Professional Interview: Coach Yo

hello everyone and welcome back to our professional interview series for georgia state's kinesiology and health department today i am here with coach yo the player development coach for the women's basketball team at georgia tech and former student athlete and former coach at georgia state university coach yo welcome today thank you for being here thank you thank

you thank you for having me oh no absolutely um so we want to get into like what you do so can you describe as a player development coach uh for the women's basketball team what you do um and what a typical day looks like i guess we'll talk about maybe what a typical day looks like now in

2020 and then maybe highlight some of the differences from from before covet 19 before march and then after okay okay we'll do we'll do so uh player development is basically the same as strength and conditioning um so i mean depending on where you go depending on what college they have just different titles but

they're all synonymous and i mean my day to day i mean it is i wake up every day at 4 45 a.m uh our our practice block is from 8 to noon but before that i train myself so that is that's usually my time to experiment maybe do something that i know the

ladies are going to do or just my own just training session um so that kind of how that starts and now in 2020 we have practice blocks and once that block is done you know we pretty much get out of here if you don't want too many people in the building so that's kind of how that one goes uh

prior to that i mean there wasn't necessarily blocks it was we had a team here at this time then maybe it you know we overlapped a bit with another team kind of thing so now we're much more structured in making sure that our blocks stay our blocks uh for each team knowing people in the weight room that