Basketball Star Dawn Staley

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🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Dawn Staley has won Olympic gold medals as a player and as a head coach. She played in the WNBA, and is now head coach of the South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball team. In April, she led her team to its second NCAA championship. We'll talk about how she's seen women's basketball change and grow, and about how she got her start playing basketball with the boys in the projects of North Philly.

Later, we'll hear from journalist Neda Toloui-Samnani, author of They Said They Wanted a Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents.

And TV critic David Bianculli will review the new HBO series Irma Vep.

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0:00.0	This is Fresh Air, I'm Terry Gross.
0:03.1	My guest Don Staley is a star of women's basketball as a player and a coach.
0:08.6	In April, she won her second NCAA championship as head coach of the South Carolina game
0:14.3	cocks.
0:15.3	She won three Olympic gold medals as a player and won as head coach.
0:19.7	At the 2004 Summer Olympics, she had the honor of carrying the flag and leading the athletes
0:25.0	to the opening ceremony.
0:27.0	She has witnessed the growth and popularity and revenue of women's basketball and has
0:31.5	one of the reasons for that growth.
0:33.8	In 1999, just two years after the WNBA started play, she joined the WNBA team The Charlotte
0:40.5	Sting.
0:41.5	Before that, she played in the short-lived American basketball league.
0:45.4	She has special significance in Philadelphia, the city where our show is produced.
0:50.0	She grew up in the Raymond Rosen Housing Projects in North Philly and started her coaching
0:54.6	career a few blocks away at Temple University.
0:58.0	There are streets named after her near Temple and the colonial wife arena in Columbia, South
1:03.0	Carolina.
1:04.3	I spoke with Don Staley, May 17th, at a WHY-ZOOM event during which she received the WHY-LIFE-LON
1:13.0	Learning Award.
1:14.8	Coach Staley, welcome.
1:16.6	I want to talk about you, but I first want to say something about Brittany Griner,
1:20.4	which is to say I want you to say something about Brittany Griner.
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