102. Destiny Slocum: Finding Home
The Hog Pod with Bo Mattingly
Sport & Story
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Arkansas fifth-year senior guard Destiny Slocum had several stops before landing on the Hill. The Idaho native spent a year at Maryland, where she was National Freshman of the Year. Then she went back west to play at Oregon State for two seasons, where she earned two-time All-American honors. But her cross-country playing career wasn't always what she envisioned: The inconsistency mirrored a childhood plagued by instability. Growing up, her mother battled breast cancer while raising Slocum and her four siblings practically by herself. With a father in and out of the home and a mother scraping by to give her five children a life, Slocum created a path for herself playing basketball, but let the uncertainty at home guide her every decision, including where to attend school. Slocum always felt the duty to put her family first over doing what was best for her as an individual. This is the story of how Destiny Slocum found her own voice and eventually found her home at the University of Arkansas.
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| 0:00.0 | It's kind of hard when you don't want to let your parents down, but you know your parents |
| 0:03.2 | decisions aren't the best. |
| 0:04.2 | Like I kind of like had to pull myself away and like go, okay, like you're not wrong in the decisions |
| 0:11.7 | and how you feel and you need to go with like you |
| 0:14.5 | not what's gonna make other people happy. Welcome into the hog pot. I'm Bo Mattingly and this episode is made possible by our friends at First Security Bank, Serra's in |
| 0:34.3 | Resort and Lindsay Golf. |
| 0:36.0 | Get through that, get through that. She's say all we're going to do. I'm through |
| 0:42.1 | Arkansas Guard and fifth year senior transfer She said, oh, we're going to, I'm through. |
| 0:42.6 | Arkansas Guard and fifth year senior transfer Destiny Slocum |
| 0:46.0 | had several stops along the way before landing on the hill. |
| 0:49.8 | The Idaho native had stints in Maryland, |
| 0:52.2 | where she was National Freshman of the Year. |
| 0:57.8 | An Oregon State where she earned two-time All-American Honorable Mention. |
| 1:01.6 | Slocum on the runout finishes. |
| 1:04.8 | But her unique cross-country playing career wasn't what she always envisioned. |
| 1:09.6 | It was inconsistency mirrored by a life plague with uncertainty while growing up. |
| 1:14.6 | When I was 13, my mom battled breast cancer by herself. |
| 1:17.6 | We struggled. |
| 1:18.6 | Sometimes we'd look in the fridge and there'd be no food, but like my mom worked three jobs. |
| 1:22.4 | And like my dad worked three jobs. |
| 1:22.5 | And like my dad was in and out of the house. |
| 1:24.7 | And so it was just us and her. |
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