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Daniella Ponticelli

Daniella Ponticelli

Aug 19, 2026

14:22
You're watching them up close and personal, calling these games all the time.
14:25
The best description of her before the injury was fearless, and I would say that that has stuck even after coming back.
14:32
You know, she's coming off a big national championship with UCLA, and she's just confident and poised and feels so young.
14:40
Her ceiling is so high, and she just keeps building.
14:42
We're seeing double-digit scoring from her night after night.
14:46
She's kinda getting back into the rhythm she had before the injury.
14:49
So there's a lot to be excited around, and you think that Kiki Rice could very well be, you know, one of the longest, uh, w- players with the team early on in its history.
16:26
Uh, but how has that really elevated the WNBA sport in, in your experience in, in the league thus far?
LeroyHOST
5:32
And how did the PWHL gig come along?
5:36
Oh, okay.
5:38
I'm going to try to keep this as short and sweet as possible.
5:40
The short version of it is I had an amazing opportunity in May of 2023 before we knew anything about a league called the PWHL to work the Women's World Championship in Brampton, Ontario.
5:54
And this is where timing and everything is so pivotal because the fact that it was in Brampton meant I could be on site, meet incredible people, work for TSN in a way that isn't you know, distanced or remote, like actually be there, which is fantastic.
6:09
Whereas sometimes when these events are held in Europe, you know, not everybody's going over, right? You're still working it, but it's a different kind of way.
6:16
So that was incredible.

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LeroyHOST
31:06
Well, speaking of the Olympics, you got to call Olympic hockey this year too, right? Like, how was that?

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