Sanaa B, Chege drops by The Demia Avery Show to talk about her journey as a young African American diver as well as an author. Her new book is entitled "A Diver Like Me". https://chegecorner.com/
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00:00:17 --> 00:00:19 talents hello hello hello everyone this
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00:00:44 --> 00:00:46 my guest today is a future diving
00:00:46 --> 00:00:48 Olympian I'm putting it out there I'm
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00:00:55 --> 00:00:58 Chey welcome you see I'm putting it out
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00:01:02 --> 00:01:04 Olympian how you doing today I'm good
00:01:04 --> 00:01:08 how are you I'm doing good so tell us a
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00:01:48 --> 00:01:51 tried it and you just liked it or how
00:01:51 --> 00:01:55 did you you know so um I took classes
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00:02:12 --> 00:02:14 I didn't see anyone like I didn't really
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00:02:51 --> 00:02:54 that um I don't I don't really know like
00:02:54 --> 00:02:57 I feel like when I first started diving
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00:03:49 --> 00:03:51 you said what I don't even know what you
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00:04:03 --> 00:04:05 this going to get on my nerve today what
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00:04:09 --> 00:04:12 you um well I could give you example an
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00:04:32 --> 00:04:34 hands it was not the easiest dive to
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00:04:46 --> 00:04:48 coach was like oh have you ever done it
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00:04:50 --> 00:04:53 how about you try it so I tried it and
00:04:53 --> 00:04:54 then I had to keep doing that hated the
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00:05:09 --> 00:05:11 I don't like it because it to land on my
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00:05:19 --> 00:05:22 now do you get a lot of compliments from
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00:06:33 --> 00:06:37 16 you achieved a lot I was reading some
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00:06:46 --> 00:06:48 Montgomery County Public School
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00:07:54 --> 00:07:56 easier for me to manage that and then
00:07:56 --> 00:07:59 also so this year it's been much easier
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00:08:19 --> 00:08:21 was that with your wrist injury for you
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00:08:40 --> 00:08:43 you're going into competition what is it
00:08:43 --> 00:08:46 a typical day for you son do like for
00:08:46 --> 00:08:49 training I don't I have no idea what you
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00:08:57 --> 00:08:58 like for a competition I don't I don't
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00:10:01 --> 00:10:04 oh yeah definitely like um for school
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00:10:11 --> 00:10:13 hate it so much I just like rot in bed
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00:10:21 --> 00:10:23 don't know like I I know that I have to
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00:10:25 --> 00:10:27 have to email my coach the night before
00:10:27 --> 00:10:29 but like if I do that I was like okay
00:10:29 --> 00:10:30 well I have to get up because I didn't
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00:10:32 --> 00:10:35 to practice I love it I love it now I
00:10:35 --> 00:10:38 know your mother plays a big role in in
00:10:38 --> 00:10:41 your career how does she help
00:10:41 --> 00:10:46 you um my mom helps me by she encourages
00:10:46 --> 00:10:48 me um like with my diving she like
00:10:48 --> 00:10:52 screams and shouts like after I dive um
00:10:52 --> 00:10:55 she also she also tries to coach me
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00:10:57 --> 00:10:58 you're like playing basketball or
00:10:58 --> 00:11:00 something your mom be like oh run faster
00:11:00 --> 00:11:03 like that type of coaching and then she
00:11:03 --> 00:11:05 also like just like provides everything
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00:11:07 --> 00:11:09 she pays for you know the classes that
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00:11:19 --> 00:11:25 me well let me ask you this so with with
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00:11:31 --> 00:11:34 book does your mom still make you do all
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00:11:38 --> 00:11:40 you still have to do the same things at
00:11:40 --> 00:11:43 home unfortunately like you would think
00:11:43 --> 00:11:47 that but I to do dishes but luckily when
00:11:47 --> 00:11:49 I had wrist surgery I didn't do dishes
00:11:49 --> 00:11:52 for three months like I
00:11:52 --> 00:11:55 lucky I'm in the same position now like
00:11:56 --> 00:11:58 I I'm don't I'm not doing dishes or
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00:12:00 --> 00:12:02 now I just have to like clean up the dog
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00:12:07 --> 00:12:08 to take out the trash just can't tie the
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00:12:12 --> 00:12:13 you like to do when you're not diving
00:12:13 --> 00:12:15 what do you like to do I like to play
00:12:15 --> 00:12:18 video games I like sometimes I like to
00:12:18 --> 00:12:20 go go outside with my friends if it's
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00:12:21 --> 00:12:24 cold um I like to I like to go to the
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00:12:25 --> 00:12:27 water like even when I'm not diving like
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00:12:30 --> 00:12:32 just because like dive with my friends
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00:12:34 --> 00:12:36 dog and I just like to scroll on my
00:12:36 --> 00:12:38 phone like I just want to lay in bed and
00:12:38 --> 00:12:40 watch Instagram
00:12:40 --> 00:12:43 reals oh well doesn't everybody I do it
00:12:43 --> 00:12:45 I do it all the time so that that's
00:12:45 --> 00:12:48 awesome now is there anyone in the
00:12:48 --> 00:12:51 diving world I guess out there is there
00:12:51 --> 00:12:53 anyone that you look up
00:12:53 --> 00:12:55 to yeah so someone that I look up to is
00:12:55 --> 00:12:58 Kristen Hayden she Dives for the Team
00:12:58 --> 00:13:01 USA national team she she's a really
00:13:01 --> 00:13:04 good D I think she's the first um
00:13:04 --> 00:13:07 African-American to be on the nice
00:13:07 --> 00:13:10 national team nice okay how about any
00:13:10 --> 00:13:12 other sport is there any other sport
00:13:13 --> 00:13:14 that somebody else that you really look
00:13:14 --> 00:13:17 up to yeah my favorite basketball player
00:13:17 --> 00:13:21 is Jaylen Brunson okay nice
00:13:21 --> 00:13:25 nice okay tell me about the proudest
00:13:25 --> 00:13:27 moment in your your diving since you
00:13:27 --> 00:13:30 start diving do you have the proudest
00:13:30 --> 00:13:35 moment that she was just like yes this
00:13:35 --> 00:13:37 is this is so
00:13:37 --> 00:13:40 awesome
00:13:41 --> 00:13:43 um how about your first one how about
00:13:43 --> 00:13:44 your first
00:13:44 --> 00:13:46 one your first diving competition how
00:13:46 --> 00:13:49 did that how did that go do you remember
00:13:49 --> 00:13:53 nope you don't remember oh my
00:13:53 --> 00:13:58 gosh um I'll would say the proudest um
00:13:58 --> 00:14:00 thing that happened to me
00:14:00 --> 00:14:02 um I'll say is wait can I be right back
00:14:03 --> 00:14:04 can I get like can you give me like five
00:14:04 --> 00:14:06 seconds I want to go get
00:14:06 --> 00:14:30 something okay do it
00:14:30 --> 00:14:33 okay I'm back yeah okay so the proudest
00:14:33 --> 00:14:34 thing I'll say that happened to me when
00:14:35 --> 00:14:37 I was like in my diving career happened
00:14:37 --> 00:14:42 actually like two weeks ago so well it's
00:14:43 --> 00:14:44 it's a long story but I'm going to tell
00:14:44 --> 00:14:46 you it's I'll give you the short version
00:14:46 --> 00:14:47 okay so
00:14:47 --> 00:14:50 basically um so I've been dealing with
00:14:50 --> 00:14:51 like wrist issues like I've had a torn
00:14:51 --> 00:14:53 ligament in my wrist I've had two so I
00:14:53 --> 00:14:54 got one fixed this summer and then they
00:14:54 --> 00:14:57 realized that I had another one so I I
00:14:57 --> 00:14:59 had to get it fixed so this whole season
00:14:59 --> 00:15:01 I've been diving on like a torn ligament
00:15:01 --> 00:15:03 so it's been hurting a lot and I've been
00:15:03 --> 00:15:05 using like a bunch of KT Tape I've been
00:15:05 --> 00:15:09 wearing braces and like wi wrist braces
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00:15:11 --> 00:15:14 competed maybe half the season but then
00:15:15 --> 00:15:17 you know one day I just had to like I
00:15:17 --> 00:15:19 just had to step down I like told my
00:15:19 --> 00:15:20 coach like I couldn't do it anymore
00:15:20 --> 00:15:22 because I couldn't like finish practices
00:15:22 --> 00:15:24 it hurt so bad and I
00:15:24 --> 00:15:28 just I had to stop so I stopped I still
00:15:28 --> 00:15:30 went to every meet cuz I'm a good
00:15:30 --> 00:15:34 teammate like I I'll support my team um
00:15:34 --> 00:15:37 so I went to the meet and and like the
00:15:37 --> 00:15:39 first meet that I went to that I was
00:15:39 --> 00:15:43 like not um diving they needed a judge
00:15:43 --> 00:15:47 so I had to judge so I was judging like
00:15:47 --> 00:15:49 my teammates and someone else so that
00:15:49 --> 00:15:53 was it was an interesting awesome yeah
00:15:53 --> 00:15:56 yeah and then the next meet um they
00:15:56 --> 00:15:58 wanted me to be the announcer so I had
00:15:58 --> 00:16:01 to announce the Dives and
00:16:01 --> 00:16:04 then that might be it but so I've been
00:16:04 --> 00:16:06 going to all the the meets and so there
00:16:06 --> 00:16:08 was this there's this award that I
00:16:08 --> 00:16:10 really wanted to get and it's called
00:16:10 --> 00:16:12 like it's called the Eagle Award because
00:16:12 --> 00:16:15 my school our mascot is a screaming
00:16:15 --> 00:16:19 eagle so I like really wanted this award
00:16:19 --> 00:16:21 and I was like man like I know I'm not
00:16:21 --> 00:16:23 going to get it because I'm not going to
00:16:23 --> 00:16:25 get it this year because I didn't
00:16:25 --> 00:16:29 compete the whole season and so I I was
00:16:29 --> 00:16:31 like so sure that like I was not going
00:16:31 --> 00:16:32 to get it and so I was like telling my
00:16:32 --> 00:16:34 mom I was like I really wanted I really
00:16:34 --> 00:16:35 wanted this to work but I know I'm not
00:16:35 --> 00:16:39 going to get it right okay so then we're
00:16:39 --> 00:16:41 at the banquet and I had to go use the
00:16:41 --> 00:16:43 bathroom so I ran to the bathroom and
00:16:43 --> 00:16:45 then I'm coming back and then the coach
00:16:45 --> 00:16:47 is announcing like the Eagle Award so
00:16:47 --> 00:16:49 then he's like he's like yeah so this
00:16:49 --> 00:16:52 these people have gone to practice um
00:16:52 --> 00:16:54 every every time I was like yes it's not
00:16:54 --> 00:16:56 me because I didn't go to Every practice
00:16:56 --> 00:16:59 because I wasn't I stopped
00:16:59 --> 00:17:01 like halfway through the season so he
00:17:02 --> 00:17:03 was like yeah they went to practice all
00:17:03 --> 00:17:05 the practices they went to all the meets
00:17:05 --> 00:17:07 and and this and that right and then he
00:17:07 --> 00:17:09 was like and you know I don't know if
00:17:09 --> 00:17:13 this will like um give away who it is
00:17:13 --> 00:17:14 but they were also a judge at one of the
00:17:14 --> 00:17:18 meets and I was like oh my gosh like
00:17:18 --> 00:17:19 that's crazy like is it me right and
00:17:19 --> 00:17:21 then so then he like said who the eagle
00:17:21 --> 00:17:24 Ward is for like it was for me and then
00:17:24 --> 00:17:26 my friend who's also a diver so it was
00:17:26 --> 00:17:28 crazy and I not think I was going to get
00:17:28 --> 00:17:29 the award but actually
00:17:29 --> 00:17:32 I actually got the actual plaque today
00:17:32 --> 00:17:34 yes
00:17:34 --> 00:17:38 awesome that's
00:17:38 --> 00:17:41 amazing sry you were smiling so you're
00:17:41 --> 00:17:43 gonna be smiling all
00:17:43 --> 00:17:47 day actually concert today so I have to
00:17:47 --> 00:17:51 smile that is amazing well tell us about
00:17:51 --> 00:17:53 tell us about the book tell us about the
00:17:53 --> 00:17:55 book that you have out and and why did
00:17:55 --> 00:17:58 you write it my book a DI like me it's
00:17:58 --> 00:18:00 about my experiences being a diver and
00:18:00 --> 00:18:02 how I'm under represented in my sport
00:18:02 --> 00:18:04 it's here some of the challenges that I
00:18:04 --> 00:18:06 faced um being a black diver in a sport
00:18:07 --> 00:18:08 that I'm
00:18:08 --> 00:18:12 unrepresented and
00:18:12 --> 00:18:15 um blinking yeah so it talks about all
00:18:15 --> 00:18:18 everything that you've been through as a
00:18:18 --> 00:18:22 diver yeah I love it so have you've
00:18:22 --> 00:18:24 gotten a lot of feedback from
00:18:24 --> 00:18:27 it yeah I've gotten a lot of feedback um
00:18:27 --> 00:18:29 from it and I've also so like some
00:18:29 --> 00:18:30 people have come up to me and said
00:18:30 --> 00:18:31 they're going to learn how to swim
00:18:31 --> 00:18:33 because it some people want to learn how
00:18:33 --> 00:18:35 to dive because because of it and some
00:18:35 --> 00:18:37 people just like the book because the
00:18:37 --> 00:18:39 main character looks like
00:18:39 --> 00:18:43 them now that's an interesting point I
00:18:43 --> 00:18:47 love that I love that now is there um
00:18:47 --> 00:18:49 you know where we can find the book is
00:18:49 --> 00:18:51 the the book on Amazon or on a website
00:18:51 --> 00:18:54 or something yeah so the book is on is
00:18:55 --> 00:18:58 on my website um Chey corner.com
00:18:58 --> 00:19:01 can get it there you can also get it on
00:19:01 --> 00:19:03 Amazon but it won't be um as good
00:19:03 --> 00:19:07 quality because they use different like
00:19:07 --> 00:19:09 printers and then also if you order it
00:19:09 --> 00:19:11 from my website I think you can opt to
00:19:11 --> 00:19:14 get it signed as well and we have um an
00:19:14 --> 00:19:17 activity book that came out in December
00:19:17 --> 00:19:20 and we have some other fun cool um uh
00:19:20 --> 00:19:23 things coming out on our website oh I
00:19:23 --> 00:19:25 love that I love that I love the design
00:19:25 --> 00:19:28 on the book hold that up again so we can
00:19:28 --> 00:19:31 take a good look at
00:19:31 --> 00:19:35 it I love it I love it
00:19:35 --> 00:19:39 amazing awesome well I want to thank you
00:19:39 --> 00:19:42 so much for coming on my show today
00:19:42 --> 00:19:45 thank you for sharing everything I just
00:19:45 --> 00:19:48 love your energy I love you have such a
00:19:48 --> 00:19:50 good heart I can feel that through even
00:19:50 --> 00:19:53 through through this this uh screen here
00:19:53 --> 00:19:55 so thank you so much for joining and
00:19:55 --> 00:19:57 anytime you want to come back if you
00:19:57 --> 00:19:59 write a second book you better come back
00:19:59 --> 00:20:02 and you better share with us and I again
00:20:02 --> 00:20:04 I want to thank son for coming and make
00:20:04 --> 00:20:07 sure you guys go check out her book and
00:20:07 --> 00:20:08 not just check it out we want you to
00:20:08 --> 00:20:10 actually buy
00:20:10 --> 00:20:12 it and I'm gonna make sure that I put
00:20:12 --> 00:20:14 her website at the bottom so that you
00:20:14 --> 00:20:16 guys can go check her out if you're
00:20:16 --> 00:20:19 anywhere where she is go check out a me
00:20:19 --> 00:20:20 because we want people to actually come
00:20:21 --> 00:20:23 and and check out the meets right not
00:20:23 --> 00:20:26 just just hear you talk about it so we
00:20:26 --> 00:20:29 want to make this a big thing so anyways
00:20:29 --> 00:20:30 we are out of here guys and we'll talk
00:20:30 --> 00:20:32 to you later on the demia Avery show
00:20:32 --> 00:20:35 talk to you later byee