Zia Cooke

She hoops like it was just all these different type of platforms that players were starting to get recognized on.

That didn't really happen until the end of my junior year until my senior year, and that's how I kind of became who I am because of the things that were captured.

Then when you get to college, it was kind of slow until NIL came, and then NIL brought it up, and then these new waves of girls.

I just got into W, Angel Reese, Kaitlyn Clark.

They are definitely leading the way, I think, and just showing what women's basketball is capable of.

And I think we're on the rise.

Honestly, I've been in restaurants.

Literally anywhere I go, I see women's basketball on the TV.

Or I might see it on the screen somewhere.

And it's just like...

Sometimes I look and I'm like, wow, we're on TV.

Every time I go somewhere, I hear about women's basketball and it's just showing that we're on the rise.

The challenges.

And then that's just kind of how men try to get on with you, I think.

Yeah, they take it a little too serious, and they try to...

do the whole loving basketball thing and it's like yo like come on be serious like no i'm playing for real yeah like play for real don't flirt play for real like i really want to show you that you can't guard me put the flirting aside the ick that crawls through my veins just not thinking about men like play flirting yeah like oh my god shirts versus skins you and me

always fucking mouth one thing about me is i'm i'm good at just ignoring people like i do really well like that i don't really i i'm understanding that trolling is a thing now like that's what people like get happy about and that's who they are so it's just like when they get to keep myself sane i just read it laugh at it and move on yeah because that's all you can do yeah well and i also think too whenever men say shit like that like they're like well if i

So he's like a YMCA basketball player.

Yeah.

Which I don't agree with.