"Let's normalize working mothers and all that they have to do to make it all happen."
NCAA Coach Adia Barnes Reportedly Pumped Breast Milk During the Women's Championship Game
University of Arizona coach Adia Barnes reportedly pumped breast milk during the NCAA women's basketball championship game on Sunday night, April 4.
ESPN sideline reporter Holly Rowe, who was commentating the game, told viewers, “[Barnes] was late coming out at halftime because she's back in the locker room pumping. She's still a breastfeeding mother, and they have to warm up the bottle with the heat packs that are here on the sidelines. She is doing it all.”
Rowe continued, "And for those who think this is too much information, I'm just going to tell you this: Let's normalize working mothers and all that they have to do to make it all happen." Yup. Couldn't have said it better ourselves.
Twitter, naturally, was living for this.
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Barnes and her husband, Salvo Coppa, welcomed their second child, a daughter named Capri, in September 2020.
“I had a baby right when season started and took, like, a week off,” Barnes said after Sunday's game, according to Good Morning America. "It says I took a month off, but I did not. I was on Zoom calls four days after having a C-section, so it was hard, but my team loved on me. I missed a couple of weeks, I got a little sick, they fought for me. I came back. They were patient. I'm happy."
She continued, "I represented moms, I have a baby here. I hear her crying ready to feed. I represent moms, you can be a coach, you can do it at an elite level. You just have to have a village like I do. I represent Black females, don't get here too often and don't get opportunities. But I had an opportunity today on the biggest stage and represented a lot."
Adia Barnes made history last week when she and University of South Carolina coach Dawn Staley led teams into the NCAA women's basketball Final Four. It marked the first time two Black female coaches have ever had teams in the Final Four at the same time.
This story originally appeared on: Glamour - Author:Christopher Rosa
