Seattle – “I knew that women’s basketball was the final goal for me,” said Seattle storm Britannia Vaughn sports drag. “They have always been my favorite sport to work. The female basketball athletes are hard, so I just fell in love with that, and that’s where I have to be.”
“And then it’s just the excitement of the game itself, the possibilities of injury. You do not see the same thing every day. Every day, I come to work, I say to myself:” What is it going to be today? “”
With previous stops in Texas State and Virginia, Britannie Vaughn made a very important impression before joining the storm.
“My former head coach of the University of Virginia is Tina Thompson, who is actually a very good friend of Noelle. She said:” Are you interested in this? “And I said:” Absolutely. “
Thompson is the temple of WNBA’s woman who ended her career with The Storm, on the same list as the current head coach of Storm Noelle.
Now, beyond breastfeeding ankles and rehabilitation knees, Vaughn also provides a kind of sanctuary.
“You are certainly playing in the therapist, giving your athletes a safe space where they have the impression of being able to be themselves, they can evacuate. They know that you are a neutral party, and you are not no one who controls how many minutes they play. They can feel comfortable, being themselves, they can release-it is a victory for both of us, I think.”
Not everyone can see the real personalities of professional athletes. But they often shine in the training room.
“You have this preconceived notion, it is the quietest person you have never met, then here, I say to myself” Hmm … I think you have duples, so you are not really the most silent person. “Or the people you think is noisy and frank outgoing people in court, it is not also behind the scenes.
As an organization, the storm is anything but silent. Tied for four WNBA Record of the League championships, they also raise the bar with regard to the facilities.
“Where we started, even by practicing in a D2 school to have this incredible installation to which athletes have 24 -hour access and be one of the first organizations to do how important it is, you cannot correspond to this. Players can enter each time they are in town and know that they have somewhere where they can enter, and somewhere they can work, get a treatment, get everything they need.”
Vaughn’s favorite part of the work is to see the athletes regain the ground after an injury. She took the sports journalist Fox 13 Alyssa Charlston-Smith through a few exercises common to the ankle, the knee and the hip while showing the advantages of the Storm Center for Basketball Performance.
“Our own training room, first step, but even have the swimming pool, a cold bathtub, we do not have to drain and fill every day; whirlpool, having the sauna and the hammam was so useful. The hyperbaric room: incredible. We love it, we use it regularly,” said Vaughn. “I write our recovery lists for each day after training and what does what. So we use them a lot for training, I would say that a few players enter one or the other according to the injuries they have, how their bodies feel.”
And she had a row seat to watch the rest of the WNBA develop.
“Oh, it was massive. I think that when I started my first season, the majority of the WNBA teams had a sports coach, that’s all. What can be a lot for a person to manage all the daily supporters and successors of a team. So, I think that in the seasons, we saw several teams on mental health.”
Vaughn’s dream work in the WNBA constitutes more investment each year, making his house with the storm a house with a high ceiling.
“It’s great to be able to come and have your own space. To feel comfortable that I don’t have to pack a whole training room at the end of a season. Having this pride that it is for us.”
This is well associated with a 170% increase in television television last year, a 601% increase in sales of goods, according to the WNBA website and the best number of participants in 22 years.
The source
The information comes from the original reports of the journalist of Fox 13 Seattle Sports Alyssa Charlston-Smith.
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