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."Days off do not exist for Katie Ledecky. "I swim nine to ten times a week, for two hours at a time," she said. By her own estimate, Ledecky swims up to 70,000 meters – roughly 43 miles – each week, as she gears up for the Paris Olympics next month. And if that isn't enough, after hitting the pool, she hits the weights.
With foothills rising above, Boise, Idaho is a place of beauty. But it's the city's less scenic quarters, dead ends and back alleys that were Robert Martin's home, on and off, for 15 years. On nights when Boise's homeless shelters were full, Martin got sleep wherever he could. "There were times I've slept in garage stairwells, on cement, slept in rock, up under overpasses in the rocks and dirt," he said.