Buffalo Extreme: Winners

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🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

It's competition season, and the girls say they're over what happened at the Tops supermarket last year. "I'm fine!" But then the shooter has his sentencing hearing, and those feelings come flooding back. When they hit the stage — they're wobbly. And argumentative. The girls and Coach Yani open up about the hard truth: where they really stand one year later.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers, and this is Embedded from NPR.
0:03.6	And one thing I want to say before we start the episode,
0:06.7	a lot of people we talked to for this series
0:09.2	asked that we only use their first names.
0:11.6	The stories they're telling us are raw and sensitive,
0:15.0	and so we are honoring that request.
0:17.4	In the most recent episode of Buffalo Extreme,
0:21.0	Kociani opened a brand new cheer gym,
0:23.9	barely in time to fit in some last minute choreography,
0:26.9	and training before the first competition,
0:29.8	the teams just could not get out from under
0:32.1	what everyone calls the dark cloud of her Buffalo.
0:36.3	Plus, winter storms shut the city down,
0:38.3	and shut the gym down.
0:41.0	In the end though, they did make it
0:42.5	to their first competition stage of the season.
0:46.2	Our host, Nakaia McCann,
0:47.8	made her way back to university after the break,
0:49.9	and was following base from there
0:52.4	when something happened that shook her.
0:56.0	Much more than she expected.
0:58.3	When she got her bearings again,
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