Playing Like a Girl: The House That Rob Built | movie | 2020 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

In an era when gender discrimination in sports was the norm, Coach Selvig built a “house” of inclusion and empowerme | dG1fLTJkMElEelZfSjA

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00:00When I was playing my sophomore year in college one of the things coach said one

00:04day in practice is whether you play like a girl and I didn't realize it at the

00:09time he was giving me a great compliment which I realized today after coaching

00:13girls for a lot of years that that was a really good compliment.

00:18And introducing the head coaches for the University of Montana Lady Grizz, Robin Zelby.

00:24It's been simply a phenomenal year for the Lady Grizz basketball team they

00:28would shatter individual scoring and attendance records they would remain the

00:31only major undefeated team in the country and they would make Robin Selvig

00:34the winningest coach in UM history.

00:38Rob Selvig was a pioneer in providing opportunities for women to participate

00:43in athletics. Nobody thought you can never produce revenue. Oftentimes they

00:46thought we were a cheerleading squad. No we're the girls basketball team. They're looking

00:50thinking these guys got no chance.

00:55When you see Rob on the court and with these girls you know that he was born to

01:01do that. Well what we started to do was show oh well they're good they're

01:06talented oh they compete. And then we'd get out there on the floor and play 40

01:11minutes of the most intense basketball they've ever seen. A small school from

01:15Montana can go compete with the best. All the fans stood up but I couldn't hear

01:20anything because it was so loud that it was silent. My junior year we set the

01:25attendance record. The game sold out days in advance. The largest crowd ever for

01:29women's basketball west of the Rockies.

01:33I don't know if there's another school in the country that has anything like

01:38this. I don't think he looked at me like I was a Native American. He looked at me

01:43as a basketball player. Just to have somebody say we believe in you well that

01:47probably changed the trajectory of my life incredibly. The impact that playing

01:52here and Rob has had on my life has been immense and I still feel as much a part

02:01of the Lady Grizz as I ever did. And it's been 35 years. He cared about everybody. I

02:08mean there is no question he cared about everybody.

02:13He makes you a whole different person. As much as you think it's about the wins

02:18and losses, it's about the person you meet.