here’s my really long/corny yap abt UConn and paige 😔💔
as you probably know, when i find new things to obsess over or i get re-interested in something I used to be so interested in, it’s always very intense lmfao, so here’s my uconn/paige bueckers yap!!
so i first started watching women’s college basketball last year since my grandparents live in Iowa and one of the best players in the league was playing there, and i remember during one of the playoff games it was Iowa and UConn and i remember the corner of my eye always ALWAYS catching on the girl with the braids in her hair who was making all of these threes. and now here I am, about a year later after I finally got back into wbb by tiktok and even just flicking through channels on my tv.
i’m assuming almost everyone has seen edits of paige. i mean she's so popular.
this year i rediscovered my love for sports journalism and news media by stumbling across edits of her and then deciding to do some extra credit reporting on the ucla vs uconn game. i wish i could tell her how much of an inspiration she has been to me even as someone who doesn’t play sports, she helped me start to know what i want to do with my life and i’d give anything to tell her that. this marks her final year at uconn and just recently was her final game. she has accomplished so much and has finally won the national championship that she deserved. as much as i would like to say that as a fan, I'm happy and overjoyed, but i can’t deny the fact that it’s the most bittersweet ending that UConn fans could ever wished for. on one hand, one of my favourite players will be in the wnba which is so amazing and is a dream for any basketball player, and on the other hand we won’t get anymore fit checks with her and azzi, i won’t get to finally experience being on a kk and paige live at like 4am. and as much as i’m grateful to have found paige and this team at this point, the little voice in the back of my head really wishes that i would have been able to experience everything in real time and not through replays and old tiktoks. and tho i’ve only been this obsessed for a couple months or so, ive felt this odd sense of calm and connection through my screen, the laughs and smiles, and the energy that people through my screen could make me have is so insane to me.
another thing that I didn’t expect would come along with liking this team is how they have impacted my relationship with God and how even just kk and azzi talking about their before game devotionals, it’s been such an inspiration.
i wish i could travel back in time and watch the past years and seasons with this team, just to say i did, because now my team is splitting and going separate ways. i'm so happy for paige and her career, and every other senior that is leaving but i wish just for one more year, i could experience the team. and i know that im dramatic and corny and i know i can always watching her on whatever amazing team drafts her and still watch uconn but i don’t think it’ll ever be the same. i didn’t think that this could be so painful but here i am lmfao. i can’t imagine what kk and azzi and everyone else on the team are feeling, since what im feeling as just a fan. and i know that some of yall are just thinking “just be happy” and i am, i really am. im so happy and excited to see where paige’s career goes but what some people don’t understand is i don’t like her just because of her game play or how she’s a good player, i liked her because of all of the extra things she and her team did, all the late night lives, tiktoks, videos etc. and i’ll probably be re-watching them for quite awhile because they have given me such comfort.
so here’s my thank you to uconn and paige this year,
you guys have sparked my love for sports journalism and have made me felt seen through so many ways, i wish that i could somehow tell every person on uconn that they are my biggest inspirations. maybe next year i’ll see yall live
brooke
here’s my really long/corny yap abt UConn and paige 😔💔
as you probably know, when i find new things to obsess over or i get re-interested in something I used to be so interested in, it’s always very intense lmfao, so here’s my uconn/paige bueckers yap!!
so i first started watching women’s college basketball last year since my grandparents live in Iowa and one of the best players in the league was playing there, and i remember during one of the playoff games it was Iowa and UConn and i remember the corner of my eye always ALWAYS catching on the girl with the braids in her hair who was making all of these threes. and now here I am, about a year later after I finally got back into wbb by tiktok and even just flicking through channels on my tv.
i’m assuming almost everyone has seen edits of paige. i mean she's so popular.
this year i rediscovered my love for sports journalism and news media by stumbling across edits of her and then deciding to do some extra credit reporting on the ucla vs uconn game. i wish i could tell her how much of an inspiration she has been to me even as someone who doesn’t play sports, she helped me start to know what i want to do with my life and i’d give anything to tell her that.
this marks her final year at uconn and just recently was her final game. she has accomplished so much and has finally won the national championship that she deserved. as much as i would like to say that as a fan, I'm happy and overjoyed, but i can’t deny the fact that it’s the most bittersweet ending that UConn fans could ever wished for.
on one hand, one of my favourite players will be in the wnba which is so amazing and is a dream for any basketball player, and on the other hand we won’t get anymore fit checks with her and azzi, i won’t get to finally experience being on a kk and paige live at like 4am.
and as much as i’m grateful to have found paige and this team at this point, the little voice in the back of my head really wishes that i would have been able to experience everything in real time and not through replays and old tiktoks.
and tho i’ve only been this obsessed for a couple months or so, ive felt this odd sense of calm and connection through my screen, the laughs and smiles, and the energy that people through my screen could make me have is so insane to me.
another thing that I didn’t expect would come along with liking this team is how they have impacted my relationship with God and how even just kk and azzi talking about their before game devotionals, it’s been such an inspiration.
i wish i could travel back in time and watch the past years and seasons with this team, just to say i did, because now my team is splitting and going separate ways. i'm so happy for paige and her career, and every other senior that is leaving but i wish just for one more year, i could experience the team.
and i know that im dramatic and corny and i know i can always watching her on whatever amazing team drafts her and still watch uconn but i don’t think it’ll ever be the same. i didn’t think that this could be so painful but here i am lmfao. i can’t imagine what kk and azzi and everyone else on the team are feeling, since what im feeling as just a fan. and i know that some of yall are just thinking “just be happy” and i am, i really am. im so happy and excited to see where paige’s career goes but what some people don’t understand is i don’t like her just because of her game play or how she’s a good player, i liked her because of all of the extra things she and her team did, all the late night lives, tiktoks, videos etc. and i’ll probably be re-watching them for quite awhile because they have given me such comfort.
so here’s my thank you to uconn and paige this year,
you guys have sparked my love for sports journalism and have made me felt seen through so many ways, i wish that i could somehow tell every person on uconn that they are my biggest inspirations.
maybe next year i’ll see yall live
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