# @michigandaily on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CtB-GR4Nw1_
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/6997073-michigandaily-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-06-03T14:00:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Michigan Daily (@michigandaily) — https://gondola.cc/michigandaily

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#Statement: Two days after my parents dropped me off for my freshman year, I left my Bursley dorm room and walked up the hill to the North Campus Recreational Building. I fumbled my Mcard trying to swipe in and then nervously turned towards the glass doors of the basketball courts. Two games of pickup basketball were being played in tandem, with players cheering as someone hit a deep three. I sat down on a bench to change my shoes and scout the competition. 

Two full-court games. Twenty people. Not one other girl. 

It was almost enough to make me walk out of the basketball courts and head upstairs to the treadmills acting confused, like I’d taken a wrong turn. But one of the guys on the court closest to where I was sitting recognized me. 

“Lucy!” he said, jogging over to me after the game finished. “What’s up?” We lived in the same hall, and had introduced ourselves to each other the day before. “Wait, are you trying to play?”

I looked down at my basketball shorts, shoes and ratty T-shirt advertising my high school’s basketball team in confusion, before nodding. What else would I be here to do? He tossed me the ball they were playing with and watched as I took a couple shots. 

I don’t really remember what happened in that game, whether I scored or not, or if I even got passed the ball, but I ended up playing for two hours. When we all walked off the court so the NCRB staff could lock up, the guys exchanged names and phone numbers. Not a single one of them approached me. 

I didn’t play pickup for another four months. 

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✍️: Lucy Del Deo
📸: annafuderphotography

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| Anna Fuder | @annafuder | https://gondola.cc/annafuder | Photographer |

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