How to Develop ELITE Athletic Ability with 1st Team All SEC Basketball Star Sarah Ashlee Barker

Intro hey guys we are very excited about today's episode we have Sarah Ashley Barker on the show she's going into her final year at the University of Alabama she is a great College women's basketball athlete Alabama just came off arguably the best women's basketball season in program history they finished 24- 10 and went to the round of 32 in the NCAA tournament Sarah Ashley is averaging about 17 points per game last year she had six rebounds per game she can play at all levels she can dribble she can pass she can shoot she can rebound she's an allaround athlete she's got some great insight for us today she was also a stud in high school she played at Spain Park High School in Hoover Alabama she led the Jaguars to two 7A state championships she won Player of the Year twice in high school she had over 2200 points in her High School career she had over 1100 rebounds um averaging a double double essentially um her father is legendary Alabama quarterback Jay Barker she has three brothers and Sarah has joined our black watch sports team as a coach in a camp liaison and we have a camp coming up there on September 21st it's specifically for budding youth athletes so you can come check out out she's going to have some awesome basketball insights for us we're working on athletic development she's a highly driven individual she has some great insights on life and College athletics so it's going to be a great episode stay tuned Sarah Ashley Barker how you doing I'm good how are you I am doing very well I'm so happy that you're here on the show with us today we've got some really cool things to talk about not too often do we get to sit down with someone of your pedigree and I'm talking about your college pedigree which you're doing right now at the University of Alabama and also you were a stud in high school and like I was looking up so many stuff on you and I saw like I was pulling articles from like Gatorade and um which is so cool because you were the Gatorade player of the year I was my senior year yep that is so cool I was pulling articles from Gatorade I was pulling articles from the Alabama sports Riders Association you've been all over the place um we said some of your you've done but just your school pedigree is amazing like not so many people get to live honestly the dream you liveed the high school dream and now you're doing it in college at such a high level you got aspirations to enter into the WNBA and that's coming up so we got some cool stuff to talk about today that's awesome I'm excited let's do it so we are in the offseason for women's college basketball How is Off-Season in high school basketball right now what does this offseason look like for you going into the 2024 2025 season yeah so um you know luckily for being a division one sport and being at the University of Alabama we're allowed to practice in June and July so we've got these hour weeks you know in season you've got 20 hour weeks out of season which is what we're in now is an 8 hour week so you've got four hours of you can do strictly basketball stuff and you've got four hours of weights and conditioning and so you know how our week was pretty much every single week was you know we had Monday Tuesday uh Monday Wednesdays and Thursdays we did you know skill workout and then we would go to a lift and then we would do a conditioning and for me on those Monday th Monday Wednesdays and Thursdays I would even put in an extra skill workout before my other Skool workout because that was the stuff that I was working on just myself it was kind of the things that I needed to work on going to the season you know the mandatory skill workout is what is the team guards working on what are we working on together movements uh you know Pace how we can play together that kind of stuff and those um workouts and then you know Tuesdays we had a 2hour team practice and it was a legit two-hour practice up and down playing against each other teams going at it competitive um and then Friday was a fun day we got to go do conditioning but we got to go box and that was a lot of fun so it's kind of like you know yeah we're doing all this basketball and then they you go to the end of the week and you kind of box it all out um but that was a lot of fun they just find ways for us to you know enjoy our summer too so we practice in the mornings and then you kind of have that afternoon to enjoy your summer do what you need to do weekends off which is nice because I think you don't want to just kill us and burn us because I mean if you go from basketball is a long season it is you go from November to pretty much April really you start at the end of September so you're going from September to April and that's a long season it's a lot on your mind a lot on your body and so I think in the summer it's like you're going to get in five days a week I mean five days out of the seven days a week and really grind for those five days and then just they want us to be able to enjoy life and and enjoy the summer too yeah we talked about this a little bit before the podcast but and you're solidified in your spot but so summertime is you're playing for a spot like you really are if you're on The Fringe Of Starting or not starting or maybe just getting playing time you got to be at everything you got to show up and you got to you knock some stuff down in the scrimmage yeah absolutely it might be a little bit lighter but uh like on us with you know hours and stuff like that but you're you're competing I mean it's you're because you you're showing the coach what you're capable of doing because then that gets you ready to go in September and October and they already have kind of what you are in their mind going into September October so if you're not where you need to be at the end of the summer they're kind of like you know they may not trust you at the beginning of September and October and then you just got to build on top of that so you really got to solidify what you can do how hard you work in the summer absolutely I think with something school I think all athlete athletes can relate to this in the offseason if they take their sport serious in the off season you just went through a full season you probably analyzed your game at this point and you found some things that you want to work on like so you said like you're doing your the sessions that um your coach has set up for you your team has set up for you what's something in particular this offseason that you've been focused on for yourself yeah um definitely my left hand so every Tuesday and Thursday of you know the time that I choose to go work out on my own with one of my coaches I've literally been straight left hand I can't use my right hand at all so we'll go for about 45 minutes and it's all ball ball handling left hand it's all finishing left hand it's touch shots like all that kind of stuff with my left hand because a lot of teams last year were trying to force me left and that's when my decision- making when I was going left I'm not as dominant as with my right hand because my right hand is my dominant hand so when they're forcing me left sometimes I wouldn't go left or finish with my left I tried to get in with my right because I was trying to get up as quick but now it's like I've got to be able to protect with my right and be able to finish with my left and so just being able to be confident in my left hand and not even have to think twice about what I'm doing with my left hand like I am with my right hand if that makes sense absolutely I I I think that's so PIV I think a lot of um athletes coming up in basketball particular they see guys like Kyrie Irving you know who had this beautiful just layup package where and everything like they'll do some some stuff with the it's really right hand but they don't realize how good they are their left hand like their Foundation is so solid that now they're at a whole another level with their dominant hands yes so I think it's awesome that you're working on that I remember I used to um do everything for my left hand was brush my teeth eat a meal have you ate a meal yet with your left hand I have before yes I have that's something that I might start doing now and it it will make me do if I do more with my left hand outside of just basketball that can definitely help me too it just takes like 30 minutes longer but it's still solid so we talk about this a little bit but you were a stud in college and I i' How Have You Developed Through the Years I've looked I've got your stats here we're going to go through some of the stuff in a little bit but um you were a major problem for teams in high school as well at at at a big level so if you I think it's so cool we're able to do this is look back and see how we developed so you can tell me what did Sarah actuallyy look like as a sophomore in high school versus a versus a Junior versus a senior and then now going into this is your second year at Alabama you had two third year third going into your third year at Alabama how can you look at yourself season over season and say okay this season I was this type of player this season I was this type of player walk me through your development in your career I want to tell you about the first basketball camp that we have coming up this year with Sarah Ashley it is September 21st this Camp is designed to help build an athletic prowess so that the athletic characteristics that we're building transfer over into the sport of basketball so let's build the athleticism let's connect it with skills and let's put it on the coure that's what we're going to shoot for Sarah Ashley has a great game plan she's going to be bringing some of her teammates from the University of Alabama and we also have some other division one athletes who are going to come in and help us run the camp simply because they want to pour in to the lives of young athletes and help them to be better than what they were so again that camp is September 21st we have a link in the description if you want to check that out so take a look at it it's going to be a great Camp you know honestly my my story is a little different because when I was in 8th grade I had to have a knee and I had to have two knee surgeries and basically I was kind of told like if the second knee surgery didn't they didn't know if I was going to be able to compete at the level that I was at or even like play basketball like in college or anything like that like I had a really serious KN injury and it was this thing called osteocondritis deskin which is kind of too hard to explain but I mean it's it's a bone injury and it's if I mean I had to have have a cadaver in my knee and stuff like that and if that bone didn't take like I was I mean they told me like it it could it's a foreign object it could reject like your body could reject it and you may have to have another surgery so it was kind of like I was very fortunate enough to be where I am now because I mean I got told when I was in eighth grade hey you may not be able to jump as fast I mean as as as high as you used to or run as fast as you to or cut or jump in general like we don't know what's going to really happen until you make a full recovery from the surgery so my freshman year for me was more of a mental game than anything because it was like my mind I knew exactly what I wanted to do but I I wasn't as fast I couldn't jump as high I I couldn't cut as as much as I need or as fast as I needed to or as quick and that kind of stuff and so my freshman year was was hard because I was like I knew how good I was but then I literally was on crutches for 9 months I couldn't run for I mean really 6 months and I couldn't run for n months it was a year and a half injury and I'm like sitting here like I could do all this stuff before and then now I couldn't really do it and so you know I would say probably around the end of my freshman year is really when I started to feel confidence again in who I was as a player and kind of developing and then I went and played my aou circuit after my freshman season of high school and I picked up my first offer from UAB and when I picked up my first from UAB that was kind of like wow like all this struggle that I went through my freshman year and this when I didn't have confidence and I was like am I ever going to be able to be back to what I was used like used to being when I a year ago it was like all that confidence just got instilled in me as soon as I got my first offer because it was like all those things that you went through and the questioning of am I going to be that player ever again and it was kind of like they had faith in me they saw something that and so I I love UAB my brother plays there and so I've always had just a gratitude to them cuz that that was my first offer um and then my sophomore year is when I really was like I'm going to go do this thing I'm going to go play division one basketball and I really just started to train and uh and know and I was growing at the time too so I was like five three and eighth grade and I was I was growing all the way up from like freshman year senior year all the way up to like six foot and so I think just every year from my sophomore year to my junior year my sophomore year was when I really realized oh I'm like I can do this I'm good and then my junior year was about what do I need to work on to not only get me to the next level but to be able to play at the next level and so I think that my sophomore year I was around a really good group of girls we had we had a we had two girls going to play division one basketball so they took more of the shots than I did but I learned under them and I learned how to play basketball without just the ball yeah and so and that was my sophomore year my junior year I really had to take on a role of shooting all the shots and and having that pressure and that leader leadership mentality that I had to have that I didn't really have to have as a sophomore and so I think that I was able to learn from people my sophomore year and let that translate to my junior year and then my junior year it was like it was just more of like how consistent can I be able to shoot the ball like I think you just you you've got to be able to make open shots and so it was just get in the gym rep rep rep um and then junior year going into senior year I worked with uh coach barbar out at Pinson and he helped me out a ton with just my ball handling my skill just doing things that I didn't know that I really could do if that makes sense and he kind of broke down the game in like ways that I've never seen before and so I think training with him that whole summer I didn't play a that year so training with him that whole summer gave me a whole summer of skill development for about four months that led into my senior year and my senior year I was I mean from a ball handling point I was playing the one and I don't really play the one now but like as a senior in high school and I wasn't getting recruited to go play the one but I was playing the one in high school and so I think it helped me along the way of that ball handling that skill from going into my senior year is really what took a jump in my ball handling and you've got to be able to handle the ball as a guard like you have to if you don't like you're I mean you can't hit you can't touch the ball really in today's game you have to be yes because if you get a defensive rebound you've got to get out and push and transition and you have to be the one to do it you're not outling it to the point guard anymore like you're going and so I think just the Reps that I had to take in high school the learning from other people too just how you lead people um because as a as one of the best players on your team you you've got to be a leader too you've got to be able to lead other people because it's not just about you it's about how can I get all these other girls around me to be successful and help the team as well um and then obviously going into my college well before that I want to cut you off but um what was it that coach Barber you said what was it that he said he showed you aspects of the game that you had never seen what was he showing you that really open your eyes to basketball yeah I it was just how you how you move with the ball it was the pace like my Pace from I was one speed pretty much until I got with Coach Barber really like I'm be completely honest and and if you're one speed it's not it's not good for you and so he really taught me how to play with Pace how to read stuff and that I can slow down and what I'm trying to read instead of be trying to be so quick he's like you're already fast you already can explode he was like control how you move and how your body's moving with the ball and really like work on you know if you're here and you like work on the head fakes of trying to if you're about to go shoot it and then you cross over because they lean up to go contest you and stuff like that and so the pace of how he taught me like literally it's funny because the first session that I ever had with him he was like I mean you got rhythm you have like do you know how to like you know how to dance I'm like I can't dance at all he's like just try to find Rhythm when you're playing the game of basketball and that really helped me because that first session I was like out there trying to do stuff with him and like kind of Glide and stuff like that and I couldn't do it like really I couldn't do it and so he just helped me be able to learn how to play with that pace and that you know you're going fast and you stop and you just and you take off too and that first step is so you got to get out you got to explode off that first step and so that really helped me a lot was the pace and I don't think people realize how important in the pace of the game is if you see Luca play in the in the in the NBA he plays the slowest ever seen somebody play and he is one of the best guards in the world in the world in the world he controls his pace and if you look at you know some of the greatest of all time like malel Jordan Michael Jordan looks like he's just playing jogging all over the place and he's not even going to another gear because he controls his pace so so well especially in today's game now when you bring in like the Euro Step and the slow down Second Step that you can take and I think Luca has mastered that he takes that slow first step and then he slows even further down for his second step and the guy's in the air and he's still taking his second step pacing his massive so uh so he brought you that you make it through to your senior year at high school you have killer high school career what was it like being recruited going into because you went to Georgia first off and you had a couple different schools looking at you what was that recruiting process look like before you went to college yeah so I knew that I wanted to go play in the SEC so when I when my a coach would come to me he's like hey this coach wants to talk to you do you want to you know how do you want to go about this they want you to come to campus you know do Elite Camp stuff like that I strictly T I was like I want to go SEC so really if if other schools kind of come to you and this was after I got the UAB offer it was kind of when it was about a year after that where I really realized I wanted to go to SEC so I started to pick up some SEC offers um I mean Auburn Georgia uh Arkansas um I'm trying to think who else uh I committed at a pretty early age honestly I committed as a junior like my my my early junior year and what made you commit so I knew I I knew in my heart that God was leading me to Georgia I really did I knew in my heart did um and so you know for me I think that if I would have kept playing aou I only played aou my freshman year going into my sophomore year and then my sophomore year going into my junior year I was hurt and then my junior year going into my senior year I was already committed so I didn't play Au um they were like if you want to play play if you don't then you just train and that's what I did with Coach Barbers I trained and that helped me tremendously honestly um but going through that recruiting process I knew I wanted to go sec I knew I wanted to stay driving distance from my from Birmingham cuz I mean family is very important to me I wanted to be able to drive home if I needed to drive home I wanted my parents to be able to drive to me if I needed them to be there um and very blessed that I was three and a half hours away because I mean I had you know I had some a lot of stuff going on my freshman of sophomore year that a lot of people don't know about um and just from a mental aspect of it and so going to Georgia when I committed I she so crazy story about how this happens Joanie Taylor one of the best people in my life I I love that woman um I would Rave about her 24/7 I went to an elite camp and had other SEC schools had offered me at the time and she looks at me and she's like look you know I I want to offer you you're good enough as a player you're good enough to get offered but I don't know you as a person and to me that stuck to me because I'm the type of person I'm a relationship type kid I'm a relationship type person I need to have a good relationship I knew that where I was going it needed to be I had a great relationship with the coach I had a great relationship with staff team everybody so that always stuck with me so then we built a relationship from you know my sophomore year the beginning of some of my sophomore year to about January or February and then I went to on campus and she offered me in person on an unofficial visit in February when she offered me in person my sophomore year I knew like I I knew that's where I was supposed to go but I didn't want to commit right on the spot when she offered me because I really wanted to go home think about it kind of let the summer go through but I knew I I didn't tell anybody that I knew when she offered me that's where I wanted to go but it was like something just felt right something felt like God was telling me hey this is who you need to go play for MH so then summer year of my sophomore year I limited it down to Auburn and Alabama and Georgia and then I decided to commit around September I believe I went and I didn't want to commit until I was in person so I wanted to commit in person because she did everything in person for me so she she told me she wanted to offer me but she couldn't yet cuz she needed to get to know me then she didn't offer me other phone she only would offer me in person so I was like I really want to commit in person too that was very important to me so when I committed to her I knew that was the right place to go I I mean and to this day I would never like if I had to go back I would hope that everything happened just the way it did I would never want to go back with it um and so when I got to Georgia my freshman year her and I had a great relationship because I mean she was recruiting me since I was a freshman I committed as a junior so it was just me and her talking from when I was a junior until I got to college I wasn't worried about any other coach I wasn't I mean I was locked in with Georgia she's 100% the reason why I went to Georgia that's pretty much the only reason why I went to Georgia is because of a coach and you broke a lot of Hearts I'm sure Al thought they had you in the right no exactly it was it it was uh a lot of people were a little frustrated but at the same time I wanted to go make a name for myself and be Sarah Ashley Barker as basketball not going to Alabama as Jay Barker's daughter and that's no that's no um no stab to my dad at all that's just and he knew that he was very supportive of like he knew that Joanie was a great coach in that I mean Joanie played Alabama so she had some Alabama ties too so that's what I would tell my dad I was like hey she played at Alabama and you know he joked with me but he was suppor of all the way he never put any pressure on me when it came to recruiting my mom is like my hero she she felt the same way about Joanie as I did I mean she knew that that that's she knew that's where I wanted to go before I even told her when I told her she goes I know she literally looked at me and was like I know that's where you're going you're going to Georgia and I was like moms do that moms know moms know um but yeah when I got to Georgia it was just it was amazing and I mean there's there's things that I wish I would have done differently when it came to you know being there as a freshman of not getting in my head as much but at the same time I don't think I would be the player player that I am today if I didn't go through those things that had to go through as a freshman in sophomore go go into that a little bit what was that so you go from a senior year you are a dominant high school player I mean you're two time 7A Player of the Year that's amazing you go from that to freshman year and people don't get the speed difference you can't see the speed difference watching on TV right what what was the biggest I guess speed could be one of them the biggest differences you saw as a freshman yeah I think it's just understanding that the Reps that you get are so like important um Flor yeah on the floor and the games and the shots that you're taking are so important because like you're not getting as many shots as you took in high school I probably shot about 30 shots a game in high school now I'm going to Georgia as a freshman I'm probably shooting only five shots five shots a game so going from 30 to five is completely different if I shot 30 shots a game I'm probably having a 20 20o game every single game if you're shooting five shots a game and you go one for five you have two points absolutely that's not good like you've got to go you've got to be able to go in there and be three for five or two for five or two two for four and and so I think the biggest difference for me was like understanding the right shot and the wrong shot because when you take a lot of shots in high school you can take a lot of wrong shots but it's the best shot for your team because you're the best player absolutely but in college that's different because you're going in with all these other people who were the best player at their High School the best player in their state and you're all coming together and so I think just understanding you know what shot is the best shot for the team what shot is the best shot for me too so if I'm taking a shot that looks like the best shot for the team but it's not a shot that I take why would I take that and so just understanding that um and understanding like you could play 10 minutes in one game you could play 20 minutes in another game or you could play five minutes in another game if I had played 20 minutes in one game and I had let's say 12 points as a freshman I could play the next game and I only play five minutes and you have to understand in your head like it's nothing that you did it's just how College works that's just how the game works as a freshman you don't get as many chances as a senior does they put their time in experience over skill sometimes is what a coach will go with on ly now if you're coming in there as a freshman and you're just dominating and you're and you look like you've been experienced yeah they're going to play you over a senior at the end of the day they're going to play the best player but experience comes a long way and people don't realize how important experience is yeah I love your shot selection concept there CU that's not something that I would think about but yeah like so many times the the best players on the team the guys who were starting a lot or the girls starting a lot they have the luxury of kind of easing into a game and getting familiar with the game if you're fighting for a spot and you're a freshman you're coming in you know you're expected make a shot right when you come in exactly you s you sit on the bench and that's something that I had to adjust to too I've never sat on the bench really in my life until I got to my freshman year in in college and I'm sitting there and I'm like sitting there like a when am I going to go in when am I going to go in and then when you get that opportunity to go in you have to produce produce and you have to know like how the game's going you can't go in there and make a mistake or two because if you go in there and make a mistake or two you're out like you're gone like you're gone and it's nothing personal and I think that that's what I had to realize is I was like why why do they get more chances why don't I get but it's not that that's not what it is it's nothing personal that a coach is trying to do it's it's just that's how the game is made like as a freshman you have to understand and I think that's what I wish someone would have told me going into my freshman year I think that I wish someone would have been like understand your reps are valuable and understand that it may not seem like you're getting as much of opportunity as a senior is but you're still getting an opportunity but they've also put their work in and their time in too and you have to put your work in a time in too you haven't earned it yet exactly I love that I think get telling off that something that's really cool about looking at your career I've got your stats over here is that every year we're talking high school or college you showed a linear progression um you showed a pretty good progression so often times you'll get these these killer athletes come in and they're the same player they were their sophomore year as they are their their senior year they don't show much progression you have progressed and particularly going from last year to this year I saw you had a jump you had a 11 you had a 10o per game increase and you had an 11% field goal percentage increase absolutely that's you don't see that much what did you do in the off season to to make that happen or what clicked so that you could do that right you know I think um when I knew that I was going to be one of the players that was going to be taking a lot of the shots um last year so when I when I transferred to Alabama yeah I was transferring and they already had some girls that were taking all the shots they already had some girls that they had a girl they got drafted Britney Davis um she took the most shots my junior year in college as anybody had did on our team so I knew going into that that I was going to have to find a role where it wasn't going to be I was going to get be getting a lot of a lot of shots honestly I was going to have to find a role because they already had a team and they already had it place so I figured out how to hey I'm going to rebound well I'm going to um I'm going to do whatever I'm gon to play defense well because I knew I could defend I'm going to try and do that to the best of my ability and then the shots will come as they go so throughout the season of my junior year I started to get more shots that was also because I started to earn the more shots I started to be able to where they wanted to put me in stuff um and put me in plays to be able to get me shots but also confidence as well I think confidence is huge and so I think going into to my junior year it was it was a fresh start it was new coaches a new opportunity I'm very blessed that Christy gave me an opportunity to come back home and play for her I mean she's a great coach great person um and and just how that whole story went with Joanie leaving um you know it sucked I will say like CU I I've always wanted to play for Johnny but then at the same time God opened up a door and she went to Tex S&M that was what was best for her and then what was best for me was coming home and playing for Coach Christy and I was so thankful that I got to go from a great coaching staff to another great coaching staff and just grateful that that Christy let me back in because I said no to her I was like no I'm not coming to you I'm going to play for somebody else but you know she as soon as I put my name in the portal she was like I want you you know you can be a great star you can be you can come be who you want to be here so the offense that Alabama has really fits kind of the the style that I love playing and so I think that was understanding the offense my junior year and that's what jumped to my senior year was because I was able to not even have to think about what I was doing last year I already knew what the system was and you have to make that adjustment when you transfer it's a whole new different system different offense it doesn't matter how good you are it really doesn't like you you have to adjust an offense whether someone likes it or not you've got to look at an offense of a team of where you're going to play because you've got to be able to figure out how you can fit into that role and so I think that junior year I played as a role player senior year I knew I wasn't going to be a role player I knew I was going to have to take those shots and honestly after my junior year I really kind of took a break from basketball a little bit in the month of May I was like I'm not really going to touch a basketball I'm kind of just going to give myself a little break cuz I never did I always came home and was grinding grinding grinding and that's honestly the biggest jump for me was I was able to rest my mind and my body and then when I came back into the summer for my senior year it was about you know yes you need to get in get your reps in but what what can we do in the film room to show you how you can be better how like it doesn't have to always be just like on your body like the stress on your body you have to go do a 30-minute workout to get better you can my my position coach uh Roman tuer he's at Tennessee now but he would bring me in the gym and he would walk me through stuff and it was it wasn't even anything on my body but he would show me how to do things and we was like Hey like when we're going into this game this is what's going to be open you got to do this this this and it was crazy how he just kind of detailed out and it was exactly what he said was going to be in the game and I mean it was about almost every time he was like they're to try and stunt you and you have to do this to be able to do this and but me listening to him and him showing me that on the court instead of just putting me through a 30- minute skill workout was so much more beneficial to me because I already worked hard I don't I don't need somebody to to show me how to work hard I know that I'm going to get my shots in I'm going to work hard I'm going to do extra ball handling I'm going to do what I need to do but it was more seeing the visual stuff that he helped me with that really I think helped click in my brain was like Hey like you can take off a little bit of basketball but how can you still Learn basketball and grow outside of having to be on the court and doing stuff with a basketball you can do so much more with just having the basketball in your hand if that makes sense absolutely and that's honestly what really jumped my game it was a it was mind more than anything I mean I I mean I some of the things that I went through as when I was at Georgia my freshman and sophomore year it was off the court stuff and I didn't realize how much that off the court stuff led into affecting my game and so once I kind of got through all of that and really like I didn't realize how Dam bad I kind of was if that makes sense like I mean and once I kind of got out of that and realized like hey like let's not take what's off the court and put it on the court cuz I wore my emotions on my sleeve I had like if I would mess up in a game I would get so pissed off but it really wasn't about me messing up it was about kind of the stuff that I had off the court with I mean I L I lost the most important person in my life my freshman year I mean because of Co and that was really hard and then some stuff happened with my family my sophomore year that a lot of people don't know about and they don't need to know about but I think that's why it come it's it's it's like how grateful and faithful that like Jesus is because I know that there's reasons why I went through those things and I would not of course I would still want my naughy to be here but I would never take back what happened I would if I had to do it all over again I would do it all over again yeah and so I think that getting through all of that it really brought me down and I didn't realize how how much it affected my basketball until last year when I really went to somebody and I talked to somebody I mean I really I went and saw a Christian counselor and I was like I've got to figure out how I can get all this out out of my brain when I play basketball and and I think that was the most important thing for me was like how do I get all these things off the court to not affect me on the court and that was the biggest thing that helped me with all my points last year A lot of people are like what skill stuff did you what did this and I was like no it had nothing to do with basketball it was all about off the court stuff and like to this day I probably have the best relationship that I have with Jesus I mean my faith is is is it's it's somewhere that I want to continue to grow it's it's something that I want to just get stronger and stronger and stronger but when all that stuff happened my freshman in sophomore year I ran from God and and now I I I came back and he pulled me back and it's just crazy CU he was always there when I wasn't looking for him but he was still there and he's still there today and so I think that a lot of people may not understand that and may not understand how that can help me in basketball but it does because I know that my life and my basketball is a gift from God and I know that I'm very lucky to be able to be in this position and that everything that he's put me through in life it might be obstacles and struggles but God always promises there's good that comes out of it and literally every single thing that I I can I'm a testate that good has come out of what he has put me through and so it's all that right there is a mind thing a what I went through in college to what got me to being a first team I player was can you get your mental mind out of it and be the player you want to be after all you went through all this stuff how how can you get past all that and and and I and I I was I mean I'm I'll be honest like my my freshman sophomore and junior year I was I let all that stuff affect me on the court I did I did what were some of the things that that your count that the Christian counselor gave what were some tips that they gave you that that were helpful or what are some things that they have they helped you because we're talking about suffer absolutely absolutely you know I think it's just that you know you you can't control some things that happen in your life and I think I wanted to control everything I wanted in instead of letting God control it because he's he he has a plan for our lives he you know he knows exactly what's going to happen but he gives us free will too so we do get to make choices and so I think that just just knowing that you know she always told me like hey like look to God even in the bad just because something is is you're struggling or something isn't going your way that doesn't mean that God's saying no that doesn't mean that God is is is punishing you or that doesn't mean that he he's not giving you what you want cuz sometimes what we want is not what God wants for us and so when you understand that and you accept that and you accept that you're not a perfect person there's only one perfect person that's Jesus you you play for much more you're playing for Jesus you're not playing I'm not playing for sir Ashley Barker I'm playing for for for the Lord and I'm playing that that I know that I'm glorifying everything that I do in his name because he gave me an ability to play the game of basketball and he is the reason he gets all the glory all the glory like I I I will stand by that and I will never not not shy away from sharing that that's awesome I think often times suffering enters into alive and we're in a bad position and our first reaction is to run let me get that's what I did Hur bad I ran yep I ran from God absolutely God is given I think God is often times putting us in a position of suffering so that he can make us whatever we need to be to get to heaven I think that's a huge place so so you're going through that season you get The Moment I Knew I Could Play into this season you you I love the aspect you talked about kind of clearing your head and getting your mind right for the season coming up when you were going in when as the season started going and you started realize hey I'm at a different level than I was last year when did cuz you know that can be kind of new at first the first couple games when did you Embrace that and you're like okay this is who I am and this is how I get to the level after I want to take this opportunity to tell you about the classes that we do at black wi Sports Performance so everything we're talking about right now Sarah Ashley has to do with athletic capability these classes are designed to bring out the most the most potential out of an athlete as we possibly can we focus on athletic skill so we're working on speed agility power strength things that transfer directly onto the court the field the diamond whatever it is we can increase your athletic performance to get you into a skill setting some of the greatest athletes of all time Michael Jordan Roger feder have said the first thing you need to do as an athlete is to develop your athletic capabilities your athletic characteristics then after you've brought up your athletic ability you can connect it to skill and that's what we do we have classes on speed power agility strength performance all the above and all tuned for the athlete specifically whatever that individual has going on we have a program for you and we can help you tailor that program for the sport that we have going on so check out our classes we have a length in description for them we have several different options for them but it's going to be a high quality high high level and Elite level of training for the athlete that's coming up and wants to make the most out of their career yeah I think yeah yeah I think it was when we played uh up in Houston against Louisville um I think I had about 18 points I didn't shoot the ball great but I I had four points going in a halftime and my coach looked at me and she's like you're capable of it you can do it just like take take a deep breath take a deep breath and I think just those words were like you know what she's right like I've had 20o games the past four games like what's the difference of doing that and coming out here and and just because I have four points this first half that doesn't Define me that doesn't that's that's not that doesn't mean I'm going to go have four points in the second half and so I think that being in that moment of hey I struggled the first half but then I came back the second half and really like did what I was supposed to do and was able to get to the spots that I was not getting to in the first half and being able to correct my game I think that's what helped me the most throughout the season was like just if I have a bad bad quarter that doesn't mean that I'm going to have a bad game and so I think that experience in that game kind of showed me like hey you know you can go have a bad first half and then you can have a great freaking second half and I think that's what just made me realize like hey you can go and do what you want to do as long as you can just have confidence within yourself and know that like you're still the same player no matter what type of game you have in the past and whatever play you just made if I turn the ball over like you can go and make up for it and so I and so that's what that game showed me was like hey you're good enough to go score at this level and they were a really good team they were ranked and it was like one of our I don't think the Alabama is beating a ranked opponent and I don't know I can't tell you the details of it but it was something it was it was a big win for us and so I think for me that just kind of gave confidence in me that like hey I didn't even have a good first half but then the second half we ended up I ended up playing well and we won the game not just because of me but because of our team and it just it just instilled confidence in me and having confidence from my coaching stuff that they had in me I knew they had confidence in me it was always like no matter and I think that's what what I knew that I could be really good last year was the the confidence that the coaches had in me because it was like if they have this much confidence in me like I I've got to have that too you know what I mean like they wouldn't just have that confidence in me and Li straight to my face about that and so I think just having the confidence and what the coaches would always say to me and would want for me and push for me I think that's what kind of real made me realize like hey you can go do this this year those clicking moments as a player are huge like all all offseason all in season like we're working on athletic development we're working on skill development you're putting all this stuff together but so often it takes a moment maybe where you see the ball go through the net and you're just like okay this is this is how it's going to be I can use this stuff now that happens all the time um all right so this this can be your whole career but I want you to tell me what is a memorable moment you have of a game that had that you think and it could be that moment but a moment that you had in a game that you would say had a significant impact on the rest of your career on who you were as a player um goodness I was looking online and this doesn't have to be it but I remember they kept bringing up the shot your freshman no no no your freshman year at sping Park Park you hit the shots of force overtime yeah so that um I did that my freshman we ended up losing in the state championship game which sucked but I would probably say honestly the shot that I hit against n State my sophomore year um NC state was the number two team in the country and we were down three with like four seconds left and they drew up a play and the play didn't go as planned and somehow we I ended up with the ball coming off a ball screen and just shot the ball and went in forc us into overtime we ended up winning and that was like the one of the biggest wins in Georgia history in a long time being the number two team in the country but I also had a really good game game too against number two team in the country so it kind of made me realize like hey if I just settle into games and I like I I can be the player that I want to be if I do it the right way yeah like I said my sophomore year I did go through a slump with stuff happening off the court that affected me but I still remember that game and I'm like if I could do that then you know I can I can I can do that in other games too and just just doing it from a consistent consistency standpoint that was the biggest difference last year compared to all three of my college uh Seasons previous was I was consistent playing at that level and I couldn't say that my freshman sophomore jior year yeah it's kind of shift gears a little bit um obviously women's basketball is in a spotlight that it's never been in Caitlin Clark-Angel Reese and More and I think a huge reason for that is Caitlyn Clark Caitlyn Clark has just brought something to the game trying to figure out what it is is interesting I think she's brought this Steph Curr to women's basketball which is just so fun to watch but she's she's doing some stuff that's really cool so can as a women's college basketball player Can You Feel the impact that she has had on women's basketball where you are right now yeah absolutely it's funny I had a camp yesterday and people were like have you met Caitlyn Clark have you played against Caitlyn Clark have you done this have you done that and I'm like I haven't met her I was like I haven't played against her but if if you were a division one basketball player and you're watching basketball and you love basketball you watch those type of players you you watch you watch games when you're not playing so I got to watch her play a lot um and I think that just the kids excitement around women's basketball comes a lot from Caitlyn Clark but it comes a lot from other players too um you mentioned Angel Reese and stuff like that angel Reese has done a great job growing the game a lot of people um you know try to bash her and I'm like why are you bashing a girl who literally is just trying to grow the game um and so I think that angel ree has done a great job too but yeah caylin Clark she just she's brought to the game what we haven't seen before in a really long time on the women's side like from a standpoint of what the crazy shots that she takes like Steph Curry does I mean you just don't see that and the you just don't see it you don't you've really seen it like that's what Steph Curry was known for and so Caitlyn Clark is really brought that to the girl's game just an excitement and a level of like hey she can do it too um from from a woman's standpoint if that makes sense and so I think they just and everything that she's that she stands for and what she what what she does just from um you know she never in my opinion watching from an outsider um looking in like she never lets uh things not not go her way impact how she plays like yeah you might see frustration but she doesn't let that continue the whole game and let it affect every single play if that makes sense she might take a bad shot you know after after she turned the ball over something like that but she doesn't ever let it affect the whole game and I think that's something that a lot of people need to look at is just like how and she shows frustration because she's so competitive that's how I see it and so I think that that's too is like you're seeing girls be fiery and and and and love the game her passion for the game I think is what really draws fans yeah yeah that is so and you played against Angel ree I did what was it like playing against playing against Angel ree you know I had to guard her my junior year and then last year thankfully I didn't have to guard her um I mean she one of the things that I've always said about injur she does her job she knows what she needs to do on the court she is a she rebounds the crap out of the ball she can also finish I mean but she but she gets down the floor so quick she knows how to get position she knows how to get she knows exactly where her Miss is if she misses misses it she knows where it's going she's the first to get it always I mean and she's never she never stops moving and I think that's something that a lot of people can look at her game as like she does her job she knows her job she plays her role she does that and a lot of players you a lot of players don't really understand their roles sometimes and that's something that I've always you know looked at from Angel re she understands her roles and she does what she's supposed to do she never takes a playoff and she can defend to I mean and she's a vocal leader I mean she's talking to her teammates the whole game she's encouraging them she wants them to encourage her and like she's getting on to them too like she's definitely holding them like and them like accountable So Not only was she doing her job on the court and being you know in a basketball standpoint she's also doing it in a leadership standpoint of like telling you know holding her teammates accountable but she also holds herself accountable she knows when she needs to to do something um or when she didn't do something the best of her ability and and and I think that's something that's so great about her is like I when I boxed her out my junior I was like oh my gosh like it was it she's strong like I mean and she's just a good player she knows the game of basketball too like I mean last year we played them and she threw this ball behind her head like the ball threw it behind and it's at home against in col Coliseum and the fans go oo like literally and I'm like like at our home court and the fans like and she throws it behind her head a dime to Haley van lith and I don't know if I can't I think haly van lith ended up missing the shot but the the pass was incredible and I'm like this girl is 6'4 and she didn't even look to see behind her just gra like catches the ball going full speed and just toss it behind her a dime like and I don't think a lot of people realize like what she can actually um like how versatile she really is absolutely I was going to ask cuz you've played against I mean like Camila cordozo you've played against some some some great girls who are some of the girls that stand out in your mind that you've played against you're like this girl is at another level yeah um deia Fair she played at uh Syracuse she was a point guard I mean that girl she tore us up I I'll tell you that like when we played them in Syracuse last year she tore us up um my freshman year I played freshman sophomore year I believe I played against Ryan Howard she's with the Atlanta Dream I mean she's I've never seen somebody come off a ball screen like she does and just be able to shoot like just shoot it I mean just just just like I mean it's crazy and then um I'm trying to thinkk who else I me I've played against so many good players honestly that like my my brain is kind of like spinning so many of them are in the league now yeah so many I mean Ria Jackson at Tennessee I guarded her last year great player I I've always loved that matchup just because I think that um you know she she always plays hard and and a lot of the players that I mentioned they always play hard they're always you know they want what's best for the team and and they're going to do what they need to do if that makes sense and they do their job I think that's just one of the things that I've realized and then I played with with people on my Georgia team like H Morrison you know uh Jenna stady like all them um ma Maya calwell she she got drafted when she probably didn't think she was gonna get drafted her senior year when I was a freshman and she ended up getting drafted and and and going to the Atlant uh who' she get drafted by Atlanta Dream I think I could be wrong anyways no I don't know she got drafted by somebody I can't remember but she got drafted and then she went and played over seas and so I've just been around and played against a lot of really really good players yeah you it's so cool so also you've been run Nick sa a little bit you have to have been you were there at Alabama as his last season as a coach did you ever have any interactions with him you ever come around you know honestly like I think that I might have seen him once or twice I really didn't see him that that much um my brother was a ga the past two years for him um and so he would always just talk about how great he is and just the standard that he holds um and and everything that he says in press conferences I that's that's that's who he is he preaches it he teaches it um and I think just having Nick Savin be a part of the University of Alabama like it makes other teams want to be great and and and understand his legacy and how how much of a legend he really is because you know I mean you you've got to be able to work hard to be able to play for Nick sa that's what I've always heard is like he's going to make you work hard it's going to be it's going to be hard but you're going to do it and he's it's always you've got to earn it and so I think that's just something that that you're you're lucky to have at Alabama is have someone who with that with that type of Nature and and honestly like just the type of leader he probably is and just being able to have access to the videos that he ever posts you're like oh that's that's my like that's our that's a part of our University you know it's it's just really cool that's so cool something that I think is really interesting I remember when I was growing up uh Charles Barkley talked about he always Being a Role Model said he wasn't a ro role model and that always bothered me because he's got all these kids are watching what Charles Barkley does and he kept bringing up I'm not a role model because he was doing stuff that role model shouldn't do he was doing and I'm put it out there so you are a role model and I think specifically watching women's basketball the camera's always pan to these little girls who are watching you guys just with wide open eyes what is it CU at the stage of WR especially y'all had the best arguably the best season that Alabama Women's Basketball has ever had last year you got you're you're straight up on a pedestal right now what does that feel like do you do you even notice that do you know there's a weight on your shoulders for kids yeah I mean I think that um I wouldn't say pressure I would kind of say it's more just like you know that you want to be able to play so well for these kids in this program that that is where maybe pressure would come into but you don't let it get to you I think that you want when I was a little kid I was I would always look up to people and and watch them play even even if they weren't you know that that great but I would I want to see how they play in the high school even if they didn't go play division one it would would I didn't I didn't care um but when you watch those older people as you're younger you just want to see how they how they act with people how they treat people and all that kind of stuff so I think for always me is like can I if I run into anybody I'm going to treat them as nice as I can I'm going to try and be the best person that I can um I'm not always going to be the best person we're not perfect I mean but I think just as a role model you try to accept the role that you're in and you just try to understand that like hey these kids are looking up to you try to be try to go say hey to them go give them a high five go sign their Jersey go do this like like give back because the game has given me so much and so I think that's the biggest thing for me is like i' I've always just wanted to give back and do things for for people and and train little kids and because that's what I that's what I I looked up to when I was younger I looked up to the older people that were that were playing sports that were ahead of me and and so I think that I've just always just tried to give back just like people gave back to me do you have a few people that stick out in your head who you looked up to I'm like oh man that's so yeah I mean honestly like I'll say growing up not not really I think that I was I was around football so much that that I just I I just was always around football I was like my brothers if that makes sense and and I watch football a lot we were always talking about football um you know I loved watching Kobe Bryant play I really did and I loved watching my more play I mean just just both of them I mean I mean both of them but when it came to Kobe I me just the co like the the Mamba mentality just has always stuck with me because I think that just it I mean he's Relentless like he literally just goes out all the time he would play for he would play for 40 minutes like as hard as he could like you knew you were going to get him playing as hard as he could and he didn't just play hard on offense he played hard on defense and so I think that watching him play like that it made me want to be able to play like that on both sides of the ball and then also just like him giving back to the community he he did so much for the game of basketball and he was going to do so much for the for the women's game too I mean just what he was I mean who knows what what he would have done in the past three years with the women's game if he wouldn't have passed you know what I mean and so I think just like seeing how he he gave back and how he poured so much into the game that ped that that gave him so much is kind of how I want to be able to live basketball it's like the game gave me so much I want to be able to pour into it as much as you know as much as I can yeah so do you do you remember where you were when you found out that he pass yeah I was actually at the University of Georgia uh watching them play Kentucky which is crazy I was on un official visit yep yeah y so it was I was like what like I couldn't believe it at first honestly I don't think anybody could I mean even to this day it's still it's still crazy that you saw that happened um but I mean he just he's a legend of the game for sure and just his mentality was just unlike anybody so love Kobe yep so you see I mean you have young athletes coming up all the time we've talked about that player who they're the Piece of Advice You Wish You Had same player from sophomore to senior year what are some common mistakes that you wish somebody would have told you hey Sarah Ashley don't do this when you're when you're coming up or what's some things that you see young athletes mess up with that they if if they know about it they can stop it I think um understanding how much like Details Matter I think that like like I'm being completely honest like within an offense or if like if a Coach is telling you to do something they're not telling you to do it because they're trying to control you they're telling you to do it because they know that it's what works and they've seen it work like they're not just going to tell us something if it's just coming out you know they're not just going to tell us something random and so the details of it of like you know understanding how you're how someone's guarding you too I think from an offensive standpoint it's you really have to understand how someone's guarding you and if you don't then you're just out there just playing the game of basketball so I think if if I wish somebody would have came to me in high school and been like hey understand the details more of basketball and in your offense than understanding like trying to you know do all this ball handling work or all this like because there's some stuff I'm going to be honest that trainers do and you can't do that in a basketball game like you like you need to you need to sit in the film room when you're younger or even just watch you need to watch basketball you need to figure out like how the game how how the game is played because if you don't know the game of basketball your skill is not going to override the game of basketball like if there's somebody who you're even with skill-wise but they know the game of basketball more than you they're going to beat you every single time they are and so I think that if someone and luckily for me I I grew up watching the game I grew up having a good understanding of the game of basketball but I've seen people where they're very skill leveled but the the the knowledge of basketball they don't really know so I think that at a young age you've really got to be able to teach people the game of basketball and how you move and and the details of like people don't realize that the small things like the small details like jump stop off two feet the easy things how much those truly matter and being per like being great at those and then being able to add into your game but like all the NBA and WNBA players they play so well at their Pace they can go off two feet they don't turn the ball over they they know how to cut and move with the ball but they also know how to defend and they know how to be when you're supposed to rotate and all that kind of stuff and talking communicating so I think just learning the game of basketball before you go out to a trainer and learn all this a between the legs behind the back step back like you can't do that in a game you can't like you just can't and I'm not saying that's that's a I'm not saying that trainers are looked at as bad because because you need that ball handling you need those type of trainings but at the same time you've got to also train your mind of the game so sport itself is such a game of positioning so basketball might be the best example of a game position you don't have to be it helps to be the fastest it helps to jump the highest but you don't have to just to be in a good position I think awesome in any sport if you can prepare your body and your mind like you're talking about to be where you need to be you're going to do fine you're going to do great and you're going to take your athletic potential as long as it can that's all we're we really need to do is figure out this is the athletic gifts that God's given me how far can I exactly exactly go so speaking to that you're on our team here at black watch we're bringing you on and you're going to coach camps for us we're going do a lot for us what are some aspects of coaching that you have loved that that this is how you've loved to be coach this is what you admire in other coaches and how do you plan to carry that out as a coach to to some of these athletes who are going to come and and look for you say okay I'm I'm your student now tell me what right you know growing up I've always been the player that's like just tell me the like tell me the truth tell like like give it to me like kind of like hardcore kind of like I don't want you to beating around the bush telling me I'm doing this doing this like if I if I need to be somewhere tell me I need to be there if I mess up on a play tell me I mess up on a play like don't try and go around it and and and or Pat me on the B like I like I don't want that like I I think that as a player you want to be told the truth you want you want positive feedback you want NE negative feedback but you don't want negative feedback all the time because then it just gets in your head and for me like if someone was always negative with me then I'm like nothing nothing I ever do is good you know what I mean and so I think as me wanting to be a coach in the future and having coaches that know that balance of like one every player is different you have to understand how you can coach each person differently because they may take it differently and that's also with a player too you have to understand what is that coach teaching you because you have to adapt to them as they're adapting to you it works both ways in a coaching and a player relationship in my opinion um and so I've been fortunate enough to have great coaches that do that with me that um you know tell me the truth and that also are hard are hard on me and I think as a kid you need to be able to take the hard stuff and not take it personal sometimes I took coaching personal and all that does is just put you in your head but when you when you know that someone is coaching you and they they're they do it with their passion and they love you too you just got to take it from what they're you don't take it how they're saying it you you take what they're saying it's not about how it's about what they're saying to you and that's what I would try to teach these kids is like hey when I'm telling you the details really figure out what I'm saying don't just listen to what don't just listen like like really detail in on the words that I'm saying what EMP what I'm emphasizing and if I tell you you're doing something wrong that doesn't mean you suck at basketball that just means that you have this you're here and you can go here I think we always like to say that Sports can teach you character and sports can can help you develop in life but the truth of it is we see Choose the Good, Not the Bad Sports we see incredible athletes enter into a sport and then their life does not go as well as we like it to it tail spins off but then you do have awesome examples of athletes who have come to the ranks and sports and they do have these lives that are seemingly a great life to look up to someone to look up to what do you think it is how can someone develop their Sports career de Dev develop their athletic career to choose the good path and not the bad path you have any insight on that I mean I think that growing up I was very fortunate um you know with with how I grew up with my family and that kind of stuff I had a family that my mom and dad were were around I mean my parents were divorced but they were around they were they supported me they um were at all my games I mean my mom took me to everything and so I think that the way that I was raised in what what especially my mom and still to me is just like you you've always got to earn you're not you're not just giving anything you got to earn it and so you you work hard and even when you work hard and you're not giv something that doesn't mean that that you quit that doesn't mean that you sto doing something and so I think that just her giving me those words and and seeing her how hard she works in her in her work of life and her faith in and in God it just and just the things that she's had to go through and stuff like that um I think that that's what's made me realize is like there's so much to be thankful for and grateful for and so I think that that from how I grew up that's what's kind of made me the person I am and the basketball player I am but I think that a lot of a lot of people may be they may grow up in a different lifestyle they may not have a mom and that's with everything you do in life so I think that the players that that you see there are so great they're they're not great just in their sport they're great other areas and aspects of their life too I think it's everything that you do in school and and your faith and and relationships sprs the community what you're doing I think that those type of athletes that understand that it's not just I'm going to give my all in this part of my life you give your all in kind everything um and you have a purpose and you know your purpose is what kind of gets you to the point and in who you are just living the purpose if that makes sense I like that and I love what you said about gratitude gratitude so often comes before you're actually gracious have to show like okay I'm grateful just for the opportunity to be here before anything good happens that's really good who is your favorite basketball player of all time and I got to follow up after that but who's your favorite basketball player basketball player I mean probably Kobe like we like we talked about definitely Kobe for sure was it his work ethic what was it about Kobe that yeah it was it was his work ethic honestly it really was um I mean he just works and works and works but I mean at the same time like when I look at the WNBA like even right now like I love watching Wilson play like the her skill set at with how tall she is and what she can be what she can do at that level and she is like an she she just works so hard like she's a great defender great offensive threat like she just is so good at the game and then just anything that you've ever heard is like she's such a good leader too and so even though she's in the WNBA right now I still look up to that stuff I still look up to players in the WNBA um but Kobe definitely is my my all-time favorite and then I love Luca's game like love Luca's game I think that the way he literally controls the game is unbelievable just the way he controls the game but yeah Kobe's mentality is really just kind of something that's always resonated with me so absolutely who is your favorite coach of all time oh man it can't be any coach you've ever played for no yeah yeah right I'm not going to I'm not going to say a coach that I've ever played for not trying to hurt anybody's feelings um I'm trying to think oh goodness who's my favorite coach of all time gosh that's I mean I I really like Steve Kerr from from Golden State I mean I love how how he just is able to their offense is so amazing I mean I I just love offensive minded coaches honestly um and then what's the guys what's the Boston Celtics coach um oh man what is his name yeah you know what I'm talking about though it's a red R box we know who yeah the Bost coach They just won the NBA Championship I just love how he openly speaks about his faith um and that's something that I think now I'm like yeah that's like the coach that I really like to to watch and listen to um and see what he has to say and so yeah yeah and unabashedly like he's not he's not afraid to go there I love that so you you got some big plans with basketball like you're you're about to wrap up your college care you get one more season going to get everything you have what are what's your plan for basketball this final year and also moving past that yeah so I mean of course I would love to have a great year like I did last year and just kind of just be consistent with it um I don't need to be anything extraordinary or go do this like I just need to have consistent numbers pretty much um and then I would love to go play in the WNBA I hope I get drafted I hope I make a team um I I think I don't think a lot of people realize how hard it is want to get drafted but the but not even to get drafted is to make a team I think there was an article that came out was like 13 of the 36 people that got drafted are the only people that made a team everybody else got cut and so I think that that's just something that I'm I'm hoping for is that I I just make a team if that makes sense like I want to get drafted and be able to you know be able to get drafted but I really want to make a team um and so and then if I if if I don't get drafted you know we'll see what overseas looks like and that kind of stuff um I would love to go I I just want to continue playing honestly I don't I don't want to I say that I wouldn't want to play overseas that much because I I'm hoping that I get to play in the WNBA and make a team but I would never count myself out when it comes to overseas just because I think I would not I would be mad at myself later on in life if I didn't give basketball more of a chance if I didn't make a WNBA team if that makes sense I like that final thing and we can end on this is what piece of advice do you wish someone would have told you when you're in when you're starting to consider man I could really do this basketball thing I could really do this Sports thing what would you what do you wish someone would have told you sh I wish someone would have told me that you know just because you love a game so much doesn't mean that you have to like change not not change who you are because I never changed who I am but doesn't mean that there's other stuff that goes on in your life that's not going to impact the game of basketball if that makes sense like I think that when I'm talking about that it's like you're going to have other life issues that come along the way but don't let that impact the love and the and how much you love the game of basketball and don't let that affect how you play and don't let other things carry it onto the court I think I wish I would have just had someone who just been like you're going to go through through some hard stuff you can get through it but still love the game of basketball and don't let something else take your love away from basketball because I'm going to be honest when I was in those struggles of my S my freshman sophomore year I started to hate basketball not hate it but I started to dislike it and I I and I really was like is this even what I want to do I mean and there was times where I would have terrible games and I'm like I mean this isn't even fun I think just understanding like hey just go have fun with it if you if you suck that game cool like that that like at the end of the day basketball isn't isn't the greatest thing in life like it's not it's just something that you get that God has given you a gift to go do and play and love and you're and you just get that opportunity to just go do it amen I love that well we will end on that guys we'll put uh Sarah Ashley's uh Instagram and stuff in the description you can follow along there and check us out coming up she's got some camps coming up we got some really cool camps coming up before and after season so check that out but um it's awesome thank you for doing this I appreciate than for having me it was awesome