Sydney Colson

It's been so much fun.

I think AU just does a great job of allowing everyone to have their own self-expression.

A lot of times in sport, they try to make you uniform.

everyone fit into this mold.

And here at AU, they really encourage you to absolutely be yourself.

And even when they do, like, OK, you're going to wear this AU sweatshirt today, but you get to wear everything else to make it look like it's you.

So I just love the individuality of AU and just how they celebrate that.

I've always played overseas.

I was doing really well overseas.

It was like good, easy money to make as a post player going overseas.

And,

I was doing it for so long that I'm like, yeah, you miss a lot going overseas, like birthdays, holidays.

It's just hard to see life go on and you are just working really hard.

I came to AU and I absolutely like fell back in love with the game of basketball.

All the external pressures that come with pro sports are kind of taken away and you're surrounded by your peers who are also your teammates and your competitors.

So there's a level of like understanding and a level of, um,

why or understanding people's why.

And it just brings a little bit more out of, you know, who you are and you just learn and you grow a lot as an individual on and off the court through AU.

And I think that it just provides everyone an opportunity to be themselves.

And I was perfect just the way I was showing up.