Keeping Score: Part 3

Notes from America with Kai Wright

WNYC Studios

News Commentary, Politics, History, News

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🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

What does it mean to lead a team in an anti-racist way? After getting strong feedback from Mariah and other players, Coach Mike Salak decides to change his tactics. But as the girls volleyball practices lead into tournaments, it’s clear that who gets to play continues to be a divisive issue.

“Keeping Score” is a co-production of WNYC Studios and The Bell. This four-part series will appear in the United States of Anxiety feed on Thursdays in June.

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For WNYC: Alana Casanova-Burgess, Jessica Gould, Joe Plourde, Jenny Lawton, Karen Frillmann, Emily Botein, Wayne Schulmeister, and Andrew Dunn.

For The Bell: Mariah Morgan, Lauren Valme, Renika Jack, Noor Muhsin, Thyan Nelson, Jacob Mestizo, Taylor McGraw, and Mira Gordon.

Fact-check by Natalie Meade. Music by Jared Paul – with additional tracks by Hannis Brown and Isaac Jones.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Kai, you're about to hear part three of a four-part special series that
0:06.4	we're presenting.
0:07.7	It's this incredible deep dive into one school building's effort to break down racial
0:12.1	divides from our partners at WNYC Studios and at the Bell.
0:16.7	So if you're just discovering it, be sure to scroll back in your United States of anxiety
0:21.5	feed to find part one.
0:23.8	Okay, enjoy.
0:25.8	Yeah, I'm trying to get recruited for volleyball, so yeah, so I'm trying to go to college for
0:34.4	volleyball.
0:35.4	Gremel's also might be walking in, by the way.
0:37.7	I'm standing with Callie Moore on the side of the gym near the doors.
0:41.7	Yes, so this is my fourth kind of third year just because of COVID.
0:49.0	Callie is a senior from Park Slope Collegiate, co-captain of the Jaguars, the new merged
0:54.7	team.
0:56.4	She's an outside hitter and does this move where she jumps up, her arm raised and for a moment
1:01.4	it looks like she's suspended in air.
1:04.4	Her long braid floating behind her.
1:08.0	Then in a flash, she spikes the ball down hard over the net.
1:15.2	It's very easy to see she's one of the star players.
1:20.1	Two years ago, before COVID and before the sports merger at John Jay, Callie played
1:25.0	for the J-Hawks, the three school team.
1:27.6	Like we were very successful and we were known for being like one of the only predominately
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