The side of college athletics you don’t see with guest Rachel DeMita
Sunday Sports Club with Allison Kuch
Dear Media
4.9 • 971 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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This week Allison talks to former college basketball player and host of Courtside Club, Rachel DeMita, about the REALITY of D1 sports - the identity crisis when you quit, not being able to pick your major, and how her playing career actually helps her media career now. Plus: what it's like watching your NBA player husband come back from a major injury, the difference between NBA & overseas basketball, and why LeBron is her GOAT.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:03.1 | What's up, guys? Welcome back to Sunday Sports Club podcast, a podcast all about sports told by a woman and that woman is me. |
| 0:10.4 | Hi, guys. I'm your host, Alison Cooch. And today I'm joined by a special guest, Rachel Demita. |
| 0:16.7 | She is a former college basketball player turned sports broadcaster and host of the |
| 0:22.2 | Courtside Club podcast. So welcome her to Sunday Sports Club. How are you doing today? |
| 0:31.4 | I'm good. I love that the clubs are collabbing. Oh yeah. I know, right? Yeah. |
| 0:36.8 | The court club, courtside club. I have to ask right off the bat, does your past in being a basketball |
| 0:44.0 | player yourself help when it comes to sports broadcasting? Oh, a thousand percent. Yeah. |
| 0:50.2 | Do you think it kind of gives you a leg up? For sure. |
| 0:54.8 | And it's funny because even when I was in college, like when I quit basketball, it was such an identity shift of like I had to refine myself again. |
| 1:03.3 | And for like four years after I quit, I couldn't even watch the sport. |
| 1:08.3 | Couldn't anything. |
| 1:08.9 | It was like a heartbreak. |
| 1:10.1 | And I actually thought that I wanted to do entertainment reporting, like fashion, celebrity, |
| 1:17.9 | all of that kind of stuff. |
| 1:19.2 | And I did an internship and entertainment tonight. |
| 1:21.4 | And then kind of quickly realized, okay, like, this isn't me. |
| 1:24.8 | And then when I started talking about basketball again, I was like, this is so easy. |
| 1:31.9 | This is my life. I can be a part of basketball without being a player anymore. So I like learned how to love it again. So yes, I think a thousand percent it helps me. |
| 1:38.3 | Absolutely. I also think that with any like higher level sport, I mean, if you're going to college to play a sport or |
| 1:46.9 | beyond, you've dedicated so much of your life to that sport that I feel like almost without that |
| 1:53.0 | sport. It's kind of like an identity crisis. So I've seen something kind of go through it. So I'm |
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