Checking In w/ Coach Sydney Carter
Checking In with Michelle Williams
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Michelle and Sydney are changing the game! Sydney shares her journey as a basketball coach and the importance of maintaining her individuality as a woman. She also discusses the mental impact of having to retire unexpectedly. CHECK IN to this episode for the inspiration to own what makes you, YOU!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.0 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to checking in with Michelle Williams, |
| 0:06.0 | a production of IHeart Radio and The Black Effect. |
| 0:09.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to another amazing episode of checking in. It's going to be fire. Yep, |
| 0:30.1 | it's fire before I've even asked the first question because simply of who we have the pleasure |
| 0:35.4 | of having. Y'all, she's an amazing, amazing woman. |
| 0:39.7 | I have yet to meet her, but I can just feel she's amazing. |
| 0:43.2 | Not just through her work on the court, but the strength that she has, |
| 0:48.6 | and we're going to get into that. |
| 0:50.1 | But she is a retired professional basketball player from the WNBA. |
| 0:55.1 | And she is now the director of player development at the University of Texas in Austin, which, by the way, I've gone to some of those Texas relays. |
| 1:05.7 | And it's always been fun. |
| 1:07.4 | Y'all welcome to checking in Sidney Carter. Hi. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:14.3 | You are so welcome. Now, I must say that unfortunately, didn't I get a chance to meet you while |
| 1:22.0 | you were with the Chicago Sky? I don't say it a lot, minority owner in that franchise because it was born and raised in the area. |
| 1:31.2 | Yeah. So I didn't get a chance to meet you because I started with them and like, now I'm telling my age, 2005. |
| 1:42.1 | Okay, so I was there, what year was that? I was my first year out. So I was there in 2012, |
| 1:48.2 | but I started there and I did my career. My career there wasn't. You started there. Yep. |
| 1:53.8 | Yeah. So that was my start. Yes, y'all. So she definitely, definitely started there. She was |
| 2:00.0 | selected by the Chicago Sky. |
| 2:04.2 | She played for the Connecticut Sun, the Indiana Fever, and also the Atlanta Dream. |
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