BRIDGEPORT, Conn.-Connecticut's quest for an eighth national title brings with it a lot of expectations, anxiousness along with a pressure to carry out on the basketball court.
Maybe that is why, off the court, the Huskies decided to do a little performing before the NCAA tournament by dressing up in wigs, visiting the local Wal-Mart and shooting a music video.
"It's just a great deal of fun," stated center Stefanie Dolson Beats By Dr Dre, who has been component of several of those team-made productions, the latest becoming a take on Carly Rae Jepson's song "Call me, Perhaps." "Our team has so much enjoyable together, so when we had been all together, we wanted to make a video. It just type of shows our character."
Guard Caroline Doty served as the producer and director from the video Dr Dre Headphones, which had over 25,000 views on YouTube as of Wednesday.
"Everybody was just becoming themselves," Doty stated. "It was cool, simply because we really didn't need to edit anything out. We had been just busting on ourselves. So I just had to clip various cuts that I had and place it all together. I was really, really pleased with it."
The entire team participated within the video Beats Pro, which was shot more than two days early final week, while the campus was on spring break.
Tiffany Hayes dances within the locker room whilst wearing a protective book on her injured correct foot. She also may be observed lying amid packages of bacon in the store. Bria Hartley, and Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis are there lip syncing behind the glass doors of the milk cooler. Lauren Engeln is in a feather boa, Kiah Stokes inside a blond wig and Michala Johnson wears bunny ears along with a pink bikini over a black physique suit.
But Doty acknowledges that the 6-foot-5 Dolson steals the show, busting moves in a lot from the production whilst dressed inside a Dalmatian suit along with a bee-hive style wig. Dolson also starred last year within the team's sendup from the Sun Drop soda commercial Monster Headphones, wearing a wig and dancing about the team's hotel in Indianapolis during the Final Four.
"She's just a big ol' goofball," Doty said.
Dolson, who early this season broke into a little dance on the baseline throughout a game while waiting for a Tv timeout to end, said that while growing up, she was a little self-conscious about her size and how other individuals viewed her.
"But I've grown out of that Monster Beats," she stated. "I could just care much less what other people think. You are able to ask anyone on this team, they think I am the weirdest individual there's. But I do not care, because I am getting enjoyable."
Pat McKenna, the program's sports information director, stated it is no accident that everybody on the team appears to become getting enjoyable within the video. He stated the camaraderie on the team is one thing which has helped it to a 31-4 record, and a 19th consecutive trip towards the regional semifinals.
"That's component of how the coaches recruit," said McKenna, who makes a cameo within the video. "They aren't just searching for great basketball players; they are searching for a certain type of person that may fit into this program. This team is extremely severe when it is on the court, however they know how to turn that off."
UConn isn't the only team available creating videos. Stanford's "Nerd City Kids" is a more professionally produced piece, written and rapped by Cardinal team members.
"It took about three weeks to create," said Stanford forward Nnemkadi Ogwumike, who wrote the lyrics with her sister Chiney. "We did not want it to be just about women's basketball, we wanted it to be about Stanford. It definitely was a great deal of fun to complete."
UConn players were quick to point out how impressed they were by that work, especially the rapping from the Ogwumike sisters.
Ogwumike said she hadn't checked out the UConn video but, but certainly would watch it when she finished finals this week.
Doty says the UConn videos are a lot much more of an amateur thing, carried out on a flip camera, just as a goof.
But, she stated it does make a point that not everything in life, or in UConn basketball is do-or-die.
"This morning I had a couple of emails from high-school coaches saying how they harp on hard function and becoming disciplined, but simultaneously getting enjoyable and becoming sociable," Doty stated. "They showed our video to assist get that message out. And if we are able to send that kind of message, I think it is great."
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