I really want to go to the WNBA for sure. And I want to play for my, obviously, home country at the Olympics. That would be the biggest dream. Yeah, so that's, and I really do want to go play in Europe as well. I got a lot of goals. Okay, but that's a good thing to have the goals. I mean, are you one of those, do you write them down? Do you have a vision board? Yeah, I'm that person. That's a good thing now.

Yeah, exactly.

And it just makes me like remember Do you write them down? Do you have a vision board? Stuff like that. Yeah, I am that person.

That's a good thing, though. Yeah, exactly.

And it just makes me, like, remember, like, where I want to be.

And, like, every day, like, I've got to show up because these are my goals.

They're big goals and I want to achieve them. Welcome into the hog pot.

I'm Beaumaddingly, and this episode is made possible by our friends at South by Northwest Hospitality.

Freshman Bonnie Dees didn't just arrive in Fayetteville.

She made an immediate impact.

From Melbourne, Australia to the SEC, she is already carving out a big role with the Razorbacks.

No, I've been loving it. It's been really good.

No college is so exciting and I'm, yeah, I've just been really loving it.

Fianaway, what a bucket Bonnie Dees.

Sports have always been a part of her life. growing up in a family of athletes and competing in one of Australia's most competitive basketball regions. We just grew up around like sports all the time. We were constantly outside, just kicking the footy, playing basketball, playing cricket. Yeah, we're pretty active family. We weren't really the family to be on like bikes and scooters. We just always had a ball in our hand. Bonnie's development really took off at Australia's Center of Excellence, a training ground for elite players that prepared her for the college grind. It's honestly like a mini college environment. Okay, that's what I was. Yeah, mini college environment. You do school there, you do basketball. Like we just walk 400 meters and we're at the courts. There's a dining hole. Yeah, it's pretty similar to college. And that preparation shows especially on the glass. Despite being one of the smaller players on the floor, Bonnie ranks among the nation's best rebounders. She's always wanting to put in extra time. She wants to watch film and she wants to

learn and grow. And the fact that she's coachable and she can perform at such a high level on

both ends of the ball, because she doesn't stop. I mean, she has a high motor too. She has to

guard the ball. She's getting rebound. She's scoring. She's passing. And the more she continues

to grow and understand the system and the offense, man,

she can be, she can do something even more special.

From international medals to SEC battles, Bonnie Dees is just getting started and her freshman

season is already proving she belongs.

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