For the first time in history, an all-Black team is heading to the national high school championships in the sport of squash, and it is from Harlem. The Thurgood Marshall Academy boys hope to make a big impression. tvjessi reports.
-- For the first time in history, an all-Black team is heading to the national high school championships in the sport of squash, and they are fromUnited in black uniforms, the Panthers proudly step to the national stage. The teammates learned the game at the Harlem nonprofit StreetSquash.Last semester, after playing for fun for years, they petitioned their school for squash as an official sport, allowing them to enter the national high school tournament.
"It was super affluent here and the rest of the world, it's not," Muhwati observed."It's actually pretty middle class and below.""Being the only all-Black team, we broke a lot of stereotypes, and it's deeper than squash," said Harlem Jones."Squash has opened a lot of doors for me." "My opponent was a 50-year-old man," Allasane Diakite recalled of one match."I didn't really think nothing of it because he was up there in age, but he showed me some new things. He was a really good opponent."
"Getting the chance," Overton said of the tournament,"to be a public school in Harlem, we already did so much."Win or lose, they are just learning to enjoy the ride.
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