um , so off the court we're conditioning weight training 5 days a week and then obviously trying to eat healthy um is very important to my performance . Some challenges that I've challenges that I faced is , uh , my senior year of high school , I tore my ACL , um , so I was out for my entire senior year . Um , and so it was a big adjustment coming to college , um , not knowing , just , just being nervous to go to college as is and then coming back on a from an injury is also like an added stress and so I think to overcome that I've , I've tried a ton of things to like focus on my mental health and I think my mental health is super important to my physical health and how I show up every day , um , so I think that's the main thing like .
I think time management is super important when it comes to any college sport and any major , um , but especially being a business major at USC , it's , it's super important to like manage your time . um , I think that was something that I struggled with my freshman year is because you feel like you always have to be somewhere , you always have to be doing something . One tip that I have is like having a .
And she was the first coach to call me and was like , hey , we still want you here . What you have to go through , you have to go through . This was before I knew I had the results back from my MRI and so she was like , we believe in you , we want you here and no matter what the injury is , we still want you and you're more than a basketball player , we want you as a person and so ultimately that felt like home to me .
Everybody else's , so I think having a different journey than everybody else doesn't necessarily mean bad . Everybody has a different journey to get to the goals that they want to get to . Hi , I'm Malia Samuels .
Some challenges that I've challenges that I faced is , uh , my senior year of high school , I tore my ACL , um , so I was out for my entire senior year . Um , and so it was a big adjustment coming to college , um , not knowing , just , just being nervous to go to college as is and then coming back on a from an injury is also like an added stress and so I think to overcome that I've , I've tried a ton of things to like focus on my mental health and I think my mental health is super important to my physical health and how I show up every day , um , so I think that's the main thing like . I like to journal .
