From Graduation to College Sports | Ep. 2

Episode 2 of In the Locker Room is all about summer, graduation, training, and what it really takes to go from high school athlete to college athlete.

John, Claudio, and Arianna talk 4 a.m. workouts, graduation memories, old-school vs. new-school moments, sneaker culture, summer trips, and the serious work athletes need to put in before stepping onto a college court or field.

This episode gets into:

Arianna’s 4 a.m. OrangeTheory grind
Graduation memories and funny senior moments
AI calling names at college graduation
Vintage shirts, movie theater talk, and sneaker culture
Glow-in-the-dark kicks in the locker room
The summer between high school and college sports
Why athletes can’t take that summer lightly
Playing up, training harder, and getting stronger
What girls and boys can learn from competing with each other
The difference between high school speed and college speed

If you’re an athlete getting ready for the next level, this one is for you. Enjoy your summer — but don’t take the summer off.

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0:00 – Episode 1 Recap
0:25 – Welcome Back
1:00 – 4AM Workouts
4:04 – Graduation Memories
13:08 – AI Graduation Names
27:42 – Sneaker Talk
32:05 – Summer After Graduation
33:35 – Training for College
37:28 – Training with Boys
44:29 – Boys vs. Girls Lessons
47:44 – Next-Level Advice
50:22 – Closing Message

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Transcript

SPEAKER_04 0:00

Welcome to the locker room. I'm gentlemen. We got Ariana Stackinger, a high school still point scorer, Section 1 champ. I got Claudio Valenzuela, multi-sport athlete, coach. Who's better in sports, men or women?

SPEAKER_00 0:17

One's better than the other. They're just different.

SPEAKER_04 0:19

It would be a it would be a fun competition. And welcome back to the locker room on the winning moments. I'm here today with my beautiful and fun co-host. That would be Ariana. To start off here in that case. And then my main man in front of the camera, but behind the camera here, as you can see, Ariana, Claudio Valenzuela. What up, Claude? How are we doing today? Good, man. How are you? I got no complaints, man. Every day above ground is a good day. It's been a week since we've been back into this this studio. Ariana, how'd your week go?

SPEAKER_00 1:00

Pretty good. Happy to be back here in the locker room. You know, not great waking up at 5 a.m. Sometimes 4 a.m. to work out, but you know, gotta keep the athlete. 4 a.m. going.

SPEAKER_04 1:13

What's uh what's what's what's the workout routine at 4 a.m.

SPEAKER_00 1:16

So well 4 a.m. is I coach um at Orange Theory.

SPEAKER_04 1:20

Oh that's that was her that was her flex card.

SPEAKER_02 1:22

That was her flex card. That's 4 a.m. I coach first of all. She doesn't need the flex because she's a walking flex machine. Stop.

SPEAKER_00 1:30

Stop it. Yeah, and then uh the other days if I don't coach, work out at 5 a.m., I usually take class at Orange Theory. Half cardio, half weights.

SPEAKER_04 1:40

So it's good. Big shout out to Orange Theory. Orange Theory.

SPEAKER_00 1:43

Yes. Big shout out to Orange Theory.

SPEAKER_04 1:46

I'm dying over here today. Orange Theory, you should sponsor the locker room show here, considering you got a coach, a fan, and me and Claudia would definitely you know what, Claudia, if she doesn't do it at five in the morning, we should go to one of would you do like a can you do like a later one that we could show up to?

SPEAKER_00 2:01

Yes, 1000%. We should do it.

SPEAKER_02 2:03

I need like a 5 p.m.

SPEAKER_04 2:05

one though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, like one one way you could do the workout and then properly do what you do next. We could do we go to the bar right afterwards.

SPEAKER_00 2:12

Yeah, there's a couple orange theories here. We can go take class and then we can go out afterwards.

SPEAKER_04 2:16

No, no, we don't want to take a class with you.

SPEAKER_00 2:18

All right, all right, everyone.

SPEAKER_04 2:19

Well, when is orange theory one of the things that if you're coaching us, you're working out too?

SPEAKER_00 2:23

So no, you you demo, but you don't work out as you when you coach.

SPEAKER_02 2:27

Oh, so you're you're full of energy, like work harder, work harder. Like not so. 5 a.m.

SPEAKER_00 2:31

It's hard to bring that much energy, but I try.

SPEAKER_04 2:34

Yeah, but I listen, that that's like that's like like you know, the the instructors that are yelling at you, but they're not really doing the workout. You could do harder. Why don't you do some fucking harder work in that case? No, no. So we'll take a class with her in that scenario. So we do an orange theory class, five, six o'clock code. Well, we get our, you know, our it takes us like eight hours to warm up. Five in the morning, damn.

SPEAKER_02 2:55

Well, they do say the high performing, successful people are the ones that usually get up at five in the morning or four, get a whole bunch of stuff accomplished, and by the time the rest of the world wakes up, they're already like more than halfway through the day. So they're not waking up like everybody else is, they're already like on lunchtime almost.

SPEAKER_00 3:15

Yeah, it's it's when you get the routine going, it's nice. It's got a 5 a.m.

SPEAKER_04 3:20

All right, so 5 a.m. club you're right. The 4 a.m. club is crazy. Uh, but I did get up this morning uh 6 a.m. to go play basketball for my 7 o'clock Friday game. So that's the only thing that even when I was taking like boxing classes or other sports, it was only basketball that I felt like it wasn't a workout when you got there. Like 6 a.m. didn't feel hard. But if you were like, let's take a 6 a.m. Orange Theory class, I'd be like, nah, I'm not I'm not awake at 6 a.m. I can't, I can't even pull that off. But I guess when you love the sport, it doesn't feel like a workout.

SPEAKER_00 3:49

Right.

SPEAKER_02 3:50

You guys are flexing hard. You know what? I was doing it at 4 a.m., 5 a.m. 6 a.m. Probably 7 a.m. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We saw it coming. No, still sleeping. So sleeping man, it's trying to recover.

SPEAKER_04 4:04

It's it's summertime. It's summertime hours now. Uh, school's out. We just had the last week of uh school and uh graduations. Claude, do you remember your graduation?

SPEAKER_02 4:15

Oh my god. No, we had this conversation off camera. I I have a problem with memory. I don't know if it's old age or what's going on, but I was trying to really think really hard. Can I remember my graduation? And I don't. I remember sitting. It wasn't eventful. I think that's really what it comes down to. I don't remember anything specifically that's like, oh my god, I remember this. No, I do remember that it was outside, so it was hot. We were sitting in chairs outside, and I don't even know if we walked on a stage or I don't remember that portion. I kind of blacked that out because I guess I was just happy.

SPEAKER_04 4:50

I was do you remember where it was? Oh, it was at the high school. Okay. Yeah. So I mean you remembered a lot of things there. Did anyone do any funky stuff like going across the stage?

SPEAKER_02 5:00

Like I said, I don't even remember if there was a stage. I remember sitting. I remember, you know what's funny? Ironically, I do remember the leading up to it because they would like almost like do like a training, how to like sit a walk. Well, no, how to sit, where to sit, when to get up, when the other because I'm I'm I'm all the way at the end. I'm a V. So I I was the last one to kind of you know on so you there was like I don't know, rows upon rows, and they would teach you when to get up. So that way when the day of the of the performance, yeah, you know, you weren't just getting up randomly to go and walk the stage. You had to do it when when the right time was, you know. Can't remember that. Couldn't let the seniors off the hook.

SPEAKER_04 5:39

You had to practice walking.

SPEAKER_00 5:41

Yeah, we our walkthrough or whatever was the day after prom. Oh so it was it was pretty rough, but we all had to they did that on purpose, of course. But it was like our little rehearsal was day after prom.

SPEAKER_02 5:56

You just said a word that completely triggered like a whole bunch of like happy memories. Prom? No, I don't know. I don't know. Oh the walkthrough. Walkthroughs by far my favorite thing that I've done in sports while I played, while I coached. The the walkthrough day before, and even like uh usually the day before the practice the day before was always my favorite because it was a very tactical type of a walkthrough, and you're physically on the field, physically in those spaces, physically walking, and you're not we're not running, you're not doing anything that's of any exertion. You just want to be able to do it. What sport?

SPEAKER_04 6:31

What walk us through what sport you're talking about?

SPEAKER_02 6:33

Um, so I did it in soccer in college. I did it a lot, obviously. When I coached, I did we did it a lot there too. Um, when we played hockey, we would too, but that's different. It's really very different because you're already on skates and you're already like very inclined to like move. And and it's cold, especially if you're not moving. So if you're there like doing a walkthrough in hockey, you're literally like standing in your skates, and you you just have the butt. You need to move. I don't think skates were meant to be still. Standing still, no, you're right. When you're standing, you can stand, you know what I mean? That's why they put the wall for all of us that were ice skating with our girlfriends or boyfriends. Hold on to the wall for a second. But that that just triggered that that memory. The walkthrough walkthroughs are awesome. I loved walkthroughs.

SPEAKER_00 7:12

I agree. I agree.

SPEAKER_02 7:13

Set pieces, like the practice of set pieces. Well that at least for well, you guys would probably rotate your um like your plays, right? Did you do walkthroughs in basketball?

SPEAKER_00 7:22

So yeah, in c we did a high school in college. College, we would do um, we would have obviously day before games, it was obviously focused on that, but game days, we would have shoot arounds, and that was like our walkthrough. It was like getting shots up first, and then coach would come down and we would walk through all of our plays that we were running that day, anything specific that we put in that day, or how we're gonna guard, or whatever things. So that was like our our walkthrough, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 7:49

I didn't mean to just transition the whole thing, but the one word completely took me to the change. But anyway, back to graduation. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_04 7:57

I thought it was prom and we're gonna have a real locker room story here when we said okay. Claudia was prompted out. I see the tuxedo, see some pictures. Come on, man, like you had a cumber one or or whatever you call that thing in the middle. Yeah.

unknown 8:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 8:11

So back to your graduation. Uh, where was it? Was it the high school or somewhere else?

SPEAKER_00 8:15

Yeah, so we had it outside on the turf.

SPEAKER_02 8:17

Um my god, so hot.

SPEAKER_00 8:20

It was actually nice.

SPEAKER_02 8:20

Did you guys have a oh yeah, it was a nice day?

SPEAKER_00 8:22

Uh it was a little hot, I think. But when the sun went down, it was like later in the day, so the sun went down, so it was my noon.

SPEAKER_02 8:28

They're like melting. Yeah, they were like, ah, you're gonna you're gonna feel this.

SPEAKER_00 8:32

Yeah, I think it was later in the day. I remember taking pictures after, and it was like the sun was going down.

SPEAKER_04 8:37

Did anybody do anything funky coming across the stage?

SPEAKER_00 8:41

I do remember one girl had the little fake mini hand, and she put it in her gown, and it was like the little tiny hand, and she shook everyone's hand with the little tiny. That's the only thing I remember. I don't remember anything else.

SPEAKER_04 8:57

That's hilarious. Okay, so you had it at the high school, outdoors, and tiny hand was the uh was the side. How many how many kids do you have in your graduating class?

SPEAKER_00 9:07

Um give or take, like 120.

SPEAKER_04 9:11

Okay. Yeah. How about you? What was your classes bigger than that? A little bit, not much more.

SPEAKER_02 9:15

I think we were like 160.

SPEAKER_04 9:16

Yeah. You my graduating class, I feel like I don't remember the size of that class, maybe like three, two. No, it's this Walter Panas. So uh although there was no Putt Valley at the time, so we probably had 150, 200 kids. Uh mine was actually at the county center, yeah. The mine was at the county we did we did ours at the county center, uh, which was crazy because it wasn't like we were, you know, uh uh well depending on what sport we're talking about, like a triple A, right? You know, class triple A in that case, which always blows my mind. Triple A and basketball, but then lacrosse did something different. But yes, right. So uh yeah, we actually had it in the county center. I think the weather was gonna be bad. How big was your school? Walter Panis, Walter Panis wasn't that big. Uh I feel like it's similar to Putnam Valley. Right. Less than a thousand, probably. Totally. Oh, definitely less than a thousand. I think it was that case. When I was my first high school that I went to, Cardinal Spellman and the Bronx, when I went there, that school was like 3,500, 4,000 people.

SPEAKER_00 10:12

Like that's big. I had an Arlington type.

SPEAKER_04 10:15

Yeah, I had like 45, 45-ish people in my homeroom. My son had 98 people graduating his class in that scenario, which by the way, I loved because it made graduation go by a lot quicker. Okay, once all the adults gave all their speeches and all their things, all right. Um 98 kids call their names, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. We were out of there in only an hour and a half.

SPEAKER_02 10:40

It was beautiful. By the way, you think that's big? So I went to my nieces and nephews' um graduations. They moved down to North Carolina, and in North Carolina, schools are a little bit different than up here. So the graduating class, first of all, it's not a regular high school, it's the whole county.

SPEAKER_00 10:56

Oh god.

SPEAKER_02 10:56

So there was when I tell you it was in a like a convention center or something like that, and there were so many people. It was it was almost like a big university graduation. And it was like so easy to get lost, to lose your family. We actually walked around with like uh pictures of our of the the niece or nephew that was graduating as a kind of a joke for them, but also it's like very much like hey, we're here.

SPEAKER_04 11:18

Sebastian, my mother made four pictures of Sebastian's face. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 11:25

Wait, how big?

SPEAKER_04 11:26

Was it like the the the big one? Like, like, like cover my whole face one right now. I should I wish I had one. Those are cover my whole face one. I probably got it in the car. Cover my whole face one so you could add a talking head in that case. Uh so sitting next to me was my mom. Uh, I had Sebastian's girlfriend over here and my son Nathale next to me. And my mom gave every one of the kids and the girlfriend, whatever. That's awesome. And Sebastian basically told them before he walked in, you put that sign up, I'll kill you. Nathanael didn't do it. Girlfriend didn't do it. My mom, we're in third row. My mom's like, Yay, Sebastian. Okay. In that case. Wait, were they baby pictures or pictures of him like now? The argument was it's a picture of him now. Okay. She thinks he was from 2026. Nathanael's like, that picture was from last year. Sebastian's like, don't hold that picture up anywhere. Okay. I'll kill you guys. So hilarious. So they listened. My mom, of course, didn't listen. She has the right to do whatever she wants. She's grandma in that case. Uh, but Sebastian, so 98 kids come across. No one did anything. Kids basically just ran across the stage. Sebastian did do though, he was the only kid that did anything, wave to the crowd, do something. He uh he got his diploma and went and walked over to take his picture. He turned around and took a selfie of himself against the audience. So I thought that was pretty cool that he planned that last minute. Because I was like, hey, you gonna do anything? Nah. And then the day up, he was like, I'm gonna take a selfie on stage. I was like, hey, let me see that selfie. He's like, it didn't come out good yet. Didn't come out good.

SPEAKER_00 12:54

I did that for my college graduation.

SPEAKER_04 12:57

Took the selfie?

SPEAKER_00 12:58

Me and my two friends, we walked up together because college, you don't sit alphabetical order. You just sit where first come, first serve, you just sit, whatever.

SPEAKER_02 13:05

Because they just call your name. You don't have to go up.

SPEAKER_00 13:07

Yeah, they have to go up? You have your phone out and they scan the QR code on your phone, and AI says your name across the stage.

SPEAKER_04 13:15

Wait a minute, wait a minute. Wow. Let's rewind back here. Because not only when Claudio graduated college, they didn't have phones. All right, but they didn't have AI. Okay. All they had was AI was like Alan Iverson. Uh not not yeah, we know it today. So when you graduated college, basically you took your phone out, they scanned. You know what, man? We need to invent that. So when I'm pronouncing people's names, that would be good for you. Right, we can put the names in there. And this way, like when I'm talking, and it's like a crazy name that I have to pronounce, that coach is teaching me, like here are the phonetic ways to do it. Yes. This is and the words just come out, that is phenomenal. That's my weekend plan this weekend to work on that. That's hilarious. So AI just says your name?

SPEAKER_00 14:03

Yeah, so we each student would get like a stage pass. You would log in, whatever. You would do it before graduation, obviously. Make sure they said your name right. You can like type it in a different way so they could say it right. And then when you go to graduation, you log into your little stage pass portal and you have it up and ready as you walk upstage, and they just scan it and it just pops up.

SPEAKER_04 14:22

Okay, okay. So just the you know I'm thinking about right now, Claudia. I'm thinking about all those old memes and stuff of like Starbucks, where you know, it's like the first real first real place you ever went to grab some food and cry, what's your name? And people put funky names. Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay, or at Walmart when they're like, Oh, can you please page so and so? And she's on the mic paging like some thing that you're listening to, and you're like, it's probably not appropriate in this particular case. So did no one like mess around and be like, put some crazy thing that people would say?

SPEAKER_00 14:53

Like to be honest, no.

SPEAKER_02 14:54

I didn't I mean, I guess I would have somebody somebody has to be back there, like just double checking that. No way, because you could when I when I watched like the Walmart thing.

SPEAKER_00 15:04

Well, I think actually, when you go into the portal and your name's already up there and you press the play button and it's like AI saying your name, then you can record yourself saying your name. So I guess your name's already you can't change what your name is.

SPEAKER_04 15:19

Yeah, you couldn't put like Ariana Stockinger. You couldn't you couldn't like put the middle name in there. Flex City.

SPEAKER_00 15:25

I'm actually now that you say that. I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 15:27

I'm so Ariana the Flex. The flex we're gonna call her now. And the flex, I love it. I love it. That's wild to me, AI doing that. Hey, at this point, that's wild. Okay, I wonder how much these principals and teachers are gonna like it when AI takes their job. And I said, We don't even need you to be speaking, we don't need to teach our kids or to speak. Like, let's just keep moving it along.

SPEAKER_02 15:46

Graduation will be like in 30 minutes. Randomly, like two or three nights ago, I just happened to catch this. It was after one of the games. I don't know what game it was, maybe a soccer game or something. Um, I changed the channel and iRobot, the movie was on, and I kind of just left it. And have you ever seen that movie? Because I don't you're you're kind of on the younger side of things. Okay. You've never seen iRobot with Will Smith? She wasn't even probably she wasn't even born when the movie came out.

SPEAKER_04 16:08

Doesn't it matter? It's a one of the it's it's a I wouldn't say it's a classic classic, but it's it lasts a test of time.

SPEAKER_02 16:13

Well, it's relevant right now because it's very relevant today. Basically, what the movie is about is what's happening right now. It's like these earlier. They they skipped the rights of the robots, so it's not determining stuff. But remember, there is AI because the whole premise of the whole thing is that it's a self-learning computer, yeah, which is what AI is, and this self-learning computer basically just decides to like we're gonna take over humans. Do you remember the name of the computer? Oh, I just saw it too, bro. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 16:41

Like it's like a V or something like that. Ariana, because she's you know You think you think you just like flux? Well, flexibility. You think Ariana's the brain that's gonna take that's gonna uh take over all of us and uh probably probably uh uh listen, like you said, flexibility.

SPEAKER_02 16:57

Look, after looking at that resume, she she she's there, she's on her way.

SPEAKER_04 17:01

Better watch out. Her her resume, we had it print on an eight and a half by uh by fourteen. It was like 15 pages. You know what I mean? Like remember, okay, speaking about school, like uh she's never I know she didn't see this movie. Remember back to school at Ronnie Dangerfield? Mm-hmm. Okay, where the professor who hated him, all right, goes, uh uh I only have uh one question for you. In 87 parts, and the paper just rolls down. That's exactly how it resonates with it. What's another classic though? Back to school, Ronnie Dangerfield.

SPEAKER_00 17:36

See, I know the movie Back to School. I don't know if I see that? Yeah, I know I know the movie. I don't think I've ever watched it though.

SPEAKER_02 17:44

Yeah. But the fact that you've heard of it, you had you had no idea about iRollot.

SPEAKER_00 17:47

Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, back to school.

SPEAKER_04 17:48

I mean, back to school was a classic. Ronnie Dangerfield. Uh he was I mean, rest in peace. He you know who that is? He's one of the kinks.

SPEAKER_00 17:56

Ronnie Dangerfield.

SPEAKER_04 18:01

Oh, I love it. I need a picture. You know what I find hilarious. Do you know what he did? You know what he's famous for?

SPEAKER_00 18:07

No.

unknown 18:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:07

Well, if I don't know he was.

SPEAKER_02 18:09

You know what's hilarious about this generation, these these these guys generation? They'll rock vintage stuff.

SPEAKER_00 18:15

Right.

SPEAKER_02 18:15

And and you'll be like, Do you know who that is? Do you know can you name one of the musicians in that band that you have? Like Sublime. I just like it. Oh, word? That's what we do now.

SPEAKER_00 18:25

Sublime, they're all those like vintage like uh t-shirts and like I just took Sebastian shopping the other day.

SPEAKER_04 18:31

And uh you got a Nirvana shirt, a Metallica shirt. He's got a Zeppelin. He got a Fleawood Mac shirt. Uh Maddie's got a Maddie's got a Zeppelin shirt. Uh but we were up in there was like a one was store with like Pax Sun or something, but basically as like a classic ride with like an old car on there, old Coors. Like my son doesn't drink at all. Like he he is a very young 18-year-old, okay, not like his dad back then. But he actually has uh the four or five shirts we bought, there was a coors shirt, Coors Original, right? Coors original, the original, like they say milking shirts, coors original, some miclobe shirt, right?

SPEAKER_00 19:11

Budweiser, all those. They all have, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:12

It's funny because it was like one of those, like Spud Mackenzie was there at the mall, right? And they were like, This dog is so ugly. And I'm like, You do you not know like this dog is famous? Like, for what? I'm like Spud McKenzie, and they're like, Who's Spud Mackenzie? I'm like, You're wearing a you're wearing a Budweiser shirt. Okay, you don't know Spud McKenzie? What's going on over here? Yeah, this this gen is they're awesome. Yeah. Awesome flex word. Yeah, right, flex word. The only thing the generation vintage-wise that did wrong, okay, because certain things don't test, they don't stand the test of time. Like 1980s. Let's go to the 1980s. Okay, the worst fashion error ever. Uh first of all, Ariana's cringing right now. She was 1980. 1980s. But like, okay, listen, if you go back to decades, you go 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, like the the usually, almost like clockwork, the decade covers different, like how people's hair was or how what you wore. Styles. Style, right? Like, that's the scenario. Music. The 1980s, anyone I've ever talked to, no matter what generation you're from, is the worst generation for fashion. Like everybody was confused. Men had mullets, girls had hair up to here.

SPEAKER_00 20:18

Yeah, my mom's hair was right.

SPEAKER_04 20:20

Like there's nothing.

SPEAKER_00 20:21

It's a little crazy.

SPEAKER_04 20:22

But if you go back to like the 70s, don't worry. You go back to the 70s and 60s, right? If mom was rocking like disco fever type belt bottoms, it was pretty cool. Like they just had a better fashion. And in the 80s, it was like we're confused. Like we're we make a lot of money, we're capitalist, okay, and the stock market's kicking off. So we're just gonna put anything out there we can, like shoulder pads, okay? Right? For women's shoulder pads. Uh, another thing, you had uh which shoulder pads came back a little bit, but what came back that I'm talking about right now was not your 80s rock jean jackets and things like that that were pretty cool from all the artists. It was the uh leather-like mini skirts with crazy stockings that they'd put together. I mean, I mean, I guess Fishnet might be cool, but these are no like regular That's hot topic central. Hot topic central. Yeah, this was not hot topic central. This is more like Ariana's soul clueless right now. You went back in time and shit got fucked up.

SPEAKER_00 21:19

Taking it all in.

SPEAKER_04 21:20

She's such a good listener.

SPEAKER_00 21:22

Taking it all in.

SPEAKER_04 21:23

I mean, do you know hot topics? No, I'm never been to a mall.

SPEAKER_00 21:26

The story, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 21:27

Yeah, you have? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:28

Come on. He thinks I like live under a rock or something. Whoa.

SPEAKER_02 21:31

Well, he in all fairness, he thinks you get your food from under a rock with twigs and berries. Oh, that is true. I haven't been I haven't been in the mall probably more than 10 years, so I don't even know what's in malls now. No way. You haven't been in a mall in 10 years? I'm telling you, I I once so when the era of shopping online kind of went got crazy, and then with after COVID, like everything was happening that way. My man, I don't go to the movies. I haven't been to the movies, I haven't been to a mall. Movies I get, you know. Movies I get. And not because I don't want to. Just I just I love the fact that during COVID new movies were coming out on at home. Right. I was like, this is the best. I can get popcorn unlimited, I can be comfortable, I can do whatever I want.

SPEAKER_04 22:11

No, listen, some Summer Blockbusters is is where it was at a lot. And some move some movies, though, you should see in the movie theater. Like Top Gun, you know, the the remake of not the movie, the Top Gun 2, Top Gun Maverick.

SPEAKER_00 22:25

I saw that in the movie theater.

SPEAKER_04 22:26

That went thing in the movie theater, it's a total different experience in that scenario than.

SPEAKER_02 22:31

Well, movie theaters today also look a little bit different than movie theaters back in our day. I mean, they got couches and lounges. And you could like I've never been to one like that, though. Like back in our days, you went to a movie, you were in a tight little spot. You got lucky if you got a comfy seat.

SPEAKER_00 22:47

Right.

SPEAKER_02 22:47

That was it.

SPEAKER_04 22:48

Now it's like better lounges than our home. Our next road trip, okay, in New York City. They just came out with the movie theater in New York City, and they're private rooms. So you have a movie theater with like four friends, whatever. They set it up like Netflix. You know, we all have our own big lounge chairs, okay? They bring in the food. It's your private movie theater room like you'd have in your basement, uh, if you were wealthy, but four people, eight people, and it's a movie theater. That's pretty cool. And it shows it on the big screen, so you're not watching it on a TV. You're looking at a movie theater screen in a private movie theater setup. That's we should we should definitely do a road trip, locker room road trip down to the room.

SPEAKER_02 23:26

Is it one movie screen per room? Yeah. Or it's what we'd be cool. This is another idea to think about. Imagine one big screen, like the IMAX. The IMAX is the one thing I did like from the movie theaters. But and like picture an IMAX thing, and kind of like they do in those weird shows where they have like suites, but everyone watches the same thing, but you're just in your personal suite. Oh that would be pretty loud. That'd be pretty cool.

SPEAKER_00 23:48

That would be really cool.

SPEAKER_02 23:49

So I think they have like tiers and levels.

SPEAKER_04 23:51

That would be great. They have the lounge chairs, like you and your wife can sit next to you, and they're basically like like like beds. And I think there's one that's like a couch, like like a like a like a love seat, a record. Like a two-person couch where you could just cheer. Like, that's a good idea, like to have like the love seat scenario. Um wild though. Wild that you can actually drink in a movie theater. You don't have to you don't have to sneak it in anymore. I know. Okay, in your coat. Okay, sir, what's in your jacket? Now unless you bring in candy, as long as you don't see it, they don't they don't care.

SPEAKER_00 24:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 24:20

They just want, they're dying for you to go into the movies. Like just come into our building, buy our popcorn. Movie theater popcorn, by the way, is still the best popcorn. I agree. I agree. The I don't know what kind of crack they put in that salt, but that's that's that's great. I think it's the butter, yeah. It's the butter.

SPEAKER_00 24:36

They just open the faucet and it's just a good and they layer it too, which is per like it's amazing. Yeah. The movie theater by pace, Jacob Burns, like a small movie. Oh, I've been there.

SPEAKER_02 24:45

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So nice. But they don't do like movies like popular movies, they do a lot of independent, like once in a while there's a good one that's out.

SPEAKER_00 24:51

Like, I like that place.

SPEAKER_02 24:52

That place is cool.

SPEAKER_00 24:53

Have you guys heard Withering Heights? It's like kind of came out. We saw me, my friends saw that there, and you get pace students get free popcorn, and they sell like rose and wine and all this. It's amazing.

SPEAKER_02 25:04

What about pace alumni? And you get a plus one or a plus two.

SPEAKER_00 25:09

I still have my pace card, so they probably won't even care. I just be like, hey.

SPEAKER_02 25:12

I was about to say, I don't know if you notice. Every time I park it, I'm like, oh, there must be a student here.

SPEAKER_00 25:16

Me.

SPEAKER_02 25:17

That's in our car.

SPEAKER_04 25:19

That sticker's got a car.

SPEAKER_00 25:21

It's hard to freaking get off. I don't know how I'm gonna do it.

SPEAKER_02 25:23

But Gugan.

SPEAKER_00 25:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 25:26

Don't. You just just keep it on there.

SPEAKER_02 25:28

That is true.

SPEAKER_04 25:28

Be proud. Be proud. Pace proud.

SPEAKER_02 25:30

I'm not paying. I left my Manhattan little sticker probably for as long as I had the car and until it like basically fell off.

SPEAKER_04 25:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:37

Because I don't know why, but I just did. It's just things. But did you did you have both colleges on there at the same time? Because you were coaching. No, that was literally. You had to rep, you had to rep, you know, rep two schools. No, once uh once I uh started making big boy money, that that old car went to the dump. It had been around for like 10 years, had over a hundred thousand miles. And you know, once uh once I made some money, I was like, oh, let me get a nice little car. And that was it.

SPEAKER_04 26:01

That was the end of uh Chloe had the two stickers on, people would come up to him like, oh both of your kids go, you know, to college in these two students, right? I always wanted to be like, I'm gonna take the car, okay? I'm just gonna put like Harvard, Yale, some other big name school like USC or something like that. Oh, this is where your kids go? Yeah, yeah, I go very simple. Well kids.

SPEAKER_02 26:24

Actually, that's something that was popular in our day. I don't know if it is nowadays. Remember the long stickers of the universities and colleges that either your children were going to or that you or that were there already, and you would put them in the back, in the back windshield of the car. And do you remember that? Yeah. My parents did that for my first time. So they still have that?

SPEAKER_00 26:42

No, not anymore. They've gotten new cars from them, but like they had a little Portland sticker and a little Oswego like thing, and it was not a noise.

SPEAKER_02 26:49

They put those uh magnets on the back of the cars with like wherever school that they're going to.

SPEAKER_04 26:52

Oh, the high schools do the magnets, yeah. Yeah, they put the magnets on the back of the car. Yeah. Uh you couldn't do that in the Bronx, they just steal your magnet for the purpose of stealing it. Okay. They're in a chair. Your magnet should be like uh uh you'll see it in the corner being resold. Right, okay. Yeah, you just literally, if you can steal it, you just you steal it. Like, what cross- is that a magnet? Take that. What are you gonna do with it? You don't even have a fucking fruit refrigerator. I'm still taking it anyway, okay? Because I can. Uh yeah, so no. Wow. Magnets on the cars.

SPEAKER_02 27:18

This was the language thing ever. I know, I know. Ariana, you gotta be in here and be like, yeah, we're gonna switch the stop because I know I shouldn't. These guys are talking, I don't even know what they're talking about.

unknown 27:26

I know.

SPEAKER_04 27:27

What are you talking about? She knew about hot topics. She knows about movie theaters. I was impressed. Come on. Okay. I thought that's forever. I mean, you know, hot topic, I was impressed. I did not expect that. Yeah, but kids don't go to the movies anymore. All right, but speaking about speaking, okay, it's bringing back to summer, summer blockbusters, and the rest. I see uh Ariana here. She's got her uh her new summer kicks over here. Yeah, Ariana comes on fire on her feet all the time. Uh yeah I've been peeping it for the last she's she doesn't.

SPEAKER_00 27:52

These shoes are important to me. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 27:53

Now that's a huge compliment because Claudio, for those who don't know, is the sneakerhead. Not a sneakerhead, he's the sneakerhead. And maybe in this office. No, come on, man. Put that title out there. You are bring it. Bring the fire. Bring the fire with your sneaker collections. Because Claudio's sneaker collection, I mean, listen, this guy might have a new pair of sneakers for every single day he comes to the office. He's wearing like brand new kicks now. Well, they haven't sold those in 20 years. And they're brand new on his feet.

SPEAKER_02 28:24

Like nice. Come on. So, funny story about the sneakers I have on today. I wasn't trying to buy a new pair of sneakers when this kind of happened, but it was my goddaughter's birthday, and I was excited to get her a gift. And a gift that I gave her was a pair of sneakers, right? And I'm looking, and I want I I like to be I have a very specific sense of style. So I'm like looking, and I do believe I have a good sense of style because my kicks are fire. You mean you're you're saying that you're you're you're picky? I am picky. You are picky. I am picky, especially it gotta be kind of fire. You should be. But I can I can you know talents use talent because I see you. I see you, girl.

SPEAKER_01 29:00

Thanks.

SPEAKER_02 29:00

Um, so I'm looking for sneakers or whatever, and I find these these dunks that I'm like, oh, these are I like them. They're cool, they're different. It's not just like a you know, I'd gotten her pants some pandas last year. Yeah, those are cool, but everyone has pandas. These were different, which is other ones that I'm wearing today. So whatever, I get them, I give them to them. I'm a little bit nervous too because I'm like, oh, they are a little bit out there. And I every now and then I like to be a little bit out there when it comes to like my style. Me too. Um, but she loved them, and I was super happy and I had to kind of double check because I was like, don't just say that just because you know, like you have to wear the stuff. You feel a little insecure about that gift. I see it. A little bit because I'm like, I know I like them, but you know, what I always like, whatever. So I give her the sneaker, she loves them, whatever. I hadn't worn mine until today. So I put mine on today because I wanted to be, you know, a little flavor for you guys. Get dressed for the locker room. We like it, we appreciate that. And I happened to go down to drop my puppy off at my parents. And why is this irrelevant to the story? You'll still understand. I go to drop the dog off and I go inside that little uh when you go into their house, it's like a little bit of a warming room, not warming room, but a little foyer, but it's very dark because they don't believe in lights or windows, but it's dark. Candles only. And I'm in there and I have the puppy between my legs, and I go to like take her collar off so she can just run inside before I open the door. And as I look down, this is what I see. Wow, that was my exact because it was dark, it was yeah, so I guess they're glow in the dark souls. Glow in the dark souls, and now and I'll put this picture up so we can so we can see everyone see the kicks. Um, but I was like, what is going on here? I was like mesmerized immediately. I texted my goddamn, I'm like, Yeah, you you want to see something special about your shoes? And I sent her the picture, and she goes, Whoa.

SPEAKER_04 30:40

Just go, go, go to the dark room. Go in a dark room.

SPEAKER_02 30:42

That is pretty cool. So yeah, it's you had no idea. No, I mean, um, and plus, uh one, I hadn't worn them, and two, you wear them during the day. I just happened to be in a very dark spot, and because I'd been outside, I'm assuming they charged with like what a light or whatever. Yeah, you know, it reminded me of those LA gears back in the day.

SPEAKER_04 30:59

Oh, I was about to say LA gears. Okay, that's how you date yourself. All right, the worst name brand of a sneaker ever, but they did they did dominate because they had the light up buttons.

SPEAKER_02 31:09

They lit it up, they lit up the souls. Wait, do you know about this or no?

SPEAKER_00 31:13

God the only light up souls I know is you know the ones that kind of came out with the soul like Sketchers. They did the little like rainbow and they lit up and they had lights in them and like sketchers, those are sketchers.

SPEAKER_04 31:27

It was a new wave of uh of the LA gears. Yeah, because LA gears were bigger than the biggest. Maddie had sketchers that lit up in that case. You you stomp them and they would light up. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Stomping kind of like you want to go back from from young to old, you clap on, clap off. Okay. Clap on, clap off.

SPEAKER_02 31:47

The clapper.

SPEAKER_04 31:49

So great.

SPEAKER_02 31:50

What's compared to today? Now we have that on our phones. We just like, oh, turn the lights on and off. Turn it on and turn it off.

SPEAKER_00 31:55

You can just start your car from your phone and everything.

SPEAKER_04 31:57

Insane. All right. So listen, let's let's we this is a sports show. Uh we were talking about summer. Let's get back to summer. Because when I graduated high school, I didn't go on to play college sports. So I had a kick-ass summer. Still had some old friends I was hanging out with, but then I was working and we were traveling. Of course, for us, it was the Jersey Shore that we'd go down to as much as we could, hang out down there, the best. Yes, um, especially in our area. It was like getting on a plane. Like we couldn't afford to get on a plane, so get in whatever car we could, Jersey Shore. That's the case. Now these kids just pick up and go to Miami. But for you, Ariana, you didn't have a summer vacation, you know, maybe a summer week you had after uh graduating high school.

SPEAKER_00 32:43

Yeah, I mean, me and my friends went on our little summer senior trip to seaside. Which is the same.

SPEAKER_04 32:52

Test of time, Claudio. Test of time. The short is a test of time. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:57

That was fun. Um I I did have fun, you know, in that summer. Obviously, it was like last summer before college, but I definitely Well, you went you went away for the whole summer or just for a few weeks? To seaside?

SPEAKER_04 33:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:10

Just for a week.

SPEAKER_04 33:11

Okay, because she had she the the she had to now, because now she's as we'll get to you as well. She graduates high school. She gets a little week of like, okay, let's go hang out, have some drinks on the beach, and then it's back to work because you're literally going to play college basketball. You didn't get a summer like I got where I didn't have to be in the gym every single day. Like, tell us about your summer. Tell these kids and our audience about your summer as a college athlete, leaving high school. Then how did you have to train and prepare for your summer? Because I'm pretty sure that when you got to college, it was all business.

SPEAKER_00 33:49

Yeah, for sure. I was also like so nervous to go to college and like play at the next level. So I definitely got to work pretty soon. Um basketball, like cardio and just skill and basketball was like my top priority. Um I trained, did open runs probably almost every day. Maybe like four times a week, five times a week, I would do it.

SPEAKER_04 34:16

Open run at the school, or you just bounce around the parks.

SPEAKER_00 34:18

No, like we had um some trainers that I worked with did like college open runs. So I would go to the room.

SPEAKER_02 34:24

Well, you say open run, I'm assuming open runs.

SPEAKER_00 34:27

Yeah, like scrimmaging.

SPEAKER_02 34:28

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. But like a pickleball, like an open run, you go there, call next, or a little bit more. I just wanted to make sure it's not just actually physically running. Oh, yeah, that'd be making sure it's sober. Basketball run. That is the worst.

SPEAKER_00 34:41

Shape to get into for basketball is basketball shape. Like playing basketball is the best shape you'll ever get into, playing basketball is a good thing.

SPEAKER_04 34:51

I feel like, and Claudia, you tell me if this translates to like I played soccer, but let's go hockey, right? Because hockey and basketball, you're back and forth a lot in that scenario. But no matter how great shape you're in, if you're not in basketball shape, which you can only get to by playing basketball, that first time on the court, you might as well have never worked out in your life whatsoever.

SPEAKER_00 35:10

Yeah, no, for sure.

SPEAKER_04 35:11

When it comes to hockey, was it the same thing of that nature? Okay, could you be in shape but not hockey shape? Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 35:18

So, but I'll tell you this: I think sports in shape, what whatever sport it may be, it is great. It's the best type of being in shape. However, I will say, if there is no foundation to your fitness, even that kind of shape, because as you get tired, you stop dropping on some on certain skill sets that you have, you get a little bit lazy, and it's just because you're tired, you're getting fatigued. Whereas when you actually train for endurance, and then you go on runs like that, you last longer at a higher level. So your level is dropping progressively as you're kind of playing longer and longer, but just because you're fatiguing, your body's fatiguing, so it doesn't have a foundation of like of being fit. Hopefully that that is understood. Um, but if you train purely for training purposes, so no, no, no games, none of that, and then you play, then you last longer at a higher level.

SPEAKER_04 36:12

Well, it's like Sean said, Sean Lindsay, that we had an interview on the locked in show, he said like he trains his kids to be smart when you're tired, right? So like give them smart drills at the end of practice when you're tired. For us in basketball, at least when I was growing up, it was hey, you're just this exhausting run and some suicides, now get to the free throw line and make you two free throws. And you think about people don't think about free throws, like why do people take a breath? Or Steph Curry's doing the dribbles and whatever, he's such a great shooter, but it's to get the rhythm, right? To get your breath back. Because the only reason these guys miss free throws that are that good and why he's not a hundred percent when he can hit like a hundred and I think his record is like 130, 143 pointers in a row, is because your breath is off. So they teach you about your breath work, like you can't breathe. All right, but now you got to shoot a free throw, you only got 15 seconds, get that there, and then great. Now you got the rhythm and shoot and go. But you're right, the only shape you can get in for the sport you play. I think for basketball and and uh hockey is the same. Because for soccer, when I played soccer, I mean I was a striker, I just need to be able to run fast and continue to run in that scenario. But I think those ones, you have to be in that sport. All right, so you're doing open runs, you just show up at open runs. Uh you know, listen, this this is a co-ed locker room where your open runs only uh against girls, or do you show up somewhere and play in some men open runs?

SPEAKER_00 37:40

Trying to think. So I did train with boys. Um I mean when I trained with Chris, they were always co-ed.

SPEAKER_02 37:50

When you say train, you mean just like like drills and things like that?

SPEAKER_00 37:53

Skillwork shooting, yeah. There would be competitive drills too, like maybe a one-on-one drill or two on two, like that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_04 37:58

But um, you said Chris, you're talking about Coach the famous coach from from Claudio Somerville, North Carolina. Oh, he said it North. No, it's South, south, sound, I'm gonna cut that out.

SPEAKER_02 38:15

Somerville, South Carolina.

SPEAKER_04 38:18

Wow, wow, yes. Coach Chris Ward from Chris Ward Basketball. So when you played there, uh does he scrimmage, co ed, when uh in the camps?

SPEAKER_00 38:27

I don't we didn't scrimmage, no. Okay, um all the skills and drill sets, but just like being around like boys and men, whatever, like it just made you better, like doing the same skills as them and things like that. Um and then also when I would do the open runs, they weren't co-ed. Um but my other trainer would have um boys there as well, and we would like do one-on-one, two-on-twos with them.

SPEAKER_04 38:58

So I don't know what it was in these last two days. I can't remember exactly whether it was a video or something that Sebastian saw that we did, or maybe maybe it was the uh Instagram post we put on this week of welcome you to the winning moments. But Sebastian said to me randomly, like, tell Arianna I want to play the one-on-one. I was like, and I started Sebastian. Right, right. She got a target on her back because she is the flex.

SPEAKER_02 39:27

Yeah, she's the flexor.

SPEAKER_04 39:29

We gotta show up to Stanford over here one day. You know, me, you, Sebastian, Claudio bring a fifth, and then just play those guys in basketball. Like, these guys don't know what they're doing whatsoever, and then bam. Okay, you got some old dude over here. Once we show our guys and turn around, like, oh, we can't play her.

SPEAKER_02 39:44

We know about it. The flex, yeah, exactly. She's famous. I have a question for you, Ariana. Yeah. When um did you play either in high school or in college? Did you play with guys? And obviously not competitively, like in a league. I mean like just uh like pickup runs? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 40:06

I f I definitely did. Um I'm trying to think. Not really that I remember. I feel like just like training with them.

SPEAKER_04 40:16

Just regular training, regular coach and stuff. Yeah, you know what's wild? Okay, speaking about training with guys in basketball. When I was a kid, so now we're talking about I'm in eighth grade. We're eighth grade, so so we had we had we had JV and varsity, even elementary school. So eighth grade, and we'd play in the park, and then we we traveled, like the five of us on my team, we'd go to different neighborhoods to play different neighborhoods. You know, so we knew these kids from Riverdale, we went to Riverdale and played those guys, and they come to our park. Our park was called Pigeon Park. And there was there was a name. What a name exactly. Uh there was, I never forget, I never I always remember this. There was five girls uh that either played, they were either varsity in high school, all right, um, they weren't college, so varsity in high school, I think. They would come to the park, five girls, and they would play our team because the park had two basketball courts, one for the older kids, one for whatever, and then they would come, like, hey, you guys are gonna be here, whatever. All right, great, we're coming. And they would bring five girls to play us five on five. Not mixed, five on five. Now, we never lost the game, but we never won a game. Like, I consider winning a game where it's like we played to we played to 20. Like a ball. We played to 40, switched to 20s. Yeah, like we beat you 40-20. But it was always competitive, right? They were always in the game in that scenario, and it was always wild because they showed up, they didn't want to mix teams. Nope. Our five versus your five. That's what's up. That's cool.

SPEAKER_02 41:46

Respect. Total respect. So the reason I asked, and it kind of goes to what you're saying, I believe there's tremendous value when girls will play with guys. Now, granted, you have to find the right kind of run, the right kind of guys, because guys can be bullies, because we're just physically, we can be bigger and stronger and whatever. Yeah, and that's not gonna be fun. But if you find guys that are gonna play just kind of the the sport cleanly and you can play, I think it's beneficial to girls because girls, one, you're playing at a different level and you're playing with a different specimen of an athlete in front of you. So when you go, when that translates, when you play against your own gender and you're doing your own thing, it's almost like uh when you're playing above your level. I feel like it gives the same thing. I remember in high school, I and in college, I had uh I would play in these like little pickup things or whatever. And there's always a couple of girls that would be brave enough or confident enough to be like, oh, I can play with these guys and legit that they some of these girls. There were two division one players that played soccer in my high school. And when I tell you they were they were they could easily play on the men's team without a problem, and shine, and they would always play in the runs. Now, of course, you're not if you you can bully them, but if you're playing cleanly, they would keep up and they would play just as good, if not better, than some some of the other people at the runs, you know. And I think it's cool. I think it's good really beneficial for the girls, yeah, specifically, to do that. It's almost like a mimicking for us to play up.

SPEAKER_04 43:08

Right play a higher level, play a young player. And I love it. I love soccer is a great sport where you can do that in where, yes, you can get physical in that scenario, but you have so much space compared to things like lacrosse or basketball or hockey. Like when you can, and I think that's a great thing to say. Like, when you can do that, if you're a young girl playing sports and you could play with the guys, okay, in a sport that makes sense, then you should do it. Especially tennis, short-sided too. Short-sided.

SPEAKER_02 43:34

Small-sided is because that takes some of the physical attributes that males probably could dominate over a female, right? So when you play in the smaller games, it's more skill work, it's more, it's very close environments that you have to be able to like. So you are like working on the skill set that's gonna put you in tight spots. Right. So then you play against you know your own gender, and I can assume that that's one the defense is gonna be different, the speed of play is Gonna be a little bit different. So it's it it really plays into your guy's hands.

SPEAKER_04 44:02

So and men, you need to learn to be more mature, yeah, more intelligent on the court or the field, right? What else, Ariana, can can the all right. So Claudio just mentions skills. Yeah. So Claudio mentions skills that that translates from you playing with the boys, maybe picking up the speed a little bit, or or talking about the physical attributes. What can the boys learn from playing with the girls?

SPEAKER_00 44:29

That's a really good question, actually. Um let's see.

SPEAKER_02 44:34

Why are you looking at me?

SPEAKER_04 44:37

She's giving that that is. Yeah, she's like, what can Claudia learn from me?

SPEAKER_00 44:40

Not much. Um with a six-foot rim.

SPEAKER_02 44:46

A little lower, actually.

SPEAKER_00 44:47

I feel like a big thing, not saying everyone, but maybe like discipline. Like more team basketball in a sense. Not saying, you know, there isn't team basketball, but you know, women's basketball is very disciplined, team oriented. I think especially in a setting like that where 100%.

SPEAKER_04 45:17

I I I agree too, but I want to hear like why would uh if we go back to to the sports show we cover, we did it, we did the basketball show. Why is a woman's team let's go let's go high school, why is a girls' high school team more disciplined than the boys' high school team in basketball?

SPEAKER_00 45:39

Um I don't really know the right answer to that, but maybe Is it more of a team team game you feel where less people on one play? Yeah, I feel like a boys basketball team, it's more let me get this guy off the dribble, um, you know, all the fancy things where women's basketball is definitely more of a team. Like in college, we probably and again, each teach team's are whatever, different, but every time we went up the court, we probably ran a play.

SPEAKER_04 46:13

Like so you hit it the nail on the head. Yep, yep, yeah. And she she gave this subtle dig of like, you know, like beat them off the dribble and then do the fancy thing that's where you go to the fancy thing.

SPEAKER_02 46:24

These guys are way more selfish. Yeah, I don't want to say they want to be like so, especially when they can definitely win over someone, that you'll see like the ball hogs, you'll see the people that just want to go right at the person. So, this is what I would have said on the flip side of that. Whenever I play with with uh in a mixed kind of scenario, and I was a midfielder by nature, so I'm always like scanning the field as to who I'm passing, more so than let me just go and score or whatever. And girls are always in the right place, always trying to be a team person, always like trying to play the game. Whereas the guys, they'll be like, Oh, I'm I'm just gonna dribble this person, dribble that person, dribble, and just and score. And it's like, bro, like we're playing, we're all playing, like right.

SPEAKER_04 47:05

Leverage skill, you're right, leverage skills in the one-on-one where I right, I feel like.

SPEAKER_02 47:09

And I've saying this in soccer and in hockey. I've done both with with female athletes, and it's almost like better because they're always they're playing true to like what you're saying, true to like the positions, true to like the game plan, whereas guys go off script a lot. They're like, Oh, I can win this one, I'm just gonna take it. Yeah, so the girls that gets annoying if especially when they start sucking it up.

SPEAKER_04 47:29

Right. The girls can learn uh to increase the skills, the speed a little bit, and the strength, and the boys can learn how to actually play like a team and not just rely on the skills where you can get past somebody. I think that's a great learning segment. So to segue into that as we wrap up the show, Ariana, tell everyone watching here what they can do in the summer of high school to college. What should they do to prepare themselves for that next level of athletics?

SPEAKER_00 47:59

I would just say do not take it lightly. Like, don't think, oh, I have four years of college basketball. Like, do not take it lightly, lock in immediately. Um, and a huge thing also from high school to college, it's a lot of it's a faster-paced game, yes, but like we were kind of saying, like stronger game, like work on your lift, lift, lift a lot, um, get stronger, and just like lock in very early when you can. That's all I can say.

SPEAKER_04 48:34

Claudia, from your perspective, high school to college, what would you tell everybody what they should be thinking about and working on?

SPEAKER_02 48:40

Play as much as you can. Play, play, play as much as you can, especially play up. Obviously, not down, play up. Play in places that it's gonna challenge your game. It's gonna make you improve because the there is a huge shift between high school and college. No matter what division you're going to, no matter where you're coming from, there's a speed of play that you're gonna have to adjust to because you're no longer playing against people your age. You're now you were once a senior in high school, being the oldest, and now you're playing, you know you're the baby. Right. Playing against 19s, 20s, 21s. Great point. And I mean, in the guys' side, you're playing against some real 25 years old. 25. I mean, yeah. Uh we're gonna talk about men, you know.

SPEAKER_04 49:22

We're gonna talk about the transporter right now.

SPEAKER_02 49:24

Okay, got grown men, grown men coming back from the G League to play these boys. That's gotta be wild. It's crazy. Um, whereas that's why you want to play up and play a lot, especially your first year. You should always play a lot, but especially in that first year, because you can really tell the ones that come as a freshman and they've just come from like their high school, and that's all they do. And it's, you know, it takes them a little bit longer to acclimate to the physicality, to the speed of play, to all the things that you start seeing in college.

SPEAKER_04 49:52

Well, listen, you heard it here in the locker room from two key athletes who both had great high school careers and went on to play college. Enjoy your summer. Make sure you congratulate yourself on getting through high school, but do not take this summer off. Otherwise, you'll be slacking in your sport going into college. And if you're really serious about playing, which now you should be, because back when Claudia was playing, we didn't have big NIL money going on. And when Ariano was playing, it was just coming together. Now you can be a millionaire by playing sports inside your college. Take it serious, because that could set you up for life. It's been a great show here at the locker room. We look forward to coming back next week with a new episode. Keep an eye out on Instagram, YouTube, wherever you have your social media, we will be there. We will be everywhere. Thanks for joining us at the locker room, our windy moment show. This is why we play the game. Because I'm a man and she's a woman.

SPEAKER_00 50:45

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 50:48

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