Getting Away to Get Closer as a Team
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How far would you go to gain an edge?
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Louisiana UnLimited: Getting Away to Get Closer as a Team
8/25/2023 3:55:00 PM | Louisiana UnLimited
By: Tom Perpetua, Associate Director of Athletics Communications
How far would you go to gain an edge?
For Garry Brodhead and the Louisiana women's basketball team, they believe that edge is a trip roughly 1,500 miles south to Costa Rica for three games against international competition, but more importantly, the chance to get away and become closer as a team.
The trip was much more about team bonding than basketball being played, which the Cajuns won all three games by a combined score of 255-92. The team got to spend time together ziplining, exploring the rainforest and had a morning on a private catamaran.
"I thought it was pretty big for us to get away," said Brodhead. "We got to go out on the catamaran and go to this island where we could go scuba diving and jump off the boat. It was great to relax and get away from the world."
With the chance to get away from their normal routine, Brodhead noticed a much looser team.
"I think it relaxes them and allows them to be themselves," he said. "I get to see a different version of them, sometimes a completely different version. You get to see student-athletes that are shy and to themselves and they come out of their shell a little. You see that out of everybody."
