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Poniżej wklejam treść dwóch artykułów, które ilustrują to, że w bogatych USA sport na poziomie lokalnym wcale nie ma lekko.
Nic samo się tam nie dzieje, manna im z nieba nie spada, wszystko wymaga starań i zaangażowania.
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Nkolika Anosike – swego czasu jedna z czołowych zawodniczek WNBA; w sezonach 2008/2009 oraz 2009/2010 była zawodniczką gorzowskiego zespołu; od kwietnia 2020 jest trenerem dziewczęcego zespołu koszykówki w jednym z liceów w Knoxville (TN) ]
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Artykuł 1. ____ (jego częścią jest krótki film zawierający wypowiedzi N. Anosike oraz ilustrujący przebieg prac w szatni)
Former Lady Vol leads rebuild at Anderson CountyNicky Anosike's DIY project paving the way for Lady Mavs
Published: Jul. 8, 2020 at 3:35 AM CEST
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Play like a champion--it’s something Nicky Anosike knows a thing or two about having won it all under legendary coach Pat Summitt. Now she’s the head coach of the girls program at Anderson County high school. Inside the gym, the work has begun on getting her young ladies to the top, but right now it has nothing to do with basketball.
Anosike said, ”Part of winning a championship is a mindset and so what I’m trying to do is instill a certain mindset into our players you work hard then on the back end you’ll receive the benefits. We have been working day and night on our locker room, we’ve been painting, we’ve been demoing floors. You name it we’ve been doing it.”
While touring the not-yet-completed facility, Nicky said, “You can see the condition of our shower area, I’d like to demo this and put nice new tile, doesn’t have to be anything fancy. So this is the same tile since 1982 and most of us don’t have to shower in a place that has 40-year-old tile.”
For Anosike, the first phase of bonding for her Lady Mavericks is keeping them together and she believes the end result of this transformation will do just that, ”I do not want my players to go off campus. So in an effort to keep them safe I want to make a kitchen area to where they can eat here. They can bond together and not worry me, I don’t want to worry that they might go and get injured.”
Anosike’s work ethic comes directly from Coach Summitt, who the former Lady Vol believes would be proud of how she’s handling things in her new position, ”I really think she would be proud of the woman I’ve become, and she’d be proud of herself helping me become the woman I have today. Every day I think about her and ways to incorporate her in our locker room.”
As far as this DIY project is concerned, the new head coach has enlisted the help of anyone she can from players to parents to even her younger brother and new Tennessee Vol E.J. Anosike, “He painted, helped take down doors and put the doors back up. That’s something I want to teach my younger brother, too. I’m his older sister, and he looks up to me. I wanted to teach him about not just basketball, but helping in the community.”
Nicky and the Lady Mavs still have a little ways to go and can use all the assistance they can get! If you’re so inclined, anyone who wants to donate resources or labor can email Anosike
Any amount raised that exceeds the renovation efforts will be used in support of the team, such as buying new uniforms, which haven’t been replaced for years.
Copyright 2020 WVLT. All rights reserved.
Link do artykułu i filmiku:
https://www.wvlt.tv/2020/07/08/former-lady-vol-leads-rebuild-at-anderson-county/================================================================================================================
Artykuł 2. ____ (jego częścią też jest filmik, który pokazuje efekty przeprowadzonych prac)
With locker room renovation finished, LVFL Nicky Anosike eyes cultural rebuild at Anderson CountyThe two-time NCAA champion is hoping a culture shift leads to even more rings
Published: Jan. 30, 2021 at 6:15 AM CET
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Former Lady Vol Nicky Anosike wasn’t going to let a global pandemic stop her from setting a goal and seeing it through.
The two-time NCAA champion with Tennessee, Anosike took over the Anderson County girls basketball team back on April 13th, 2020. She remembers the date because it was supposed to be her wedding day until the coronavirus pandemic reared its ugly head.
But just like her days on Rocky Top, Anosike eventually got hold of her ring, marrying her husband in a small ceremony over the summer. She’s hoping a shift in culture at her new school leads to a few more rings in the future.
Before Anosike could get started coaching up her girls on the court, she felt they needed a safe space off the court - to bond over meals and homework together. With a $600 budget, Anosike set out to start her project within a project: give her new team a professional-level locker room.
After walking across the court and seeing what the boys dressing room looked like, Anosike knew that $600 would only go so far.
“To take nothing away from the boys, they deserve it. They work really, really hard and they deserve that nice locker room, but I also believed the girls deserved something nice.”
Like a great outlet pass, the Anderson County community helped set Anosike and her team up to knock down shots - and knock down barriers for years to come.
“Quite frankly the attitude of my girls was very similar to mine [when I was their age]. They were just like, ‘well they’re the boys of course they have it’. Obviously it’s too late for me to go back in time and change my mindset, but I don’t want these girls to have that mindset. I want them to have the mindset of, ‘well, the boys have it, why shouldn’t we?’”
Day by day, Anoskie started reaching out to people in the community and quickly realized the type of company she was in.
“I started thinking ‘I know someone who does floors’, so I called him I said ‘look, here’s the situation we can’t pay you, we’ve literally spent most of our money on paint’. And he said, No problem, I’ll do it for free. And he came in and he did these beautiful floors for us for free. And then I thought, you know what, this story needs to get out,” said Anosike.
Author and writer Maria Cornelius initially got the word out, and helped get the ball rolling on other projects within the locker room.
“There were so many people in the community that were saying, ‘look, it’s a pandemic - I don’t have money, but we have a TV in our guest room that no one’s using we can donate that,’ and so we have televisions. People just started donating -some people said ‘I don’t have a huge amount but I can give you 200 bucks’. All of those amounts added up to something that really allowed us to create what I believe is a professional level locker room,” said Anosike.
A new shared space to share in each other’s growth both on and off the court.
“They really don’t know how to work hard, but they want someone to teach them and once they get a taste of it, it’s like they’re addicted to it. They really love to work hard and so that’s kind of the culture I’ve been trying to implement here,” said Anosike.
Copyright 2021 WVLT. All rights reserved.
Link do artykułu i filmiku:
https://www.wvlt.tv/2021/01/30/with-locker-room-renovation-finished-lvfl-nicky-anosike-eyes-cultural-rebuild-at-anderson-county/.
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