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00:00Chantelle Jeter. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. So Chantelle runs an all-girls basketball camp. You got it, girl? Correct. You got it, girl. Now, what made you start this?
00:15Actually, before I get started, I just wanted to pass these to Pebbles real quick. Oh, my God. What do you got? Oh, my pebbles. What is it? Wait until you see. Polaroids. Oh, my God.
00:27And she sent Kleenex, too, so we know what's about to happen. Uh-oh. Here we go. Can we wait and do this after?
00:35No, no, no. Let's look. Oh, my gosh. Wow, I look. You know why I think this is so important? Because what you do for young ladies, I have to imagine that some of it has to do with the impact that Pebbles had on you.
00:56Well, what the hell's the impact? Tell us what's in the pictures. I know, I know. What's happening?
00:59Okay, let me...
01:00Oh, God.
01:04All right, so hold on.
01:05Mujel, habla.
01:07Oh, look this shit. Oh.
01:09There's the other one.
01:10So there's a lot...
01:11Hey, thank you.
01:12There's pictures of Pebbles at... When we were at our other radio station, and it's a lot of
01:18pictures of her with a bunch of different kids, and it looks like it's at some sports.
01:24So that's at Rogers Park, actually. I was in fifth grade, and we used to listen to the radio a lot, and I wanted...
01:31So again, my mom's in here with me. She... We still don't know how we got you, and I'm still trying to figure that out.
01:37Like, if it was now, we'd probably be social media. But I think I wrote a letter. I think she called, but we wanted you to come to field day.
01:43So you came to Rogers Park in Brighton, and you hung out with us for the day.
01:46Aww.
01:47And so when I met Leroy a couple weeks ago, I told my mom, find those pictures. We told him about them. He was like, you have to bring them.
01:52Oh, my God.
01:54That's hilarious.
01:56Then, okay, since you're saying that, let me say this to you, because I know one of your recent awards came from the Reggie Lewis Center.
02:04I went to school with Reggie, and Reggie was one of my friends, and I know as people...
02:09You know, a lot of younger people don't necessarily now know unless people tell them who Reggie was.
02:16And you continuing his legacy and doing the things that I know would have made him so proud, like, that just makes me so happy.
02:27Oh, my God. So thank you for what you do.
02:30Thank you so much.
02:31Wow.
02:32Every time we have a black female in here, they have a connection to Pebbles.
02:34This is not the first time that someone was going to be like, by the way, Pebbles, you were my Girl Scout leader.
02:41Oh, man.
02:42And we were talking off air about just the impact and how...
02:46Okay, so obviously, so I volunteered for coaching cheerleading for over 20 years, and I just feel like the impact that it makes for us,
02:57that's the thing is that people don't realize is knowing that years later, when these young ladies become women,
03:03and they come up to you, and you get it all the time, I'm sure, and they tell you how well they're doing
03:08and how grateful you feel when that happens.
03:13It's just there's really nothing that can describe that feeling.
03:17I was literally just telling you that.
03:19Yeah.
03:19I always encourage young people to go back to your school, go see your coach, text them, reach out to them,
03:23and let them know how much they mean to you, and just the impact that they had on you.
03:26It's so important to them.
03:27So just to be clear, if you can, just explain to the listeners out there what exactly you do.
03:33Again, my name is Chantel Jeter.
03:34I'm from Boston, born and raised.
03:36I went to Boston Public Schools.
03:37I currently work for Boston Public Schools as a project manager, where I'm able to oversee projects
03:41that support students in our entire district.
03:44I also am the founder of a program called You Got It, Girl.
03:46We see young ladies ages 6 to 16 in the summer.
03:49Shout out to Manuel College for hosting us.
03:51Oh, I used to coach there.
03:52It's wonderful to us.
03:53You got to come see us in the summer.
03:55I love it.
03:55Does Andy still coach the women's basketball team?
03:58Shout out to Andy.
03:59Awesome.
03:59I love Andy.
04:01Great guy.
04:01I'll see him this later.
04:02But yeah, so Andy's still over there.
04:04The facilities are amazing.
04:05Our young ladies are, again, ages 6 to 16.
04:07They're on the campus from 830 to 4 each day.
04:09They eat lunch in the cafeteria each day.
04:12This summer, I would love to have some of our older ladies spend the night so that they
04:15can get the full college experience.
04:16So we're going on year four.
04:18I love it.
04:19That's great.
04:20Helping kids is huge, man.
04:21I mean, because I did not participate in sports as a kid.
04:25So I got into a lot of...
04:27A lot of what?
04:29Well, it was fun at the time.
04:31But looking in retrospect, I probably shouldn't have done some of the things I did as a young
04:35kid.
04:36So it was about maybe, I want to say two weeks ago, maybe three weeks ago.
04:40My time is all off.
04:41Anyways, remember when I was doing the play-by-play at the garden?
04:44Oh yeah, where the guy broke his leg or whatever?
04:45Yeah, like dislocated his knee and whatnot.
04:48So I'm sitting there and let's just be honest.
04:51There wasn't a lot of impressive basketball.
04:53However, Shanta and her team, that was some of the best basketball I had seen in a long
05:01time.
05:01The structure, the selfishness of, like just, it didn't exist.
05:08They were just open, communicating.
05:11It didn't matter who shot the ball.
05:12And I was like, who is in charge of this?
05:15Who is coaching?
05:16And here she is.
05:17Oh, that's how you met her?
05:18Yes.
05:18Phenomenal.
05:19Or her mom.
05:19My mom.
05:20Yeah.
05:20She went up to him.
05:21She was like, you got to meet him.
05:22Oh, you got to go meet him.
05:24That's great stuff.
05:25Yeah.
05:25Yeah.
05:25That's what's good about youth sports because it's not about being the best.
05:30That's kind of like when it sucks when you get the parents who are pains in the ass
05:33and it's like they think their kid's going to be the next pro and it's like, that's
05:36not what it's about.
05:37You know what I'm saying?
05:37That almost ruins it.
05:38I'm sure you've experienced.
05:39Parents are ruining sports.
05:41Yeah.
05:42Not all of them.
05:43Right.
05:43Again, like you said, I try to tread lightly in this area.
05:48If you know me, you know that I don't mind being the person to step up and speak
05:52out about issues.
05:53But I think we can all sit here and complain about it.
05:56What are we going to do about it?
05:57I've been talking to a lot of different folks who do basketball in the city.
06:00Vinny with Shooting Touch.
06:02I love the work that they do over there.
06:03They're doing a lot of things outside of basketball, like the things we do in our
06:06program.
06:07We teach our girls about research.
06:09They learn double Dutch.
06:11They did a step performance at the end of the camp season this year.
06:14How do we teach them other things through sport?
06:16Right.
06:17So we start with basketball to get the girls comfortable.
06:19Basketball is an easy sport to teach and easy sport to learn once they get that
06:22confidence and now they want to try double Dutch.
06:24Right.
06:24Now they want to try something else.
06:25We do social skills as well.
06:26We do a little bit of everything.
06:27I don't know any other program that is doing all of the things we're doing for
06:30girls.
06:31We are trying to develop young ladies into powerful, strong and just young ladies
06:37who are not scared.
06:38I think as girls, people always tell us to, you know, relax.
06:42You're being too loud.
06:43You're doing too much.
06:44And I tell ladies, no, do more.
06:46Keep doing it.
06:47So how do you, by the way, we're talking to Chantel Jeter.
06:49She runs an all girls basketball camp.
06:51You got it, girl.
06:52How do you deal with parents?
06:54Because it's funny, you know, if you have your kid like in a, I don't know, a ceramics
06:57camp, you're not going to the, to the person leading it going, yo, my kid, did you see
07:01the bowl my kid made?
07:02They need to make the, you need to focus on my kid.
07:04They make the best freaking cups and bowls.
07:05But when it comes to sports, the parents kind of try and get up in your mix.
07:09And sometimes I know a couple of people who have left coaching, not because of the
07:13kids, but because they're like, I don't want to deal with these freaking parents,
07:15you know?
07:16Yeah.
07:16How do you deal with the parents when they do that?
07:18I think when it comes to like coaching high school sports, I hope that folks have a
07:23supportive athletic director, supportive admin, because that's what it's about, right?
07:27We all need to stand together.
07:29I think parents have a hard time focusing on the whole team when they have a child.
07:33I don't have kids, so I don't understand that, right?
07:35But as the coach, all of the kids are my kids.
07:37And when you have a larger team, it's going to be hard to play everyone.
07:41When your child is not as skilled as other people, you got to understand they might not
07:43play as much as other people, right?
07:45And you're setting them up to believe that in life that it works like that, because
07:50it doesn't, you know?
07:51And in sport, you can learn about life, and you're going to lose, and you might not get
07:55picked, but you got to go play and try harder.
07:58You're teaching them to give up.
07:59You're teaching them to look for a way out.
08:01So for me, I can't stay in a space like that if I feel restricted or I feel like the
08:05parents are doing too much.
08:06I got to go do my own thing.
08:07Yeah.
08:08I have a perfect example of a story that goes with that.
08:11I coached a girl years ago, and she wasn't very skilled, you know?
08:16And so she was in the back for like a lot, and I could tell her self-esteem was getting
08:20a little shot, but I would constantly go to her and say, listen, every single person on
08:25this mat is an integral part of the team.
08:28And without you, you know, we're not going to do as well.
08:31And guess what she's doing now?
08:33She is a supermodel now.
08:34Wow.
08:35Legit.
08:35Damn.
08:36Walks New York runway fashion weeks and stuff.
08:37And she always says to this day, like those were learning points for her to don't give
08:44up on anything.
08:45Like you could not, maybe this isn't for you, but maybe this it's your learning skills that
08:50will help you to do this now.
08:52Yeah.
08:52So yeah, just don't give up.
08:54So Chantel, thanks for coming in.
08:57And how can people connect if they are interested in this?
09:00So right now we currently have Instagram.
09:02It's you got it, girl.
09:04I'm sorry.
09:04It's you got it, girl, LLC.
09:06And then I also have a coach Instagram, Coach Chantel, S-H-A-N-T-E-L-L.
09:11Please reach out if you want to learn more about what we're doing, if you want to support
09:14in any way.
09:15We are growing every year.
09:16Hopefully eventually have more than one site.
09:19If you know me, I love talking to people and connecting and finding ways to get other
09:23people involved with my kids and all of the kids in Boston.
09:25So again, if you want to support young people in any way, even if it's not just girls, please
09:29reach out to me.
09:30Pebbles, you have one final thing to ask?
09:32No, I was just asking, I mentioned when we were talking about, it's like you're building
09:38not only players, but you're building like great human beings.
09:42Because I saw the I Got It pledge that you have for the girls.
09:46And I just think that it's amazing.
09:48It reminded me because I was a Girl Scout leader too, that we had a pledge and a couple
09:52of the things you have is show up as my best self, take care of my teammates in the ball
09:57at all times.
09:58So it's not just about you, like ignore negative and unkind opinions of others.
10:03And I just think that that's all.
10:05It's so important that you're helping just build great people.
10:11So.
10:11All right, cool.
10:12Thank you for coming in, Chantel.
10:13Thank you so much.
10:14Thank you so much.
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