Interview: Laeticia Amihere, Canadian Basketball Olympian and NCAA Champion

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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In this episode, Shireen Ahmed interviews Laeticia Amihere, a power forward and Canada's first female dunker, Team Canada Olympian and NCAA Champion with the South Carolina Gamecocks. They discuss how she came to love basketball, what it's like to play for the legendary Dawn Staley, her hopes for the WBNA Draft and her non-profit Back to the Motherland, where she puts on basketball camps to make the game more accessible. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, Flamethrower, Shireen here.
0:12.0	I am so excited to have an amazing NCAA champion.
0:19.2	Leticia Amir is a 20-year-old Canadian-born Olympian athlete of Ghanaian and Cote d'Ivoire descent.
0:27.0	She is fully bilingual and will be dropping some French in here at some point.
0:31.1	French is her first language.
0:32.6	And in the coaching community, she is someone that inspires many young female French Canadian aspiring to follow her footsteps.
0:39.6	She's from Mississauga, Ontario, the best city in the world and has been a member of the Canadian national team since she was 15, where she has also been heralded as the future face of Canadian women's basketball.
0:53.2	Teesh became the first Canadian woman to dunk
0:55.4	in a competitive game in 2015
0:57.1	and is infamously known globally
0:58.8	as a girl who dunks.
1:00.7	I'm so excited to have her on the show with me.
1:03.5	Teish, how are you?
1:04.5	Tish, I'm so excited to be here.
1:07.1	Like you said, Letitia, me here from South Carolina.
1:10.6	Finally back in Canada after a couple years of COVID, but just excited to be on the show.
1:15.0	How many years has there been since you've been back in Canada?
1:17.8	So I come every Christmas for about two or three days, but this is the first time I've actually been here for, you know, longer than a few days.
1:26.3	So I was just excited to actually spend time with my family and get in the city and get time with my friends.
1:31.6	So tell me, you won a national championship with South Carolina.
1:36.9	So exciting.
1:38.0	I feel like it's been just a long time coming.
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