04-30-2020, 04:32 PM
Thanks Petersalas for posting the interview. I just listened, pretty long -- of the 33 minutes, 25 was with DiJonai. Here's what I got out of it . . .
She commented on how much she'd liked her teammates and playing with them, were really great, but in the same set of comments, said nothing positive about any of the coaches, in fact, never really talked about them at all. Later, when asked what she'd learned about playing in college, she hesitated, then said that she'd learned about boxing out.
Re whether she really was still hurt at end of season, not clear, but she did say that she was "still rehabbing."
Talked about Sabrina and how much she admired her, why she was so good, and then said that Kelley had allowed Sabrina to blossom, and she was looking for that. Maybe, perhaps ??? possible to infer from this that she didn't feel she got that at Stanford.
Commented that the decision among her 3 finalists was her "last shot at picking the right school." Does this imply that she now feels that she'd made a mistake in picking Stanford?
My final conclusion was she didn't want to say explicitly that she was unhappy with Stanford and the way her career had developed, but much of what she said seemed to suggest that. Maybe I'm wrong, but that was at least the flavor I got.
She commented on how much she'd liked her teammates and playing with them, were really great, but in the same set of comments, said nothing positive about any of the coaches, in fact, never really talked about them at all. Later, when asked what she'd learned about playing in college, she hesitated, then said that she'd learned about boxing out.
Re whether she really was still hurt at end of season, not clear, but she did say that she was "still rehabbing."
Talked about Sabrina and how much she admired her, why she was so good, and then said that Kelley had allowed Sabrina to blossom, and she was looking for that. Maybe, perhaps ??? possible to infer from this that she didn't feel she got that at Stanford.
Commented that the decision among her 3 finalists was her "last shot at picking the right school." Does this imply that she now feels that she'd made a mistake in picking Stanford?
My final conclusion was she didn't want to say explicitly that she was unhappy with Stanford and the way her career had developed, but much of what she said seemed to suggest that. Maybe I'm wrong, but that was at least the flavor I got.
