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The Moth Podcast: March Madness

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The Moth

Performing Arts, Arts

4.625.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

March Madness has us thinking about threes, dunks, and triple-doubles… but March is also Women’s History Month, so we’re thinking about basketball in a slightly different way. So we've got two stories all about women's basketball. This episode was hosted by Sarah Jane Johnson. Storytellers: Toya Chester tries to score 1000 points in her college basketball career. Dame Wilburn learns how to play basketball. Podcast # 912 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome to the Moth podcast. I'm Sarah Jane Johnson, and on this episode, Women's Basketball. March Madness has us thinking

0:39.9

about threes, dunks, and triple doubles, but March is also Women's History Month, so we're

0:45.3

thinking about basketball in a slightly different way. We're thinking about Title IX, how women

0:50.5

athletes are still fighting to get the same respect that men are, and about all the great

0:54.8

March madness moments that women created. From Charlotte Smith's buzzer-beater in 1994, to Candice Parker's

1:02.0

epic first-time dunking in the tournament, to Caitlin Clark reigning threes, we want to highlight how

1:08.0

incredible sports can be for everyone. So we've got two stories all about hoop dreams and what happens when they come true, or don't.

1:16.6

Whether you're rooting for South Carolina, Yukon, or my alma mater, LSU, go Tigers.

1:23.6

We hope you'll enjoy.

1:25.6

First up is Toya Chester. Toya told this at a Boston main stage where the theme of the night was on thin ice.

1:33.3

A note that this story was told in 2020 and due to our reduced socially-distance audience,

1:39.3

things are a little quieter than you might be used to.

1:42.3

Here's Toya, live at the moth.

1:51.0

So I grew up in what I thought was a decently sized town in central Massachusetts.

1:57.0

I say decently sized because unlike most of the cities around me, we had a high school,

2:05.1

we had Sears Town Mall, and we had traffic lights. Now, my family was the first family to

2:12.1

settle in my town after slavery, so all the black families, most of them, we were related.

2:18.1

But the Chester's, I'm a Chester, we were known for something different.

2:23.7

We were athletes, and as stereotypical as that sounds, it's true.

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