S2 Ep5 - Former WNBA player Toni Young details her path to the league -Highs & Lows (HBSML)
Toni Young was a prolific athlete who played for the Oklahoma State Cowboys in college, but how did she get there? She did not start playing basketball until she was a freshmen in high school, yet she got all the way to the WNBA and Overseas! She now owns her own business, and in the episode she gives you details from start to finish! Check it out now!
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SHOW NOTES
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1:35 Mike Young Tribute
2:45 How’d you get started hooping
7:20 When did you fall in love with basketball
10:50 When did you start getting recruited
12:07 Explain why its okay to play with more than 1 AAU teams
14:00 When did you peak physically
15:20 Committing to play college basketball
18:35 When you first got to Oklahoma State University
20:20 How did you prepare after freshman year of college
21:20 Your favorite shot
21:50 When did you feel like you were a WNBA prospect
22:35 Breaking your arm
23:30 Being able to dunk
26:30 Junior year, coming off of injury
27:30 Winning the NIT
29:08 WNBA team are interested now
30:00 What did you study in college
32:45 senior year in college
33:30 Deciding to take your game to the next level
35:40 Getting drafted by the New York Liberty
36:16 WNBA is a business
38:00 Being unprepared/underdeveloped
40:00 You wish you went to San Antonio
40:40 I couldn’t get traded
42:30 Going overseas
45:00 Players in the WNBA that don’t belong
45:30 Pros and Cons of WNBA and Overseas
50:27 When did you walk away from basketball?
51:05 Relationship advice
53:00 Did you contemplate a comeback
53:45 Getting a job after basketball
54:35 Did you thinking of starting an AAU program
58:20 Owning your own business
59:30 Business advice
1:00:00 WNBA Champion Nikki Teasly basketball camp in Norman, OK
1:02:15 Did you gain confidence from playing basketball
1:03:20 Starting a basketball program for youth girls
1:04:20 Message for the aspiring hoopers
1:05 Ball signing
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