Dawn Staley, South Carolina women's basketball coach, on representation and speaking up for people without a voice
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When Dawn Staley was growing up, the WNBA didn't exist. The game has changed since her younger years, the former player and current head coach of South Carolina's women's basketball team said, because young women will have today's stars to look up to.
"I often question whether or not if I can play today in how the game is evolved. These super physical, super talented individuals. But most of all, what I think has happened is for all of my current players, for all of their lives, they've only known the WNBA," she told CBSN contributor Antjuan Seawright in an interview. "If you've grown up with professional women's basketball your entire life, you have a tangible thing in front of you to work hard towards," she said. "It was probably a bit harder when I was growing up playing this game because you look forward to college and then if you get lucky enough to play in the Olympic Games because that was like professional basketball to us."More Related News
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