Academics Come before Sports
By Rachel Lowe and Marcella Williams, 11th grade
Inside the O’Connell Center at a summer basketball camp, a coach was talking strategy with a player. As the player walked away, the coach unrolled sheets that appeared to be game plans, but were instead study plans for the team.
Down the hall, a player was stretching before warm-ups thinking about his first year in high school and the academics he’d be facing.
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