August 19, 2024 • 11 mins
Caroline with Rob & Ben on Monday, August 12th on her health and possibly returning to the court this fall
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's a snap man, so I'm always gonna roll up.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Got a man open touchdown and the tight end Nick
Harris and a little slide ahead.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
The football Huskies Returning the grid Irons Saturday, August thirty,
first of Maryland on Fox Sports ninety seventy nine, Hartford.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
The only place for Connecticut sports conversations.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Here listening to the Rob dimml Show.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Hey, you can't just call damp stop you catch you all,
Willy Nelly was dam is the only thing that holds
the bad.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Back on the Rob Devil Shows. Ben Darnell in your
Afternoon Drive here at the Donnie Marshall Charity golf tournament
that takes care of the Tolling Fund and also the
Ryan Martin Foundation. And the wonderful Caroline to Charm now
is on the set with ustball.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
She does she does.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Let's just start with you know, the tough question is
your health. How do you feel? Where are you right now?
Are you able to practice and things like that?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Uh, yeah, I'm feeling. It took some time away to
do some treatment. Obviously, I didn't play all of last year,
so it took some time away. And now I'm getting
back into it. I'm feeling good. It's still a process,
but I'm doing a lot more than I have in
the past.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
So now Carolina is not golf today. She has not
swung a club whatsoever. But we have heard she beat
Hassan Dara in putt putt in their last championship. He's
shaking his head. No, No, I had no experience with
golf whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I mean like mini golf.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yeah, what other sports have you done? What other sports
are in Caroline de Charm's repertoire Growing up?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I played soccer, lacrosse, volleyball. That was it.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
When did you focus straight on basketball? Nothing else but basketball?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I mean I always liked basketball more, like even when
I played all those futs, I always always played more basketball.
So I would say probably I started Honestly, I started
getting into basketball more because my older sister's two yars
older than me. She started getting into it more. And
when I was young, I just wanted to do whatever
she did. So probably around like fourth, third or fourth
(02:06):
grade is when like she started playing, well, she was
in sixth grade. I was in third or fourth grade.
She started playing au So then I would just tag
along and then I started doing it on my own.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
What was AAU basketball like for you, And then as
you started to approach like six foot tall, did everybody
start bothering you and be like, hey, we need you
to come here. We wanted to play for this team.
What kind of decision making was that for you when
you were growing up?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah, well, I actually didn't grow really until probably like
eighth grade, seventh grade. So my sister was six to
one from like really young and I wasn't, so I
kind of would always just like tag along her stuff.
And then when I grew obviously, you know, things started
to ramp up. But I played on the same AU
(02:51):
program since I was little, like until like my freshman
year of high school really, so I was with the
same coach, the same girls. My dad was a coach.
It was the same program with my sister's team. And
then when I started getting better and better, I kind
of was like, I want to go higher and play
against the best. So that's when I went to an
YBL team and I went to New York City and
(03:12):
played for Exodus, and then things, you know, from there,
it was more competitive.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Take us through last year and just all the injuries
and we're playing with basically eight bodies out there, it's
really nothing new because it felt like a repeat from
the year before. But what was that mentally for the
entire locker room to push through, still win Big East championships,
and still perform better than most everyone in the tournament.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I think it was hard. I think it was hard
for people that were out and the people that were
playing for different reasons. I mean, obviously we had five
people with season ending injuries, so it was kind of
nice that we had each other to kind of help
us through the long season of being out. But also
for the people that are playing, you know, there's six
seven people playing thirty eight minutes a game, and that's
(03:58):
hard on your body, meant everything. So and also half
of them were freshmen. Half of them had never played
college basketball, so you're kind of starting out the season
and they want to, you know, kind of ease into it,
look up to the people above you, and then they're
thrown out and now they're starting playing forty minutes of
the game. So I think I'm really proud of the
way that they handled it, the way everybody handled it.
I think people were thrown into uncomfortable positions and it
(04:21):
was it was crazy what we were able to still accomplish.
But I think that's just a testimony to you know,
who we are as people, and then our coaching staff
just preparing us, because I mean, no other program in
the country could have done that.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
What's it like when you're growing up and who taught
you how to shoot? Number one? Who did you kind
of pattern yourself after? You're one of the best shooters
to ever come through this program. Obviously eleven national championships,
all the other kind of stuff, but you're one of
the best. Gino always says, we didn't bring it here
to be good. We brought you here to be great.
I mean, when did you start realizing I'm pretty damn
good at shooting in basketball?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
When I was young, my dad taught me to shoot.
My mom did too, but my dad, like we would
go to the gym every single day. He would shoot
with me. I think, honestly, like my shooting kind of
took a turn when I tore my acl and all
I could do was shoot, So I would just go
before I could jump.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Before I got how many shots a day.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
A lot, like hundreds, yeah, if like thousands, Like I
would go shoot before school after school, he would just
if I could just form shoot. He would sit in
form shuit for me for hours or rebound for me
for hours. So I think that's when I really like
kind of took a turn with my shooting because it
wasn't really like a huge part of my game before that.
But when you can't do much for six nine months,
(05:36):
it kind of so.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
When is the moment? Because Gina always tells us this too.
There's there's even with Page, like there's a lot of
moments where you guys have so much talent that you know,
you think that you are great at shooting, and you
might have a little look but asy maybe wide open
and you want to get hurt the ball, and then
all of a sudden, Gina is on your butt, like
why the hell didn't you score? When is that click
(05:58):
into your head to where like I'm with these great
women on this great team, but I have to be
the one that puts the ball in the basket. Like
for everyone, is there a moment? Is it Gino yelling
at you enough times where it finally clicks over to
where like I'm open, I'm gonna score.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I think for so many of us, everybody came from
a place before Yukon where they're the primary option, they're
the guys. So I think everyone kind of has that,
or you know, certain certain people have that kind of
mentality already in you. And then I think it's more
of an adjustment when you get around so many great
players and then you just you just want to be
around great players to play with each other, You want
(06:37):
to feed each other, you want to you know, take
advantage of so many options, Like I had never played
with so many great players on the floor with me
at once. And then but then once you get used
to playing with each other, it's like, okay, like if
I have this one, this is gonna be my shot.
But if she has that, that's her shot. So it's
kind of it's kind of just getting comfortable with each other.
And definitely like my freshman year, it was you're just
(06:57):
thrown in there and it's a lot, and you have
upper class been trying to like help you through it,
and you're just kind of figuring it out as you go.
And then the role is kind of reversed and now
you're trying to help the younger guys.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Talking to Caroline to charm here on The Rob Devils
Show with Ben Darnell or at the Lake of Isles
the Donnie Marshall Charity Golf Tournament. We constantly joke about
this because it's different. In Hassan Diiro's case. You come
men in the Big East, it's rough. It's a tough,
tough conference for the women. Not so tough you have
to go with out of conference games, play some really
tough competition outside the conference. Does that hurt you when
(07:30):
you're playing all these in conference games where it just
seems like the competition's not there for you.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
No, not necessarily, because I think in the Big East,
I think that's definitely a very different style than some
of the other like big conference, big games that we play,
and so I think in the long run it really does.
It does help us because you know, you're practicing and
defending different schemes that you don't usually see. So then
in the tournament when we come across a team like
that that has a whole bunch of players running you
(07:57):
off with a whole bunch of screens, gonna kind of
mess of your head type basketball, I think that that
it does really help us because you've got to be
on mentally too, and some of these bigger non conference games,
it's just it's more skill and more you know, technical,
not as much like scheme. So I think that that
really does It does help us if you look at
it that way.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
As much as we just talked to a son about
the men reloading, I mean the women. Good Ness, how
many McDonald's all Americans do we have at practice right now?
Like the practice has got to be unreal competitive. Take
us through some of the newcomers. People may not know
Sarah Strong we hear a lot about, but maybe some
other people that are coming back, like yourself, that look
(08:35):
even better than what they were.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yeah. I think that's a big part about the team
this year is we have so many new people. We
also have so many people coming back from injury. I mean,
Jana hasn't even she's been at Yukon for a year
and a half and she hasn't even played a game.
So I think people have gone used to her, but
they haven't even seen what she can do. And she's
one I'm really excited for her to finally get on
the court. And then we have three freshmens Sarah Strong,
(08:57):
Morgan Shelly, and Ali's Ibel, so all of them I
think brings something so different. Sarah, she's physical, she's obviously
she's the biggest name. People know about her, but she
can she gives us something different where she's a post,
but she can shoot, so she can touch the floor.
She can do a little bit of everything. Ali can shoot,
she can really shoot. She's I haven't seen her, you know,
like in a real game, but like her numbers that
(09:19):
she puts up in the shooting drills we do and
stuff like that, Like she can really shoot. And then
Morgan does a little bit of everything. In my opinion,
she kind of just she kind of can play a
bunch of different positions. She's versatile. She's like your typical
Yukon kid that can do a whole bunch of everything.
And then Caitlyn transfer from Ye Princeton. She's brings, you know, experience,
she's steady, she's a good you know, she doesn't make
(09:42):
any mistakes. She's solid. Obviously, she has a ton of experience.
She knows how to win. So I'm excited to see,
you know, all the new pieces and everyone coming back.
Everyone comes back gets better.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
So the women in the Olympics basketball is just one.
They're eighth straight gold medal. Obviously, I think almost every
w NBA team has at least one Yukon of lum
On there. Uh, it's so impressive to see it all
over women's basketball. You're just your thoughts, uh, the the
Olympic women women winning another gold medal. That would that
be a dream for you one day to play on
the Olympic team.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yeah, and that's amazing. I've always that's always been a
dream of mine, like since I was little, to go
to the Olympics win a gold medal. And like you said, Yukon,
having so many players in the league and playing for
having gold medals, playing in the Olympics, it's you know,
it's really cool to see, you know, people that come
around and have been through the same things that you
have and played for coach and played for CD and
(10:34):
they come back and they have the same stories and
they're in the league and they're you know, living out
their dreams. So it's really cool to see all their success.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
And I think we gotta get them out of the ring. Yeah,
we did.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Got to get you guys out of the Caroline. Thank
you so much for your time. Son, Thank you so
much as well. You guys go get inside before you
get rained on. But we're very blessed today to have
you both on. We appreciate your time.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Thanks for having us.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
All right, we'll be right back from the Donnie Marshall
Charity Golf Tournament as we try to figure out what
we're gonna do here in the rain. We'll be right
back when you're way to our twenty twenty four
It's a snap man, so I'm always gonna roll up.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Got a man open touchdown and the tight end Nick
Harris and a little slide ahead.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
The football Huskies Returning the grid Irons Saturday, August thirty,
first of Maryland on Fox Sports ninety seventy nine, Hartford.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
The only place for Connecticut sports conversations.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Here listening to the Rob dimml Show.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Hey, you can't just call damp stop you catch you all,
Willy Nelly was dam is the only thing that holds
the bad.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Back on the Rob Devil Shows. Ben Darnell in your
Afternoon Drive here at the Donnie Marshall Charity golf tournament
that takes care of the Tolling Fund and also the
Ryan Martin Foundation. And the wonderful Caroline to Charm now
is on the set with ustball.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
She does she does.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Let's just start with you know, the tough question is
your health. How do you feel? Where are you right now?
Are you able to practice and things like that?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Uh, yeah, I'm feeling. It took some time away to
do some treatment. Obviously, I didn't play all of last year,
so it took some time away. And now I'm getting
back into it. I'm feeling good. It's still a process,
but I'm doing a lot more than I have in
the past.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
So now Carolina is not golf today. She has not
swung a club whatsoever. But we have heard she beat
Hassan Dara in putt putt in their last championship. He's
shaking his head. No, No, I had no experience with
golf whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I mean like mini golf.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yeah, what other sports have you done? What other sports
are in Caroline de Charm's repertoire Growing up?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I played soccer, lacrosse, volleyball. That was it.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
When did you focus straight on basketball? Nothing else but basketball?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I mean I always liked basketball more, like even when
I played all those futs, I always always played more basketball.
So I would say probably I started Honestly, I started
getting into basketball more because my older sister's two yars
older than me. She started getting into it more. And
when I was young, I just wanted to do whatever
she did. So probably around like fourth, third or fourth
(02:06):
grade is when like she started playing, well, she was
in sixth grade. I was in third or fourth grade.
She started playing au So then I would just tag
along and then I started doing it on my own.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
What was AAU basketball like for you, And then as
you started to approach like six foot tall, did everybody
start bothering you and be like, hey, we need you
to come here. We wanted to play for this team.
What kind of decision making was that for you when
you were growing up?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah, well, I actually didn't grow really until probably like
eighth grade, seventh grade. So my sister was six to
one from like really young and I wasn't, so I
kind of would always just like tag along her stuff.
And then when I grew obviously, you know, things started
to ramp up. But I played on the same AU
(02:51):
program since I was little, like until like my freshman
year of high school really, so I was with the
same coach, the same girls. My dad was a coach.
It was the same program with my sister's team. And
then when I started getting better and better, I kind
of was like, I want to go higher and play
against the best. So that's when I went to an
YBL team and I went to New York City and
(03:12):
played for Exodus, and then things, you know, from there,
it was more competitive.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Take us through last year and just all the injuries
and we're playing with basically eight bodies out there, it's
really nothing new because it felt like a repeat from
the year before. But what was that mentally for the
entire locker room to push through, still win Big East championships,
and still perform better than most everyone in the tournament.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I think it was hard. I think it was hard
for people that were out and the people that were
playing for different reasons. I mean, obviously we had five
people with season ending injuries, so it was kind of
nice that we had each other to kind of help
us through the long season of being out. But also
for the people that are playing, you know, there's six
seven people playing thirty eight minutes a game, and that's
(03:58):
hard on your body, meant everything. So and also half
of them were freshmen. Half of them had never played
college basketball, so you're kind of starting out the season
and they want to, you know, kind of ease into it,
look up to the people above you, and then they're
thrown out and now they're starting playing forty minutes of
the game. So I think I'm really proud of the
way that they handled it, the way everybody handled it.
I think people were thrown into uncomfortable positions and it
(04:21):
was it was crazy what we were able to still accomplish.
But I think that's just a testimony to you know,
who we are as people, and then our coaching staff
just preparing us, because I mean, no other program in
the country could have done that.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
What's it like when you're growing up and who taught
you how to shoot? Number one? Who did you kind
of pattern yourself after? You're one of the best shooters
to ever come through this program. Obviously eleven national championships,
all the other kind of stuff, but you're one of
the best. Gino always says, we didn't bring it here
to be good. We brought you here to be great.
I mean, when did you start realizing I'm pretty damn
good at shooting in basketball?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
When I was young, my dad taught me to shoot.
My mom did too, but my dad, like we would
go to the gym every single day. He would shoot
with me. I think, honestly, like my shooting kind of
took a turn when I tore my acl and all
I could do was shoot, So I would just go
before I could jump.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Before I got how many shots a day.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
A lot, like hundreds, yeah, if like thousands, Like I
would go shoot before school after school, he would just
if I could just form shoot. He would sit in
form shuit for me for hours or rebound for me
for hours. So I think that's when I really like
kind of took a turn with my shooting because it
wasn't really like a huge part of my game before that.
But when you can't do much for six nine months,
(05:36):
it kind of so.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
When is the moment? Because Gina always tells us this too.
There's there's even with Page, like there's a lot of
moments where you guys have so much talent that you know,
you think that you are great at shooting, and you
might have a little look but asy maybe wide open
and you want to get hurt the ball, and then
all of a sudden, Gina is on your butt, like
why the hell didn't you score? When is that click
(05:58):
into your head to where like I'm with these great
women on this great team, but I have to be
the one that puts the ball in the basket. Like
for everyone, is there a moment? Is it Gino yelling
at you enough times where it finally clicks over to
where like I'm open, I'm gonna score.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I think for so many of us, everybody came from
a place before Yukon where they're the primary option, they're
the guys. So I think everyone kind of has that,
or you know, certain certain people have that kind of
mentality already in you. And then I think it's more
of an adjustment when you get around so many great
players and then you just you just want to be
around great players to play with each other, You want
(06:37):
to feed each other, you want to you know, take
advantage of so many options, Like I had never played
with so many great players on the floor with me
at once. And then but then once you get used
to playing with each other, it's like, okay, like if
I have this one, this is gonna be my shot.
But if she has that, that's her shot. So it's
kind of it's kind of just getting comfortable with each other.
And definitely like my freshman year, it was you're just
(06:57):
thrown in there and it's a lot, and you have
upper class been trying to like help you through it,
and you're just kind of figuring it out as you go.
And then the role is kind of reversed and now
you're trying to help the younger guys.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Talking to Caroline to charm here on The Rob Devils
Show with Ben Darnell or at the Lake of Isles
the Donnie Marshall Charity Golf Tournament. We constantly joke about
this because it's different. In Hassan Diiro's case. You come
men in the Big East, it's rough. It's a tough,
tough conference for the women. Not so tough you have
to go with out of conference games, play some really
tough competition outside the conference. Does that hurt you when
(07:30):
you're playing all these in conference games where it just
seems like the competition's not there for you.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
No, not necessarily, because I think in the Big East,
I think that's definitely a very different style than some
of the other like big conference, big games that we play,
and so I think in the long run it really does.
It does help us because you know, you're practicing and
defending different schemes that you don't usually see. So then
in the tournament when we come across a team like
that that has a whole bunch of players running you
(07:57):
off with a whole bunch of screens, gonna kind of
mess of your head type basketball, I think that that
it does really help us because you've got to be
on mentally too, and some of these bigger non conference games,
it's just it's more skill and more you know, technical,
not as much like scheme. So I think that that
really does It does help us if you look at
it that way.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
As much as we just talked to a son about
the men reloading, I mean the women. Good Ness, how
many McDonald's all Americans do we have at practice right now?
Like the practice has got to be unreal competitive. Take
us through some of the newcomers. People may not know
Sarah Strong we hear a lot about, but maybe some
other people that are coming back, like yourself, that look
(08:35):
even better than what they were.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yeah. I think that's a big part about the team
this year is we have so many new people. We
also have so many people coming back from injury. I mean,
Jana hasn't even she's been at Yukon for a year
and a half and she hasn't even played a game.
So I think people have gone used to her, but
they haven't even seen what she can do. And she's
one I'm really excited for her to finally get on
the court. And then we have three freshmens Sarah Strong,
(08:57):
Morgan Shelly, and Ali's Ibel, so all of them I
think brings something so different. Sarah, she's physical, she's obviously
she's the biggest name. People know about her, but she
can she gives us something different where she's a post,
but she can shoot, so she can touch the floor.
She can do a little bit of everything. Ali can shoot,
she can really shoot. She's I haven't seen her, you know,
like in a real game, but like her numbers that
(09:19):
she puts up in the shooting drills we do and
stuff like that, Like she can really shoot. And then
Morgan does a little bit of everything. In my opinion,
she kind of just she kind of can play a
bunch of different positions. She's versatile. She's like your typical
Yukon kid that can do a whole bunch of everything.
And then Caitlyn transfer from Ye Princeton. She's brings, you know, experience,
she's steady, she's a good you know, she doesn't make
(09:42):
any mistakes. She's solid. Obviously, she has a ton of experience.
She knows how to win. So I'm excited to see,
you know, all the new pieces and everyone coming back.
Everyone comes back gets better.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
So the women in the Olympics basketball is just one.
They're eighth straight gold medal. Obviously, I think almost every
w NBA team has at least one Yukon of lum
On there. Uh, it's so impressive to see it all
over women's basketball. You're just your thoughts, uh, the the
Olympic women women winning another gold medal. That would that
be a dream for you one day to play on
the Olympic team.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yeah, and that's amazing. I've always that's always been a
dream of mine, like since I was little, to go
to the Olympics win a gold medal. And like you said, Yukon,
having so many players in the league and playing for
having gold medals, playing in the Olympics, it's you know,
it's really cool to see, you know, people that come
around and have been through the same things that you
have and played for coach and played for CD and
(10:34):
they come back and they have the same stories and
they're in the league and they're you know, living out
their dreams. So it's really cool to see all their success.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
And I think we gotta get them out of the ring. Yeah,
we did.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Got to get you guys out of the Caroline. Thank
you so much for your time. Son, Thank you so
much as well. You guys go get inside before you
get rained on. But we're very blessed today to have
you both on. We appreciate your time.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Thanks for having us.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
All right, we'll be right back from the Donnie Marshall
Charity Golf Tournament as we try to figure out what
we're gonna do here in the rain. We'll be right
back when you're way to our twenty twenty four
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
Ridiculous History
History is beautiful, brutal and, often, ridiculous. Join Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown as they dive into some of the weirdest stories from across the span of human civilization in Ridiculous History, a podcast by iHeartRadio.