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Question:
How do you feel to
be at the White House Maya.

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Maya Moore:
I don't know,
because it hasn't sunk in yet.

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I think once I actually
walk inside the building.

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I'm just going to breathless.

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Maya Moore:
We are here today
because we won a national

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championship, you know,
undefeated, had a great year,

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and they decided to, you know,
continue the tradition by coming

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to the White House and hanging
out with the President for a

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little while and getting a tour.

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Renee Montgomery:
It was a surreal experience, I mean,

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I know not many people get to
even go inside of the White House,

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and then just to be able
to meet the President and for

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him to just take time to meet
every single person on the team

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and take a picture.

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The President:
Coach Gino
and each of these women also

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understands that being champion
doesn't stop when you step off the Court.

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Gino's cancer team, and I'm
wearing a bracelet that

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I just got, right here, I
want to show it off,

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raises money to fight cancer,
and these young women visit

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pediatric patients, mentor
at-risk youth to show they can

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make something of themselves and
give their time to folks in the

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communities who need it most.

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Tina Charles:
I know probably a lot of people don't think that,

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you know, that we're always
around our peers and, you know,

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being around our
teammates, but, you know,

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we do extra things by
going to soup kitchens,

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Children's Hospitals and,
you know, doing telethons,

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and just requesting money
to help people in need,

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and I think just putting a smile
on people's face really means
a lot.

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Maya Moore:
You know, it's been
a great way to be involved and

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to realize, you know, there are
people out there that, you know,

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are sick and need help, so any
way that we can try to help,

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you know, coach gives us a
great opportunity to do that.

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Renee Montgomery:
Giving back
is a big part, especially,

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you know, for people that are
considered role models such as

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us and in the light, and I think
that we can make a positive

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influence on children's lives,
because they see that you can be

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successful doing things the
right way and that, you know,

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you can dream big.

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Tina Charles:
It's doing little things, you know,

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I think it's just a
blessing that, you know,

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myself just going out and
helping somebody else makes

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their day, makes them smile
and just makes them know that,

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you know, Connecticut basketball
isn't just basketball, you know,

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it's everything else beyond it.

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Geno Auriemme:
You can either be selfish and take or you can be a giver,

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you know, and every
team if it has more takers than

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givers is going to
be a losing team,

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but we want them to learn
more than wins or losses,

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we want them to be
people who give.

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And at the end of the day, be
viewed as someone who gave a lot

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more than they took.

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The President:
As a father,
I want to thank all of you.

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Thank you to all the NCAA female
athletes who work hard day in,

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day out to set a positive
example to which our daughters

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can all aspire, to be
healthy and active,
to be part of a team.