Postgame with Simone

Full episode next Friday 16th   

Training the person underneath the jersey is just as important as the athlete in it. Jasmine gives her understanding of who she is and who she hopes to develop others to be as more than just an athlete.

And We Are Back!!  She is now known as Coach Mize but I have the pleasure of knowing her as Mize, an Indiana Native with an impeccable heart and an immense love for the game of basketball. The ultimate student of the game as she developed her passion for strategic basketball but also and most importantly the development of her players. During our conversation, Mize shares her desires to not only develop players but more importantly assemble the best in people. Being an example of this herself as she places value in hardships and being a beacon of understanding as her young student-athlete learn this in her care.   

Y'all enjoy   

xo

Full episode next week July 2nd   

"When you feel you've given the sport everything" 

Sometimes we don't realize the impact our sport have on us until we no longer are available to it, however that may occur. It is a feeling not readily talked about. For Andrea, her first love in the game of basketball was challenged however, as the cards flips, she was able to reengage herself and the love for the game.

Welcome Back!!!   What an amazing friend I have in George Andrews as he shares his journey in the the sport of Diving. A Chicago native who wanted to find a winter sport and landed into the world of Diving. George shares his love not only for the sport but what the sport gave him, an extended family. As a member of the LGBTQ community, George was able to call a place like Bloomington Indiana home has he navigated the life of a student-athlete. George also shares his diagnosis of anxiety, how he learned more about it, and what resources and tools he found helpful throughout his collegiate career. 

A huge shout out to GA for sitting down with me and opening up about his experience!!!   

y'all enjoy  

xo

RESOURCES SHARED  

https://www.donovanmentalperformance.com/9-athlete-mental-health-resources  

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us 

https://www.thehrcfoundation.org

Full episode next week on June 18th.

"The value of a really good mentor"  

Any athlete coming out of IU within the last 8 years can share the value of Ms. Mattie. Playing a pivotal part of many of our student-athlete experiences, making us feel heard and valued beyond the physical contributions we brought to the school.

Anxiety does not discriminate and working through living with it takes a unique combination of many different factors in order for one to function best with it---- For George, it was having the confidant in Ms. Mattie that allowed him to build his confidence when working through his anxieties during his collegiate career.

Next up is Andrea, Wensits!   

My dear friend who joined the Indiana Women's Basketball team my freshman year but started her collegiate career two years prior as a Varsity Rower for the University. Not your traditional story of an individual journeying through their collegiate career, yet so many relatable discoveries made as a young person just trying to figure it out.   

Through the difficulties in navigating what others expected from her, Wensits was able to follow her own voice, her own path, and discover that walking along side others as they to take on this journey rest her passions.   

THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart to AW for sitting with me and opening up about her experience!   

y'all enjoy    

xo

Welcome back post gamers!!   In this next conversation, I have the privilege in chatting with an old teammate, Lyndsay Leikem. She graciously agreed to share her unique journey with basketball with me as we discussed the consistency of "quick changes" that happened within her career.  

In the most difficult way, Lyndsay 's ideal of her role on the team was interrupted with an unannounced coaching change right before their season began her sophomore year. Within the vidcast, she chats about that challenge specifically and how that led to forms of self-doubt, insecurities and low confidence. 

However, with the right support and understanding of a new role, Lyndsay was able to find peace with the new changes and love the game of basketball as she once did.   A huge THANK YOU to Ms. Lyndsay for sitting with me and opening up about her experience. I can't wait to see how it resonate with those who tune in.   

Y'all enjoy  

xo

Full episode next week on May 21st.   

"Navigating Confidence during changes"   

Nothing unfamiliar here, right? We have something that we are accustomed to and just like that it shifts, changes, and it's gone----For Lyndsay, it was not only coming up with a way to continue to love the sport of basketball, but to continue to believe in her abilities to play at that level.

In my very first vidcast, I have the honor of sharing my wonderful friend, Ralston Evans' journey. His transformation for the love of Football through valuable relationships, his desire to be a team player, and watching his teammates succeed. Facing injury early in his career, shifted that significant role for RE when he began to question his value within that lived experience.  

However, with the right team in his corner, advisors who he could trust, and teammates who would rally behind him, RE was able to find a new sense of purpose within the game.   

I am so incredibly blessed to have had Ralston sit down with me from the very begging. I hope he'll come back and extended his story and share more about his life in postgame.  

But for now, here is Postgame with Simone feat. Ralston Evans   

Y'all enjoy  xo

Full episode next week on May 7th.  

"Tough Love"   

Many of us know exactly what it's like to receive this. When someone who cares for us shares something that helps to refocus our current state of mind---- For Ralston, it was not giving up on his dreams as a collegiate football player due to the results of an aggressive injury.