Zia Cooke

And then I would just say, like, make sure you're working extremely hard, like extremely hard.

And with NIL being what it is now, it can sometimes make you lose focus on the school part of things.

Yeah.

so it's like make sure you take that serious too because the ball will stop bouncing at some point and you want to be able to go back to whatever you got that degree in yeah things like that um and then just enjoying a moment have fun with with the game like you want to make it seem less like a job for as long as you can because once it becomes a job for you it's a job and there's nothing that you can do to change that yeah

And then lastly, I would just say stay mentally strong.

Make sure that you stay mentally strong and understand that you will have highs and lows and things like that.

But I can really keep going because there's so much that I've been through that I would love to just help people with.

But that's some of the things I would say.

I have to say as a student athlete, I don't know how you could fail.

You have so many resources.

There's no way to fail.

It's like, how do you fail?

You should literally be an honor student.

You don't get the answers.

That's easy.

I think my most memorable moment was...

This is how, like, I became Ziya Cook, I think.

When I was my senior year, I had, like, one of the best games of my career, and I kind of, like, crossed this girl.

I pointed at her, and then I did, like, this crazy lay.

And that moment was crazy because it's, like, when people say, like,