Baltimore Rowing Club Receives Grant to Get More Student-Athletes of Color Involved

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A rowing nine successful Baltimore has been selected to person a assistance to assistance student-athletes of colour get involved in the sport.

 “Rowing has typically been a precise white, prep schoolhouse sport,” said Karyn Shackelford, the executive director of the club, Baltimore Community Rowing. “It is thing that has not truly reflected a batch of the communities successful which boathouses reside.” 

The nine is receiving $24,000 and caller rowing instrumentality from the A Most Beautiful Thing Inclusion Fund, inspired by the publication and movie A Most Beautiful Thing, which tells the communicative of America’s archetypal all–black precocious schoolhouse rowing squad in Chicago. 

“The Most Beautiful Thing Inclusion Fund is a organization that focuses connected giving entree and accidental to young kids successful underserved communities done the athletics of rowing,” said Arshay Cooper, who wrote the book and serves arsenic the Inclusion Director for the assistance program.

The backing volition wage for coaches of color, transportation, swimming lessons, academic services and competition for students.

“It reduces trauma close that you whitethorn spot every day successful your life. The bid that you consciousness connected the h2o it calms the storms that you spell through,” helium said. “The lessons you larn from the athletics wholly alteration your life.” 

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