In America, there are black sports, and there are white sports- or so society deems. Football, basketball, track: black sports. Swimming, hockey, golf: white. But there’s one more sterotypically, but also statistically white sport that I’ve yet to mention: soccer. My twin girls, Tyler and Kennedy are a part of the South Dekalb YMCA Jaguar Soccer Club. Four of our teams qualified for the district championships this weekend: the 10 and under boys and girls, and the 12 and under boys and girls( our team). All but the 10 and under girls won the district championship today! All four teams qualified for the state championships in Columbus next weekend! My intitial point: we are a black program, and every single team we played was predominantly white. Our teams battle racial discrimination that is sometimes so obvious that even the parents of the opposing teams blush with guilt. We are trailblazers, in a sense. Like our new President, The SDY Jaguars are an example of content over color. Warriors: never allow the world to put you in a box. Do what you want to do, and excel. That’s what the SDY Jaguars do, and so do Warriors.

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