (10:51):
Playing, there's something you expected.
Speaker 11 (10:57):
I mean, no, not really.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
We'll take our next question from Nancy Nancy Ammer USA
Today Sports Page. It straight.
Speaker 14 (11:10):
You have talked throughout your career about how much the
team means to you and that that's the most important
thing to you. How fitting is it then that this
was truly a team effort? It wasn't. I mean, obviously
Sarah Nazy had great games, but this was not one
player taking over and winning this title on their own.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Yeah, we talked about it as a team. We thought
leading up to this weekend, the final four game, last
game in this game, that we hadn't played our best
team basketball yet in the tournament, and we had gotten
to the point where we were and done it pretty well,
but we thought we were saving our best performances for
this weekend. And it's been just I think a great
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I mean summary of what we have been this entire
season of being a team, staying connected on any given
night it can be anybody's night, and how we play
as a team. And I think that was just a
great showing for that between last game and this game.
So it's extremely fitting its destiny, and I think I mean,
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obviously I have a great face, so I believe God
planned that perfectly in a way that it went out.
So just yeah, I mean it was just a great
last showing of the great team basketball that we've been
playing all season.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
We're gonna go to the back, raise your hand. Sole
of the student athletes can see you.
Speaker 15 (12:29):
Hi, It's Miriam with overtime, And my question is for
all of you, how many unread texts and miss calls do.
Speaker 16 (12:35):
You have right now?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
And who are the first people you're gonna call back?
Speaker 17 (12:39):
And why?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Just due to time, we'll actually only be able to
have one of the student athletes answered, would you do
you have a preference on which one? Let's do Paige.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Actually, I love respawning the texts, so I've probably only
had like ten missed texts before this game. I haven't
not checked my phone yet, hoping it's in a hundreds.
Maybe like some people wanna reach out to me. Second, grass,
I don't know, uh ms calls. I don't like talking
on the phone. Uh So I'll get back to to
people on text. But mm if I had to pick
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one person to get back to, uh, I don't know.
It depends who reached out to.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Me, We're gonna go to our left.
Speaker 18 (13:26):
My question is for Sarah Vanessa with the Bay Air Examiner.
My question for you is, can you just talk about
how much Geno means to you and his leadership, especially
now being a national champion in your freshman year.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I would say he means a lot to me.
Speaker 11 (13:41):
I feel like he means a lot to the whole,
to everyone on the team. Yeah, he's a great coach,
so I'll really look up to him. What else do
you want me to say? Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
With that, We're gonna shift to our right. Front row.
Speaker 19 (14:05):
Jalen Johnson Rising media Stars. This one is for Asy.
You just look like you were playing really free today.
You had to smile on your face the entire game.
You were locked in at the gate and I could
till that, but you had a smile on your face
the entire game. What was allowing you to play so
freely today?
Speaker 8 (14:24):
Well, first, I think my faith. I feel like Paige
and other people on the team have been really inspirational
in that aspect, So being able to kind of just
let go give it to God definitely takes that pressure
that I put on myself away. And then also I
play my best when I'm having fun, and so I knew,
like this is our last game, regardless of what happens,
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So I'm gonna have fun with everyone, specifically like our
upper classmate Caitlin's always talking about like the last one,
last one, So just to have fun with all of them.
It's exactly what I wanted. Shots all shots of fall.
Shots won't fall. But I knew like I was gonna
give my all. I get, leave everything on the floor
for that forty minutes, so everything I could control, I
knew I was gonna do the best I could, and
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so I would just turn to have fun with it.
Speaker 16 (15:10):
So I write with Katie Katie Barnes for ESPN dot
Com for Ezy, I've just given everything that you've been through,
and when you think about especially the last year, what
does it mean to you to have this kind of
a game on the biggest stage.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
I mean, today, I really don't have words to describe
what today felt like and what the rest of the
day is going to feel like. Today was amazing. It's
an amazing accomplishment to do with this team. But like, yeah,
I scored a lot of points, but I just did
what my teammates like they sent me great screens got
me the ball. I didn't get outside myself. I read
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what the game was giving me. So this could have
been Sarah, could have been Paige scoring the most. So
really I did. I did what I knew I was
capable of My teammates trusted me, So I really a
shout out to them for putting me in that position
and believing in me.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Take our final question from the back of the Pink.
Speaker 15 (16:08):
Madison for ESPN Ndscape. This question is for page page yesterday.
I asked you how you don't get comfortable going into
this game being that you beat South Carolina by twenty
nine points last game? Coming in well finishing this game score,
you beat them by twenty three points coming into this game,
did it feel like you had to prove a point
being that you beat them by twenty nine points?
Speaker 13 (16:30):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (16:30):
No, I think we didn't carry whatever it was that
happened last game when we played them the last time,
and we actually probably knew they were going to come
out with a chip on their shoulder and be even
more aggressive and trying to set the tone from the
jump and strike first. So we're both playing for a
national championship. I think that's the only motivation that you
needed on both sides. So we just tried to come
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out and play every possession that it's the most important
possession of the season, served the moment and not get
too brought up in the past the future, but being
president in the moment and just serving that.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
With that, we want to thank you for your time
this evening and congratulations again, thank you, thank you. Just
a reminder that Paige, a Z and Sarah are going
to head over to the mix zone. We'll now start
our questions for a coach. Give me one moment so
I can start grabbing all your names. Okay, if we
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can start with Doug.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
A you know, oh you grads are leaving. Don't come
looking for me after. What's up, Doug?
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Congrats on the title. Can you talk about the journey
that Page has been on these last five years with
you and the journey I guess you guys have had
over the last nine years to get back to winning
a championship with all the heartbreaks you talked about the
other day, how you said you made mistakes and then
you lost the team, and just what it means to
get back on top.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Uh, I got being honest you know, I think that
there was a big part of my inner circle, I
guess of people that I trust that we're hoping that
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after the the Stewie fourth in a row, that I
should have called it a day. Back then that would
have been pretty you know, apropos. I guess, you know,
right off into the sunset with Stewie and Tucking.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Ryan, those guys.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
So when you make a decision that now you know,
you're not quite finished yet, and then three four years
go by and people start telling you that Yukon's now
Yukon anymore, and somebody else's turn, and then five years
go by, and six years go by, and seven years
go by. It's not like it was extra motivation, but
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it just happened to coincide, you know, the last five
years with the pandemic, the bubble, the injuries, and I
just kept thinking, you know, I kind of owe it
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to these people to kind of let me see if
we can take a whole team, what could happen Because
these people that have been playing against us for the
last seven eight years have not played against the University
of Connecticut team. Yeah, beating Yukon always seemed like the
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national championship to them. For us, it always seemed like,
if we ever get a chance to get healthy, this
could be this could be pretty good. So it coincided
with Paige's journey, you know, so my journey became hers
in s in so many words, who's to say that
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after she won her first if she if we want
her sophomore year, you know, her second year in Connecticut,
we won a national championship, and I feel like, okay,
well I lived up to my promise. She got a
national championship. Won't But because it didn't happen, it was
just almost like a a crusade on our coaching staff's party,
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like let's let's do this, let's do this, let's do this.
Who knew it would it would turn out like this?
But I started to trust in them, and I think
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when I tell you that it really is out of
your hands, it really is true. You know, all this
is in the hands of the players that are playing,
and it made it all worthwhile. Today it's probably the
most emotional one, like I said that I've had maybe
since I don't know, really really emotional. Two thousand I
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can name. Ninety five was pretty emotional. Obviously, two thousand
in my in Philly in front of my mom and
stuff in two thousand and two with Sue and that crew,
and now then d senior year and it's Stewary senior
year like those were probably the most, you know, because
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of what was involved, and this one had as much,
if not more involved, And yeah, that was pretty pretty emotional.
When when the game ended, We'll.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Go to Nancy.
Speaker 14 (22:13):
Nancy Mario say today sports, do you know what we
heard Page say? What you guys said to each other,
but I'm wondering what you told her. And also to
just the fact that she has prioritized the team so much.
How fitting was it that this was not everything was
not on her today?
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Back part of your question, we as coaches felt like
As was the key to the tournament. That every game
that Aisy played we talked about in the locker room
before the game when the just the coaching staff, we said,
every time as scores more than sixteen points, I think
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I forget what the number was exactly, we win every
one of those games. And so we felt that if
she could have an easy type game didn't have to
be a twenty eight point game like the one of
Carolina that we will win. We kind of know what
we're gonna get from Page. We kind of know what
we're gonna get from Sarah, so easy became the focal
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point for us of who has to really step up tonight,
and she did magnificently obviously. And then to your point
about the page thing, there are times when she and
I are very, very very serious together, and a lot
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of serious conversations have been had over the last five
years between the two of us, and some conversations are
light and fun and you know, don't mean anything.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
But today was the.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
First one, I think in five years that all the
emotions that have been building inside of me came out,
and they came out in her because in five years
that she's been in Connecticut, I have never seen her cry.
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And she might deny it, but she cried because she's
going to miss me.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
We'll go to the center and then we'll work our
way back.
Speaker 20 (24:31):
Hi, coach Eden Lassie hoops HQ. In November, you told
me that you wanted to win another one to prove
that Yukon was still making history. This team, in the
legacy of Yukon women's basketball. How do they fit into
that in your mind?
Speaker 3 (24:46):
I don't know. I mean that's usually those things are
decided by other people who write what it means. You know,
I do think that each Thea's championship is a you know,
building block, and the legacy is all those blocks placed
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on top of each other. And I don't know that one, well,
the bottom one holds everything up, but the first one,
you know, I don't think any other one means more
to the legacy. Maybe what this one means is that
there were a lot of people that then think it
wouldever happen. There are a lot of people that hope
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that it would never happen.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
You know.
Speaker 8 (25:39):
That.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I'm glad that we were able to to get to
that spot that Connecticut has occupied, and not that we
had to win a championship. But in the in the
last thirty years, I don't know that any I don't
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know that any programs meant more to their sport than
what you kind of meant to women's basketball.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
So I feel good about that.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I'm gonna shift to our right, ev if you can
raise your hand, we can get the microphone team.
Speaker 17 (26:22):
How do you know, Ava Wallace The Washington Post. I
know you've spoken extensively about your image's relationship over the
past couple weeks, I guess, but justin you mentioning that
you felt like you really want to do it for
her and do it for all your players. What about
her inspires you and your coaching staff.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
You know, it's funny, Jamelle wasn't here her freshman year.
Tanya was in here a freshman year, so they missed
that whole bubble thing, and the missed her being the
national player of the year and all that and all that.
So their journey, my staff's journey with Paige has been
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more like that because Page is infuriating and she's absolutely mesmerizing.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
When you watch her play a practice.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
She's like a symphony conduct her that just everything just flows.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
The way she wants it to flow. She dictates the
pace of.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Everything we do with practice, dominates every practice.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
But when she goes and goes into.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Those places where she doesn't necessarily have in her mind
what we want as a coaching staff, she's infuriating. And
it happened a couple of times today and it just
really infuriating, Like, you know, she is going to want
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to dictate, and my relationship with her has been I know,
I know what she's going to do, and it's not
always what I want her to do, but I know
in the end she's always doing what she thinks she
needs to do.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
For us to win. And so.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
I gotta pretend I gotta not look. And then if
I do accidentally look, I got to pretend I didn't
see it, and the two of us live happily ever after.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Michael Vogel.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
Coach as a fellow senior citizen, I asked this, so,
I don't hope you're not offended by it, but you
are the oldest coach in men's or women's basketball to
win a national championship. You've talked about how the last
few years it's been horrid. There's been times she thought, hey,
do I want to keep doing this? Can you talk
about just your journey to stick with us and you
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want to stick around another you know, several years to
win a few.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
More h.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Well, all those other coaches had the good sense to
not stick around to they were seventy one. Again, we
maybe talked about this recently. I yes, we all feel
our age at some point. You know, we don't like
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to admit that we're older because we still act younger
because of the people that we're dealing with. Right you know,
I know a lot of my friends that are my
age that havn't done what I've done with who I've
done it with, and they look way older, act way
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older because they've lost the ability to be a kid
because they're not around kids. So yeah, I maybe seventy
one number wise, but I think otherwise I'm more able
to do stuff with those young people because I'm around
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them every day and they rub off on me. So
does that mean that I could do this for another
X number of years? No, because you know, wine is
good for you too, and if you're around it all
the time, after a while, you know, you wake up
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and you go, that was really bad, and you know
I had too much fun. And so these kids are fun,
but there is going to come a time when the
fun doesn't eliminate how hard it is to do this job.
This job is really hard to do. I almost equated
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this one with coaching the Olympic team. Okay, if you
know anything about coaching Olympic team, it's a four year cycle. Okay,
you gotta win a world championship first, and then you
got to win a gold medal, and it takes four
years for that whole thing to evolve. And if I
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were to tell you the number of people who work
every day, not just in Colorado Springs to win a
gold medal, that you feel like if you don't win it,
they have to wait four more years to have that opportunity.
The incredible amount of pressure and obligation that you have,
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and my job has become that at Yukon that it's
more of an obligation to do what they expect me
to do as opposed to know any fame and fortune
that's going to come my way, although my ad doesn't
know that yet.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
With that coach, I've been given the nod that we
are at time. Wanna congratulate you.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Thanks everybody.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
I really appreciate it and thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
I want to give you
Good evening and welcome to the women's Final four National
Championship press conference featuring the Yukon Huskies. We'll hear an
opening statement from coach followed by questions from our student athletes.
Just a reminder that I asked that you hold your
questions for coach until after we have our student athletes
to part. Our student athletes will move to the mix
oone and the locker room for Yukon is now open.
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Coach will turn it over to you for an opening statement.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Uh uh yeah? Are you? You really don't You don't
prepare speeches for something like this, you know, although today
I was thinking, man, where am i? Where am I
going to say if things don't go our way? You know,
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how can you describe the emotions that you would feel if,
you know, if it went the wrong way for us?
When there's so much riding on this, on this game
for a lot of people, you know, a lot of
people at Yukon, and mostly for you know, for page
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being their last opportunity to do this. So I just
kept thinking, something good has to happen, because if we
were going to lose, it would have been before Now.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I don't think that they I don't think.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
The basketball gods would take us all the way to
the end. They've been really cruel with some of these
kids on this team. You know, they've suffered a lot
of the you know, the things that could go wrong
in the college career as an athlete, and so they
don't need any more heartbreak. So they weren't going to
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take us here and then give us more heartbreak. I
kept holding on to that, and I'm glad they were rewarded.
This was one of the more emotional final fours and
emotional national championships that I've been a part of since
that very first one.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
At this time, we'll open up with questions for our
student athletes. Doug will have you go first.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Doug Farnberg, Gap, Paige, you just walk us through this
journey you've had for the last five years, freshman year
in the bubble to now finishing off with the national championship.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Yeah, it's been a story of resilience, of gratitude, of adversity,
of overcoming adversity and just responding to life's challenges and
trying to fuel them to make me a better person,
a better player, and continue to grow in my leadership
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abilities and being a great teammate, and just staying who
I am, standing firm and who I am, and believing
in what we do here as individuals, what we do
here as a team. Just a an overwhelming sense of
gratitude for everything that's happened, through the ups and downs.
I wouldn't trade it for the world to be able
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to be shaped to be the person that I am
today and the team that we are today. And obviously
you feel like on the other side of a hard
time is a really big blessing and we stuck to it.
We kept the faith and to be rewarded with something
like this, you can't really even put it in the words.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
We'll shift to our right with Maddy.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Right over here, Paige, Asy and Sarah, all three of
you all validating. Is it that you know, Paige, you're
ending your career with the national championship, Asy you came
back from a knee injury, and Sarah as a freshman
to come in and be a part of breaking this title.
Drillt just how validating is it to sit up there
and note that you're national champions?
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Yeah? Very validating to all the hard work we put
in as individuals and as a team and how much
we stuck together through the good times and the bad,
and how connected we were. We feel like we were
so connected and nothing could break us. We've been through
a lot on our owns as a team, so we
feel like nothing that life or basketball can throw at us,
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whatever break us and make us separate. So to be
able to sit up here with them, with the whole
team and share this moment, it's extremely validating.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
And go to the center.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
Hey, Pam Grundy, author of Shattering the Glass, Remarkable History
of women's Basketball, to page and easy. You have seen
a lot in your careers. You've seen women's basketball change
a lot. I'd like if you could say something about
what the changes have been from the perspective of players,
and then also how you see yourself in the context
of all the generations of women who've come before you.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
We can start with easy.
Speaker 8 (04:49):
I felt like last year, being out, I really got
a chance to sit back and look around and just
see the attention that we had and just the impact
that all of us my teammates had on little girls,
and I thought it was just incredible and to be
a part about to be a part of that this
year and still just to see our fans like run Tampa,
and it feels like a home game to have that support,
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and just to see like little girls with their hair braided,
like little girls with shirts on, even like grown men,
and like that's just incredible. So to have that support
and to see that grow. I felt like it was
there my freshman year, but I feel like it's definitely
grown a lot since then. So to see that, it's
it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Impage.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Yeah, I would say a lot of the same things,
just in terms of the visibility and the access to
women's sports, now women's basketball, it's been amazing to be
a part of. Even since my freshman year, the women's
game has grown so much and you're extremely grateful to
be a part of that. And I feel like it's
only going to get better towards the future. But we
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think the people who've laid the foundation every single day,
the women's basketball players who came before us, who allow
us to be at this stage, allowed the WMA to
be something we aspire to be and fulfill those shoes.
So it all started with the groundwork and we're just
trying to fulfill what they've done.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
You want to go to the front.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Congratulations all of you.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Can you just tell us when the moment came.
Speaker 9 (06:14):
It looked like you were going to win the game
much earlier before the buzzer came. But when that final
moment came, when the buzzers there, when you have the realization,
what was going.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Through your heart and mind?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Is that a question for Paige Page?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Yes, I'm sorry so many emotions. Gratitude was the main
one of the journey, of the ups and downs of
everything that it took to get to that point, and
just overwhelm, overwhelming joy and just so happy for every
single person who was a part of this journey. And
so just to be able to sum that up in
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a few words, join gratitude would probably be forefront Howard.
Speaker 10 (06:55):
Award, Magdalathannatch, congratulations to all of you. Agy for you,
She's going on eleven points in the third quarter and
the quarter that essentially put this game away. If you're
just trying to take me through what you felt emotionally
at those times when you're she and the ball go
through the hoop. And also you and Page have obviously
been through so many option downs here at this program.
(07:16):
I know you came here to do this. What was
going through your mind and what you go through your
mind now knowing that you helped Paige get her national
championship that she wanted.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
Yeah, I think going into the third quarter, we knew
we had a good leave. We played a great first half,
We wanted to continue that and we didn't want to
let them back in the game. So I think all
of our mindset was just to be aggressive, stay locked in,
stay disciplined, stay together, And that's exactly what we did.
And I happened to score eleven points, but that's just
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I was doing what my teammates, what the game was giving,
and how my teammates got me the ball. So and
then being able to do it with this group is
I'm so incredible. I Mean there's a lot that just
this season, like the ups and downs to the season,
but the fast four years this group has been through
so so much adversity together. So to be able to
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do this for our seniors, I really don't have words
to describe like what this feels like what it means
to me, but I'm super grateful and I'm just super
proud of this entire team.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
We'll go to Michael Vobel.
Speaker 9 (08:26):
Thank Mike Vobel from ESPN dot com.
Speaker 10 (08:29):
This is for Sarah.
Speaker 9 (08:30):
You set the record for the most points scored by
a freshman in the NCAA tournament, breaking the record by
Tamika Catchings was which she set back in nineteen ninety
eight when your mom was playing. I'm just wondering if
you could talk about this entire tournament for you and
how well you've played.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Uh, yeah, I did.
Speaker 11 (08:48):
I feel like I did better than I was expecting.
But yeah, I mean it's cool to score that. That
wouldn't have happened with that my teammates, though, We'll.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Go right behind you to because Sandra, what was.
Speaker 12 (09:05):
Cassandra and Ugli with Yahoo's sports page right in the
middle when you came out of the game. You were
subbed out in that final minute and you had a
long embrace with Gino. What was going through your head,
especially as you went down the bench. Whatever you're willing
to share about that moment specifically.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Yeah, again, just gratitude for all that coaches meant to
me and how much he shaped me to the human
I am, to the basketball player I am throughout this
entire five years, and just putting it all together in
one hug. What our journey has been together he told
me he loved me, and I told him I hated him,
so but we both love each other even though we
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hate each other some days. But yeah, just every single
relationship that I've built throughout the years. Here you just
try to encapsulate it in one hug for five seconds.
But just every single person that I went down the
line and hugged just meant so much to me and
meant so much to the team. And so just like
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I haven't been saying, just a state of gratitude.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
We're gonna go Bill Rodin, then a nanty you just
walked past Bill, go back right there.
Speaker 13 (10:23):
I uh, Bill Roden with the ESPN's ans cap. This
is actually for you, sir. There's been a lot of
talk about journeys and everybody talking about the journey Yours
is kind of short so far. But how does it
feel a lot of players been their entire careers and
never win a national championship. Just your perspective about your
first year win in a national championship and some of
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your thoughts on what your perspective on that.
Speaker 11 (10:45):
I mean, Yeah, We've gone to practice every day, working
hard for this moment. So just really proud of the
team and the way we've been.
Speaker 13 (10:51):
Playing, there's something you expected.
Speaker 11 (10:57):
I mean, no, not really.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
We'll take our next question from Nancy Nancy Ammer USA
Today Sports Page. It straight.
Speaker 14 (11:10):
You have talked throughout your career about how much the
team means to you and that that's the most important
thing to you. How fitting is it then that this
was truly a team effort? It wasn't. I mean, obviously
Sarah Nazy had great games, but this was not one
player taking over and winning this title on their own.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Yeah, we talked about it as a team. We thought
leading up to this weekend, the final four game, last
game in this game, that we hadn't played our best
team basketball yet in the tournament, and we had gotten
to the point where we were and done it pretty well,
but we thought we were saving our best performances for
this weekend. And it's been just I think a great
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I mean summary of what we have been this entire
season of being a team, staying connected on any given
night it can be anybody's night, and how we play
as a team. And I think that was just a
great showing for that between last game and this game.
So it's extremely fitting its destiny, and I think I mean,
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obviously I have a great face, so I believe God
planned that perfectly in a way that it went out.
So just yeah, I mean it was just a great
last showing of the great team basketball that we've been
playing all season.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
We're gonna go to the back, raise your hand. Sole
of the student athletes can see you.
Speaker 15 (12:29):
Hi, It's Miriam with overtime, And my question is for
all of you, how many unread texts and miss calls do.
Speaker 16 (12:35):
You have right now?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
And who are the first people you're gonna call back?
Speaker 17 (12:39):
And why?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Just due to time, we'll actually only be able to
have one of the student athletes answered, would you do
you have a preference on which one? Let's do Paige.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Actually, I love respawning the texts, so I've probably only
had like ten missed texts before this game. I haven't
not checked my phone yet, hoping it's in a hundreds.
Maybe like some people wanna reach out to me. Second, grass,
I don't know, uh ms calls. I don't like talking
on the phone. Uh So I'll get back to to
people on text. But mm if I had to pick
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one person to get back to, uh, I don't know.
It depends who reached out to.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Me, We're gonna go to our left.
Speaker 18 (13:26):
My question is for Sarah Vanessa with the Bay Air Examiner.
My question for you is, can you just talk about
how much Geno means to you and his leadership, especially
now being a national champion in your freshman year.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I would say he means a lot to me.
Speaker 11 (13:41):
I feel like he means a lot to the whole,
to everyone on the team. Yeah, he's a great coach,
so I'll really look up to him. What else do
you want me to say? Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
With that, We're gonna shift to our right. Front row.
Speaker 19 (14:05):
Jalen Johnson Rising media Stars. This one is for Asy.
You just look like you were playing really free today.
You had to smile on your face the entire game.
You were locked in at the gate and I could
till that, but you had a smile on your face
the entire game. What was allowing you to play so
freely today?
Speaker 8 (14:24):
Well, first, I think my faith. I feel like Paige
and other people on the team have been really inspirational
in that aspect, So being able to kind of just
let go give it to God definitely takes that pressure
that I put on myself away. And then also I
play my best when I'm having fun, and so I knew,
like this is our last game, regardless of what happens,
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So I'm gonna have fun with everyone, specifically like our
upper classmate Caitlin's always talking about like the last one,
last one, So just to have fun with all of them.
It's exactly what I wanted. Shots all shots of fall.
Shots won't fall. But I knew like I was gonna
give my all. I get, leave everything on the floor
for that forty minutes, so everything I could control, I
knew I was gonna do the best I could, and
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so I would just turn to have fun with it.
Speaker 16 (15:10):
So I write with Katie Katie Barnes for ESPN dot
Com for Ezy, I've just given everything that you've been through,
and when you think about especially the last year, what
does it mean to you to have this kind of
a game on the biggest stage.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
I mean, today, I really don't have words to describe
what today felt like and what the rest of the
day is going to feel like. Today was amazing. It's
an amazing accomplishment to do with this team. But like, yeah,
I scored a lot of points, but I just did
what my teammates like they sent me great screens got
me the ball. I didn't get outside myself. I read
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what the game was giving me. So this could have
been Sarah, could have been Paige scoring the most. So
really I did. I did what I knew I was
capable of My teammates trusted me, So I really a
shout out to them for putting me in that position
and believing in me.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Take our final question from the back of the Pink.
Speaker 15 (16:08):
Madison for ESPN Ndscape. This question is for page page yesterday.
I asked you how you don't get comfortable going into
this game being that you beat South Carolina by twenty
nine points last game? Coming in well finishing this game score,
you beat them by twenty three points coming into this game,
did it feel like you had to prove a point
being that you beat them by twenty nine points?
Speaker 13 (16:30):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (16:30):
No, I think we didn't carry whatever it was that
happened last game when we played them the last time,
and we actually probably knew they were going to come
out with a chip on their shoulder and be even
more aggressive and trying to set the tone from the
jump and strike first. So we're both playing for a
national championship. I think that's the only motivation that you
needed on both sides. So we just tried to come
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out and play every possession that it's the most important
possession of the season, served the moment and not get
too brought up in the past the future, but being
president in the moment and just serving that.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
With that, we want to thank you for your time
this evening and congratulations again, thank you, thank you. Just
a reminder that Paige, a Z and Sarah are going
to head over to the mix zone. We'll now start
our questions for a coach. Give me one moment so
I can start grabbing all your names. Okay, if we
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can start with Doug.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
A you know, oh you grads are leaving. Don't come
looking for me after. What's up, Doug?
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Congrats on the title. Can you talk about the journey
that Page has been on these last five years with
you and the journey I guess you guys have had
over the last nine years to get back to winning
a championship with all the heartbreaks you talked about the
other day, how you said you made mistakes and then
you lost the team, and just what it means to
get back on top.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Uh, I got being honest you know, I think that
there was a big part of my inner circle, I
guess of people that I trust that we're hoping that
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after the the Stewie fourth in a row, that I
should have called it a day. Back then that would
have been pretty you know, apropos. I guess, you know,
right off into the sunset with Stewie and Tucking.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Ryan, those guys.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
So when you make a decision that now you know,
you're not quite finished yet, and then three four years
go by and people start telling you that Yukon's now
Yukon anymore, and somebody else's turn, and then five years
go by, and six years go by, and seven years
go by. It's not like it was extra motivation, but
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it just happened to coincide, you know, the last five
years with the pandemic, the bubble, the injuries, and I
just kept thinking, you know, I kind of owe it
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to these people to kind of let me see if
we can take a whole team, what could happen Because
these people that have been playing against us for the
last seven eight years have not played against the University
of Connecticut team. Yeah, beating Yukon always seemed like the
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national championship to them. For us, it always seemed like,
if we ever get a chance to get healthy, this
could be this could be pretty good. So it coincided
with Paige's journey, you know, so my journey became hers
in s in so many words, who's to say that
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after she won her first if she if we want
her sophomore year, you know, her second year in Connecticut,
we won a national championship, and I feel like, okay,
well I lived up to my promise. She got a
national championship. Won't But because it didn't happen, it was
just almost like a a crusade on our coaching staff's party,
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like let's let's do this, let's do this, let's do this.
Who knew it would it would turn out like this?
But I started to trust in them, and I think
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when I tell you that it really is out of
your hands, it really is true. You know, all this
is in the hands of the players that are playing,
and it made it all worthwhile. Today it's probably the
most emotional one, like I said that I've had maybe
since I don't know, really really emotional. Two thousand I
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can name. Ninety five was pretty emotional. Obviously, two thousand
in my in Philly in front of my mom and
stuff in two thousand and two with Sue and that crew,
and now then d senior year and it's Stewary senior
year like those were probably the most, you know, because
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of what was involved, and this one had as much,
if not more involved, And yeah, that was pretty pretty emotional.
When when the game ended, We'll.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Go to Nancy.
Speaker 14 (22:13):
Nancy Mario say today sports, do you know what we
heard Page say? What you guys said to each other,
but I'm wondering what you told her. And also to
just the fact that she has prioritized the team so much.
How fitting was it that this was not everything was
not on her today?
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Back part of your question, we as coaches felt like
As was the key to the tournament. That every game
that Aisy played we talked about in the locker room
before the game when the just the coaching staff, we said,
every time as scores more than sixteen points, I think
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I forget what the number was exactly, we win every
one of those games. And so we felt that if
she could have an easy type game didn't have to
be a twenty eight point game like the one of
Carolina that we will win. We kind of know what
we're gonna get from Page. We kind of know what
we're gonna get from Sarah, so easy became the focal
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point for us of who has to really step up tonight,
and she did magnificently obviously. And then to your point
about the page thing, there are times when she and
I are very, very very serious together, and a lot
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of serious conversations have been had over the last five
years between the two of us, and some conversations are
light and fun and you know, don't mean anything.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
But today was the.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
First one, I think in five years that all the
emotions that have been building inside of me came out,
and they came out in her because in five years
that she's been in Connecticut, I have never seen her cry.
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And she might deny it, but she cried because she's
going to miss me.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
We'll go to the center and then we'll work our
way back.
Speaker 20 (24:31):
Hi, coach Eden Lassie hoops HQ. In November, you told
me that you wanted to win another one to prove
that Yukon was still making history. This team, in the
legacy of Yukon women's basketball. How do they fit into
that in your mind?
Speaker 3 (24:46):
I don't know. I mean that's usually those things are
decided by other people who write what it means. You know,
I do think that each Thea's championship is a you know,
building block, and the legacy is all those blocks placed
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on top of each other. And I don't know that one, well,
the bottom one holds everything up, but the first one,
you know, I don't think any other one means more
to the legacy. Maybe what this one means is that
there were a lot of people that then think it
wouldever happen. There are a lot of people that hope
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that it would never happen.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
You know.
Speaker 8 (25:39):
That.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I'm glad that we were able to to get to
that spot that Connecticut has occupied, and not that we
had to win a championship. But in the in the
last thirty years, I don't know that any I don't
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know that any programs meant more to their sport than
what you kind of meant to women's basketball.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
So I feel good about that.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I'm gonna shift to our right, ev if you can
raise your hand, we can get the microphone team.
Speaker 17 (26:22):
How do you know, Ava Wallace The Washington Post. I
know you've spoken extensively about your image's relationship over the
past couple weeks, I guess, but justin you mentioning that
you felt like you really want to do it for
her and do it for all your players. What about
her inspires you and your coaching staff.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
You know, it's funny, Jamelle wasn't here her freshman year.
Tanya was in here a freshman year, so they missed
that whole bubble thing, and the missed her being the
national player of the year and all that and all that.
So their journey, my staff's journey with Paige has been
(27:02):
more like that because Page is infuriating and she's absolutely mesmerizing.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
When you watch her play a practice.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
She's like a symphony conduct her that just everything just flows.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
The way she wants it to flow. She dictates the
pace of.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Everything we do with practice, dominates every practice.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
But when she goes and goes into.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Those places where she doesn't necessarily have in her mind
what we want as a coaching staff, she's infuriating. And
it happened a couple of times today and it just
really infuriating, Like, you know, she is going to want
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to dictate, and my relationship with her has been I know,
I know what she's going to do, and it's not
always what I want her to do, but I know
in the end she's always doing what she thinks she
needs to do.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
For us to win. And so.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
I gotta pretend I gotta not look. And then if
I do accidentally look, I got to pretend I didn't
see it, and the two of us live happily ever after.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Michael Vogel.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
Coach as a fellow senior citizen, I asked this, so,
I don't hope you're not offended by it, but you
are the oldest coach in men's or women's basketball to
win a national championship. You've talked about how the last
few years it's been horrid. There's been times she thought, hey,
do I want to keep doing this? Can you talk
about just your journey to stick with us and you
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want to stick around another you know, several years to
win a few.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
More h.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Well, all those other coaches had the good sense to
not stick around to they were seventy one. Again, we
maybe talked about this recently. I yes, we all feel
our age at some point. You know, we don't like
(29:32):
to admit that we're older because we still act younger
because of the people that we're dealing with. Right you know,
I know a lot of my friends that are my
age that havn't done what I've done with who I've
done it with, and they look way older, act way
(29:57):
older because they've lost the ability to be a kid
because they're not around kids. So yeah, I maybe seventy
one number wise, but I think otherwise I'm more able
to do stuff with those young people because I'm around
(30:18):
them every day and they rub off on me. So
does that mean that I could do this for another
X number of years? No, because you know, wine is
good for you too, and if you're around it all
the time, after a while, you know, you wake up
(30:39):
and you go, that was really bad, and you know
I had too much fun. And so these kids are fun,
but there is going to come a time when the
fun doesn't eliminate how hard it is to do this job.
This job is really hard to do. I almost equated
(31:03):
this one with coaching the Olympic team. Okay, if you
know anything about coaching Olympic team, it's a four year cycle. Okay,
you gotta win a world championship first, and then you
got to win a gold medal, and it takes four
years for that whole thing to evolve. And if I
(31:25):
were to tell you the number of people who work
every day, not just in Colorado Springs to win a
gold medal, that you feel like if you don't win it,
they have to wait four more years to have that opportunity.
The incredible amount of pressure and obligation that you have,
(31:45):
and my job has become that at Yukon that it's
more of an obligation to do what they expect me
to do as opposed to know any fame and fortune
that's going to come my way, although my ad doesn't
know that yet.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
With that coach, I've been given the nod that we
are at time. Wanna congratulate you.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Thanks everybody.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
I really appreciate it and thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
I want to give you
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