Category: ADL 10 Assignments

Community Connection

 

In my assignment, I am interviewing SFU Woman’s basketball player Makenna Gardner. She is a 5,10″ guard for Simon Fraser University Women’s Basketball Team. SFU Womens Staff Team is Head Coach Bruce Langford, and Assistance Coaches Pam Danis,Marie-Line Petit, and Nayo Raincock-Ekunwe. She has been on the team from 2020 to the present day.  

Her role within the team is a “Guard”. A guard’s role is to run the offence in order to score. Since they bring the ball up required skills are ball handling, good court vision, and a good coordinator to name a few. She definitely fits the criteria as she is a good leader as well as a team player. She can communicate well on the court leading to her teammates getting great shots. She has a very good ball IQ as well as being an excellent shooter. All the things most guards should have and something she exceeds on. 

  

All good things come at a cost. For her, some sacrifice she had to make to get to where she is today is sacrificing a social life. I think anyone taking basketball seriously and training to get better every week could agree that with schoolwork and/or work sacrificing a social life is sometimes something that is necessary, this was also the case for Makenna. 

  

Makenna started her basketball journey not long after kindergarten. That was around the time she was introduced to the sport of Basketball. When she was in grade 5 to grade 8, she played for a basketball organization called “Hoop star”. From there she only got better, and the grind didn’t stop. She played for a non-profit women’s basketball organization called VK Basketball in grades 8-11. When she played in U15 she was coached by Chris Kennedy, Paul Langford, Lani Kramer, and Dani Gardner. For her U17 seasons, she was coached by Anthony Beyrouti and Dany Charlery. While playing for Langley Christian Highschool the whole way through on the grind to her way to SFU 

   

Her journey was long and difficult and tiring. There were a lot of early mornings and late nights spent in the gym. But it was also very fulfilling for her. Her mom is a basketball coach, so she got to spend a lot of time with her in the gym working on her game. Any sports player would know that the grind is not easy. For Makenna, her goal was to become the best player she could be. Many days she did not feel like getting up and practicing and just going back to sleep but she always remembers that there is someone out there getting shots up and getting better while she slept. She took the initiative and would get out of bed to get better every morning. 

  

She is a very competitive person when it comes to basketball and wants to be the best form of herself that she can achieve. She never had anything handed to her in basketball, she always worked for it and that taught her to realize it would take hard work and dedication. Her mom would always tell her how badly you want her dream to push her and for her to work harder. She was always reminded that if she wanted her dream, she would need to work unbelievably hard to accomplish her dream.  

  

She has fallen in love with the game leading her to where she is now. She says it’s about perfecting your craft and a strong work ethic is 100% necessary. It is not about the end it is about the journey of how you got there. The advice she has given is that the team’s success is greater than yours. In a way meaning, if only you do good, but your team doesn’t you are not part of a winning team. A winning team needs everyone to succeed. Her advice is about needing to work hard even when you don’t feel like it and being a team player and learning to play for the team. She has also said that when she got onto the team the grind did not stop. She always strives for something to improve on.  

  

This tells behind the scenes of how Makenna Gardner made her way onto the Simon Fraser University Woman’s Basketball Team. 

My Digital Footprint Assignment

How have I kept my digital footprint clean? 

 

 

When I searched up my name for this assignment, I was pleased to see nothing pop up. I searched my full name, nicknames, first name, last name, and nothing. I couldn’t find anything about me. I think that it is pretty good to have nothing about you on the internet. I mean of course there is, it is just someone would have to dig a lot deeper to find out about me. Now how have I kept my digital footprint clean?  

To start off I do not have every single social media. Instagram, Snapchat, discord, YouTube, are the main social media I use. Process of elimination. Discord I do not use my name at all, and you cannot even find users by simply searching google. You must have a tag along with a unique username. Snapchat if you have mutual friends with someone and search up their name on the platform it will pop up first because you have mutual friends. Snapchat you can’t see what they’re up to and they must add you back. Although I was able to find myself and it very much is a possibility, I could just add you back and not pay attention to who you are. You will not find anything because I rarely post anything on my story. I think I popped up both times maybe because I was on the same phone, I am logged on. Some people may say” Duh of course you’re going to pop up if you are on the same phone”. To that I say I wasn’t logged on said account at the time I logged into a different account to see if it did. That may have impacted the results but who knows.

 

That doesn’t work. Instagram I only have my first name. I don’t have my last name. If you are trying to find me on Instagram and let’s, say, there’s someone that you follow and that follows you. If me and that person follow each other too and you type Caleb in the search bar of Instagram I will most likely pop up as we hypothetically have mutual followers. Then that would work. As you can see, I didn’t pop up when I searched my first and last name. On the other hand, I was able to find my Instagram by just searching my first name. That was not a result I was expecting at all as I thought” Caleb” would be too broad. 

 

I don’t post anything except for pictures of nice views I see or the sky. Nothing personal in case someone for some reason they want to find out where you live. That’s not really something you can tell a lot about. A lot of people post a lot on social media, and I mean every day because they’re addicted to it. That is not what you want. For me I went a while without Instagram then I just re downloaded it. It is not like I had an issue with it, I just wanted to see how long I could go without it.  

TikTok on the other hand during grade 7 and 8 was a problem. The app is so addictive if you see a video, you don’t like it you can simply scroll. The algorithm it has is very complex and effective. For the sake of my addiction and my grades I deleted it. Haven’t genuinely used it since mid-grade 8. One of my friends or an old friend I guess is severely addicted and can’t go a day without it.  

I say don’t spend too much time on social media and DO NOT fixate on it. A lot of it is fake and someone’s luxurious life could just be tax evasion, illegal methods, drowning in debt. You never know. For a word of advice not from personal experience I would say do not go around saying vile and disgusting things to you as people can track your IP address and quite literally find you. Flexing on social media and posting where you are isn’t good as people will find your house and rob you of the things you flexed online and other valuables. A reason why not to flex or post your location if you flex a lot or are famous and have people that want to rob you is because you could get robbed or killed. PNB Rock a rapper who was killed in a robbery gone wrong in LA was robbed because someone posted his location on Instagram. They saw where he was got their buddies robbed him and killed him. 

So, my advice on how to keep your digital footprint clean is do not say controversial or bad things. Do not get too attached and if you notice it is a problem ask for a friend to help you out. I don’t recommend putting your full name or last name, the first name should do. Always be aware what you’re posting, does it contain your address, could someone easily find you. Just be mindful.