My Life in NCAA Women's Basketball by Brooke Pahukoa

My Life in NCAA Women's Basketball by Brooke Pahukoa

 

Away Trip Itinerary and quick thought

 Travel Day-  Jan. 24th  ,2017
9am- wake up, breakfast, finish packing, homework
10:30-11:45 - class
11:45- Meet at Taxi to go to airport
2- depart from Boise
Layover in Salt Lake City airport delayed
4:20- depart for Reno, Nevada
5:15- check into hotel
5:30- Film
6- Practice
7:45- Dinner
9- Back to hotel, Homework, watch Mens game on TV
11- Bed

Game Day - Jan. 25th, 2017

9:30- breakfast at hotel
11-12:30 Shoot around at gym
2:45- Pre-game meal with team
5:40- Depart for Game
5:50-Warmups
7- Game Time
8:45- Post-game meal
10- watch film of game
12- Bed

Travel Day- Jan.26th, 2017

4-depart for airport
6-depart for Las Vegas
9- depart for Boise
11:45 arrive in Boise
12- Lunch
1-Rehab
2- Practice
5- Dinner
6-9- Class
10- Homework




What really happens when a team travels to an away game? First, the preparation before the team leaves is unimaginable. Our Director of Operations spends hours booking flights and hotels, planning transportation starting at Boise State all through the weekend, planning 3 meals a day plus going shopping to get snacks for everyone, coordinating practice and shoot around times slots with the opposing school, organizing uniforms and an itinerary. As players, we spend the week prior to leaving coordinating homework and missing assignments with professors. Weekend games are the best, as we only have to worry about missing Friday Classes. However realistically an away trip is all business. We go from airport to hotel to gym to back to airport. In free time we are constantly catching up on homework and missing assignments. Any collegiate athlete knows the work it takes to travel for an away game. Any basketball collegiate player knows how tough it is to travel 3 days of the week while going to school full time.

 

 

Skills I've gained from basketball

As I finish up my college basketball career it is natural to look at what basketball has done for my life. Below are some of the skills basketball have given me that has helped me grow as a person on and off the court.  

The number one thing basketball has taught me is that relationships are the focal point of our happiness. Our support system and who we surround ourselves with can change the outcome of any situation. 

Skills I’ve learned from basketball:

• competitiveness
• communication
• teamwork
• reliability 
• resilience 
• time-management 
• nutrition 
• hardwork 
• public-speaking 
• responsibility 
• goal-setting
• humbleness
• gratitude/appreciation
• accountability 
• emotional-intelligence 
• how to be a leader
• how to be a follower 
• self-improvement 
• discipline 
• perserverance 

I owe everything I am to the game of basketball.