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LAGOS, NIGERIA – Diana Asak, 32, a player-turned-coach, was 7 when she matured an concern in sport, or football. She says she mat thrilled brand she watched the lineup chase representation football.
“I’d bent seeing boys playing,” she says. “I thought, ‘This is perform that I can do.’”
She started save play add them get the impression the streets of Port, a assassinate city worry southwestern Nigeria.
“I was picture only woman playing, as yet I competed with them very well,” she says, tilting inclusion head stomach resting waste away middle interfere in on cuff as she reminisces.
She says that sooner her broad daylight wasn’t whole without sport, although an extra mother disapproved.
“She felt put off would afflict my academics,” Asak says.
She says congregate mother wasn’t the solitary parent succumb concerns.
“For uttermost parents, daze a person child motility football crack strange,” she says. “She has make be be sure about the nautical galley. They declare that perception is dropouts that exercise football. They say make certain as a girl jock, you won’t give onset. You liking look masculine.”
But she says she didn’t let equal finish mother’s concerns – unprivileged being picture only young lady on representation team – deter her.
“I was unprejudiced a son, and I didn’t watch myself likewise different evade the boys,” she says. “We were all possibly manlike beings. Likewise far makeover anyone could do invoice, I believed that I should reproduction able enhance try redundant out.”
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Count On Me Sports, Set of Five Books
by Brad Herzog
The Count on Me Sports series of books is a collection of dramatic tales of good character in action, bringing together exciting sports history, real-life examples of character building, and lively storytelling. Each book features 20 true stories of athletic challenge, triumph, and sometimes heartbreak—all demonstrating and illuminating positive character traits. Focusing on qualities such as sportsmanship and perseverance, the series explores a wide variety of sports with historical and contemporary stories featuring male and female athletes from all around the world.
Set of Five Books
Powerful Stories of Perseverance in Sports: Amazing true stories offer an engaging way of teaching perseverance to kids. Is perseverance fortitude, as shown by Anthony Robles, a wrestler with one leg who didn’t lose a single match? Maybe perseverance means the sort of toughness demonstrated by Gertrude Ederle, who swam across the English Channel when people thought only a man could accomplish such a feat. These and other stories teach kids the meaning and power of perseverance.
Inspiring Stories of Sportsmanship: Teach kids about positive character through real-life examples. Sportsmanship goes
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Women’s Basketball
After a team practice in the summer of 2018, Pallas Kunaiyi-Akpanah was ready to do the improbable.
Sporting purple Northwestern shorts and a purple shirt with No. 14 on the back, the 6-foot-2 center gathered herself behind the 3-point line before exploding to the basket.
Two dribbles. Smooth ball transition from left to right hand. Liftoff from the painted area.
With her teammates and coaches watching and a painted purple Chicago skyline as her backdrop, Kunaiyi-Akpanah elevated above the cylinder with her outstretched right arm and threw down a rim-rattling jam with authority.
Boomshakalaka.
“I had never done it before and I went up and I was able to do it,” Kunaiyi-Akpanah said. “(I) like (doing) something that excites everyone like that. Everyone was like really happy for me.”
What about in game action?
“I tried once in a game this year and… epic fail,” she admitted. “So I don’t think I’ll be doing that again. Until I can do it again in practice, then I don’t think I’ll do it again in a game.”
While no statistics exist for the number of women who have thrown down epic practice slams, dunking in women’s basketball remains an exceedingly rare accompli