Natalie Chou - UCLA Women's Basketball Player
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5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
BONUS EPISODE
Natalie Chou plays college basketball for UCLA. She just finished her redshirt junior season after transferring to the Bruins from Baylor University.
Natalie played her high school basketball in Plano, Texas where she helped her team to a Texas 6a State Regional Championship in 2015 and was a Mcdonald's High School All-American in 2016.
She was a member of the USA Basketball U17 squad that won a Gold Medal in the FIBA U17 World Championships.
Chou's mom Quanli Li played basketball for the Chinese National Team.
On March 26, Chou wrote a first-person piece for ESPN on the anti-Asian racism that has taken place amidst the Coronavirus outbreak.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Natalie about why she wrote that piece for ESPN, the emotions she felt in seeing her season come to an abrupt end, how we can all be better in the words that we choose to call this pandemic, the impact her mother has had on her life and why her faith in Jesus has helped sustain her during this time of uncertainty.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.2 | Hey, everyone. Welcome to Sports Spectrum. I'm Jason Romano. Today on the show, a little bonus episode for you. |
| 0:27.3 | We welcome Natalie Cho. She is a women's basketball player with UCLA. Just finished up her red shirt junior season. Prior to that, she was playing ball for a couple seasons at |
| 0:38.8 | Baylor and then transferred over to UCLA and grew up in Plano, Texas. Her mom, Quan Li, |
| 0:46.4 | Lee, played basketball for the Chinese national team. Natalie is a Chinese American. |
| 0:56.5 | She's a pretty good basketball player. She played with USA basketball winning a gold medal in the Fiba U-17 World Championships was a 2016 McDonald's |
| 1:04.0 | High School All-American and letter high school team Plano West High School to a Texas |
| 1:09.7 | 6A state regional championship in 2015. |
| 1:15.1 | But this conversation is a little different because of the state of our world right now with COVID-19 and the coronavirus. |
| 1:22.9 | And Natalie wrote a first person story for ESPN a week and a half or so ago, a couple weeks ago. |
| 1:30.6 | And in the article details what it's been like these last, you know, few days or so, |
| 1:36.2 | not only with UCLA and her basketball program having the season canceled, like every other |
| 1:41.9 | sport has had right now, but what it's like to be a |
| 1:46.0 | Chinese American right now and walking just through a airport or getting on an airplane |
| 1:54.1 | and kind of some of the things that she's been going through. And she detailed that poignantly |
| 1:59.2 | in that ESPN article. |
| 2:01.6 | But she also was a woman of faith. |
| 2:03.6 | And in that article did not feature her faith journey. |
| 2:06.6 | And so when I reached out to Natalie, I told her I wanted to talk about the ESPN article |
| 2:10.6 | and what it's been like these last few weeks for her, coming back home to Texas from California. But I also wanted to ask her about her |
| 2:20.7 | faith and how that helps sustain her and keep her going. So take a listen to Natalie Cho. Have an |
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